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>What productivity hacks have changed your life?

Learning Vim.

The learning curve was steep and for the first year (!!) I felt SO awkward in Vim. However, I pushed on and eventually it became second nature. I started reading up on how to do stuff differently, I watched a lot of youtube videos. Then I started implementing these things more and more into my daily routine. Now all these things are ingrained so much I get annoyed if there is a text box without my Vim binding because sometimes I just mash kjkjkjkjkj which I rebound to <Esc>.

Learning Vim is worth it.

For those who are still in doubt, you are going to be editing text (code probably) for so much more hours. If you are going to repeat something or do it often you should invest in your productivity. You could think of your non-trained productivity as a straight line in the (time, productivity) plane and your invested productivity as some exponential curve. It takes (a lot of) time to get to the same level, but afterwards your productivity just skyrockets. I am very happy I made the Vim investment.
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As a Mediapart subscriber I can confirm they are really independent with no ads anywhere seen on their websites.
Delivering cold pizzas because you prioritized a product delivery is not a business model either, and yet we are discussing it seriously as if that's what Amazon will do.
You can't always change the things in your life, or change yourself. It's easy to say "I should be more motivated, change job, get that degree". Anti depressants help people to feel less bad, but it won't change them. It's not a magic pill but it's welcome.

Psychiatry is about medicine, it's not about changing the world or changing people.
so its more a treatment for progeria than general aging reversal
Does Cisco do anything innovative any more? Seems like a dinosaur that is trying to survive. Buying a bunch of acquisitions due to not being to innovate internally isn't a positive sign. Seems like they miss many market transitions. Probably explains their large yearly layoffs.
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NASA launched its newest hurricane forecast mission from belly of a giant plane
"Imagine if there was a different speed limit depending on if you were driving to McDonalds or to Burger King"
Sure, but how much?

Currently Springer's stranglehold is very tight.
That system needs to be called Sisyphos.
Grace Hopper and the psychological drain on the gender minority
Increasingly less, considering millenial attitudes towards ESPN and the like compared to previous generations at their age.
I agree. Huge fan of Insync.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152651
No, Garland's situation is unique because no one has pulled this nonsense with the Supreme Court, regardless of how close to the election it was. Tit for tat politicking is usually reserved for the lower courts and Democrats were far more accomodating to Bush's nominations for the Supreme Court.

Priscilla Owen was retribution because the Republican senate refused to fill Garwood's seat during Clinton's second term (obstruction that lasted just as long as Owens, 97-01) and she was viewed as too conservative (contrary to what the the Frontpage Mag article says). They're not even in the same ballpark.
Why were you outraged that your government invested $1.2 billion in a significant upgrade of an important piece of infrastructure, beneficial for citizens and companies, now and in the future? Was it because you've jumped on the anti-government train that's so popular right now, like the overused term "taxpayers money" suggests, or did you really believe that building a national fibre network was the dumbest idea ever?
IF solar falls another order of magnitude, it will be far cheaper (which only has the conversion efficiency problem) to go for power-to-gas technology that has the additional advantage of being able to use gas (not gasoline) powered cars with normal range.
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I may not have expressed it well, but I agree with you 100% - clearing the levels for the first time is only one part of the fun.
This appears to have more (or at least different) features than Edge, though I can't help but feel it's basically tracing the same path.
Maybe, but Reuters is still a top notch news source.
WWIII mayhaps?
> Why is iterating physical products so slow and expensive?

Because you are moving molecules, not electrons and the cost of mistakes can range from financially crippling to causing a company to go bankrupt to killing people.

Example: Takada Airbags.

Do you really think it matters one iota if they had better rapid prototyping or a better version of Proto Labs or a better CAM software package?

Or, how about manufacturing a VW car? How many billions are they losing because of software? How significant do you think eliminating the machinist (or whatever) might have been in this case?

Or how about these issues:

https://goo.gl/5QHpz4

The resistance you are seeing is from people who exist well outside the echo chamber you are in. I mean, listen to yourself, you are comparing Moore's Law to manufacturing? Again. Are you fucking kidding me? Please get that out of your head.

Funding? Funding means nothing. Funding doesn't mean an idea or a product is good or will be successful. It just means you were good at selling what you wanted to do to investors. And, in some cases, absolutely clueless investors (not saying that's the case here). That's it.

Again, you are in an echo chamber. Funding means nothing. Fan boys mean nothing. Here's a list for you:

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/biggest-startup-failures/

Many more like that one.

Look, where you lose someone like me is when you start to spew this nonsense about Moore's Law and manufacturing or the software engineering process and manufacturing.

> It's like the cab drivers complaining about Uber.

Another nonsensical example.

And, yet again, this betrays your lack of understanding of the problems faced in real product manufacturing. And your other comments showcase your disdain towards those who, unlike you, have been busy making real progress in a range of industries, from consumer electronics, to brick manufacturing to medical, aerospace and everything in between.

Manufacturing is always progressing because it is often the largest portion of the cost of getting a product to market. And so, the motivation to optimize manufacturing for cost, speed, efficiency, reliability, throughput and quality has been there for centuries. One could not be competitive to day with the processes and tools used 20 years ago.

Yet you somehow reduce the totality of the manufacturing problem to "we need to CNC machine prototypes as fast as software teams iterate code". Who gives a fuck? Really? That problem is solved, to a large extent, by both technologies and companies.

I can 3D print complex parts in metal while I sleep. I can have a complex 5-axis parts machined perfectly and in my hands in three days and at a reasonable cost. You are creating a solution for a non-existing problem.

I just don't see it.

Want to solve a real problem? Solve all the nagging friggin problems in 3D printing plastics. From speed to quality to dimensional accuracy and repeatability and more. There are real problems that need solving in that industry. The other stuff, what you are talking about, is a waste of time and money.

Anyhow, we obviously disagree. I wish you the best.
"Can I go to the bathroom now or will they ring the doorbell in 30 seconds"
I'm surprised by how much your experience differs from mine. For me this is like every other auto running side scrollers with a Nintendo skin and nothing more. It's the same mechanics as almost everything else with a lower amount of difficulty with the auto running and jumping (I mean he even automatically jumps over enemies!!).

It seems so...tangential to what Mario games are and so much like every other side scrolling running game out there.

I also find hitting the exact buttons incredibly frustrating. They claim one handed play but on a 9.7" iPad when you have to hit a button in a specific place on the screen it's not one handed play. At least not for my hands and I thought they were decent size.
Does the logo remind anyone else of Pacman?
I think any UI framework, once it's popular, is boring.
Good point that it's technically doable.

Is this done a lot in practice? I had the impression that a lot of projects stick to C APIs in dynamic libraries.
Song lyrics, or poetry.

I personally like the idea of turning really deep mines into literal potential energy wells. Use renewable energy to lift loads (water, gravel etc) and then power generators at night by dropping the load back down. Basically enormous cuckoo clocks.
Thankfully, the Republicans have been laying out the battle plans of obstruction for two decades. Already there are a bunch of state Attorney Generals frothing at the mouth to sue the Trump administration to stop everything from nominees due to conflict of interest to blocking deregulation and neutering Department secretaries, the same tactics used by Republicans to obstruct all manners of policy.

It's four more years of the same just with slightly different players and the Democrats already know what to do.
Sorry yes, I accept it is more complex than I described. There is the possibility that (a) the hospital admitting a patient can assess patient risk more accurately than a university professor who specialises in risk factors; (b) the size of the hospital advantage is significant when compared to the real differences in risk between hospitals; and (c) the hospital takes advantage of its better analysis by turning away patients where the professor risk rating of the patient is higher than the hospital risk rating.

This is subtly different to your analysis in two ways:

1. The trouble with using survival or outcome ratings is that they effectively punish providers who take on the hardest, riskiest cases. Not necessarily - if the professor underestimates the risk in easy cases and overestimates the risk in hard cases it would give the hospital an incentive to take on the hard cases and turn away the easy cases.

2. The reality is that's it's impossible to accurately quantify all the different factors which potentially impact survival. In some cases we have remarkably detailed understanding of a broad range of risk factors - take a look at table 3 from page 23 in this [1] report on stem cell transplants. There are detailed odds ratios for patient age, ethnicity, karnofsky score, CMV status, disease type and stage, interval between diagnosis and transplant, year of transplant, donor match type, donor/recipient sex parity and donor age. More importantly, the professor doesn't need to be particularly accurate in assessing patient risk - she just needs to be as accurate as the hospital. (Or close enough that the difference would not give the hospital a significant advantage)

Can the professor get close enough to hospital accuracy when estimating patient risk? Two relevant points spring to mind: (a) In the book Thinking Fast and Slow there is a description of how expert analysis can often be matched by simple rules of thumb. (b) The book Superforcasting describes how some lay people are able to make better predictions than the CIA about future geopolitical events, despite having no access to classified information.

My gut feel is that the hospital would not have a significant edge over the professor. But I'm willing to be proved wrong - let's conduct an experiment where a doctor estimates the 3-year chance of survival for each patient at the time the patient is admitted to hospital, and a professor also makes the same estimate based only on the patient's database record. The winner gets half a million dollars. Wouldn't this experiment give us valuable insight in determining whether hospitals can game an End Results system?

[1] http://www.seattlecca.org/sites/default/files/content_page/2...
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Voting machines seem like a bad idea. If the investigation finds things about those machines getting hacked, it's going to be gruesome.
Well, there were plans for big hollow concrete spheres at the ground of off-shore wind power plants. And Belgium thought about an artifical island with a lowered water level lake inside.
I'm not particularly comfortable with how Github has handled their community and executes takedowns of repositories.

I don't feel like my code would be safe on github.
CoreOS is still very much a thing. The update system is seamless and has never once caused a hiccup for me. And I certainly don't perceive this as a pivot away from the distro, at all. Not sure where any of your statements come from. Except the Fleet bit, maybe, but that's just because they saw something better in Kubernetes and now contribute heavily to it.

And I'm curious what you want to install on your host if you're using containers. Surely you're not logging into these VMs interactively?

(A bit funny too, Ubuntu's fork of docker in Xenial was causing a reboot of basically everything under systemd (including ssh) under certain conditions used in Kubernetes.)
I don't like the idea that the whole Internet is running on the servers of a single company. Can't we do something to increase the competition in the "cloud" area?
Yes they're essentially the same UI set from the Wii / Wii U and not well adapted to a touch screen device. For many screens, typically you'd just tap the screen but in this game you have to specifically tab a button in the center. Seems out of place especially that menu to select your region (what the heck is that about? The primary markets they're in are not near the top, either!).
That graph is not from a credible source, it is from a company trying to push tidal power generation. Sure enough - according to the graph, tidal power is the cheapest. In reality, tidal power is WAY more expensive than wind turbines.
This is what every flywheel already does (unless it is balanced by a second flywheel going the other way). Conservation of angular momentum: as a flywheel gains angular momentum, it must be compensated by the Earth gaining the same amount of angular momentum in the opposite direction.

Usually this isn't referred to as "spinning up the Earth" though :-)
I don't feel sorry for the censorship of fake and/or misrepresenting stories

But then again, the problem with censorship is the abuse that often happens
Energy payback time is a different concept than money payback time. Investors are interested in the latter, First one is a rudimentary requirement for long term feasibility without subsidies.

Also, global solar is going up like crazy. Global sustained growth rate of around 40% is crazy fast. If that keeps on for a bit more than ten years, 100% of current global electricity demand is covered by solar. Just for comparison, there exists no two subsequent full years of iPhone production where Apple would have managed to achieve 100% growth.
So IPFS is there forever? Why so?
I use their cheapest SSD VPS to host few domains (mainly to avoid the hassle of installing php cms in a dedicated hosting environment where you don't have a full control over PHP configuration.) So far I can't complain about anything, I do have a fairly low traffic though.
I have similar experiences. For a customer I need to use O365, but if you don't need it for some features it really feels backwards. Spreadsheets that kill your session after very short idle times, using multiple accounts gets confused, constantly choosing between Web and desktop version of the software, shared editing very clunky, sharepoint just sucking in general, I can't get used to it.
I have a few old colleagues that are(were?) working on IaaS powered by OpenStack stuff at Cisco. I can only assume they were working on this. I hope they get to move onto other projects :-(
LOL, very good point.
Maybe for the back of the classroom you could clarify?

It is clear that the calculation or real EROEI is very hard when you start counting all externalities and dependencies.

Do you have any good sources of anylsis on this that you could recommend?
How does that compare to other energy storage though?
What's old is new again: hello dreamweaver just this time from google.
The very suggestion that GitHub getting "political" supported by a single issue thread caused them to lose $66 million dollars is so laughable as to barely warrant confrontation.
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These are targeted people that opted in, showing interest in your idea which you can then later work with to launch your product to, or talk to in order to improve what you're working on.

Depending on what you're starting, those are often the worst sort of people to target when you're starting a business. They're great if you're launching a customer oriented business that wants "everyone" as a customer, but most startups aren't that. Consequently they're not interested in what you're doing; they're just people who want to discover the latest thing regardless of what it is. Betalist, ProductHunt, etc are full of those people. They're easy to find. Unfortunately spending time courting them will give you the bad feedback (they want to please you rather than being honest), they'll rarely go on to become customers or evangelists because they're probably not your target market so they'll get bored quickly, and the whole process is a waste of energy.

I realise that sounds exceptionally negative, but this is an important thing for startups to learn.

On the other hand, if your service was something where I could pay you $2k after you've found me 100 paying customers who stay with my startup for, say, a year then you'd be selling something really interesting.
For me, the killer dataset would be the Google Scholar data. That would just blow the whole scientometric space wide open. It would also be a nice introduction for researchers into BigQuery (calculate your own H-factor)
I do not want to be too picky but I do not think the term gene therapy applies here. A gene therapy is when you give the organism a gene as a treatment, like giving a normal medicine. Here, the genes are included from the beginning and only activated like with normal medicine.
> Most people never noticed either way.

Noticed, didn't give a shit.

Frankly it was a complete over reaction based on virtue signalling, band wagoning and the general mesd that is any kind of nuanced debate online.

When I run into that stuff now I just close the tab, life is literally too short for it.
Rayman Jungle Run was startlingly excellent for a mobile game. I actually 100%ed it, collecting all 3000+ Lums, which I hardly ever do even with PC/console games.
If not, I'm sure there many companies building private cloud projects that would welcome OpenStack experts with open arms.

(My employer would hire such folks too, but you'd have to be willing to move to Germany).
> No depth? Most games played on smartphones are designed for playing in short increments, many of them for playing with a single hand.

Short play sessions have nothing to do with depth or lack of it.
>Had I misjudged this conference? Maybe men weren’t actually welcome to attend? Maybe the fact that I got a ticket was a mistake, and now all the women were looking at me wondering what tricks I had pulled to get in?

That's where I got the spark. This article really puts it into perspective for me.
Azure and Google Cloud are kind of out there.
Why, more probably not. Things like car crashes and other ones indeed, but likely not murder.

Most advanced societies in the world are peaceful.
Part of that question is immersion, to which I have no good answer. An expensive, tipping chair perhaps. There are some disneyland type rides where the audience area is moved around with hydraulics, and they make you feel like you are accelerating by tipping the whole room backward.

The other part of this question is nausea - I played Onward for a while and it started to make me uncomfortable, because you can move with the control pad. I'm not very susceptible to nausea but that did it.

Then I learned to simply _run in place_ whenever I move myself in game. It works wonders. I played for 4 hours twice without even the slightest nausea.
> It's the same mechanics as almost everything else with a lower amount of difficulty with the auto running and jumping

We'll have to agree to disagree, but this is essence of Nintendo's acclaimed level design. Yes, the basic run through is easy, which makes it accessible to anyone. But I'll be damned if getting all the black coins isn't excruciatingly tough. The beauty is that the same game can be played on many levels.
GrapesJS's author here. Firstly, thanks for the mention tribby, appreciate (got +20 stars in few hours :)). Anyway, in this days I plan to make a big update to the site and will add also another demo/preset, the builder for newsletters[0].
The main goal of GrapesJS, indeed, is to replace the common WYSIWYG editors, which are good for content editing but inappropriate for creating HTML structures.

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I have to echo the statement that PV is going up like crazy -- at least where I live. Admittedly I'm in one of the sunniest places in Japan (and at 34 degrees latitude to boot). They are clear cutting forest to put up installations everywhere. Virtually every single apartment building already has solar panels on top of them. Every house builder offers solar panels on new houses and while I've seen a couple of new houses without them, they are definitely the exception. Every electronics store sells solar panels and usually it is the thing that they are pushing hardest (weird to see huge solar panel displays next to the refigerators and TVs). I've done the math and with the price of electricity we pay here, it is a complete no brainer to get solar panels. If I lived in a house, I wouldn't even think twice.
Are you in the renewable energy industry in the US? If yes, send me a message on the e-mail in my profile please.
I only clicked through due to your comment, I wanted to see what you were talking about. You weren't kidding! I think I handle marketing speak pretty okay, but this:

>Build beautiful HTML5 creative with ease.

creative what - repeated later, "However, even though the amount of mobile and tablet work is expected to increase, cross-screen creative can be difficult to adopt".

This just hurts so much. They don't want to call it "content" because ... it doesn't qualify as such? It's just -- "some creative."

If it were a noun instead of an adjective it would seem okay for me but this is just too marketing.
> If I could do it over again, I probably would have gone down a different career path and programmed as a hobby.

Really? While I'd love to program as a hobby, I don't know what I'd do as a job then. For me, programming is easy money. I have no what else I could do. Game designer perhaps. Or musician. But those are really better kept as a hobby.
This seems like fearmongering and provocation to me. You don't want to be "preparing for war" against a country that has given no indication of attacking you.

It saddens me to see so many countries still falling for the Russian boogeyman - at least we'll have a POTUS now that realizes the cold war is over.
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Thanks all for taking the time to reply, and suggestions of things to check out. I'm formulating a two-year plan to execute. You've given me the confidence I need to give it a go!
Amazon, Google, Microsoft at the top tier. Three is not too bad.

The business is super capital-intensive: you need a lot of cash to pay the developers, and a lot of cash to build out infrastructure reaching both the economy of scale and geo distribution. Apple could you probably join in, if they put their minds to it.