June 2011
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What kind of traffic does #2 on Hacker News yield?
I started this blog a couple weeks ago because I wanted to share some protips I practice regarding productivity, health, programming, and general lifehacks. My second post about discomfort as a motivator created a little stir in the Hacker News community last week and I wanted to present the numbers I saw.
Let me come right out and say that I didn’t have analytics installed for the actual...
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Please, make yourself uncomfortable.
Here’s me at any given weekday around noon:
I’m staring at some code usually written by some French guy back in 2003. After I curse the French, I refactor a chunk and restart my server, alt-tab over to my browser, immediately command-T and type ‘r-e’ until reddit.com appears in my omnibar, browse Reddit’s front page, reach over to grab a bite from lunch, command-L...
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I don't always sit down at work, but when I do,...
Being a programmer is hard on the body. Given, there’s not a lot of risk of slicing a finger off, or breaking a leg, but programmers don’t exactly have swimmer’s abs either. What tends to go wrong for the common fellow nerd who spends hour after hour exercising his or her brain rather than their body?
Weight issues - This one is easy pickings. When you sit for 12 - 14 hours a...
