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I also follow this approach. I learn enough to know what I don't know (skimming books, only learning basic syntax). Then I pick a project and learn the rest by Googling for solutions to problems when I get stuck.

I find that things don't really sink in until I've actually done the coding - 10 hours of reading books is less valuable than 2 hours of reading books + 8 hours of coding (at least in my experience).
If you are inspired to move a mountain, it will get you started, but won't get you finished, unless you can stay inspired for long periods of time.
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I forced myself to go to a job I hated. I lasted two months. Each day I spent more and more time reading shit on my phone in the bathroom. My breaks got longer and longer. When they started to call me out on this I just quit.

Just discipline they said!
Tradespeople are (economically speaking) substitute goods for buying a new good factory made. You can hire a guy to repair your washer or buy a new one.

In the future it will be even cheaper to buy new so there will be less need for repairing or custom work. As for the rest - well computers can drive, why shouldn't they be able to help your wiring your house? Or why shouldn't a single electrician (probably in India) be able to help 10 non-electricians with HoloLens wire a house?
The post I responded to asked which model was shown in the teaser picture of the article
- All heat not reflected is absorbed.

- Solar panels operate more efficiently at lower temperatures. [1]

Based on these facts, I'd venture to guess that your idea is already being worked on.

[1] http://homeguides.sfgate.com/effects-temperature-solar-panel...
I agree completely that discipline is the key to building good habits, and after you have a set of good habits maintaining them is relatively easy.

However, motivation is a little more important than the author is making out, and that's in setting an initial direction. Why would you be disciplined if you don't know what you want?

Let motivation tell you what you want, and discipline let you get there.
I think you need to remember that you don't do your best work when you are tired/stressed (Despite what our brain makes us think).

> I just want to get this project done, start making money but also nicely (without explaining all the technical details) why it is taking so long.

I know the feeling however, are you or your boss moving the goal posts constantly? I find this makes me burn out quickly.

If you can try to tell your boss you aren't working one weekend and switch off all technology/communication and think about your goals. Maybe read a fiction book that is unrelated to your work. It will help you understand how you think about yourself and the project more clearly.
So, takeaway:

-Most jobs are computer-solvable, given enough time and resources.

-From a cost-benefit standpoint, people have strong incentives for automating higher-paying jobs than lower.

-People automating work and people allocating funds to automate said work will reap rewards.

-We as a whole really need to think about a world where a majority of people don't work and figure out how society works and maintains stability given those constraints. (Basic income, etc.)

-For those who haven't settled on what they want yet, they should prolly find work in something that's hard to solve by a robot (that also hopefully provides meaning and sustenance).
You had other options: get the job done, then quit, and get it done in record time so you can quit faster. Chances are that if you had gone that route that in the end you might not even have quit.
I have been thinking, reading and writing about motivation / discipline / procrastination / akrasia for years now. I'm always looking for really good material on the subject. Unfortunately for some strange reason, most of the posts I've seen that get to the front page of Hacker News are woefully oversimplistic.

Even discipline is something that requires some sort of motivation to cultivate. It is something that you have to want to do, and getting yourself to want to do something isn't (in my opinion) nearly as trivial as a lot of people pretend it is.

So screw motivation, screw discipline, what you need is a comprehensive, holistic solution that encompasses almost everything– that's why it's so difficult to change your life.

1- You need to figure out your expectancy of accomplishing tasks. Discipline won't help you if you bite off more than you can chew.

2- You need to figure out what's valuable to you. There's not much sense in getting disciplined at doing something you hate. PG wrote in one of his essays- paulgraham.com/love.html, I believe, where he talks about a doctor who became a doctor because she was so focused and disciplined– despite the fact that she never actually loved medicine.

3– You need to engineer your environment + choose the right peers. This is way more than half the battle, and it also involves taking more drastic action than a lot of people are comfortable with.

4- You need to chop up your tasks into things that have nearly-immediate feedback, because otherwise hyperbolic discounting makes things seem irrelevant and unimportant to us (especially bad if you have ADHD).

5- You need to have a vested interest in doing all of the above. That means having some sort of reason or motive... which you might also call "motivation."

TL;DR:

Motivation / discipline / getting-stuff-done is a lot more complicated than "screw X, do Y".

PS:

"Screw X, do Y" seems to be a rhetoric device writers use when want to drum up strong feelings in people, dividing people into Camp X and Camp Y. Once you learn to see it, it actually gets rather boring and underwhelming. If you skip all the rhetoric, what the writer is saying is to develop habits. "Start small", that's it.

Would've been more interesting to read a post about the specific development of habits. Because, often you'll find, you end up needing some motivation to getting around to changing your habits, too.
Thanks, you're right. I did add a readme the other day. Maybe too little too late. :)
Going with that line, was the inclusion of Hello such a complex thing that it needed to be bought in from outside of Mozilla - I'd assumed that using WebRTC as a video chat component made things [relatively] quite facile which is why there are so many implementations popping up.

What's the essential feature that Telefonica brings to the table that makes it worth Mozilla compromising their brand across 500 million installs [using Wikipedia figures there] - that's essentially saying that what Telefonica bought to the table is worth, what, > $5 million [assuming 10¢ per install for the brand placement]. Can you expand on the "win/win" part on the Mozilla, and their supporters, side?
Yes, to delay gratification is a fundamental human skill.
A good reason for 'use it or sell it' laws; not just for land, but habitable properties as well. If no one has lived in it for 2 years the government should be able to force you to sell it.
Misleading title but an interesting article nonetheless. The comments here really show how much statistics are misunderstood by the public, even by a more technical-minded crowd.
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Let actions determine mood, and not rely on mood to determine one's actions.
That features has been in substantially every browser for years, I am pretty sure IE 5 had it.

The problem is that the UI for client side certificates is of-putting, inconsistent and terrible in every single browser (also people expect to be able to use your web service from more than one computer).
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And that's why many people choose not to run businesses, and that's fine too. Some make money in other ways, and some don't mind that they don't have a whole lot of money.

If you're succeeding in your businesses, that probably means that it's close enough to "enjoyable" for you to make it worth your while (if not - man, I'm sorry).

I knew folks at Google who had zero interest in ever founding a company. Why? Because they knew exactly what it entailed, and figured they wanted to spend their budget on things like hard technical problems or dealing with office politics rather than on building a business. Ultimately, I decided that wasn't what I want, and a good portion of the reason why is that I wanted the challenge of stretching myself in ways that I couldn't inside a large corporation. But that's a choice as well - I looked at the schleps needed to have some level of sustainable self-determination within Google vs. the ones needed to have some level of sustainable self-determination in a company, and decided I wanted the latter. I don't actually disagree with any of the facts you've put out, I'm just pointing out that one shouldn't immediately leap from those to the article's conclusion.
I suspect you are having trouble telling your partner how you feel, and what you need, for whatever reason. Can you share the details of the situation with a friend, and have them talk to your partner on your behalf? If not, I am happy to do it for you. Let me know. Edit: my username at gmail.com

It is important to deal with this, because you may break under the stress much faster than you expect. It's not a nice experience. Fix it while you can.

You may think you owe it to your partner/business to keep going, you may think you have brought this on yourself. Maybe you have, but in the scheme of things, it doesn't matter. It's not worth having a mental breakdown over it.
Make sure your severance is fair. If not, consult a lawyer ASAP.
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Theoretically with solar panels you could have a round-the-clock, round-the-globe balanced network requiring no storage. It would be a network with the same capacity of panels on each meridian. Of course this is not very practical.
Ahh, to be 25 and single again. Trust me by the time you're 35 and have kids you'll have a different sense of what's important. Your kids will be your sunshine but also your responsibility. Early retirement, living on a couple thousand dollars a year, will seem like the dumbest idea ever.
Thanks for the warning! For my own productivity I stayed clear!

To OP: The app looks pretty fun and I could see myself getting hooked. As for growth, there are app review sites which you can contact to get coverage. Not sure how well they work though.
It's possible to forward an X server over ssh via putty to Xming on Windows.
Many people can argue a lot about what's beautiful and what's not in western design based on Latin and Latin-like scripts, however I think that the web design has become more streamlined and easier to consume during the last decade. Although the new trends with parallax effects and weird scrolling hacks certainly don't help, but aside from that many websites look really nice on the eyes.

Since I find randomwire.com a nice looking website, I decided to see what it would look like in Japanese: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=ja&u=h.... I don't know Japanese and probably the translation is quite a bit off, so I can only speak about the visual aspect of it. I think Japanese characters really don't help the design but overall it doesn't look bad either. Certainly much better than Japanese websites.
> CS got one thing wrong that Python got right: There are many ways to do things.

I don't think this is necessarily true anymore, if it ever was. For hash-like datastructures in Python, please choose between object/dict/namedtuple/enum. In JS/CS all higher-level manipulations are dealt with through functions, whereas in Python depending on the situation you need factories, decorators, metaclasses and so on. And on a purely practical level people are moving away from the standard library (instead preferring arrow, requests, various unittest replacements etc.) but you'll still want to know the stdlib equivalents in case you encounter them in other code... and I can keep going like this.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, sometimes one-size-fits-all just doesn't cut it, I just don't think Python can lay claim to being a simple language anymore.
Yeah, I've heard the same from all the owners of them I know.

I would truly love to have one as a $$$ toy, but as a self-defense weapon I can't justify it unless it's the full-auto P90.
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As someone struggling with motivation even more than the average first world person, this hit right at home. Lacking the motivation to cook, do the dishes or the laundry is one thing. Lacking the will power to do generally "fun" stuff like going outside, hanging out with friends, dating, creativity is another.

Hitting the gym is one of the few activities I still pursue with a relative consistency but wouldn't be there without the minimal self-discipline required to get my butt of my chair or bed and go even when I don't feel like it. In fact that's the hardest part; huffing and puffing for the next hour or so is easy in comparison.
Do you know of any adults who have successfully cultivated discipline? Based on those I've known since elementary school and still know today, perhaps 80% of the discipline I see in people can be explained by how much discipline they had at 10 years of age.
I don't know other people's experiences so this is all just my subjective view.

I am so sick of all the bulls* posted on social media. Places like r/getmotivated or Facebook sites with daily quotes about motivation... Imagine a head shot of a marble statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, dark background and white floating text with a nice font that reads "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon"

It does literally nothing except to incite a state of mind that is more temporary than cigarette smoke fading into the air.

Discipline (+ coffee?) is the only thing that reliably brings you anywhere. I am a grad student with multiple jobs and looking at stupid pictures or videos to do my work is not even remotely helping me. What helps me is managing my time such that I can sleep more than 4-5 hours a night. I have difficulty with that and no "motivational app/ website/ media" will truly help me with that struggle. I am not doing the jobs next to grad school because I enjoy being stressed... I don't have a choice.
I recently worked on a project similar to this. Based on my experience, these are the things you need to do:

- Take a break for 3 days minimum. Go cold turkey, preferably not in the same city you are in. Just get out of there. It'll feel crazy, like you don't have the time, but trust me: at this point you're endangering your own health and the project. If you're a single point of failure, and it sounds like you are, things could go very pear-shaped if you keep this up and really fry your noggin. Which leads to my next point;

- You need help. You're trying to do too much, and it's just not possible within your apparent timeframe. See if you can get someone else in to help, or get one of the other team members to pick up some slack. It's completely unfair to expect 7 x 10 hour days from you, and anything less from the others. I'd state your reasoning calmly and clearly (after you've had a break; use the time to reflect on your work and where the project is going, trust me it will look different), and let the team know it's just not feasible unless you come back at significantly reduced hours + extended timeframe, or get some else on + extended timeframe to bring them up to speed. These are the realities of where you are, and the sooner you fess up to them (to yourself, and the team), the more chance you will have of salvaging what you've got.

Just my 2c.
Funny that you mention the photo voting app, I was thinking of banging that out as a side project. Do you know of one that's already reasonably popular?
>I have been thinking, reading and writing about motivation / discipline / procrastination / akrasia for years now.

Would you mind sharing your blog? I love to read about those kind of things. I don't write (in public) about them but I feel like it's fun and useful to think/meditate about.

>Screw motivation, screw discipline, what you need is a comprehensive, holistic solution that encompasses almost everything– that's why it's so difficult to change your life. You need to figure out your expectancy of accomplishing tasks, you need to figure out what's valuable to you, you need to engineer your environment, you need to choose the right peers, and you need to have a vested interest in doing all of that in the first place.

The one thing that compasses this all is, in my opinion, this:

1) The ability to break things down to their bare minimum
2) The ability to execute those tasks
3) Keeping the goal in sight, always.

Humans are stupid. I am stupid. We are all stupid. We forget trivial stuff. We have to constantly remind ourselves why and for what we are doing something. This is not bad per se, just a lot of people don't. A lot of things can help you in your goal. Motivated peers are, to me, a HUGE motivator. People should also critically examine what exactly makes them happy.
Witcher 1 and 2 are RPGs that do this the right way. No morality meter, just hard choices without full knowledge (so you can't be sure which choice is good, often neither) and with delayed consequences (so players don't just reload).

And in TW2 they made a whole chapter (+-20% of the game content) different depending on your choice, with different map, different NPCs you meet, quests, and you get to know different aspects of the story (if you play just one version you won't get the whole image).
The US even spends more tax money as a percentage of GDP on healthcare than Britain.
There were also three German midget submarines build for speed attacks with a teardrop shape in WW II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphin
Uber will offer your ride to the closest driver, who then has 15 seconds to accept the ride, where it goes to the next closest.
Absolutely. I have a strong feeling these tubes are never going to "sound" quite the same unless they look (and basically are) just like the genuine originals. The placebo effect is incredibly strong.
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On forming a habit, I found this insightful:
http://www.bristollair.com/2008/inner-game/identity-beliefs/...

Note: It's from a PUA dude but this isn't about PU, it applies to all areas.
Under the Berne Convention copyright is an unregistered and automatic right - it took USA 102 years to ratify, until 1988. Prior to that in USA - as I understand it - one needed to register a work and put a copyright notice on with the year of registration. So it's a hang over from that really.

Having proof of the date of creation of a copyright work is useful - which is why print copy can still usefully have a date, but a © symbol as a claim of copyright is pretty useless except as a pseudo-legal claim (like a "shoplifters will be prosecuted" sign in a bricks-and-mortar store). A date might still serve as proof for a digital work that gets archived by a third party (like archive.org) but the ease of alteration makes it pretty poor otherwise.
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Risk vs reward. When you are young, it makes a lot of sense to take risky ventures with potentially huge payoffs, as you tend to have less responsibilities. As you get older, you tend to become naturally more risk averse, and look for more reliable income streams to keep your responsibilities filled.
I'll chuck my hat in the ring here too... got a new MBA recently and it came with Yosemite which introduced one or two curveballs when setting up for web development.
I completely agree with this article. I would like to share a story of my own journey in this.

For a long time I had wanted to lose some weight and to remove some bad habits. It dawned on me that I could eliminate the habit altogether by scaling back to extreme levels. For example, I completely stopped eating sugary foods such as chocolate for 8 months. I stopped buying coffee from coffee shops every day. I replaced my meals with crazy simple meals such as rice, tamago kake gohan, potatos, eggs and vegetables. It is surprisingly easier to just cut something out of your life and then add things back as necessary.

It occurred to me if you can do this, you can do anything. You're replacing daily motivation - which can be depleted (ego depletion) - with a unwavering commitment everyday - to eat simple things or forego things you did not even think twice about before. You just don't do X. There is no way for you to self justify any more.

It is surprising how after a while, you do not really even miss the daily coffee or chocolate because you feel happy that you were disciplined enough to give it up. You're strong.

In my case, my journey cross fertilised another goal: to cut down on expenses. It is shocking how much money we all spend for very little benefit!

I am sure someone will reply saying 'life is for living' and all that. The question is, are they strong enough to do the same?
Off the top of my head, iOS 8 adoption is currently like 90%, iOS 7 adoption (before 8) was at like 95% at it's peak.

So current iOS 6 usage would be less than .5% of iOS devices? I would suspect (without any sort of proof), that Uber's demographic doesn't overlap much with people running a 2 year old phone OS.
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I disciplined myself by hiring an intern to come and work at my home office 3 days a week. This required me to get up early and work.
>So yes, I support people who think about retiring early. If youth is the best time of one's life, it shouldn't be wasted on the desk

It's funny, the different perspectives people have on retirement.

I don't plan on ever retiring. What would I do? Very much the same things I'm already doing. I've tried to organize my life that way.
Being a professional is knowing how to get into a high quality productive mode regularly and consistently.

It might mean doing things you don't want to currently do at that time but it is fueled by long term goals over short term goals.

That said, part of that process is knowing where to target your motivation. Creativity can take motivation and that does play a role in design and developing products.
What? No, I did get the job done. Then I'd get more work I didn't want to do. I just decided not to do the next assignment.
The kids in my CS class use putty to access Ubuntu servers, then write up their coursework in markdown. The only way to view their formatted text is to look at the GitHub README.md files online.

As a result, there are very few distractions. They have putty and GitHub open on their screens, and nothing else.
Are you talking about football in the American sense or to describe soccer?

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but in the UK football hooligans are a dying breed. There have been a few Hollywood films made about UK football hooligans, but it's more about the situation at it was in the 70's/80's.

I'm not an expert on it, but it strikes me it was born out of boredom. You'd travel to an away match, see some goalless draw, and had wasted your weekend. The scrap may have started as some sort of consolation prize. Anyway, now the games are televised, prices are more expensive and the audience has become broader so the environment that bred it has gone. Some firms still have a reputation, but it's increasingly irrelevant.

I wonder what fuels the hooliganism where you are.