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by aaimnr 11y ago
There are actually some wholesome mental states that are conducive to concentration. The most notorious are piti (translated as rapture, joy) and sukha (content, pleasure). Listen to this guy, may be useful http://dharmatreasure.
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by aaimnr 11y ago
Meditation, including mindfulness meditation, is such a thing. After a couple of days on a silent mindfulness retreat of constantly watching your mind (watching doesn't mean 'thinking') there's a moment when the thinking
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by aaimnr 11y ago
It's not the mindfulness itself, but they definitely get it wrong. Your advice to them is really great and it could be taken as the most universal meditation advice ever: "If it's stressful, you're doing it wrong".
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by aaimnr 11y ago
Thanks, it's on my kindle as well (haven't finished it yet though). As I see it, Culadasa is better suited both for general audience and for those more scientifically inclined - that's why it seems to be ideal fit for HNers.
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by aaimnr 11y ago
Thanks, makes sense. It reminds me a story about some companies blindly following Google in introducing mindfulness courses to its employees, in hope of increased productivity. The interesting offshoot was that some of them, having started
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by aaimnr 11y ago
I remember an article about a study in which some psychologists tried to estimate the IQ of the most important scholars, writers and scientist of all time. As far a I remember Goethe had the second highest score, right after Leibniz.
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by aaimnr 11y ago
I agree with your second point, real concentration doesn't require lot of force to sustain, actually it requires much less force than regular mind wandering. In regard to you first question, he's right - if you're interested
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by aaimnr 11y ago
For anyone on HN seriously interested in this topic, I would wholeheartedly recommend the recently published "The Mind Illuminated" book written by Culadasa, professor of neuroscience and a _very_ accomplished meditator. [ http:&
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by aaimnr 11y ago
The dichotomy in the title is false. As the article states: "This observation fits together with studies that show the best way of maintaining mental harmony during mind-wandering is to be able to be aware of the fact that you are doin
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by aaimnr 11y ago
It's about the direct perception of impermanence, which in a timescale of a walk in a park is much more striking in nature, where everything is in a constant flux.
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by aaimnr 11y ago
This one seems to stand out: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...
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by aaimnr 12y ago
It's sarcasm.
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by aaimnr 13y ago
There are many different ways in which 3d printing could save lives, probably in a more sustainable way than just donating to single person in need. Helping kickstarter campaign like this to succeed pushes the whole 3d printing market a l
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Can't believe no one mentioned http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ This official stackexchange site complements stackoverflow for the exact reasons mentioned by OP - it's concerned with more open-ended questions
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Maybe there's a reason why it's not mentioned in Wikipedia? Like, eg. it's not founded on any reasonable sources? Since you mention Wikipedia, are you suggesting all of the below are false as well? http://en.wikipe
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by aaimnr 13y ago
There is another one, more thorough, on coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/hci , also based partly on Norman's book. Is anyone able to compare them?
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Apparently he indeed was evil: "On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL. In this demonstration, he poured TEL over his hands, then placed a bottle of the chemical unde
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Actually the name is not Silence but 4' 33" and it's important, because the piece is not really about a silence, but about a various random sounds you start hearing in the audience when an artist is not playing.
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by aaimnr 13y ago
The 3d effect doesn't really make sense in this case, since it suggests that all the segments have actually equal width.
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by aaimnr 13y ago
The admiration seems to be sarcastic, though...
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Another phil major here... For all interested in the zombies, check out David Chalmers website: http://consc.net/zombies.html The guy has stated one of the most famous arguments about the consciousness in his book The Conscious Mind.
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by aaimnr 13y ago
Ajax craze started with XML. JSON came later.
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by aaimnr 13y ago
It's not that the parts responsible for language couldn't be repurposed for something else (although I don't know whether it's true). It's the fact, that more general learning skills cannot substitute dedicated language learning capabilitie
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by aaimnr 14y ago
What would you suggest instead? Integrating with airlines directly?
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by aaimnr 15y ago
I don't remember any example right now, but lot of system utilities in Windows 7 has such an alternate description in metadata discoverable through Windows start search input. I've found similar behaviour in IOS - I've typed 'pocket' into I
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by aaimnr 15y ago
Spring Roo does the same through the use of aspect programming (code generation, essentially - it generates the boilerplate behind the scenes).
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by aaimnr 15y ago
The critique of GoF presented is superficial. The main difference being GoF's 'how' against Alexander's 'what' doesn't come from GoF's misunderstanding of Alexander's original work. It comes from a different role of architecture of a buildi
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by aaimnr 15y ago
1) Each gmail user is also a GTalk user. It's very convenient to be able to reach people not using any other IMs through the GTalk's web interface. 2) In corporate environment it's sometimes the only option, due to inability to install 3rd