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Ask HN: How to fix my nonexistent focus?

Posted by lampooned on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For as long as I can remember, I've had awful focus. But I've never done about it.It's really effecting me in school as I put everything off as long as possible then have to really force myself to work. I find it really difficult. I envy my friends who can focus for hours on the most boring work imaginable. How do I get like this? Any tips would be great.

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Ask HN: Finding small, local companies who need websites?

Posted by lampooned on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to stop doing overly complicated freelance jobs and just stick to small mostly static websites for local businesses. Instead of doing 1 or two big projects a month, I just want to do 4 small sites for a fixed price.Any idea on where to find small companies in need of a websites locally?

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Re:Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:41AM (#7210015)
Bitcoin is not the future of money.
Re:Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet on Friday September 06, 2013 @12:47PM (#6341326)
Seems very unlikely. It's open source, so you can review the code and compile it yourself.
Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes re... on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:15PM (#6287420)
Facebook's whois result is pretty funny.

   $ whois facebook.com

   Whois Server Version 2.0

   Server Name: FACEBOOK.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
   IP Address: 69.41.185.229
   Registrar: TUCOWS DOMAINS INC.
   Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
   Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Re:Chromecast update breaks AllCast on Monday August 26, 2013 @01:16PM (#6278367)
Google basically just made Chromecast less useful than an Apple TV,
Re:The $80 web development workstation on Saturday August 24, 2013 @09:52PM (#6270558)
Saying that if you use a Mac, you're obviously a hipster is just fucking stupid.

MacBooks are good laptops. I like them. Using and liking a MacBook doesn't make you a hipster, nor does it make you any less of a "serious programmer".

Re:Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing It Himself on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:17PM (#6203819)
Nothing he hasn't done before. Virgin Trains basically have a monopoly in the UK.
Re:Ask HN: Twitter archives/dumps? on Sunday July 14, 2013 @01:03PM (#6041378)
This is just what I was looking for. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity? on Sunday July 07, 2013 @05:44PM (#6003659)
> Given today's software, it's trivial to fake a "photocopy" of an ID.

How would one even go about doing this? Sounds rather difficult to make a fake ID convincing.

Can anyone share some links on the subject?

Re:Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on on Saturday March 23, 2013 @01:35PM (#5428934)
Does anyone think someone extending this to place trades via API would be that horrible of an idea? Seems like it'd be interesting.
Re:Ring of Bitcoins: Why Your Digital Wallet Belongs On Your Finger on Monday March 18, 2013 @09:09AM (#5393850)
This is a horrible idea. This is the Bitcoin equivilent of walking around with the entire contense of your bank account, in cash.

If someone mugged him, those Bitcoins are gone. No reversing of payments, nothing. At least on a computer his wallet could be encrypted.

Re:How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000 on Monday March 18, 2013 @08:08AM (#5393627)
Why would a startup so young would blow their money on hiring 2-3 senior level developers?
Re:Microsoft - An expensive error on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @10:31AM (#5331609)
IE 10 is decent. But, unfortunately, Microsoft still hasn't leaned its lesson and has no plans to support WebGL. This just means IE will trail behind once again.
Re:Meteorite crash in Russia on Friday February 15, 2013 @06:20AM (#5225603)
That is terrifiying.