ahknight

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by ahknight 12y ago
Licensed Clinical Worker. Therapist.
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by ahknight 12y ago
Nailed it. But do yourself a favor and don't self-label. Go talk to a professional for a while and see what their take is. By which I mean an LCW or psychologist, not a GP. :)
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by ahknight 12y ago
Got hired by one. They didn't have enough people so I added about a dozen acronyms to the resume. After it cratered I picked up a job based on those acronyms. Rinse and repeat.
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by ahknight 12y ago
It's splitting hairs, IMO. One form breaks out motivations and one presents an external view. It's a writing exercise more than a useful diagnostic.
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by ahknight 12y ago
Something to think about: it's possible you have more than one named disorder (though they could be related in chemistry). When I first started ADHD meds I had a similar reaction as you, though I wound up in actual panic attacks from
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by ahknight 12y ago
That's an interesting story. I've read that even one use of LSD can alter the brain (similar to this: http://www.livescience.com/16287-mushrooms-alter-personality... ).
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by ahknight 12y ago
Having worked at an ad agency and startups, if you can find an interesting startup you're going to be in a much easier place when it comes to motivation. It may not solve everything, but it'll make things easier.
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by ahknight 12y ago
As someone with clinically-diagnosed "severe ADHD" I use that language all the time. I want to do something. My mind won't let me. It really is like a devil on my shoulder sometimes. "I want to read a book." &
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by ahknight 12y ago
I tried consulting. I couldn't self-motivate to self-imposed deadlines. Barely averted disaster. Never again. Tried a startup. Same problem. Worse result. Now I startup surf as a developer, but only to interesting projects. If I
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by ahknight 12y ago
> overcome ADHD-like symptoms First, good for you -- really! Second, it's very important in discussions like this to qualify the target audience. A LOT of people have SOME of the symptoms, even to levels that impair their lives.
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by ahknight 12y ago
That's a whole different topic, even though to an outsider they may seem related by the stimuli concept. ADHD is an impulse control disorder. Increasing the stimulus levels of positive things around such a person induces a natural fo
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by ahknight 12y ago
I watched a talk by Dr. Barkley a while back and he had a wonderful way of phrasing it (paraphrased): "Suppose you had a person in a wheelchair who needed in your building. Would you build a ramp and then after 30 days take it down, s
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by ahknight 12y ago
What are you trying to say? Whatever it was, you kind of failed at it. Are you trying to toe the now-trite line that ADHD isn't a thing or something?
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by ahknight 12y ago
Clearly Crossfit solves everything.
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by ahknight 12y ago
In fairness, software runs on hardware and a faulty instruction would send electrons to the wrong place and cause an imbalance... /melvin That said, this has been proven many times over to be rooted in an atypical response to normal le
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by ahknight 12y ago
Similar story here: early age, 0 or 100, high tests and little completion. The difference is I've been programming for most of my life (I'm not exaggerating; I started at 7y). It's likely because I started so young that I f
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by ahknight 12y ago
Turns out this breaks Xcode documentation and simulator updates, too. Nice job, Apple.
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by ahknight 12y ago
There's a place between hot as hell and cold as a witch's tit that we call Earth. Let's not forget that. The interface is an unmitigated disaster from tip to toe. There's too much going on. It doesn't need to get
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by ahknight 12y ago
Eh, I cut my teeth on old Apple serial ports. Same mini-DIN8 cable. Feel for the flat part and jam it in. I've lost surprisingly few pins with that strategy.
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by ahknight 12y ago
Not new. pHash (phash.org) has been doing it for a while now. :)
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by ahknight 12y ago
A cryptographic hash, yes. Not all hashes are cryptographic hashes.
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by ahknight 12y ago
It's using a very similar technique to pHash, actually. DCT-based hash and all. It's not brand new, but perhaps a variation on a theme. I've actually been working in this domain for the last week or so and DCT-based hashes a
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by ahknight 12y ago
Also, Tox is taken as the name of an established test runner in the Python world.
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by ahknight 12y ago
> built from scratch With ya up until this. The core crypto code works. The framework around it is aged, crufty, and could use a refactor/rewrite. But tossing the baby out is not useful here. Just wash the kid and put on some ne
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by ahknight 12y ago
Not bad at all. Just turn on the setting to "reduce battery usage" and it falls back (almost entirely) to using the M7 chip and reading cached data periodically.
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by ahknight 12y ago
Facebook and their historical lack of concern for people's data privacy. If FB or Google buy something, about a third of the users will leave (nearly) overnight to avoid getting caught in the data trap.
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by ahknight 12y ago
Yes. This is an OpenBSD fork. It will run on OpenBSD. That said, later on folks can create compatibility layers (like OpenSSH) to make it work elsewhere. It's better to keep that code outside the core anyway.
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by ahknight 12y ago
He does.
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by ahknight 13y ago
Yes. Get off my lawn, hippie.
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by ahknight 13y ago
So ... rrdtool?

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