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You know, growing up I absolutely loathed sports. I didn't understand them (we never watched them in my house), and sports-lovers never explained them; I still remember my gym 'teacher' yelling about 'first and ten' when we had to play flag football, and never actually explaining what it meant. I wasn't any good at them, due at least in part to my bad eyes. In retrospect, I suspect that I also disliked them, whether played or watched, because they were a social situation and I wasn't terribly good at social situations.

In retrospect, I do kind of wish that I'd gotten into them, because they are a bonding experience for so many, and they do provide the grounds for a somewhat better level of small talk than idle chit-chat about the weather. And they certainly can be enjoyable to play.

But as it is, I just don't emotionally get it. Watching sports is boring; it simply doesn't connect. Why should I care if a group of millionaires from my town are running around on some grass with a group of millionaires from your town? Why should I be happy that my taxes are higher in order to raise money for buildings for those same millionaires? Why would I want to spend hours a week and hundreds of dollars watching rich people exercise, talking about rich people exercising and thinking about rich people exercising?

It just doesn't make sense to me. Part of me wishes it did; obviously I am unlike most people. But part of me is glad, too. In some ways, I feel like the little boy in the The Emperor's New Clothes; in others I feel like I'm blind.

As an aside, I thought this quote was just hilarious:

> The machoness and absence of women in the highest levels of most professional sports bothers[sic] me deeply.

I really wonder how one can have working eyes, possess a functioning brain and have come to adulthood and still be surprised that in almost any physical competition the absolute best competitors will be male. It takes a pretty sincere dedication to being disconnected from reality to manage that. It'd be like saying, 'avian over-representation and the absence of fish from the air bother me deeply.'
I got motivated and working before I finished the last quarter of the article. I'll edit this post with more details later; off to work.
There is nothing wrong with elitism, so long as it is being done by actual elites. Do you want the seal team coming to rescue you to consist of the best of the best (meaning the average Joe has no chance of getting in) or whomever applied?

Elitism is another word for the post modern idea that A isn't A, that nothing is absolute and there is no truth.
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Exactly the same thing happens to me here in the midwest United States. If I search, for example, for "fast food", especially on my phone, it tends to shift the entire map to some random city, state, or town (and sometimes country). It seems to have a particular affinity for the state of Alabama and also the western coast of Nigeria.
This is a beautiful piece about a wonderful, wonderful game. As much as I love Super Metroid (which, despite her criticisms, I think is superior in gameplay and puzzle-platforming), she is spot-on about the ham-fisting of the story.

We should all write like this about video games from our past that made us feel something special.

> Samus’ motives in keeping the last metroid alive are unclear: are they purely utilitarian, or has she had a change of heart? The game’s rules, possibly mirroring Samus’ wishes, don’t allow for the metroid baby to be killed—bullets seem to barely miss or pass through the metroid. Of course, killing the metroid would doom Samus to a slow death deep underground, but this is not immediately apparent.

I didn't ever think about that until just now!
Good analogy. One can also become a "porn" actor: producing lots of poor-quality ad-driven Android games (which is most of Android games).
I wouldn't be surprised if the intersection of people worth talking to/with and people who can't or won't want to talk about sports is pretty close to the empty set.
It's obvious that it is not perfect and it should not be used to rank programmers during an interview but is a good test for basic algorithms skills, something that every programmer with a serious education should be mastering.
Ummm... irrespective of whether they experience suffering in any phenomenological sense, what's the actual point supposed to be in feeding bugs through a coffee grinder? It seems as if you could only really enjoy the act if you enjoyed the prospect of making something else suffer.
I've crashed into an issue where "crtdll.dll" did not manage to get installed on a fresh XP, so software relying on its presence died mysteriously.

First level support for that software didn't understand what I was going on about.
Discipline costs energy to maintain. What you need is effortless routine.
The short version of the advice: build an identity as a disciplined and conscientious person, and use that to motivate you.

This is both useful and dangerous. Useful, because it makes doing work feel like accomplishing goals. Dangerous, because it makes doing work feel like accomplishing goals.

If what you care about is being diligent, then any work will fill in. An hour of sending out job applications feels just as "disciplined" if you send out three instead of twenty.

Make sure your work is actually accomplishing your real goals, and then put the work in.
> It isn't about not liking what other people like, it's about being a jerk about it.

Well, that jerkiness is often a reaction to the jerkiness of many sports-lovers, who abuse one in grade school and raise one's taxes to pay for their hobbies in adulthood, and spend so much time expecting that everyone shares their enthusiasms.

> It very much is a social thing where you need to know how to politely excuse yourself from conversations and situations you do not want to be a part of rather than trying to evangelize your view that they suck.

I (eventually) learnt that not everyone shared my love of science fiction and fantasy; I don't trot out Tolkien or Asimov every time I'm talking to most folks. It would be nice if folks didn't trot out football or baseball when talking to me. If I had to learn to suppress my enthusiasms except around the like-minded, why haven't they?
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Could you attach some numbers to what you consider tiny and adequate equity?
That makes me happy that people are still fighting authoritarian governments with their time instead of watching football.

Panem et Circenses!
I'm more confused now than before you commented.
First you have to ask yourself - do I want someone to be able to read that journal after I'm gone. If yes, go with a pen and paper. Since we can safely assume that you spend more time in front of the computer than writing stuff with a pen, it will be a really nice experience, almost mystical.
Request a refund, or see if you can dispute the charge with your credit card if they offer any type of price-protection.
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows, there are more and more things that need to be done, but require quite some mental effort to start.

So I decided it is time for a paradigm shift. I would rather do things I consider worth doing, instead of doing those that my brain finds attractive and immediately rewarding. I am following this paradigm for a few months now, and can confirm that satisfaction coming when the job is finished is truly rewarding.

Related reading: "The obstacle is the way", by Ryan Holiday. A very concise introduction to stoicism philosophy. The life approach presented by the author has many common points with those of OP.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668059-the-obstacle-is...
The original comment seems to reinforce the article's point.
The SIM and the app are different companies, that's not going to happen. WhatsApp will never associate themselves with WhatSim.
Exactly. I once started a project with backbone and used React for the view layer. I quickly realized I didn't need the Backbone models and collections, and ended up only using the router and a few small other things. Eventually i replaced these remaining parts with some 'micro-frameworks' like lo-dash, page.js, superagent, etc.
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You can put pretty much anything into a Truecrypt partition, which is just a file on the external (host) OS. Now keep that file in Dropbox/Drive/Some other cloud storage for backup.
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They know the risks and accept them. If it were dogfighting there might be an argument. I don't like football simply because I find it a bit boring. However, perhaps ironically to some, I like baseball; it's like fishing, mildly hypnotic with occasional bursts of excitement.
One minor thing to add - consider fountain pens and good paper. That alone can push the thoughts come to paper way easier than other means, and will let you have richer "micro-expressions"/mental bookmarks in your handwriting.

I know it's offtopic, but wanted to mention in case it helps someone.
how can anyone honestly mention Truecrypt in good faith?
> More than that, he is in effect saying "there is no depth to this thing"

More precisely, 'there is no depth that is emotionally or intellectually relevant to me.' I'm sure there is lots of depth to the architecture Robin Hood Gardens, but it still should be levelled.

Likewise, while you're quite right that there's lots of depth to professional sports, I don't think that means that anyone should care, or be expected to care.

Contempt is bad, and obviously it's a fact that sports are popular, that most people like sports and that those of us who don't care are, in some pertinent sense, socially ill-developed. Still, what about the contempt which sports-lovers have for sports-haters? I think that's far more harmful, both in childhood and adulthood.
I know the type of person who has a 'cultivated lack of interest' in sports. Thing is, I don't really associate it with the 'educated elite.' Most smart people I know are actually quite passionate about professional sports.
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"The ability to get out of bed (even when you don't want to) to work real hard."

If you have problems getting out of bed, I recommend that you work on it first.

If you have problems getting out of bed it is because you don't sleep enough, or if you are fat or old you can interrupt your sleep at night(sleep apnea).

Both motivation and discipline is needed for success, but the basics are your food, exercise and rest.

If you don't sleep well, eat what you need, exercise, or rest, your body will prioritize it over anything else.

As an exercise, try not to sleep for two days, and try to think in something, it is really hard.

Do the same two without eating. Write down what you perceive in detail.

Try to stay in bed one entire day if you believe exercise is not important.

You will learn how your body reacts to extreme situations and you will be able to identify the same perceptions much more attenuated in your normal life.
Yes. The attack is limited to the layer 2 broadcast domain, so if you put everyone in their own l2 domain this attack won't work.
I was talking to a friend about it a few weeks ago as one of the nicest Unix systems out there. It would make a great teaching tool since it was very well documented.

I tried to run it in a VM with not much success, it was very slow. Wonder if some bright coder will figure out how to get it run in a VM.
I'd suggest to stop thinking of yourself as someone without self-discipline. It's very hard to behave in a way if you believe it's against your nature.

For example, I've always considered myself to be a smoker. I tried quitting dozens of times, but I always gave in because I knew I was a smoker deep inside. But at some point, I realized that there's nothing about me that makes me a smoker. And then it was easy to quit smoking.

It's possible to change yourself. Nothing really prevents you from becoming a disciplined person. The first step is realizing you don't have to be a procrastinator (or whatever you consider yourself to be).
> No doubt their nervous systems transmit pain signals

Why are you so certain? There seems to be plenty of debate on the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_invertebrates .
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Indeed, I got a pure virtual function call within 3 minutes of zooming around.
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RandomCode (dead comment): yeah, me too. I just lose interest in games so easily any more, and with so many other priorities fighting for my time, game playing seems needlessly wasteful. I just can't enjoy it unless it's a social event with a bunch of people, which you see less and less after 30. But I do remember spending hours obsessed with games like Metroid, and love the nostalgia posts like this evoke.
If you are interested in creating habits, try this free 1 week course from this site:

http://tinyhabits.com/

I did it and it really worked out quite well. The guy who runs it BJ Fogg, also has some quite interesting insights into habits and habit formation.

The habits I worked on were to load my personal kanban every morning while I make coffee, and also to plan my 3 most important todos on it while I have my first smoke of the day. This has resulted in a huge increase in my productivity. Give it a shot.
Take a look at ecrypt-fs, which lets you mount a file system that looks to your OS like a regular directory and is actually backed by another regular directory, except that second regular directory includes cyphertext only. You can have the cyphertext directory live in Dropbox if you want to. (Don't put the unencrypted directory there, naturally, as that results in Dropbox slurping in the plain text.)

When you want to write or read the journal, provide the passphrase and mount it. When you don't, unmount it. You can do this automatically on boot if you're willing to accept the possibility of being tackled by an FBI agent then having your work journal for Silk Road read out in open court.

A second option: use full-disk encryption (same "vulnerable to a football tackle" problem). For backups, just use Tarsnap.
If the donations go to the athletic programs, then it doesn't matter. There are also numerous hidden costs associated with athletic programs, like law enforcement and extra tutoring for athletes. On top of that, most schools require ALL students (even those who don't attend sports games) to pay a fee, which acts as an additional subsidy. Even further, many public universities use part of the money they receive from their respective states to fund athletic programs.

The band students pay tuition to be there. If the football players paid tuition to be on the team and the sports teams were subsidized at the same rate as the band program, I wouldn't care.

There are a handful (maybe 20?) of schools that probably make an overall profit from their sports teams, but the rest of the thousands of colleges and universities in the US operate their sports programs at a loss. Those are really the schools I'm talking about.
So, you don't do well on competitive programming problems and therefore decided to write a rant about it on HN. Do you even got an anectote where a candidate who did well on these kinds of problems were worse than another candidate who didn't do well on it?
Ask HN: Help me starting out my career.
I am a 22 year old in last year of college pursuing mechanical engineering. I literally wasted my 3 years doing nothing. I am really interested in working for a startup related to mechanical engineering. But I have no knowledge whatsoever, Please help me how to start off. I need help regarding what to do, study etc.
My solution is a bit of work, but it was rewarding when I did it. I was looking to start learning another language, so I started journal. After about 4 months of 45 minutes a day, I was able to write in a pretty obscure language (in this case Irish) and I had the perfect encryption for my journal.

Google translate is very poor for Irish and since only ~250,000 in the world speak/read it well enough to translate and 90% of those people are on an island it works quite well.
While I may agree that it's being snobbish, I would emphatically disagree with your view of it as being a 'problem with your social skills'. In fact, I think it is the very opposite - snobbishness, overt or otherwise, is a form of social signalling, and personal distaste for that form of social signalling does not mean that it shows a lack of social skills (though it may obviously, as mentioned, be problematic for other reasons). Social skills do not merely consist of pleasant components.
For an apposite view: http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/

The premise is The muse is at your writing desk. If you want to write a book, show up. Sit down. Write. Ideas will only come if you are working. Any thoughts ideas, rationalisations or fears that keep you from writing are the enemy. He collectively calls them "resistance".

You will inevitably have days and weeks without a useful page. Show up still.

I think following your motivation is great. If you are sitting around waiting for it, you need discipline. This is what this blog is about.
> Could you attach some numbers to what you consider tiny and adequate equity?

That depends entirely on the company and the developer, there are no absolute numbers. Keep in mind though that often it's entirely fair that even the earliest employees get vastly less than the founders. After all, they probably didn't spend the last three years living in their parents' basement to get the business to the point of being viable for full-time employee #1. E.g. I think it took Kickstarter something like seven years to actually get to launch.
If you're on OS X, use Disk Utility to make an encrypted disk image of a few hundred megabytes. When you want to edit the data, mount it, then unmount when you're done.

It won't secure you against everything, but it'll certainly secure against the casual observer. It's also probably better than the no-longer-supported Truecrypt.
Except for the whole TrueCrypt-abandonment-and-scary-mysterious-warning debacle.

There's a couple up-and-coming replacements though, which hopefully will be usable soon.
The absolute limit of comprehension for sighted people is 10 syllables per second. Blind people, however, can comprehend speech sped up to 25 syllables per second.

This sample is playing at 16 syllables per second and it already sounds like COMPLETE gibberish to me: https://rdouglasfields.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/speech16-...

(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-can-some-blind...)

Makes you wonder who the "impaired" ones are.
This is what I do.

My passwords live in the same container too.
What fountain pen would you recommend for a beginner trying to relearn how to use anything different then the keyboard? :)
> The ability to talk to people about things that interest them but not yourself is a very important skill to cultivate.

Isn't that a two-way street though? If I must feign interest in the saga of Manchester United or the troubles of Peyton Manning, why mustn't others likewise be expected to feign interest in Njál's Saga or the tale of Luthien & Beren?

Well, the pragmatic reason is that most folks care about sports, and most folks don't care about fantastic fiction. And you're quite right that there are benefits to knowing and connecting with more folks than just those who share one's interests.

But it's annoying to have to conform to their interests and never have them conform to one's own nonetheless. Kinda like being annoyed at gravity, I guess, but it's still annoying.
And even better, you can put this on Dropbox or whatever, and it'll remain secure but be accessible on all your OS X devices.
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This is very true. I realized this a few weeks ago myself. I've seen a video on youtube where a guy talks about discipline being greater than motivation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnMp-d5pKs

I like the idea when he talks about 'becoming a machine', that attitude can help in many situations.
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Well, let's not forget the popularity and success of sites like Craigslist and Drudge Report. Plus don't those images basically look like Amazon or ebay, only somewhat more cluttered and with more-saturated colors?
That's not encryption at all.
I recently stepped out of a job at a startup where the founders only talked about discipline and hard work and were completely oblivious to the teams motivation. After months of working unsustainable hours, we were making something that no one in the team felt was a market winning product. I appreciate the value of hard work but to shut down the signals which tell you that something ain't working is entirely wrong. I wish people take more time to step back and listen to their thoughts than mindlessly chasing the wrong goals and hiding behind the excuse that they were at least disciplined.
a better alternative is to quit and claim constructive dismissal... this however still may not be the right answer.
Brothers, I found you! Finally people who use tabbed browsing like me.
Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users? If not maybe we should make one.
For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks.
Inside windows there are groups and each group has a starting point(usually a google search) from which many tabs are generated and then checked individually. And than each tab grows its own history by following hyperlinks.
And when a task is completed, the resulting pages are bookmarked into a folder.
This book has been a big help for me: http://www.amazon.com/Flourishing-Maureen-Gaffney/dp/1844882...

A long read, but worth it and something I return to regularly.
I use macjournal. It is worth every penny.

http://marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/
There's also YunoHost, a project with similar goals. I've played around with it, but it seems to be beta quality. https://yunohost.org
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Thank you for sharing your understanding - personally I found this much more useful than the parent article.

It is certainly true that discipline is required for accomplishing a task, but to focus on that alone, trying to make your "feelings inconsequential", is frankly unwise.

Before you can succeed at achieving something you must know:

* What you are trying to achieve

* Why you are trying to achieve it

This is the source of the motivation.

Incidentally, asking "why" is a good way to find out the "what" one level below the current task - something that in my experience is a very useful tool to understand yourself and what you want in life.

Once you have "what" and "why" you can determine "how" (i.e. plot a route) and then it is time for discipline (i.e. just walk the route). But it is much easier to be disciplined if you have the real motivation that comes from a clear understanding of "what" and "why".

It may also be the case that you realise that the reason you have to force yourself to do something is that you shouldn't be doing it. If you hate your job and the spreadsheets that come with it then why are you doing it? The answer could be simple: "money" but in that case there is always the possibility to do something else to achieve that - it is incredibly liberating!

Blindly focusing on discipline is a sure way to one day wake up and realise that what you have been doing is of no importance and that is a hard realisation to come to. If you are lucky, then it is still not too late to do something about it, but the best thing is to never get to that situation in the first place.

Anyway, just my 2 pence - it's worked out pretty well for me so far... ;-)