elwell

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   by elwell 12y ago

   It's difficult to determine if time spent "truly fully understanding" will be a net time gain or simply time wasted. In most situations, I'll lean towards the former.
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   Poll: What is your #1 productivity killer?

   166 points by elwell 12y ago|101 comments
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Obsessing over development process / tools / editors ('fine-tuning' .vimrc or .emacs)
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Hacker News / Reddit
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Pornography
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Family / Relationships
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   by elwell 12y ago

   YouTube / Netflix
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Workplace design (open floor plan, etc.)
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   by elwell 12y ago

   Office politics and/or meetings
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Depression / Lack of interest
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Feeling stuck / "coder's block"
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Slow internet speed
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Tiredness (even after sleeping a reasonable length of time)
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Drugs and/or Alcohol
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    by elwell 12y ago

    120 points in 1 hour is a nice start. I think you can add a self-referencing entry to your achievement list: "Launched Remember Win App"
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    by elwell 12y ago

    http://www.nextdesks.com/
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    by elwell 12y ago

    > One day an intelligence officer told him that TAO—a division of NSA hackers—had attempted in 2012 to remotely install an exploit in one of the core routers at a major Internet service provider in Syria, which was in the midst of a prol
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    by elwell 12y ago

    On a related note, look at what gallium does to aluminium: http://youtu.be/9DEjE8jiwT8?t=1m7s
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Submitted.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    If they internet were to not work for the period of one year, what would happen? How many people would die? (A genuine question for anyone who feels up to task)
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    by elwell 12y ago

    > You mean solutions in Clojure? We got 'em. Great, I'm interested. > Or do you mean "crypto issues specific to Clojure"? What would those be? Ah, I see now that these challenges are more of the language-agnostic
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    by elwell 12y ago

    ... just realized they are posting the challenges on the site this year, rather than via email.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    After spending last week at my grandparents' North Carolina mountain house, I was encouraged to find they regularly have neighbors over for dinner. I must admit, I only know one of my neighbors' names at my apartment in LA.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    This is cool, but it's one of those things I sign up for and then I never 'have time'; the emails fade away in the deep abyss of gmail account.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    Would like to see real-world-ish Clojure crypto concerns.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    calculateDay = (year, month, day) -> y = (year - 2000) % 28 m = [6,2,2,5,0,3,5,1,4,6,2,4][month] m-- if month < 2 and y % 4 is 0 y += (y / 4) | 0 ['Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed
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    by elwell 12y ago

    I've tightened down a drill over my Hario and ground it up real fast. Not advised for grinder longevity, but perhaps a remedy for RSI.
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    by elwell 12y ago

    What was the old font?
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    by elwell 12y ago

    I love this kind of stuff.