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in response to a complaint

What kind of complaint?
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Related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259713 Almost identical in fact.
I feel like being burnt out is more endemic than just being a bit tired (and thus a nap fixes it). It permeates everything to do with your job. All tasks even when interesting feel like a burden very quickly. There is a sense of being intellectually tired. A loss of confidence leading to self doubt and thus begins the downward spiral in productivity.
lazy: procrastinating an activity with something that is more fun

burnt-out: no activity provides enough fun to procrastinate the current activity
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Wow, in the 4th video, where he's showing off NextStep mail application, the definition of smooth scrolling has definitely changed over the decades.
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A lit-crit class could go alllllll day with this one, but I think in most versions of the Turning story [+] that I've seen that "we" are Eve, evil unseen British homophobes are the snake, and Turning would almost certainly be Adam. The apple is sex because the apple is always sex.

I would not repeat the above in a lit-crit class that I had a desire to pass, because the kind of people who do lit-crit on persecution of homosexuals did not get their doctorates on "Gender Politics In Genesis: Pretty Much Peachy Keen", but I think it's the right call theory-wise. (Practically speaking, to get the A, a) mention the problem and b) recast Turing as Amaterasu. That's a pretty strained reading, but ahem the narratives one needs to pay attention to in a lit-crit class are not the narratives in the text.)

+: n.b. I am not talking about any event which actually happened anymore, I am talking about talking about events that happened. The rough sketch of thought on this goes something like: "History doesn't insert snakes. Historians insert snakes. There is no history without historians."
You can see more of her here:
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India and Japan generally don't censor foreign websites, and their governments survive OK.

It's a big loss of face for the present leaders to change their policy. But we keep on hearing the phrase from within China: "Perhaps the new generation of leaders taking over in October 2012 will have different ideas about web censorship". If the policy is going to change, it'll be soon after this time when no government leaders "lose face".

The US and EU are also preparing to challenge China at the WTO claiming the Great Firewall violates free trade. If the US and EU can get their timing and level of prodding right, the Firewall might be dismantled. China's already given their web businesses such as Baidu enough startup advantage from the Firewall, and will probably find other ways to give advantage to subsequent startups.

But... the infrastructure's already there in China to block foreign websites. Anything that exists but isn't used will be used again sooner or later by some politician, so thanks to Cisco et al the Firewall will always exist even if "dismantled" under WTO enforcement. Just like the US military is there to defend the integrity and borders of the Union, to be used as a last resort, but gets used to invade Iraq for cheap oil.
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It takes energy to be disciplined, and a belief that you're going to get something good out of it.

So burn-out can lead to lack of discipline, both because it saps your energy and because you stop believing that you're going to get something worthwhile out of it.
I think the difference there is that when a 747 engine explodes, there are three other engines and the plane may well still be landable. When a Space Shuttle engine explodes, everybody is almost certainly dead and the Shuttle crashes.

I'm saying that pragmatically, unrecoverable errors don't need testing, and NASA's class of possible unrecoverable errors is much wider than any airline's. The fact that SpaceX feels the need to test so rigorously is a good sign about what they want to be "recoverable" and therefore about how safe their hardware is intended to be.
> Some actions have externalities and should be subject to pigouvian taxes to internalize the externality. Few people, including libertarians, dispute this point.

I'm not so sure about the later, apparently dreamdu5t and many other libertarians find all and every sort of taxes unacceptable. Thanks for the Arthur Pigou reference.
I am making a point about the levels which they go to. I would happily let our government block content like that.

There should be more policing on the internet as a whole, I just don't agree with how far they go.

When they banned Google search months ago, that was because of political agenda over user censorship.
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Burnout is not solved by a nap or a walk, a burn out is not just being tired or saturated with a subject.

You are burnt when you pushed your limits over a long period of time without giving your body and brain enough rest. This means you do not have a quick fix. You cannot quick fix something you have done over months, years. It takes time.

In my personal case, I suffered a burn out (went several times to the doctor, hospital and specialists with scans etc.), because without even be aware of it I was pushing above my limits. I am still suffering from Tinnitus because of it, 2 months after clearing all the other problems.

I was pushing above my limits because it was a bit above but in all parts of my life. A stressful year, then when everything went back to normality, I was simply left smashed. I was annoyed because I finally reached the "life is good again" state, but my body simply said: "you gave me a hard time for a year, now I need to rest". This started end of August, I am still recovering so to speak.

So, you feel it could be a burn out? Take a close look at your life, what is not running as it should, then act. But again, no quick fix, it takes time.

Do not hesitate to contact me privately if you want/need.
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I think this is the best answer so far, if the things you used to love don't satisfy you the way they did, you're probably burnt out. If, on the other hand, your not meeting your own expectations stems from screwing up priorities (avoiding what you don't enjoy), you're likely just being lazy.
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I actually meant the opposite. As in laziness in work goes hand in hand with laziness in "play". i.e. being burned out from working too hard gives downtime more value.
Oh, that does suck. And I even have a degree in aerospace engineering, though I'm a Ruby web monkey these days.
> Here's a somewhat more polite response than your comment deserved:

Wow, you may want to switch to decaf. You're way too sensitive to a comment which was in no way rude or aggressive.

Normally I'd be happy to have a conversation about the pros and cons of various approaches, but I can see that you're not going to be receptive.
Thanks for the info. I use AdBlock Plus and I love it too.

On a related note, what do you think about NoScript? Does it really help prevent attacks these days, or are NoScript users just being paranoid? I use NoScript with AdBlock Plus, but so many websites rely on JS these days, it gets annoying pretty quickly.
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None of my friends have pseudonyms, none of my extended network do either, it's all full, real names. I'm of the belief Facebook enforces proper names (even for Snoop Dogg!)
That might be true in some specific contexts, but I'm sure this topic doesn't regard any of them.
Hm, this is going to be an interesting class. Looking forward to seeing more math-related classes.
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This describes how I feel about it exactly.

If I spend too long on a project that I just want to finish, I generally find myself looking at other more interesting projects and working a little on them.

Sometimes this is being lazy but sometimes you just need the change to get back on track with your mundane project.
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Coincidentally, I had such an idea for a long time and have started writing an application for such a blog in my spare time.
But my blog isnt just for the tech community.
Will do a "Show HN" soon, when I have a working site.

But would be nice to see a github hosted version.
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While we are monitoring every transmission between computers, maybe we could stem piracy by placing monitoring devices on every human neck, so that any copyrighted data does not leave the mouth via vocal chord. Some may say that is extreme. But imagine the millions of dollars being lost by lazy companies who want to distribute their music, and then charge people after they listen to it freely!
Maybe it's UX lesson #1: Host your blog on a scalable platform :).

(the website is down at the moment)
I still don't think you're getting what I'm saying. Where do you draw the line? I don't like images of extreme gore any more than child pornography. Should we let governments censor it too? How would we accomplish that anyway?
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> It's a side effect of poor system configuration, slow release cycles for patched software and to a lesser extent, poorly designed software.

Don't forget stupid and naïve users - those who know that the dodgy crack / serial website is going to have infected files, or those who don't realise that cute cursors come with malware.

And, to be fair, it's not just MS that has these problems. BSD makes things a bit less scary for Mac users, but there's still the problem of people running as a high level user and entering their password whenever they're asked, without necessarily thinking about it.
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Short answer? Go see a Psychologist. I know a lot of people are naturally averse to this (I was, at one point) but I've realised that a good psychologist is really just a good hacker - someone who's read a lot on the subject at hand (personality and the psyche), is motivated to help you, enjoys it, and has found a way to make money doing so.

In one hour with a good psychologist, they will generally be able to give you very good guidance on what you are feeling. It's not magic, it's just the power of having an informed, objective observer in a situation that encourages you to be open.

Otherwise, ask the people closest to you - your spouse, GF/BF, etc.
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If you have to ask this, you are burnt out. If you were lazy, you wouldn't ask.
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If you have to ask yourself this question, I think there's a chance you might be suffering from the kind of self-esteem issues that often plague bright people. Take a peek at this Wikipedia article on the "Dunning Kruger Effect" to have an idea of what I'm referring to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Have you generally been a hard working person your whole life but are now going through a tough spell where it's hard to find motivation? If that's the case you may be burnt out, or perhaps you are working on something that deep down inside you don't really believe in. Maybe you need to listen to that intuition, rather than beat yourself up and think "I'm the problem because I'm lazy."

I went through a pretty major burnout cycle in my career a few years back and was lucky enough to be able to afford to take a lot of time off - nearly two years - and dedicate it to just working on open source. Nearly 3 years later I suspect that financially it was a poor decision: I'm still majorly suffering the consequences of that lack of income for 2 years. But I was able to recover my passion for work and now have a job that I'm enthusiastic about, and willing to work my ass off for, even though it pays less than I had been making before.

At the time I quit my job I wrote a short post on it, take a peek and see if it resonates at all. If it does, you're most certainly not lazy.

http://njclarke.com/posts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-work-on-open-...
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That's not inherent to the book, it's the value you put on the book. To my 8 year old brother, you can be sure the Big Mac will provide much more pleasure

The value system you are pitting against money is completely subjective and therefore somewhat useless as a points system.
Being a page on UX, looks horrible. Hopefully the orignal was better?

Edit: Reader on Safari makes it not-so-bad.
if we found 100.000 paying customers and made 0.01 off each transaction that would be a 50% raise for both of us

Are you both working 'normal' salaried jobs? If you were and you were to do contracting, the usual guide of how much to charge is to double your normal rates, i.e. 100% raise.¹

So getting 100k customers/transactions per month should be seen as a big success, and hence you should be getting much more than a 50% raise.

¹: This is to cover sick days, holiday, dry spells, etc.
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How long will she be in office? I worry that the one coming after her will have a completely opposite view.
I'd love to know whether Spotify was generally causing an increase or a decrease in the amount spent on music.

I'm currently spending £120/year on music that I wasn't spending before, but I'm aware that I might not be normal.
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First, check the essentials: Are you sleeping, eating decent food, and exercising regularly? If not, you may be neither burnt out nor lazy. Take care of this stuff first.

Second, have you spent the last year working so hard that nothing short of a physical illness will make you slow down? Do you regularly push through problems with sheer willpower? Do you crave the next "green" unit test result beyond all sanity?

If so, you're almost certainly burnt out. Don't try to push through it. Take a vacation. Get outside. Allow yourself to be distracted by a pointless and amusing hobby for a month. You can't fix burnout with willpower. You need to take time off and refresh.

If you haven't been mistreating your body, and you haven't been pushing yourself too hard for too long, then it's possible you're lazy, or depressed, or something else. If you think you might be lazy, commit to making some useful progress every morning for 30 days, no exceptions. Or try a Pomodoro timer. These might be enough to tip you over the edge and get you moving. But don't do this until you've ruled out burnout, because it will only dig you in deeper.
Wasn't there an article 2 days ago saying that law enforcement thinks encryption is "too strong"?
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The item on content strategy is interesting and I think spot on. I'm just completing a project with a company that wants to rejig their content strategy - and managing an external agency who are building a new Drupal-based site.

I rather mucked up their nice ganntt chart by insisting that content entry was bought way forward, before the site design was signed off. "Lets the get the content types defined and get some real content in there - give me any kind of cobbled together basic back-end you can" then we can see how the designs work with real content.

It actually worked very well - and avoided the death march at the end of the process where you have to port all the old content into the new system at the last moment.
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Such a familiar story: great idea, hundreds if not thousands of hours invested, clearly a strong market, no investor interested.

Get some sales, suddenly investors come out of the woodwork expressing "passion" and "belief".

Been there. Bankers will lend you an umbrella when you don't need it and demand it back when it starts raining. So many investors are similar.

But not all. The good ones are better than brilliant.

Well done Sugru - I hope you go from strength to strength.
What matters is how much of that spending is making it back to the rights holders. Is that amount increased or decreased via spotify?
I have a strong suspicion that these particular "labels" mostly have 1 artist on them.
A thought.

Perhaps her neurons are different, i.e. she could rewire some part of her brain as needed - forgetting past experience to free up the capacity for the new one - and this is why it takes hours of setup (observation) and this is why she can do it over and over again within the confines of 600K neurons.
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The barbaric act, in my mind, is that they tried to change his sexual orientation at all, and went to such lengths to try that. Just because it was supposed to be somehow "bad" to be homosexual, not because he was a danger to anyone.
Also: NASA built a grand total of 18 Saturn V stacks. Then they shut down the production lines. With just 18 vehicles, completed years before the actual flight missions, each and every one of them was a prototype: the rocket engineers working on them had worked on multiple prototype missiles before, and a whole lot of snags and bugs were hand-patched on each vehicle. Even if we could magic up a complete set of designs and build new production lines based on them, we'd have lost a chunk of the hands-on knowledge of how to fix problems with the design (stuff that wasn't recorded by a process that predated ISO9000 and similar QA protocols).

Also, people tend to over-estimate the SV stack. As it happened, in its first iteration it was barely capable of the mission -- the LEM came in overweight, and only the fact that the SV out-performed its design specs by a couple of percent made the Block 1 lunar missions possible. (By Block 2 -- Apollo 15-17 -- they'd tweaked enough things that they could fly a heavier LEM with the lunar rover kit and additional supplies.)

In contrast, you might find Musk's plans for Falcon Heavy interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy

16,000Kg to translunar injection, 14,000Kg to Mars. It's not up to flying an Apollo mission profile (the LEM weighed 14,700Kg; the CSM stack 30,300Kg) but it's capable of putting a LEM-sized payload into Lunar orbit, and it might be possible to rig up some kind of lunar-orbit rendezvous profile surface mission using 2-3 Falcon Heavy launches.
I'm the main developer of core.logic :) core.logic is simply missing cKanren constraint solving extensions at the moment, but again they won't be hard to add since core.logic is a fairly faithful interpretation of miniKanren (the system which cKanren extends).
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TCP uses a 32bit sequence number that should be initially seeded to a _securely generated_ random number. As each packet is sent back and forth between endpoints, this number increments by 1. If an adversary wanted to disrupt the connection (denial of service) they could obtain the sequence number and other numbers such as the source and destination ports and spoof some packets pretending to be the real client. It would then become a race between the real and fake clients as to which packet is accepted first. There is usually over 2^40 bits of entropy that an adversary would need to know to hijack a TCP session.

If the adversary is in the middle (MITM) they can read all your traffic and obtain the required entropy in real time. In this scenario, it doesn't matter how much entropy is contained in each packet because the adversary knows that information in real time. Thus the adversary will be able to inject packets to reset/terminate the TCP session, causing a Denial of Service situation.

Cryptographic protocols including SSH and TLS are designed to solve the majority of problems that MITM adversaries can cause. The notable exception is that these protocols rely on unprotected TCP sessions. MITM adversaries are still able to reset/terminate TCP sessions (when SSH/TLS protocols are detected).

IPSec protects not only the information transmitted, but the IP packet headers as well. An Authentication Header (AH)[1] is appended and verified to ensure that packets haven't been tampered with or forged. MITM session reset/termination attacks are therefore no longer possible because forged packets will be ignored.

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I fixed a cheap plastic key fob that was snapping apart with Sugru at their stand at the Maker Faire in Newcastle in 2010. Just yesterday, after jangling around continuously in my pockets for a year and a half, and becoming a substantially worn down and different keyring, it finally broke completely.

The Sugrued part, however, is still in perfect shape, and still attached to the key ring.
Their customer support has also been great. I ordered an early batch, they discovered it had some problems and proactively notified me, explained they were manufacturing replacement batches and then sent me the bug fixed version. And I hadn't yet noticed the problem.

How I wish all companies were like that.
This is a great question. For me, my "acid test" would be: "is the task that I feel like doing now DIRECTLY related to my goals/projects/objectives?". Several successive "no's" over a long period (like constant "no's" over a few days or weeks) MAY indicate burn-out. A few successive "no's" in isolation MAY indicate laziness, or it may indicate that you're just not in the right state of mind to be doing the particular task you've assigned to yourself.

It's worth mentioning that it's very important to consider energy levels too. Not all tasks are equal, so for instance, it'd a be a silly idea to embark on a 3-4 hour coding binge at 1am, when I know that if I had a good sleep and was wide awake, I could get the same work done in maybe 1-2 hours with a higher level of quality. I'll do some lower energy work instead, or I might even decide to call it quits for a day, wind down and just read a book - and I wouldn't consider it laziness at all. At all costs, I want to keep the quality of work up - even if it means not doing it right now. I know myself, and I trust myself that I'll get up the next morning and hack and slash away in a much better state of mind, and produce better quality work (most of the time!)

For me, forcing myself to do work that my mind just isn't in the state to do is a fast path to fatigue, unproductiveness, burn-out and "far out there's not enough time in a day, the universe is against me!"-type delusions.