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These are simple ones that you probably all know. I'm just writing them down for reference. General 1) Flux for sleep (sleep being the 'hack') 2) Social

These are simple ones that you probably all know. I'm just writing them down for reference. __General__ 1) Flux for sleep (sleep being the 'hack') 2) Social pressure: find a community that you want to belong to and that gives you the social pressure towards goals you want to achive __For programming (when learning a new language)__ For me, the focus is on getting as unstuck as possible. I've noticed that interactive tools help a lot with this because they show you how things 'under the hood' work. 1) Get a text editor or IDE that teaches you how to code -- only if you're new(ish) at a language. Things like Intellisense, a debugger and jumping to function definitions allow you to learn a lot more about code. For me, with Java this is Eclipse (Netbeans and IntelliJ work as well). For front-end it is Chrome developer tools (Firefox works too). For iOS this is Xcode. For node.js this was Visual Studio Code. I'm curious if there are suggestions from other people. 2) Knowing how to search on Google well. I can't really explain this yet, and it's something that's learned with the first programming language. So I'm going to ask this question on HN to see if there are people who can explain it :) Edit, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13183302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13183302 3) Finding a shell to play with.

roryisok 10y ago
I tried flux, but I just find it irritating when the screen turns yellow. It probably doesn't help that my office has a daylight bulb
- mettamage 10y ago
  I agree that it's irritating. However, I do feel the difference when I use flux or when I don't at 03:00 in the night (student life :D). It's mainly during very late hours that I'm noticing a difference and am willing to put up with the yellow screen, probably from 23:00 and onwards.
- justanton 10y ago
  In preferences you can always tune the level of "yellow". I personally, keep it at 5500k during the day, and in the evening turn it down a bit to 4800k.

These are simple ones that you probably all know. I'm just writing them down for reference. __General__ 1) Flux for sleep (sleep being the 'hack') 2) Social

roryisok 10y ago

I tried flux, but I just find it irritating when the screen turns yellow. It probably doesn't help that my office has a daylight bulb

mettamage 10y ago
I agree that it's irritating. However, I do feel the difference when I use flux or when I don't at 03:00 in the night (student life :D). It's mainly during very late hours that I'm noticing a difference and am willing to put up with the yellow screen, probably from 23:00 and onwards.
justanton 10y ago
In preferences you can always tune the level of "yellow". I personally, keep it at 5500k during the day, and in the evening turn it down a bit to 4800k.