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I often like to listen more than watching and reading. There is a tremendous amount of online lectures which can be listened to while working out or while running. Some Podcasts are also instructive. I would never have "read" GTD by David Allen if I hadn't gotten the audiobook, some topics don't interest me enough from the get-go (non-technical books) or have started to feel like a waste of time over the years (fiction) to really convince myself to sit and focus on the actual book.

Irrespective of your opinion on the complicated topic of abortion wouldn't you agree that contraceptives exemplify a more civilized approach to birth control? Maybe a bad analogy, yes but shouldn't we primarily look for solutions which prevent suffering in the first place?

You are right, I've never been to NZ but the way of handling the issue implied by the comment didn't put it in a context of "if dangerous then keep on going" but "aiming" for them (i.e. "population control").

Most likely a sane default but I would think also strongly circumstantial depending on traffic, current speed and weather/light conditions.

As the pinnacle of the animal kingdom we should be able to come up with smarter solutions.

I always liked the story of Andrew Hallidie, the man behind promoting the idea of the San Franciscan Cable Car - he and his main engineer William Eppelsheimer were motivated to find a better solution to what was to a high-degree an animal welfare issue.

Street cars in SF during the late 19th century used to be pulled by horses which both was dangerous for them as well as passengers:

"I was largely induced to think over the matter from seeing the difficulty and pain the horses experienced in hauling the cars up Jackson Street, from Kearny to Stockton Street, on which street four or five horses were needed for the purpose–the driving being accompanied by the free use of the whip and voice, and occasionally by the horses falling and being dragged down the hill on their sides, by the car loaded with passengers sliding on its track..... .... With the view of obviating these difficulties, and for the purpose of reducing the expense of operating street railways (tram-roads), I devoted all my available time to the careful consideration of the subject, and so far matured my plans that I had California Street (a very steep street in San Francisco) surveyed [between Kearny and Powell streets, a distance of 1,386 feet] in 1870 by an engineer of the name of David R. Smith, and in the Sacramento Record, a newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, California, in 1870, a statement is there published in its telegraphic news of what I proposed to do, viz: to run a rope railway to carry passengers from the city to the plateau above."

http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system

I remember when I first heard about Lessig and his efforts regarding Copyleft at the university of technology here in Vienna, that was almost a decade ago - glad to read that he's still advancing even further, trying to change things for the better. A brilliant man and important role-model not only for people in computer science or law.

I hope you aimed well enough. Can you be sure not to have left behind any half-dead, suffering animals?

No disrespect to you in particular but this way of handling the problem comes off as very blunt and uncivilized.

Imagine never hearing any birds chirping outside, something we had been witnessing here in Vienna - a silent but profound feeling of horror when I first realized it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usutu_virus

That's also how I've been doing it for some time now - best of both worlds!

Sometimes it can get a little flaky though as recently there were some glitches in the IdeaVim plugin and it hurt my productivity badly (I'm so much faster in Vim mode). The issues have fortunately been fixed by now.

I had always been struggling with Vim for bigger projects because I had to waste many good hours over highly individual sets of dotfiles with plugins like Nerdtree and others (integrated debugging, jumping to function definitions etc) I could have been programming instead... IDEs like Xcode and RubyMine are tightly integrated with their domain out of the box so to me there is not much I could rationalize about in terms of using Vim (unfortunately).

I even picked up WebStorm for node/js/html development recently, naturally with the IdeaVim plugin activated at all times :)

Github user saeedmalekpour:

Mr. President, I have been in Evin Prison, Iran for 6 years because my open source code was found on a website the regime didn't like. In the spirit of freedom, democracy and the hour of code - please help me in any way you can (account administered and message sent with permission of Saeed's family) Proof: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/518460637916446720

More information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57pfl6nkD0

One of the most interesting and beautiful code bases I had to work with recently was a modern, versatile and mobile-centric Intranet web application - fully written in C++ with wt:

http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

https://github.com/kdeforche/wt

Also great retelling by Andy Hertzfeld on the 3.5" Sony floppy disk drive:

"Quick, Hide In This Closet!"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

A true role-model for any friend and businessman indeed.

Thanks for sharing I was suspecting something like this..oh welp, those alluring glowing computer screens they surely are distracting.

Github/Gitlab issues - even with non-programming team members, like customers and designers.

Thanks for the links, very insightful.

As somebody who unfortunately is only a fairly recent GTD convert I was wondering if you could elaborate more on why Omnifocus wasn't for you?

I was thinking of buying it for both my Mac and iPhone but I am still undecided as I don't know if it really is the right solution for me. GTD to me most of all is about honestly taking stock of our own shortcomings as human wetware (and pragmatically be OK with it) so I'm essentially asking myself if David Allen would rather be for some organic, haptic "real world" physicality at least..

You should try David Allen's GTD system. I'm pretty angry at myself for not having tried to understand and apply it earlier (had been reading about it for many years before..) it really is a great holistic concept to give structure to your most precious finite resources (brain, time).

Also delete your RSS reader, loopback HN and other "educational" sites to localhost (subscribe to http://www.hndigest.com instead) and try to get back into reading books again.

Good luck!

Quite the family: Owen Garriott a NASA astronaut and father of Lord British (also known as Richard Garriott) made first ham radio contact from space in 1983...

Also a good follow-up regarding "Flux" here:

"Flux for stupid people" http://blog.andrewray.me/flux-for-stupid-people/

Even though I've got a keen interest in computer graphics I've always found well-done live-action special effects to be more engaging than digital effects. There are movies who don't abuse the seemingly limitless power of computing but in my opinion there are surprisingly few.

Good examples where analog > digital: all the Ray Harryhausen movies, Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Terminator, Predator...

I haven't read through this myself and I might not agree with what's in there but then again it seems to be a thoughtfully laid out format. Do we always have to agree with what we read?

Thanks for the headache, it was worth it - cool project! What's your stack?

Erlang is great and so is Elixir but node serves a different purpose which really amounts to many different purposes of which none include things like building massive real-time and fault-tolerant messaging services (you could still use node and make it work but it certainly would be a suboptimal choice for that).

I've got first hand experience with this at a major airline - node is a surprisingly good fit for Bigco because it is encouraging modularization and has very predictable dependency management but most of all it allows you to fit it into your current systems easily and organically. There is not much convention (also an argument against it in some cases) other than being in many ways a very "unix" kind of environment (streams etc) with the added benefit of having Javascript's functional/event-driven roots.

Most of all to me node is fun which is especially important when you have to conquer problems in un-fun environments (most Bigco systems).

Don't over-engineer, be bold - be specific.

"Overtly generalized code is the root of all evil."

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

Yes and as per the article and my own experience that's especially true when you think about going into food & beverages as it's the complete opposite of what it feels like being a customer - you have to love it (never-ending, physically and psychologically hard work) there really is no other way.

Edit: I enjoyed Peter Thiel's "Competition is For Losers" as it pretty much sums up what is wrong with this industry from a business perspective - http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec05/

I'm very much looking forward to read this, perfectly timed release for the upcoming Ludum Dare (December 5th-8th)

http://ludumdare.com/compo/

"... almost all from a coronary artery called the left main blocking...These patients unfortunately almost all dead on arrival."

How can we monitor this effectively? There must be a solution that does something after something has registered a problem.

Not quite related but if you found yourself wondering why Rust has semicolon based statement termination - there is a thought provoking article on that topic:

"Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust" http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/10/18/such-a-little-thing/

I would love for SEGA to really push on their tradition of delivering pure arcade experiences and build out-of-this-world adrenaline pumping VR spectacles now that we have the right technology for it.