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It depends, I think there are probably a reasonable number of automated processes that could be messed up by something like this. For example, reminders that you need to do some sort of training or HR process could get black holed; creating a larger problem in the long run (e.g., instead of doing it at your leisure you have to do it in a big rush).

That isn't something that falls under your "you shouldn't use your work email for that", and it may be an acceptable trade-off; but it is certainly something that could cause pain. Probably not as much pain as the number of emails you'd wade through anyway, but something to consider.
How about you participate in the political process and change the rules and regulations?
>you can't get focus to deal with it... working out a series of things to do to contain the task... brainstorm simple things I could do around my outcome... writing a paragraph about why it feels hard... string together four or five tasks... Come back after rest for another go.

This is not what I consider procrastination, and I consider myself a major procrastinator, struggling constantly with time management issues because of it.

What you are describing is a context of ancillary effort surrounding the task. These are Things Being Done To Do The Thing.

Necessary but insufficient. Secondary, but nonetheless essential.

Procrastination, on the other hand, is the Absolute Evasion Of All Things Related To The Task At Hand.

Not lead up. Not preparation. Not sequencing. Not anything.

Anything But.

Do Something, but make damn well sure it's Not The Thing That Relates To What You Ought To Be Doing.

Email fidgeting. Netflix grazing. Guitar strumming. Water boiling watching. But not The Thing. And not Near The Thing.

Anything But The Thing.

This is doubly hard when creative (read: conceptual, thinking, fuzzy, ethereal, imaginative) work is The Thing To Be Done. Because sometimes Not Doing The Thing is what Needs To Be Done To Do It.

But just as often, oh man, do we like to fool ourselves into even avoiding Not Doing The Thing Needed To Do the Thing We Need To Do by simply Not Even Doing That.

If you pack batteries all day into tiny boxes in a warehouse filled with angry and watchful foremen (I've done this), there's no possibility for confusion between Getting It Done and Not Getting It Done.

But if you've got 600 words to write on how SEC New Rule 506(c) pertains to real estate crowdfunding, who's to say that sitting on your ass and watching 7 episodes of Adventure Time isn't integral to your effort. (It's not. But still, who's to say?)

Don't even get me started on billable hours. That's a whole nother can of worms.
People are reading too much into my comment, then. I didn't imply anything, actually - I made a comparison and provided no detail that could lead a conclusion, other than the idea that he wants to be visible, and questioning that decision.

Your first reason doesn't make sense because all the other leaks by secret leakers have caused uproar and changes, so a person behind them isn't necessary, clearly.

Your second reason doesn't make sense because as long as nobody finds out who you are, they can't kill you. Other leaks in the past have been done with anonymity. And honestly, they'll rendition him regardless of the public outcry because he's broken the law.
I might be wrong, UK law is different than the rest of the EU (you can opt out of the working time directive here).

That said, isn't it a 40 hour max on contracted hours? Otherwise it is completely un-policeable. The idea is that you can't lose your job for refusing to work past 40 hours (i.e. refusing to take overtime). But you are allowed to work the overtime if you so please.
I wonder if "insurance for a cut" is a thing. Basically apply the credit card model to insurance for cabs. Insurance company takes X% of all rides for providing the proper insurance needed for said rides.

Keeps the barriers to entry low (giving up a cut is easier when you just do a couple of customers on the side than having higher fixed costs) and would probably allow a smart insurance company to make a nice bundle of money.
I think this is misguided and would seem to reinforce bad practices, poor etiquette and bad culture.

bad practices, i.e. if you want work life balance, don't check your email when you aren't in the office. Manage your co-workers expectations that you won't be replying when you aren't on the clock, don't work for a boss that has the expectation that you are functionally on-call at times when you should be with your family and friends.

bad etiquette, i.e. stop sending so much email yourself and stop responding to email that doesn't merit a response. OOO messages and other auto-responders are vile and just add to the mess - calendar requests, project updates, FYIs, CC"s, etc. Most of this messaging traffic is just unnecessary and only adds to the weight of one's inbox without making much of a contribution. Deal with your messaging in your app - turn off the notifications and update options and actually log into your calendar once or twice a day to view requests. Same goes for the rest of your web apps (I'm thinking of project and task tools like Asana, et al).

bad culture, i.e. be part of the solution, tell people when their email practices are dysfunctional. We have this thing at our office where staff will send out an email to 10 people asking "when is a good time to get together?" which triggers an avalanche of 25 messages all with conflicting instructions and requests about what might be the best time. I actively ask people to use my calendar and ignore the rest of the email on the subject. People are slowly starting to use my calendar for this sort of thing. Same goes for after-hours email. If you don't want people to think you'll respond after-hours, don't send email after hours! In the most extreme cases, if you can't change culture, then find a better place to work. Life is too short.

Corporate policy along the lines of "delete email while you are on vacation" just serve to reinforce all of these other bad practices. Email can be a force for good, you just have to use it that way.
I'm curios why the author went ahead and starting selling before he was able to receive payment? My personal 'stop' started there.
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> Now who is this Berlin "authority" to decide for people how they should travel from point A to point B?

I think this is a great point to illustrate the difference in mentality between Germany and the US.

From what I've experienced, people in Germany trust their government to make sure things are the way they should be. As an example: every apartment is required by law to provide a certain amount of natural light. You literally cannot offer an apartment without windows, nor with windows that lead into a wall.

And you could say, like I did, "but what if I want to live in a windowless apartment because it's cheaper?". The German answer to that is "No, every person deserves decent living conditions, so you are not allowed to offer something that is not decent, even if there is people willing to pay for it". That's the German way of doing things, and germans seem pretty happy about it.

Of course, this line of reasoning wouldn't fly in the States. I think Uber failed to understand that the German government will not allow a service that does not meet the approved standards, even if there's people willing to pay for it, because as a German citizen you are entitled to (and implicitly expect) a certain quality of service (insurance, availability) that Uber is not providing.
That system is rather similar to “The Cycle System”, as recommended by the book Time Management for System Administrators¹, (also a series of lectures²) by Thomas A. Limoncelli, except the Bullet Journal uses months, where The Cycle System uses days.

1) http://everythingsysadmin.com/books.html

2) http://www.tomontime.com/
Im sceptical. You know why? You wrote all this text instead of giving me a real world example and said "look, this would be shitty without a 2-way-data-binding-library".
I also suffered something similar on multiple occassions in my late 20s and early 30s - growing rainbow zig-zags accompanied by graduals loss of vision in both the center of my field of view and edges of my peripheral vision, although never to the point of total blindness. Incidents would last between one and two hours. But, after several ophatmologist and visits to other physicians, I finally found the trigger: it happened roughly 18 hours after consuming 2 or more glasses of absinthe. Stopped drinking absinthe, haven't had an aura in years.
If i see Out of Office in the title I just delete it.
"which everybody is going to paste"

I question the assertion that many people in charge of Cisco routers doing BGP are in the habit of pasting in configuration changes without thinking about them.
I'm not a native English speaker either.

> Is the technology so advanced today? Are you using a screen reader and a regular keyboard? (e.g. typing and than playing it via the reader) how do you know if you made a typo? (e.g. who's and whose sound the same)

Yes, I'm using a regular keyboard and a screenreader. Besides speech output I use a device called a refreshable braille display which can display up to 40 or 80 characters at a time depending on the model being used. I'm sure you will find some pictures if you Google it. However, those devices are quite expensive and many blind people just use speech output. Even with just speech there are options for reading letter by letter, word by word etc. However, I see some people make much spelling mistakes because they just listen and not rreally read how a word is spelled.

> Can you read and write code without seeing? Are there any blind programmers that you know of.

Sure you can. I make a living by programming and doing web accessibility consultancy. Another nice example is the free and open source NVDA screenreader[0], which is developed by two blind guys.

[0]: http://www.nvaccess.org/
Johnson spent his Christmas answering support emails, too bad you aren't a team player like him.
I'm 25 years old and I am lost
I co-founded a startup couple of years back which got acquired recently. Even though it was termed an acquisition, it was really an acqui-hire. When people congratulate me on that, I know in my heart that it's not true and it doesn't really make me happy.

Now, I've quit my job at that company because I just couldn't work there any longer. And am trying to figure out what to do next.

I know for a fact that I want to run my own business and attain financial freedom but I can't risk another startup at this moment because: 1. Startups are tough and I am afraid 2. I have a few financial responsibilities towards my family which I have to take care of.

Thus, I have picked up another job which I'll join in a few weeks. It is not in a very 'sexy' or 'trendy' industry and I have no idea where it is going to take me in two years.

What do you do when you believe that you can do great things but something that you have no control over is holding you back? You believe that you are good at what you do and are meant for great things but you have to do your job even though it doesn't do justice to your capabilities. How do you cope with that? Seeing your future as an underachiever pains you. What do you do?

In the course of trying to figure it out, I spoke to my friends about this, I realised that most of them are going through the same thing. But they haven't figured out how to deal with it. I don't know if this is what they call a quarter-life crisis.

Thus, this is as much a distress call as it is a rant. And not having anyone else to turn to, I am posting it here at HN assuming that this is not just a problem for a handful of people but a general problem for people who believe in their ability to do great things (whether it is true or not is irrelevant to them).

The questions I posed here aren't the only ones I have in my mind. But, I hope I have been able to convey the message. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
While an idea like this sounds appealing it seems to assume all emails you get are a bother (either because they're irrelevant or because they're asking you to do something).

I get useful emails all the time (or at least, emails that I should see) and quite a few of these are from automated systems which don't give a damn whether I'm there or not. If a third-party support desk sends me an automated "Ticket Closed" email for a call I've had open for months then I need to be aware of that, and deleting the email doesn't really help anyone (except them maybe).
what is the advantage in comparison to just use azure?
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A client TCP connection close, whether intentional or due to network failure, does quickly remove the participant from the channel.
I actually like this idea a lot. Most tourists are visiting the same spots, and most travel sites give me the same stuff. It would be interesting to follow the daily lives of expats or locals, segmented by what type of work they are doing, and what kind of lifestyle they have.

These are two pretty different target audiences though. The formers one caters towards tourists who are about to visit the city for vacation while the latter caters towards people who are considering moving to that city.
> The world has really deteriorated in regard to family life since the 80s.

How much of that is due to both parents working, rather than the wife staying home and managing the family?
Your company giving you the option to auto-delete holiday emails and the government enforcing a 40 hour work week are very different things. The Daimler approach gives a socially-acceptable option for people who want absolute downtime, which most people seem to agree is a good thing; your proposed law would remove people's opportunity to work harder and in a more concentrated fashion to give themselves other options.

Your valuable time may be evenings and weekends with your family, mine may be being able to take a year out to travel or (although many European countries certainly don't seem to appreciate this), I may actually enjoy my job! In those instances, working a 70 hour work week may actually be what I want to do.

There's nothing stopping you having a corporate culture that encourages 40 hour working weeks, and if that's what works for you then by all means, find an employer who will respect that, but you can't expect everybody to be forced to follow that lifestyle, and you can't expect an employer not to take it into consideration when they decide who they want to hire.
Yep, I think the nice thing about using purpose-specific tools like OctopusDeploy is that it lets you escape Cloud/Platform specific deployment tools making it easier to switch between cloud providers if you want to.

i.e You can save money later by moving off the Cloud once you have a better idea what capacity you need to handle your load, and then deploy to better value hosting providers like http://www.hetzner.de
I'm with you itry. Thanks for bringing this up here. These folks all want to avoid writing event handlers but these alternatives just make there be many levels of function calls between that actual user event and the developer's code to handle it. In addition to it being much slower, it's a lot harder to figure out what's happening when something goes wrong.
I think what many people fail to realize, in a corporate setting, is that email is asynchronous communication. Email is not chat, and we need to approach it differently. When I send an email, I expect an answer when you get time--if it's something I need within 24-48 hours, I will call, visit, or IM you if you're online.
Along with many other things that are and will always be way off the mark... still a looney tune. I have a friend on Facebook who went from normal to something really sad listening to that dude.
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Were are using this setup, but instead of AWS, we are deploying to Rackspace. The TeamCity-Octopus combination works brilliantly together.

We also use FluentMigrator.net to migrate databases automatically throughout our environments: https://github.com/schambers/fluentmigrator

You can also use Octopus to run Powershell scripts. You can deploy one off tasks or re-runable tasks to your entire server farm with one click.

I can recommend https://twitter.com/DevOpsGuys to help you get this setup.
Gandhi had no real impact on the world. The American Revolution did.

Colonists had to murder plenty of police and military.
+1 for android
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I hope Firefox will also implement nosniff
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I can't seem to be able to access your demo: "This webpage is not available" .
Yeah when I said "cloud" I really meant SaaS. You can certainly deploy a self hosted app to a "cloud" PaaS and get a greater ability to control your data than SaaS while still getting many of the other benefits a SaaS service offers.
I don't think laws are the answer. Can anyone say spending time with family and friends are top priorities all day, everyday? I wouldn't want laws telling me they have to be. Sometimes making money to support your family is more important than spending time with them. Some people don't have a family to spend time with. Some people don't like their family or have any friends. Some people like their work and that's where they want to be more often than not.
Java and C# provide all of the above, with better performance, tooling and more flexibility than Go.
It's not scientific research, but the word "research" covers a much broader set of investigations than just science. For example going to the library to look up sources for an academic paper is commonly called research.
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We've found AWS has a richer ecosystem for the things we want to use, e.g. We're using PostgreSQL RDS for our managed RDBMS.

It's also nice to be able to point your deployments to any server instead of being coupled to Cloud-specfic tooling. i.e. If Cloud costs ever get out of hand we can point to the better value and performing dedicated hosts like hetzner, with minimal migration effort.
If one person works late then other people have to match them. So you end up with a tragedy of the commons/race to the bottom. Which is exactly the situation that calls for laws.
The sections deletino does work properly in Chrome 36.0.1985.125 m, Windows 7.

The hit point is wrong on the trash bin icon. You have to drag the section to the far right before the icon turns orange. In Firefox it looks ok.

Another bug is that if I add an image to the slider (first or third image) it replaces the first and third with the same image.
Totally! this is exactly right. I work with one small group of people that outside of our weekly status meeting, shares a ton of chatty one-liners via email several times a day. It drives me crazy that I can't get them to adopt Slack for these types of interactions but sometimes it is impossible to teach a dog new tricks ;-)
Most automated processes thats report to one and only maintainer who's currently on vacation sound like a problem. Responsibilities and event emails should shift accordingly with vacation.

Also HR department invitations that do not have a secondary reminder, or take place while an employee is on vacation sound like the issue of the HR department not that employee in particular.
Any machine that draws without a framebuffer (NES, C64, Atari 2600) would be pretty complex if you'd have to manually handle these timings.

However, in the NES example you could perhaps embed a NES emulator and hook into its drawing code instead. But that does mean that the emulator itself doesn't introduce any glitches or flaws of its own, of course. At least you'd be able to get some decent timing information from the emulator to properly handle sprite multiplexing and whatnot.
"Sorry I didn't get your message. I must have been on vacation and it got deleted."

Also what kind of holes does it create in email threads for conversations that happen before and after the vacation?
40 hours/week is maximum your contract in the UK can oblige you to work. Having said that, when I got my job in the games industry I had to sign a statement stating that I voluntarily decide to work over that limit(but I am not required to). And no, overtime is not paid.
The way async is supposed to. From coroutines to await etc.
Maybe try http://reddit.com/r/compilers
Or the "OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays" bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
I had no problem connecting. Did you disable javascript?
Very interesting concept. The least daunting way to "remake" a game in this way could be something like changing the color palette per level, kind of like how the Super Game Boy does to some Game Boy games; an effect reminiscent of the color filters used in Nosferatu.

I'm sort of opposed to the idea of "better art" as something that can be achieved on a technical level, though, especially considering the example used in the article (Monkey Island SE), which I personally think looks a lot worse than the original game. If you want better art you need a better artist.
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And yet, this is more than enough quality for most people.
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I knew of one VP who got away with trashing his inbox while on vacation because he was the boss, but understandable that his email box was full all of the time with stuff that he didn't need to know.

The logic is simple though: If your email is really important then it's important enough to resend.
My mom always told me do what you love and the money will follow. Sounds trite but I've spent the last six years going 50/50 between working as a professional skydiver and traveling internationally. Now I am successfully transitioning to web design so I can travel full time.

If it isn't fulfilling then don't do it.
I'd go further. If its urgent, I'll chat or text. If its complex, I'll call.

I'd scatterplot all these forms of communication against latency and fidelity. Phone is lowest-latency and highest-fidelity (except for in-person of course). Email is high latency and high-fidelity. All the chat/text/twitter stuff is lower latency and spread across the fidelity spectrum.

They all have their place. I hate it when someone mis-uses them, for instance calling me and leaving a message. Phone is low-latency and high-fidelity; a voice message is the opposite corner (no ability to go back-and-forth; I won't see it for hours/days if at all). Voice mail is the worst possible fallback for a phone call.
Thanks! Fixed. I added a "way-html" attribute (boolean, false by default) that you can pass to your DOM elements.
48 hours. http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/workingtimedirective.htm

It is not legal to make you sign the opt out.
I think the comment was geared more towards corporate America where salaried employees are often expected to work 60+ hours per week with no overtime pay or added benefits for the extra effort. At least I'd hope their idea for the law wouldn't limit hourly employees who need to work multiple jobs just to get by.
Startups will always be tough and you'll probably always be afraid.

Take care of your financial situation and push on with your new startup.

It is easy to feel panicked when facing a situation you want to change, but I'm sure if you reflect upon your life you've felt that way before and made it through. Problems ahead can often seem insurmountable but few things in life actually are.