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by dreeves 15y ago
Has anyone figured out the equivalent of this on OSX? I asked about this a while back on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3275956/is-there-a-versio...
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by dreeves 15y ago
I would have trouble with the criteria for making a hash mark. Is it like "ok, here I go", start a timer, work for an hour, then mark the sheet? What if you get interrupted, don't stay focused the whole time, or find yourself having started
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by dreeves 15y ago
"We deviate from standard style for compactness."
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by dreeves 15y ago
Related is Paul Graham's essay, "The Top Idea in Your Mind" [ http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html ]. He doesn't address the question of why but proposes shower-taking as a litmus test for finding out what the top idea in your mind is (or y
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by dreeves 15y ago
Summary: We're putting up a $1000 bounty to force ourselves to average one User-Visible Improvement (UVI) to our startup per day. This is related to the recent hacker news discussion about "achieving goals like a mad klingon": http://news.
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Operationalizing "startups rarely die in mid keystroke so keep typing"(blog.beeminder.com)
6 points by dreeves 15y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
Hacker News discussion over a year ago when MathJax was relatively new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997096 And more recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974646
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by dreeves 16y ago
That last one is similar to my litmus test for Akrasia [ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia ]: 1. How certain are you that you *want* to do it? 2. How certain are you that you *can* do it? 3. How certain are you that you *will*
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by dreeves 16y ago
Maybe just whitelist any site using MathJax? Probably a reasonable policy. I can't really tell the difference in the LaTeX logo, but I think it's silly to actually typeset the logo that way when talking about LaTeX. I'd refuse to do the s
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by dreeves 16y ago
I had known about MathJax but didn't realize that it was that easy. Just include a couple lines at the top of your html document and then just type math exactly like a LaTeX document. I want to find someone who helped make this possible a
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MathJax: Math just works on the web now(dreev.es)
23 points by dreeves 16y ago|4 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
Seems to be missing one of my favorites: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule. I've been thinking about making a tool based on that idea: http://makerscheduler.com aka http://msched.com
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Productivity Hack: The sedimentary filing system(blog.beeminder.com)
9 points by dreeves 16y ago|2 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
Ode to Power Laws: http://messymatters.com/powerlaws
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by dreeves 16y ago
My co-hacker and I have a solution for IM conversations that we love: http://yootles.com/nims
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by dreeves 16y ago
To call this foolish is pure hindsight bias. Winning the lottery doesn't mean it was smart to play. (To get technical, it was dumb to play ex ante but smart to play ex post. Or, more simply: hindsight is 20-20.) Though I admit it's fun to p
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by dreeves 16y ago
Short version: 1. Watson has an unfair advantage in reaction time and Ken and Brad have an unfair advantage in timing their button presses. On balance the buzzer surely favors Watson though. An obvious rule tweak would eliminate this issu
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Humanity Lost on Jeopardy(messymatters.com)
2 points by dreeves 16y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
Maybe simpler version of your proposed rule change: Buzzing in before the buzzers are activated is just treated as buzzing in at the exact moment the buzzers are activated. (And, as you say, break ties randomly.)
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by dreeves 16y ago
Here's some research suggesting that the Long Tail isn't just for weirdos like us, but that pretty much everyone dips into the long tail occasionally: http://messymatters.com/longtail In other words, businesses like Blockbuster figured t
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by dreeves 16y ago
I didn't realize that about using the "parental" control. Great example of a commitment device! And that's what I really mean about the difference between WoW and most other hobbies and social activities: WoW sucks you in in a way that m
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by dreeves 16y ago
Reminds me of this -- http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7873033/ (cartoon version of the theory of rational addiction) -- which you'll find especially funny if you hang out with economists much.
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by dreeves 16y ago
In principle, sure, but the point is that WoW is indeed especially addictive in a way that a bowling league isn't.
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by dreeves 16y ago
Related is Paul Graham's essay on the acceleration of addictiveness: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html (And to add a shameless plug, my own article on akrasia: http://messymatters.com/akrasia )
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Breaking a WoW addiction(pixelpoppers.com)
282 points by dreeves 16y ago|193 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
I think that's number 4, extrospection, where I know what you want better than you do.
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by dreeves 16y ago
Probably everyone here knows all about the so-called deadweight loss of Christmas (people value gifts less than the givers spend, making the whole institution a huge waste). This article gives reasons why it's not as big a waste as it seem
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Scroogenomics: Ulterior motives and other rationalizations for gift-giving(messymatters.com)
3 points by dreeves 16y ago|3 comments
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by dreeves 16y ago
An equivalent way to describe Friedman's negative income tax proposal is that everyone pays their taxes as normal and then $20k/year (or however much) is given back to literally everyone, regardless of income. I like that version because it
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How to do what you want (akrasia, commitment devices, pitch for my startup)(messymatters.com)
8 points by dreeves 16y ago|0 comments

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