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

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Post by stretchwithme »

superuser2 wrote: post #327
umbs wrote: post #144

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Agree with all three, but #2 for me has now become the very important due an incident last week. I pulled an all nighter and next day rear ended a vehicle near a traffic signal because I dozed off for a second. The impact was minimal and no one was harmed. It was the first accident with my fault in 15 years of driving. I am approaching 40 and have 2 young kids. I cannot get my priorities wrong at this point. Many liv…

+1. I had a similar experience - my one auto accident (though I am much younger than you) was when I clipped a mirror on a parked car after sleeping 5 hours. I wonder if we as a society will ever come around to treating insufficient sleep similarly to drunkenness or distraction for drivers. My intuition says it's similarly dangerous.

When I feel sleepy driving, I get off the road and just close my eyes until I start to feel like I'm falling asleep. Then I am good to go.

Studies have shown waste products are removed during sleep by the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid. Perhaps even a short period of cerebrospinal fluid circulation is enough to stave off sleepiness.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/10/18/23621181...

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

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Post by andai »

criddell wrote: post #608
ivankirigin wrote: post #528

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The reason people do this is that the list gets bigger far faster. Don't make decisions on aesthetic sensibilities alone.

I think the opposite approach is better. One list I'm on unsubscribes you every year and if you want to keep getting it, you have to resubscribe. Another has tracking and if I don't read the email, after a few months I'm unsubscribed. Bigger isn't necessarily better.

woah. What kind of lists are those? How do you benefit from having fewer readers?

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

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Post by Sgt_Apone »

imaginenore wrote: post #484
desdiv wrote: post #319

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I'm not a dishonest person in general, but I have zero problem with lying about my previous salary in order to gain a negotiating advantage. I feel that it's simply none of their business how much I used to make, and that if they're presumptuous enough to ask then a made-up number is what they deserve.

Lying about your previous salary may open you up to a lawsuit. It's sort of a grey area, but some consider it fraud. http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/is-it-illegal-to-l...

I think that realistically it would only come up as an issue if you were looking a c-suite position. For joe or jane programmer, I doubt they would go through the effort of taking you to court in the unlikely event that they found out about it.

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

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Post by andai »

Rannath wrote: post #241

1) TDD, I get SOO much more done, & with a greater level of confidence. 2) Exercise, I'm not tired all the time anymore. I'm losing weight. I'm happier. I no longer have an all comsuming need to feast on human flesh.

Do you mean that exercising led to you becoming vegetarian or cutting down meat?

Edit: lol looks like I should get some sleep

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

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Post by dorfsmay »

rdegges wrote: post #581
dorfsmay wrote: post #580

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As someone who knew you somewhere in the middle, totally didn't recognize you in the first pic, and the guy in the second pic looked really familiar, then I checked the username! Do you need special keyboards with those arms? :-)

Yves! Long time no see =) How are you doing these days? <3

Hey!

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

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Post by noshbrinken »

japhyr wrote: post #426
davidsawyer wrote: post #363

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Did you finish that project yet? If so, would you mind sharing it?

It took two pivots to find a project I could "finish". I've been a math and science teacher for a long time, so my strongest projects are education-related. I spoke about a project that would allow people to write and maintain education standards on an open platform. People were really interested in that project, and it led to an invitation to write a book for No Starch Press. I outlined an intro Python book, and the…

I just finished reading your book. Too many programming books focus on answering "how does this work?" I like your book because it focuses just as much on answering "what can I use this for?". Good work and congratulations on having it published!

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

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Post by kaybe »

oriel wrote: post #597
elorant wrote: post #255

Reading Hacker News. Seriously, this place from an intellectual point of view is the most important aspect in my life. It has opened my mind to so many viewpoints. It's one of the few healthy places on the Internet where you can have a decent conversation without things getting out of hand, while in the same time learn something new.

I'd clarify this as reading Hacker News comments, something I've only started doing recently. Its turned an adventure in increasing my browser tab density (shiny articles), to a deep discussion on the finer points of an important knowledge item (Implications of Oracle buying NetSuite). i.e. Depth of knowledge rather than breadth of shallow knowledge (reading the headlines only).

Looking up the keywords in one headline I don't understand every few days alone is incredibly helpful.

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

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Post by coldtea »

dominotw wrote: post #557
coldtea wrote: post #540

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> so people are meditating for 'benefits', to make more money . seems so counterintuitive. People have been meditating for benefits (including more money and better performing at their job etc) for millennia. It's not just for spiritual/religious purposes (and if fact in some cultures those can be mixed as well without any contradiction). > All those studies are stupid. Yeah, all those scientists are useless and thei…

those studies are not 'science'. Have you heard of 'replication crisis'[1]? Also see the other top post currently on HN [2].. And, Yes universities are filled with idiots, egotists and scamsters with their own nefarious motives. How do you explain the absurd 90% hypothesis validation? [3] you have your own brain to observe and meditate on, why do you need some authority to tell you what to do. >If you want to prejudi…

>those studies are not 'science'. Have you heard of 'replication crisis'?

Just because there has been a replication crisis doesn't mean you can dismiss all scientific studies willy nilly.

Those are not some Deepak Chopra style BS, they are actual clinical studies (and I've just sent a sample, there are tons). And the "replication crisis" argument doesn't really hold up if independent studies reach similar conclusions (as is the case with a lot of these).

>People like you who blindly believe anything a supposed authority puts out there in the name of science are real curse to the gift of science.

I don't "blindly believe anything a supposed authority puts out there". I respect multiple teams working on a field and coming up with relevant results, and having their papers peer reviewed etc.

I don't use issues like the "replication crisis" to dismiss any study I don't like based on predetermined convictions.

Notice also how your links are irrelevant. We are not talking about Psychology studies but medical clinical studies. So whether "Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences" (as another paper says) is irrelevant, as we're not talking about soft sciences and humanities here.

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