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by dasboth 11y ago
The positive stories I've heard about Soylent revolve around convenience. Even for someone who loves to eat, Soylent can be practical for 50-70% of your meals which makes you enjoy the other 30-50% more. I assume Soylent is also cost-e
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by dasboth 11y ago
Sweeping statements like "X programming language/paradigm has won" do an injustice to the wealth of uses of programming. You wouldn't use the same programming language to write code for an Arduino, a startup MVP web appl
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by dasboth 11y ago
Very true. It also depends on the person, some people will happily say "I don't eat X, it gives me indigestion" whereas someone else will tell you that you shouldn't eat X because it gives them indigestion.
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by dasboth 11y ago
The worst thing about those anecdotal stories is how adamant everyone usually is that they're right, as if their observations about themselves must be true of the general population. I've always thought there's no reason why
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by dasboth 11y ago
I agree so much. Starbucks and co are definitely not what I would consider coffee shops. I drink coffee because it has an effect on me (as well as a delicious taste, no caramel syrup required), and I can feel its effect very quickly. Starbu
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by dasboth 11y ago
I agree, I'd say that's a lot. I have two shots a day (either espressos or americanos, usually one of each) and I find that if I have a third I always feel terrible. I get agitated and jittery, so I guess that's a way to cont
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by dasboth 11y ago
IoT scares me for that very reason. I don't like the idea of people trying to infer things about me by how often I use my toaster, and I don't feel like I gain enough by my household appliances connecting to the internet to offset
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by dasboth 11y ago
Fair enough, my advice and experience relate to things that aren't of such consequence as what not paying rent could cause. "Just confront it" is something you have to figure out yourself as a procrastinator. You can read all
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by dasboth 11y ago
External pressures help. I've been trying to learn more about data science through MOOCs but starting a Masters degree is what really forces me to spend my time engaging with it rather than procrastinating. It's an extreme case bu
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by dasboth 11y ago
I like the jump starts Microsoft do but I agree the live coding should be replaced by explaining pre-written code snippets. No one wants to see a guy spend 10 minutes debugging code he wrote in 20 seconds.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Thanks, makes sense now, although those subtitles all sound like unaired episodes of Friends (which I'd definitely watch).
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by dasboth 11y ago
Not the first time I've heard this odd vs even thing. Was The Voyage Home the one with the whales? That premise was a bit silly although the film had its moments. Which number was First Contact? I always thought that was way better tha
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by dasboth 11y ago
I never thought about this but you're absolutely right, I've yet to see a great programmer who doesn't also write really well. This works both ways, too: sloppier programmers also tend to be sloppier writers.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Not knowing/using keyboard shortcuts is one of the banes of developer productivity. Using the mouse to right-click, copy, right-click, paste is bad enough when a "standard" user does it but for a developer it's painful.
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by dasboth 11y ago
That's a lovely bit of hacking! :)
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by dasboth 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. I remember when I first started using Evernote, the FAQs specifically said "you can't share your notes, that's not the point". Now it's all social and businessy, but I just want an easy and
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by dasboth 11y ago
It is hard, especially when it's a side project you're doing for yourself because it's not easy to get others excited about it.
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by dasboth 11y ago
I tend to procrastinate on things that are only really important to me like side projects, job hunting etc. When someone else is expecting me to do something, I will just do it. I worked on a side project that my wife asked me for and did i
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by dasboth 11y ago
This is me all over. Intellectually I know that doing anything, genuinely any of the possible first steps, is better than nothing but when there are too many first steps I freeze up. I even know from experience that the biggest, sometimes o
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by dasboth 11y ago
I naively thought that it's fair game that because I'm buying a £20 Groupon I might pay exactly £20. I never did, but I felt that it should be implied that that's acceptable. I certainly wouldn't have expected to be trea
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by dasboth 11y ago
I guess it's true that, had I tipped at all in that instance, I would have tipped based on what I paid on the night. Bearing in mind the Groupon was already paid for, that wouldn't have been a lot. Having said that, I also went fo
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by dasboth 11y ago
This was my experience too. We had a 7-course taster meal in a restaurant in Shoreditch and the waitress turned from delightful to rude in an instant after hearing the word "Groupon"...
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by dasboth 11y ago
I would have preferred 8675309 karma.
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by dasboth 11y ago
You're right, this isn't quite the same genre anymore, it's more of an interactive story. The trend towards simplicity has definitely crept in. I really enjoyed Broken Age, but not for quite the same reasons as the Monkey Isl
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by dasboth 11y ago
I realise my comment won't add much to the discussion, but Day of the Tentacle was a masterpiece.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Has anyone played Broken Age? It's nowhere near as difficult as the adventure games of old, it feels more of a casual adventure game, but the story, characters, art and voice acting are superb. My favourite game genre by far, happy bir
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by dasboth 11y ago
I agree, while I wouldn't say it outright sucked, it was a bit disappointing. In fact, when I played it as a child I literally had no idea what was going on. I guess it was doubly confusing for me because Curse was the first Monkey Isl
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by dasboth 11y ago
I haven't found that to be necessarily true. Sometimes I procrastinate over things that I actually WANT to do. More generally I'd say I procrastinate over doing things that don't reward me in the short term. For example if I
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by dasboth 11y ago
My experience tells me you're right - once you start, the barrier to continue is infinitely smaller than the one that stopped you starting in the first place. However, I promise you if it were that easy, this discussion would be moot :
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by dasboth 11y ago
I'm trying the whole "surf less, meditate more" thing but I find motivation to meditate quite low on "good" days. When I feel like crap for having procrastinated, sure, give me some of that meditation, but on a day

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