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by djm 16y ago
I haven't read the linked paper, but if it's conclusion is correct and students are spending less time studying, then all I can say is "good for them"! Honestly, it seems like kids are expected to work flat out in school these days, killing
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by djm 16y ago
If you haven't already, get another cat straight away. The value a pet adds to your life is unbelievable and there is a tendency (just going from personal observation) for people who do not replace a pet soon after it has died to simply not
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by djm 16y ago
I've been starting to do this over the last week or so as an experiment. It's too short a time span to give me any useful data, but so far my impressions are positive. I've gotten less work done than usual but feel considerably less stresse
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by djm 17y ago
ok, I searched for two books -founders at work and the little schemer. Founders at work found me 'Kate' who is a total babe but sadly in America. The thing is, founders at work isn't actually in the list of books in her profile. little sche
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by djm 17y ago
Have you considered becomming a creditor? You can lend via sites like lendingclub.com. Annual returns are approaching what you'd expect to get on the stock market in the long term. I haven't tried this investment myself yet (insufficient fu
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by djm 17y ago
I wrote about my efforts to avoid procrastination previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809638 Since then I've changed a few things. Here is what I am doing now: 1) Make a list of what I want to do tomorrow before going to bed.
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by djm 17y ago
First time I've come across the setup. Here are some interviews with a few other HN regulars: http://paul.graham.usesthis.com/ http://aaron.swartz.usesthis.com/ _why is listed on their mainpage too but his interview seems to have been r
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by djm 17y ago
I'm from the UK and languages education here is (or at least was when I was at school) horrific. We didn't start learning a second language until secondary school (age 11/12) and the only options available were french and very basic german.
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by djm 17y ago
I'm reading a book at the moment called 'the mathematical experience' by Davis and Hersh which looks at some of these same issues. I haven't got very far through it yet but it seems like a good book so if you're interested in this sort of t
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by djm 17y ago
I feel like eating something really good but I hate everyday cooking Me too, but thats why god (or somebody godlike) invented freezers. The secret to eating good food every day if you don't like to spend time cooking is just to make stuff
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by djm 17y ago
No matter how much I have tried to understand twitter, I have never really gotten it. I can only see it as being a fad. The character constraint forces people to say whatever they want to say concisely which I can see as being valuable -
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by djm 17y ago
It's interesting that scheme use is not far off being equal to Lisp use. In my case I learned lisp with scheme then decided to stick with it after I looked at CL and realised it would give me a big headeache. I wonder what prompts others to
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by djm 17y ago
hey derek - you mentioned that you wrote this article after being prompted to do so and I thought I'd take the opportunity to try and prompt you to write another one! You briefly commented on living the (relatively) simple life - having fai
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by djm 17y ago
While things like cost of living, availability of specific services etc are important the article missed one thing. In the earliest stages at least, what you need most is a place to be able to think and work and create something without too
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by djm 17y ago
with regards to the decision you have to make about fremium/premium etc there is one thing I think you need to consider that I can't see anybody else here has mentioned. If a whole family sign up to your site and like it enough to use it th
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by djm 17y ago
You probably aren't reading this thread anymore but in case you do: You can buy mugs that have a french press built in - see http://www.amazon.com/Planetary-Design-Commuter-Double-Shot-... I have a similar though cheaper version of one of
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by djm 17y ago
I really liked reading this. I was only vaguely aware of this guy before seeing this article and the other one posted a while ago that wallflower has linked to. I must say, I find him very impressive. What interested me most about these two
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by djm 17y ago
The plastic bags problem was solved years ago in many places. In the Uk and europe (western europe anyway) supermarkets now either (a) don't let you have them at all, (b) make you pay for them, or (c) let you have them but make you ask the
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by djm 17y ago
lovely interface. I'd love it if you could post us an update some way along the line mentioning how your experience of using a bookshelf UI has worked out. There was another startup (totally forget who they were) that posted to HN some time
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by djm 17y ago
Has anyone done anything like this on an individual level? Is it even possible? Of course! Google Mitch Altman and TV-be-gone. I imagine there are very many others too.
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by djm 17y ago
This is pretty cool. Something similar was done about a year or so ago by some secondary school students in Spain. Also, there is a cool video floating around somewhere (can't find the link right now) of how to build your own balloon based
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by djm 17y ago
A lot of what you are saying here resonates with me. I work part-time for a local charity in my town and have been involved in various others at times. There are a number of problems charities normally face which may explain your findings
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by djm 17y ago
You seem to be leaning towards the idea that these list type articles are inferior to the essay format. When reading an article I consider the clarity with which the author has expressed himself to be most important - if he can express idea
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The List of N Things(paulgraham.com)
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by djm 17y ago
I've tried every productivity trick under the sun but very few things ever work for me, or at least not for very long. The system that has worked best when I can bring myself to stick to it is: 1) Write a small paper list before going to be
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by djm 17y ago
Steven Levy is a brilliant writer. If you want to read about computer history from the position of the hackers building it then I'd also suggest reading his other books, especially 'crypto' and 'insanely great'.
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by djm 17y ago
There is some basic info of the breakdown of users including gender on Alexa, though it only provides info for users with their plugin: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com It will be interesting to see how that data compares to
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by djm 18y ago
I'll second that - France is another place where people seem to be born with bicycle attached. I spent two months last year cycling around France and was constantly amazed at the skills employed by cyclists I saw. You see groups of cyclists
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by djm 18y ago
There are a whole bunch of these IAP courses - see http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/ . Does anyone know if somebody is going to make videos of these? I couldn't see any mention of it on the site.
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by djm 18y ago
I first started programming with C and had a terrible time. I didn't really get anywhere and went through a cycle of repeatedly giving up and them returning to it after having a break. I don't think it's a good way to start programming but

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