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A bit more insight might be helpful...I've found that effective testing differs some based on type of work and technology. For example, the way you test a game is different than a website. And the way you test Rails is different than how you test Java.
I've been thinking about this lately, too. A long time ago, I spent almost no time on the internet, because there wasn't really much of an internet to speak of. Instead, I wrote code. Lots, and lots, and lots of code. Some of it in assembly; some of it, even, in hex, with tons of printed pages of processor instructions in front of me.

Feats like that required a level of concentration that I find almost impossible to achieve today. I've developed a tic: write a line of code, check a news site; write another line of code, check email; write another line of code, check a social site.

I can't even call it procrastination anymore. It's something far more insidious. I'm fighting it, but the fight itself requires a nearly exhausting amount of effort.

It's got all the hallmarks of an addiction -- a psychological one, rather than a chemical one, maybe. The trouble is, with many addictive substances, completely avoiding them is a reasonable solution. With the internet, looking up a function reference or even testing and uploading a piece of code can lead too easily to diversions; it's difficult to separate necessary things from distractions and impractical to avoid it altogether.

I hate it. I've tried many of the tricks that people suggest, but the simple fact is, a significant part of my personality would rather mindlessly browse the internet instead of focusing intently for a long enough period of time to do something productive.

> This leads me to believe that the ideas we have reflect the kind of world we live in.

I think this is insightful. I somehow never managed to lose track of my childhood dreams, but instead I'm constantly preventing myself from accomplishing them.

Good luck on your internet diet. If you manage to stick with it for a full month, you're a better person than I am.
Time.com is not featuring on that list any time soon.
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I need my time for actual hacking. ;)
You make a good point, and this is certainly much better than nothing. I still worry a bit about the long term effects of so many people growing up with only consumption-oriented devies though. In richer countries I think it's less of an issue because people that really want to learn to create digital content can get the tools cheaply enough.
Should the first world bother about Africa?
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Well they should, because with just 3 co-ordinates you would be able to define the point in space and that is not enough. Dimension refers to the minimum number of independent variables that must be used to define a given point.

Anyho, a little sense of humor would not have killed you you know.
That strikes me as one of those perfectly logical justifications for contributing to a problem: "Well, if we didn't produce cigarettes, someone else would anyway." It's also a red herring; it doesn't matter if someone else would or not, all that matters is whether or not we did the deed.
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You might want to look into Pomodoro. It helped me get rid of the tic you describe.

The diet is to try getting rid of something deeper :)
The full list all on one page, FWIW (yes it's on my own blog), http://alicious.com/times-50-best-websites-2011/.
I was, :)
Someone needs to read "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_go... again.
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I agree there are some strong upsides, but phones make it difficult to participate in a meaningful way at the higher levels of the information economy. They're consumption-oriented devices. Here in Vietnam I see a lot of people that have blown their entire computing budget on a high-end mobile phone and I worry that they may have stunted the growth of some of their talent as a developer, writer, artist etc.

I realize that developers are rare but the money my grandfather invested in a C64 in 1983 has been repaid many, many times over. I'm not sure I would have the same incentive or opportunity to learn now.
That is an interesting service. We had something similar in mind that we thought was worth building. The real time layer seems to add something to HN that makes it a lot easier to follow (and "manipulate" probably as well). But it is time consuming as well as @Hynek says.
yeah, my customers get maybe 2-3 of those a month (vs, maybe 1-2 actual disputes a year) I mean, I don't know of any of the times that the payment was actually fraudulent; the customer sends me another payment and it'll go through.
I didn't necessarily mean you should go cure cancer, or end world poverty. There are many of first world problems that are perfectly awesome to try solving (for example, how do we convince people to use nuclear, how do we make nuclear safer? how do we make it easier for people to actually recycle? how can we help people get proper rest instead of brainrot?)

You should really look at the #firstworldproblems hashtag on twitter to get a sense of colloquial usage :)
That's addressed to the Slashdot defectors who'd gotten used to every link being wrapped in a couple of sentences of clever commentary.

The spirit of that guideline is that a link should speak for it self. If it can't, don't submit it. If YOU want to say something, write a blog post.
Hey, Tim.

The headline should really be changed to something neutral.

YC startups already get tons of free press and PR by virtue that their investor controls HN. I thought it would be nice to highlight another founder's startup as well.

To explain, the original title of the post was "Duck Duck Go makes Time Magazine's top 50 sites of the year"

Personally, I feel that Gabriel contributes more to HN content and startup culture than the AirBnb, Hipmunk or Instapaper founders combined. And, that's not to detract at all from the great work those other startups have done.

The reason that I highlighted Duck Duck Go,and Gabriel, was because he in particular, has done something amazing: he's boot strapped a search engine essentially by himself to 8M unique searches a month.

He's also taken things like search privacy, and tithing revenues to Open Source projects, and brought them to the forefront of discussion. His blog also has a _ton of great content on it, especially his series on traction is amazing.

The original title got 10 votes in the first 5 minutes after I posted it. That Duck Duck Go doesn't get some of the kudos they have coming to them is disappointing.

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Fuck the population. I think most people fail really hard at being decent.

It's not an insult. Its self critique.
I wanted to go completely without at first. Then I realized 99% of my social interaction happens online and I am not interested in [essentially] walking off into the desert to think for 30 days.

Also reducing "frivolous internets" from 24/7 to an hour a day. A solid hour at that, not interspersed throughout the day ... will be hard.
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In my experience, Squats and Deadlifts with a 7' Olympic bar are the best bang for your 'time-bucks'.

I'm also looking at Hindu Squats as the 'do-anywhere'/'rainy day'/'other excuse' general purpose exercise.
Why are you talking about curing cancer or solving poverty? All he said was,

"Lately we have seen a plague of Next Better Widget ™ startups and bright minds all over the world solving frivolous problems that ultimately contribute nothing to the betterment of humanity as a whole."

This isn't a first-world versus big-problem dichotomy; this is just a matter of whether or not what you're working on is measurably benefiting anyone. If not, then yes, it might be a waste of talent.

These justifications are silly, anyway. How many people, in offices all over the world, are spending significant amounts of time doing something other than work? I don't mean taking the occasional ten-minute break, I mean spending half or more of their day on Facebook or other distractions. How much GDP worldwide is being consumed by this? How much human effort is being spent just clicking on something while staring at a screen?

How much more effort do we want to put into trying to maximize all that waste?
DDG is a handful of people, and it's boot strapped. Google makes Billions a year.
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I'm leaning this way lately as well, and do some completely offline work outdoors, reading or jotting things down with pen&paper. That has the advantage of nice scenery, too.

But I think there are upsides/downsides to being 'connected'. Prior to using the internet a lot, I probably concentrated more, but partly because my knowledge and worldview were much more limited: it was easier to just work on one thing because I didn't know that other things existed, and had no way to access them! I wasn't tempted by other problems to work on, but I also didn't know that someone else had already done something similar that I could build off of, or that there's a related thing with a ton of interesting research questions, or a fruitful connection with another subject, or an exciting new development exactly in line with my interests, etc., etc. The Wikipedia-link-wander (and Google-scholar-link-wander) is sort of a microcosm of this: I've gotten distracted by it hundreds of times, but also found a lot of very relevant stuff that way that improved my ideas, and kept me from going off on a tangent developing sort of crazy stuff in ignorance of how my ideas connected to existing ideas.
rxvt is a crap terminal... st anyone? I do miss the scrollbuffer though...
coding reference, wikipedia, blog writing, foursquare, skype, one hour HN every day... that's hardly what we can call an Internet diet.

What about taking some holidays with no Internet at all? Like 2 or 3 weeks hiking in some remote area - it takes a few days to stop thinking about checking emails, twitter, HN etc.

Bring a notebook and take notes about your ideas. Hiking works wonders for that, you'll get tons of ideas in a day hike.
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I was surprised that this didn't mention SSH compression, which makes a noticeable difference on a slow connection:

ssh -C me@myhost.com

you can also specify a compression algorithm

(man ssh)
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version 1. Compression is desirable on modem lines and other slow connections, but will only slow down things on fast networks. The default value can be set on a host-by-host basis in the configuration files; see the Compression option.
Pomodoro (or something similar to it) worked for a while, but I found myself gradually putting off getting started.
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Or possibly "drag this link to the toolbar and click when on any page on Facebook to see which of your friends is viewing that page" or whatever.
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I'm not sure that the Internet is the problem here. Often you discover "grand ideas" by seemingly stumble upon them or by being active in a specific problem domain. Going on an Internet diet might not help. Unless, of course, you replace all that freed-up with other activities to fuel your creativity. So if you're looking for BigHuge Social problems to solve, why not getting involved with and picking the brains of organizations that encounter these on a daily basis, organizations such as Amnesty, Greenpeace, The Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders. Together they probably experience every significant social, economic, political and environmental problem there is.

But then again, I'm not sure that the author's approach to grand ideas is that fruitful:

Lately we have seen a plague of Next Better Widget ™ startups and bright minds all over the world solving frivolous problems that ultimately contribute nothing to the betterment of humanity as a whole.

This is a dangerous fallacy as it can lead you towards a path of entrepreneurial apathy and cynicism. There's nothing wrong in positioning yourself so that you at least are solving everyday problems for people and companies. Ideally you're making a small yet valuable contribution to the improvement of lives and organizations.
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Would we even have a software industry if the original people patented conditional statements, loops, variable assignments, etc?
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"Personally, I feel that Gabriel contributes more to HN content and startup culture than the AirBnb, Hipmunk or Instapaper founders combined."

...and you're obviously free to express your opinion in the thread. But it's never been fair game to editorialize the headlines on story submissions here. (And for what it's worth, I think it was a fairly classy move that the editor didn't change the link/headline to emphasize the YC companies.)

DDG and Gabriel pop up on the front page of HN on a regular basis. They get plenty of attention here without having to slight the other 49 websites in this list.
Back when my laptop wasn't the size of a fully grown hippo, I used to take day-long train trips with it. Lacking a phone to tether it to meant I had nothing else to do but working and coding. Rarely have I been as productive as during those trips.
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This, a hundred times. Especially if you do this first thing in the morning; keep this up on regular basis and you can rest assured that you're part of a very small elite. Of course, I provide no evidence to back up my assertion; part and parcel with being an elitist.
I find it strange that some people in this discussion thread are trashing about companies that make stuff like farmville or facebook. So they are making something on which people are wasting their time. Does that make these people are bad or "waste of talent"? It sounds like they woke up one day and thought "lets make repetitive but addictive game/site which will enable people to waste lots and lots of their time and thus bring down our GDP". Come on guys, they found it fun to take up the challenges of making such a thing. Why should we look down upon them because they are not solving a "real" problem. To recite acangiano's example, technologies like memcached came from livejournal which was considered the biggest mode of pass time in pop culture. And even if zynga is not open sourcing something like that, so what? They are working on something they find is fun (and can make them shitloads of money) I do not think its upto us to judge their intentions (more over even if we did that, they would just sit on their pile of money and say FU).

By that logic all the game companies and social sites just shut down. (okey this is a major exaggeration of what you said, but added that because I find that a little funny.)

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They don't provide a deterrent anymore because we forget they are there. They don't work as a deterrent because the chances of being caught on CCTV are slim.

But I'm not sure that this matters. I see CCTV more as evidence gathering rather than crime prevention.
Pendulum is indeed a great band to code to. They have a lot of songs that get me in the mood("zone") to hammer out some code.
No, screen/tmux does not solve the same issues shared connection do.

In fact, they've little to do which each other. Screens allow you to keep your session running and reattach to it.
Control (shared connection) allow you to keep the connection running instead of opening multiple ones.

This is much much faster for example if you're using SCP, or have scripts opening different tunnels, and so on.
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The next generation of phones/tablets already have HDMI out and bluetooth keyboard support. If people need or want such facilities it'll be faster and easier to get there from phones than laptops.
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http://www.readability.com/

Takes me only a moment (upon landing at such a page) to hit my R bookmarklet. [Though there is now the pause while they process and resend from their server; I preferred the classic in-browser processing.]
I would definately go for WordPress because of it's flexibity.
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Shutting down the translation API wasn't an evil act, it was being used by content farms to steal content from other publishers and get advertising from it.

Having a privacy policy which requires your real name isn't evil. You are not being forced to opt-in.

Is monetizing your core product really evil..? I didn't expect to read an anti-business comment on a site such as this...
I wouldn't suggest an internet diet to anyone over 15 years of age. Brains feed on information and the information on the internet is vastly more interesting than what most people encounter in an everyday "offline" life. Seems like the problem is the distractions caused by social sites. It's easy to turn that habit off, you are not missing much anyway. If you feel you are feeding too much on web fragments, read some books on a kindle for a break.
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with netcat you don't have to use agent forwarding. its better in many cases because you have use different keys for the jump host and the destination host for example.
trusting the jump host by using the same key is not very good security wise, as compromising the jumphost would mean compromising all hosts on the network for all users.
using agent forwarding is equally bad of course.

nc solves that.

Likwise if you use this for scp, it works with nc, but it wont with a double ssh.
I don't see how the Fermi paradox is relevant or helpful in any way. What you fail to understand is how large our galaxy (never mind the Universe) is and what time frames we are talking about. Grasp this:

1) The Milky Way Galaxy contains an estimated 200–400 billion stars. Let's assume that humans build a machine that can check if a star has life around it in only one second.

Now, to check one billion stars for life you would have to wait 31 years, which would be reasonable, but to check 200 billion stars you would need roughly 6000 years.

The observable Universe contains 3 to 100 × 10^22 stars (about 80 billion galaxies). You do the math how long it would take to check just a tiny, tiny fraction of that number, assuming you would have such a machine, capable of giving an answer per second.

2) The Universe is about 13 billion years old.
Life on Earth is an estimated 3 billion years old.
Humans, as they look today, appeared about 200000 years ago.
Humans developed means of communication with other civilizations only 50-100 years ago.

What exactly do you hope to discover in a timespan that can't even qualify as a bleep on the Universe's radar? The evolution of humans is not synchronized to the evolution of other forms of life. Humans (or any other form of life in the Universe, for that matter) can go extinct without warning. It would take a long time for our radio waves to reach another civilization and the other way around, and by the time they reach their destination the intended receivers may be long gone.

TL/DR - the Universe is huge, and very, very old. Don't underestimate the difficulty of finding life.
The Blade/Libra/San Francisco is a great phone, but it's not available for 50 quid, more like double that (though I bought mine for 70 a while ago, and got an AMOLED screen version too).

Maybe he was talking about the ZTE Racer, a previous best buy in the world of Android. Modaco also have info on getting the best out of that device:

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You know how in the old days people used to travel to experience something new?

This is similar.

Also there's the idea that we get really good ideas when we have time to process the information we have collected. And I do in fact use this to great advantage when developing algorithms. Learn about a problem, then just go do something else.

Let's say for the past few years I've been cramming information into my head, now I'm taking a break to see if I can't come up with some insight.
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People always want things in their own customized ways. There are standard parameters or grounds on which things are measured, but it is not necessary that everyone will know everything, or may be everything of a thing, as a matter of fact.
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Drop the subsidies and trade barriers and let African competitive advantages lift them out of poverty. Drop aid to African warlords and governments (who have a money incentive in maintaining poor, starving people). Stop getting involved in local wars (disease and starvation are a direct consequence of that).
You'd be surprised how big a diet this can actually be.