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Yes. I suspect that the incidence of ADD on this forum is much higher than average. The diagnostic criteria are not that high.

As far as treatment -- stimulants help absolutely everyone focus better, regardless of whether or not they have ADD. I am not exception. My personal belief is that ADD is mostly just a catch-all term for people at the lower end of the spectrum of focusing.

My advice as far as medication is to get Ritalin or Focalin or Concerta, not one of the amphetamine based drugs. Don't bother with the non stimulant drugs. Amphetamine (Adderall, Vyvanse, Dexedrine) is a very serious, hard drug to be taking every day and it can do odd things to your ability to experience pleasure.

I am prescribed twice daily short acting Ritalin 20mg, though depending on how much I want to focus I take it less often and/or in a lower dosage. If your schedule is flexible and you know you don't want to be stimulated for 12 hours at a time, then ask your psychiatrist for a short acting medication rather than one of the extended release ones.

Finally, you should always get mental health advice from a mental health professional. Please see a psychiatrist, not your primary care physician.
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Agree, it sounds like most of their issues were solved in 1.2. Huge nested arrays definitely sounds like they aren't controlling the recursion level properly, which is quite simple in 1.2 as you mentioned. Caching is also quite painless in 1.2.

Its too bad for such a high profile project to bail on Cake without giving the new version a try. It really is an excellent framework for many projects.
real grass fed cows will still be raised and sold, but expect it to get a lot more expensive in the future.
> figure out that they can go raid/camp out/etc. near these water sources/help centers

They already try to do this.
> double-edged sword

What's the other edge? It seems to me that crossing the border with this tool is strictly better than crossing without it.
It might get less expensive, as there will be more room for pasture and a low cost competitor.
Where's your research to prove your assertion? The consensus in the field is that health education classes about diet and exercise have positive benefits, which is backed up in the literature.

So, this study really compared against best practice. I don't see the problem. Comparing a new treatment against best practice is ethical when you are dealing with people's lives.
Cutting out ground beef consumption entirely wouldn't reduce the number of cows produced. A given cow produces so many T-bone steaks, so many barbecue ribs, and some quantity of ground and stew meat from tougher cuts. The demand is driven by the good, expensive meat; ground beef is cheap because it's the byproduct. If it wasn't cheap, we wouldn't want as much as was produced.
>ARM-based linux-powered devices could work for days without recharge

wonder if this has to do with kathmandu's high altitude :)
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Meh. Human beings haven't been eating domesticated cattle for all that long, either. I mean, geologically speaking. If you're going to put some faith in evolution, put it in our ability to adapt to available food sources. If we were as brittle as needing to consciously micromanage nutrient input, I doubt we'd have made it nearly this far.

Anyway, I don't see any particular reason to expect 'natural' food to be more healthy. Most of nature, given its druthers, would like to kill you.
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I hope that food labeling will take care of that, and that any synthetics will be required to carry clear labeling.
I'm always looking for sources like these, but I can never find a place that let's me just look at file 1 and move on from there.

If anyone's got any resources that might give me an idea of the file progression – from OS to OS with teeth – I'd be extremely obliged. I'd like to grok *nix.
I totally agree. Being frugal and financially responsible is the right way to live life anyways for so many reasons.

Just think you might find this useful (I have a feeling already that you are a value investor but still feel compelled to add this)
I would add intelligent investing also to your plan and I feel you will reach your goals sooner. I have benefited a lot from Benjamin Graham's formalization of value investing - he wrote the classic "Intelligent Investor".
That's actually a really good point, our bodies have some fairly advanced defenses, but still I'd play it safe and avoid this stuff like the plague until a solid amount of time has gone by.

In the old court days they used to have a person that would taste the food (I don't know the English word for such a person, sorry) and if that person wouldn't keel over within half an hour of tasting the food the food would be considered safe.

I fully intend to use that part of humanity that doesn't care about issues like this for exactly that purpose, but I'll set the time quite a bit longer than half an hour.

(silly old timers, never heard of slow acting or cumulative poisons...)
I started a social news site devoted to cute cat/dog pictures and videos earlier this year. I worked pretty hard on it for a couple of months, only to realize, that I couldn't stand looking at cute shit every day for months on end. So, I took the site down. I got 700 uniques in 3 months, and had 5000 page views.

I learned a few things along the way. I got quite a few initial users off of Mechanical Turk. I submitted a request asking for users to test my application out. I paid them a nickel a piece to have users visit my site, click through a couple of links and post a comment on something cute. I ended up paying around $1 a day, and I got some great feedback from them. It was also fairly low pressure for me, too. I didn't have to worry about things breaking and losing users. The Turkers expected things to break, because I was asking them to test the site out. I recommend trying spending $5 to 10 on the Turk. It's really hard to go wrong.

I also tried advertising using adwords. That was a mixed bag. Initially I got a decend click through rate on my ads because the Westminster Dog show was going on, and people were interested in seeing pictures of cute dogs and cats. So, I got a bunch of decent traffic from that for around $0.10 to 0.20 a visit. But, as I continued advertising on adwords, I started noticing a pretty big bounce rate. So, I cut back on adsense and focused on other channels.

I also spent quite a bit of time emailing bloggers who had cute blogs. I got some traffic from them.

I also spent quite a bit of time posting good comments on other people's blogs. I actually got a couple of clicks a day from people clicking through my signature link on icanhazcheezburger.com.

Probably my ROI was from a comment that I posted on a cute pig video on the LA Times website. I got several good referrals a week for two months off of that single comment.

So, I just put up http://newsley.com which is a business/economic social news site. Right now, I'm just talking to friends and family and getting feedback from them, so I can make changes to the app accordingly. My next step is going to get some feedback from Mechanical Turk. It's a cheap and easy way to elicit good feedback from users.

This time around, I'm going to work with twitter a lot more. A friend of mine developed some decent twitter bot software that categorizes twitter users by value to me and handles the following/unfollowing bit while avoiding spamming people. I think that if you can find twitter users that are interested in your niche, they could probably help out a lot.

I don't really know if I'm going to user adwords or not. It ended up being pretty expensive. My customer acquisition cost using adwords was about $1-2.

I'll still post comments on news stories and articles. I can sleep at night as long as I'm not spamming the comments thread, and I feel like I'm adding something to the discussion. Finally, I'm probably going to go out and press the flesh quite a bit more on this one. I'll probably do a lot more meat space networking for this site.
Indeed. This part constitutes the science: "When the superstar entered a tournament, every other golfer took, on average, 0.8 more strokes." The rest is speculation.
If you're in to reading old science fiction have a look at This Perfect Day by Ira Levin.
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possibly more from these guys?

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7114714037.html
Y2K in a different number system - at least we're consistent in prophesying apocalypse.
An idiotproof, point and click cloud solution is definitely what's needed for cloud to go mainstream (i.e. Joe User thinks nothing of putting his wordpress blog on the cloud). I hadn't really seen this coming from Microsoft, but kudos to them if they get it right. AWS, GAE etc are still all too hard just to push stuff out - I've tried explaining them to tech-savvy laypeople and had zero luck so far.
Hi,

That's a great insight from a person who already tried the things. Can you please tell me the name of the twitter app.
Those are scary numbers. Anybody know of rules to force it to on, without breaking clients that really don't support it?
Heh, only if the buisness guy is dumb. If he solved a problem that really was of that magnitude, he could probably license the technology for $$$.
I am sorry i don't get it , how can a new "Killer App" be Windows only ? The installer only works on Windows , what happens to the rest of us.
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Good to hear from you, mate.:) I used to live in London for many ages but recently I moved to Dublin, IE. Though Ireland has a quite fast developing startup community. Microsoft, Guinness, Enterprise Ireland, Bank of Ireland and Trinity College: these are the major event organizers for startups here.
Anyway, I definitely going to use your website. Cheers.
Story of my life indeed. The funny part is the fact that we are all reading this and voting on it (it was posted after midnight)
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I suppose they use User-Agent sniffing, which is obviously not very robust. That said, something like the rule below should work (mod_gzip/Apache 1.x):

mod_gzip_item_include reqheader "User-agent: .*MSIE 6.0.*"

Mind you, this has not been tested, interacts badly with proxies, and is based on a pretty broken idea in the first place. On the other hand, almost every modern browser supports gzip, so it's not clear how much it would hurt.
It's marketing, that's all. If Buffett is envolved, there's nothing "charitable" about it. He is in it for the profits, he doesn't do it any other way (except _after_ having earned profits, giving it away eventually). It's Goldman's chump change to advance their public image and to distract from their bonus payments and provide policy makers with an excuse as to why Goldman doesn't deserve that much scrutiny when it comes to their CDO's noone understands etc.

Edit: See what Goldman does with their "charitable foundation": http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/12/the-goldman...
This was more sad than funny.

I like Dilbert but Scott Adams seems unpleasantly wed to the past.
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Raster seems to start learning about the Samsung's RISC Microprocessor so probably you are right.
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Depending on the 'class' of blog, sometimes snail mail seems way too stalkery. If it's a TechCrunch or a VentureBeat, snail mail can really work, but the whois address is a restraining order too far.
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You could encourage normal people who are using the app (via early-access or whatever) to 'review' it by a twitter, facebook or other social media campaign. Sure these things sound cheesy and old hat even to me now, but they can work. 'Tweet about us to get a free upgrade to Premium'/'free 500MB disk space'/whatever incentive you can provide once users have already got the app.
depends on where you are. for me, it was just after lunch
Yay for Asia.
Guy Kawasaki's books are pretty ace for learning the 'silicon valley' style of business, big picture, etc. I think the first real book I picked up was something more down to earth though like the Beermat Entrepreneur (UK-specific) that outlined the whole process quite well from what to incorporate as to accounting and sales.
They have had one too many braindead misfeatures already in .Net e.g., Linq-to-SQL.

C# and F# have come long pretty good, kudos to them on that. Integrating Azure with their development stack is a really good move.
This is a very good video. Thanks a lot.
attributed to John Carmack and first observed (by non-id people) in the source of Quake III

here's a good read http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9

[Edit: I've always thought this was Carmack's code, but it looks like I was wrong. see email from Carmack in here http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/ ]
Downvoted you by mistake, sorry. Wanted to upvote!
You can also run 'git mergetool' and choose the 'emerge' option, which is also emacs based but I believe can take the common ancestor of the merge into account to help you out as well.
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Joe User can already get 100% of the benefits of "the cloud" (whatever that means) by getting joeuser.wordpress.com . I don't see there being much upside for anyone whose relationship with their computer is similar to their relationship with their toaster.

What I do see happening is Microsoft doing what they usually do: figure out a way how to become the standard platform for smaller software companies writing niche software for businesses. There are an awful lot of businesses out there who have essentially infinite technology needs and very little capacity to absorb it. Previously, Microsoft said "Here's a windows computer. Run this installer which cost you $50 from some company using our products. Bam, you now have a need filled without learning how to program yourself."

In the future, I expect it sounds like "Hey, you've already got a computer. Cool. Click once and pay our vendor $50, and BAM we'll give you a website with X business software installed on it. You don't have to learn anything about programming or system administration."

Now personally, having done downloadable software and web apps, I would prefer to have users pay me directly for access to my web app rather than having them host a copy locally. However, that won't fly for all businesses, and if Microsoft totally took all the technology pain out of it for them and reduced barriers to purchase by getting payments totally right, well heck, I'd be happy to sell hosted apps.

(Particularly hosted apps which you have to pay for every month or MS will turn off your access for me.)
Thanks. I suppose it needs a lot of testing.
I have an old pinball machine that I purchased a few years ago (Maverick, 1994) and it's definitely a labor of love to keep the thing working properly.

That being said, there is something really hacker-like about pinball. I am truly amazed at times the ingenuity that goes into designing and building a pinball machine and all its mechanical parts.

I have this in my netflix queue, which supposedly describes the history of the Pinball 2000:

http://www.tilt-movie.com/index.php
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The danger is doing it naively, and winding up with Rubber Band AI: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberBandAI

I have seen dynamic difficulty done well exactly once: in an obscure freeware game called Quadnet by Brainchild Design. It is a simple arcade game that focuses on honing a single skill. There are three lives. Mastery at the game means speed in accomplishing the game's objective; it ramps up the difficulty during the first life in response to the player such that after about 5 minutes you've reached your max and you die. It then spends the next two lives very slowly rocking the player back and forth over that difficulty threshold they can't pass.

It works because there is no penalty for skill -- better players are guaranteed to get more points and faster -- and because it is true to the game: the advance in difficulty works to train you at the game's main skill, find your comfort level, and they try to push you past it.

In general, dynamic difficulty is done wrong in two ways: it changes the fundamental game or cheats, distorting the landscape players are trying to conquer, and it does not reward them with points or bragging rights for having triggered the harder mode.
In fact, even that phrasing is slightly misleading, because it suggests causality -- I suspect the evidence only supports correlation.

The article is a particularly idiotic example of uninformed speculation passing for science journalism.
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I think it was actually because of the base 20 number system they counted in because of the fact that they had 10 fingers and 10 toes.

If only the six fingered man had taken a break from killing Inigo Montoya's father and lent them an extra order of magnitude...
Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels....

Sorry if I left something out. I feel like one of those comedians saying as many slurs possible.

Needless to say, we're plunging into some interesting years. 2012 just feels so... pivotal.
It isn't as well known as it could have been, but IE can be controlled completely using OLE.
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I'm taking a flight to Orlando in about 3 hours, and will have a 2-3 hour layover at Miami in between.

Turns out, that airport (and the Orlando one) is part of the Free Google Wifi for the holidays thing [1], which was nice. Since I will have quite some time in my hands, I decided I won't work on my current project, but instead will see what kind of app I can build in that short time; visual design and planning included.

I was also hoping that, if anyone is flying today, or soon, they would also attempt the challenge and see what comes out of it.
Droid it is then
I really don't think that's how supply and demand works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
"I hadn't really seen this coming from Microsoft"

Not even when they first announced it at PDC2008 a year ago?
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My unscientific prediction: Andoid has only a few months to catch up to iPhone by June 2010, when the exclusivity deal with AT&T ends. This is not nearly enough.
Border patrol also having access to the app... waiting for you at one of the safety/shelter/water points?
My friend built it and sold it this past spring. He didn't have a name for it. But, at one point, I think he was managing around 40-50 twitter accounts and had close to 75k followers.
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As part of my site, I need to allow users to transfer funds to the site's account (later to be used for online purchases).

It seems that the most common option, is using PayPal. But, for small transactions (<500$) the fee is close to 4%. That cuts very deeply into our profit margin.

Can anyone recommend other (cheaper) ways to allow users to transfer funds to a site ?
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Asteroids, comets, alien invasions, the singularity (aka robot invasions)...
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Yes. You can do nearly all this stuff just by hooking into MS's published interfaces. I've done many pieces of it myself, but seeing it tied together like this so comprehensively is amazing.
We sell some ASP.NET (dont get me started) software and this was a god send when it appeared a little while ago. Before our setup procedure (we usually let clients do it themselves due to them being paranoid about letting people on their networks) was just complicated enough to require a phone walkthrough. This makes it a breeze. Click XYZ, then install. Install our app. Slight cfg tweaks. Win.
I think the Droid will help quite a bit, provided Apple doesn't have much up their sleeve to announce in June.
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I'm in Set B, and would hesitate before eating Vat-meat. I didn't become a vegetarian in order to pretend to eat meat.
And if it's on your fork, how do you tell if it's vat meat or not?
"Our simulation gets turned off" can be tacked on too, but I was trying to think of things that are real, current, problems. Or more probable in the near future.

My main point is that 2012 onward will be interesting without mystical interpretations of the celestial.