what_is_orcas

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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
+1 on medication being a huge help. I deal with non-ADHD issues, but the same has been true for me: no amount of therapy was helping until I got meds figured out. You make a really interesting point about diagnosis that I hadn't consid
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
What about folks who don't request a refund but don't use your product (as seems to be the issue that's getting discussed here)?
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Sure, but then isn't this just a "disability tax"? (I'm aware that the word disability is antiquated and not perfect here, but for the sake of being concise, this is what I wrote). The need for this app is a problem. Ins
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
For an app that _for_ folks who aren't neurootypical, accessibility should be priority #1. That it's not does not inspire confidence and suggests that you're going for an "exit" strategy, which might be great for VC
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Sure, I guess my point is that it's not a simple equation. Personally, I think the plastics in the ocean are probably more harmful than the emissions required to clean it up, but it's not as simple as saying "look, we cleaned
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I mean, reading the description, it's hard not to get a little concerned: "a start up that's going to try to make money off of folks with ADHD" isn't a great starting place. I think this is sort of a broader start-u
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> "Once plastic has gotten into the open ocean, it becomes very expensive and fossil-fuel intensive to get it back out again," Miriam Goldstein, director of ocean policy at the Center for American Progress think tank, recently
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I'm really nervous about the future of humanity. I think the trauma of war, especially on the part of the "victors" serves as a necessary negative feedback loop on the general population's support of war (or at least set
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> The politicians are awful, but in a democracy, the fault for that lies 100% with the people. Yes and no. Yes in that the politicians are selected from people they represent (in theory), but also no in that once a person becomes a polit
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> a kind of web-based all-in-one full-service collaboration/dev platform with a social network built in. Why would I want a social network built into my version control & ci/cd pipeline (I assume you're referring to th
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> It's not because they get up in the morning and say "better go pollute a bit more today!" Of course not, but they do actively make decisions based on profit over sustainability. > So if it bothers you that much then s
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> Isn't that how everything works? Even the best of things? You're right, I think I was using that to ease into my argument in a delicate way. > The west coast where SV is based is full of LGBT+ people. To be clear LGBT+ !=
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I think it works here when it works, and it doesn't when it doesn't. If you're a straight white male (note: I'm not), then I think social dis/approval works well for you. I think that conversations about privilege a
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but I live in an area with a lot of traffic fatalities and it seems to me to be, at least in part, an economic issue. I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts of my US city. The
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
There's a few really busy streets in my neighborhood where people regularly go 10-20 MPH over the speed limit. Not surprisingly, there are quite a few hit-and-runs on those streets. While it's probably the case that the folks who
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Oh certainly. I have a pretty good relationship with that manager, actually, and that's more or less the framework we use to sort of compromise. He gets his buzzwords and I get to get my work done. I enjoy learning new things, don&#x27
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I've sort of been dealing with this at my day job, except it doesn't come from other developers, it comes from management. Every few years, a new Head of Engineering comes in and says something like "let's use $TECHNOLOG
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Plugins for code-editors isn't my thing, is there a reason that you chose Atom instead of VSCode or Sublime? (this looks like a cool idea, by the way)