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I can totally relate to this. Having worked largely from home for the last decade, this is something I've had to battle a lot. Not being in an office, there's no-one else there to motivate me.

Here's what's worked for me:

10 under 10:

Every night I write out 10 (or more) tasks, each under 10 minutes. I make sure there's a few super easy ones (coupla minutes each) at the top of the list. That's what I work on the next day.

10 mins is a good length. It means you have to think down to near the deepest level of a task. I found with 20 min tasks, it's very easy to get mentally lazy, & next thing you know you're depressed/unmotivated coz something you thought would take 20 minutes is actually a day's work, full of subtle gotchyas.

Each day I try to do 10 of these tasks. If I achieve 10, I know I've had a good day. Thing is, once I've done a bunch of them, I'm usually motivated enough to do to a ton more. Eg, today I've done 79 (so far).

10 * 10=100 minutes of coding may not sound like a lot, but you'd be surprised how little actual work most people do (see: Office Space).

I keep two lists: the 10 under 10, and my 'done' list for the day. As I do something, I c&p it from the former to the latter. That way if I need perking up during the day, I can just look at my 'done' list to see how productive I've been.

Identifying limiting beliefs:

This is a bit trickier. It's easy to see the noise at the top level of our mind (mental chatter: "This problem is too tough for me" "I can't do this" etc). That stuff is relatively trivial to let go of (just decide to, you're the boss of your brain).

What's trickier is finding the subconscious stuff, doubts etc that affect our behaviour, but don't necessarily rise to the level of conscious thought. What I've found is that a lot of times things are so abhorrent that our mind "protects" us from them by hiding them. You can only see that you're being limited by looking at your output (behaviour, patterns, productivity etc).

A useful framework is this:

1) Assume you can do anything (as you pointed out, within this field there's no reason you can't).

2) From that basis, anything you're not doing is because you WON'T. Thus,

3) Ask yourself "Why won't I do X?" - with the followup question "What am I afraid of?"

What I've found is for every "won't", there's a fear behind it.

Now, the super subtle thing is this: You won't necessarily get any internal (mental) answers to these questions. However, if relaxed & attentive, you may feel tension or energy rising in your body in response. This is your body's physiological connection to those deep fears. Know how when you get stressed you tense your shoulders? Yeah, it's like that.

So, when you feel that energy or tension rising, in response to the questions, just let it go. Make the choice to consciously relax & let go of that tension. As you do, what you're doing is simultaneously letting go of the associated belief. Keep letting go till you feel relaxed about the questions.

Those two techniques combined have worked wonders for me, coming from exactly the same situation you describe. Good luck!
While yes you'd be safe, you'd also much reduced interest. Your service would likely revolve around people using your site and getting told to go elsewhere to find it to listen to.
What an astoundingly over-engineered solution. Much cheaper, easier and more flexible: paint bike lanes on all major streets.
Make sure you hook up with the http://www.adoptahacker.com/ program - they will take you under their wing and introduce you to the NYC tech beat. Best thing I did in NYC! Enjoy!
Don't try to count or guess, use simple math shortcuts.

I took a rough average of the double digit numbers on the screen (35), multiplied by the number of double digit numbers (16), and since 30 x 10 is 300, I guessed the total would be around 500.

This was all done within 5 seconds
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Is that a solar system I see there? It can also be a galaxy if each dot is a solar system. Makes me wonder if the galaxies are actually orbiting around something and that something is orbiting around something and so on. Turtles all the way down.
Do all of these "daily" chores extend on the weekend? I feel that would be a good distinction between chores, as I don't do most of my weekday "chores" on the weekend.
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Thanks, interesting.
Lot's of good responses but there's one thing I'm missing: working out.

A few years ago I was playing icehockey maybe once a day or something and I felt great, school was easy and I had a lot of energy to spare (well, for a teenager anway).

Then I quit hockey and I started doing nothing, just sitting in front of the computer and guess what happened? I got inexplicitly tired and burned out. I love math but it got boring and my arms where like spaghetti and I almost tanked school (thankfully I didn't). I've always thought it was lack of challenges but now I know it wasn't that simple.

I think that my lack of working out really did make me more tired, and not just a bit but extremely tired and depressed and a whole heap of things. Now when I've started at the university I had this same strange sensation like back then, much milder but still familiar. So I went to a couple of taekwondo practices and I'm feeling a ton better already.

So my suggestion is to start a regular, and then I do mean regular with no skipping because you don't feel for it or don't have time etc, workout. You don't have to go for a run if you don't think that's the most fun thing there is (I personally really dislike it) but find something fun - ball sports, climbing, dancing whatever.

Definitely worth a try!
Interesting diversion for a few minutes.

I wish there was a website that made the maths for all this kind of thing accessible to idiots who don't have any formal maths education (like me). I've bought a few books, but even those seem to skip a stage or two.
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True, you can't ask a question without an account.

But, having an account allows you to do all kinds of other things as well, like submit stories, comment on other people's stories, and take part in the community.

Creating an account, and then immediately using it to ask a question is a bit suspect. The fact that the question was so brief, and one which primarily benefits you (and not the community) seems to indicate that you are misunderstanding the norms of the community here.

In other words: hang around for a while, and get to know the place first. I guarantee you'll get better results that way.
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They were definitely doing wacky-ish things before the DS, but not necessarily controller-related. "Hey You, Pikachu!", those Pokemon Snap Blockbuster printing stations, and the e-Reader come to mind.
This actually holds true for Macbooks/Mac OS X as well. I've been using a MBP for over a year now, and "attention to detail" is hardly the first words that comes to my mind.

A few examples:

* Different shortcuts in different programs.

* "Home"( * ) and "End"( * ) mapped to different key combinations in different programs. (No, not just 3rd party apps, apple apps too.)

* Holds true for hardware, too: ctrl is positioned differently on small and full size keyboards.

( * ) Of course, there are no home and end, but one of <fn>+<arrow key>, or <cmd>+<arrow key> or <ctrl>+<arrow key> will usually work. The only text movement combination that works almost in all apps are <alt>+<arrow key> which jumps by words. Of course, being unix, <ctrl>+a and <ctrl>+e works everywhere (?) but they can't be used together with <shift>
My sympathies in advance to both you and your soon-to-be employee.
I have a similar problem, i have knowledge, good coding skills but i never get things done on time, mainly because i have a serious procrastination problem. Is like i can only work under pressure, if i have a assigment of 1 month i try to do the things from the start date but actually start to be productive in the last week, and i never finish on time. I'm feel sick about this because the entire month is a pain to me, and my life quality sucks cause of that.

I have some success with a product(webapp) that i build, outside my job and recently get bussines angels money to start my own bussines. I dont know if i undervalue myself but i have the feeling that i dont deserve this success. I'm afraid of fail because my work style problem. I hope that now that i go into management and will hire people the things change but i'm not sure, maybe the problem affect all my personality, i used to act similar in my schools days. Some time i think is a kind of mental problem.

Excuse my english.
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In Oracle vs. Google article WSJ states "Android == sh*t"
There is a point:

- that monorail would be safer
- you do not need to bring your bike
- weather is less relevant
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With one strategically looked-over space WSJ says "Android == sh*t".

"Oracle's suit, filed in August, is part of a surge in patent complaints in the fast-moving mobile-phone market--with >> Google'shit Android software << a particular focus."
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The post doesn't give a definite answer to the question in the title, but it is interesting.
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I was under the impression that whether or not the universe had nonzero angular momentum was still open, in which case, yeah, could be.
Go work somewhere first. Your first few career years are all about what you learn, not how much you make. If you think you'll turbocharge your learning by taking a year or two at a startup then do it. You always have nights and weekends to work on your own stuff. Also, remember this: minimize the downside. Getting rich isn't about taking cowboy risks, it's about taking smart risks.
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Even using such a browser (Minefield 4.0b7), I get results that are best described as mixed on my machines when I view the presentation:

- MacBook running WinXP Pro via BootCamp - works fine

- Dell Inspiron 1110 running Win7 Home Premium - falls back to HTML version (gfx is Intel GMA 4500MHD, which claims to support OpenGL)

- Fedora 11 machine with nVidia drivers - works, but I get <10fps (CPU is Atom 330, gfx card is a PCI 8400GS)

- Fedora 12 machine with nouveau driver (gfx card is an ancient FX5200) - crashes browser

I'm sure I'm an atypical case, but are there any published stats on what proportion of machines out there should run WebGL if they have a capable browser?
You're onto something...

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Or, like most people, you're not a rational machine.

The future that costs you $50,000 (or helps/hurts you via any of the mentioned surrogate currencies) is distasteful. Your irrational brain won't let you do nothing, and makes you go out and cast your vote, even though you may understand that it's a waste of time.

Alternative theory: Risk.

Highly publicized close elections create a scenario that looms large in your mind: The Bad Guy wins by one vote. (Or just a few). You would never forgive yourself. Even though you know it to be fantastically unlikely, you aren't willing to risk it.

/me doesn't vote.
I'm happy this book inspired you into some thinking. The question is, how is it going to practically change your life in a long term?

I'm making this point just to strike a common misconception, not that you're certainly in it, but for anyone reading this thread. People often have an impression that buddhism is mystical, it says about all things being one and that if they got into it seriously they would be given next levels of beautiful thoughts and ideas up to the final nirvana.

It's not like that at all. Buddhism is practical. Deadly practical. Meaning one has to fight his own limitations first. You get some meditations and instructions from a teacher, usually tied specifically to you, and you do meditate. It changes you. Ego fights back. But if you continue the practice you loose some previous obstacles and in general you see a new value in your relations with people, your view, in everyday things. Then another obstacles come, and so on.

The crucial are meditations from a teacher - it all makes sense only when you trust him. The trust must be earned somehow, it's not measurable. One of the meditations is a conscious dying meditation which I for example relearn every year. Others work best if you repeat them every day. It changes you inevitably. There's no warranty it will change you for the good, but you observe yourself. You observe the mind. It's a constant work, meant to finally relax you not tire you, though.

All this sweat is for understanding that everything we feel and see, including material world, is only a projection of the mind, so it's best to focus on mind itself instead of images which it mirrors. And keep this view possibly all the time.

Of course this view is kinda related to recent discoveries of science, esp. quantum physics and so on. But what does it mean in an everyday life? Did Einstein had a hunch buddhism is related to physics and is probably very useful? Yes. Did he follow that path? No. Did he remember in every minute of his life that things are impermanent and world is a dream? Probably not. Was he impervious to anger because of that understanding? Probably not. Some people say he was terrible person, others say he was excellent and nice. Whatever. Einstein's words may be a trampoline for someone to become interested in buddhism but he's no expert on the topic.

So, to really judge if it works it'd best to actually find the people who do it, or even know such people and compare how they behaved in the past and how they behave now. I know it's not easy. But Einstein, well, is dead... We're not, yet.

edit: Thank you HNers if you read this, these are important things and it seemed urgent to share my few cents.
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Have just downloaded this - will definitely give it a try. I can imagine using this to run one-off scripts, in the way I currently use LINQPad on my laptop.

Good work!
Two rows of ten boxes at the bottom have nontrivial amounts in them, a quick eyeballing gives 30 as a possible average amount -> 600 total.
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I have two 3-letter .ly domains. Do you think it's a bad idea to use them for anything serious now?
I can't upvote this enough.

For what it's worth, I've gotten good use out of the Pomodoro Technique ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique ) to keep myself focused, but it usually only works for me if I'm already motivated to begin with.

Doing both the 10-under-10 and Pomodoro may help to get things started and keep the momentum going.
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When I was suggesting domain names for the NYTimes short URL this was a major concern. I'm sorry to see it actually happen.
And to add to all of that: If you register a local version of any domain, be it .ly or anything else make sure that you understand that domains registered as such are subject to both local laws and the whims of the TLD authority.

This is one of the reasons I've always stuck to .com, .net and .org, just registering a .nl domain for example requires me to jump through all kinds of hoops, and is more expensive to boot.

If you're registering a cutesy domain name because it worked for del.icio.us please note that they eventually switched to the whole word. If you're doing it because 'there are no good names available' then you need to get a bit more inspiration somewhere, I've found it very easy to come up with domain names up to last week, I can't imagine the situation has changed much since then.
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First of all, love your site (prettygraph) - kudos for having started and finished something end to end! :) Well done!

I thought of emailing yc alum (Antonio from adgrok came into mind) who has been in the investment industry but could not for some reason. Your comment above spurred me to do just the same and I did that a minute ago - thanx!

I just shot you an email as well!
It's pretty clear that the voting machine manufacturers are doing an awful job, and not even the basic security they need, but there are some particular difficulties to voting.

The major benefit of financial systems is that you can keep detailed logs and then audit them after-the-fact to figure out exactly what happened that is a problem. By the nature of secret ballots you can't have detailed logs for auditing, so the best you can hope for is printing something out on paper for the voter to verify.

Even if you have a paper ballot printed out you have the issue of most people not bothering to read what's printed on it (which, given the number of people on a US election ballot, I don't blame them for). You also have the issue of how to handle the case where the voter either made a mistake or there was a computer error and they need to change their vote from what is on their paper ballot. All of these issues can be solved, but there are a lot of them and each one you have to account for makes the human and computer protocols for voting more complicated, which is a serious issue.

Here's a good article on it from Bruce Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/10/getting_out_th...

The main thing he recommends are:

- Open Source Code

- Making voting rules uniform

- Paper ballots printed out which are used for recounts

- Simplify the interfaces, registration process, etc.
Have you seen the free "build your own" templates at VistaPrint? They're beyond horrible. I'd rather scrawl my email address on a napkin.
It sounds to me like TrueCrypt needs a new feature: a password that just destroys all data.
Ask NH: What and to who can you outsource part of your system?
As a generalization, outsourcing parts of your system which aren't core to your problem domain makes a lot of sense to me.

I'm always interested to learn about a new company thats focused on solving one of my needs. But I'm sure the list of companies (and the problems they solve) that I don't know is longer than the one that I do.

So who and what are you outsourcing?

I'll start with some basic examples:

-Google analytics for analytics

-Google ads for ads

-Disqus for comments

-Postmark for email delivery
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Yes, the principles described here could easily be applied to a full Linux kernel. In fact, one of the hacks on my TODO list is to statically link a Mirage application against a Linux kernel (without a userspace) to run them on the bare metal.

The point of defining a single address space and the smallest possible C runtime is to start from the other end: rather than stripping away 14 million lines of C code, I preferred writing a few thousand lines and jumping straight into my runtime. It is an awful lot easier to experiment with something like http://github.com/avsm/mirage/tree/master/runtime/xen/kernel... the full Linux kernel by quite a long way. Note that the current tree isn't finished yet; I'm pulling out dietlibc entirely at the moment, so the final kernel binaries float around the ~200KB mark for a typical webserver. Then, also consider hypervisor-only features like live migration or PV suspend/resume that can be further optimised heavily and more easily in a minios instead of Linux. Or that Mirage is single-vCPU and event-driven only (no interrupts), and it starts to look quite different from Linux.

The Mirage IO library is also very portable; an application which uses only TCP/UDP (instead of the lower level Ethernet) will compile on Linux/*BSD using select/epoll/kqueue sockets to be "just" a high performance webserver. The cool thing is that by using these APIs, we can also build applications that compile to small specialised operating systems, while developing them as usual on UNIX.

For a final entertaining hack, they are also portable enough to run directly in the browser as Javascript applications thanks to Jake Donham's ocamljs project. We're still integrating the Websocket code in to make this properly finished, but it's a fine side experiment into portability :-)
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Thanks ! I have been waiting for that for a long time now, not having that much time to read this documentation, that one, this one, etc...
I don't know if this is a problem that applies to you but for quite some time I started getting bogged down in problems. I guess I was reaching the Journey Man stage of becoming a programmer and I wanted to start by creating the full architecture of each program before actually doing anything, a kind of top down approach to programming. Recently, I’ve realised that I’m not super human; I start by putting down code and shaping the architecture as the problem evolves. Not that I put up with ‘code smells’, I don’t move on to the next sub-problem until I’m comfortable that the current one is in a reasonable condition. I fund this allows me to actually get started, rather than staring at the problem as a whole and wondering where to start.
While I'm as against Sharia law as the next privileged westerner/godless heathen, I found the complaint that the rules weren't in English really amusing.

Why should a country's national ccTLD rules be in English? It's a domain space for that country, not for making convenient short URLs for Americans to use on Twitter.

Why would a country run under Sharia law want to allow services like bit.ly and others to use their ccTLD to link to porn and other things they find offensive? Why is there an automatic assumption that ccTLD rules should conform to Western expectations?

The only explanation I can think of is that in the back of people's heads is the idea 'it's our internet and we're just letting you weird foreigners use it'. Apart from not being true any more, I wonder how deeply that sort of thinking affects other interactions online?

Or maybe I'm overthinking it all and this guy's just pissed off and ranting because he lost his domain.
Much more aerodynamic than a bike.