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It's self-signed... Even if the idea isn't completely original, I would assume the writing is.

Or if you're doubting the factual evidence behind it, I don't think he's presenting this as fact, despite his tone. This is the same tone of many self-help books, even those backed by "real" evidence and data who cite sources. Still doesn't mean they work for everyone.

If you disagree, then don't take his advice.
Yes, although I think procrastination (just like any psychological problem) is very complex, and I fear that we waste too much time trying to analyze these, therefore making the saying "just do it" or "suck it up" an appropiate response, which as you rightly discovered, got lost on modern parents.
Sure, there may be some combination of emotional and logical constructs that will perfectly explain why I'm procrastinating..but then what? If logical reasons could convince us to work, we'd all be working at our top performance.
Are you really arguing that the demand for first class mail is completely inelastic based on my lack of examples of what the marginal cases are? After some number of pennies of increase, demand will fall - are you actually disputing this?

All you're arguing is that there are some pennies of increase which could increase revenue. Fine. That's not saving the post office.
This is the first time I've heard someone speak of procrastination in this light, have to say its impressive. "Regaining mastery of your own fate" makes almost too much sense haha. It's eerily true, kid throwing the tantrum is a good example. We don't feel like doing it, but ;now we have to, so we build up stress and despise the fact that we have to. Very good advice!
I agree completely and feel exactly the same way.
Seems one cup may be too many. Calm down.
What's strange is Target, Kmart, Home Depot and Lowes all have stores in NYC.

What makes Walmart's business practices so special I wonder?
The problem with password managers is they you need to have it with you. With a phone app that becomes more likely, but smartphones run out of battery all the time. What about when I'm visiting someone, the phone is out of battery and I want to check my email on their computer? Or when I'm on a trip, the phone is dead again because I haven't found a socket for a while, and I want to book a ticket somewhere?
So do supermarkets.
Comparing apples to snowballs, are we? "For example, every dollar of GDP generated in Chile’s capital, Santiago, requires 60% more energy than a dollar of GDP generated in (much colder) Helsinki in Finland."

Maybe Helsinki requires less energy simply because the economy is more about immaterial work, e.g. GDP is generated by branding products actually manufactured in China?

Or maybe the well-insulated houses in Helsinki require less heating during the winter than the houses in Santiago require cooling during the summer?
"The reason why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life."

Agree completely. Having said this, your suggested solution is incredibly hard to put into practice for many procrastinators out there.

I have bills to pay and a family to support, and working for the Man seems like the only option, at the moment, to meet my financial obligations. I don't particularly enjoy my day job, and I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to. To maintain an illusion that I am not just a slave tied to a very short leash, I procrastinate. Ignoring my email inbox full of pending tasks and spending the day outside in the sunshine instead can feel very liberating, but obviously it doesn't solve anything, and doesn't get me a step closer to greater freedom.

"life as a sequence of awesomely fun and exciting things" sounds great, but the reality is that only a very small percentage of people are lucky enough to lead this kind of life.
Wow.

That actually resonates with me much better than anything I've read on procrastination so far. I am burning lot of my mental cycles on thinking about my own procrastination, and it crossed my mind that when I start to do things that I'm (in broad sense) forced to - by my boss, lecturer or even myself, I feel like loosing some kind of self-awareness, control of my life... I never pin-pointed the feeling exactly, but it resonates closely with what you wrote.

Also, I'm so used to my personal GTD-like productivity management methods that I sometimes feel I'm not able to think or work without using pen & paper or Emacs for organizing my thoughts. Now, the thing I'm worried about is that it doesn't really feel like I have 'boosted my cognitive skills' or whatever - it feels like I'm so handicaped that I can't think without help of external tools. I look around and see people (that look) smarter and more successful than me, and they don't seem to be using any productivity tricks at all. Maybe it's [something]-bias [1], but it gets me really worried. Anyone on HN felt something similar?

[1] - need to catch up with LessWrong on that ;).
Desperately needs some sort of legend (at leas for the colors). I thought Fords were Purple, but then found some yellow, and some pink fords, and was thoroughly confused as to what the color was representing.
Sorry but I don't see how you got through a degree (and a masters) without having to do unpleasant stuff.
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"I've come to the conclusion that the logic becomes "well if I can't have it, no-one will"."

I don't think the poor who consistently vote Republican really care about the economics of social services. That's too removed and abstract a concept for them (ironic, given that it affects them directly). Instead, they're voting emotionally: on social values, and on the politics of identity and nationalism. These abstract concepts are very "real" to a lot of Americans, because they're the things people cling to and hold fast when everything else is taken from them.

Bear in mind that a lot of these people have seen social values work for them amidst their own circumstances. Those among them who work their asses off, keep out of trouble, go to church, stay clean, and don't overspend will do markedly better than their peers who slack off, abuse government assistance, and engage in reckless behavior. Meanwhile, a preponderance of military personnel are drawn from the families of the working poor -- so these folks eat, breathe, and sleep patriotism. They love America, even if the version of "America" they love is largely a myth.

Republicans have become masters of speaking the language of identity politics and values. They understand what tune these guys want to dance to, and they play it flawlessly. Meanwhile, Democrats are tonedeaf. Nevermind that Democrats may actually have the interests of the little guy in mind; they don't speak the little guy's language. And that makes all the difference.

Case in point: the Democrats consistently talk about "the middle class," and sometimes "the working class" or "the poor." Meanwhile, Republicans always talk about "Americans." They rarely even speak of classes or social divides. It's a brilliant rhetorical gesture, because it recognizes that the working classes don't enjoy hearing about how shitty their lives are. They don't like the labels. If you ask them, many of them won't even agree that they're "working class" or "poor." They're in denial, and it's a defiant denial. They're too proud to face reality, and when Dems constantly throw the reality of their misery in their faces, they get angry and resentful.
HN will never see a more eminently clickable post than one titled, "Dear Procrastinator"
Wait so instead of building the tool people actually want, Adobe is spending the profit from their ludicrously over-priced products on this!!?? And at the same time trying to perpetuate the pointless Air ecosystem...

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A harmful mutation, perhaps, but as grandparent observed, there's really no useful predictions to be made by this theory.
Random person posts up pithy set of paragraphs with no evidence behind it using fuzzy warm tripe, gets gobbled up quickly on HN. Contentless circlejerking comments ensue. I think citation needed is very apropos here.
Wouldn't you if you had tons of money?, especially if all the other "rich kids" are doing the same?. If you expect people to always do the altruistic thing then be prepared for a life full of disappointment. The best you can do is try to shape peoples behavior.

Personally I would prefer a flat percentage rate of tax with an exception for very low incomes where it just isn't worth the governments time trying to collect it.

This would probably raise most peoples tax and lower rich peoples tax but I believe it is "fairer" for everybody to pay the same fixed proportion of their income. At the same time though I would simplify business taxes as well, get rid of loopholes, stop companies that do business in a country off shoring their profits. It is insane that some companies view their accounting departments as profit centers.

Flat tax economies boom, and they are progressive in the sense that there is no penalty for trying to earn more money.
Oh, haha.
I think you are replacing one extreme claim with another.

Becoming better at something means that either your body or your brain have to do do something that it's not used to and doesn't feel comfortable with. It doesn't matter how much you love what you do it's still going to feel harder and thus there are a million other things you would rather do.

When I were young I practiced the guitar 10 hours a day for a long period of time. I loved (and still love) music but it was hard even with this love for my field.

If I wanted to I could simply have been playing things that I already knew. Playing around and not getting any better.

But to become better at something you need to get the discipline to get on with it and that will "hurt".

There are no easy ways to become better.
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I'm sorry to disagree, but I do. My own battle with procrastination is completely due to laziness. No one likes to do difficult things, and sometimes even things we kind of enjoy. The reality is that we, as humans, never procrastinate when we really, really want something. Not once in my life did I have to "trick" myself into playing a video game a few extra minutes or watch a big basketball game.

In short, we accomplish what we want to accomplish (meaning, the 'fun' stuff), unless we push ourselves.
Makes perfect sense to me. Those who have an inflated "Id" grew up either spoiled or neglected. Being spoiled, you get to do what you want. Being neglected, no one tells you what to do (or what not to do).
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Thanks for the heads up. Admittedly my finances are pretty easy. I do everything on a cash basis. My statement about _getting_ accounting was a bit broad. Ledger simply has helped me understand how money flows and I'm more comfortable managing it because Ledger feels transparent to be. I can debug it if needed.
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I think, if you paid £100k in taxes, and you say that was 23% of your income, that puts you well within the 1% you talk about.
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I have similar feelings about Common Lisp development versus typical modern Java/C++ IDEs. I've often wondered what kept—is still keeping?—such functionality sequestered from the mainstream for so long, and the best I've come up with is "unfamiliar syntax scares people," which really isn't all that convincing.

The nice thing is, unlike with Forth (though perhaps Factor or similar offers this?), you can use modern iterations of these CL environments to do general-purpose development today, enjoying all the benefits of a richer toolset.
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RAD game tools, purveyors of lots of 'middleware' for games, have developed their own Flash playback engine called Iggy. I don't know how it rates, but its an option: http://www.radgametools.com/iggy.htm
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Thanks! That's what I was looking for :).
tldr: "The reason why human-beings procrastinate is to feel in control of their life."

The other parts are contradictions.
You have an algorithm that can classify cars from best to worse depending on a lot of input. That is the money, not the visualization (although very cool). The best to display ranking is a numbered list. Although not super cool, that is very valuable.
If you're using revenue numbers, Facebook and twitter are advertising companies, as are many print magazines and newspapers. I'm fine with providing them with my real name as long as they continue to provide the great services that I expect them to.

I get junk email and spam from people who don't know or care what my real name is. At least these guys are using data to try to make their advertising experience better.
I think there are some reasons for this:

- I am always very lucky. Even if I put almost no effort in any kind of project it always comes out at least ok.

- My bachelor course was more or less a joke. The description of the single classes always sounded totally impressive but in the end most it was just rubbish and very easy.

- The master course I attended was a pure joke. If I had put any effort in it it would have been possible to pass it with almost perfect grade.

- I got my PhD position through pure luck and some personal connections.

- I am VERY good at pretending that I am actually working

So all in all I just perfected the art of procrastination. For example, when I was in the military service (not US), I more or less had to smuggle myself into a local military base for a few weeks because I was just to lazy to get a new id card.
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So at what point are the "working poor" not stupid by voting for taxes against the rich instead of tax cuts for the "working poor".

All the stuff you said is media nonsense and frankly suggesting that the republicans in any way represent the working poor is, well, nonsense. What you seem to be wanting is some sort of friend who can tell you that gays or gay marriage is bad, church is good, though I bet you or the working poor never go, and that character matters, but that this friend of yours takes a lot of your money you desperately need in order to take less from filthy rich people that actually do not need it at all does not seem to matter to you at all or indeed this characteristic of this friend of yours does not seem to bother you at all.

Ohh well, each to their own.
Someone, please fix the spelling in the title, incredibly grating. It's "Isaac".
I don't take claims without evidence as a rule, and he didn't present any evidence. His case is especially problematic because he is making strong claims about a fairly well-studied field in which there is not a clearly dominant theory.

If he's not intending to present what he's saying as fact, he should say so.
Silverbax, thanks for your comment.

What makes you really want to play a video game and dislike doing the dishes? Is it something objective about the thing to be done, or does it have to do with your mental framing of the task at hand? I feel it is the latter. A friend of mine reviews video games professionally, and he procrastinates on playing games. I think it's because he is told to play games. An authority figure is pushing him to do something and he rebels by putting off playing.

Pushing ourselves only leads to ourselves pushing back.

Cheers, Edo
Ah, this is true but you've just made a very big leap from simply obtaining a password to now successfully installing a rootkit and key logger and obtaining both the keychain and password. We could go back and forth about the likelihood of this on a patched, virus protected machine (ok, there are still zero days), but we're starting to greatly reduce the probability as it is.

I'd love to see two factor auth or at least the option of RSA style tokens and we're gradually seeing that in some places but unfortunately we're still stuck with the status quo for the vast majority of sites for the foreseeable future.
The OP's point is a good one but it is not the whole story. People procrastinate for various reasons, as others have already attested.

Personally, I found a simple habit cured me of 50% of HN and Reddit addiction and let me work on things I had procrastinated for a long time:

First thing when I do every morning when I sit down at a computer is e-mail a simple TODO list to myself and also send a report of what I did on yesterdays TODO list.

This e-mail is very simple, a few items and simple descriptions. Only caveat is making the items "actionable" that is something you can do, not something you can just try or consider.

Also, if I do not complete every item on the list, I do not beat myself over it.

This takes a few minutes of time and was very easy to make a habit of using a Don't Break a Chain technique. After a week or so, it doesn't feel forced at all anymore.
If we're going to cite the 90s, let's not forget that taxes were a good bit higher then as well. In fact, right at the end there, we had a budget surplus.
"[...] therefore making the saying "just do it" or "suck it up" an appropiate response, which as you rightly discovered, got lost on modern parents"

I had a discussion with my mother about this. To make a long story short she raised me this way because her father was a very very strict person. She had to work all the time in the household and therefore did did not have a nice childhood at all.

When I was born she decided that i should have a much better childhood... The result: I had a perfect childhood (from the viewpoint of a child) but now I am plagued with some serious procrastination problem. In contrast my, my mother is one of the most organized and reliable persons I know.
It is a slightly whimisical what if? blog post. I didn't find it all that misleading or confusing.
Security by obscurity and a perfect example of failure to restrict URL access: http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/08/owasp-top-10-for-net-develop...

These URLs are exposed in all sorts of places; browser history, proxy servers, web server logs and ISP gateways to name just a few. Never put secrets in URLs and expect it to remain secret.

Here's an objective suggestion - put the proposal over on stackoverflow.com and see what response you get.
I'll second janjan's comment. I can completely believe that you can get through a degree being a total procrastinator.

Somehow during the course of my university I've perfected my skills of presenting projects. I recently realized that I can get even a totally half-baked, barely working project to get a good grade, just by talking and spending an hour more on design than everybody else[1]. It wasn't until recently that my friend pointed out that I've learned to subconsciously depend on this and thus not working hard on anything.

Also, I find doing presentations, talking, doing design touches, or implementing weird things (like animations in MATLAB[2]) - pretty much anything except what I'm supposed to be doing at the moment - much more pleasant, much more fun. And I see that you can get far this way at university...

[1] - it's not about faking things, etc. - it's that people really underestimate how much depends on the general 'look and feel' of software, and the way it's presented.

[2] - did you know that MATLAB plot can give you stable 60FPS? ;)
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So Google is doing well charging for those ads and showing them to people who never buy a thing?
Just another super important point about this, you are talking about two industries who, for the most part, haven't bought into the public cloud yet.

I'm not gonna say "most", because, I really don't know, but I'd bet that most (oopps!) of these companies have firewalls that block google docs and the likes. Their idea of "cloud" is to run virtualization on their own servers in their own data centers and call it a day.

There's huge security (mostly made up), regulatory (mostly made up) reasons for them not to move to the cloud.
My biggest problem with passwords? That so many sites aren't up front with what's allowed in their passwords. Sites should tell you how long your password can be, and what characters you can use in it.

I just know that since I started using a password manager, I don't even know most my passwords, they're about twenty characters long, a jumble of characters (letters, numbers, and symbols,) and I'm happy with that.

I don't even think Google's password length is known, is it? I get that this means others don't know how long it could be either, but, that doesn't seem vitally worthwhile. Maybe I'm wrong.
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I agree for mobile web apps. For PC, tell them to switch away from IE. If you're making high-end graphics, your users need a high-end browser.
Amazing work. I can only say I wish I had this a month ago when I was searching for a used car. (ended up with a 2005 A4 Special Edition w/ 95k miles for 9k USD)

EDIT:

Would be great if we can add another dimension or at least switch one of the axises to a different dataset - in particular, the year.

EDIT2:

I now realize the colors are the year. This addresses my previous concern, but you need a legend for that.

EDIT3:

Scratch that - Colors are not year. I don't know what's going on.. but colors as years would have been nice.
You're right. I added a note to the original post:

note: I notice my writing could use some nuance. Painting an extreme is just a style of writing which helps bring across a point. Obviously there are things that are objectively less fun to do.
> If your editor is Emacs, congratulations: that's the MS Word of text editors -- kitchen sink included, but not everything ideally placed unless you do a lot of customization.) Then someone shows you an IDE.

That analogy doesn't stand at all. Most of the people whose editor of choice is Emacs(mine is Vim) have known about IDEs all along, have used them at some point of time, or may be still use it for languages which are too verbose to do without IDE code generation. They chose not to use it, or use it sparcely. There is no someone showing you an IDE.