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I've been a life-long procrastinator. There is no cure, but it can get better. These are the best articles you can read to help break the cycle:

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...

How to Beat Procrastination
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/how-to-beat-procrastination.ht...
If you want a possibly contrasting experience, feel free to email me (see profile), I was diagnosed with ADHD-C within the past year after many years of "this is just how I work, there's nothing that can be done".
The M24 and Monster groups mentioned in the article are examples of the "sporadic" groups, which are 26 exceptional finite simple groups. John Conway (mentioned in the article, inventor of his game of life) discovered four of these groups, Co0, Co1, Co2 and Co3.

It's notable that the Mathieu Groups (like M24) were discovered in the 19th century, long before any other sporadic group was known.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_group
I can't find the reference, but a few years ago, I remember Tim O'Reilly making some point around book pricing to the effect that time was ultimately the limiting factor for book consumption. In other words, you can drop the price to zero and most people will still consume a relatively limited number of books. (Of course, O'Reilly has a subscription service themselves but that's arguably a bit different because most of the books in Safari are the sort of things that many people will dip into rather than read cover-to-cover.)

$10/month does seem high for most people. That's at least 10 Kindle or used book purchases--including bestsellers. That's about what I read (excluding books that I want in physical form).
Going through your previous implementation gives one sure sign of whether you are improving. When on a steep learning curve, its very easy to spot bad implementation. It's akin to getting your code reviewed by someone with additional year of experience. Although, some of the mistakes you spot may be attributed to perhaps your enhanced domain knowledge but you will be able to distinguish between the two.

Additionally, to remain on the steep learning curve, I think its imperative to expose yourself to well written code and solving different set of problems.
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They aren't XMPP specific, but OTR as implemented in e.g. Pidgin goes above and beyond in making them bad – archiving is either plain text or disabled, keys cannot be changed at all (so not even manually syncing them is possible), and session handover doesn't work (there's a session management implemented, but it doesn't do anything except silently eating messages).
>Paying for coffee at The Café Grind in Manhattan involved nothing more than double-clicking the communications button on the Watch and holding my wrist over the terminal; it beeped and the payment processed instantly.

really? No authentication at all?
> "Combined with Prosody, one of the best XMPP server out there, Kaiwa..."

I think that should say "servers" plural.
This is fantastic, I can't wait to see who emerges as the first lightning network payment channel provider. This helps alleviate fundamental issues with the current implementation of Bitcoin without the need for a hardfork, and could even be a solution to the wallet identification issue if the payment channel provider acts as domain name registry. ie instead of accepting transactions to an ugly string I could accept transactions to ntq.blockchain.info.
What prevents me from adopting XMPP for my team is the lack of push notifications to my phone. I don't want to have an app constantly maintain a connection and slowly drain my battery.
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I don't understand parents who feel trapped, but I am not one of those helicopter parents. I let me kids do things on their own, pick their own activities, and, within reason, do whatever they want. I have no interest in living through them.

Having kids is a totally subjective decision. There are plenty of parents who hate their children, who felt forced into having them by family or society, and end up making their kids' lives terrible (or, in some really extreme cases, murdering them). If you feel pressured into anything, it's probably a bad start.

I'm 32 and I have 3 kids, but I meant to have them. There was no accident, and certainly no regret. I had my first kid, my daughter, when I was 24.

Then again, I never had feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness. I just wanted to have kids while I was young enough to roughhouse with them if they wanted. I grew up with too many friends with OLD parents (who are now dead, generally) who couldn't do anything with us because their back was out or their knees were busted. It's a sad thing to see.
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I've had roughly the same issues as your main post. If you are interested in a personal conversation, send me an email (profile).
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I did look into that when my motorbike was stolen. I would actually like to have an electric bike, I think it's great.

I was put off by what they say about batteries, that if you don't take great care of it, leave it plugged in at all times, etc., it can die -- it amounts for 70% of the price of the bike.

Better batteries would be great; maybe Tesla will help.
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> which is to motivate me to do something today which I will be able to talk about tomorrow.

I've actually wondered about this, ever since finding inconsistencies in the psychology literature about this subject, particularly those which echo my own experiences.

For example, Ordóñez and colleagues' 2009 paper, "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting", identifies some of the negative effects: "narrow focus that neglects nongoal areas, distorted risk preferences, a rise in unethical behavior, inhibited learning, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation."

Other work related (Sivers, McGonigal, etc.) to this effect has also argued that announcing your goals make you less motivated to accomplish them. There's yet other work, by Brown (in the book Daring Greatly) that shows that for certain personalities, these types of environments have a very opposite effect to enhancing motivation: instead, they generate anxiety, guilt, embarrassment, humiliation, and even shame.

I'm not doubting your experience, but my experience is more aligned with the items I've just mentioned. So it'd be interesting to try to tease out why some people experience the benefits you outlined, while others don't, even within the same scrum team. At one point, I conducted an informal study within our own team on scrum experiences and the results are completely bimodal. It's perplexing.
It's easy to examine once, but once you grant permissions, the author can silently push out a malicious update at any time. I really wish there was a way to disable auto update on an extension by extension basis.
The firing illegally cancelled her health insurance even though she had worked more than the amount of hours necessary to earn the insurance benefits.

I forget the details...its been 13 years...but that was one of the more open-and-shut points our attorney used to easily force a settlement.

You do know there are federal employment laws that make it illegal to fire women just for being pregnant, don't you?

Also, there was no documented reason why they were firing her...her work record was spotless and in fact, she was the new store trainer for her position due to her hard work and skill.

One of the more egregious things I remember was the manager actually called her and told her, while she was in the hospital no less, that they would rehire her after my daughter was born, even thought they just cancelled her insurance and left us both in a huge financial bind and put her health and her baby's health is serious risk.

Do you really think that women should be fired and have their health insurance cancelled for no reason besides being pregnant?

If so, that is truly disgusting.
That sounds like a great idea. Do you have any specific links or resources regarding limitations of the Julia standard library?
How does this guy always nail his articles?

I think he's the only one I've ever heard of who gets paid so much to write blog articles.
There's so much about this that reminds me of the first iPhone. Even the aesthetics are similar, and it's nearly as thick (10.5mm vs 11.6mm, as compared to the 6.9mm iPhone 6).

Both the iPhone and the iPad became dramatically thinner and faster within two or three generations. They're dealing with tighter constraints here, but I fully expect a similar trajectory. The watch is going to look enormous and slow in a year or two.
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I didn't do my research @gizzlon - I assumed it was backwards compatible!

Perhaps you can help - a quick Google suggests that a reasonable Perl 6 file extension is .p6 - is that standard in the Perl world?

dexec chooses a Docker image based on file extension. I'm planning to allow this to be overridden anyway, but it would be great if there is an easy way to distinguish between Perl 5 and 6 source files.
The fact that there is water on another planet or a meteor seems to attract a lot of media attention. But is it reasonable as it seems almost impossible to retrieve this water for us now? Is there any interest in this fact (as helping to support life)?

(I'm not saying it is not interesting, I just question why it gets more attention than other discoveries).
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Interesting, because sometimes I neglect all of my elementary school touch typing lessons and end up typing with only the index and middle finger of my right hand (but my full left hand). I'm still one of the faster typists among my friends.
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There are some solutions if you can use one hand. Matias makes a (really super expensive) one-hand keyboard, and there's also software that allows you to mirror the keyboard in halves with a hotkey. I'm sure there are other options in that realm.
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Breathe, I was where you were a couple of months ago literally when I was 26. It's intimidating reading hn and seeing everyone's accomplishments in summation. I read 2 books that helped place things in perspective "The Growth Mindset" and "The One Thing". They'll help you be more focused, productive, and stop beating yourself up.

I didn't start coding in earnest till 25. I don't count my cs degree. I lamented my choice to go to architecture school after graduation. I COULD have gone to CMU or MIT most likely on scholarship. I regretted my choice deeply until recently when I realized I use the thought processes learned in my design lab more than anything I learned from my cs degree.

Recently I ve been hyper productive and am slowly marching towards my first product.

Meditate a bit, take stock of what you want to work on, and come up with a reasonable plan to get there. Take the time to figure out how you best work.

It's all going to be ok.
A passcode you specify is required every time you put on the watch.
We are working on integrating Hubot first and we'll look into webhooks after.
This has got me humming 'there is nothing like a Dane' - which is not quite a song from the musical South Pacific.
If someone isn't comfortable in a house with a gun, regardless of the upstanding character of the owner, that might indicate a harmful phobia of certain kinds of inanimate objects, but it's their choice not to visit a gun owner's house and nobody is going to take that choice away from them. A law against gun ownership is vastly different.

Plenty of people don't like drugs, particularly banned narcotics and stimulants. I might even be uncomfortable in certain instances visiting someone who I know has drugs. Presumably if they have them, they use them on occasion. Let's ban drugs, right? Who cares whose privacy and property rights are violated as long as I feel better?
Ah that's the same idea! Wished I found that before. Thanks man.
the bizarre condescension in your comment seems utterly unnecessary.
You'll be writing less LOC;
Their culture sure is a bit alien. The authors are boasting about the dosbox they've broken, yet (it looks to me that) not a single bug/crash has been reported.

Edit: happily I'm wrong. Quoting ajenner below, "there are emulators (for other targets) which do emulate NTSC decoding properly, but until I did the research for this demo nobody understood how the CGA card generates composite signals well enough to be emulate it properly. I have some code which I hope to be adding to DOSBox (and any other emulators that want it) soon."
How is this optimized if it compiles to a + "" + b?
Well... Wouldn't it be useful to publish a list of the offending extensions?
Weird, I saw the Verge review at first, but after refreshing I see NY Times
So... it's a library, but you have to pay for it?
Am I making the same mistakes?

Yes - :8( I'm not getting better.

No - :8) Lucky me, I'm getting better.
You're putting words into someones mouth and then getting angry about it. Sounds like you should be irritated at yourself. Let's look at what was actually said:

> "Many may have strengths such as accuracy, a good eye for detail and reliability, which can benefit all sorts of businesses, not just the technology industry...."

and

> "Each individual is different, some have an amazing ability to retain information, think at a level of detail and depth or excel in math or code."

None of that indicates that anyone at Microsoft thinks all autists are the same or even that the ones they're interested in are the same. So, perhaps you should work on attaining better reading comprehension before you work yourself up into having another fight with yourself.
> Basically, comparison causes conflict, conflict causes anxiety, anxiety causes fear, and fear makes mind dull.

Unfortunately, I can report that I have done all of my best work in my career when I was extraordinarily anxious, feeling like I was holding to the side of the cliff with just my fingernails. Whenever things have started to get too comfortable, I found that hubris has disrupted my successes.

It's a sad thought, but I see absolutely no reason to believe that the natural state of humanity is to be happy (or, more specifically, content). The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness [0] seems like a pretty harsh place, and that's also where I've found most brains function best.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Environ...
Great comment Danny, thanks for sharing. I have summarized the 3 main reasons why Google finally shut it down in a short post here: http://blog.sli.do/3-reasons-why-google-moderator-has-been-s...

I think mobile definitely played a key role, as the old UI didn't work there at all.
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I was under the impression that people can decide for themselves the times when they want to go to bed and wake up. If I lived in Tokyo, I would likely choose to wake at an earlier clock time, but still at the same offset from whenever local noon may be.

If someone built an alarm clock with a GPS receiver that used the equation of time to calculate apparent solar time, mean solar time, and civil time from GPS time, and if it allowed the user to set the alarm as an offset from local sunrise, noon, or sunset, would anyone besides myself buy it?

I think if more timepieces were more informative about how much difference there is between civil time and mean solar time, people would be less tolerant of daylight savings time. But those timepieces would also have to handle all the time zones plus the multitude of stupid rules different civil jurisdictions use to calculate DST. Hopefully, the wrist-mount computers emerging onto the market will make it possible to create "DST howling outrage generator" applications.
At 3:10pm, this reviewer's update says, "It’s well after lunch. I’ve had this thing on my wrist for something like six hours now, and the truth is that I’ve barely used it."
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No. I described at a high level just one of the mechanisms of adaptive immunity--one of the most incredible biological systems in my opinion. (Runtime metaheuristics search!) These are complex pathways that involve many genes.

If the system isn't working you probably won't live very long. And while there may be certain functional alleles that may increase odds of an initial false positive stimulation, by in large the entire class of failure known as "allergic reactions" is simply a result of how the system itself works. You don't really need to invoke genetic differences to see how it fails. This is why the hygiene hypothesis is so strong.

There are actually four major categories of hypersensitivity that involve different cell populations and signalling pathways (eg. why poison ivy allergy is different from pine allergy).

If you're interested, the Wikipedia articles aren't a bad read. I also recommend Janeway's Immunobiology as a great intro to the entire subject.
This is certainly interesting, but I think it kind of breaks with the "only one obvious way to do things," which Ruby tends not to follow (and with regards to string formatting, Python doesn't either :P ). Does this buy you anything beyond trying to ramrod Ruby syntax into Python? If this truly compiles down to byte code that's doing string concatenation in the Python VM, the built-in string formatting library tends to be a non-trivial amount faster, beyond trying to write Ruby in a language that isn't Ruby.
If you have tried Prosody and have any feedback on it, I'm all ears (or drop us an email at developers (at) prosody.im).

I love to receive feedback (of any kind), as it's the only way we know what we're doing right and wrong!
Your 20's should be fun. There are are a whole host of things that you CAN do when you're young that will be much more difficult when you are older.

Working really, really hard is technically one of those things, but it's generally a really bad use of time. Especially if you don't have an overriding passion for it.

If you are 26 and have money in the bank...your options are wide open. My advice: Immediately quit your job and go contemplate life from an exotic beach or a remote mountain top. Meet some people, see the world.

If the only things you've done in life are school and work, it's not very surprising that you haven't found your passion yet.

Go have fun!!
The Conversations app for Android works pretty well. I've used it for a few weeks with a handful of persistent rooms on a Nexus 5 and I haven't noticed any battery issue.
As funny as it sounds: iMessage. The only crypto-related problem with iMessage's encryption is that Apple controls the key servers. -- http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-...

Besides, it is not available for non-Apple devices.

TextSecure/Signal has a robust crypto system, and they are working on multi-device support.
Thanks for the correction. I can't believe I've had it wrong for so many years.
Push has been formally specified very recently in XEP-0357 (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0357.html), now is the time for implementors to show what they have !
You sound like you're rushing. This is a journey of several decades, not a few weeks.
I found that this approach worked right up to the point where I tried to make non-trivial changes to the config, following examples from the xmonad website. If you want your config to use a Haskell package that's not provided by your distro, as many of the config examples do, you're out of luck unless you want to take the cabal route.

It's possible this situation has improved since last year, when I switched to i3, but it can never be fully rectified as long as the config file is itself Haskell source. I find it surprising that, despite the Haskell community's claims that Haskell is great for writing domain-specific languages, xmonad does not expose a DSL for you to configure it with.
Shouldn't you also see the pushes everyone is making to their upstream branches and the Pull Requests?

That's the useful information I like to see. HipChat + Bitbucket is the most powerful combo I have for keeping up with what everyone on the team is doing.
The problem is physicists tend to use "intuition" to prove things. I don't know any string theorists, but if they were trained to think like physicists then it's probably not any different.
Ha. There is no explanation of why the mailing lists were named "Bedlam" though, and I doubt non-native readers know what it refers to. To quote Wikipedia [0]:

"Bedlam may refer to:

Bethlem Royal Hospital, London hospital first to specialise in the mentally ill and origin of the word "bedlam" describing chaos or madness"

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlam
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What about teaching others - young people. You seem to have the passion for programming and I think you could find great fulfillment by sharing that craft with others- not to mention making a huge difference in someone else's life, particularly someone who never realized that programming was an option for them.
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Only insofar as he remains motivated to use his skill for his own support. Even for well-paid software engineers, it can be difficult to amass substantial enough savings to feel comfortable taking 6-12 months off (depending, of course, on individual circumstances). Personally, I believe a sabbatical every few years would do wonders to prevent burnout, but very few plan well enough to make that happen.