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by blastbeat 8y ago
Can only speak from the perspective of a long-term relationship. In my experience, one has to actively schedule it. Else it's one of the first things, which get sacrificed in the daily churn. As a ground rule: quantity over quality. Yo
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I wonder, who is supposed to be the recipient of that message. People, who care about privacy, will never believe it.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
The title of this article should rather be "How I approach project management as a PhD student in a computer science research group". In my experience, there is no silver bullet for PhD projects. It really depends on the field, th
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by blastbeat 8y ago
If I'm not motivated enough, I would not dig into some particular code base just for fun. Usually I try to find out, how somebody else solved a problem or designed a system, which interests me. I often investigate different approaches
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by blastbeat 8y ago
The client which today is mostly used in private hubs is AirDC. It is optimized for efficient file transfer and comfortable file organization. For instance, AirDC lets you define different share profiles for different hubs, which is tremend
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I can relate to this, although I to do this only on a very moderate level. As a side note, despite the technological advances of the last years, you can meet quite a lot of collectors in private direct connect hubs these days.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Because the World War 1 allowed recovery. The war caused trauma, but basically everything proceeded like before after that. Climate change has the potential to induce a bifurcation, making it impossible to revert back to the world we know t
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I didn't write the program, and I only looked from a distance of 10 feet. On the other hand, I've seen my share of papers with "obscure LaTeX glyphs". So yes, it is really really good, and I'm undecided whether this
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by blastbeat 8y ago
You cannot compare a locally restricted war with the global disruption of the ecological, economical and social environment, which lies in front of us.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
> I used to be very harsh with Germans collectively for having ‘allowed’ Hitler to come to power and for having been complicit in the crimes he perpetrated. But now I’m not so sure. As a German, so did I. But my illusion of control disso
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by blastbeat 8y ago
It's like watching a documentary about the last summer before World War 2. People enjoying themselfes, everything looks peaceful and fine on the surface. Some people suspect what is about to come, but don't dare to really watch in
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Having a PhD in math, I must say this is really wicked. Parsing through it, it looks legit to me. Proper typesetting, proper definition, theorem, proof structure. The usual phrases like "it is well known, that..." are used, the se
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Fair enough, but I suspect most people are not under control of their working schedule. Also, most are supposed to work for at least 8 hours a day. Planning for 15+ minutes break every hour, that means a total of 2+ hours break in addition
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by blastbeat 8y ago
The Hartz 4 reform is unpopular in Germany, because it created a rampant low-wage sector coupled with exploitative temp work. Hartz 4 is nothing but dehumanziation, authorized by the government. Meanwhile the so-called elite bluntly enrich
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Automating stuff and writing little helpers is a great idea. I would suggest to start with the command line. I wrote a lot of tools for it. Basically everything in daily life, which involves repetitive math, like tracking finances, calculat
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by blastbeat 8y ago
As a ground rule, I aim to reconcile different aspects of a "career", like work-life balance, salary, future prospects. This is an ongoing process, there is no master plan for me. I don't aim for roles, money or status. I bel
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I know some people, who are in complete paralysis thanks to (overly) analytic thinking. On the other hand, from all the people I know having a major depression, nobody was able to advance simply by analyzing, deciding, acting, and without h
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by blastbeat 8y ago
This is a reasonable list and matches my experiences so far. But I have yet to meet somebody, who combines all those traits.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I agree in so far, that the "ability to listen with a purpose" is invaluable. I have a couple of (senior) co-workers, which are technically skilled, but simply won't listen or empathize very well. They react to given trigger
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Good article. I remember that in the second year at university, our math professor explained "It boils down to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, that we [mathematicians] won't be automated away". Never been worried about A
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I think the "raise [..] of our baseline of acceptable human suffering" will at some point escalate very quickly. It is exposing, concerning the refugees in Germany, how fast compassion shifted to outrage. Way before the climate ch
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Renewables can't save the planet from a mathematical point of view. For example, to satisfy the current energy demands of Germany with wind energy alone, one would need more area of land to build turbines, than Germany actually has (an
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Creating something significant is certainly a good idea, but is also not easy at the same time. Standing out is certainly hard. Standing out by a meaningful creation, is in my opinion very hard and needs much work and luck. Only very few no
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Ok, so this guy created something, which was interesting enough for his first employer. After that, he bootstrapped himself to the next jobs. This has nothing to do with "start creating", but rather with "having luck". I
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19239597
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I find it amusing, how Hollywood movies concentrate on factor "external shocks" (alien invasion, diseases,...), ignoring the other factors. Usually in the movies, the problem(s) then gets fixed with the use of nuclear weapons, tec
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by blastbeat 8y ago
No, to the contrary. It rather drains my ability to paint a picture or to play music. After staring on a screen full of compiler errors for 8 hours, there isn't much left to be joyful or creative.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Really got me thinking about what is in front of us. The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig. Beautiful novella, a pleasure to read.
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by blastbeat 8y ago
Personally no, because that's what the 6 month trial period is for in Germany. On the other hand, I rejected offers which required this, and I know quite a few stories from friends where it was required too. In the end it depends on ho
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by blastbeat 8y ago
I would say the overhead of time tracking, as a deliberate productivity tool, is barely worth the trouble. For instance, I use Emacs org-mode, where you can schedule and clock tasks in sophisticated ways. It took a long time to setup and ge

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