[HN Gopher] It Pays to Be a Space Case
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It Pays to Be a Space Case
Author : dnetesn
Score : 29 points
Date : 2020-10-07 13:16 UTC (2 days ago)
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| stevebmark wrote:
| I am now seriously concerned that nautil.us is running a HN
| upvote ring. If this comment is against the rules I will remove
| it. There are repeated issues with articles from nautilus on HN:
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| - they are posted by people who submit a lot of nautilus articles
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| - the authors of these articles are often freelance writers (as
| is the case here) whose job is to write income generating content
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| - nautilus articles are often low quality with little insight,
| like the article here
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| - nautilus articles seem to frontpage on a regular cadence around
| weekends
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| - nautilus articles have relatively lower engagement in the
| comments than other articles
| chrisweekly wrote:
| "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" is a book worth reading in this
| space.
| tapvt wrote:
| This article resonates with me. As a developer, I find I solve
| some of my more challenging technical problems while "zoning-out"
| in the shower.
| hirundo wrote:
| https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...
| kyuudou wrote:
| My theory is I offload computation to a larger compute node,
| e.g. subconscious.
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| Something I picked up from my 7th grade english teacher, once
| feeling blocked or otherwise done all you can, go do other
| stuff and let the subconscious work on it. He meant it in
| context with creative writing but I think it applies for any
| other profession that requires problem solving.
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| Sleep, particularly - I often wake up the next day after
| struggling with a problem with the obvious solution gleaming in
| my mind's eye.
| refactor_master wrote:
| I'm still not sure. Was I unable to solve the task because I
| was on hour 10 that day, and I could easily have solved it
| had I done it in the morning, or did my subconsciousness
| really tackle the rest of the problem overnight for me?
| saluki wrote:
| I definitely come up with solutions to hard problems while
| spacing out in the shower and while sleeping, I've even
| woke up from a dream about a solution to a problem I was
| working on during the day and have dreamed new features and
| business idea. So I definitely think your brain is working
| out problems coming up with ideas even when you're not
| conscious of it.
| egypturnash wrote:
| Pretty sure this applies to anything, I sure did find myself
| thinking about how to animate scenes when I was trying to go
| to bed after a long day in the cartoon mines.
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| I don't get it much in my current art practice, I dunno if
| it's because I've been doing this professionally for a couple
| decades, or if I've structured my work to not need too much
| of this kind of thinking. So my mind wanders to other stuff
| in my life instead.
| baking wrote:
| For anyone who is confused as I was, that is not Kieran Fox in
| the photo as the caption seems to imply.
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