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The resistance stage that you've hit is always a killer. It leaves more projects like yours dead before they're finished than anything else. The problem with replying to this, is the answer is subjective and will vary person to person. We all use different methods to motivate.

Sometimes I'll re-read a book. Masters of Doom is motivational for me as one example.

Sometimes I'll take a long'ish break (weeks) and teach myself something new just purely for fun. Experiment with something, that may or may not relate to the project. I divert my brain to an enjoyable stretch of time, a vacation, to prepare it for the final forced crunch of work.

I recently blew off a month and did almost nothing, when I could have completed what I'm working on. I got to the 85% finished line and hit hard resistance mentally. Some of that is feeling exhausted (it can feel like it sneaks up on you all at once), a lot of it is arriving at a large batch of work that I really don't enjoy doing. Combine those two and your brain puts on a yellow vest and begins protesting the longer you persist.

I've found that after taking a break, controlled anger is extremely effective as a helper for a final push over the line. That is, getting pissed off about the situation of having allowed myself to lose momentum and burn time rather than finishing something that is ~85-90% done and could have already been completed if I had simply maintained a steady momentum. I direct that anger in a focused manner as a big punch at the project that puts me over the remaining hurdle/s. It gets me into a mindset where I can just grit my teeth and dig through whatever shit I have to get done. Then the final 2-3% is usually just basic clean-up on loose ends or polish, truly trivial work.

Some might suggest that anger is always a negative. I strongly disagree with that. I think it's highly useful when channeled properly (never at others, and never in a serious self-harm form) and so long as it's not a common occurance during a project. It's critical to differentiate between using anger to overcome a self-challenge you're certain that you want to overcome, versus working on something you don't actually want to do. And to be clear, I'm not talking about rage or anything so dramatic. Rather, an internal expression of: damnit, fuck this, I'm going to finish it and nothing is going to stop me (except in my head it's all capitalized).

I always try to remind myself that the thing I'm building, I really, really want to see it live. I want to see it exist in the world, to see other people get value out of it. I set out on the journey for a reason.
>Any sufficiently complicated program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp

I find this quote especially true in games.
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“There’s No Strong Need for ECommerce in Sub Saharan Africa”
> IndexedDB is much simpler to spec out, much simpler to build multiple implementations of, and much simpler to maintain and improve over time.

Agreed. It's not easier to use though - almost everyone ends up bundling 10s of KBs of code just to wrap around it and make it useful. That doesn't seem great to me.
How to navigate the maze of JavaScript code
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My dad just had some major health issues, and has a much harder time getting around the house. He finds these things pretty useful to save him some trips around the house.
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I've personally spent a lot of time examining my own motivation. I built a project called Deep Thought https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/en/keywords/motivation/

I have several techniques:

- Be kind to yourself

- Be comfortable with not finishing everything you need to do today

- Break down large tasks into smaller tasks

- I break down the small tasks using https://asana.com/

- Complete smaller tasks to gain motivation/momentum

- I try to use other smaller tasks (not related to the project) to build momentum

- Break up my day into time slices

- Gym for 1 hour

- Work for 1-2 hours

- Lunch for 1 hour

- Work for 1-2 hours

- Some other activity for 1 hour

- I use my Apple Watch timer to trigger me to move along

- You can use a time tracking of sorts. I've been trying https://clockify.me/

- I use tags to indicate what I'm doing:

- Relax

- Play

- Planning

- Research

- Programming

- I set in my calendar times for

- Breakfast

- Reflection

- Work

- Gym

- Social
do you know where the video repos are for ds100? not available in youtube.
It would be huge, wouldn't it?
SQLite can also be compiled to wasm which has some cool use cases for syncing with backend data stores.
> browsers

The blame lies entirely with Mozilla/Firefox: https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
Exposed JIRA server leaks NASA staff and project data
Come on, if your country can handle _this_ president without collapsing immediately, your political system is really well designed!
Study: Bias Drops Dramatically for Sexual Orientation and Race – But Not Weight
There's an extensive discussion on twitter about this research paper in the following three threads:

https://twitter.com/trailofbits/status/1084791374468259846

https://twitter.com/trailofbits/status/1084858540248961026

https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1084826951305424896
Amazing reddit post that sums up my feelings perfectly:

"What I miss is how mysterious the internet could be and how gullible we were. The Internet felt like this strange underbelly of obscure information.

First you're growing up in some little town and only know about Star Wars and Green Day. Then suddenly you're finding niche websites and reading about obscure movies and bands and movies you definitely won't find on the radio or in the video store. Youd find dedicated fan sites that had deleted scenes from Alien that you'd never even heard of!

You'd find bizarre paranormal websites that every story felt so real and believable. Every low res UFO and ghost picture could be real. Every story was accepted as real. I read the Ted the Caver geocities page back then at 2 in the morning and was totally convinced it was real. Nowadays we're skeptical of every story and some photoshop guy will dissect any picture and reveal how the shadows dont fall right or something.

If you could find the right program and file, you could download pretty much any Nintendo game ever! Your tiny world and library of just Mario and Ninja Gaiden completely exploded with potential. I was now able to play this holy grail Chrono Trigger I'd always heard of. Or I would go through great lengths to find a good English patch of this Japanese only game called Front Mission. And you'd convince yourself that you weren't stealing because Nintendo hadn't sold these games for years, they were unobtainable! You felt like a hacker and a pirate doing that stuff.

The internet back then made you feel like an explorer on the fringe. The mysterious frontier just waiting for you to engage its endless opportunity. Man I miss that shit."

permalink/original: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/980rrc/what_do_y...
I call it Misplaced Distrust.

Every cellphone in the world has a microphone that could be listening all the time and sending data anywhere. So does most every computer. It's a better threat vector by 1000x, more stealthy, easier to conceal traffic. But all anyone ever talks about is a device designed to listen to you talk because hey, so obvious, big brother MUST be listening in there!
Doesn't OG fulfill microformats purposes ?
There are some good additional resources referenced in the docs here: https://response.pagerduty.com/resources/reading/

Specifically, Google's SRE books are particularly useful (https://landing.google.com/sre/books/) along with the book "Incident Management for Operations" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920036159.do)
and Etsy's Debriefing Facilitation Guide (http://extfiles.etsy.com/DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf).

The book "Comparative Emergency Management" (https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/aemrc/booksdownload/compemmg...) is also quite interesting, as it compares the emergency management practices of about 30 different countries.
If I were in your shoes (and I've been at this exact stage), I would manually bill until I had enough clients to worry about it.

You can do a half and half approach. Let the user know that they will be invoiced, and a representative will reach out to take their payment information. For example, if I was using Stripe (the payment processor I'm familiar with), I would setup my register button to just send me an email with data that I could then enter into Stripe manually, ie. name, email address, etc. I wouldn't include CC info in this because I wouldn't want to deal with compliance. Since you told them to expect a call and you're invoicing them you've got a good reason to call. If you go this route let the user use your product right away. The other cool thing about this approach is that you can also start to build a rapport with your clients, which pays dividends when you want to solicit feedback.

I find that motivation really spikes when you start seeing sales and money rolling in.
Good point if I set up the Pi myself, but it's unclear if this will apply to the device if it gets produced commercially.
Strange hobbies indeed. The latter part of your comment is reminiscent of the goal of the MAME project:

> MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?).

Those guys are doing a very good job of "documenting" a specialist subset of systems, even without support from vendors.
Sorry, how does rounding to the nearest minute or nearest TEN minutes solve any problems?

Like are apps setting alarms for every 3 seconds or something for no reason??
I’m curious: why doesn’t background refresh solve the problem?
Peer pressure is the main reason I quit smoking. So yes-- if not every time, then at least regularly and consistently. When technology starts to look like a recreational drug, treat it like a recreational drug.
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Here it is https://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=2142
I went through a phase where I tried making the entry point of each project or major module read like nothing more than:

inputs
|> step1
|> step2
|> step3
|> etc

... and it seemed mostly doable, although I would wind up needing a layer of parameter rearrangement functions to make it read quite that cleanly. I don't know if I have a concrete opinion on how it worked out - I suppose I need to get back into doing this some more.

I suspect that if I were to try to hide an async workflow behind such an arrangement that the parameter-rearrangement layer might create a greater cost than a benefit.

But still, it's really neat that the language allows for this sort of attempt.
Teaching to read Haskell
Totalitarian leftist witch hunt in action.
They probably spent too much on development and didn't sell enough of them. That's a quick way for management to shut down the professional digital camera division. They can just buy whitebox designs from China and slap their name on it for almost nothing. They probably figured that Canon and Nikon were going to corner them out before they could really gain a foothold so why blow all that money when they could still make film for the time being?
If you hate working with a specific provider, then don't. It doesn't matter if everyone else loves them if it isn't working for you. Go find someone you do like, that meets your requirements, and you will likely re-gain motivation in the process.
> Hey 32 year old, Even if it’s not in your budget, buy yourself a nice (>$20) bottle of wine and toast to your good health :)

Uhmmm, rrrright.
Also, it would make no business sense to always be listening. A lot of people think that just because Alexa and Google Assistant are free to use, it means that these services are virtually free for the companies as well, but that's not the case. There is no way Amazon or Google would waste millions of dollars running the state of the art speech recognition algorithms on your house's background noise.
> Packet sniffing and hardware inspection both instantly disprove...

I'm under the impression that packet sniffing is useless with end-to-end encryption, but I could be wrong. I.e., you can tell that something is being sent, but you can't know what.
Hey 26 year old, save yourself the $50,000+ and skip grad school. The work experience you can get instead is far more valuable.
> "Life gets in the way of scheduled work (on-call)."

Scheduling 24h work days will inevitably cause "life to get in the way of work". On-calls commonly take a week or two at a time. Stop de-legitimizing work-life seperation.
I've made a lifetime total of $2500 on bug bounties. I find them pretty interesting as a distraction from my main job but I don't see how they can compete.

Most platforms seem to run these private invite-only hackathons where the top performers get a first crack at each new campaign. I was invited to one of those and it was pretty fun hanging out with the other participants, but application security pentesters can easily make $80k+/year in the US and none of them were coming close to this. Additionally, a real pentest comes with remediation advice and the consultants are incentivized to help you fix the flaws correctly. On the flipside, a bug bounty participant is incentivized to help to fix the most narrow version as possible -- so they can further probe the area for more bounties.
That essay argues that IQ isn’t a measure because it doesn’t predict life success, only lack of success.

That is nonsense equivalent to arguing height isn’t a measure because it doesn’t predict NBA success, only lack of success.

IQ seems to be one of the best psychological measures we have, and Mr Taleb himself verifies that — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t exclude so strongly at the low end.
Collecting email-addresses without being GDPR-compliant is not a good idea in Europe, you might want to add a bit of legal text.
My personal experience is that simply typing my query into a search engine or pressing the spotify logo to start my music requires less effort or fuss than attempting to figure out how I'm supposed to word my desire for the benevolent overseer to do what I want.

IE, using voice commands is a downgrade IMO. Voice commands are not directly discoverable, and there's a lot more magic boxes.
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The peak on the graph is 1999.

At the start of the decline, there wasn't really a good way to buy music in digital format at all. iTunes launched in its current form in 2003.

The decline between those years was essentially the industry losing $12 sales to $0 sales: either directly to piracy, or to competition for time and attention on the Internet.

Youtube blew even more of a hole in the industry in 2005, replacing purchases with streaming. This plays $0.0006 per stream.

(The corresponding profits graph is really hard to find, which suggests that the data may not be so publicly available?)
This seems a bit clickbait-y and low quality for HN
SaaS customer retention best practices to maximize renewals
How about the issue where Google’s devices were errantly recording everything due to a hardware issue - where the button override for the voice activation was stuck in the activated position.

People who think that there’s no way that Google and Amazon could be recording everything need to realize that this is also not true. Most of these “limitations” are software enforced, and that software is updated constantly.
I haven't ordered drugs via USPS but have ordered illegal items. I received a letter from customs basically saying "we are not accusing you of anything, but don't do it again.". I received the new package in a couple weeks and the letter 6 months later. This wasn't even a dark market, just a regular website that takes visa.
Even if it gets produced commercially, no network access means no problem.
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Making the Invisible Visible
Honestly, pretty little, other than the risk of being observed. There may be systems that allow for authentication, but I've not seen them (though I'm not an expert).

There is an encoding standard for prioritization that some larger systems use, that mass transit may utilize, but can be overrode by Fire/EMS/LE.
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Alias is designed to give users more control over smart assistants
You’re talking about a remote employee costing less, not being a better value. The value of an employee is not equal to that employee’s cost. Assuming all employees were paid equally, you’d still find some who were more/less valuable to the company than others. Extend this recognition outward, and the cost can quickly be seen to have little to do with determining the value of a good (or poor) employee. The things that determine a team member’s value are things like productivity, coachability, quality of work, and many other things unrelated to their raw dollar cost.
Until it's easy to recreate a Strong Bad E-Mail in HTML5, Easter eggs and all, Flash doesn't deserve to die.
See the part about "real damages." In a case, as such you could demonstrate the impact and estimate ongoing damages as a result of googles (in)action. Given the offset in size and likely irresponsible nature the amount google would have to pay would include your damages, lawyer fees as well as additional punitive damages. This is how common law is supposed to work.

NOTE: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
We have an "accountability group" that is amazingly powerful at addressing this, for people who are willing to admit they have issues with procrastination and motivation, and are committed to addressing it and helping others address it as well. This is mostly for the self-employed especially those that otherwise work mostly solo so they don't otherwise get a lot of external stimulus, which is essential to many people.

The only thing I've found that comes anywhere close to this is Adderall, and that has awful side effects.

I've been in several of these type of groups over the years, and they usually fail because people flake and no one calls them on it. I think we've finally gotten the formula right though. The main thing is that people who aren't doing their part will get a warning and get removed from the group if they don't take it to heart. We make it indirect....instead of calling someone on it directly, you tell someone else, and they address it with the person.

I could describe our whole system in more detail (there are a lot of little tweaks we've made), but the main thing that is important is that you have to think of it as a complex engine that needs fine tuning to keep "firing on all cylinders". Don't be shy about telling others what you need. But mostly, make sure that everyone is vigilant. If you flake on the tasks you are committing to, we can work with that. If you flake on monitoring others, you get a warning and if you keep doing it you are out.

One of the things we've found works well is to structure tasks so that getting started in the morning (or after a long break) is easy and -- if possible -- fun. That is, you never leave a task in a state where you have a long "warm up" period. Get it to a place where it is satisfying to work with before you put it down. This often means finishing up a major task, then starting a new one and just getting it going before you call it a day. And of course write some documentation (which could just be a todo list) before you stop work.

We're eventually planning on doing this in a bigger way (with a web app, etc), but for now we're open to bringing new people in if they are very VERY committed. Get in touch if you are interested (rjbrown at gmail). You need to be willing to use Skype video chat several times a day.
I really wish I could whitelist which contacts each app could see, so WhatsApp only sees the ones I want on that app.
> Do you really believe this is a conspiracy instead of, you know, healthcare is complicated and the US market isn't working?

Yes -- and I think it's pretty well documented. Though less conspiracy and more regulatory capture. Between several insurance companies - patients, doctors, and hospitals - , "not for profit" ever expanding and state sponsored hospitals, medicare, lost bills, medical debt, and somewhere in this, medicare and medicaid.
Now that's good service. Far as CPU, I found there are several of them. They are on a range of 180nm-500nm nodes. Most of the older, long-lasting stuff was on those nodes. So, that fits. It was also the ones just before merger of those AS/400 chips and POWER families into POWER4 to become new standard. Interesting stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS64
> SSL demands CloudFront to function

i don't think that's the case for apigw/lambda unless you're picky about your API gateway URL. (which seems unnecessary, as that can be all hidden away inside the javascript?)

> - Tooling. There's no shortage of it, but IMO the ideal tooling setup for a lambda function is one which feels as light as the lambda itself. Serverless (the framework) isn't that.

i believe the tooling needs to be and could be waaaay better, but zappa has seemed pretty decent to me in my relatively simple use cases.
With some combinators you can indeed do this for any expressions, haskell has a tool that does this transformation automatically http://pointfree.io

This can quickly become unreadable but used well it can hide some noise and meaningless variable names.
I first meant to use its synonym, "scriptwriting", but that one of course has a somewhat diverged meaning in the computer world. But actually in interactive fiction the meanings beautifully converge again.
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But then it hides all notifications. I still want to know when I received a new email or message.

Again, Cyanogenmod based on Android 4.4 was better here: I could selectively hide notifications with certain contents. In Android 7, I can only choose not to display notifications from a certain app. I still have to write something that reads notifications and kill them selectively, but then I guess such a service would get killed as well without its own annoying notification... (The "you must update google play services to use this app" notification (which is a falsehood) is also annoying the crap out of me, another issue I didn't have on 4.4.)

I didn't actually know the wake lock would still work if you hide an app's notifications, I thought the notification was the prerequisite for not getting killed.
That's interesting it seems to assume there is no 24/7 ops coverage on site who triage before escalating the call to actual on call staff.

This is from being the lead on call for the UK's tymnet billing system normally if I got called some initial triage