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Procrastination is fun and complicated. "Just Do It" doesn't seem to help much for me. After reading more I've found a number of reasons for procrastination that may be helpful depending on the cause:

Is the task too vague? If so, making it more concrete helps. "Do taxes" is impossibly vague and scary and the brain rebels. "Make a list of all expenses this year" is better but still large. This is the most common actually helpful advice I've found. But also

Do you not actually care about the task? Having a grand overarching goal for your career/life can help you make sure the task is worth doing. Or for something like taxes, you can say "this helps me achieve my goal because if I don't pay my taxes I'll probably go to jail."

Do you not believe your project will succeed? This is a subtle one I only recently discovered. If I'm working on an app or a business idea and I get to the point where I don't believe it has a chance, I strongly lose motivation. Some say this is a survival mechanism - if a hunter gatherer had a plan to kill a wooley mammoth with a spear up close and that'd probably result in death, a strong sense of "procrastination" could be a lifesaver.

Is it resistance to something that threatens your identity? This is a fun one - maybe you've internalized that you don't finish projects (I've had some of this I think). Finishing a project would threaten your "identity" of a non finisher, and some part of the brain _hates_ things that threaten it's identity. I think this one you just have to figure out a way to push through, and give that part of the brain fodder to convince itself that it's identity is not of "doesn't finish projects". The same can be true of earning money, and other kinds of success.
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Yes, but this coupled with the fact they shut down things that don't otherwise really require a human to actively working proves that it's all just a political ploy.
The thing I love the most about the Bullet Journal idea is how simple and quick it is. Productivity systems that require a bunch of maintenance and fiddling never seem to work for me.
For direct employees - currently, from what I've recently heard - the legislation in place provides for back pay for them. For contract workers for agencies, it's unclear that any of them will receive back pay. Per the other comment here, I might suspect that there were some contractors who may still have been 'required' for some reason to work, but may not get back pay in the end. It's speculation on my part, but it would not surprise me if more than a few people got caught in this situation.
Not even a single Снегурочка on this cards? No concept of women in the bright space future!?
If you are building something software related, just using Github like you might on any paid gig or employment project is a solid idea.
Because it's the wrong model.

Take two tables of 1m rows each and do a cross join on them. The Venn diagram model says you would have at most 2m output rows. But that's wrong. You would have 1t rows output. When when you're using a normal join on a specific value matching, if the columns are unsorted, that's 1t comparisons potentially.

The right mental model leads to the right intuition of what's going under the surface. And it's all well and good to say "If you don't understand the fundamental nature of what is happening in a SQL JOIN..." But that is exactly who these diagrams are intended for! People who don't understand yet and are trying to.

Teaching people with the right model means they don't have to unlearn the wrong model later when questions get more complicated.
The article says not to use Venn diagrams when explaining joins – that is, conveying the concepts to someone who doesn't already understand them.

You dismiss that as "silly" because anyone who already "grasps the basic principle" could figure it out. You're talking about the use of Venn diagrams by people who already "know how SQL joins basically work".

It sounds like you missed the point the article was making.
Wait until you hear about the debt limit [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE
Yes, I added an edit to clarify I was referring to employees only in my post.
I would recommend for you to read and implement the organization/productivity system from Getting Things Done by David Allen [0]. It discusses essentially your main problems of dividing up your life into projects and timing yourself. The system also includes sections for putting some of your ideas in an 'Incubate', basically putting it off for another day once you get through what you have. Having a running list of all your commitments and projects like the system does I think will help you to analyze your time usage and realistic expectations for your productivity and stuff you want to engage in.

[0] = https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ...
Similar Warren Buffet's methodology - consider your top 25 priorities. Then pick the top 5. The next 20 are your "avoid at all costs" list, since they will always try to distract you.

I really like the idea of working on large and also small projects, since just sticking to one and only one thing is not always feasible.
It's not just salaries, though, they technically have no budget. So there's no money to run the servers.
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Some bits no doubt require some human intervention, and if it wasn't updated, would cause confusion.

The census site seems to be a decent middle ground. Banner at the top says "NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding portions of this website are not being updated." Still functional, but if something's not updated, you know why.
A lot of people just aren't affected visibly, and I guess people don't usually riot about things that don't anger them. Not sure how those that are affected are getting by. To me these shutdowns (and lack of pay) should be bringing down the US government's credit rating.
Maybe we can stop being obtuse? The senate can end this by passing a budget and override the president's veto. They're choosing not to.
Why must there only be one? It's not like there's only one physical currency.
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They don't have to do it this way. They call the packages Omnibus bills and its supposed to be some sort of way to make the process more efficient and strike deals. You get your pet project and I get mine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_bill
Ask HN: How did you become more diligent?
I've found myself rushing to finish programming projects, essays and other things. I don't plan or think, I just do. I can code fast, so it creates results - but they're not long-term results. This always ends up in creating countless errors and mistakes. I'm looking to become more dilligent in my work. What can I do to practice this skill?

EDIT: Had to rename the title because I mispelt 'diligent' and didn't double check it. I found that hilarious.
Second reading this book at some point. I think what originally hung me up about it was that it isn't really prescribing an exact system, just a series of general ideas that you can use in whatever system you are using. It can be used with Trello or Asana or Omnifocus or pen and paper. But generally the idea of projects and an inbox and the someday maybe list are great. In short, get things out of your brain taking up cycles and into a system you trust.
It’s not about the money at this point, but about not setting a precedent that the president can get anything he wants by threatening to veto any budget bill that doesn’t include it.
That 4% number really isn't crap. By favorite restaurant close to work just cut lunchtime service because they couldn't hire enough staff and I see "Help wanted" signs all over just like I remember from back in 2000.
This is great for the public, but extremely bad for individual privacy. In this case, the need of the few rightly outweighs the desire of many.
Maybe reusability is already having the desired effects? When a reusable launch is cheaper than using an expendable rocket, a big chunk of the savings must be labor (the raw materials are cheap) SpaceX, I think, is doing unusually deep manufacturing (vs contracting out, where most of the the hit of reduced labor demand would happen at component suppliers), so the reduction is at their own workforce if the increased efficiency is not fully compensated by increased demand.
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The Lua interpreter itself would still be under GPL but the code that the Lua interprets would not since as far as the interpreter is concerned the script is data. The GPL even has a section on this:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#IfInterpreterIs...
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Because most of the government is a waste of money and exists merely to perpetuate itself. The fact that it just shuts down sometimes is a great indicator of just that. It’s an entity that is accountable to nobody because no matter how well or poorly it performs it just collects revenue anyway. You can’t #deletegovt. The sooner people move away from viewing it as a good employer, the better. There’s no smooth or elegant way to make this happen, unfortunately.
Have you read this piece? http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
This is the part that people so easily forget. The power is truley in Congress' hands. That said, appropriations bills must originate in the House and the new speaker and flock of freshman Representatives haven't passed anything yet.
No roaming charges between members of EU. So, if he lands first in UK, don't buy the sim from there
You joke (and cool find), but Maxwell's writings one the subject of electromagnetism are indeed a lot easier to grasp than some modern textbooks
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I second this recommendation with a suggestion that has hugely helped me. I have more or less copied the approach to to-do lists described in that book into a Trello board and then – importantly – made it my home page on Chrome.

This accomplishes two things for me:
1) any time I open a new tab, I get a reminder of what needs to be done
2) adding an item or recording an idea to be processed later is just a cmd-t away.

This approach (combined with the Trello mobile app) has made the list so easy to maintain it's almost hard not to use it. YMMV, of course.
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I don’t dispute that shutdowns are political ploys, but I don’t think that the actual implementations of shutting down are necessarily part of that ploy. Whether a human is required to run something is not the relevant factor. What’s relevant is the cost.
You can probably verify this yourself with crt.sh! I’m on mobile and busy, but it’s a fun game mucking through the certificates for various domain names.
Gmail "solved" the spam problem not by making email centralized, they did it by making a good spam filter.
Ok, but that's not what he said at all. He said it's a safe investment.
i did some work for my state, and I couldn't automate ssl stuff, because the dept who handled the certs didn't provide for automation to be consumed - I got emailed certs (IIRC - been a couple of years now).

By contrast, for most projects, I have standard cert/le automatically updating every 2-3 months. LE was just becoming a thing a couple years ago, and they'd never heard of it. I'm not saying they should all use LE, but the initial time investment of providing an automated process to renew and update via API would pay dividends in the long run (but the people that feel that the most don't have the clout/power to lobby for such things, usually).
He did not invent the word. In the funeral oration for example Thucydides has Pericles refer to the Athenians as a philosophizing people:

Philokaloumen te gar met ' euteleias
kai philosophoumen aneu malakias.

Plato was probably the first to use the term in a technical sense, to refer to someone who spends his life as a 'professional' philosopher.
It is, I do -- inbound email forwarded to gmail, outbound from gmail goes out through my server and while it's obvious it's from gmail, it doesn't actually include my gmail address anywhere.

Sending from Google's servers using my address would cause SPF and DMARC failures, so if you want to do that then they'd have to make sure it's clear that the mail is actually from gmail.
No doubt.

As a friend put it, you go through life with your education and career and name and goals and all the self-important things you wrap yourself in. Then you become a parent and it hits you: "THIS is the reason I exist".
I have yet to see a cross join represented by a Venn diagram, so this strikes me as a red herring on the topic of whether Venn diagrams for the joins that are usually represented with them make sense.
Here : The location data was stored unencrypted on the device and most users didn't even know about it ! - http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.htm...
In any sane world, the ability to accept payments would be a service every bank would offer.
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The government is so useless we didn't even notice them being gone over at my place.
I work as a contractor and most of us are not effected. The money to pay for the vast majority of contracts is allocated at the time of the contract award. So in my case I think we would be funded for another 2 years. For most of the furloughed civilian employees it's an enforced paid (eventually) holiday.
Here's a good place to start reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine
Not sure how it's today but yesr ago udacity website was slow af.
To be short: make your website fast before deleting app.

P.s. its friendly hint, i don't care actually
There's been little disagreement about the broader idea of "increasing border security". Poll I saw the other day showed (IIRC) something like 80%+ of polled people saw a need for 'increased border security'. The phrase is incredibly broad. What is in dispute is what to spend money on, but I suspect you already know that.
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Sometimes in December last year, I started using Bullet Journal again. I got a book and read it and applied it. What I discover, that along with other tools, it does help me feel focused and less overwhelmed.

For projects, I kind of need Pivotal Tracker to be able to organize and do things. I still write them down in my notebook also, otherwise I have two different places for things (which I do). Hope this makes sense.
Yes very are fucking free. God damn the government is truly incompetent.
Let’s Encrypt is used on some government sites like cloud.gov. It’s probably not reasonable for us to expect all government sites to be using it by now.
Yes it's horrible and childlish. Politicians use hundreds of thousands of citizens as bargaining chips instead of just figuring out how to work together. If it didn't happen so often, I would imagine there would be rioting. Unfortunately the status quo is to shut down the government whenever you don't get the exact budget you want.
Thank you for sharing. Perspective.

Wishing you and your children the very best. I can't imagine your stress, but I've little doubt the end result will be that your children will be well taken care of after you're gone because of the work you've done and you're doing.
CCC, which you linked to, still actively does CTFs every year, although only when Congress is in session. I found it incredibly difficult but maybe I just suck :) I think most events (ShmooCon, Blackhat, Defcon, BSides, etc) run CTFs during the conference which are accessible to all. I've found https://ctftime.org/ to be a good resource for finding competitions, not so much teams though.
I have a rather meticulous program. For starters, I write everything down on a daily log. Thoughts, notes, tasks, everything. I do it with pen and paper because I like writing and it helps me thinking things more thoroughly. Then at the end of the day I move actionable tasks to a different journal which has to-do lists by project. At the beginning of each week I peruse the projects lists and choose tasks to move to a weekly to-do list. This way I have a planned-ahead weekly schedule which keeps me from procrastinating.

I suppose if you can focus on a single project you don't need to go into such lengths of detailed logging. But for me it's imperative to keep detailed notes because I work on multiple projects simultaneously, and I can also keep track of older ideas that might get lost in the mayhem that goes around in my head. The best way to stop procrastinating is to break down projects to single tasks. Then I don't feel overwhelmed by the variety of tasks I have to accomplish. I only need to do a single task each time. I've adopted this system in the last couple of years and my productivity has increased at least 100%.
thank you for this explanation / clarification.

i could tell the link had an important distinction to make, but i was unable to understand it without your supplemental explanation.
The closeup is beautiful, but the overall design looks like a three-year-old with a glitter pen drew all over the table. Most of the lines aren't even sewn into the cloth.

Perhaps the next iteration could borrow design elements from actual embroidery (leaves, flowers, etc.) and cleverly embed the circuit inside them. Or they could go in the opposite direction, straighten out the lines, and make an embroidery inspired by printed circuit boards. Either way, I hope they don't stop here but keep making better versions. This could be turned into something that people actually want to hang on their walls.
My one caution with this: It's pretty easy to OVER categorize your life and never get anything done either. I had a former co-worker who read GTD and began to impliment it for everything. It felt like he was perpetually planning and never actually doing.

Additionally it became rather humorous to see how the most minute things became 'projects'. Sometimes it's worth just stepping back and observing what you're considering to be 'projects' or 'tasks' and ask if you're over doing it.
Yeah but it doesn't work.

It's one thing to be able to "answer questions". It's an entirely other thing to have access rights to actually solve a problem and the authority to do so.
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Exactly. Can you imagine if Saudi Arabia tried to have you extradited for a crime that was illegal there, but legal here? On a side note, isn’t that what’s happening with Kim Dotcom?
I really want more details about what the logic is doing! All I can find so far is the one blurry logic diagram
There's a lot of valid perspectives, but I think its some kind of false reward system. Archiving a link on neural-networks is a low effort task that superficially appears to move you toward your goal of machine learning, whereas the Coursera class takes work (ie. not fun struggling with Octave syntax)
I'm not aware of any legal precedent (GPL isn't contested that often in courts), but this is mentioned in the GPL FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
The best way to sustain everyday.app is by making it open source and use cloudstorage (with encryption) to sync it. You don't need to make people paying $12. Great app.
Yeah I work as a contractor in the DC metro area and it seems mostly business as usual for the large majority. Folks aren't getting paid, but they'll likely get back pay once it's resolved. Traffic on the highways and metro seemed pretty normal to me. It's 99% political posturing to see who blinks first.

It's definitely not healthy though.
The longer you are with your employer, the longer the protection. You should also receive Arbeitslosengeld I for at least 6 months (longer if you would‘ve been employed longer) and unlimited time of Arbeitslosengeld II (I think you would qualify), so you won‘t be homeless, freeze, lose your health insurance nor hunger, because it‘s all payed for by social security.
They are T61p https://www.techrepublic.com/article/from-windows-10-linux-i... Most computer parts are made in China regardless of the vendor not including the CPU. Doubtful that they are using Libreboot, but that would be a good justification for using them.
This article breaks Betteridge's law. The answer is not "no", but it might not be "yes". In fact, the article promotes the viewpoint that sun exposure is actually good for you, whereas butter is probably not essential.

If the sunscreen recommendations turn out to be too strong, this would be good news for me, as I have never liked having to apply sunscreen and dislike the scolds who push it on me when I don't feel I need it. But the article glosses over the fact that people who tend to burn rather than tan get more melanomas, and that melanoma can be a very insidious cancer. So, if I know I'm going to get a lot of exposure (beach, air show, whatever) I am going to use sunscreen to prevent burns.
People are completely missing the point, even though this article includes the important quote.

In a 4-year Computer Science curriculum, SICP is not a perfect fit for the role it was being asked to play. HTDP was written with the goal of being a better fit in that specific role.

If you are self-taught or otherwise learning in a non-4-year CS program, this distinction is not applicable to you. SICP is great. HTDP is great. They are both great.
The One Thing is good. It was free to read on Kindle for Prime members recently. The OP should check if it's still there.

The hard part is figuring out the one thing. Tim Ferris talks about this a lot - finding the one thing that makes other things you want to do either irrelevant or so much easier. This concept has lots of names. Jocko Willinks books Extreme Ownership puts it simply as "prioritize and execute".

Anytime I feel overwhelmed with the amount I have to do what I have really done is not prioritize.

And yes, it is not easy and requires daily discipline.
Instead of downvoting the parent, make an actual argument instead. You'll find it difficult. If the current shutdown proves anything, it's that many functions of the federal government are un-essential to daily life. Those un-essential parts should be eliminated.