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ADHD can be quite debilitating at the extremes. Understanding what it is and how to cope with it is extremely helpful for those who are afflicted.

That said, it's important to point out that the author of this post is defining ADD differently than the medical definition of ADD. The idea of hyperfocus is very popular among the self-diagnosed and on internet forums dedicated to ADD, but the term "hyperfocus" doesn't actually appear in any of the medical literature I can find, with the exception of a few books that seem to suggest that "hyperfocus" is more likely related to the idea of perseveration, which is a deficit in set shifting ability. However, perseveration isn't as selective as the concept of "hyperfocus," which seems selective for enjoyable tasks.

The idea of hyperfocus as a component of ADD is part of a bigger problem: The modern pop-psychology definition of ADD has been watered down and expanded so much that it is beginning to feel more like a horoscope than a medical diagnosis. Even official medical diagnostic criteria can't seem to agree on how strict the definition of ADHD is. For example, ICD-10 ADHD diagnostic criteria will yield a rate of roughly 1-2% ADHD in the general population of children. Using the DSM-IV criteria, that number rises to roughly 6-7% of children.

However, if you have the average person read an internet definition of ADHD or follow one of the first results for "ADHD test" in Google, you'd be hard pressed to find an average college student or tech worker who wouldn't identify as at least mildly ADHD per the pop-psychology definitions. Take a look at one of first results in Google for "adhd test": http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/addquiz.htm

Questions such as "How often are you easily distracted by external stimuli, like something in your environment" are so vague as to be applicable to everyone who has ever been distracted by a notification on their phone. I don't think I've known anyone who wouldn't agree with questions like "How often do you have difficulty sustaining your attention while doing something for work, school, a hobby, or fun activity" when we're expected to sit through 8+ hour desk jobs doing things that frequently aren't tasks we would have chosen to willingly pursue.

The growing misconception seems to be that for a non-ADHD person, it should be easy or somehow enjoyable to focus on the things that we don't necessarily enjoy doing. That's obviously not the case, but these casual redefinitions of ADHD as a disorder that is accompanied by an increased ability to focus on enjoyable tasks are really stretching the definition of what it means to have AD[H]D.
I have also been diagnosed with ADD and have serious problems focussing on studying - up to the point where I might drop out. I can pass many courses on an a+ level, but most courses that require a lot of studying are extremely hard to pass.
I have already done some internships as a programmer - all of them very successful. I love computer programming and am certainly not bad at it.

But I have to wonder, what are my chances of getting a decent programming job in Europe without a degree? Getting internships has been very easy, but I can't imagine getting a job as a programmer can be as easy without a degree.

Are there people who know more about this, or people who I can talk to about this? Thanks
Run Windows in a VM, try it under Wine, or use Microsoft's cloud version of Visual Studio. Not sure about IIS for that one though.

Better yet, stop rewarding a company that treats its users like pests and switch to open languages and servers.
I guess the point the author was trying to make is that extreme calorie restriction with a nutrient poor diet is bad for you, but I would be hard pressed to find anyone who disagrees. I guess he was trying to extrapolate from that study somehow but the article goes off the rails and drops a bunch of factoids about calorie restriction and diet and then closes by mentioning a study of dubious quality.
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For all those suggesting that you migrate to example.com, I'll note that lots of ISPs and even companies hijack example.com directly.

I ran into this running our little test suite that hit example.com to test that we were able to make http requests and get the right output. One day on a different network the test failed ;).
I can't speak for Europe, but it seems like there are plenty of well-regarded dev houses in Seattle who are more interested in what you've done on Github or published in a mobile app store than what college degree you've got. There are also several multi-month programming bootcamps that claim a 90%+ placement rate in $70-100k+ USD jobs in development or data science.
Yea, not only it is not limited to Win10, don't forget Windows is not the only thing that have telemetry. The browsers have them as well for example.
Self-diagnosis is a dangerous road. You cannot reliably diagnose yourself.

That said, I think it could be worth your while to read some of the popular books on ADD like "Driven to Distraction" and "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?"

The coping strategies for ADD are pretty universal. I could not possibly imagine one doing harm to one's self by seeing if anything in those books is applicable to you.

Prescription medication can help, but at best is only part of the answer.
What is your treatment, if I might ask?
I use Plain Clip for that: https://www.bluem.net/en/mac/plain-clip/. It’s a standalone Mac app that cleans the clipboard and then quits immediately. I can run it quickly with LaunchBar while I’m using a GUI app.
Pretty much nothing but used car ads for me.
Single-machine server software architectures are insecure
A typical example would be Wordpress. The application has a user side and an admin console. Since they are both run by the same web server instance, the slightest error in programming the user side will give the attacker admin privileges. Coding errors are inevitable. Therefore, on the long run, privilege escalation is inevitable as well.

The web server instance running the user application should never be in a position that it could acquire admin privileges. Therefore, you always need two web server instances. At the very least, the admin console should run on another port using another system user.

But even then, the user side code should not have unfettered access to the database. It must be locked down to the operations that are permissible to it. The database permission system is generally not capable of enforcing that kind of lockdown. Therefore, it is necessary to funnel its requests through a network API or else (unusual) a setuid program, which are capable of enforcing the lockdown.

A single-machine server is inherently insecure. One coding error will allow the attacker to gain all possible privileges on the application and inflict maximum damage. Server software must always be a distributed system, with at least two machines involved.
> Now that I am more familiar with the symptoms this sounds a whole lot like me.

> I am quite surprised I experience about 80 percent of the symptoms listed on various websites, but it never occurred to me that this can be a real condition.

If you suspect you have ADHD and you find that it is negatively impacting your life, I would suggest seeking a good psychiatrist for a professional evaluation. Be warned that some psychiatrists are all too eager to write a prescription and send you on your way, when successful treatment hinges on a deeper understanding of the condition and the development of successful coping strategies once you've identified the negative behaviors.

Moreover, it's worth noting that the author's definition of ADHD and hyperfocus doesn't actually match the medical definition of ADHD. Also, many of the ADHD websites list overly-broad ADHD criteria, such than almost any warm-blooded human could feasibly self-diagnose as having ADHD given the vagueness of the symptoms.

ADHD is, first and foremost, a deficit of attention abilities. It isn't quite as selective as the author makes it out to be, in that someone with the traditional medical definition of ADHD would not be able to focus on anything for 16 hours straight as you are able to. In fact, being able to focus for such a long period of time is a truly enviable ability, and I doubt you'd find any competent medical professional who would suggest that you have ADHD if you are able to focus on your work for twice as long as the 8-hour workday that most people struggle through.

It's important to note that we all miss appointments, we all prefer to do activities that interest us, we all occasionally stop listening to people mid-way through a conversation, and we all struggle to pay attention to boring jobs. These aren't signs of a disorder, these are just facts of life.
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Interesting that majority of vids are sales video (car, property, etc.) on many locations I tried.
One coworker posted this a while back and I just dismissed it as someone afraid of something that they can't handle.

While I understand the point.. I'm also a dev and I love "DevOps". Aren't we all doing this because we love problem solving? How is this not just another problem to tackle? I love having to figure how to automate mundane tasks (again.. this is just code.. not much different than we write elsewhere) to make sure I don't have to manage any systems manually.

/rant
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Unfortunately, the hyperfocus comes with a huge side effect: once someone with ADD reaches near-completion of whatever they are focused on, they tend to lose the focus they have. This was and still can be the biggest hurdle for me to overcome.
Lot's of people try and make cancer cures, in theory only the people that succeed get useful patents.
It's not the ability to focus on a coding problem, that is a sign of ADHD. It's the inability to focus on anything BUT the coding problem.

It doesn't matter whether it is a coding problem, video game, book, website, or any other task. There are times when there is something much more important to be focusing on, but it requires such an insane amount of effort to focus on that thing, that you simply don't. Or maybe you do focus on the important task, but chances are it doesn't get your full attention or you end up distracted very quickly.
But what about the ever growing number of TLS connections?
I had tons of issues with macports over the years (e.g., emacs port was broken for months after 10.6 came out), but I think that was mostly a function of its smaller userbase and more difficult contribution system. Homebrew seems to have many more users and a far simpler way to contribute, so it's rare that I encounter a broken or old package.
Just a heads up: you won't see the contents of any encrypted traffic with Wireshark without some setup (i.e. MITM your traffic + install a root cert for said MITM). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073166/capturing-https-t...
You can still see the source and destination though of course.
>but it seems like there are plenty of well-regarded dev houses in Seattle

Can you give any pointers to these or examples?
It's important to note that hyperfocus is not a DSM-V criteria for ADHD. In fact, hyperfocus doesn't appear anywhere in any official diagnostic criteria for ADHD that I'm aware of (If I'm wrong, I'd love to know).

The official DSM-V criteria, along with helpful explanations, are available here: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html

I'm still not sure how hyperfocus came to be such a popular idea on internet ADD forums and self-diagnosis websites. If someone can point me toward the etymology of the idea, I'd really like to see it.
http://cancerhawk.com/navigator is a search tool to find local specialists for particular cancers types
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Here's my entry. Code doesn't work because the offsite resource is not accepting connections from jsfiddle, but otherwise, I think it's a good proof of concept.

http://jsfiddle.net/gedhry5o/2/
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10129004
Ack, those circles waste so much space. They should put a in an array of hexagonal reflectors instead.
> Sorry, we are unable to generate a prediction. An insufficient number of your Likes match with those in our database, and we don’t believe in guesswork.

Huh. I click like a lot on Facebook, I wonder what throws their algorithm off.
Do be careful with anxiolytics though, especially alprazolam (Xanax). They're horribly addictive drugs and very difficult to kick.
The word "just" (at least with this meaning) trivializes what follows.
I have a cute setup for playing YouTube videos (mostly music) via SSH from my phone when I'm lying on my bed and too lazy to get up. There's a small CL script which searches YouTube based on a query, then fires up youtube-dl and dumps the raw file to a named pipe. Then, when the header and everything needed for VLC to start streaming is ready, it starts up VLC via its ncurses interface, so I can volume up/down, pause/play and seek if needed from my phone. VLC is nice enough to fire up an X11 window if you give it the right DISPLAY environment variable over SSH, so you can watch the video (even make it fullscreen via the ncurses interface). Once the video finishes playing, obviously, the named pipe and the data is gone---everything's in memory anyways.

These days I'll get to uploading it to GitHub, maybe even turn it into a Firefox extension/Android app. Though it's a little specific to my use case: I have a quality sound system attached to my desktop computer so it doesn't feel right to listen to stuff on my laptop/phone when there is such a great setup lying around. And setting up SBCL and Shelly just to run Common Lisp scripts is a little bit of an overkill.

Sorry for the off-topic, just felt like sharing this bit of my computer-aided laziness :)
I read your article, and I agree with some of the points. I don't think stimulants are much of a solution either, if I could wake up one day and be "cured" of my ADD that would be fantastic. For me, distraction is a compulsion, one that I wish to be rid of.

However I really resent the suggestion that I could somehow cure myself with "mindfullness" or if I "just tried harder." It is really easy for a person who has never suffered from ADD to think this way, but neither are legitimate solutions. Sure I try hard, sure I meditate at least once a day. I do it because it helps me. That doesn't mean that one day, somehow, I'll be able to function on that alone. It is only with medication, and help from a psychologist, I can lead a normal life.

Honestly, when people suggest that I somehow could cure myself I feel terrible. I feel like flawed person, like I'm failing at the basic life skills everyone else has mastered. But worse than that, I dread that someone else will be exposed to that, before being diagnosed. I was blessed to be diagnosed at a young age, and I can't imagine going through school, and into the workplace without help.
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Anyone have an idea what percentage of networks and hosting providers drop spoofed packets originating from inside their networks? What are the downsides of dropping them?
FYI: GitHub master updated to version 0.1.4, demo (http://demo-ritzy.rhcloud.com/) updated to the same version. New DESIGN (https://github.com/ritzyed/ritzy/blob/master/docs/DESIGN.ado...), INSTALLATION (https://github.com/ritzyed/ritzy/blob/master/docs/INSTALLATI...), and API (https://github.com/ritzyed/ritzy/blob/master/docs/API.adoc) docs. Demo has new controls that use the API. A bunch of bug fixes and improvements esp. around some more complex collaboration stuff e.g. operations that overlap with remote selections and cursors as one example.
I'd watch Louis Theroux's "Edge of Life".
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All of the car images don't seem to be showing for me.

I see the sidebar shows the most recent 5 reviews, articles etc. Is there somewhere to view all reviews or articles by release date and paginated? I got the car reviews and news page but it't just categories.

The dealer finder is great to have but is just a little hard to really see who I should go to. It paginates at 25 per page for the 1100 or so Ontario has but I wouldn't try look past the first few pages. If the information was displayed a little nicer and maybe more per page, I would find that to be more useful.

I would highly recommend you get a logo designed in some way. If this is some sort of side project that you are trying to monetize through ads, I can assume your budget is somewhat low but it really helps identify a brand.
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I think it's clear at this point that ADHD is vastly over-diagnosed, particularly among people who self-diagnose after using the internet to confirm their beliefs.

However, ADHD and other executive disorders are very real and very debilitating for a small portion of the general population. I've unfortunately experienced this first-hand after a serious traumatic brain injury took me from normally-functioning adult to ADHD adult overnight. (Part of the reason I'm using a throwaway is that I prefer not to make this fact well-known).

> This is consistent with my own experience with people who believe they have ADD. Many of them turned out to have untreated anxiety and depression.

This mirrors my experience somewhat, although I believe many people simply confuse normal human behaviors as ADHD symptoms. It's perfectly normal to prefer to focus on subjects you enjoy while experiencing difficulty when forced to focus on uninteresting topics, but somehow this has been construed as a symptom of ADHD on the internet. (As I've commented elsewhere, hyperfocus is not actually a symptom of official ADHD definitions but it's very popular on internet forums).

> It's also interesting to note that there's a lot of research supporting the idea that mindfulness can decrease the effects of ADD. That seems to support the idea that ADD isn't a physiological fact, but a curable behavioral issue.

I have to disagree on several of your definitions here: There is plenty of research in to potential biological contributing factors to ADHD-type behaviors. However, the brain is remarkably plastic and capable of learning good or bad behaviors. Unfortunately, modern life tends to train us toward ADHD-like behaviors, with constant bombardments of stimuli and companies working overtime to develop products that distract us and are carefully designed to capture our attention.
Way worse than that: https://web.archive.org/web/20060127002252/http://www.suck.c...
I agree with you on this part. But maybe not completely remote. Last year, my company open a dev center in midwest just beside a high rank university. The result is pretty positive. There's great supply of high quality college new grads and we can spend 20% less than bringing them to the bay area. And the living cost there is at least 50% lower so they're obviously happy with it. An even better part is that in the bay area every week (if not every day) there gonna be some recruiter contacting you for different positions while there's really not much competition beside the university in midwest. The only issue we're having now is that we have a hard time to hire "real" senior engineer who can lead the team. But if all you need is some application level work, I think it's a good bet.
Consenus, replication and consistency are potential solutions and their own problems to another entire set of really hard problems. If you're going to say you solved them you better say how, and most importantly, what tradeoffs you made to do so.
Remote work is becoming more and more common - also for SF companies.

Eg half our team (www.producthunt.com) is remote. Engineering and non-engineering.

We dont do part-time (for long term contracts) because we want to give developers full ownership about bigger releases - and this is hard if someone is only available half the week.
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Perhaps its best if population gradually declined....
We agree on this.
And for cygwin users, cygstart is the equivalent of open, getclip/putclip for copy/paste, and cygrunsrv is the closest equivalent to launchctl.
Those are awesome!
As someone with ADD, self-diagnoses is incredibly frustrating. It drives a really unhealthy perception of the disease.
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> People on HN aren't quick to ban accounts, because only moderators can do that and we only do it in egregious cases.

But that's just not true though is it. :( In the past, rankbans have been given out rather spontaneously it would seem. Even to folks who one would not deem are problematic (like larrys, mindcrime, DanielBMarkham, etc.).

Anyway, it's fine.
Do you have any information on this? Where could I sign up etc?
My current rent is 1100 and food is 1120. ~$30 I think. Cost is ok I guess, coming from north India.
The likely reason that you are not getting any response is that you're struggling to navigate through a large organisation. That's the most likely reason - it's inertia rather and evilness.

Somebody in the CSR (or Qualcomm) legal department will know that they don't want to violate the GPL. The sales organisation and support don't know anything about the GPL, probably can't even figure out who internally knows how to deal with your issue, and it's not really their problem (from their perspective).

If you want to get this resolved you'll need to find a way through their internal process. What I would do is one or both of these:

a. Call their main head office by phone

On the contact page there is a UK phone number, phone it and ask for legal or the PR organisation. You will most likely find it hard to get to the legal department, but be polite and persist. If you get through to PR point out that it's a PR problem (to make them care about it) and explain that you want to talk to someone in the legal department. Make sure you get the name of whomever you talk to and their number - that way you can be persistent but polite to someone.

http://www.csr.com/contact

b. Contact Qualcomm legal

In the privacy page there is a link where you can fax or phone notice of a violation. Yeah lawyers are old-fashioned. Send them a nice note specifying that you believe they are violating the GPL and that you would like the source etc etc. Note, the downside of this is that you will be talking to Qualcomm head-office in the USA and it will most likely take them a bit to figure out what you're talking about and find someone in their subsidiary (CSR) to deal with you.
https://www.qualcomm.com/site/terms-of-use

IF you land-up talking to the legal department don't assume that they know anything about the GPL. There are a lot of lawyers in a corporate, and only a handful will know anything - you want to try and get to one of those ones.

You might have tried all this already - in which case apologies. Anyway, Best of luck!
Oh wow, that's genuinely impressive. I'm guessing it wouldn't have the synthetic elements, but still -- amazing.
The thing is that it didn't raise an intellectual curiosity. (The article was meant to invoke outrage/emotion)
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That is interesting. How exactly do you format your code? I'm super curious. Maybe a code sample? :)