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And the best way to manage your home is to separate the tasks into tidying, organising and cleaning. 3 separate and distinct actions. The same applies to code and projects.

I really like it too - but one that stumped me when I landed in the homepage was "What do I click to see something?" Maybe add a big green "Ready, let's go!" button underneath the instructions/controls.

Same here and I've just started reading "Hooked" by Nir Eyal which is kind if a counter/companion to "Deep Work". Following Newport's logic I am looking at optimising engagmement (for a paid/freemium app/SaaS website) as "help people stay in their flow state, make the interactions smooth and non-demanding, then get out of the way". Part of the book seems suggests that having tools is fine as long as the tool doesn't too much extra baggage or make to process of using it too much about itself (drawing you away from the goal/original focus).

The BBC did have a really interesting viewer for all the meta data at http://open.bbc.co.uk - but that seems to have disappeared.

http://duncan.hull.name/2012/08/03/meta-bbc/

Every Day Scripting with Ruby by Brian Marick, published by Pragmatic Programmers.

When they finally did get barcodes they wrapped around most of the product so they could just whizz them past the scanners. They're still fast, but it's a more frustrating to keep up, whereas before, you were kind of in awe.

An alternate take on this would be for websites/services that have a splash page but no signup form/RSS feed or a non-news/blog site such as a bakery, local restaurant, etc.

From the name/HN prompt, I thought it'd be something that gave you updates as a story was developed. For example, you hear about a criminal being captured, but you don't always hear about the trial/sentencing. A few months later you're asking "What ever happened to that guy who..."

You're right. And the two are hard to compare: cheaper bacon in your hand, immediately, today vs. the more abstract 'human health' (which may or may not affect you, ever).

Another aspect might be that people with mental/eating disorders might be more attracted to vegetarianism, rather than vegetarianism causing those. I can see good reasons for this: vegetarianism is a good mask for being a "picky" eater, it's got strong issues you can be concerned/depressed about (animal suffering, environmental destruction, being a social outcast in certain areas), etc.

Had a mode extreme version of that - if I kept it open the whole day I had to restart my laptop.

From my experience a lot of this is to do with people's "food culture" (I can't think of a better way to express that). People have ideas about what constitutes food or a "proper meal". (I've heard people say "My dad would be offended if I cooked him dinner and there wasn't any meat in it").

Give people something they recognise and they can handle it.

It's not just convenient to store and it, it's convenient to think about and fit into the (heavily marketed) idea of a proper meal (for vegetarians and vegans too).

From the other article on HN today it seems that they've tried to do some of that. They wrote their own pre-IPO prospectus and done the leg-work themselves on other things. It's not "automated", but it's cutting out a lot of what those finance companies would have done.

They never really solved the 'alienation' problem. Nothing changed about people's jobs, they were just working in the factory for 'The Good of the People' rather than 'Faceless MegaCorp'.

Where I work (medium-sized mail-order clothing company) almost all roles would be better if they were balanced job complexes[1]. People packing orders would benefit from dealing with customers directly, customer services would benefit from actually shipping orders, designers would benefit from seeing feedback from customers directly, etc. Giving people a larger view of the business would benefit the company and those employees (most efficiency/service breakthroughs have come someone changing teams).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_job_complex

You should create a tip jar. I use ViewText 3 or 4 times a day. If I go to a website and there's no print view or there's a load of crud I don't want to print I hit the bookmarklet and ViewText makes it all look good.

And at the same time the Russians did much to preserve Yiddish (a Jewish language).

How do you overcome making sure mobile devices don't download lots of images/interactive components they won't/don't/can't display?

Exit are a left-wing group trying to steer people away from a right-wing group. Tolerance doesn't come into it. From the perspective of the left in Germany, street-level and youth movements for right-wing groups are a real problem. And this is a practical, pragmatic action.

Here's the problem I have with cryonics: in what future do they need to defrost people from the past for another other than freak show/historical novelty? There are so many problems the defrosted will have:

* no skills for their new environment * no money * billions of warm-bodied, warm-blooded other humans already there * suffering from lonliness knowing everyone you've ever known is dead

Unless the defrosting process is great and there's going to be gene therapy, and it won't be for maybe the first few hundred/thousand people, you'll be disabled, diseased or still suffering from whatever killed you in the first place.

47 times faster in Firefox 3.6.1 7 times faster in IE 8

My boss had a better slogan: JEDI (just effin' do it). We always took it to mean 'do it, don't just talk about it/don't ask permission, just get on with it'. Getting that JEDI mindset is important in lots of workplaces.

Back to the original point: don't wait. There are so many things you might be thinking of doing and saying 'When I get my new team...', 'When I get a free afternoon...', 'When I've fully mastered Rails testing I'll start doing BDD...'

There's also a tool called Winsplit Revolution which does the same thing. It's like Divvy on the Mac.

The quote having it's own Facebook page is probably because of the changes they made fairly recently with people's profiles/interests.

I think the quote, an unlived life is not worth examining, is nice and deep. I take it to mean that, not just a boring life, biographies of young people are premature.

As an example, the 24 year old who chases a small bag of air around a grassy field, has a 5-book biography planned.[1]

The man who created the Red Army, lost the struggle against Stalin, inspired revolutionaries around the world and was brutally murdered aged 60... He managed a measly 3 part biography.[2][3]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/478... [2] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inauthor:%22Isaac+Deutscher... [3] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n23/neal-ascherson/victory-in-defea...

As I understand it, Haystack has already 'shipped' code. They 'shipped' it to Iran on USB thumb drives. Austin Heap posted up info not too long after the Iranian elections last year.

A sensible step would be to get into the habit of upgrading browsers/tools. A workplace that finds it traumatic to upgrade to IE 7, 8 or 9 or from Windows XP or Windows 7 or even from Office 2003 to Office 2007 is not going to be prepared for changes in the future.

Small steps. Regularly taken.

It's not great ideas you should be after, it's great problems. If someone has a great idea for a website, I might use it. If you can solve a problem I've got, I'll pay you.

Here are 4 problems I've got that I'd happily pay money to have solved for me.

1. I can't find good podcasts about the things I'm interested in. I should be able to say "give me any podcast about 'yiddish'" and a neat server would collate them all.

2. I want something between a university course and Ruby learning, without having to be 'present' or leaving my job, but with small, bite-sized chunks of learning. Amy Hoy/Thomas Fuchs and Michael Hartl are kind of their with their smaller groups/sessions. I'd like sessions on Apache, jQuery, Ruby, testing, CS fundamentals, etc. This could be something as simple as facilitated self-study.

3. A Twitter iPad app for note-taking and live-blogging at conferences. It should focus on note-taking and allow you to send out tweets of particular parts and easily follow hash tags.

4. A web interface that brings together all the different recommended writing rules (like this: http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi... and this: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/07/janet-fit...) and some readability scores, etc. Paid users could set a consistent rules/styles/brand voice and possibly integrate with Google Docs or something similar.

You should start making your own screencasts and sell them alongside the others. Your brand is already established, you'll have seen enough screencasts to know what works and you can identify gaps in the market. If you put an open poll on there you can get feedback from people visiting the site about what they want to buy, but isn't there. And you can share that with other screencasts producers. If nobody else steps up, you can make and sell the most popular suggestions.

You don't even have to make the screencasts, you can pay others and you just sell them.

I'd like a web app, kind of like DabbleDB, where you can just drop in data and easily make pivot tables and get interesting outputs. It could just throw a bunch of analyses at the data and see what it comes out with.

This is sad news. I have read many of his books and found them enjoyable, although he used the same formula many times: the world - something we take for granted = interesting story.

Here is an interview from 2006 with Saramago entitled "Still a street-fighting man": http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/30/fiction.features...

There is a demand for this kind of thing outside of just high-school. I'm not in a position to go back to high-school or university, but I'd like (and would pay) to be able to "study along" with other people on a course/textbook.

(This is partly a lazyweb request - if this exists, someone tell me where!)

I regularly read (quality) content online and think "I'd tip for that". But there's no way of doing it. I could click the adverts, but I don't want to deal with lots of popups and I have no interesting in buying whatever they're advertising.