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Using Fitts's law to compare traditional mice with head tracking devices
As I use a head tracking device (SmartNAV) to move the mouse cursor for efficiency purpose, I was curious to know whether the Fitts's law can be applied to it (i.e. is not restricted to hands). ...
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Mentoring a Fresher
I am working as a developer in software industry for past 8 years. I have seen many projects and worked as a dev lead which also involves interacting with QA team to get the testing done of the ...
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Is there something where can I throw away my frustration for an individual
Somebody cheated on me. I can't do anything.
I want to throw away my frustration. Is there any website or something where I can tell truth to the world. I want people to be aware of that guy. I know ...
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Sleeping when not tired - Procrastination?
Suppose that I am working late and night, and suddenly I decide to go to sleep even though I am not tired - postponing all the remaining work for later. And it's like I have a holiday, I am not ...
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How to cultivate the reading habit?
I'm a graduate student in computer science, but I have only read like 3 academic papers so far this year. The Internet is too fun for me, and I actually have learned a lot from it. The problem is that ...
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How do you remember to sit up straight?
I spent some time thinking about this recently. It's kind of frustrating. It seems that most of the advice out there on posture is about why sitting up straight is good for you. There are also all ...
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Long-term planning tool
There are quite a few applications that track and notify time (Google Calendar,... ) but I found that none of them has the ability to help planning over a long period (let's say, 5 years, 10 years ...
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How do you act confident?
How do you act confident in front of your peers when you have a low self-confidence?Also, how do you get rid of your low self-confidence and bad body image?
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Fixing 'reverse-tiredness'?
I'm a nightowl by nature, always have been. I've read Steve Pavlina's strategies on changing this, I follow Lifehacker, and all sorts of things.
However, here's how my day goes (from midnight)
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Keeping track of emails, notes, files, and deliverables for a project
Is there anything better than Basecamp?
Basecamp seems to have all the features I'm looking for in a project manager, but it requires a ton of tedious little interactions with its web GUI: uploading ...
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How to control the urge of refreshing the forum pages to see if someone has replied?
That wastes time. Huge time.
I also tried setting up mail notifications so that I don't have to keep on refreshing tabs, but in this case I get dragged to keep a parallel eye on the Gmail as if my ...
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How to cancel out caffeine's effects on sleep?
I'm a programmer and I need caffeine in order to do my job.
But, the paradox is - the same caffeine that enables me to do my job degrades the quality of my sleep, which in return degrades my ability ...
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Do it yourself or delegate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I decide when it's worth it to spend money to save time?
I found out that I'm a person who likes to do many things self but I found out that many people ...
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The flow phenomena
Short: How to trigger so called "flow" phenomena during everyday work routine (which is not really challenging)?
A bit more detailed:
On Wikipedia site about flow we can read:
Flow is the mental ...
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3answers
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How can I get rid of the psychological effects of bad experiences from the past?
As a college student, I had my shares of failures in exams, courses, quite a handful of it, so much that it resulted in my one year extension in the university. With this I feel that my past failures ...
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What can I use to efficiently track progress on my tasks/goals?
I've been looking forever for a way to manage my tasks and goals efficiently. Most of them were too specific for project managers and had far more options than necessary to manage simpler tasks. None ...
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how to get over something stupid done in past?
I have a tendency to act out wierdly and angrily, (usually throwing stuff here and there) when I suddenly remember something stupid that I had done in past, and then bang my head over how stupid I was ...
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studying and working early or late? [closed]
What are the benefits of both starting work or studying in the early hours of the morning compared to the late afternoon/evening? Does it depend on the person (if they are a morning person or such?).
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How to incorporate the processing diagram of GTD on paper?
What would be an efficient way of penning down these branches with my own activities on paper?
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Can Noise Cancelling headphones knock out people speaking, announcements, etc?
Often when people on this board have wanted to reduce sound, nearby conversations people have recommended noise cancellation headphones. I have never tried these but have been told they cannot knock ...
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How can I speed up my coding?
I am currently studying Informatics and Computer Science. Cause I know there are quite a lot of programmers here on SE, I would like to ask for advice on speeding up my coding.
First, a brief ...
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5answers
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Single tasking vs Mulitasking
I'm a student and hoping to be an entrepreneur. Besides study I spend most of my time working on software development and recently thinking of organizing a team to work on the field of software and ...
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app which to keep track of reminders and scrap notes
I am looking for an all encompassing app which allows me to handle the my calendar (with mobile reminders) and my "scrap notes" (to-do lists, links I want to check out in the future, cool stuff I find ...
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Is It Worth The Time?
There was an xkcd recently that raises an interesting question, which I would like to pose to Productivity.SE.
The math of the chart is undeniable, so I am not asking "how much time is saved by doing ...
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Task Management Application with task dependencies
For some reason, even though there are tons of task management applications out there, I'm not able to find many that have the capability to manage task dependencies. That is to say, if I must do A ...
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How to maintain Day-Specific Actions such that they don't become Daily To-Do lists?
Following quotes are picked out from the GTD book of David Allen:
Day-Specific Actions: These are things that you need to do some-
time on a certain day, but not necessarily at a specific time.
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Effective method of thinking beyond the first idea
As the title says, do you know any effective ways of escaping the trap of thinking about a problem only in the terms of the first idea/solution that came up?
I have encountered this issue both in my ...
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How to keep free from thoughs while meditating?
When I sit for meditation, there are a lot of thoughts come to my mind. How can I be a free from thoughts while meditating?
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31answers
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How to prevent oneself from lounging around in bed, instead of getting out of it and starting the day?
I find that I often wake up at a decent time, but don't get out of bed immediately. This results in me falling asleep again for another hour. This process might repeat itself once or twice, resulting ...
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0answers
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How do you organize your life in Asana?
I am looking forward to migrate fully to asana from Things because of pricing/costs reasons. What I have right now in Things (for Mac) is :
Today
Next
Scheduled
Someday
Projects
I have never used ...
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6answers
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I don't want to study. I don't want to think. I want to have fun
I always end up playing a game or something when I'm supposed to study. Hey, having fun is a lot more fun than studying, right? What can I do to make the consequences of my action seem more real? I ...
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4answers
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How to concentrate on only one thing?
I have a problem. I can't concentrate on one thing at a time. I can't read a whole article, I can't read a whole book, I can't watch tv without reading news from social networks for example.
Could ...
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When I'm going back to an old complex project, how can I restore my focus and motivation?
I've had a few weeks break from a large and difficult project that I've been working on for two years. The project could be a few weeks from shipping, if I can manage to focus on it.
I've noticed a ...
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How to set/control my hours with a new employer?
When I start a new job I face a difficult time with hours.
I like to work from 7 or 8 (when it is nice and quiet) to 3 or 4 in the office and then do a bunch more at home.
These hours are not usually ...
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Task estimated to be 8 pomodori, what to do?
Scenario:
I am reading a tutorial; it is separated in Chapters. I have "proved" over the course of 5 chapters that each one of them takes me 8 pomodori (there hasn't been an exception).
Problem:
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How to setup linux as a pure working environment
I am a freelance programmer and I suffer from procrastination - a lot. When I manage to dive into work I really enjoy it, but then after a while something crosses my mind, and I have strong urge to ...
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How can I manage several hours of intellectual work (web dev/coding) a day without getting mentally exhausted?
I'm a coder. It's what I do. It's what I like doing. It's also what pays the bills. I do this at home and I set my own hours.
However, I have a problem. I have a very, very hard time getting in ...
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Is there a tool that can track or record pomodoros based on tagging?
I'm looking for a tool that can track and record pomodoros visually and/or graphically, and ideally with the ability to tag pomodoros, like a "Writing" pomodoro completed, or a "Career", etc.
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Becoming efficient and thus reducing how much we work & stress?
We're all about productivity and efficiency these days. But these all serve to get more done in less time, making us more stressed and looking for even more ways to cut time down. At least, that's ...
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What is a good way to begin your work day?
I work for a very small company and most of the time I work alone and manage my own work and don't get much feedback. I'm not completely used to this and though I have projects and to do lists and ...
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How can I improve my workplace to have less interruptions?
In the past week I've tried switching between several work spaces
Office
If it's open space and someone starts talking loudly you get distracted.
There are also people around who may want ...
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Why do I start wasting time when I am excited about learning some technical stuff?
I make plans, todo lists, etc. about the technical stuff which I have to study.
I am not, but I do wish to become an excellent C++ programmer.
Now, *
(when I am pretty excited about learning the ...
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What is the hidden secret in Think and Grow Rich (by Napoleon Hill)?
He mentions in the book that it is in every chapter and while inspired by it, I did not have a clear idea of one single secret after reading the book.
Did anyone discover a "secret", or is it ...
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Does anyone have any recommendations for an alternative workstation ergonomic setup
My job means I have to sit at my computer all day, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, 46 weeks a year. That’s 1610 hours a year and 1/3 of my whole day (given that I also sleep about 8 hours so am not ...
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How to master a large variety of technical literature
I've an Engineering background I like to read technical literature (college level onwards) quite omnivorously - especially mathematics, computer science, engineering, and medicine. This is part of my ...
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what do you do when you are stuck at programming and you don't have access to internet?
This is a question most of us have faced while programming. Getting stuck! It might be a programmatic problem or tool problem, most of us eventually face it.
You know something is supposed to work ...
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What are the general steps to increase your IQ?
I believe that the engine that drives us forward is our IQ. Increasing it will result in a higher productivity rate so I'd like to know what are the general steps that will put a person on that path. ...
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How do I manage a weekend of virtually no sleep?
I have to be smart with my time. I'm doing a shoot that requires me to work straight through saturday night into the morning, the same for Sunday and then be back first thing Monday morning.
I will ...
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Dislike towards sleeping late in order to study
I dislike/cringe at the thought of having to sleep late in order to study. This is for the reason that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday, and to get the most out of it I need to get the most ...
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How can I control my unproductive Internet addiction?
I have a big problem using the Internet - I am using it for purposes unacceptable by my moral stands but fun.
Every time I login, after about 1 or 2 hours I lose the control to the unproductive task ...
