I have the same problem. When I first think of something I want to make I get really excited and I start coding and writing down ideas. After a few days or weeks I usually end up in the situations where I get home from work and the project doesn't seem exciting anymore.
To combat this I've been trying to fully plan projects while I'm excited. That way I have a nice list of individual tasks I need to complete and I know how each of those tasks is connected to the overall goal. When I get home from work and only have an hour or two free I can finish one of the small tasks. I end up feeling productive and like I've made progress.
>When I get a seat, will I be able to deal with the older people on my train squinting daggers at me? What do I do if someone is really mean to me again today? Do I look “disabled enough” to get a seat?
It's horrible that someone already dealing with a disability would have to worry about people always assuming the worst.
One time I had to step off a bus for a group to get by me. A couple saw me stepping back on without seeing me get off and gave me dirty looks while whispering to each other for the rest of the ride. It really bothered me. I can't imagine having to deal with that situation every day.
For some reason the bus experience really stuck with me. It's really easy, even or maybe especially for really nice people, to get angry and judgmental when they think someone isn't playing by the rules.
I was assuming po meant some automatic system. If you wanted to use humans maybe you could have moderators do it.
I agree that it'd be dangerous to let anyone tag. People on YouTube usually mark anything they disagree with as spam. Hopefully it wouldn't be the same here though.
After reading your comment I realized I've seen downvoted comments but I can't downvote. Is there a karma requirement?
That sounds like a fun NLP project. But given the less than stellar performance I've seen in those types of programs you'd probably either need to accept a lot of false positives or a lot of false negatives. Except for the clear "u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!" cases.
I completely agree. I of course don't actually know how much, but most of the women I know don't seem to enjoy technology or math any less than I do. I was mainly responding to the way billpaetzke's comment that men and women may be "hard-wired to enjoy different types of work" jumped to the easier conclusion.
It seems like going through CrowdFlower could help a lot. Has anyone used it? I guess it worked for the author.
At my last job I was involved in a project where we were going to use CrowdFlower, but it ended up being canceled. I was always curious about how good their results are.
Your Chinese restaurant must have a good fortune cookie supplier. Mine are always completely useless (and often false) statements like "You appreciate fine art".
I'm interested, but I'm not moving to SF until October. I'll message you my email in case you get a late start or want to try to meet around then.
I took a compilers course in college but I was too busy to get as much out of it as I wanted. I've always wanted to go back over that stuff and I've been wanting to learn more about the innards of Python, so I was hoping to combine the two.
To combat this I've been trying to fully plan projects while I'm excited. That way I have a nice list of individual tasks I need to complete and I know how each of those tasks is connected to the overall goal. When I get home from work and only have an hour or two free I can finish one of the small tasks. I end up feeling productive and like I've made progress.