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You're fairly new here - 17 days as I write this - so you might be wondering why people are downvoting you. I haven't - instead I'll provide a reason why I nearly did.

This is purely my opinion. Others will have different reasons.

For me to know that you think this article is too long, and that you didn't bother reading it, gives me no information. I don't know who you are, so I don't know whether your opinion is worth listening to. You give no reason for not bothering to read it apart from that you found it too long.

How far did you get? Why was it not grabbing your attention? What was your assessment of the part you did read?

Did you read none of it? That tells me more about you, than the article.

In short, I find no value in what you wrote, and so I would down-vote you, except that others already have, without providing reasons.

I don't know why they did, but I thought you might find value in why I nearly did. I hope that proves to be useful information for you.
... and yet it has 4 points so far. At some point it'd be nice to distinguish between 'upvoting' and 'i'll bookmark this for later', as the latter clouds the former.
I play music everyday. For me, it's acoustic guitar.
Do more than one thing (not at the same time) in a day. preferably tasks that are quite a bit different from each other.

For instance, I work from home on my computer. This makes me sit in front of the computer for a long period of time even when I am not working (for non work related computer time). So I try to put tasks in my todo list (the night before) that requires me to get out of my comfort zone. Which included exercise, preferably eat at least one meal a day outside (most of the time), compulsory book reading (I read at least one book a week), cook when I am not eating out and frequent breaks from my work.

For me, frequent breaks are the single biggest boost of fresh ideas. I always get my best ideas on my breaks.
The single most important thing I do to "boost creativity and/or productivity" is to work in such a way that I don't need to "boost creativity and/or productivity" to get my work done. This has to be done the night before.

I always quit all online work at least 2 hours before bedtime and print whatever I'm working on.

Then I go into any other room with program listings, blank paper, and pens (especially red!) and plan out all of tomorrow's work.

All analysis, design, and refactoring must be done at this time. I do not allow myself to sleep until the next day's work is laid out. I also do not allow myself to get back onto the computer. The idea is to have a clear "vision" of what I am going to accomplish the next day. The clearer the better.

This does 2 things. First, I think about it all night (maybe even dream about it). Second, I can't wait to get started the next day.

I always wake up and start programming immediately. Once I get going, it's easy to keep going. Any difficulties are probably because I didn't plan well enough the night before.

With proper planning, "getting into the zone" becomes a much smaller problem.
check out KeyCue: http://www.macility.com/products/keycue/

Similar idea, but works for any application in OS X.. One of my favorite tools.
That makes more sense, I'm dyslexic, and one of my 'coping strategies' is word association. It's likely I read "conversation" because I read "realtime" first.
If I get into that sort of zero-to-negative flow state, I travel, go to a conference, do something to actually transplant myself away and rekindle ideas. On a more local level you can just change scenery. Go to starbucks. Whatever.

I know what you mean about the 'zone' issue. I found that happening when I worked from home a lot. I still do find it happening if I stay at home. It depends a lot on what you define as work, and what you're doing to fill the time before you settle in. Things like the pomodoro technique or other "look, I'll just do it for 5 minutes, then I can get back to reading HN" carrot/stick approaches to oneself can help -- if, like me, once you actually start doing something, you're fine.

Changing your diet and exercise routines to revitalise your energy levels can also help. I started running a few weeks ago and it's really helping me find time where I don't do anything but run. Turn my brain off, almost. When I'm done, ideas come flooding in.
The comma after "language" should not be there. Revoking your grammar swastika.
The Moral Sense Test based on the trolley dilemmas can be taken here:

http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/eric1/test/testP.html
True but how many companies use lisp for anything major?
If you work on wall street like I do, and u don't want to do java then boost becomes absolutely necessary. I hated c++ before I found boost.
Startup Creates 'Resveratrol' Water - Nature's Secret Makes You Live Longer
Michael Jackson's kids hit $5bn jackpot
Also the delegate design pattern, which Cocoa uses to great effect, is nicer to implement in Objective-C than other languages. Instead of having to define a formal interface which is explicitly used and all the member functions implemented, you just have to implement the relevant methods. Whether the delegate implements a method is looked up at runtime rather than checked with static typing.
keeptrying: ITA uses it significantly; my startup uses it 100% save for a few shell scripts. Check out the success stories on the Franz Lisp home page.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10624

FTA
"In the end, the main thing that I've noticed in the last few days is that it is much easier for me to concentrate on a single task when I can quickly hide all unrelated applications and show just the one or two that I need right now. I'm finding that this method works better for me than Spaces, and I am a big fan of Spaces."
Also great fun to read on crowded trains here in japan - a lot of curious stares when you have to start turning the book sideways and upside down to read it :)
I'm waiting for IntelliJ to support Objective-C (refactoring support in XCode is pitiful compared to what IntelliJ can do for Java).
You're right and you're wrong.

In my experience, you're right to recommend a fresh installation of a significant OSX change, rather than just an in-place upgrade.

However, Apple goes out of their way to say that you should be able to upgrade in-place. And, in general, users want to be able to upgrade in place. It's a reasonable thing to want since it will take at least some time to reimport your data, applications, settings and so on.

So, it's a bit much to call people lazy for doing what the manufacturer promises you can do.
Mad Trampoline Skills (video)
while cute, i'll call crap on this :) they specifically make you buy the gift card with a credit card, not another gift card.
Closing the Deal at the Virtual Checkout
That was a fun game. I never got to play it on my own computer, though, as I found out it did not work with Windows 3.1... only an old version of DOS. The words "Lemmings do not like Windows!" from the manual are still stuck in my mind.

(I always thought that some day I would get it working, but here we are 15 years later, and I still have not achieved this. LOL.)
Ask HN: Please review my startup. theBuzz.at
The idea is straightforward. Digg (or HN) style voting for local bars and restaurants, see what's popular now.

All vote's are upvotes, there are no stars and a vote means "I'd go here again". Users can vote for the same place weekly. Content is submitted by users, not pre-populated but I've integrated the Google Search API to make searching for and adding venues easier.

I've finally managed to get a demo out for testing - it's London only at the moment (split into 150+ neighbourhoods) and there's still lots to do. That said, I'd be interested to get your impressions and thoughts on the idea and execution at this stage.

Obviously there will be a critical mass issue but right now I'm concentrating on making a product worthy of mass consumption.

http://www.thebuzz.at/
Resveratrol is a super powerful antioxidant and polyphenol found in the skin of red wine grapes that has been shown to reduce/slow certain aspects of aging, specifically cardiovascular aging.

Then eat the grapes and skip the middle man.

[EDIT: Both we and the grapes have evolved together for a very long time to be mutually beneficial. Do we really need a "product" to replace the grapes? Do we really need 10,000 grapes worth of nutrients? Can we really "hack" nature without consequences? Just asking.]
Tell me more about the modafinal.
Recovery is also pretty useful - I posted about our recovery from a worst-case-total-server-death here:

http://unfeatureddocuments.com/content/disaster-and-recovery

For a small startup without a dedicated sysadmin I can't think of anything better than EC2 for handling this kind of thing.
I've learned about trolley dilemma few days ago on "Justice with Michael Sander" lectures, Harvard's OCW equivalent program to publish their materials online.

http://justiceharvard.org/

Link was posted here recently, if anyone missed it.
But omg, grapes have calories!!11!

I say, have a cup of tea instead.
I prefer the old-fashioned way, with an actual notebook. A good quality notebook makes things more pleasant.

I rearrange things by writing them down again (in the new order). This also helps to refresh the memory.
Google hopes to ride a social-networking Wave
Yes! I first used delegates in Obj-C/Cocoa. When I then learned .NET delegates, my first thought was "Ewww!"
All 10 questions were variants of the trolley problem. The problems were also poorly formed which is what made answering them difficult, not the actual moral dilema. For example, in the real trolly problem it is clear that you really only have two options flip the switch or not, it is hard to imagine there are other alternatives. But in many of these problems, it is hard to believe there is not a better option available, even though the problem states "but the only way..."
Well, yes, you're right - they say you should be able to do it. In my experience with Leopard and Snow Leopard, however, I don't think Apple's QA is good enough for them to be confidently recommending this course of action.

On the plus side, at least once you're set up, you can stick with it forever and a day. Back in the Windows 98 era, you pretty much had to reinstall the same OS fresh every year or go insane ;-)
It's not really a jackpot when to win your father has to die.
The two things that make the most difference to me are haivng a "Personal Productivity Scaffold" and excercise. (See (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/how-to-create-a-per...). The scaffold is nothing overly complicated, it is essentially a standard way of planning my day and starting work in the mornings and after lunch.Working out is something I hated to do for a long time until I started lifting weights, now I find that an exhausting workout 3-4 times a work really helps the quality of my sleep, which really helps my mental altertness the following day. The almost meditative "Zen" time while working out has become a key problem solving and decision making time for me. And the fact that it reduces stress and improves stamina over time is a great bonus. On rare occasions now when feeling trapped by inertia or indecsion I will leave during the middle of the day, and work out. I almost always have a clear picture of the path to resolution or the creative solution by the time I am done.
That 300 million isn't inflation-adjusted, is it?

Also, most of the $4-trillion-range figures are of guarantees, not actual dollars spent or committed - a good deal of that money has been or is going to be repaid. If the banks default on literally all of it, we're going to have much bigger problems; certainly, some of that money is truly at risk and is likely to never be repaid - but hardly all of it.

Now, that doesn't mean any of it is a great idea - a government guarantee of your debt is certainly a valuable give-away! - but it's not as if "we the taxpayers" wrote a $4 trillion check to Citibank. Distinguishing between a line of credit and a "gift" is pretty important (even though the LOC itself undoubtedly has value).

Edit: just to be clear, I actually agree with the broader point that our priorities are pretty screwed up and that there's a whole host of problems with the way these "bailouts" and whatnot have been handled. That said, exaggerating or making "truthy" comparisons just makes the whole thing less credible, which is unfortunate because the broader point is valid. Call it "the Michael Moore effect."
I became very curious about juggling when I was younger, so one afternoon I started learning how to juggle 3 balls, using some oranges and an animated .gif.

My fascination with juggling only lasted for about a year, during which I learned how to juggle 3 and 4 balls (still can't do 5), flowersticks/devilsticks, diabolos and poi.
I remember that learning each one got successively easier.

That being said, I'm not a particularly good juggler. Learning just the basics of each juggling prop and maybe a couple of tricks, was enough to satisfy my curiosity.

I like keeping a set of soft juggling balls around. You can squish them, play with them and throw them at people. Getting up from my chair and juggling for a few minutes really helps reduce the strain on my eyes, back, wrists and mind. I also do some of my best thinking during those minutes.

I'd recommend juggling to any hackers that spent a lot of time in front of a monitor.
Each bottle of Preventiv has a case of wine's worth of Resveratrol. Eating grapes on your own won't cut it... unless you can find the resources and means to devour 10,000 grapes?
Andrew has been kayaking and is six miles from the nearest town. He hears on the WBZ4 radio station that the damn has broken upstream and that the river is about to flood.

Spelling and grammar mistakes reduce your credibility.
First CSS Object Oriented Framework, save time, do more, xCSS
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I remember reading about Resveratrol a while back. It seems to activate the same pathways involved in starvation and is yet another method of extending a nematodes life span. However, I also remember reading that its bio-availability is not high and it is not that stable.

If you like the taste fine, but it seems like another POM-Wonderful to me.

P.S. I buy POM-Wonderful. It is delicious.
For all the talk of E-Books replacing real books, I've seen the opposite being true. E-Book sales have actually been directly attributed to increasing sales of real books, which IMO kind of defeats itself if it's really supposed to be the replacement to books.

Market data suggests that anyone who buys an E-Book appears to croon for the feel of paper.
Involvement in the world isn't voluntary; actions have consequences, some people prefer some consequences to other consequences.

In your case you value maintaining an unsullied self-image over assisting 5 people in mortal peril, and would prefer if other people saw your choice the same way.

But you're right (I've met people who were familiar with the people involved here): the intuition is that the stronger the perceived interpersonal relationship between you and the unlucky bloke the less likely you are to flick the switch, but teasing out exactly how much relationship is needed to make the moral intuition flip is tricky business.
Pretty thin gruel if you ask me.
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
and maybe
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
I agree with the comment about going for a long run. I always seem to be in a better state of mind after a few miles. If I'm still having issues maintaining focus, then I try to make a list of everything I'd like to accomplish today. By setting smaller goals I get a deeper sense of satisfaction with my work. On a historical note, this is the same notion that is applied in war. Instead of setting your object as "winning a war", the object becomes "take the next hill" or "win the next street".
I took Sandel's course a few years ago at Harvard and most of these scenarios were very familiar. Philosophy/psych undergrads conduct surveys on these scenarios constantly.

The thing that stuck out most to me about this project was that some of the questions made a point of including superfluous numerical details (e.g. "thirty-three infantry divisions" or "Forty-second Street"). Maybe they're seeing whether priming a subject with these numerical details modifies how we weigh moral alternatives.
Am I the only one who sees irony in the existence of a "Write More Clearly" lesson presented as a disjointed set of sentence fragments?
n.b. : I hit reply on the wrong post and only noticed after hitting submit

While not doomed, if you have the poor primitives you will have a bad time.

All the talk if it being so hard is because people try and figure it out for themselves while ignoring the literature. Hoare paved the way it in 1978 and basically solved the problem. I bet most programmers have barely heard of him, let alone read his work. It took 8 years to get the book printed but now it's a free download http://www.usingcsp.com/

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

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

It makes me so mad :>
I'd rather the people in the pictures posted not live longer.
It's kinda hard to abandon your worldview to study knowledge, when your paradigm dictates what that knowledge means to you.

I am holding a butter knife to my imaginary 3D-scanner: you have 64px^3 of the resultant image to determine the nature of the object. If you see the tip of my butter knife you'd assume it was a smooth, dull blade with a rounded form. If you saw the middle of the blade you'd know that it was serrated, but would have to speculate about the endpoints and the form of the knife. If you saw the end of the knife, you'd be hard pressed to determine its function; you'd only know that it is rounded, smooth, and roughly 1.5cm thick. Maybe you could guess that it was a knife, but you'd still remain ignorant of its greater nature.

Your knowledge consists of this tiny view of the knife, or else you're privileged to know all knowledge (so that you might approach it without a worldview or paradigm) or to know someone who does.

You cannot study knowledge without studying worldviews, or studying it with a worldview of your own.
Ask HN : How to keep my CSS clean?
A lot of CSS gets written and sometimes, you just delete an HTML element without deleting the CSS bound to it.

Is there something that goes trough all your html (or .erb or whatever) and tell me which CSS element is unused?
You'd be eating 25-100 cups of grapes to get the amount of resveratrol in that drink.

Capsules would seem the cheapest if you believe the claims.
What is the concept of Composition in C++?
If you are talking about Cocoa (NextSTEP, OpenStep, etc.) being exposed to other languages - then it actually happened - in JAVA in WebObjects, but it was found that was not easy to use, as it was in Objective-C.

I think Apple have found their middle ground with Objective-C - you can really separate the designer/programmer jobs - one creating the Interface, the other programming it.

With Visual Studio, as soon as you double click on the button you are in the code. Some people (me) prefer that, because I'm in a position where I have to design/code myself most of the time, and it seems easier, but over the time, it looks like that's the only easy thing, as soon as your interface grows more complex, then it seems easier to describe most of the connections in IB, rather than your code.
"Distinguishing between a line of credit and a "gift" is pretty important"

I agree. But it's an interesting rant, as someone said below.
Assemble an advisory board to decide.
I like it! I wish you had my city (Los Angeles). I'd suggest adding downvotes, but instead of having upvotes and downvotes affect a single score, like Digg/Bury, maybe have 2 scores, one for Buzz, and another for Kill, so we can see a particular bar had, say, 20 Buzzes, and 5 Kills.

Also, do the Buzz counts wear off after a certain amount of time? I couldn't tell if they did, but it would be useful to see that a bar had 20 Buzzes last week, and only 10 this week.
I think he's including:
* Securities and IOU's bought by the Fed
* Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG bailouts
* Bank failures and the future bailout of the FDIC
* Interest spent on IOU's
* probably others as well
Sure, but to the extent that the author is comparing two numbers to generate shock value, the fact that he's really comparing an amount of apples spent to a number non-inflation-adjusted oranges lent makes the whole thing a bit misleading.
Seems like a great idea that would really give start ups a leg up when starting with the twitter world.

I wonder if the hubspot app has something like this?
This is great because it takes one piece of functionality and lets users roll with it.

Just launched - will let you know how it goes.
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Smart idea. With the amount of money people spend on so-called "vitamin water", your product seems like a winner. I looked for resveratrol a few years ago and could only find it mail order from some shady-seeming sources.

What's your distribution model?
Venture Capitalists Need Money, Too
I was thinking the same thing. I'd rather see a list of the top 10 most-clever solutions to a problem, rather than the top 10 snarky comebacks.
For years i've been reading up on improving productivity but nothing worked untill i started on the Pomodoro Technique, with a s/w timer. I don't follow it religiously but enough to get work done.

Some Tips:
Once that clock is set honor it for that 25 minutes. Try to start the timer as many times you can in a day. If you feel the need for longer breaks between than is recommended, take them or set a timer for your breaks as well.

The good thing about is the technique is that it understands that there are always interruptions and tells you a way to mentally make a note and move on.

For a timer you can use tomato timer(or a physical one if possible) and a piece of paper. Note down your tasks for a day/session on a piece of paper and treat it like your 'bible'!. Close all your fancy GTD apps for that period, you can use them during the breaks.

The timer gives you a sense of urgency and a fake deadline. I've noticed that sometimes i feel the need to work, but don't start the timer. Don't do that. Alyways work with a timer, make it a habit.
No it's not an apples to apples. But it makes you question whether our priorities are right. Our we spending money on the right things?
Very well done in terms of UI. I like the concept. The problem comes down to: why will I come back on a fairly regular basis? Not sure if that is every week, every month,etc. but it should be fairly regularly.
My never-fail recourse: sitting down in an uncomfortable chair for a few hours at a local smoothie shop with lousy background music and telling my self I can't leave until something good comes out of me.
It's not just misunderstood by users, it's also misunderstood by companies. One of my client's competitors has been in business for over 4 years. They do over $1M a year in online sales with thousands of customers.

And you guessed it... no SSL certificate.

Shocks me that either nobody has complained to them or they haven't listened.
"Child in the bunker" question looked quite different (from all others), and not as a variant of trolley problem. Actually, it was the only problem where I thought it's not just permittable but even required to kill it in order to save the others.
What about an app that lets you gauge the mood on twitter?
By judging the tone/mood/content of posts you could determine the state of the community.

Imagine being able to type in a keyword say: chess and getting a twitter consensus or summary of the community's opinion on this topic.

Maybe something like this already lives?
I know FBook already has something like this.
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