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I think part of the discipline problem is the solipsism of our times.

In an army, your environment provides discipline and (often) fosters motivation for (for example) fitness. A fitness class reduces the need to discipline & self motivation to getting yourself to the class. After that, the environment takes care of itself. Self discipline and self motivation is a problematic subset of discipline and we're not really wired to run on it exclusively.

This is part of why you need a partner to start a startup. Having discipline and motivation together is easier than alone. It's why I don't think online education can replace institutional education (though I think it can make it much better) as the default mode. It's why even in one-on-one sports like tennis or boxing young athletes are on "teams."
Jonathan Blow about modern C++ productivity
> Yes, players freely choose their profession. So what? The same argument can be used to defend dueling.

I think that duelling should be legal, for that same reason. Likewise, football and boxing should be legal: the participants have chosen to engage in them; why shouldn't the spectators enjoy the spectacle?
It uses AES-256.
> The author argues that discipline is what gets you started and motivation is what keeps you going.

I don't see that argument anywhere in the article -- it seems mostly to be that motivation and discipline serve the same purpose, but discipline is more reliable and better.

But then, I don't see the original article as being worth the electrons used to transmit it, its a rant that neither seems to have any grounding nor seems to have any correspondence with my experience.

I'd say the idea that motivation being very important in getting something started and both motivation and discipline playing important roles in keeping going is true.
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In case any of you keeps a real world journal in a notebook or something, I'd like to learn how do you keep it safe.
Noise would be thermal noise generated in circuit components, or mains hum, anything that is there when you aren't playing any notes. I wasn't spraking exclusively about guitar amps, all this applies to analog electronics in general.
I Always give a 110%, maybe my math is wrong!
> 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

I thought I was the only one. I've found Nokia's HERE Maps to be better overall than Google Maps when I just want to find a place to eat or shop or visit. For navigation, they are about equal in my experience, i.e. if you absolutely know your destination address, Google Maps is as good as, or better than, Nokia's maps at getting you there.
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring account executives
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/r/fountainpens[1] have a lot of useful info on choosing a good pen and getting started.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens
How did you start learning Irish? There are not many resources online...
+1 on the startup idea. I left a big company to go to a startup and I think its really been a great choice. You'll be exposed to so many new ideas and technologies and really get a chance to expand your skillset. Maybe if you work at a big company like Google or Facebook you get exposed to more -- I don't know -- but where I came from it was night and day difference. For me, the people and experiences outweigh the slight difference in salary (which is still great all things considered).

Sorry you got let go, that sounds like a really unpleasant experience.
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This is the most complete answer i have received in my life , thank you for your help , so much appreciated .
Even if you find something you believe to be secure I expect your paranoia will have a limiting effect on your brain when journaling, so I'd recommend paper. The inability to edit paper also seems to have a freeing effect on the mind, it limits my need for perfection. The fact that I'm not sitting at a distraction machine while journaling is helpful as well.

It took me quite a while to come to this conclusion personally. I lean very heavily toward electronic solutions to things.

If you want it to be searchable, write relevant notes in the margins and/or use the little colored sticky "flags" that stick out a bit to categorize entries.
Try to decrease your reliance on self discipline.

IE, get external forces working in your favour. You could use a coach or psychologist. Commit to tasks. Make sure they check up on you. Work closely with others. Pair programming or an environment where someone is waiting for you to finish something so they can start something else. Seek environments where you can't hide procrastination. discipline thrives in public.

Basically.. cheat.
This is not a question about journaling; this is just a question about encrypting data.

There are tons of ways to do it that meet your threat model.

You can just use a linux machine with disk encryption.. it happens by magic if you click the option for 'encrypt my home directory' when installing ubuntu.

You can use bitlocker (also built in) in windows.

If you happen to use VIM, it has built in encryption as well that is extremely simple to use.

Other options would be something like pgp, or pen and paper and a lockbox.
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Here are a few affordable pens:

- Lamy Safari/Vista

- Kaweco Sport

- Pilot Metropolitan

- Parker Vector

- Tesco's if you can find them; $0.5 but write fairly well

The interesting part about fountain pens is customization: you can choose between different nib widths, type of paper and quality of ink. After some time you will notice significant difference if you go back to ballpoint/gel pens.

If you're interested, check out Fountain Pen Network:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/
I used to keep a diary this way, and eventually decided on using an encrypted Word document. The encryption in Office used to be very weak in early versions, but it's much better these days.

In recent versions of Office (from 2007 onwards, using the DOCX format), by default it uses AES in CBC mode, with an SHA-1 based key derivation function [1].

So with a sufficiently complex password your documents will be resistant to cracking. But of course you are still vulnerable to keyloggers and the like.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/cc313071(v=o...
I've kept a digital journal for almost two years now, honestly I had the same fear at the beginning but my work and side-projects (which is what I keep there, plus ideas and QS-style observations) are nothing I feel embarassed about.

In fact, this has been an excellent exercise to cultivate writing and I'd like to publish some of these things one day, in longer and polished form.

I'd suggest to just start your journal, this sounds like "premature optimization".
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Snoopers charter amendment is back in bill again (again)
So this comes up fairly often in language learning forums. Language acquisition is an especially good example since it can take quite a long time to get to a decent point of proficiency, and often times external rewards are minimal. So finding ways to carry on through the long, rough periods is essential.

Motivation is essential. Why else would anyone bother, except for either a driving need or a deep and abiding interest? It's what keep you going when you start to question if you really want to keep at it. But motivation on a daily basis comes and goes. Everyone who goes to the gym or runs know that.

Discipline is about pushing through when motivation flags. I disagree that discipline is only useful for "closed mode". Discipline can also help you with open mode by making you daydream and play with ideas rather than packing it in for the day. Many extremely creative people have a very set routine. A writer might have fixed hours for when they write, every single day, for instance.

In the end it's about using both motivation and discipline together.
> What if it's just that most text sucks? Web designers end up writing web pages with text that isn't really designed to be read,...

Pretty much. "Web designers" are mainly focused on extracting money from credit card numbers. Humans are an annoying intermediary.
Is React a potentially better framework for building web apps than AngularJS?
Treatment of evil eye from Quran and Hadith
Lords West, Blair, Carlile and King have inserted a large amendment to a bill at the last minute yet again.

This appears to be very similar to the last amendment although not identical. They withdrew the previous amendment last week.
The "problem" is framed to support the author's sentiments about discipline. "Motivation vs discipline" is not a useful description of the problem at all ("x vs y" arguments seldom are). In my experience, people who frame the problem in this way are accustomed to doing what other people want them to do. They get depressed and unmotivated and wonder why they can't "make themselves" do things. So they decide to misuse the idea of discipline to complete their transformation into an automaton! Try this instead: Do whatever YOU want to do. Find what motivates you and pursue it. It really is that simple.
I really enjoyed this read, and I think the author has a very valid point. I spent the first portion of my college time for example very much in the "I'll wait to feel motivated" camp and had not so great results. I eventually transitioned into the "I need to do stuff right away to be successful" state of mind and have been there ever since. Honestly I think I'd pin most of the successes I've had since then on that world view. These days I actually love being an engineer and look forward to taking care of many of my daily tasks -- be it work and chores.

Speaking of which, I should probably clean the house. lol.
"resolution to get high enough to be usable for fine-detail tasks like professional coding"

Coding does not require high resolution displays. You can code on a 80 character wide terminal with fonts of 8x8 pixels. I have. I still use bitmap fonts today (terminus). And let me remind you that blind people code as well. Visible text is just an abstraction, other ones are possible.
I'm guessing when most people [on HN] are comparing big companies to startups they're thinking of tech companies. What you describe may not be unusual for large non-tech companies - but it's pretty horrible compared to large tech ones.

If it's feasible you may want to consider looking for a new job. [And FWIW some great advice I got when starting out as a developer was never work where software is a cost-center].
I have become so cynical and scared that I usually do not even click on such websites and links. Can the US police arrest you to visit just the web page and search on it?

I wonder how it is back? Aren't Sunde et. al. in jail for this?
I mostly just lurk on HN... but occasionally I wish I had the time to post more regularly. Just so I could build up enough karma points to have downvote privileges for stuff like this.
Pilot Varsity. They're disposable, come in packs of 3 on up, and are about $3 each.

They also have some of the best nibs for the price point (so good there's a number of people who have developed and published hacks on how to refill them).

http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Varsity-Disposable-Fountain-Medi...
I was in Qatar this summer and noticed them. Anyone know how long this has been installed there?

http://www.qf.org.qa/content/the-foundation/issue-68/qatars-...

QF’s solar project has also brought parking lot shades covered in solar panels to Education City – the first in Qatar – and achieved the first agreement to be signed by Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA) that accepts a private commercial energy project’s connection to Qatar’s central power grid.

looks like the following company has been providing this type of construction since, at least, 2012 when this article was published (the company looks like it's been around since 2006).

http://envisionsolar.com/press-releases/envision-solar-annou...
Near as I can tell, you sound a bit like my javascript skills - that's not where I choose to focus though. My CTO, co-founder (we got rejected by Ycombinator, but, also applied super late) is a self taught programmer who, if you read what he writes, doesn't know a whole lot.

However, he's a genius. I'm 100% certain you have skills you aren't aware of, at your age, non "Tech," town, well, it's always possible you're better than us in the valley.

Write down what you want to do. Step, by step. Start a business or be an employee? Caution: too much self employment makes people not want to hire you as an employee. Ever. I was self employed for five years, took six months to find a job; this time, took that long so I'm staying self employed because groveling and begging isn't what I'm about.

I might be starving, but, I have dignity.

Next, after you have those goals identified, it's time to review the financial options, talk it through with your fiancee ideally so you're both on the same page (my ex-wife of 13 years was also the co-founder of my first 10 businesses, trust me, it sucks to lose a wife, or a business partner - sucks worse when you lose both).

Consider doing contracting, don't worry about it being on your resume, or not, while you explore and make enough money to slowly pad the bank account.

Since you did mention angular, and even though we're broke, we have a very powerful, open source social media & SEO tool that we're giving away. The project is gaining a lot of traction and if you contribute even a bit, we can definitely help promote you and your skills.

Plus, if some nice VC decides that my team and I are going to take over the world, we hire remote and don't have a central office. 3 team members now, hiring an intern next week who's a PhD candidate with experience in natural language processing.

Contact info in profile, and whatever you do, make sure it's your dreams you are following. Only those will lead to any kind of meaningful happiness.
That would be true if I ever said any of this when people talk about sports, but I don't. I just politely excuse myself. I dislike sports but I don't have anything against people who like sports.

The reason I'm posting is that the article attacked my viewpoint.

I don't think people who like sports are misinformed or stupid, I think they value different things than I do. There are plenty of very smart people who like sports.

> You think you know more than the common man.

And this is the PR that sports has, that it's the purview of the common man, when in fact sports fuck over the common man more often than not. You're only looking at the viewers of sports. What about the people who buy teams, sponsor athletes, etc. Are they "common men"?

And yes, I do know more than the common man on this subject, not because I'm inherently better in any way, but because I've taken the time to educate myself on this subject and the average person hasn't. Everyone out there knows more about some subject than I do--that's just how people work. If you think that knowing more about this subject is somehow a bad thing, then who is really cultivating ignorance here?

One of the striking features of classism in America is that the upper class has managed to represent their own interests as being the interests of the common man. Who cares more about the common man--someone who wants to slash funding for the common man's education to pay for stadiums, or someone who wants to pay for education?
I find it intriguing that the author of this article places "Her" in the "path of least resistance" camp. Specifically, the author states that "Her":

> focuses more on the male protagonist’s inability to connect with other humans than the implications of unleashing such powerful programs on the world

I thought "Her" had an incredible amount of restraint, and the story of the AI itself was told through a human lens. This is actually exactly what I observed in many episodes of Black Mirror: normal people living their daily lives, and an exploration of what happens when human nature is enhanced or challenged by advanced technologies.

Really, when I first watched Black Mirror, "Her" came to mind immediately. "Black Mirror" is perhaps more overtly bleak, but I feel that's a choice of tone rather than a decision to take a somehow more difficult path. "Her" raises a lot of the same questions, even if it doesn't judge quite as harshly.
I'd recommend a Noodler's Ahab ($23.66 on Amazon). What makes it fun is that the nib is flexible, allowing broader or thinner strokes depending on pressure. Plus, its a pen built to be hacked. After a while you can cut the feeding unit to your liking, making ink flow more or less.

I got into re-learning to write a bit over a year ago. I was a clumsy left hander with great keyboard skills but terrible handwriting. Take a look at IAMPETH, they have tons of material on vintage writing styles. I even followed Spencerian methods from the the nineteenth century.
Have you considered installing a VM and writing your journal there? It can be totally made air-gap (although I suppose "virtually") and you can encrypt your VM session file in TrueCrypt. It seems to be keyloggers could still compromise your privacy, but if they can keylog you, then everything you have digitally is compromised anyway.
>The total area of the Pearl River Delta is about 40,000 km^2.

The definition of the urban land for PRD and Tokyo as used by the World Bank report is ~7000 square kilometers (PRD) and ~5500 square kilometers (Tokyo).

They do not count the entirety of either of the two. For the aforementioned areas (that they deemed urban land), they estimated them to have populations of around 42M (PRD) and around 31M (Tokyo).

This area excludes Hong Kong and many other parts.

Grauniad did a very poor job at getting the World Bank report's message across.
and for the ad campaign.." your Server will be with you "
Ditto, but on your post.
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So do people who eat fast food also know & accept the risks or are they ignorant?
Quine-relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
> No protection from getting your job done: Security can often be a hassle, getting in the way of your work. Sandstorm is different. When you tell a Sandstorm app to talk to some other app, or to talk to the internet, Sandstorm sees your intent and automatically grants it access. So, you are never interrupted by a prompt asking "Do you want to allow this app to the thing you just told it to do?" And yet, the apps only get the permissions you actually wanted them to have.

So... the program is psychic?
My solution http://notational.net
It has an option to encrypt all the notes and provides a really simple interface to write/read and search notes. It uses OS X crypto, so I don't know how secure it really is. But for something basic, it works very well.
I use pass [0]. It is a great password manager (and I use it for that), but it also works great as a journal. I use a different GPG key for the journal than the passwords. Writing in the journal is as simple as

pass edit journal/201501

and vim opens up with this month's file. It is safe to back up, as everything is encrypted with GPG. You just need to make sure your key is safe.

[0]: http://www.passwordstore.org/
This could be a good thing.

Step 1: Register a business

Step 2: Get a domain and some cheap hosting

Step 3: Start building an MVP

Congratulations, you are now working on a "boot-strapped startup". But with Step 3, you can spend your time learning about full-stack web development. You'll have to learn some back-end stuff, improve your front-end stuff, design, art, graphics, etc.

Once your MVP is up and running, then you'll have to move into sales and marketing and learn that part of the business. Come up with some kind of monetization strategy and implement it as part of the product.

While doing all this, split your time between building this thing up, and applying for your next gig. Bonus, when your MVP is up, put it on your resume so future employers can go see it and eliminate that gap in employment right off your resume.

You now have a portfolio, business experience, sales & marketing experience, executive experience, product development, design, QA, art, improved technical skills and no gap on your resume since you've "been working" the entire time.

There are many employers who would kill to have employees with that kind of experience, and it shows you can turn a minus into an opportunity.

Bonus, if you can't find a job, keep plugging away at it and maybe your startup will turn into something.
> If this is what hundreds of years of progress and planning has led to, I think we have failed.

You're saying this after complaining spending eight hours a day (presumably five days a week) at your desk. That leaves far more leisure time than most [working class] people had "hundreds of years" ago.
Searching for Systembolaget in Stockholm still works for me:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Systembolaget/@59.326755,...
Consider saying why you'd downvote this instead of bitching and maybe you'd actually get those karma points.
Does not work for me here in Buenos Aires.

Edit: Works with VPN via USA.