When going out to eat in a group pay a bit more than you owe. A few extra dollars to have the meal end in peace is always worth it.
Ask HN: What are your best life hacks/best tools in life/time savers?
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#42GNU Screen is the big new thing for me. While old hat for many programmers, I just recently started realizing the power of it, especially detaching and reattaching, or reattaching to a broken SSH connection.
I agree, GNU Screen is great... but try tmux, I do prefer this one because of the ease of splitting horizontally and vertically without the need of a patch. If you want to stick with Screen... try Byobu
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#43When asked to do things you do not want to do, say no.
Obviously you have to pick your battles, but this simple act is guaranteed to give you more time to do the stuff you do want to do.
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#44If your living space is limited, ditch your dining table and get a folding ping-pong table with wheels. Do this before you find your life partner.
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#45There's a lot of great tips here, some I use every day. However, there's one conspicuously missing: whiteboards.
To me, whiteboarding is the best brainstorming tool possible. It's useful for just about everything, too. My whole wall is covered in them and they're almost always full. Get a whiteboard and you won't regret it.
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#46When going out to eat in a group pay a bit more than you owe. A few extra dollars to have the meal end in peace is always worth it.
This can also get expensive really fast
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the original commenter was envisioning a bus/train/van-pool/subway/ferry commute rather than a car/bicycle/walking commute. My last job involved a long subway trip and I found that a Kindle really helped. The trains were too crowded to make reading on, let alone working on a laptop feasible.
I understood that he meant being in a bus/train/van-pool/subway/ferry. The point that I was trying to make was that trying to do "something useful" while commuting is, at least to me, pretty annoying - there's so much distraction going on around you that your chances of actually having attention to the task you're doing are slim. And time without attention is time wasted. Ultimately you might find yourself using 24/7…
Yes I meant a bus/train/van-pool/subway/ferry, and yes I was thinking in listening to an audiobook/podcast, reading a book, perhaps doing some brainstorming with a Moleskine (well, it depends on the crowdiness of where your are), and if you have a table perhaps working on your laptop...
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#481) iMac 27" 2) Yoga + Meditation (everyday) 3) MixCloud (for fresh + awesome source of music playlist)
++ for Yoga. You might also try Tai Chi.
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#49When going out to eat in a group pay a bit more than you owe. A few extra dollars to have the meal end in peace is always worth it.
This can also get expensive really fast
Asymptotically, it's only O(N) for a meal priced N. In practice, since you only need to put in a few extra currency units, it's O(1). So it really can't get expensive fast.
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#50I rarely cook a meal for just myself. Either I cook for my housemates, or one of them cooks for me. It saves a lot of time, because cooking scales sublinearly. It's also cheaper and tastier (I put more effort in if I'm cooking for others).