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by visakanv 11y ago
I think it's "first job" burnout, rather than first 'job burnout' EDIT: Actually on second read I'm not so sure. Maybe it's just a natural figure-of-speech thing rather than a deliberate choice of words
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by visakanv 11y ago
"I was born into favorable circumstances. 10/10 would be born into these circumstances again, highly recommend."
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Sure! The point still stands– I could utter loathe Kenny G, but the fact remains that some people pick up the instrument because they enjoyed Kenny G, and some subset of those people go on to develop an interest in "real jazz", sa
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by visakanv 11y ago
The one thing I find more distasteful than TED is are smug commentaries writing about how distasteful TED is. It reminds me of of jazz musicians criticizing "watered down jazz-pop". > "What I ask myself when confronted wit
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Killing zombies is always its own reward. :-) I guess they represent the perfect "Other", you can completely hate them and enjoy killing them without feeling any remorse or doubt.
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> repetition takes the fun out of anything. I get where you're coming from, but this statement is easily disproven with any example of anybody who enjoys any repetitive task. I think the difference between painful and tolerable (or
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Yes. I have often surprised myself with how much I enjoy seemingly menial things like cleaning my windows and restringing my guitars, once I get over the initial pain of starting. Making a real difference to yourself, your living environmen
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by visakanv 11y ago
There are all sorts of real life "arrange things" tasks that can be really soothing, too. You may enjoy http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/
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> never underestimate the number of people who have nothing to do and need an outlet The interesting thing is that people always have an endless amount of things to do. The problem is that we're usually really VAGUE about what we ne
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I agree. I find video games less compelling now than I did as a teenager primarily because my work feels a lot more interesting and engaging than school did.
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http://playspent.org/
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Singaporean here, have criticized the govt multiple times, protested govt policy, am doing perfectly fine, thanks!
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The my inner 12-year-old would be so thrilled to watch that happen! It does seem like an inevitability.
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According to Forbes, Google's market capitalization currently stands at around $382 billion, while Samsung is currently worth $186 billion. That would enable Apple to buy, and shut down, two of its biggest rivals in the consumer electr
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They're a pretty cool company. For April Fool's, they did http://www.warbybarker.com , which I found hilarious. They have a lot of taste.
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My wife would love it, so I'd buy one.
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That was a very amusing episode! I enjoyed it.
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Now I'll ramble a bit for why I love this essay so much– it's such a powerful reminder that so many of the bloody conversations we're having all the time about what the Apple Watch is going to do or what AR is going to do, an
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by visakanv 12y ago
This is one of my favorite essays I've ever read, and I'm sharing it with HN in response to "Why can't we read anymore?" I'll edit this comment as I go with all my thoughts, and a sort-of summary. First some qu
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The Information: How the Internet gets inside us. (2011)(newyorker.com)
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I've memorized a relevant XKCD just for this occasion, because it comes up so much: http://xkcd.com/1227/ > "Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips. The to
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by visakanv 12y ago
And you know, it's interesting to think about why that is, and how that helps anybody. Have you ever gone onto a blogpost about procrastination and found the "I'll read this later" comment, and the "I'm here re
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by visakanv 12y ago
There's actually a really interesting discussion on Quora, I think, about why they had something along the lines of a no-humor policy. The problem isn't that people are humorless– it's that when you reward people for humor (o
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Reminds me of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
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Especially bearing in mind that these figures affect the actual amounts of $$ that advertisers are charged!
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I'm curious to hear your thoughts about what progress has been so far. What do you feel have been works or movements or creations from the past that allowed for progress?
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"Trivial but intimate moments" – you'll enjoy a lot of novels written by old French and Russian authors. Check out Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_Undergroun
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Fair enough, though then you have to say that the Sophists artificially constructed their arguments, too. (Socrates was very against this.) And every sellout author since the origin of the printing press artificially constructed his or her
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Martin Luther effective did a tweetstorm with his 95 Theses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/history/95theses.htm
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> I'm not convinced its not any less childish screwing around just because it generates a shared vocabulary for people. It's not progress of culture or language, simply an increase of quantity of slang and in-jokes. Why not bot

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