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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What's an app/service that doesn't exist that you're willing to pay for?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Why do you use Twitter?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What's going on with Theranos?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Python or Ruby [Discussion]

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Is Facebook becoming the next Google?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What's an app/service that doesn't exist that you're ready to pay for?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Is email here to stay? Will there be an alternative?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What happens when a bubble burst?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Is the phone number here to stay?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Is snapchat really useful?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Does anyone still uses Google+?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How to land an internship?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What communication app(s) do you use the most? Why?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What is the most recurrent problem in your society/country?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: If you started making a web app today which tool would you choose?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Why is VR/AR such a big deal?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Would you use a messaging app that requires nor a phone number or email?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How do apps get posted on Product Hunt?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Why do you people make open-source projects?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Apply HN: SLOOP – Solving problems by reaching problems

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I only read on a kindle, so obviously the marginalia system is out of question. Here’s what I do: I highlight the passage, write a note where I summarize it with my own words. That’s all. But I also have a (physical) notebook where I write using the Feynman technique. On top of it all, I read at least 1 hour a day where I’m fully focused (or at least at 80% capacity) and you know what ? Good shit sticks: I trust my brain to capture what it deems valuable. If I forget something I don’t sweat it, it’s more likely that I don’t need it.

I'm a "millennial", so I think I speak millennial pretty well. Twitch is a very niche product: THE go-to place for the gaming community, it's also trying to break into mainstream live-streaming but that's Instagram's territory.

The way I see it, goals are the actual thing while objectives are diffuse imaginations of something, or the zoomed out perspective. To get a clear picture of something, you have to zoom in from the diffuse one first. You define your goals after zooming in, because then it's clear what's reachable.

This is exactly what I meant !

The example I gave wasn’t a good one. I suggest something else: think of goals as a “module”, it has a function that servers the main objective.

This idea of modules is also found in Dr Duckworth’s book: Grit.

I’ve thought (and experimented) about this for a while and here’s what I came up with:

* Goals are better for the short-term (we’re talking days and weeks).

* Systems (naturally) are better for the long-term (months and years).

* The best way to system-ize something is to make it a habit.

* A system without an objective is useless and inefficient.

* Which to use ? It depends on your personality AND the task at hand.

* Defining an objective is paramount.

* Objective =/= goal. An objective is of the highest order, a goal is a part of an objective. E.g. Objective: Lose fat, goal: stop consuming sugar.

Cool Backgrounds 8 years ago

I couldn’t download anything except for the last image (Safari, iOS 11.3) — it appears as “unknown” when I click the download button.

I am no connaisseur, just a guy who cares about privacy (in general and his in particular) who also happens to own an iPhone and wants to buy a Mac.

This seems pretty troubling, as I as well as many I suppose, trust Apple and think that they're one of the good guys. I know it's cliché but I think this is the part where "[..] live long enough to see yourself become the villain." applies.

The more important question, imho, then is: what can we do about it ? If nothing, what should be done ?

Semantic UI 9 years ago

Personally I have chose Semantic UI as my go-to css framework over bootstrap. While bootstrap performs better on mobile, SUI is way nicer/cleaner it therefore eliminates the need to customize anything which I think is one of the reasons that someone would use a css framework in the first place.