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by SMrF 16y ago
I've also lost 40 pounds with purely calorie counting. Although I've managed to keep it off for two years, and I don't see it coming back (easily). My approach was to kill bad habits one at a time and create new good habits to take their pl
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by SMrF 16y ago
I love my Air. At the time I bought it I was consulting and travelling. I wanted a personal laptop that I could take with me everywhere to work on my side projects that didn't weigh down my laptop bag. My work laptop was a beast, so the sec
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by SMrF 16y ago
"Anyway, I rather hope I'm wrong. I'd really like to drink my coffee and read during my commute as my car drives me to work." I was struck by this comment, because I do this every day...by riding the train. Automated cars, flying cars, doub
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by SMrF 16y ago
Can you put little voting arrows next to the line items so I can vote up NASA and vote down defense spending? Oh wait, representative democracy. Damn.
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by SMrF 16y ago
From the response; "We can't use database transactions because performing a big move would slow Basecamp down for everyone. So we have to log the process of each step of the move, and make it so any failure in the move can be rolled back gr
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by SMrF 16y ago
After upvoting this comment I had a second thought: I think the hypothesis of meditation is that it improves attention, (and that is indeed the point). But has that hypothesis been proved? I can provide my own anecdotal evidence that indeed
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by SMrF 16y ago
It was originally created by Paul Buchheit. It's in point 6 of Google's corporate philosophy "You can make money without doing evil." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil Edit: I couldn't tell if you were making a joke or just misinf
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by SMrF 16y ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting a link to all of these papers. There are so * many * cool * papers. I'm now fully absorbed learning about genetic algorithms searching for novelty instead of the direct objective. Fascinating! ht
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by SMrF 16y ago
I don't think this is a very good comparison. Firing is different than quitting. I can come up with a scenario where someone leaves amicably one day after vesting, but I can't think of a nice, friendly parting where someone gets fired one d
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by SMrF 16y ago
"I think it's now possible with a big rack of multi-core machines in an MPI cluster to approach the capabilities of a fruit fly's brain." This seems so unlikely. Isn't it more likely that it takes a rack of multi-core machines to simulate a
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by SMrF 16y ago
We once escaped an infestation by storing all of our worldly possessions in a POD outside in the middle of the summer in Arizona for three days. Then we moved to Chicago. We kept our mattress sealed up in plastic for over a year because the
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by SMrF 16y ago
In the past I've done something similar where I asked potential customers to pay me to build a product and learned, before I wrote a line of code, nobody wanted what I was selling. On the other hand, I've run into a situation recently where
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by SMrF 16y ago
I find myself agreeing whole heartedly with the sentiment of the article. So much so in fact, that I am a bit nervous to share the link with my social network -- mainly because I know my dad will read it!
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by SMrF 16y ago
"Who’s fault is it? Person B can claim that since their code worked with the older version of X, it’s person A’s fault. But person A can claim that module Y should never have depended upon that particular behavior in the first place." So ap
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by SMrF 16y ago
I totally sympathize and if you are on the startup path it sounds like quiting was the right move. But I think your expectations for an entry level job are too high. One thing newly minted adults would do well to realize is your first few y
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by SMrF 16y ago
We've known each other for a very long time, (met when we were 10, started dating 10 years ago), so this was just another experience in a very long series of events. Our relationship is stronger now, but it was strong to begin with. Any mor
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by SMrF 16y ago
Yes, my wife is amazing. She never believes me when I tell her though. This comment might finally convince her!
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by SMrF 16y ago
I don't know how to fix your situation, but I do know what helped me, so I'll tell you that and maybe something will be helpful to you. The first challenge is to recognize your foe. You feel stressed and anxious at work, so it must be your
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by SMrF 16y ago
I am off to my daily commute. I'm happy to say what worked for me, so I'll type something up once I get home. Just wanted to let you know I will be responding.
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by SMrF 16y ago
I'm not sure if this would have helped me when I was going through this process. But, it certainly is a very accurate description of burning out and offers up practical, (and in my case useful), solutions.
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Burnout, How to Recover(sentientmachine.blogspot.com)
6 points by SMrF 16y ago|2 comments
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by SMrF 16y ago
You must have experienced this yourself first hand. This is a great description of the problem and the solution.
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by SMrF 16y ago
I look at it as a battle scar, or a really cool limp or something. I've been there, done that, and now I know my own limits better than almost anyone else. To me it's an advantage. I also admit to worrying I wouldn't be able to accomplish w
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by SMrF 16y ago
Please do make sure you are getting help. My personal path to recovery involved a complete redo of my entire life. I quit my job, moved to a new city. I took an entire month off and did nothing but stuff that was fun, (mainly programming :-
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by SMrF 16y ago
I wrote about my experience with burnout on a HN comment earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508844 I really, really, really want people to avoid what I went through, so it thought I'd share some gory details. I clearly went thr
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by SMrF 16y ago
I wrote about my experience with burnout on a HN comment earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508844 I really, really, really want people to avoid what I went through, so it thought I'd share some gory details. I clearly went thr
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by SMrF 16y ago
Does it do anything yet? Or is this just a fake landing page for harvesting email addresses for future beta accounts? I only noticed the very top bar the second time I loaded the page. I was looking for more content to help me determine whe
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by SMrF 16y ago
Talking about starting a business or doing something equally 'crazy' is a popular conversational topic at lunch with my coworkers. It provides just about the same amount of escapism value as buying into a lotto pool. We do that too. I notic
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by SMrF 16y ago
"But usually after two to four weeks, the project just fails. We've lost faith in it." Well there's your problem. Assuming you are working part time, two to four weeks is not even remotely enough time to build even the simplest of businesse
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by SMrF 16y ago
He wrote js2 mode, which I love: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Js2Mode Other than that, I've heard he writes great blog posts on programming and works at Google.

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