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by chrisandchips 6y ago
If motivation and ability are both already there, I usually find the easiest way to move past procrastination is to choose a small-mid sized task and set a 15 minute timer. Committing to working on that task for 15 mins, even if I really do
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I agree with you and I’ve been repeating this point to my close circle, though this article did (for the first time) make me sort of excited to see what will stick, if anything. Take the searches for yeast and recipe, for example. I don’t t
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
> For books it is usually just the same story told over and over again with the character names and forms changed. I assume you’re referring to fiction ... there’s actually a whole field of study around this rooted in psychology, they’re
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
> However, in the real world many people are resistant to the idea of therapy and/or medication as it feels like admitting defeat. Or perhaps they've read cherry-picked horror stories of bad therapists or medication side effect
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
+1 verification tends to be the easy part.
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Google Maps Censors Art?(chrislessard.co)
2 points by chrisandchips 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
Agreed. I think the more you push yourself to learn and pursue things that seem abstract to you, the better. As you do so in various fields that interest you (the arts, maths, whatever) you start to draw a lot of patterns around seemingly u
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I used to struggle a lot when I first started studying mathematics seriously as part of my Computer Science degree. I could never understood how people ever came up with proofs for problems that seemed completely abstract and foreign to me.
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The Genius of Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map (2018)(openculture.com)
1 points by chrisandchips 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
It's great to read this comment - it's always nice to know that community suggestions aren't just cast into the void
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
Well, if they reach the 100k mark like the article’s author, the risk of a tax audit may start to keep them up at night
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
That’s a good point, I mostly would just want a canadian number for all the bureaucracy that requires it, unfortunately
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I yearn for the day when our god-awful telecommunications industry finely catches up to the rest of the world. I just moved back from France, and its better keeping my French number’s international plan (18 euros a month for 30 gigs of data
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
The definition I used comes from the same team behind the Oxford dictionary. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/war
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I see where you’re coming from, but I disagree that the normalization argument is the only interpretation of whats going on here. Language is extremely fluid and its development often exceeds our own conscious understanding. « A sustained c
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I don't use trending often enough to know that I'm correct in saying this, but I get the impression that the author is describing a shift from "most star-ed projects each day" to some new algorithm which seems to resembl
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
TBF, I don't think the author is saying that Github needs to be fun, but rather that it used to be and now isn't. It's lost a nice quality that it had.
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I suppose it does, but I feel like echo chambers are more dangerous when people don't necessarily realize they've entered one (e.g. when all of your FB friends only share posts centered around a particular political view). I feel
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
Well, any student who's interested in playing sports at school will likely be interested in that sort of thing. I think more generally it adds to the general culture of the school - people will pick up on the fact that some athlete the
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
Fair enough, I'm just surprised
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
> The story made little sense and appeared to have little, if any, depth. I felt similarly the first time I watched it, but I walked out feeling confused rather than feeling like the film lacks depth. IMO a large portion of the film is s
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I’m not sure I’d pick either efficiency or humanism to describe what’s going on here. Personally, I’m not as optimistic as you seem to be about the nature of the service that insurance companies provide but I can still see why the case isn’
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
This is a great idea, but its always felt super daunting for me. As in, just walking into a massive code base makes you wonder where to even start. Do you reach out to other contributors ? Look for easy bugs and hope you can keep finding th
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Ask HN: What decisions pushed you to become a better software engineer?
3 points by chrisandchips 6y ago|7 comments
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
To OP, or another curious reader, I think you need to take these kinds of posts with a grain of salt. That salary is rare in montreal, but it is also an extremely affordable city to live in. If you are seeking a comfortable life, I personal
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
Its funny, because it almost makes the few of them even more enticing. I didn’t realize that you could change the colour of the top bar past a certain karma, but now that I do there is literally nothing I want more than to get there
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A Pitch for a Nationwide 5G Network Tailor-Made for Trump’s 2020 Campaign(newyorker.com)
1 points by chrisandchips 6y ago|0 comments
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
you’re assuming that people can work in libraries, cafes and other places. these places are barely ever conducive to jobs that might require you to hop on a call at a moments notice (which is far more common when in remote) or handle sens
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
I think it lives on in big platforms like Reddit, but I agree that it used to be far more prevalent on the net than it is. Youtube is a good example. It used to be so fun to just throw up videos on the internet, without caring how far they
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by chrisandchips 6y ago
It’s a bit hard to give concrete advice without knowing more but it sounds like the anxiety is linked to a fear of failure? You should try to weigh the pros and cons of your options as best you can, of course. You should also try to break d

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