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by vonseel 7y ago
That’s so simple and brilliant; if I kept any old phones I’d love to build a little device like that. I’ve thought about similar stuff with raspberry pis or the other tiny hacker platform (can’t remember the name right now!) but these thing
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by vonseel 7y ago
USB interconnecting will bring in noisy ground loops that will have musicians and recording engineers pulling out their hair. I just switched to a bus-powered USB-C (Arrow) audio interface and have picked up a nasty ground loop/dirty
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by vonseel 7y ago
Hmmm It is indeed an intriguing topic to consider. I hear something like my own voice both when I am thinking throughout the day and when I am writing, such as right now I hear my “imaginary voice” speaking what I’m typing out. The idea o
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by vonseel 7y ago
VS code or visual studio community? Assuming you mean the former
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by vonseel 7y ago
Hmm, I have no idea what my wpm measure is, but I've never been able to identify with the perception of ADHD being something only low-IQ kids have. People I know with ADHD-symptoms are typically bright and creative, above-average human
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by vonseel 7y ago
Poor executive functioning is why I could never make myself start writing a paper prior to the day or two before it was due, despite the rising sense of panic I would get for weeks. (This is key -- it's not laziness, because good lord
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by vonseel 7y ago
So, the mood swing thing was something I didn't identify with ADHD until I saw it mentioned in a book called "Driven to Distraction". I can't remember the exact details, but I think in the first few pages the author talk
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by vonseel 7y ago
* There's usually something that really turns them on and I always try to find it.* Yep, and that something can drift over years, days, even minutes. I find code very conducive to hyperfocus, maybe more so than something like playing
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by vonseel 7y ago
I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment! In all serio
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by vonseel 7y ago
Thanks for this, I’m going to have to look into that research
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by vonseel 7y ago
Eh, ability to restrain oneself (and keep those hyperactive thoughts internal) comes with age. I don’t think the impulsivity associated with ADHD in children disappears when those children become adults; they just learn to control the outwa
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by vonseel 7y ago
Honestly it took me a few seconds to remember what pique even means.
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by vonseel 7y ago
My 69 year old father lived in Beijing for a few years recently and I'm pretty sure the company he worked for must have taken care of things like that for them because I can't imagine that man ever attempting to write Chinese. I g
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by vonseel 7y ago
Heavy readers with terrible spelling seems odd... spelling isn't something that is hard, it's kind of automatic once you use a language past a certain age, at least for me.
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by vonseel 7y ago
- spellcheck is always on, why learn real spelling when the computer fixes it for you? I wonder if over time you absorb the information anyways. Also, spell-check telling you there's an error isn't the same as automatically fixi
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by vonseel 7y ago
I don’t know if it’s still this way, but I liked how Android used to allow returning an app after purchase (time limited I assume), and was always surprised Apple doesn’t have a mechanism like this. Well, not surprised, I guess, there’s an
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by vonseel 7y ago
Author is confusing active screen-browsing (TikTok) active digital pastimes (gaming) with passive leisure activities that also involve screens, and before screens, radio. Before the age of TV, you could lay on couch with eyes closed listeni
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by vonseel 7y ago
Interested to know more about this. I don’t think much public information is out there, but a quick Google revealed Snap signed a five year $2B contract with G back in 2017, and that’s just one major customer.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Don’t most government contracts tend to go through competitive bidding processes and such? Sans NSA and some top secret military ones, I’d think a bunch of this stuff is pretty open knowledge, at least somewhere out there.
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by vonseel 7y ago
Not too dissimilar from just putting the phone into whitelist mode where it ignores every number unless it is from one of your contacts.
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by vonseel 7y ago
This is why I just ignore unknown contacts unless I’m expecting a call at the time. And rule of thumb: the government doesn’t call anyone for tax stuff. They can send the police or tax auditors to find me in person if there’s a real fucking
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by vonseel 7y ago
Do you think the age issue and familiarity with tech will change in the future though? Even technology should reduce fraud cases and risk, surely it is nothing like the days of CATCH ME WHEN YOU CAN. I have only needed to visit a bank in pe
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by vonseel 7y ago
This is a fun article, and I’m still reading it, but my immediate thoughts are that 1) self-serve is a relatively new thing enabled by tech. 2) even in 2020 there are still clusters of people who aren’t great at using computers, smart-phone
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by vonseel 7y ago
That’s pretty much the approach I would suggest and think works best. Thanks for your reply. Looking back, I think the place I worked had a lot of issues with how code was actually stored and maintained - different repositories for each cli
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by vonseel 7y ago
I’m just wondering where you draw the line. As with everything, it often becomes a big grey area on what is acceptable and what is not. Example: my (fictional) company sells a B2B platform which provides companies with an online marketplace
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by vonseel 7y ago
All SF/CA numbers I suppose? Any idea how these differ in Austin?
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by vonseel 7y ago
> What if your spouse wanna spend her 20s and 30s with you, in a place that has a normal cost of living, doing a job that doesn't require you to be on 60hours a week? I'm not sure 'bout the exact number of hours, but the t
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by vonseel 7y ago
I'm surprised it started growing even that early. When I attended school (2007-11), we thought CS jobs would be outsourced to India/China/etc. (we were wrong).
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by vonseel 7y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: No Willing to relocate: Not immediately, maybe in the future. Technologies: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React-Native, DevOps including Kubernetes/Docker, Ansible, and Linux. Résumé/CV: Upon request
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by vonseel 7y ago
I went with kindle paperwhite simply because I wasn’t aware of alternatives, at least with electronic ink style display, and I have to assume Amazon is making the nicest e-reader since they have market dominance. Also I was trading a very o

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