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Then there's the periods of seeing that mental priority list,
but being unable to commit to any single task to the extent that
nothing gets done. If there's giant pressure or stress behind
something, it could force me to act, but otherwise nothing.

"Hyperfocus" is kind of true in that when you unhinge from that
mental priority list you stop feeling the distractions, but the
problem is you don't exactly get to choose what you want to
focus on.

Get out of my brain! Yeah. This! Eerily accurate description of how I feel a lot of the time.

It [ADHD] doesn't make you an incredibly quick thinker, you
don't necessarily "think through every consequence of what you
just said before you finish your sentence" what is more
realistic is we think through some things unrelated to what was
just said, sometimes this might lead to an alternate line of
reasoning, a "thinking outside the box".

Yeah, I agree with this. I think that people with high intelligence and ADHD often conflate the effects of one with the effects of the other.

Being smart makes you think ahead; having ADHD makes you think sideways. Together, they can be a real doozy, huh?
This isn't much different from someone getting mugged by someone from a different class or race and then concluding that "those people" can't be trusted. Sad.
It's an issue when you're so into something that it consumes everything. Maybe also to escape other less favorable sides of your life (I mean mine here, but it seems social life was a burden for you too). The issue is that when this thing starts to crack too, then there's nothing else. Very heavy on your soul. That's why I read the 'do what you love' with a grain of salt now. And sometimes the idea of being lost in a context ([re]learning social life) that I disliked before feels almost like a massage of surprise which, even if it was one side that I might disliked before, feels a lot more worthy than being stuck in your narrowing world.
They're all pretty much the same. Browser support for the big issuers is pretty near universal, even on mobile. Choose the cheapest reseller you like. No matter who you buy through, you end up in the same request/validation process on the actual issuer's site after purchasing.

I usually buy from Namecheap just because they already have my cards on file.

https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/comodo.a...

Same prices at SSLs.com (used to be cheapssls.com).

http://www.ssls.com/

An SSL cert costs between $5 and $10 per year depending if you're willing to prepay multiple years. Wildcard certs are around $100/year.
Wow, ddod your voice>>text is awesome. Did you implement it all on your own?

Some improvement text>>comprehension will be great. Right now it does not understand many of my queries. Keep it up the good work!
The mechanisms of action that I'm referring to don't depend upon physically transporting molecules into the brain. Also, as it turns out, even inflammation in your gut or elsewhere changes the signals that the nerves send to the brain. And levels of neurotransmitters in the brain are absolutely impacted by what's going on in the rest of the body...regardless of the BBB.

What specific point are you trying to make about the Blood-Brain Barrier? And stomach acid? Sorry but neither of those things somehow render the foods and chemicals we ingest meaningless! Your HCL won't somehow break down Magnesium! Even Vitamins will mostly make it through intact.

I'm not a scientist but I don't get my information from Men's Health magazine either...I research reputable scientific studies and make reasonable connections.
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While the real implementation is always murky, what Physicist usually mean by "direct" observation is that the values of the quantity being observed does not depends on the type of theory (or hypothesis) used to measure the quantity, or the theory being used is universally accepted.

For example, temperature is defined as rate of change of entropy of a system as energy changes, while entropy itself is defined as some formula dependent on number of microstates. If someone measures this rate directly, it would be called a direct measurement. In practice though, you would rely on some derived phenomena, like expansion of mercury. If you understand expansion of mercury from some other independent theoretical ground, then after some rigor, the use of mercury can also be taken as direct measurement of temperature.

In current case, what we would really like to observe is change in space-time as gravitational wave propagates, just like you would want to see ripple in waters to confirm a water wave. There are experiments that are trying to do exactly that (the LIGO for example), but you can also measure something which is a derived phenomena, the polarization of photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. There are good theories connecting why gravitational waves would produces such an effect in CMB, so this can be a tool for indirect observation.

Again this does boils down to usage and what community considers direct vs indirect observation, but as a rule of thumb, experiments which measure a quantity from definition of the quantity itself are considered direct; they are termed indirect otherwise.
While I would love to see software patents go away, I don't think we'll see such happen through the courts. I think our best chance of that is through Congress. From my understanding of what the constitution says about patents, it's Congress' job anyway.

However, there'd be massive lobbying against such, from both patent trolls who derive all of their revenue from such, and big powerful firms like Google, Oracle, and IBM, who would lose legal cudgels against upstarts with the temerity to be a (pontential) competitive threat.

So, while worth doing, getting Congress to invalidate software patents will not be easy.
Not all of programming is CRUD web apps.
In basketball a "turnover" is when your team gave up the ball when you didn't have to, and thus is a negative.
Yeah, the day you have a dollar is the day someone shows up with their hand out. From what I've seen of the legal system it is just a proxy for brute force, the only thing it really accomplishes is to keep everyone from killing each other, beyond that it is pretty much the law of the jungle.

I think software development actually has an easier time than most professions to weed out freeloaders. You can make someone program right in the interview. Programming ability is an extremely perishable skill.

EDIT: also, obviously, REAL reference checking.
You can program in pure mode in scala too(and scalaz framework helps in it). FFI is great but i don't miss it. For better performance there is the java collections and libraries.
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I work at a university using Wildfire by Google. Was just told they are refunding us our money and that "They are not in the business of social." Payments for service stops April 1st and Maintenance stops September 1st.
I've never felt safe with my data with Evernote. They have been hacked quite a few times and sent me password change email requests as well numerous times.

Plus, I've lost post due to sync error on Evernote between devices often, mobile app is pretty poor - crashes often :(
The autopilot until fuel exhaustion theory doesn't explain how it ended up on this line:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73602000/jpg/_73602229...
Very good point, measure everything!

One way to start trying a quantitative approach would be to conduct normal interviews with the same candidates and compare the results. If you already have a decent interview process there should still be some similar results, indicating you are on to something.

Not as good as hiring them all and evaluating performance, but the real world sucks
It does, also LiveScribe integration, so if you have that pen, you can draw or write etc anything.
Of course it's an array library. The fact that it's not designed for your problem doesn't mean it's designed crappily.

Suppose you ported Eigen to Python. You'd still need an array library, so you could represent the inputs and outputs in a way that's usable in Python. You'd probably use NumPy.
That law may not apply here.

The basis for this law is that if the reporter can answer the question with a "yes" they would simply report that.

However, this can't be done with a future event. So for a future event the law doesn't apply - the reporter isn't being lazy or trying to make something out of nothing - the information is truly not available yet.
Software is math. Math is not eligible. Should be pretty clear.
re: your API comment: seems like putting extra functions into the outer context breaks the parser, but putting them inside the main anonymous function worked for me.
#2 isn't viable because it breaks the primary design goal and the entire purpose of Keynote '13--that every presentation opens the same way across desktop, web, and mobile. The Keynote '09 source code does not and never has compiled for ARM, and so you would be faced with exactly the same dialog you have now, except instead of on your Mac it's on your iPad and instead of asking you to find an old version of keynote it asks you to find a Mac.

The great thing about #1 is that if Apple really did leave money on the table here, any third-party developer can collect it. Just put a Mac with two versions of keynote behind a REST endpoint and charge a buck or two per conversion. If you can turn a profit at that, not only do you get the smug satisfaction of clearly winning an internet argument, but also there's a cash prize.

If, however, that sounds like a waste of a perfectly good weekend, an economic bet that is unlikely to pay off, it would be an equal waste of a weekend for an Apple engineer. Apple is not a charity; they are a business that takes calculated risks, and they didn't like this one. Did they miscalculate? If you think so, there is no reason not to fill the gap yourself.
Some of the things on that list actually sound like pretty cool challenges.

I'm thinking about the mobile one, for example -- since the commands players use are limited to an API, could a drag-n-drop interface for that API work? Then the only things actually requiring typing would be function arguments.
I think people seem to care more about that sentence because it is an honest summary of Dave's takewaway here: non-status-quo groups have a greater risk of screwing you over because they have this legal loophole they can exploit.

Which hey, I could see why that'd be controversial.
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Maybe you forgot to put on your glasses. What he said was accurate: Both of these games contain within them a 100% accurate recreation of Super Mario Bros. Complete with original graphics and sounds. Just with some other stuff you can do.
If you make it harder and more costly (on average) to fire people, companies will be more reluctant to hire.

This goes for employees in general, and subgroups ("protected classes") that public policy may be trying to help.

Housing anti-discrimination law can backfire in a similar way.
I've also noticed that a lot of people complain when the statement immediately following "I'm not racist but..." is given more emphasis than the preceding disclaimer. /s
The whole Office Suite was the best product for quite a while. I prefer OSX alternates though now. XCode for C/C++/ObjC and Keynote for PowerPoint etc.
A CLI utility that provides audio playback of a words in their native language.
Good point again :)
... or initialize you freshly malloc'd memory to DEADBEEF for you.

Just to helpfully let you know when you're reading a bit of uninitialized RAM.
AngularDart brings the Angular philosophy to Dart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4#Antenna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty#Measurements

"When the uncertainty represents the standard error of the measurement, then about 68.2% of the time, the true value of the measured quantity falls within the stated uncertainty range. For example, it is likely that for 31.8% of the atomic mass values given on the list of elements by atomic mass, the true value lies outside of the stated range. If the width of the interval is doubled, then probably only 4.6% of the true values lie outside the doubled interval, and if the width is tripled, probably only 0.3% lie outside. These values follow from the properties of the normal distribution, and they apply only if the measurement process produces normally distributed errors. In that case, the quoted standard errors are easily converted to 68.3% ("one sigma"), 95.4% ("two sigma"), or 99.7% ("three sigma") confidence intervals."
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> I've seen several people here mention that it's not "measured directly" - does it mean something else in this case?

As far as I can see from the article (couldn't find the paper detailing the experiment), they observed an artifact that could have been caused by primordial gravitational waves. This is different from using a thermometer to measure temperature because we're not sure yet whether that is the only possibility (or our instruments are not sensitive/too sensitive, it's a different mechanism of inflation etc.), it's the best explanation, but we're not extremely sure yet. (Although as I say this it occurred to me that it's probably much more certain than before because of the discovery.)

The key takeaway here is that the inflationary model is almost certainly the right one and gravitational waves are almost certainly real.

(This is similar to the first Higgs Boson announcement, where we were almost certain it was the Higgs, but not sure enough to claim discovery; because we hadn't determined all the properties of the observed particle)
It isn't ready yet (another few weeks until a 0.1) but I'm working on a simpler UI framework that lets you bind HTML elements directly to REST-ful URLs, cutting out a big swath of complexity for many apps:

http://intercoolerjs.org/

Again, this is not ready yet and I'm actively changing things, but if you are interested in an AJAX framework that is concerned with keeping complexity to a minimum, it might be worth checking out. Comments and criticisms very welcome.
I'm talking about the average person who wont get an IB account with it's reams of paperwork, professionals only attitude, and $10+/month minimum fees to maybe do a bunch of currency exchange for a one time or occasional thing. Also using IB as an actual currency exchanger where I get cash from US account A to CAD account B is actually pretty hard to do, they charge fees to do it, and there are long delays in the process. They basically only want you to use their FX platform to try to make money exchanging currencies, but once you want to cash out, you have to convert everything back to you home currency and take it back as a domestic transfer.

I've researched this extensively, since I had to pay my Canadian student loan while working in the US. The easiest and cheapest way to do it ended up being a schwab debit card with it's %0 currency exchange fee and ATM refunds. A close second would be BTC. Then it's Paypal, then it's the retail bank (think a chase checking account) international wire transfer service with $50 fees. Only schwab and & BTC would be relatively instant.

The actual currency exchange is also not transparent at all whenever I use any of these services except Paypal and BTC. I charge $XXX CAD, and some time later I'll see a charge for $XXX USD on my bank statement. I have a large time-span where they could of transferred at any time. I have no idea if they did profit maximizing shenanigans like BoA arranged withdrawals and deposits to maximize overdraft fees. I just know it's about %1-2 off what I saw as the mid market price on my phone when I did the transaction even with no 'currency exchange fee'.

When going from Canada to USA is even worse, since there is no such thing as a zero currency exchange fee card or account like you can get in the USA.

The amount of risk I would be taking is about 1-10 minutes with Bitcoin, and 'regulated bank' isn't much solace when things like Cyprus, Argentina and others happen. Then there is the domestic transfer out time, which can be fairly quick or up to a day or two. But when your at that stage, all of the currency exchange risk is gone.

The uneven international exchange rates are a double edge sword that will go away as the market gets bigger. The sell/buy spread between kraken and bitstamp for example is less compared to cavirtex.

In practice sending money from US to Canada with BTC is about as much work as using paypal. You just have to compare the two before you do the transfer. Sometimes it really in your favor to do BTC, sometimes it's better to do paypal.
If you are a student, this sounds like a great project to do for a class: set up a service where two coders can get randomly paired up to program an exercise and then they can later evaluate each other!
As someone who doesn't have a very good grasp of these things, can you explain the difference between the Big Bang and inflation to me? It seems like the Big Bang is the explosion of all matter that would be in our universe, and inflation is the rapid expansion of the universe itself. And inflation is believed to have taken place almost immediately after the Big Bang. Is that sort of accurate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation#cite_ref-4

"Particle physics uses a standard of "5 sigma" for the declaration of a discovery. At five-sigma there is only one chance in nearly two million that a random fluctuation would yield the result. This level of certainty prompted the announcement that a particle consistent with the Higgs boson has been discovered in two independent experiments at CERN."
the paper doesn't account for indirect leverage, that I wrote about in my post, and also, banks writ large are basically leveraged institutions.
thanks for mentioning those two awesome features, I can see them being very useful, didn't knew they existed.
Huge thanks on that, ruff. This definitely thrills me :)

Just wondering why the hell isn't this part of the export menu... great feature, undiscoverable as hell.
First software, next seeds.
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Of course, another reason to upgrade to Mavericks if you haven't. After all both the software are free!
>he deserves to be shamed.

You heard one side of a story about a contentious situation between two people and you want to publicly shame someone based on this? What if the older guy has a completely different story that explains why he had trouble working there? Just don't dox people -- and if you really think it's necessary to try to publicly shame someone make sure you have truly irrefutable evidence to back you up.
I'd have thought it is probably covered by 'process', now what I see as the problem in many software patents is that they sometimes treat software as a component in a process, leading to overly broad claims that effectively cover any attempt to solve something in software rather than drilling down into the mechanics of a particular solution.

Of course, if you did force specifics, then software patents would be pretty toothless as you can always find another process that ends up with the same result. However, if the patent office and courts had decided to take that approach, they wouldn't have had such a valuable income stream to play with, and I suspect they value that over consistency of approach.
Registrars are hit up on multiple fronts:

-ICANN charges contract fees, $100k+ to registrars to become accredited.

-TLD operators (like Verisign for .com and others for every other cool TLD your users might want to register) charge a base fee to the registrar per domain that is registered.

For example, Verisign (holder of the .com TLD) charges roughly $6 per domain to the registrar.

Registrars then have to pass on those costs to you AND add a little more for their own operating expenses and profit.

Many registrars use domains as a loss leader. They LOSE money on domains in order to upsell you on other services (hosting, SEO, ecommerce, etc.).
Somehow Apple has been able to port their entire operating system from PPC to Intel to ARM. I think they could manage porting a bit of iWork code.
Amen. It's funny how as a society we've come to accept certain mental issues as things rooted in brain chemistry and others are still "willpower" issues; issues of personal quality.

I think that at this point, nearly everybody in the civilized world accepts dyslexia as a neurological thing and not a issue of "willpower" or low intelligence. It wasn't always that way, though - that's a pretty recent development.

I hope we can see (and contribute to) ADHD getting there in our lifetimes.
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Being a woman in tech is only an obstacle course if you can't code.

If you wrote 3/4th of the startup's codebase and you're a female then you're not going to feel like a second class citizen. You're going to feel very much needed by the company and you're going to have the equity to show for it.

>men as stars who must be courted, and women as casual, lower- or no-value workers

What this article doesn't point out is that far fewer women are qualified to do the kind of tech work that is required to build a software start-up. This is not because women are less intelligent but rather because 10 or 15 years ago they bought into a stereotype that caused them to shy away from studying computer science. Now it seems they've finally caught on that 'geek is sheek' but they lack the decade or two of hard core computer science skills so all they can do is try to fulfill the more superficial roles within a tech company which means that for the large part they really are low-to-no value workers.

There are exceptions to this rule of course, some women can code very well, some women are expert graphic artists, have deep UX experience, are thought leaders in mission critical areas etc and I think those women are generally valued in the company to the same degree as the fetishized hacker.
> Either way, in what world do you see something out of the ordinary — but not strange — happening at work and line up to gawk at it?

Congratulations, you've decided to not look at out of the ordinary things for fear of implications of sexual objectification.

But me -- if weird stuff happens in or outside of my office, I'm gonna watch.

> It's certainly possible for a bench-full of 20-something programmers to sexually objectify someone

My last comment said "I'm not saying it Wasn't sexual objectification,"

> Julie was made to feel uncomfortable, and since she's the best eye witness to the event we've got, there's no reason to doubt her testimony

The number of witnesses has no bearing on the truth, validity or bias of the statement given by one witness.

> You don't need to stick up for them

I'm not. I'm saying it's too early for those of you championing Julie to get your pitchforks out.
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It seems that in order to prove that all allegations of sexism in Silicon Valley startup culture are categorically false, some people here have been flagging posts by women today. This means that this story won't make it to the front page, because unless the story is about companies cooperating with the government to eavesdrop on innocent citizens or fighting movie piracy, there's really nothing to discuss here (or, alternatively, this subject is too "controversial").