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Lately I've been doing tasks from easiest to hardest. I no longer seem like a perfectionist. Let me explain...

I used to do whatever I felt like, and typically, I was doing the hardest tasks first. I would leave the little stuff. "Oh that's easy, I can just do that at the end".

Creating social media accounts was the last thing on my TODO list. One day, I thought I'd apply Dave Ramseys "Pay off your debts smallest to largest" principle to my technical debts.

One of the first things I did was create social media accounts. And a bunch of other small stuff that was biting at me.

Another decision I made was to launch earler with fewer features. Why? Because many of the sample use cases (the simple ones), didn't need the more advanced features.

So, smallest to largest dictates that I must make the easy samples before I finish the advanced features. And, if I have samples, I can launch.

So, my perfectionism was a symptom, but the problem was my priority system: hardest to easiest, not easiest to hardest.

(Inevitably, someone will write about "do your hardest task in the morning when you have the most energy". Well, I freelance in the morning when I have the most will power, so this is moot. Doing tasks easiest to hardest gives the most accomplishments earliest [ more items checked off the todo list ], which provides positivity and motivation to keep going.

Imagine the scenario:

You have 3 hours to work, you do your hardest task, which takes 5 hours. You don't get it done, and think "omg I didn't finish and I still have 9 other things to do".

Or, you do your easiest tasks first. Most take 5-10 minutes. You finish 5 tasks in your 3 hour window, and think, Geez! I'm really productive today! I should keep working, so you work another 2 hours and get 6, 7, 8 done.

Momemtum is key. Doing easy tasks first creates success feelings that make you work longer. It also frees up mental space ( you no longer need to mentally track those tasks ).

Launch is almost always EASIER than the hard PERFECTION features that a perfectionist makes.
I agree with this 'emotional crutch' sentiment.

Most of all, it seems that 'perfectionists' don't see that it is actually a derogatory term.

It means: you can't distinguish between what's important and what's unimportant, so you loose yourself in unimportant details and waste time.
There's no known correlation between being Rich and not being an Asshole.
Group calls for free movement between Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand
Who says their domination of search engines is dominant? Isn't Bing starting to gain some serious market share?
Yeah, you're the only one.
What language are you coming from?

Kotlin is a modern language comparable to swift, rust, Scala or ocaml. Learning it is workthile as you’ll learn modern language concepts.
browsers still have it
U.S. Senate Hearing – Data Security and Bug Bounty Programs: Lessons Learned
That's pretty rich coming from Mother Jones. They've had a history of extremely toxic Twitter usage.

Here is one example: https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/01/14/take-a-gun-and-put-...
That you're probably more a designer than a pragmatic engineer.
After a certain size, they should be disallowed further conglomeration. The market's incentive is mergers and anti-competitive behaviors.
I had the same thought as I was reading the article. My experience living in Houston for a decade was that no one assigned any special meaning to "out" and "over".
I predict "Not secure" will lose meaning for many people. There's just too many non-https websites. Traffic is not a relevant metric for this. Tell me how many of the websites that a user visits are http.

It's easy:

sqlite3 places.sqlite 'select url from moz_places' | cut -d / -f 1,3 | sort | uniq | cut -d : -f 1 | sort | uniq -c

4915 http
4227 https
Thank you! :-D Such a great answer, wish I could +100 that.
Was going to say that :) Once you get technique then you just have to hammer at it but with more technique
Why not let the data speak for itself? To be honest the "provocative" tone you take makes me trust you a lot less.
They had an enclosure containing an environment for growing micro greens you could pick yourself. lol. It wasn't for us I/O'ers, though. I was impressed, but maybe I haven't been spoiled yet.

They did just have the one cafeteria when I was there, but I wouldn't talk it down. Waterloo isn't that large of an office, relatively speaking.

I wouldn't be surprised that the NYC location is slaying Kitchener/Waterloo. I'd hope so! I think the last time I was up that way was pre-university drinking with friends in Guelph and at the Sleeman Brewery. It's a nice place, and becoming more of a research and development hub, but still has a way to go.
German here. Up and down are not related to north and south for me. Maybe it's because streets are not neatly arranged like that?
How would you read messages sent only from certain people? I mean there's a whitelist but nothing like allowing a whole category of people.
Funny, I feel that I'm able to do this, to methodically work through a problem, addressing/exploring all relevant angles, mapping it out in it's entirety as much as possible. To identify potential risk and opportunity.

But I would call this: just my fucking job. Not perfectionism. But I realise also: I'm wrong. Tons of people are unable to do this and call this ability perfectionism, as if it's something bad.
If those websites don't wish to support skinning, I don't see how the technical choices are misguided.
So sorry to hear of this.
Fully decentralized internet lol.
The internet economy is much more centralized that the old world ever was
There is no problem at all identifying the big players that have too much power
Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces
Yeah, would be nice if ACME with DNS validation was widespread. But right now it's still not viable due to Let's Encrypt's rate limits.
I don't get anything out of this, frankly. There's no scientific context, exposition of the data/data collection methods or even what ppm means.

For the interested, the ESRL Global Monitoring Division (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/index.html) is a more complete treatment of work being done in global greenhouse gas monitoring -- charts, maps and data included.
Hey, random HN anecdote teller. (Aren’t we all a bit random around here?)

You may have learned about statistical significance in kindergarten (props for the kindergarten for great education, I didn’t get there till high school) Still you’re displaying coincidence in a single case as correlation.

Neither did I question whether you had flu or not, you’re attacking a straw man there. I question that tamiflu was a strong factor in your speedy recovery.
I think you’re missing a few things:

1. Many great artists were extremely prolific and created lots of mediocre work, we just forget about those. There seem to be very few perfectionists who just created a few great works, not “releasing” them until they were perfect. There are some, but they’re the exception.

2. You’re also not seeing all the many perfectionists who waited until things were perfect and then never finished at all, which is by far the biggest risk. I’d argue there are orders of magnitude more of these than perfectionists who ship perfect things.

I suspect that many of the “just get it done” people who do lots of bad or mediocre work will end up creating great things, you’re just catching them earlier in their learning / experimentation cycle. But those people will learn and adapt so much faster than the perfectionists will.
Working in tech (not companies listed), I get somewhat irked at the recent barrage of "regulate/break them up" articles I keep seeing about tech companies.

Not being a big fan of regulation in general, but if you're going to regulate, should these companies be at the top of your list? There are plenty of wrongs being committed by a variety of companies and industries right now. Not saying these companies are as holier than thou than they preach to be, but they are all innovative and good companies. While they have practices that merit examination, so do many other companies that have histories of being far less transparent and far less proactive about change.

I don't mean to say the world of tech doesn't need a fair amount of reflection and self reflection, but this recent bandwagoning of "regulate tech!" seems reactionary and hype driven as opposed to more well intentioned. This guy was even mentioning his book... The media has covered tech in the last year in a "if it bleeds it leads" capacity that I think undercuts many of the valid points being raised. Idk, I could be wrong, but that's my two cents
I'm guessing that there's a continuum of doomsday levels. Rate and extent of temperature increase. Tipping points for melting of major chunks of grounded ice, and sea-level consequences. Regional changes in arability, and impacts on food production. Tipping points for melting of permafrost, and positive feedback on climate forcing. Reduction in climate forcing by SOx emissions, and spike in warming after SOx emission reductions.
The author has been repeating this point in more places than Esquire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebKI4x_k8A
I think OP is talking about generating keys from third party providers. Like generating a key from sendgrid or stripe without going to their website / UI.
Yeah I agree with all that.
In terms of what other people think, I am just a stoic about it, that is outside of my control. In terms of what I wear, I have always gotten more than enough clothes as christmas presents from various relatives to keep me decent.

Though quite recently I started mountaineering and discovered the specialized clothing for that. Its the 1st time Ive ever been interested in clothes, the feature-list on them greatly surpasses anything else. Eg A jacket which is water resistant, breathable, wind-resistant, tear resistant, very light, flexible and comfortable, affording a full range of motion, with lots of pockets and also adjustable vents. Though I am a small man and have actually bought a womens jacket cus it fit better and was cheaper.
I think the author of the comment you're replying to conflated sentience with sapience.
I wouldn't count on any "major real reworking of the economic state".

The reality is, lots of people have been asking for just that for a long time, and it's not come to fruition because it is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Consider Native Americans. They wanted change for years, and essentially had to start casinos to begin making headway. Even now, a material number of tribes and reservations are still racked by poverty, and are unable to participate in the vast majority of legal industrial activities at scale. The system has not changed for them, some of them have simply been forced to find a method of adapting to the economic system that we have.

Blacks are another example. They're a group that has agitated for change for what seems like an eternity. It's similarly doubtful that the system will change for them either. The ones who have found success are the ones willing to leave their neighborhoods and participate in the larger economy not on their own terms, but on terms set by that larger economy.

I actually would like for a new economic state to take hold that would include people who concerned thinkers have termed "those left behind". It's just that, given the interests embedded in the current system, I can't see how it will change. As I pointed out, many groups have tried previously, and tried for a very long time, yet we still have the same system in place. The best we seem to be able to do, is to allot a few set asides for the purposes of elevating a chosen few of "those left behind". I suspect we'll follow a similar path in the instance of rural "left behinds". But my suspicion is that the inertia in our system will mean that wholesale change to accommodate the majority of "those left behind" is not likely to occur.
Tamiflu will shorten flu by 1 day in Most good studies.

In Aus Tamiflu is often prescribed. In fact, significantly over prescribed. $100+ for a box of tablets, that someone needs to start taking before we even have actual PCR confirmation of flu virus? Does the benefit outweigh the costs? Probably in elderly or in situations with decreased immunity.

For the rest of people, it is probably good to go through a fever cycle once in a while. Your immune system needs something to run at, or else it can end up attacking itself, or missing cancers. The firm evidence base for this is low but my belief (as a biochemistry major and doc with heavy interest in immunology) is that if you are otherwise healthy and you get the flu, then it is probably doing ok for you. We need to stop pathologising all sickness. It’s normal to be sick sometimes, in fact it’s probably necessary for optimum function.

[0] - quick link from google as I am on mobile but well known to me in my professional capacity - http://www.center4research.org/tamiflu-not-tamiflu/
This article absolutely drips with arrogance and unconscious bias. It even mentions allocating "blame"!

TL;DR: People from unimportant areas who don't vote correctly are merely vengeful simpletons having knee-jerk reactions. This is the reason we enlightened people from coastal US cities have been thwarted.
West coast Canada we also "back east" -- it's the linguistic opposite of "out west".

The underlying source is the idea everyone is somehow "from" the east, and they (or their ancestors) at one point moved "out west", but if they were to return, it would be to go "back east."
Many of the most intelligent and capable people I know suffer from impostor syndrome to some degree. It can vary from worrying that you might not be as good as your peers, to being afraid to release something because you're worried it's not perfect yet, to a paralyzing inability to start, because you're stuck in a mental loop overthinking dependencies and prerequisites.

Smart people spend lots of time learning, thinking about things, and relying on their (often overactive) imaginations. It's not surprising that spending so much time in your own head can sometimes lead you astray.

A helpful response would be to reassure and encourage your peers. Point out when there's objective evidence that they are doing a good job, because they may not be able to see it on their own.

In this light, the attitude displayed by the current top level commenters is extremely disappointing [0,1]. Insinuating that your coworkers are slow or out of their depth in circumstances like these is counterproductive. IMHO, this "maybe you're just not good enough" attitude is one of the most toxic aspects of living in silicon valley and the bay area.

I am a perfectionist, and I know that I waste gobs of time over-analyzing absolutely everything [2]. I also know that my best work only happens when I force myself to set aside that perfectionism and just start. It doesn't matter if it's terrible, it doesn't matter if I picked the wrong library -- wasting more time over-analyzing everything never gets me anywhere, and leaves me feeling miserable at the end of the day.

I know, objectively, that this is the case, and yet I still hesitate to start big projects, and still attempt to use spreadsheets to plan the most trivial of things. It's not an easy habit to break, but it's absolutely worthwhile to keep trying. I owe a lot to the peers and managers who have helped me stay on track.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16335156

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334873

[2] https://xkcd.com/1952/
Closely related is the adage that great ideas often look like bad ones. I think it's worth thinking about all these nuggets of wisdom in terms of efficient markets:

Given that there are so many entrepreneurs building startups the best sounding ideas are already taken and what's left are the bad and seemingly bad ones. The market-economy is very good at picking low-hanging fruit. If you dropped a $20 bill in Grand Central station chances are it'll be taken in minutes, while if you dropped it in a random alley somewhere, you can probably go back the next day and find it.

So for you to find a good idea that the market hasn't picked up yet it needs to be somehow hidden in plain sight -- a crumbled $20 bill that looks like a piece of garbage.

A similar concept that I've been thinking a lot about in the context of my startup is a "scaling bottleneck". For you to get big and service everybody you have to first service a demographic that is often thought of as a dead-end in terms of making money. Say kids, or a hobbyists in a certain field. I think the Facebook example applies here too: it was hard to see how this toy could scale beyond college students. Worded as a statement about efficient markets: good ideas for startups that will initially service and grow on a potentially non-monetizable demographic will not attract entrepreneurs and therefore will be available for ones that have that insight.
A lot of this issue seems to be people operating in bad faith. Airbnb wants the narrative to be that most of their business is regular people renting out a spare room to make some extra money. Certainly that's a component of their business and one I think, and think most people would agree should be encouraged. Airbnb unfairly plays up this angle while ignoring the fact that many hosts are larger businesses that are taking up housing stock to run an unregulated hotel. There are also plenty of people holding multiple leases (especially in NYC) to rent one place out on Airbnb where you can easily make more than the rent per month. This has some socialized costs in that it reduces the housing supply which drives up rent for everyone else which cities may want to avoid.

Hotels and some city people want to focus on the fact that there is unfair competition going on but also seem to recognize that the model is a threat to their bottom line. They seem to want defensive regulation to block all of it rather than just the part that is truly unfair to them some of which is fixed now that Airbnb collects and pays taxes. Not sure if they're at full parity with the hotels in terms of taxes and feels like they should be. Of course a city always has the option of removing these fees for everyone if they think it's unfair.

There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around here.
The same argument has been made by Christophe Guilly, another geographer, this time from France, starting about 3-4 years ago. From his wiki page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Guilluy):

> In France, Christophe Guilluy has got notability with his theory about la France périphérique (peripheral France). In his different books he stated that a great part of the political elite has lost contact to the popular classes mainly situated in rural France, which he defined as the France périphérique. Guilluy has also tried to explain the rise of the National Front in France. In the international Academia his work is currently unknown.[1] Guilluy has also tried to explain the vote for Trump with the existence of a peripheral America in an interview in the French magazine Le Point.[2]

I’ve just finished reading one of his books, he totally deserves to be better known in the Anglo-Saxon world because he makes a lot of sense in what he’s saying.
> This meme of the "inferior Soviet technology" needs to die in a fire.

Technology turns out to be inferior, when quality control is superseded by political agenda. It should be quite obvious.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

> The failure of the N1 program was a leadership issue, period.

Surely leadership failure is a key factor, but there was also an economical one. Space race was very expensive.
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> Article criticizing Facebook’s dominance has a link to share on Facebook. Be the change you want to see?

I'm sure article-author Scott Galloway, NYU Professor of Marketing, has the authority to change Esquire's social media strategy, on account of writing an article for it.
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When a founder/CEO can save [1]$45 billion USD into a tax haven LLC, I think thats big enough. Step down and let another innovator get rich.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/business/dealbook/how-...
Google is just one of the tenants along with Food Network and Major League Baseball. They also own the building across the street, 111 Eighth Ave. Some other companies rent space in there too. Google has the cash, doesn't want to pay rent, and knows they are going to be there for a long time. Might as well buy the place. Not really a tax avoidance, although it certainly could be, but it's more like a cost avoidance. Estimated rent for 1.2m sqf is $6.1m/month for your typical office space in Chelsea. For a price of $2b, Google would get their money back in 30 years from collecting rent, assuming it never changes. I'm sure they are looking at closer to 15 years.
If you are planning to use node.js with PostgreSQL, I want to pitch in my ORM, tabel: http://tabel.fractaltech.in/
In the sense of strict voting power of course, that's the point of our government setup, a minimization of the influence of 'centers of power.' But rural voters feel alienated from the actual politicians they're able to pick. Take a look at all the top Republicans and Democrats, the ones who are in the news. What has any of them done to help revitalize rural areas? Trump is the only one I can think of that has promised some effort to the problem and even he isn't going to follow through except for a few token, small measures. 'Political elites' don't actually do anything for rural voters despite rural voting power. Hence the breakdown in those areas.
The book "The Now Habit" offers the perspective that many people who procrastinate suffer from perfectionism. That is, they are so concerned with achieving an idealized result that they are unable to even begin, lest they fail.
There's more to tech than companies, examples:

Linux: open, distributed development, massive success
Bittorrent: p2p, massive success
Bitcoin: fully distributed, massive success (pending)

There is nothing more centralized than the government. They have a monopoly on violence. I (and many others) want them as far away from our industry as possible. I'll take Google over government intervention any day.
100 times this
Show HN: A drop-anywhere C++17 REPL (like pry/pdb)
This idea somewhat pre-empts the possibility of achieving certain economies of scale. If a large company can achieve great economies of scale and pass that on to a consumer, who benefits from the onerous regulation that costs the tax payer money to enforce as well as money to pay for the increased cost of the good?

Anti-trust in the U.S. has not been super strongly enforced in recent decades (perhaps since the Ma Bell breakup and Glass Steagall before it was repealed?). But if the consumer is not being harmed, why get in the way of a company that has truly earned market dominance?
> ... distributed systems are easy to build and use ...

I would not say distributed systems are easy to build or use. I think Kubernetes makes distributed systems _easier_ but definitely not easy in general, or at scale. Just easier than doing it all by hand/manually.
It's fairly trivial to request a rate limit adjustment from Let's Encrypt[1].

[1]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetFLqcyPrnnrom2Kw8...
Regarding Q1:

> Under state law, access to voter data is restricted; however, journalists, political campaigns, and academic researchers can acquire the data for certain purposes.

I guess the question is, what are the "certain purposes"?
Agreed. How a 160 character text service manages to bloat and provide less utility than something that STARTED as richer content (Facebook) is beyond me. I've tried for perhaps 10 yeas now and have never been able to make Twitter work for me.
It's even worse than what you're saying here, because the Initial Operational Test & Evaluation that will tell if the F-35 is actually effective for combat hasn't begun yet (scheduled to begin later in 2018).
What's really shocking is that the tax bill for a private street in one of the hottest property markets in the world is $14/year.