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by bitops 13y ago
I thought the same thing as I started reading through the article - this attitude is endemic to anyone who thinks that what they do is the most important function and that the business couldn't survive without them. The truth is that y
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by bitops 13y ago
Yes, definitely - I could be wrong, but I've been told that when you're healthier, your body metabolizes things faster & more efficiently. So stuff like alcohol or caffeine will hit you harder and faster too (all the more reas
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by bitops 13y ago
For anything other than taking phone calls or checking email, yes.
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by bitops 13y ago
> some are more or less destined to use it as a crutch. I'm certainly in the latter category. I don't think that has to be true - you just need to find something else that unwinds you. I think alcohol is easy because, hey, yo
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by bitops 13y ago
Definitely - I've started practicing aikido 3 times a week, for at least an hour each time I go (I worked my way up to it). I usually go to the dojo for 2 1/2 hours, but not always. It's done more for my physical and mental w
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by bitops 13y ago
I absolutely think meditation could serve as a way to unwind, in any term.
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by bitops 13y ago
The ultimate in self-denial: no computer usage outside of works hours for a week!
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by bitops 13y ago
Have you tried breaking up any of your usual patterns? It may be hard to do with schedules and workload, but just exercising 2 or 3 times a week can make a huge difference. I've found that 90 minutes of exercise per session is its own
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by bitops 13y ago
> booze enables workaholism, because of the fast unwind time I think this is the key insight from the article. I went through a stressful period where I used alcohol to wind down quickly. But in reality it just made things worse becaus
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A brief history of disruption: Technologies that upended enterprise IT(arstechnica.com)
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Posters for plutocrats(economist.com)
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A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later(nytimes.com)
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by bitops 13y ago
Many of the world's largest companies still run Windows and are heavily invested in it. Also, many admin tools (even for Unix-based services) are written for Windows, because IT admins have to straddle both worlds. Also, for all its il
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Not yet gone, but effectively extinct(arstechnica.com)
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When decisions are tough, it pays to think as a colony(arstechnica.com)
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Effective Emacs(sites.google.com)
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by bitops 13y ago
Go back to school - you can never be too educated, especially if you go to Cal. Part of going to school is networking and making connections too. In a place like Berkeley you can have one foot in the university and one foot in the street.
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NSA paid $152M over 3 years to British spy agency, new Snowden docs show(arstechnica.com)
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by bitops 13y ago
You're welcome! Good idea on the painting. If you want to keep your focus (which is a good thing) then something creative away from the computer is probably a good idea. There are tons and tons of things that overlap with programming
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by bitops 13y ago
Take five weeks off and don't engage with work in any way. Don't program, don't read technical books, no nothing. Slow down and let yourself feel the toll the amount of work you've done has taken on you. If you give your
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Ask HN: what is a monad?
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Pale blue dot(zenpencils.com)
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X-rays capture hot Jupiter being evaporated(arstechnica.com)
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Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy(sfgate.com)
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A Soft Answer(easternhealingarts.com)
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If not for clouds and nitrogen, Earth could be uninhabitable(arstechnica.com)
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Moscow Metro says new tracking system is to find stolen phones(arstechnica.com)
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Amazon hiring 7,000 workers(money.cnn.com)
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Cultural Myths and Support for Rape(excellenceforchildandyouth.ca)
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Game over for Zynga? Firm loses 25 percent of daily active users in one quarter(arstechnica.com)
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