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by afarrell 6y ago
It says something about human cognition. We evolved in kinship groups. The most important phenomena to understand were your fellow humans, followed by animals. The human brain has a highly-optimised "Character with motivations taking a
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by afarrell 6y ago
The human brain has certain data structures which it naturally parses and stores well. "Character with motivations taking actions" is one of them. When you try to describe a complex or subtle thing concisely, you might find it har
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by afarrell 6y ago
People like conciseness. "A person used a supercomputer to analyse Covid-19" conveys no more knowledge than "A supercomputer analyzed Covid-19".
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by afarrell 6y ago
France implemented the metric system a year after the Execution of Robespierre. Russia used the Julian calendar until Vladimir Lenin's decree in 1918. So yes, there are indeed states which are capable of these sorts of changes.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Correct. But a codebase without tests is one where it is unreasonably hard to practice TDD.
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Okay....yes. Yes that is a correct statement about logic. It also seems to miss the central point of my metaphor.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Easier said than done. The most important prerequisites to getting successful treatment for ADHD are the abilities to: - Stay focused while shopping for a psychiatrist for a problem that fills you with a sense of despair. - Make appointment
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by afarrell 6y ago
Working in a codebase without tests is like taking a job at the top of a 4-story building that lacks an elevator. For me, the biggest benefit of TDD is to act as increase my individual velocity. When I forget what my task is in the middle o
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by afarrell 6y ago
It also depends on the individual engineer. Some engineers (myself included) need to be able to write tests to make hour-by-hour progress towards the minimum needed to learn about the market.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> to fix things fast Note that if you see _another_ developer taking the time to write a test when you wouldn't, it doesn't necessarily mean they are wasting time. As I am debugging something, I need to write myself a very clea
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by afarrell 6y ago
+1 There are two audiences for tests. 1. Your current self, who is trying to ensure you're going in the right direction. 2. A future dev, who wants to understand the relevant info about what to expect from a module.
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by afarrell 6y ago
A dopamine deficiency will cause you to seek out more frequent reward. So if you find a way to make your brain recognize reward that is on your intended path, you win.
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> which is the opposite Huh? Are you saying that my source claims that chewing ice causes anemia?
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by afarrell 6y ago
For the curious I am in column A, occasionally column D, and very recently column C along with much of humanity. And yes, I am claiming that a lot of feminist twitter is in column B. They themselves have been quite explicit about that.
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by afarrell 6y ago
The ability to have people on it who don't have the time or background to read tutorials on Digital Ocean?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Thats because an awful lot of people are chewing ice. (epistemic status: I am 100% projecting here. Maybe I'm broadly right though) A person with an iron deficiency, will often have an urge to chew ice [1]. Ice does not have iron or he
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by afarrell 6y ago
No university can boil the ocean. In order to make sure that students have good teachers, one challenge is making it possible for people from impoverished communities to be able to get high-quality schooling so that they can either become t
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by afarrell 6y ago
Maybe... but as an ADHDer, my experience is that the bigger problem is thinking "I have this problem" but hearing from others "you're overthinking things" or "you don't need that, just get started" an
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by afarrell 6y ago
as an ADHDer, one thing I've found key is figuring out what things in my environment and mind are the things I want to signal "you're doing the right thing, keep going." Essentially, what is your 'reward model'
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by afarrell 6y ago
Oscillating between high distractibility and hyperfocus rather than fluidly directing attention is essentially the core symptom of ADHD. As someone who has inattentive-subtype ADHD, I must say that this sort of pattern can result in a great
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by afarrell 6y ago
> placebo effect If you want to keep your balance in life, it is helpful to adhere to certain regular routines and habits. There is in fact a musical about this, and the challenges of doing so: - In a world with other people. - While als
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sometimes entire networks of systems fail.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Yes. Why do humans go to churches and recite prayers? > Maybe the purpose of the whole oral tradition A poem is a text which has been hand-optimized to fit in human memory.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> many of us But not all. What is condescending to one is a necessary insight to another. Personally, I am very grateful to people who are willing to say obvious things. I also occasionally re-listen to the audio of self-help books in or
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by afarrell 6y ago
One thing that I started doing recently has been to spend the first hour of every morning outside under a big leafy tree.
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by afarrell 6y ago
OP, I would encourage you to interpret "be kind to yourself" may also mean "be confident in recognizing that you have an unmet need, and forgive yourself for the lapses which this has led to, and persist in seeking a way to u
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by afarrell 6y ago
Hi! Fellow ADHDer here. Inattentive subtype. I'd need to know your specific brain better. What I really _should_ do is listen to you and really dive deep into the habit patterns you get into. (As I'm trying to get my brain to shut
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by afarrell 6y ago
> I think that fear is a useful mental state How much time have you spent in actual _fear_, as opposed to merely having very clear goals?
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by afarrell 6y ago
aahhhhh..... yes, they warned us about this so much in university that I've had "talk to stakeholders to really understand the nature of the problem, then keep observing" firmly lodged into my professional identity.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Medication has been truly life-changing for me. The ability to actually follow through on things within a day is amazing.

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