Staying motivated is simple: don't work on boring shit.
That may sound like a shallow phrase, but I've been there. You've convinced yourself that you're working on the most awesome thing in the world. You keep thinking that you're supposed to be motivated, because what you're doing is great. But deep down, you know that you'd rather do something else.
At that point it usually boils down to rewards. Is the reward worth continuing?
If the answer is yes, go on. Shouldn't be a problem.
If the answer is no, you know why you aren't motivated. Drop it, look for something else.
But it's not that simple. Not that simple to drop something when it's 70% complete, not easy to find something new that won't also become boring at 70%, and not easy to start from scratch.
Plus, with every failure, you lose a little bit of trust in yourself and belief that you can get things done.
There's always a point where the motivation is just gone and you have to push through somehow, and if you can't get this thing done, chances are that you won't be able to do it the second or third time, either ...
The problem is not Javascript per se. Personally, I like a good webapp.
What annoys me is the tendency of Javascript guys to rebuild every damn application there is as a webapp, and rave about it like it's the best thing ever.
Javascript has become their hammer, and the whole world looks like it needs a good pounding.
How about not autoplaying the video as soon as I open the page? I frequently open multiple pages in background tabs and Youtube makes this rather annoying.
One of the main reasons I come to HN is to learn how other people feel about certain things, predominantly from the comments section. Else it's just me in my cave.
It's obvious what point the slides were making.
The important part is that it said enough to inspire discussion and that it's qualified by its recency (posted last month) and by the experience of the person that gave the talk (front-end guy at Box).
I agree, but I definitely see the grandparent's point. These slide decks are annoying as hell. They're inconvenient for quoting, reading on-the-go, and they can leave out a whole lot of context. This is a trend that really needs to go.
I'm from Germany, we don't have Netflix here. We'll probably never going to have it.
When I want to (legally) watch a movie, I have to rent the DVD for 4 EUR at my local video store.
We have a local "alternative" called Lovefilm, where you can watch some movies from 5 years ago, but only the bad German synchronised version.
In Germany, Netflix is like some utopian fairyland.
So... you can watch all the movies/shows you want for a laughably low monthly price. And now you don't even need that crappy Silverlight plugin anymore.
I've tried fish a few years ago and wasn't all that impressed with the features.
That said, the new version is just ace! I gave it 30 minutes and it basically does everything I do with zsh right now. All that with about 5% of the configuration effort I put into zsh. Plus, it's so much faster than zsh.
I'll give fish a go as my main shell. Let's see were this goes.
Felt the same. Fish worked out of the box, but left me unimpressed about its abilities compared to zsh (well, I'd give it the same score as to zsh) until I realised I hadn't configured anything beyond generating man-completion files. I'll leave fish lying around so I can alt-tab to it and check it from time to time
On startup it indexes your workspace with ctags (kept in-memory) and supports completion, go-to-definition, and document/workspace symbols.
Install:
- `brew install ctags-lsp`
Would love feedback, especially on editor setups and any languages/workspaces where indexing or results are rough.
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