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I consider myself a amateur entrepreneur (and a bit successful) with ADHD.

Personally, I believe ADHD is a gift and a problem(s). And the problems need to be solved to receive the gift.. And I read these workarounds or solutions are basics of successful entrepreneurship.

Focus - Staying focused requires significantly more effort (even not doing anything is an effort). This is stressful. When I am working on X, my brain wants to switch to Y, and it goes on with multiple tasks. This used to drive me crazy in early days and had to find a solution early on. For me the solution was a bit change in work schedule, exercise and one ginseng based multivit a day.

Passion - I can work 100+ hour week consistently without burn out - only if I have do some creative work. For a repetitive or not-creative task - it gets boring soon and even 15 hrs a week is a struggle. This makes it very difficult to keep up with processes and discipline. This forces early delegation/automation of boring work and forces me to find out areas I like to work on. (Clearly this doesn't work as an employee).

Attention to detail is deficient naturally, we have to work around this with discipline and practice even in non-entrepreneurial jobs. After some time we get pretty good at it (because of practice).

ADHD folks are likely to have failed a lot in early life. And I believe they are better equipped to tackle failure as adults.

People with ADHD may have a very diverse experience, they know something about everything - probably because they cannot focus/disregard in a natural way. Gaining expertise is more than just hard work for us.

When one cannot remember a lot of things, it forces you to keep it simple. Being a bit forgetful was a bad thing, but now it feels like a good thing - I am a programmer, and I tend to forget my own code if I do not work on it for couple of weeks. However that limitation forces me to write modularised intuitive code. I would consistently forget syntaxes of a language I worked for 5 years - but I would forever remember the patterns/designs I followed. I think, the world to us is more about patterns and behaviours rather than facts and figures. And it is easier to learn with the glass half-full.
Yes. I buy books with formulas, code (like physics, engineering, programming) in physical form, because the Kindle edition tends to look awful.

I only buy the Kindle edition of books that are purely text and/or throwaway (= I won't open it ever again), typically management, self-help books.

Also, I buy physical versions of fun books that I read before going to sleep, because I don't want anything digital (= capable of displaying notifications) in my hand when I'm preparing to go to sleep.
I don't think I understand more when I read a physical book, but unfortunately not all books are available on the Kindle. Plus I can't lent anyone my non-physical books.

That said if I could I would go 100% digital because the books are both cheaper and you can carry an entire library with you.
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I buy books only in the case I can't get an e-book version (first choice: kindle. second choice: piracy. third choice: other book markets).

I'd probably cut them all apart and digitize them (there's a 100 books for $100 scanning deal).
Kind of like religion. (Well, except for the possession of actual quantifiable evidence....).
I stopped buying paper books a few years ago.

To this day, I much prefer the look, feel and smell of printed paper, but
storing books became a major headache for me, as I had so many, tended
to live in small dwellibng, and was moving quite frequently. Ebooks
solve this problem completely. Moreover I mostly read books to do
something with their content, to transform it, to think about
it. Searching paper books, even when they have a good index (a rare
occurence), is incomparably slower than 'grepping' through my
electronic texts. The ability easily to cut-and-paste is also helpful.
As others have pointed out, Ebooks, at least on the devices I use to consume them, have one
disadvantage: the infinite amount of discraction that internet
connectivity brings. But there are work-arounds.

For these reasons, I won't be going back to paper.
As little as I can get away with. I read too much (probably around 100 books/year) to be able to accumulate the physical volume and electronic formats are just much more convenient.

Usually, it's long tail (specialist), older books. Sometimes, surprising ones: Lee Kuan Yew's arguably most famous book, "From Third World to First" is only available in paperback or hardback (some of his later writings are available for Kindle).
Yum, salad. In my experience this happens when you overspecify a lifetime or something. After I got this code working, I messed with the lifetimes a bit -- I added one extra `'a` tying the lifetimes of something else to existing bound references. That propagated like wildfire and finally became unusable (proving that those two references could not/would not have the same lifetime).

In more complex situations, it's generally worth thinking which lifetime should be bound together for the first few functions and structs. After that point just trust the compiler.

It's not too hard to get a mental model of lifetimes, really, and once you have it you can look at lifetime parameters and figure out what they mean and how they work with each other. You're anyway implicitly thinking of them as scopes. I usually just ignore lifetime parameters -- they're something you learn to gloss over whilst reading Rust code, and I only really read them (and try to understand them) when I have lifetime errors. Sometimes the lifetime error is due to something unfixable, in which case the compiler will often lead me through a wild goose chase saladifying the entire codebase, or the lifetime error is fixable, in which case the compiler's suggestions usually work. Sometimes they don't, but in those situations you can still fix it by trying to understand the why of it (like how I did in this post, though in the case of this post the entire "understand the why of it" was an afterthought) because things worked.
The system is beyond saving, it's only a matter of time until the people start rioting and killing cops as a personal vendetta... oh wait.
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This gives you tabbed terminal, ssh command completion on. Windows. I probably should write a blog entry about this setup. Also native git. Do try it with Vagrant also.
Paper books for academic / scienctific ones, ebooks for fiction.
Oh, the general situation is something that might be common in C++, but in this specific situation -- the vector was created and held (and most probably being mutated) somewhere far away, and I have no clue what is being done with it -- and the relevant portion of the codebase is huge -- holding a reference is something I wouldn't dream of doing.

SubstructureFields could have had a lifetime parameter of something that was supposed to live longer, we can't be easily sure.
I buy physical childrens books. I buy big coffee table non fiction physical books.

Have you tested your learning from physical vs ebooks?
Apart from the "second choice: piracy" which is very interesting, in a good way I think, can you share how exactly you scan and digitize your books?
Arrow's Theorem applies only for voting on ordinal scale. QV allows degrees of preferences in voting so Arrow should not apply. (This actually is why I do not understand all the fuss about Arrow)
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I do the exact opposite actually!

I prefer to read a good story in my bed, covered with blankets, and enjoy the paper under my fingers. However, when I read something scientific, or work related, I prefer eBooks; I'll be at my computer anyway, and this allows me to research the subject I'm reading about in more depth.
Rust follows multiple-readers or single-writer even in single-threaded situations. You can hold multiple immutable references to an object, or a single mutable one.

Initially this gets annoying, but as time passes one realizes how awesome this is. It prevents iterator invalidation (and vector-move-invalidation), for one (it's also necessary to get memory safety for our ADT enums since you can otherwise change the variant and invalidate a reference to its contents). In general you realize that in a large codebase, it's almost as bad as a multithreaded situation -- you don't know what objects are being modified by the methods being called and the code is too large to easily figure it out.
Yes, I prefer physical books.
I couldn't have moved the vector, it was being used elsewhere.
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Yes. But a lot fewer than I used to. Mostly because of space issues (I have about 40 years worth of books hanging around. Last time I moved I bottomed out the suspension of the moving van with the weight ;-).

These days I tend to get physical books when:

* They're significantly better "things". I have some lovely books that are lovely objects in of themselves. Well typeset, bound well, quality paper, folios, etc. For example my hardcover of "The Timeless Way Of Building" is a beautiful object — as well as a wonderful book. I like having beautiful objects around me.

* When the format doesn't work as an e-book. For example Stephen Cole's "The Geometry of Type" would be completely useless to me as an ebook. As would most of my books on photography art and architecture. They're not just lumps of text that can be trivially reflowed. This is something that might change if we get some really high-quality A3 portable ebook reader type things in the future.

* When I can't get them as an ebook. There is still a stupid about of immensely useful content out there that you cannot get in ebook format. For example I'm currently finishing up a re-read of Victor Papanek's "Design for the Real World". Which you cannot get as an ebook.

That said — my default for fiction/reference purchases tends to be ebooks now. With occasional upgrades to paper books if they're something I really liked and I can get a "nice" physical edition.
Since QV appears, on the face of it at least, to be a single-round blind auction, why would it not be vulnerable to bad signalling and consequent price distortion? As another poster commented below, all players are blindly speculating on the real price of a win.

Take any vote as an example. One side announces they will pay a mighty sum (or have already marshalled a sufficiency) towards a vote Con to scare off those supporting an opposing vote Pro.

Pro voters may react either by believing this signal (and not voting/ buying in at all) or issuing their own claims - all are strongly incentivised to exaggerate their own preferences and strength of support prior to the vote.

Bad signalling is bound to occur AFAICT

1. To win the vote cheaply with FUD by scaring off both the apathetic (apathetes, let's call them that) and some percentage of the previously committed.

2. To punish the winning side financially (maximising Winner's Curse) in case of my side losing. This benefits the losers by weakening the winners as a precautionary measure for the next round of voting on some other issue too. That is, I may be likely to oppose the opponents of gay marriage on other issues too, for example. So it's 'worth it' to hurt them.

As an aside, QV appears to have a limited concept of time and the irrational (pre-vote FUD, post-vote revenge) alike. There is a distinct taste of 'rational actors' acting rationally (when will they learn?) underpinning the scheme generally.

3. To benefit from maximising pro-rata payout if you are a canny apathete.

I must be missing something very obvious here and would be delighted to be corrected. Otherwise QV looks like a fascinating, useful and interesting probe for tabletop scenarios (using virtual currencies for expressing trivial preferences, say).
Yes, absolutely. Roughly two every month. =)
In Germany, we do not have any "Police Bill of Rights", as far as I know, but in practice, it works out quite similarly in cases of police misconduct or outright brutality.

The DA's office, which depends on the police to perform investigations for them, is quite reluctant to investigate police officers in the first place. And when they do, the police force will behave quite uncooperatively, testify only in favor of the accused police officer, evidence will get "lost" mysteriously, and so forth.

Plus, if somebody sues a police officer for brutality, the usual reaction is to counter-sue for slander or false accusation (falsely accusing somebody of a crime is itself a crime under German law). In these cases, the best one can hope for is that the police drops its charges if you drop yours.

I remember a case from a few years back that exemplifies the problem over here quite well: The police had a warrant so search the home of somebody accused of drug trafficking. They did however, by accident, drive to the wrong address and - because of alleged "imminent danger" - kick down the door. They did not find any drugs or other illegal stuff at the place (because it was the wrong place). But the person whose appartment they searched wanted the police to pay for his door. The police refused, so he sued. The judge's statement when he dismissed the case came down to "Tough luck, dude, deal with it".

I find the very idea of a "Police Bill of Rights" repulsive. The police's job - formally speaking - is to enforce the law; as such, the law should be applied to them the same as to everybody else.
If anything, the police - precisely because they are allowed, under certain circumstances, to beat and kill people - should be held to a stricter standard.

It is also interesting that the police union here in Germany rarely if ever does what a union is supposed to do, namely to work towards better working conditions - better pay, shorter hours, and so forth - for their members, instead they mainly seem to advocate for more surveillance and against police accountability.
That is pretty amusing. I'm pretty sure we can file this concept under Information Theory.

From the perspective of a programmer who's watched the industry grow from bare metal assembly to advanced languages like C# and Java, I've noticed a reoccurring pattern. Sometimes, people who can no longer find anything truly unique to capitalize on simply make shit up and throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

Comparable to Constructor Theory, there was this idea floating around called the Vidic (Virtual Information Domain. Youtube it). This one proposed that there was a massive subspace storage system housing all meta-knowledge about everything in the universe. It's great sci-fi and maybe even coffee table philosophy. But it's terrible science.
Java did a lot to strengthen the C++ style static dispatch branch of OO. The Smalltalk/Python/Objective-C school of OOP might have fared a lot better of there was no type safe language in the opposing camp.
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eBooks / Safari Books Online all the way, except in cases of particularly silly DRM or absurd prices (looking at you, Pearson)

AbeBooks is now my go to for physical books.
I live in Pakistan, which is woefully underserved by the big ebook providers (no Amazon Kindle editions, no Google Play Books, and iBooks has mainly public domain ebooks only). I tend to buy technical ebooks from O'Reilly and The Pragmatic Programmers, and such.

(I do have another option for technical books -- the Asian editions. They're cheap, but the coverage is spotty: I bought the C Tiger book a couple of years ago, but all because I couldn't find the ML one.)

There are no libraries I can visit in this city. There's a nice readers club in Karachi (sort of like Netflix for DVDs, except it's for books), but I don't live in Karachi. So, I hoard non-technical books. There are a few good bookstores where I live, and I tend to buy a lot faster than I read -- all because I'm afraid the next time I visit the store I won't find a copy of what I want. I've raided a lot of used bookstores, and bought books I'd never have imagined finding again, like the old CYOA series.

Shipping from Amazon is expensive -- $6.99 per shipment + $6.99 per book. Amazon.co.uk is slightly cheaper for larger shipments: £5.49 per shipment + £2.99 per book. Amazon.in, right next door to me, doesn't ship internationally. Powell's is about the same as Amazon.

I funded the Singularity & Co Kickstarter earlier this year, and that gives me access to a bunch of older stuff, as ebooks. I haven't ordered from baenebooks.com yet; their catalog doesn't have a lot of Tor books I want.
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They certainly look ridiculous - how easy on your eyes are they to use for long periods of time?
As someone who currently has his physical books stored away in a locker a third of a world away, I'm souring to my former preference for physical books.

It's definitely not perfect but I wish more books went the DVD model where if you buy the physical disk version, you can also get a digital license. Without really having to buy both separately.

I'd love to have to have access to the contents of my books regardless where they are, while still enjoying them physically when I can.

Unfortunately the current electronic versions are buried in DRM and sold merely as limited licenses to the content.
For actual scientists yes. For a large subset of the atheists? Not so much it seems, to the point where the more serious among them are annoyed about it.
Whole religions came to exist using that same method.
Tell me more about how I'm the real racist for pointing out that the system is intractably racist.

If this makes you uncomfortable, you need to come to terms with history and the present reality.

We (white people) have been at the reigns and designed the legal system from the start to give us an advantage. I'd say we have to hold some accountability for maintaining a system we knew was broken for too long.

I'd also go as far as to say those with power (in America, well-endowed white people), who have worked hard to change the the legal system such that they get a Fast Pass through it, have a responsibility to fix that system.
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What is the underlying issue that these violent/destructive riots are breaking out?

Again, I'm just looking at the videos and the evidence. As noted WTF .. why did that cop shoot that suspect in South Carolina in the back as the suspect fled. Horrible .. video shows that .. cop needs to learn his lesson/let justice prevail. The other instances the video evidence shows a different story .. a kid going into a convenience store stealing something and then roughing up the store clerk. Ten minutes later he's shot by the cop who apprehended him for his unlawful behavior. So that cop wanted to shoot him .. wanted to meet Michael Brown and shoot him because of his skin color or was there a fight between them and who do you think started the fight? I learned you respect the police and no trouble will be come to you, as little trouble has come to me with any police minus tons of speeding tickets.

Further why aren't these rioters acting in a civil manner to get their point across vs. destroying our city? Maybe because they were not taught or had parents that gave a damn. That's the issue... growing up in the ghetto without a strong family unit, as well growing up in area that is surrounded by crime. Such unfortunately just perpetuates the cycle.

It's a huge social issue and Im interested in hearing how you think it can be fixed. I'm all for a solution!

Also, don't put words in my mouth .. I said this is a class war... not a race war. I"m mulatto and grew up in the suburbs!!!
Yes. In fact, strictly speaking, we can only purchase physical books. We cannot really own ebooks. Even if an ebook doesn't have DRM it's usually watermarked with my name and the editor threatens to sue me if I lend it, loose it or if it gets stolen. We can purchase physical books but in a sense we can only rent ebooks, even if we pay only once for a lifetime lease.
I love my Kindle, and would like to switch completely, but there are two problems:

(1) My physical bookshelves function as a kind of spatial/visual memory for me, with different ideas associated to different locations on the shelves. Switching to Kindle only seems like it would destroy much of that memory.

(2) When having friends around, the shelves are a great way of starting conversation, and discovering new shared interests. This is possible also with things like Goodreads, but the connections made lose some intimacy.

Does anyone have any ways of addressing these problems?
I think the only way to end C is to port Linux to Rust/Nim/Julia/Scheme/etc.
Just remove the () and you'll get the code in a string.
I used to never buy physical because I could always find them online for free but I am slowing starting to buy books again because reading on a computer a book like "Programming Pearl's" just does not work out for me
I'm curious to know what will happen with all the user data on their systems. There was a site floating around which allowed you to access your playlist information just by entering your account email. I assume that was old public data.

And with services like this, is there any threat to users who access 'illegal' material?
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As much as I'd love all media to become digital, physical books map what you are reading to physical stimuli which seems to help anchor the communication into your brain.
What sort of logic errors would be possible? The slice cannot be mutated, and the compiler has verified for me that nobody else is mutating it.

I was just holding on to a reference for an API to consume.

Of course, in more complicated situations you need to worry about logic errors. But in this case I was pretty sure I didn't have anything to worry about.

Still you never have to worry about memory unsafety, which is a huge cognitive load off my mind. Similar to how you don't have to worry about some types of memory unsafety in languages like Java. Or how most programmers don't worry about cache coherence since the processor handles it. Rust just raises the bar. If you know what it can and can't prevent, you can be carefree about many things.
Iirc 10 books is also the break even point with respect to impact on the environment.
I'm part of this phenomenon. I don't own a car but instead cycle to work, use public transport a lot, taxis, and, on the rare occasions I need to drive myself, Zipcar. There are a lot of things I like about Zipcar but I'll point out two that are not directly economic: I don't need to worry about the car once I've finished with it (a real concern in a big city with vandalism, theft) and I can rent different size cars (5 seater for normal times, 7 seater if I have lots of guests).
Iterator invalidation is still a problem.

Plus, having a GC for this would be quite heavy. The codebase was a compiler -- performance is necessary since a compiler's going to be slow anyway.
From what I understand those 50 millions will only be paid with assets from grooveshark. If groovershark the company doesn't have assets to cover the 50 million they will not get paid and also can't get paid from the individuals.
For my own pleasure: Paper books.

For faculty and reference: Easily searchable digital media.