Spotify made me throw away CD-s, delete all mp3s and other audio files and stop being less-than-legal. It'll be interesting to see how big a foothold they get in USA, to me its a truly awesome service and currently on par with vim as the most essential tool on my computer.
The pricing is a lot cheaper than in Norway, but even here I think its cheap ($18 / month for premium) and would gladly have paid four-fold if that was the cost.
Overdo things — especially breaks.
At work I stopped drinking coffee from the machine and do it as labourous as possible; Grinding the beans, making preferably one cup at a time using an Aeropres. This makes me refocus on the coffee and thus have an actual effective break. Obviously the coffee itself gets hell-of-a-lot better!
I fullscreen every app I use to avoid multitasking. My terminal (vim user) has opacity so I can glimpse the browser behind it for visual cues on what I'm working on.
Turn off all notifications that goes beyond a tiny status light, or similar. Decide for yourself where to focus, dont let the email, IM refocus for you!
Weekly dinner plans. On sunday or monday, plan every dinner for the week. Shop once on monday. This saves you money and makes it a lot easier to eat what your body really needs.
Social life; Volunteer! Its the best and easiest way to make friends. Period Especially if you have trouble in this department.
It very nearly describes how I find myself to function as well. As long as there is theoretical possibility of doing an improved job than I am currently at, if i did something and delivered right now — I will most likely procrastinate into related subjects that indeed could help improve my response to the task at hand.
While at a the start line we have all this potential (we are perfectionist ), we see this perfect solution we will deliver, but deep down we do know that once we actually start — it just does not happen. Its like if we start we know that we will limit our potential because we have to make choices; narrowing down the possible result.
The reason I/we procrastinate is because not doing so means earlier realizing we will not live up to our own high so-believed standards.
To simply tell myself "do the non-perfect thing" might work from time to time, but it doesn't really solve all that much, its just a way to get by.
"Ignorance is bliss". The problem is rather universal. Put a good "X professional" to do job Y and a bad X to do the same job, it will be more miserable for he who is good because he has more knowledge and is better able to realize all the reasons why job/task X is a miserable sorry job.
On the other side you could argue that a good programmer would be able to abstract away a proportional amount of miserable work to a bad programmer, thus leaving them equally miserable.
In the end its your attitude as a person that decides if a task makes you miserable. If your attitude makes everything you do into a job — some piece of tedious labour you do at someone elses whim — then no wonder you are miserable.
Its amazing that after having read probably hundreds of Vim tutorials / guides every user is able to learn something completely new from every one of them.
It sure scales.
This one brought ^T and ^D for indenting in insert mode to me, and starting with -o/O as argument for opening multiple files in splits.
Take the job, get intimidated when you realize you are completely out of your league and get fired within 2 months.
In other words; Your worst case scenario is 2 months paid experience learning more.
This is great! And yes, worth it.
The ability to network, get more experience all while aiding in something for the community and getting paid?
Nice!
In Norway there was recently a funding round where personal or corporate initiatives could get funding for "webprenteurship" where you would use open data from departments etc and create something for the greater good.
It was funded by the government.
Thats somewhat similar although not as directed as this is.
Agreed.
I signed up, installed ruby and sinatra for a quick test environment before i realized i had no clue what the public ip was, or maybe you need to configure something for aws.
The ip you are given to ssh in with seems to not be open on other ports, or maybe its a different ip for common web ports – i don't know.
So, plan well ..
(or treat it simply as a cli test).
Now i finally can have a social network with my real close friends again inside facebook. Even reminds me of real social life.
Does this imply facebook is even more integrated in our lifes when we clearly define different circles of trust?
