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by jwdunne 11y ago
Yeah, a remote control iKettle sounds meh but a remote-control iKettle controlled by your iContact Lense, with the water fetched by a robot (can't be called iRobot unfortunately) sounds so much cooler. To be honest, I used to want all
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by jwdunne 11y ago
There is a darker side to video games that people don't take into account. As per the article, games are highly stimulating. For children and even adults (me in particular), time slips away and 12 or more hours have been spent playing
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by jwdunne 11y ago
To clarify, Tim LeBon's book is the Achieve Your Potential book.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Feeling Good by David Burns is a very good book. I've heard of studies that have shown it just as effective as medication for depression. The second chapter "Do Nothingness" has a chapter on procrastination specifically too.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Concepts found in mindfulness and CBT can help with this. The idea is that thoughts influence emotion and physical responses, which then influences behaviour, consequentially influencing outcomes. With procrastination, you will think of a t
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Yes, hahaha. In fairness, if you've never experienced supersonic in any other format (except Adventure on DC), you don't know what you've missed.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is exactly my feelings 100%. Teachers made me out to be dumb or mentally defective to my mother but my mother saw something different at home, where my attention was free. My mum recounted a story of me at 3 years watching my father an
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Ask HN: Coming up with ideas?
3 points by jwdunne 11y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Testing an idea using AdWords and a landing page?
1 points by jwdunne 11y ago|1 comments
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I guess you could do this in a higher-level language like Ruby, though you either have to use a mixin or monkey-patch a core class, which isn't as clean cut as a first-class construct. With Lisp, you could just create the construct if
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Interesting. It seems mine changes with the weather. I can think of numbers as their symbols and manipulate them in my head like that. I can do small long addition, multiplication and division in my head this way but it's bounded by wo
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is true. What is a project but a collection of small steps? One small, perhaps one hour, of contribution a day for a year adds up to hundreds of hours.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I think actively trying to suppress a response to negative or positive feedback will have the opposite effect, just to get that out. Framing feedback as an opportunity to improve and better yourself/your company, be it toning down some
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by jwdunne 11y ago
http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf Here is another interesting read, though again not comprehensive.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Thanks. I'd actually be interested in hearing more about their opinion on the book, it'll help with my own development.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
http://c.learncodethehardway.org/ by Zed Shaw is an introduction to C that seems to have emphasis on writing secure C programs. It's an introduction to C so I'm not sure if it's a comprehensive guide to secur
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is true. I have seen many working ntlworld.com emails. NTL, when my parents switched from a 56k modem. Good memories. I remember having an argument with my parents about NTL's search engine. They tried saying Google was screwing t
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I too have started medication in the past week, albeit Concerta XL. Absolutely life changing. I'd learned and used various techniques to structure my day, such as breaking down projects, scheduling, reminders and what have you but the
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Yes, I notice a sharp rise in productivity and progress on all important projects. I don't schedule individual todos but set out todos on a project in that time. I use iCal at work but I'd love something similar for home, where I
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Ask HN: What are your non-technical non-fiction recommended reads?
9 points by jwdunne 11y ago|10 comments
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is exactly my education path. The great thing was my MMO opened up both the client and server for development so I learned to program using GScript. God awful language in hindsight but addictive. I eventually spent more time developing
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PsySH, REPL and debugger for PHP(psysh.org)
1 points by jwdunne 11y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 11y ago
His autobiography is really good too. It was pretty inspiring how, as an ice cream man, he sat on a beach and just decided he was going to build a massive wealth. He went away and expanded his ice cream van business so he had a fleet of ice
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Hrm, I have eyesight issues. They are worse when I use a computer for a length of time. Retina display improves it. I have 2 astigmatisms. My left eye is worse than my right. I'm not sure if computers can change the shape of the eyebal
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I see this question a lot. I think we as a community can decide that by way of votes. The moderation team can also offer second judgement, which it seems to have passed. Liberty and actions of the police seems like a topic many hackers are
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I'm gonna be honest, I'd love to read more about your experiences. If you ever set up a blog, feel free to email me with a link.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
As a side note, your markdown parser story was an interesting read. I felt disappointed when I got to the end, I wanted to read about the rest of the implementation journey!
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Call-Me-Dave had to backtrack after making out he wanted to ban encryption and a bunch of smart computer scientists and cryptographers made him look foolish. I guess there in lies why Call-Me-Dave couldn't.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Taking another look at SBCL, even the assembler and its code is written in Lisp: https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/assembly/x86/ar... Very interesting stuff. In the same repo, y
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I believe many lisps do this too. This is where I learned about self-hosting compilers before realising they're pretty much everywhere. I remember looking at the source of a CL impl and thinking "what? It's all in Common Lisp

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