Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Post by reedlaw » Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 6:31 PM UTC

atemerev wrote: post #33

zzalpha wrote: post #25

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Not to start a flamewar, but have you looked at tmux for this kind of thing? "Daemon mode" is the mode for tmux, and the whole stack is designed to be extremely scriptable. "tmux send-keys" does what you're referring to, here, but essentially anything you can do interactively, you can do via the command-line. Not to say you shouldn't just keep doing what works for you! But figured I'd at least make mention of tmux as…

Ctrl-B is the _worst_ shortcut ever devised (which is why it is used rarely... except on tmux). Just _thinking_ about it gives me the pain. My hand hurts. And yet, this is a default shortcut for command mode in tmux. "But you can configure it!" — one might say. No, I won't be doing it on every system I manage, I have better things to do.

Post by sdenton4 » Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

paloaltokid wrote: post #160

Tenoke wrote: post #140

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>1) Meditation, I used to think it was something hippies did. I now think its worth 10 IQ points. I honestly can't recommend it enough. I wish this was true && that there was well compiled evidence that could convince me that this is the case.

Why not just give it a try on your own? Do it for 21 days and don't let yourself have an opinion on it until that stretch of time is done. Then see how you feel and make a decision.

Post by ljk » Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #126

3 things for me: 1) Meditation, I used to think it was something hippies did. I now think its worth 10 IQ points. I honestly can't recommend it enough. 2) Sleep, I'm getting close to 40 and the last 2 times I pulled all nighters I ended up deleting pretty much all the code I wrote from 11pm onward. 3) Occasional Fasts. I normally fast from 6pm until noon the next day but I now do one 3 day fast each month. I think th…

Post by daveloyall » Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 6:35 PM UTC

atemerev wrote: post #33

zzalpha wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to start a flamewar, but have you looked at tmux for this kind of thing? "Daemon mode" is the mode for tmux, and the whole stack is designed to be extremely scriptable. "tmux send-keys" does what you're referring to, here, but essentially anything you can do interactively, you can do via the command-line. Not to say you shouldn't just keep doing what works for you! But figured I'd at least make mention of tmux as…

Ctrl-B is the _worst_ shortcut ever devised (which is why it is used rarely... except on tmux). Just _thinking_ about it gives me the pain. My hand hurts. And yet, this is a default shortcut for command mode in tmux. "But you can configure it!" — one might say. No, I won't be doing it on every system I manage, I have better things to do.

    scp ~/.*less* ~/*less* newmachine:

Post by Jtsummers » Fri, Jul 29, 2016, 6:35 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #63

patio11 wrote: post #9

Every time I start seriously exercising this hits in about week ~4. Sadly, I only generally keep it up for 6 months before falling back to old habits. Professionally: email lists. If you have any reason to have a blog, you should have an email list. It surfaces the identities of the people who are actually interested in what you have to say, and ties people to you much, much tighter than "Oh yeah, that thing you wrot…

I'm currently at that 6 month point in my exercise program for about the 5th time. Anybody have any hints for pushing through it?