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by cc101 4y ago
The ability to respond to events is not the same thing as the ability to experience events. There is nothing in the world of classical physics which could imbue experience.
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As we get older motivation decreases, and it seems to require explicit effort to get motivated. Motivation derives from anticipation. If there are things about your work that please you, emotional day-dreaming about successfully completin
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Job's answer to that was something like: "People don't know what they want. You have to show them". Job's used spectacles to show people. He had to rely on his own personal vision of the future to get the right i
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The mac will take a snapshot of the screen. Over time it will slowly scrape images and make the results available to Spotlight (mac's search tool). Depending on what you're looking for that might be enough.
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I've been laid off 3 times in my long career. Two times out of 3 I ended up in a better job. Hang in there folks. It does get better.
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Thanks. I'll redo the screenshot.
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epiphany-workflow-ii/id1508000... ADHD is a problem for many people in high tech. Epiphany Workflow is a mac program for very bright college students who are in academic trouble
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I'm appalled. These comments are pretty confusing for someone like me who has no domain knowledge. Any public spirited hacker out there who wants to synthesize this material?
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An interesting and worthy topic, but it develops way too slowly. Browsing the internet is fast paced. For the internet it really is Too Long; Didn't Read. I realize that this works against an author's love of writing and rich st
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Since no one else is commenting on this, I'll add a second comment. In my 76 years experience dealing with ADHD, I have found that a useful definition is "difficulty organizing and sustaining a directed effort". That's
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It reminds me of the first macs. As I recall there was something called a paste book. It accumulated items. You could scroll through it to find the item you wanted.
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Meaning no disrespect at all, I have to say that this paper, while thoughtful and well written, is just too long to be useful to me. A more elaborately structured paper could allow me a choice of how deeply I wanted to pursue my understan
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I have built 3 spec houses. I don't believe that laws and regulations were excessive. As I have said before on this forum, we don't build log cabins anymore. Houses are very complicated and dependencies and issues are often imp
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My impression is that the MacBook Air killed it. For a short time about 50% of college students were using a MacBook Air. The netbooks were tiny and awkward while the MacBook Air was larger, light weight and an elegant experience.
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I've been programming for 55 years now. I've seen lots of languages come and go. Object Pascal is my favorite by far. Writing an Object Pascal program is like writing a sonnet. It's difficult but rewarding. A properly wri
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I worked four 8 hour days a week for 17 years. I feel that the quality of my life living a 4 day work week was greatly improved over that living a standard 5 day 8 hour week. If circumstances required it, working extra hours or days was no
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I won't use Reddit because of its hostile atmosphere.
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I built 3 spec houses in Arizona. I don't feel that government regulations had a negative effect. In fact, on one occasion they helped me avoid creating a serious hazard. Building houses is seriously complicated, and dependencies are
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With a bad case of burnout I withdrew from Stanford in 1968 after one course in FORTRAN programming for geologists. Worked for 4 years at NASA-Ames as a low-paid contractor (programmer and computer operator). Last tech job until 1980 when
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Last time I checked there were 47,000 HN posts about ADHD with about 1,000,000 comments. The distractions that folks like us have are often creative and appealing. I suspect that this plays a role in the number of ADHD in tech and entrepr
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I spent a year in a permanent homeless camp in Arizona. It was a community. Everyone knew everyone else. Most folks worked when they could get it. Most had some sort of emotional problem that got in the way of entering the mainstream econ
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by cc101 4y ago
Apple has been converting the UI of the Mac into something like that of iOS devices. Vertical alert windows and fake camera cutouts on the top of the screen are obvious examples. There is no purpose for that other than to accommodate the
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ADHD and Hacker News- 47,650 Citations
4 points by cc101 4y ago|0 comments
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I'd love to audit this on-line. I don't see any was to do this. Did I miss this?
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I believe that the iPad can run HyperCard inside the Basilisk II mac emulator. I just scanned this. Didn't read it. https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11149
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"Most of us like Law and Order and that is enforced through violence and the threat of violence. Not always. I conform to law and order because I sense a profound link to some essential but ineffable truth about the human experience.
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Your right. It's not a word I remember ever using before. I should have looked it up. : )
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Why can I remember decade old dreams just after waking?
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This seems to offer a never failing font of innovative ideas. Thanks
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I have found that generally the longer I delay a decision, without abandoning it, the better I understand it, and that lets me make better decisions. Snap decisions are highly unreliable. I have made some awfully scary snap decisions. I

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