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I use a Trello board for my 10 year goals. Lists are:

1. Primary Goals

2. Secondary Goals

3. Immediate Goals

5. To-do this week

6. Daily

I started it at the end of 2015 so there's a card in primary goals list for each major thing that I would like to have accomplished (or just continued to do) by the end of 2025. Each primary goal gets its own label and a checklist of what specifically accomplishing that goal means to me.

Secondary and immediate goals are how I broke down the bigger goals into smaller, more manageable parts. For example, one of my primary goals is "Health." So a secondary goal might be "rock climb twice per week" or "research ways to improve my memory". Every card in every list has a label/labels that relate them back to a primary goal.

The weekly and daily todos further break everything down into things that I can focus on in the next day or week.

Here's what I learned:

- For all of 2016 (the first year) I would update this Trello board religiously every day with my weekly and daily todos. I found that I actually didn't enjoy doing this. While things were getting done, they didn't seem to be things that were that important or impactful. I stopped doing this so I could completely cut out those last two lists. Now I re-visit the board every so often when I feel like I need a reminder or what past-me thought was important. Sometimes I update the primary goals (I've only added to this once and never removed from it) and more frequently I'll decide that a secondary or immediate goal didn't make sense so I'll get rid of it or add a new one. The whole process is much more free form and I think that works better for me.

- One of my mantras that has come out of this exercise has been "don't do something for just one reason." The things that I tend to enjoy and accomplish successfully are ones that have multiple primary goal labels on them. Sometimes they only have a loose relation or benefit but it's still more compelling to me because if it turns out one of the benefits doesn't work out the way I planned then there's still a reason to be doing this thing for another reason.

Still an ongoing experiment but I'm generally happy that I'm doing it.
Probably because there is an abundance of creative work around us, so there is less incentive to be creative yourself.
Yes, you need to break into the industry before anyone will take you seriously as a candidate. So maybe add in at the top: 1. Go live in the US long enough to get established in the industry.

It's still out of reach for most people in the world, but not even San Francisco can employ literally everyone.
I really hope that Google just goes away from the european market (I'm european). Sadly that's not probably going to happen.
Except this case addresses standards which are already copyrighted. (The laws incorporated pre-existing standards). Congress can decide the scope of the grant, just as it could decide the terms on which to grant someone 40 acres in the west. But once granted, it is a property right. Congress can’t just retroactively take it away.
Why is this such a serious issue? I mean it is inconvenient to always pass length along with the pointer but it's not that inconvenient. It's a bit more typing but that's where problems end.
You said it yourself — you’ve been running ThinkPads with Fedora. So essentially, you have restricted yourself to one particular line of laptops and one distribution. That is probably why you havn’t felt the pain of having to figure out why the trackpad stops working once in a while — or why the sound card went all mute — or why the battery life suddenly went from being decent to downright horrible.
Watching TV makes you good with RF.
>Liquid and online democracy has failed, we are in an age of autocrats that have weaponized online propaganda and misinformation to directly reach their voters.

Give society a little time to react, this has only been a talking point for one election so far.
Where do you get that information from? What are people taking when we see articles on HN talk about the benefits of micro dosing?
Yes, it's a thorny question, but that doesn't mean it's intractable.

People continue to deny to this day that slavery, Jim Crow and redlining have any relevance for the state of racial politics and racial inequity in this country. "It's all in the past." If not reparations, the least we can do is come to real terms with our history. The number of educated, upper class Americans I know that refuse to is very frustrating.
Fomo3D's pot (exitscam.me) is nearing USD10Mio
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One of my goals this year is to be better organised at tracking my goals :) so far I haven't got around to it.

In all my note taking I try and keep things plain text. I have a folder for the year with a file called goals.txt with a list of everything I plan to achieve. I then have a done.txt file with everything I did achieve, divided my month. This is because life invariably throws things at you which were not on your initial plan, but are worth remembering that you did
My CPU has an HTTP server? But why?
When dealing with consumer-grade network equipment, this is the same question that always comes to my mind: who decided these devices should have their management features open for WAN access by default?

I'm still not sure if it was an early 2000s fad that nobody really thought about, or it was deliberate (and if so, why).
How Facebook Got Their First Users
I'm oddly lucky that I based my fanless server off an old Atom platform.
Last week it was at around $488k (http://researchly.leobosankic.com/2018/07/19/blockchain-repo...)
How Etsy Got Their First Users
with an entry-level GPU and slow RAM that works with an i5-2500k, i can play every modern game i have tried on high.

Nothing about me opening a text editor, interpreting most code, or compiling the occasional thing require anywhere near that much power.

For the overwhelming majority, and i really mean overwhelming, there's really no progress or point to upgrading anything except the gpu in the past 7 years or so

in laptops, new stuff uses a LOT less power for the same speed, so there's that I guess.
It's easy to blame Carly Fiorina for HP's decline, she was leading the company during the downturn of the 2000s. That said, I don't think it's entirely fair: that was a tough time all around! Many companies went belly-up during the dot-com bust[0], like MCI Worldcom, Gateway, etc.

Looking back, it seems like her decision to double-down on computing hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, printers, etc.) and Intel technology (at the expense of their own, like the tech from Apollo or DEC/Compaq's Alpha) immediately before the dot-com bust were the really disastrous decisions.

It's almost like she didn't know the dot-com bust was right around the corner! :-P
Ubuntu 12.04 wasn't out in 2010.
[1] is what I do a lot of discovery on in my own work. The complexity of the digital domain to the sales funnel, as well as the increased reach to new populations, makes simple A/B testing inadequate for accurate causal analysis. I think BigCorp has beneficial scale benefits here.

[2] I've only seen massive product movement when the analysts and idea folks work together. I've never seen an idea wonk hit the bullseye contrary to simple economic theory/reasoning on their customer target.
I guess Twitter's archive didn't make it. :P The dim yet accurate view of humanity it provides would surely give pause to deep future archaeologists.
I am going to have a look at gapminder, thanks for the suggestion
Yes, and that use case/failure mode should be remembered if the product being pushed overlaps that domain. Is that a large market outside of medical?
We just need someone to make a derivative of Forth.
I also use a trello board. I have one column for each year, plus a wishlist column with short/mid/long term goals and a separate column just for travels that I want to do. Once a task is completed I mark it with the green label. If I just don't care anymore about something or I "fail" the task, then I mark it in red.

I find this setup quite helpful for:

- breaking down huge goals (such as learning a new language)

- having short/mid/long term goals all available at a glance

- giving priority to stuff I'd otherwise keep procrastinating (I tend to procrastinate for weeks or months doing several things until I put everything in one checklist at the top of the current year column and power through them all in a short time)

- giving myself some perspective and appreciate all the things achieved in the past months/years. Things that were once just dreams or seemed very hard to achieve are now the normal day-to-day life and it's way too easy to undervalue them.

I use the board in a positive way, in the sense that I don't see deleting tasks or failing to achieve something as some kind of failure. I only celebrate the green "done" labels.

EDIT: formatting
Intercom use it heavily in production.

Source: am engineer at Intercom.
It really kills me every time I see a Windows hint like this. Ten or fifteen or maybe even twenty years ago, one of Windows' arguments against Linux was that configuring simple things (like, say, preventing automatic updates from interrupting your fucking workflow) involved some series of arcane commands that I'll never be able to walk my wife or my mom through over the phone.

Now it's literally the opposite.

My wife's laptop runs OpenSUSE (or maybe Manjaro, I can't remember what I put on there after she got upset with Mint for whatever reason; whatever it was, the updates work and she can get whatever software she wants to work without my intervention, because I haven't heard about it for almost a year.) My mom's still cursing Windows 10 almost daily, and still bemoans the loss of Windows 7 (lol). But she's literally terrified to let me install anything else, even after I've shown her how easy it is to use. Microsoft has completely removed her ability to choose something else. She trusts them more than me. It's scary.
The End Is Near for the Economic Boom
Your CPU actually runs its own entire, separate operating system - MINIX.

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
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Creative-commercial and creative-inspired are very different things. If all you ever experience is the uninspired stuff you might not have much faith in art.
Elevated LDL is very highly correlated with heart disease. Studies that show that people born with genetically very low cholesterol levels are practically immune to heart disease reinforce this. The mechanism for this is well understood.
The saturated/polyunsaturated issue to me points to the complexity of the science, not necessarily to anything nefarious.

Consider the response of both to heat. There's a good explanation for why polyunsaturated fats are more healthy when raw, but also good reasons to think that they're less healthy when heated to cooking temperature. But studies, and people, tend to ignore the distinction as if there's no chemical changes in response to 400F heat.

Add to this the fact that, for example, "sunflower oil" can vary wildly in it's actual lipid structure because of genetic variation, things get even more complicated.

Sure, there's manipulation in nutrition science, but it's not that different from other biomedical sciences. A lot of the confusion is that, but a lot of it is just random sampling variation, and problems people have with interpreting meta-analyses rather than individual studies; but some of it too is the actual inherent complexity of the topic.
I think parent is right to point out that remote/contract work is more tenuous than the alternative in most cases. I also found your comment aggressive and nasty... the irony of the "stop being negative" put-down.
A great story about a guy's 2008 interaction with Robin Williams:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-randomly-meet-a-cel...
Finally it happened. Here's to hoping that after being exposed to this kind of risk, enterprises and regular customers start being more inquisitive about what code gets embedded into their hardware and why.
> brew install freeciv
Reading the HP Way PDF, I was struck that several authors bothered to call out that HP used first/personal names to address fellow employees.

I can't imagine NOT doing so, but obviously ~40 years ago, that was uncommon enough to be noteworthy.

[0] - http://www.hpalumni.org/HPWayBooklet1980.pdf
not to be mean or anything but I went on there and all I see are meme posts on there...

I actually don't know if this is satire or not
If a company employs tens of thousands of proven engineers and can’t think of a single useful thing for them to work on then that is absolutely 100% an utter, abject failure of management.
The HP way died with Carly Fiorina. Her audacity for thinking she could be a viable candidate for presidency after gutting one of the hallowed institutions of Silicon Valley made me very livid every time I saw her on the screen. I hate Trump and think he’s ruining our country but Fiorina would have been worse.
The worst part is that there is a setting for it (at least on the pro version). However, even with it selected I see an automatic reboot every three or four months. And that is by applying updates when I happen to work on it.

And there is nothing to disable the shortcuts or installation of silly program like candy crush.

I remember reading something about a Windows 10 edition without all this crap, but it was only for very big accounts and with a specific contract with Microsoft.
Has Intel offered an official "disable ME" patch? I'd like to close the door once and not worry about it again.
This is a striking mixture of things that are incredibly prophetic with things that are incredibly shortsighted.
This is known, but that link has no information relevant to the HTTP protocol. Do you know more about that?
This argument tends to come up with anything visual because people often (incorrectly) assume that visual things are subjective, when the whole point of this article is to try and give objective criticisms. Would you say the same of ux design? Or the visual design of an application? I think we can pretty definitely say when thise things are “bad”
It looks like every 6 month some bad news for Intel.
>patients are known to be highly inconsistent when reporting their own alcohol consumption. Answers patients provide depend on many factors, including the doctor-patient relationship. And patients’ spouses often disagree with their partners’ assessment of their drinking. The MACH15 trial had some sophistication built in to it, including the use of random smartphone-based check-ins for patients. But while some evidence suggests that smartphone-based self-reporting on alcohol consumption often contradicts patients hindsight reports, MACH15 had no ability to tease out which patients would adhere to the smartphone check-ins, and which were providing accurate accounts of their consumption. In essence, the NIH was making a $100 million gamble that volunteers would portray their alcohol consumption accurately.

This doesn't seem like a problem with the study design to me. You're effectively assessing the effect of telling people to drink "zero" vs "moderate" alcohol as opposed to the the effect of actually drinking those quantities, but since one major use for a study like this is to figure out what doctors should be telling people this still seems valuable.
US Government fire Americans from jobs to trade crypto
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast (unknown author but often attributed to Drucker).

Boards often ignore this wisdom and install people based on their previous job elsewhere, long term inside knowledge in a different role or whatever. When the leader of the company is not standing behind the values and defending them the company starts drifting. People become cynical about what unites them and that uniting includes management up to the CEO - or now divides them. In these cases official company values imho. can even become liability as everyone is constantly reminded of double-speak from the top.

Reading "The HP Way" is a reminder on how much business is about people and the society - often forgotten these days.
I think in 2010 the outlook of Internet was a little more rosey than it is today, almost a decade later. The thesis of the article holds in many regards, notably on the social implications rather than the tech predictions. I think this piece will age well after all.
Risky Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck–and on sticking to the rules
Sorry it came off that way. I'll keep that in mind next time I comment.
Aside from applying updates, how else can these vulnerabilities be mitigated? Genuinely curious...
It definitely works. After deleting my LinkedIn account 5 or 6 years ago, my recruiter spam dropped to nearly zero. It was a great decision.
He's in France. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
I use org mode for both regular work as well as one off targets. Org mode allows me to clearly bucket tasks into what is scheduled and needed by when, tag related tasks together but define them anywhere, also allows to define subtasks and track task progress in terms of sub tasks. It allows you to see your agenda on a configurable time period, and can also equally support GTD. Personally I find it to be a really nice place to dump all your thoughts and with trivial effort get them organised in a nice to see and search format.
What do you have in mind for "outside the lines"? Gaming?

I've found the opposite. I'm a grad student, and my department assigned me to a computer with Windows 7.
I found it incredibly counter-intuitive and difficult to do things as simple as navigating to hidden directories or opening files therein, let alone anything even slightly further outside the lines of what my grandpa would use a computer for.
It felt like Windows deliberately obfuscated everything, hiding it behind smoke and mirrors for the sake of a "friendlier" facade. Which makes it all the more frustrating -- why would someone go out of their way to make my life more difficult?
The old saying that the "free" in "free software" is about freedom really hit home after my experiences. Linux never got in my way.
Shadow profiles – Facebook knows about you, even if you’re not on Facebook
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> People with sought after skills get inundated with requests, often completely irrelevant.

Indeed, I know it's a very old cliche but I'm still not convinced there's such a thing as a recruiter who knows the difference between Java and JavaScript...
Planned obsolescence of otherwise viable product implemented via a certain-to-be-exploited architecture (the ME) followed by strategic withholding of patches?
You don't need to become a contractor, you can just work remotely from Europe for a US company. So, you just one job offer.
Is ME enabled by default?

I ask because I've never seen its webserver on my home network.
Heck, I don't even get how it could connect to the internet on a powered off device without Ethernet.
Video playback has still screen tearing in a default Ubuntu installation, something that has not been an issue in either Mac OSX or Windows for a long time.
Most of the routers I've seen only have their management interfaces open on the local network, not on the WAN port.
Sorry to nitpick but that "smack dab in the middle of nowhere" is 40 miles from Paris :) Anyway, it is very surprising that freelancing and remote work are taking off so slowly. At the company where I do remote freelance work I think less than 10% are freelancers and less than half of those are remote, even if the opportunity exists for almost everyone, even employees could switch to a freelance contract.
I take a video of myself each morning talking about what I want to get done that day. At night I watch the video, take a mental note of what I need to work on the next day based on what I did and didn't accomplish that day. Repeat.
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If you read the full series of tweets, its apparent that the leadership team of Valve are basically absent. They are completely unopposed in using their money printing machine - Steam - and have made billions of dollars. Gabe Newell for example is worth $5.5 billion.

If you're a leader who doesn't want to provide leadership, and is fortunate enough to own a near-monopoly service, a self organising team takes a lot of work off your shoulders.
I think the linguistic equivalent would be a verbose sentence with gratuitous use of adjectives, several inane parenthetical interjections, and punctuation misuse. It's okay if I'm reading a letter from a friend or family; otherwise, I want to read something that has good linguistic flow.

It's not a judgement against people who like McMansions. It's a guide for people like me: I see a house, find it offputting, but I can't figure out why and what to look for to get a house that isn't. She gives me, a layperson, the information I need to pick a house I'll like.

Her blog actually has articles that go into detail about different architectural periods and the elements of architecture.

There's nothing wrong with liking McMansions, but I want a cute house, not too big, that I love on the outside and the inside.
Every time I am about to upgrade this happens. cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz, 2993.01 MHz
> Verbosity introduces errors also.

The purpose of types is to introduce errors in the first place - at compile time, if you messed up.

Wrong code causes errors regardless. Annotating with types just moves this event from runtime to compile time.
Good question. It has been asked many times here. The most likely answer is apparently: Intel thinks that enterprises want a remote management system.
The opposite is overwhelmingly consistent in political organizations. Men are drastically more likely to invest their time in outreach activities that feel almost hopeless and don’t support personal advancement, while women generally only show up when there are opportunities for advancement within the organization or very particular issues (usually issues which support women). Men are eager to change that because these are organizations that genuinely want and need visible diversity in order to grow.
No problem - I appreciate you pointing it out, as it can help me improve my writing style (and categorization of posts!)
For a real software developer, PHP is a horrible language. And Javascript is almost as bad.

The software tools to help you build and deploy are also a painful mess. You'll have to test on multiple browsers running on multiple operating systems.

It's just a matter of a week or so of overcoming the cultural shock. But you'll have to schedule it in.

Paul Graham says to do it all in Lisp. Most people don't.
I think it goes both ways. You cannot develop new systems by designing them around fantasy psychology that you implicitly presume will take over everyone in the new scheme.

New schemes are certainly a good idea if they actually improve on the current models and are based on reality and not fantasy or malfeasant popularism.
Cant say i feel sorry for the people who chose to be enslaved to interfaces. Information technology will continue to expand into human life more and more, whether you are prepared or not.