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A decent software developer might be worth three to five mediocre ones, without being particularly valuable. The idea of the 10x developer is so overwrought, but there are just so damned many people who are not capable of producing anything at all.

It's really a profession that does not scale well.
ADHD is some degree of impairement in the ability to self-direct your own behavior, also known as executive function.
While nice in theory, this is the exact opposite of how you get humanity into space in a meaningful way quickly. How much slower would the American frontier have been pushed westward if we said, “wait, 7/8 of everything is off limits”? Expanding into space requires incentives and those incentives need to be available enough for companies and people to chase them despite all the risks.
Has been on my list for a while! Thanks for the nudge. BTW, as a fan of Christensen's classic The Innovator's Dilemma, I thought Loonshots was quite good as an alternative perspective where Product-type and Strategy-type innovations are discussed in comparison to Christensen's sustaining vs disruptive innovations.
This wouldn't stop somebody from fishing for fun/sport, unless you're saying it's common that people use industrial fishing equipment for fun.
I meant the graphic design, which is what put most people off.
> There's no such thing as someone you're not going to have to train.

Not for employees but for contractors or consultants they better be able to hit the ground running. That’s why they get paid 3x and up what employees get. If you need someone right now you can pay the premium for it and get it.
how would they do that?

if they are the kind of people described in the article, then they have no means with which to evaluate the school.

as a programmer, i can judge if a potential employer is doing proper software development, and if i am already in the field, i can judge whether the next class/school will teach me something that relates to what i am doing, but as a student completely new to the field i don't even know yet what and how i can best learn.

so i can't necessarily judge the quality of the school. i can look at statistics for past students, but those can be faked, so short of actually talking to a number of past students, evaluation of a school is hard.
Here you go: https://www.cappex.com/articles/money/history-of-bankrupty-d...

The parallel history to this is that the banks lobbied for the "mean" changes to the bankruptcy rules. The politicians were seeking reelection by guaranteeing that everyone could go to college at lower and lower rates, but they needed to keep the bankers happy too: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/federal-...

Caveat: If you don't live in the US, neither of these histories apply to you.
Coaching is enormously useful.

It will not fix an organic brain issue, of course, but to understand and have a feedback loop on your own behavior - is very helpful.
The matrix.org infrastructure was hacked. Yes, this is obviously a problem (though their recent blog post does help restore some confidence).

But saying we shouldn't use Matrix because of this event is like saying we shouldn't use IRC because Freenode was hacked. Or we shouldn't use XMPP because HipChat was hacked. Not to mention that Matrix has sane E2EE support so folks who were using it didn't have to worry about their conversations being broken (and E2EE-by-default for Matrix is on the horizon).
At what percentage of population does disorder become order?
I've toyed with the idea of applying to comma, seemed like a good idea to learn tons in computer vision. but if anything Hotz himself would be why I wouldn't do it. I enjoy the roots of his f u attitude - but : we're so much smarter than anyone else in this market, is simply not true
why without stimulants?
`d` is taken by the much more important command `git diff`. I don't even have an alias for `ls`, I seldom use it, I mostly run `s` (which is an alias of `git status` of course).
It does not appear to be the case that the “di” in “dialectic” (unlike, say, the “di” in “dilemma”) refers to the number “two”. According to Etymonline and many other dictionaries (follow links from https://www.onelook.com/?w=dialectic), the word comes via Latin ultimately from Greek dialektos, “discourse, conversation”. This in turn is formed with the prefix dia- (“across, between”), also found in words like diagonal, diameter, dialogue, diagnosis, adiabatic, diabetes, diarrhea, diacritic.

This prefix dia- in turn may indeed be cognate with bi or di-, but at any rate the “di” in “dialectic” does not directly refer to “two”. What you've read may be a later re-analysis / false etymology.
Naturally :-) That's why "tongue in cheek". I still can't imagine myself switching from Total Commander, it's so amazingly powerful.
See, I'd assume that was a slashfic website.

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I'm noticing a theme here.
Isn't that at odds with your previous comment?

> Inability to sustain concentration is not a temperament. It's a neurological impairement.

The impression the article gave me is that ADHD is more the inability to choose what you focus on, not an inability to sustain concentration?
An ADHD diagnosis is based roughly on a 5-percentile standard[0]. In other words, if you are a hardworking, industrious person, but the rest of society is harder-working and more industrious, then you automatically become ADHD-diagnosed by virtue of being on the left side of the bell curve.

It's also worth noting that in France, ADHD is seen as a problem with a child's environment instead of a medical issue[1].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suffer-the-children/...
I may live like that if I knew I had a fallback. Homelessness sucks mainly if it's your only option.
Much like cutting trees for a living, fishing - even of the net hauling and trap wrassling variety - can be very fulfilling and fun for a certain kind of person.
As someone that was diagnosed with ADHD at 37, ADHD is what society calls it when somebody has very little tolerance for paying attention to stuff they find boring.

But seriously, I agree with the square peg / round hole comments. I don't believe ADHD to be an illness because there are plenty of environments where I could thrive, the trick was it had to involve doing something I loved. Fortunately for me, I loved computer programming.
Because there were assets tied to those loans (the house and the car)
Perhaps not alone, but very very far from the norm. If I may ask, How old are you all? What else about your demographics/work environment could set you so far apart from the average stats?
Depends on the domain, but I had luck with Fiverr for converting rough drawings to renders.
I don't know what made my above comment to get negative votes (-3). I was sharing an honest opinion here.
VERY interesting presentation of details on how the nested spheres were carved, with some surprising results, e.g.:

layers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are clearly visible

layers 6, 7, 8 and 9 are carved ‘blindly’
Dear San Francisco,

Can we have a few of these squads?
This article makes perfect sense to me, and doesn't display an anti-bitcoin bias. What he is saying is that you should look at for warning signs at an exchange, such as a halt of USD withdrawals (in the case of MtGox) or the suspicions around Bitfinex and tether, and treat that exchange as unsafe. Back when MtGox was operating without USD withdrawals, it was still the most talked-about exchange, and many people kept putting their money into it, and didn't withdraw bitcoin from it into their own wallets.
I guess you can either think the individual is deficient or society is deficient.
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Largely, governments tried to wall off unauthorized expansion in North America. It didn't work at all, and people went anyway.
I understand why they would consider china their primary external security threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_197...

Also let's not forget how pushy china has been in West Philippine Sea ("South China sea") east of Vietnam.
Facebook is suing over data misuse? Does anybody else find this ironic?
If you want to see the future of cooking as a service, no place better than to check out the night markets of Taiwan. Every kinds of cuisine, from Taiwanese to Japanese, Italian to Mexican. Every kind of meat from oyster to crab to lamb. Every dish is bite sized, and can be had for $0.50 to $2. You can try out 20 different dishes in a trip! Young people rarely cook at home (they usually live in a small apt as well), instead buying quick dinners at these night markets or 7-eleven.

Check out the markets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi6f41Tq_J8

Unfortunately, there's no such thing in the big cities in US yet (New York, SF). Anthony Bourdain was trying to start a night market up in NY though....
> How old are you all? What else about your demographics/work environment could set you so far apart from the average stats?

They are young (not yet 40 years of age), have above-average incomes, and live in urban areas. If you cross-reference this population with desire to have kids, you will find them dragging the reproduction rate in this country massively downwards. The opposite is true about... every facet of what I just said.

EDIT: Many people have pointed out why this is a terrible trend, for reasons that are obvious.
This is exactly like saying you don't learn how to code well from your CS professor.

They're different skills that are in a related arena.
I think it's really interesting seeing how companies ranging from a small startup shop to massive multinational conglomerates have managed to instill their workers with a sense of loyalty and duty.

I've worked at tech companies with 10, 100, and thousand of employees and every time it was the same. Eventually I'd feel like I've stagnated, stopped learning, and it was time to move on into a new position for my own personal growth. However, after spending years with a group of people there's an unmistakable camaraderie so even if you don't feel duty-bound to do right by the intangible entity that is the company, and why would you, you may still feel that you gotta do right by your colleagues, people with whom you've spent heaps of time in the 'trenches'. Every time I felt that I had to do right by them and not leave them hanging.

I dunno if this is due to me having empathy or just a result of my inflated ego, maybe I'd like to feel like they'll crush-n-burn without me and I wanna feel magnanimous? In any case, I've experienced this over and over and each time while I'd eventually leave I'd make my intentions known several months in advance and try to be as accommodating as possible.

I wonder if any of you have struggled with this conundrum and if so how you managed it cause I'd like to stop experiencing this moral whirlwind every time I feel like I'm ready to switch jobs :).
Personally, I was on methylphenidate (generic for Concerta) from eighth grade until very recently, when I switched to an Adderal ER. The difference for me was more what happened when I came off of it- on methylphenidate, I got super irritable right around the same time I got home, which was not good.

I haven't noticed anything weird with this one, but for anyone reading this, I would highly recommend "shopping around" for ADHD medicine if you can.
The biggest benefit to me has been about flexibility and the shift to a more event-driven way of writing and scaling apps. Which together seem to evolve into a more functional programming like approach to services communicating.

Write a function and deploy it. Want that function exposed via an API? Easy. Want it to be fired in response to an object being uploaded to S3? You can do that too. All it’s concerned with is inputs and outputs. How you compose them is up to you. And if the there’s zero need for a function to be running it’s not running, you’d don’t have ECS containers sitting around idle waiting for work.

The trade off atm is visibility into how & where exactly a given function is being used within a codebase(s).
I cannot readily find a reference to pin this down, but I want to say it was a speech given by Gorbachev in the 1980s.

A Russian leader gave a speech where he clasped his hands together above his head, iirc. Americans interpreted it as a threatening gesture suggesting Russia "winning" against America or conquering us. It was interpreted like he was a boxer self congratulating following a win, raising his own hand up in triumph over the enemy.

It was kind of a scandal and only came out later that it was a cultural misunderstanding. It was intended to suggest hands clasped in friendship or reaching out to each other and bridging the distance.

My mother knows some Russian. It was the norm to study Russian in school in East Germany, where she happened to grow up. This interfered with her getting permission to marry my father, an American soldier, because it helped make her a suspicious character who was probably a spy.
I always thought 20% time was your opportunity to progress your career. You get to take the initiative and a solve a problem without being told to do it.
The video[1] says (verbatim):

>OpenPilot allows you to be driving hands free and feet free for long periods of time without intervention.

Holy fucking shit no. This is completely reckless.

If they want their code to be used for research purposes, then set up a site with contact information which researches can use to get a copy of the source code. Having YouTube videos saying "buy this hardware, hook it up to your car and now it's self-driving" (yes they say self-driving in the description) is in no way responsible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICOIin4p70w
I agree with this. We've talked a lot about math, CS, etc. being essential skills for humanities students, but I think the other thing is true as well.

One of the reasons I've pushed this more is an observation in my field - the people at the top of their game, delivering plenary talks at conferences, etc. often betray a grounding in the humanities even when discussing fairly technical problems.
Do you want traditional 1v1 fighters or more variety?
A lot of people shorten elementary OS to eOS: https://elementary.io
> Perhaps I'm an idealist, but I think we can do it right.

Our politics would never allow dual tracking. (There are many things that Europe does fine, such as public education, and transit, that Europe does just fine, but which we can’t do as well because of cultural differences.)
Not to be all ecologist about it, but smaller populations trying to find an equilibrium that are also subject to external shocks (like the 2008 recession's impact on university budgets) are extremely susceptible to stochastic extinction.
>I get on the highway, engage the system, and sit back sipping my coffee for the next 45 minutes.

Please, do not do this.
security and userfriendliness. as far as i can tell lineageOS is stock android as released by google with a few fixes for obvious problems and to make it work on several devices.

lineageOS is also not entirely google free as far as i know. it only does not contain the non-free google apps, like the market, maps, etc..., but there still may be code to call home and what not.

/e/ specially not only removes hidden google stuff but adds userfriendly tools and utilities and works on integrating them. (for example lineageOS does not come with f-droid or other trustworthy markets preinstalled)
I'll second this comment.

20% are a great way to a) pursue your own passion b) try out a new product area c) try out a new type of job

Note that 20% is not a reason to do "nothing". Based on your goals, most people use 20% to build upto something. (a) can lead to a new product, (b) can lead you to gain knowledge of a new domain (c) can help set you up for a different role if you want to switch.
I found out this year, at 32, that I have a mostly-anxious/sometimes-avoidant insecure attachment style.

Some of the bumps I’ve experienced in life probably would have gone smoother if this was made apparent to me years ago and I had the tools I have now to work with it.
ADHD medication is widely abused by people without ADHD.
Yep, that lines up with what I've read and what I've personally experienced. Beyond $75k (or your local currency equivalent), more money is more of a theoretical "can do more nice things", "drives a nicer car", "can go skiing for holidays instead of rent a beach shack." It's nice, but it's a change in degree, not a change in kind.

Below $75k combined income is where those "do I want X or Y because I can't have both" situations come about increasingly frequently. Below $45k it becomes "do I want to pay the electricity bill or the rent?"
To imply, without the subtelty that might justify such hubris, that they are the ones who are truly above this, because they are just so damned woke.

It reminds me of George Orwell's classic observation (one of many, let's give credit to those who really deserve it) in The Lion and the Unicorn[1]:

> England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.

No longer is it only an English disease, millenarianism has spread worldwide and become (ostensibly) a distaste for whiteness and masculinity. There was at least some justification in being against nationalism in Orwell's time, none I can see in this irrational racism-and-sexism-as-self-flagellation for this period.

[1] http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye
Again it's only in specific scenarios, not level flight. And if control systems are not allowable then how was it certified at all?
How did it not sound like an advertisement? It was pretty matter of factly "WE DO THIS TOO BUY FROM US"
Did you expect them to just use their time machine to figure out which things the future will frown upon and not do those things?

Hindsight is 20/20.
> Revoking degrees would be equivalent to burning down houses in foreclosure.

While I agree with your larger point, I think this particular bit is a little weak.

A revoked degree can easily be un-revoked, while a burned down house needs to be re-built from scratch. This is why it is socially acceptable for schools to withhold transcripts for students who owe money to the school.
Inability to sustain attention/concentration is just one of the most common facets of ADHD.

Yes, you could have more/others impairments in your executive function than just attention. Impulsivity is commonly measured as well. ADHD is really an umbrella term for several syndromes.

I disagree with the notion that "inability to choose" is necessarily a definitive part of ADHD . It often is, and is common, but it's not unique to ADHD at all.

It can also be due to anxiety, PTSD, all sorts of other issues, and people with those issues improve on anxiolytics/tranquilizers, instead of stimulants.
There are lots of functions in the modern cellphone. I am sure they are checked on the factory (or by parts manufacturer), and I don't think people who refurbish phones test them all. Examples I can think of:

- Microphone and button on your 3.5mm jack

- Both Bluetooth data rates

- Every special function of MicroUSB connector (like MHT and whatever else you might have there)

- Second microphone (used for noise cancellation)

- Low-light camera performance

- Flash memory spare cells

- Thermal stability (does it overheat?)

- Battery capacity

- Every frequency band works

I can believe that manufacturer-refurbished phones are probably tested fairly comprehensively -- after all, the same people designed the original testing procedures.

But would an unrelated store do a comprehensive cell phone test? Or are they just going to turn the phone on, make sure that the screen looks fine, make a single call (in the nice, quiet office not far from the cell phone tower) and call it done?
Somehow I suspect the latter.
A lot of Twice Exceptional* people get labeled lazy. It may not be ADHD. It may be some other hidden issue. In the vast majority of cases, people who get identified as an adult seem to be tremendously relieved and empowered by having a better label than lazy.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional
Perhaps it's a reference to the type of content you're intended to consume using this phone... somewhat like how the private browsing mode of browsers has been called "porn mode".
I have ADD and sleep apnea, a double whammy of conditions that society likes to mislabel as 'character flaws'. I took ADD for a few years; it helped at first but after a year or so I had to stop because I was becoming very angry when on it. I believe the exhaustion/constant jet lag of the apnea (even with CPAP treatment) and work/kids entirely depleted my patience and self-control and the adderall then exacerbated my temper. I'd much rather be foggy/forgetful than angry.
Great, I had since forgotten but now it's burned into my mind as if I just watched it. Is this PTSD?
I imagine between stricter heath codes and higher wages and taxes and all the other costs involved, there’s no way to realistically get Asian style street food in the USA. Seems like the closest I’ve seen if food trucks, but those are often more expensive than traditional restaurants in my experience (San Francisco and Atlanta).

I love Chinese street food, but I’m not holding my breath to see it in the USA. I cook more nowadays in order to save money since eating out is so insanely expensive in USA cities compared to Asia.
> we also don't want to carefully vet applicants

Sounds like you don't want to vet them at all, when carefully vetting would be a good answer.
I'm guessing they wanna do a customer support and actually have things like bug fixes, OTA updates, etc? On the other hand, lineage is a little bit buggy here and there and the experience differs depending on the phones, which makes it more appropriate for hobbyist instead of non tech-savvy end-user
I have ADHD. There are other serious neurological issues connected to ADHD. It's a very misunderstood disorder with a broad spectrum of identifiable symptoms that could indicate ADHD.

If you are heavily medicating with caffeine, then that can be a signal. I was using Pseudoephedrine and caffeine to self medicate and stabilise my moods and behaviours. That was before I got prescribed Ritalin.

But as the article says, I find Ritalin dulls my creative thinking and pattern matching that is required for insightful realisations.

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is big problem for me. I over think things, the slightest misread comment can ruin my day.

I also have a problem with cyclical depression and euphoric highs that are a bit like bi-polar but not as severe.

So yeah - It's hell. I hate having ADHD. I never looked for a diagnosis, but when I got one it was a light-bulb moment. Life still sucks. It's not a super-power and I'm not blessed.
> ADHD is really an umbrella term for several syndromes.

That does seem to muddy the water a bit, doesn't it? Thanks for the detailed response!
Ratatouille
> Dart literally has no natural/non-artificial following or use-cases outside Google.

What do you consider a "non-artificial following"? There is definitely a community around the language, and other companies have certainly used and are currently using it.
I had no idea the software was in use and this stable! Is the discord community the best way to follow progress or are there other resources?
Ah, the days of void main(void)