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I am sorry for you and wish you the very best.

I would not condemn anti-psychotic medication just because

1. we do not understand the brain and thus are not able to design more sophisticated methods to treat this terrible decease

2. many patients suffer from terrible side effects.

Thanks to some new generation anti-psychotic drugs (e.g. Risperidol, Abilify, etc) many a person who has the misfortune to suffer from psychosis can return to their daily live - and by this I mean that the person can do more then just 'function'. Of course, his ability to do so depends on the severity of psychosis and dosis of medication. I know a person who learned to live with his psychosis and has greatly improved his quality of life in the recent two years.. to such a degree that he may complete his (ambitious) studies and get a job. Medication was one of the key factors for his well being, other were a long series of psychologic treatments and support from his surrounding.

It also true that in societies where the access to anti-psychotic drugs is restricted (e.g. lack of a pharmaceutical industry) a completely different development of the person is observed, not necessarily in a negative way. However, the nature of psychosis is deeply connected with genetic (hard) and enviromental (soft) factors, such as family, society, experience as a child, etc - so no actual comparison can be made between those patient groups.

Right now, there is no solution to this phenomenon of brain disfunction, and research has a long way to go to understand the structural changes in the brain of psychotic persons during their beginning adolescence and possible treatment.

At the end, stigmatization of psychosis should be avoided, as should be any general magic recipe - every patient is a single case who deserves the best treatment and support from his family and friends.
So exactly how many Chinese-Americans (as distinguished from Chinese citizens who are in America) turn out to be passing secrets to China?

Looking at the Wikipedia page for spy cases involving China:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_operations...

There only seems to be one confirmed Chinese-American case in recent years - Chi Mak (and he was a naturalized citizen).
It is a lovely idea. I would go even further; I wish for a world where everyone is given a "neuropharmapseutical chemistry kit" for their 13th birthdays (along with RISUG for boys, and a few other things) and told to play with their own brains (using a paired mobile app that gives them things like daily dual n-back tests) until they find a happy optimum.

Fill the kit with agonists, reuptake inhibitors, and antagonists for every major neurotransmitter—serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, GABA, acetylcholine, glutamine, histamine, etc.—in liver-keyed prodrug form. Provided as well would be something like an Epipen, full of a chemical that would preferentially react with (and thus neutralize) any prodrugs left in your bloodstream, in case of emergencies. (Not that your liver will let you process the prodrugs into amines quickly-enough to harm you physically, but there's always the chance of, say, sudden suicidal ideation.)

But ignoring futurism, we've always got gwern: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
I don't disagree at all that all the features you describe are nice to have. They do indeed make the programming experience more pleasant and add some utility. What I am arguing against is elevating those features over more effective productivity boosting solutions that may not have quite the same dazzle.

Intellisense in general is kind of expected now in any IDE; it is like the buttons in your car to slide down your windows (old enough to remember the handles :) ), they are nice and expected but you wouldn't base your buying decision purely on that.
The entire hypothetical premise is based upon NYC breaking into 5 cities (one per borough), therefore making Brooklyn 3rd largest after LA and Chicago.
No checked exceptions is a deal breaker for you for a programming language? What kind of deals are you making?
"As late as 1975, nursing textbooks did not include herpes as it was considered no worse than a common cold. After the development of acyclovir in the 1970s, the drug company Burroughs Wellcome launched an extensive marketing campaign that publicized the illness, including creating victim's support groups."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_genitalis#History
Unless they're only doing it so as not to be sued for breach of contract. If they're not chasing future grants from DARPA then there's no incentive at all to play nice on other fronts.
One of my first hires was in his 50s, too. He kept falling asleep at his desk.

Not everyone ages well. While there are certainly great employees in their 50s and 60s, you'll also find a pretty high percentage that

1. Stopped learning 20 years ago, either because they didn't force themselves out of their comfort zone or because they became experts at something and couldn't take the financial hit to do something else as a non-expert.

2. Have some sort of medical problem that affects their concentration. I work with a guy who has terrible back problems for which he has pain meds. He can go for a few hours without taking his meds and he's pretty productive then. Otherwise he can't concentrate very well and doesn't add much. Nearly everyone ends up taking blood pressure medications, and they have side effects.

3. Have ordinary age-related cognitive decline. This is the big one. If you were a genius at 30 you'll most likely be pretty smart at 50. But if you were average at 30 you're going to be below average at 50, with below average memory and reasoning skills. Everybody has cognitive decline, even in the absence of other problems. In many industries experience makes up for it. Not so much in software.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you shouldn't hire people over 50. All I'm saying is there's truth in the stereotype.
Glad you too noticed that. I was feeling extremely stupid and ignorant for not having understood the correlation between rainbow gravity and an eternal universe.
I write code like that. I tend to have a good idea of what the code should be doing, and write it out, char by char, like prose.

I also avoid IDEs and prefer text editors. In the twenty-five years of programming, I've not found an IDE I like, and I suspect I'm a langauge-maven than a tool-maven (http://osteele.com/posts/2004/11/ides) (as long as I can type, I can try out a new language; I don't have to wait for a specific IDE to come along first).

Edit: add a link about language-mavens vs. tool-mavens.
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(somewhat) more informative Scientific American article on which this useless blog post is based: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gra...
We had a contract with a retail brokerage under which we paid them a fixed monthly fee plus a fraction of the flow they sent us in exchange for being their exclusive options market maker. We had to execute the trade at the national best bid and offer (NBBO). We made the difference between the NBBO and whatever we managed to execute at. These are contracts negotiated between broker-dealers, so a relevant attorney would be your best source of information.
Maybe http://whiley.org/
I admit I'm a terrible pair programmer, so my experience may not be representative, and while I sometimes get frustrated when the person with the keyboard fails to hit the right keys (and to be fair this person is sometimes me!), almost always the main source of frustration is when can't agree on something or when one repeatedly misunderstands the other.

On the other hand, when we are on the same page, slow typing is seldom a problem.
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> It's disingenuous to say that he abandoned ship because he was mistreated because other people of the same ethnicity were spies? What kind of insane reasoning is that?

It's non-naive reasoning based on the knowledge that yes, people do care about their own race and ethnicity and may have multiple loyalties, and the world doesn't work based on a simple 'you are 100% loyal to the country you are in' bit of reasoning.

Try engaging in less abuse and more probabilistic reasoning.

> Either there are good reasons to believe he was a spy, or there are not.

Either this is a false dichotomy, or it is not.

> If there are, then let's hear what they are, but "other Chinese people were spies" is not remotely a good reason.

Yes, it is. If other Chinese people were spies at above base-rates, then one will be more accurate in finding traitors by taking this into account.
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There is an inmate on death row who is not fit to face execution without medication.

The state has offered antipsychotics so that he can be put to death. His attorney and he have naturally refused the treatment.

His case was discussed by the authors of "Murder at the Supreme Court" on CSPAN, but I'm not sure offhand the name of the case or where it took place. I think they might have said he now gets a whole wing of Joliet to himself, not sure exactly.

So yes, at least one guy out there is better off without the drugs.
How much is that and what's it like for Linux / hard to install etc? do you need Cisco routers?

was v impressed by Cisco video in contract recently but they were Fortune 500 so I assumed it was beyond us mortals
There are almost always alternative ways forward when an existing market structure stops working. For instance, maybe drug development needs to be more bazaar and less cathedral? More open source, more distributed, less decentralized?

Of course, existing laws probably make it illegal in the US to work in this area at all if you aren't one of the hand-picked big names (i.e. cathedrals).
I heard about it. But it has received pretty muted coverage. I suspect a combination of jealousy, the Chinese language barrier, and Chinese indifference or inexperience at promoting its space activities. Given that China has had some embarrassing and destructive disasters in the space program, they seem a bit reluctant to go for the live broadcast approach.
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This guy also does a solid ludum dare stream
http://www.twitch.tv/dvcolgan
> There only seems to be one confirmed Chinese-American case in recent years

'recent years'? Why did you add this qualifier? That lists 8 different cases, and this is only what has gone public; by the nature of these things, you're only seeing the surface of the iceberg. (Does anyone seriously think that the US is not the top target of Chinese espionage and where it most wants agents?) Now, consider what fraction of the populace is Chinese-American, and what that implies...
False dichotomy. He had many options: he could've fought the deportation, he could've gone elsewhere than China, he could've gone to China and not worked in their ICBMs, etc.
Whenever I am reading discussions like this and accounts such as yours, I am amazed at the openness displayed. Apart from impressing me, I'm sure that is helpful and encouraging for those still stuck in predicaments you are overcoming, as well as helping society in general, which really needs to stop being so squeamish, ignorant and selfish about mental health. Also, all the best.
This made me think about this old Saturday Night Live skit.

http://screen.yahoo.com/first-citywide-change-bank-2-0000005...

"All the time our customers ask us, how do we make money doing this? The answer is simple. Volume."
You can choose what you find easier to believe. But let's not pretend that Tsien was obviously innocent and it must have been the government's fault. I'm sure Chang is sympathetic to her subject and would like to argue that it's all the government's fault.
He means that the following are equivalent:

* How famous PG is in HN

* How famous homakov is in HN
Well, time moves on. If you are developing for clients using IE 8, you probably can live without the latest Angular version too.

I think it is necessary that projects keep focused and that means deciding what not to do.
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> If people could be more civil and constructive, comments would be fine, but I'm glad they're gone.

So it's better to just ignore the problems with the documentation? I barely have time to learn the framework—the lack of good documentation means I delete it from my hard drive. No matter how good a framework is, if it's not documented well, it's a buggy black box.

Even criticism that doesn't offer a solution is better than a lack of feedback. Besides, it's not like Google will get all self conscious and stop contributing because people don't think the documentation is good.
I was thinking all of these things too as I was trying it. I think there is something fundamentally wrong about this. I don't think the words per minute for a programmer's typing is important. As you say, to get the higher score, you must simply type as you read character by character, but this is not what programmers do. I don't see much value in this because of that. If our jobs were to transcribe code that someone had written out by hand then this might be something worth its disk space. If we find code that we want to copy exactly without trying to understand its meaning, we have a clipboard for that.
Yes. Please consider that like 99% of the intelligence community is white. We should expect to see 99 Ames or Hanssens for every Xuesen.

I know statistics is hard, but seriously, this should be an obvious point. The relevant agencies are almost completely white especially in the era we're talking about; doesn't this imply that any spies are almost certainly going to be white and that more than 2 or 3 Chinese spies indicate that loyalties may be... divided? Look at the WP list, it's well beyond 2.
> What I am arguing against is elevating those features over more effective productivity boosting solutions that may not have quite the same dazzle.

Who are you arguing against though? Nobody ever made that claim, or as far as I can tell, even implied it.
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I've bought a few ASIC miners with bitcoin. I bought two BFL Jalapenos when they came out, for $150/ea, and I just preordered a Coincraft miner for abour $3k.

I've also bought two 4TB hard drives, for about $300.

(The prices are all in USD, and the price of bitcoin when I bought each thing varies.)
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You should read the list instead of just counting the entries - many of those cases turned out to be false.

And yes, this is only what has gone public. You explicitly said "turn out". Do you have information that the general public does not?

I said 'recent years', because does anyone consider espionage from the 80's to be relevant? I sure don't.

I don't know if you realize this, but most Chinese-Americans (at least from what I've seen) were either born in the US, from Taiwan, or fled the PRC (as in, they did not want to live in a country run by the PRC). Does anyone seriously think these people are going to be spies for the Chinese government?
You seem to be denying that Chinese industrial espionage occurs...
"Those who remained on the drug were less likely to return to work or develop meaningful relationships."
> My layman's impression is that the current generation of drugs for serious psychiatric diseases does more to help family and society in general to live with the patient, than to help the patient itself

That's exactly that—a layman's impression. Realistically this is very complex to evaluate. Personally, when I took my antipsychotic, I thought clearer. I stopped because there were physical side effects, but I still miss it.

As always, exercise caution when adopting new medication, and evaluate early and often whether it helps you address your needs.

However, I can't think of anything more harmful than denying patients medication that actually might help them. People have strong feelings about psychiatric drugs, and even more so when it's hard to quantifiably evaluate the beneficial effects. Add in that depression and anxiety have a practically infinite number of causes. The result is that it's very difficult to evaluate medications for a given patient without trying it, and there are a large number of failures before finding good medication.
* no claim was made of where the productivity boost of autocomplete ranks against other development factors

No, but it can be inferred.

I agree that code completion and framework choice can be mutually exclusive; my general point is that a developer's decision to use a tool should consider other productivity factors, not just the expected ones.
Simply Hired - They have a "Telecommute" filter on the left hand side under "Job Type". Watch out for scams, though. If a company ask you to pay for a credit check or training, run the other way.

http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=technical+support&fjt=te...
Surely we can create a better jobs program with that money?
Looks cool, but it hijacks my browser history with the "Signing In..." page which doesn't seem to do anything.

On a side note, I'd recommend making the link to the API documentation more prominent than a link mention in the write-up, as it is the core part of the service.
> No evidence was presented, he was never tried or convicted of being a spy. Imagine being at the height of your powers and than being wrongly accused of a crime, and for five years not being able to work with your peers. Science was the loser here.

Security is not a judicial procedure. Did we need to have a formal court trial with a smoking gun before we decided Dual_EC_DRBG was untrustworthy? Did we say 'yes, it's the NSA which is associated with treachery against cryptography and no, we can't prove it was backdoored, but let's assume good faith and keep using it'? No, of course not, because in security, that is an insane mindset.
To me, your comment is a strong implication that Notch is a gifted programmer. If you meant "at least kind of okay" literally (he is better than average), then feel free to ignore me. Otherwise, read on.

I know tons of people, myself included, that have coded something of similar, if not bigger scope than Minecraft. The only difference between Notch and everyone else is that Notch ended up creating a game that became extremely popular. It is a combination of skill and luck. Thinking it is all skill, and even worse, thinking that you are "gifted" because of such a happenstance is very unhealthy.
I didn't understand why this was an appropriate response. However, I am interested in your browser based ide. Tell me more...
i don't wanna go that far and say that but... I saw this AND belt.io. and im just not seeing any reason for either... like i've tried thinking for a while and have thought of NO USEFULNESS for either tools.
Google Docs + Google Mail + Google Calendar + Google Hangouts

Duet (http://www.duetapp.com/)

Cloud9 IDE (https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/)

Timer Tab (http://www.timer-tab.com/)

Skype

Bitbucket and Github

VirtualBox (running Ubuntu with all the usual stuff)

Photoshop

Notepad++

Calculator

That's pretty much my entire toolbelt.
I think it's exactly the same thing as coffee, and it's not a medical condition at all.

Coding really IS naturally boring and mind numbing. That's neither your imagination nor subjective experience. No one ever steps through a series of break-points in a debugger, or skims through 1,000 lines of log output, and thinks: "YEAH, MAN! THIS IS REALLY LIVING!" It pretty much requires an altered state to enjoy this stuff.

I think the truth is that modern society measures "success" in radically different and totally unnatural ways now.

Look back at history, and there's a famous correlation between the introduction of coffee, tea and chocolate to Europe, and the age of enlightenment. (https://encrypted.google.com/#q=caffeine+enlightenment+histo...)

The reason pills are used on kids is because they won't reliably drink coffee on their own. Meanwhile, many parents won't subject their kids to substances other than normal, healthy food, unless they're comforted by rational, selfless purpose. Without an appeal to authority, in the form of a soliciting a qualified doctor's auspicious opinion, parents would just let their kids be kids.

The industrialized world is obsessed with abstract achievements, and rigid behavioral norms. Most people have a hard time resisting the trend, and sometimes do so at their own risk. All of it is artificially tied to quality of life (more than survival) by social pressures, so it's not so much survival instinct, so much as it is envy or maybe a desire for inclusion that drives the behavior.

It's not the drug that's demonized, but the fact that it has become a prerequisite for staying competitive and Keeping Up With The Joneses, so to speak.
Floobits. It's somewhat difficult to get setup, but once it works it's great.
> You should read the list instead of just counting the entries - many of those cases turned out to be false.

No, they couldn't prove them to judicial satisfaction. That they were not shown to be guilty does not prove they were innocent.

> I said 'recent years', because does anyone consider espionage from the 80's to be relevant? I sure don't.

When you're considering rare events, yes, the 1980s are still relevant. Why would you exclude them? Did the Singularity happen in 1989 or are we on Mars or something?

> Does anyone seriously think these people are going to be spies for the Chinese government?

Does anyone seriously think that Chinese-Americans are all 100% loyal and are not a good recruiting ground for Chinese intelligence?
Your 64GB system uses Intel's LGA2011 server platform. It's not consumer-class hardware even if they label some of the parts for "enthusiasts". 40 PCIe lanes makes no sense for any consumer purpose - it's an odd number even for multi-GPU use, and quad-channel memory isn't economical and probably won't be even after the transition to DDR4.

I've never heard of a SSD caching system that operates on filenames. Apple's Fusion Drive system is the most filesystem-aware caching system I know of, and it ignores filenames and works based on frequency of access. Intel's Smart Response system is a block-level cache implemented as part of their software RAID system. Flashcache and bcache for Linux are block-level caches that can be layered over or under software RAID. Hybrid drives that put 4-8GB of NAND on a hard drive are completely filesystem-agnostic, as are the hardware RAID controllers that support SSD caching.
Yes, we should definitely change that. Thanks.
Wow. That contrast between New York and Bronx counties is staggering.
The article states that most doctors and researchers acknowledge that ADHD is a legitimate disease (as yours seems to be), and that some people should take medication. But they are protesting the vast over-diagnosis of the condition, and the push for medication to fix symptoms that are common in most people.

Also, though you might not notice any side effects, the article discusses that the side effects can be substantial (trouble sleeping, loss of appetite, sometimes suicidal thoughts), and that they are typically vastly understated in advertisements. The drug can be addictive too.

This sounds like something to make a big fuss about. If the opposition is to be believed (and I think it is), children are being vastly over-medicated with strong drugs based on bad science and misleading advertising.
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That doesn't explain all of the "white" people that were investigated (and black listed) during the "Second Red Scare" of the 1950's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
Java's anonymous classes can also act as a (large and bulky) closure, although as you have to declare local variables used by the anonymous class as final, the capacity to close over mutable state is limited to instance fields or mutable objects.