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Re:The only doctor prescribed videogame for ADHD on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:58PM (#41030206)
I played a game pretty similar to this when I was a kid. It was a Game and Watch style game with two buttons on a simple LCD screen. I got it for free with a happy meal. Bull.
Taking notes, taking notes, taking notes. Notepad as an external memory is just an amazing game changer for this. Doesn't even need to be deep, just a running tally of what you're thinking to get it to somewhere that you can reference it instead of running it on a loop in your short term memory. Makes fading in and out of it so much easier. I treat it like a conversation with myself half the time and the other half the time like I'm writing a reference book for someone else. Its worked well for fresh code, code to be, and analyzing existing code made by someone else. Cannot recommend it enough.
accept every recruiter that contacts you on LinkedIn the moment you click "available". Don't filter too strongly, just accept everything that won't be a hassle to try the interview at. Then just practice through real interviews.
Re:What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming? on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:18PM (#38661153)
Anecdotal, obviously, but I have 20/10 vision and aphantasia.
Re:Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:49AM (#38277994)
I have trouble trusting this when the first thing I see is AI Art. It makes me think the article might have been generated too.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:30PM (#37861021)
https://roughdrafts.xyz/home/

Slightly fancier paste bin with markdown support that I want to turn into a group editing service that takes inspiration from pull request style workflows.

Re:1.3B Worldcat scrape and data science mini-competition on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:18AM (#37765559)
they probably have a good interface for personal library tracking

Show HN: Linki, the Distributed Wiki

https://github.com/roughdrafts-xyz/Linki

Hi everyone! I wanted to build a library that can be used to created distributed wikis, because I want people to have tools to run their own wiki as easy as it is to start a git repository and I want them to use each others' works. I want it to be as easy to share a git repository too. I want people sharing information by subscribing to each other and contributing to each other.I have a lot to...

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The only thing preventing me from jumping right onto this is the fact it doesn't seem to be an oauth2 provider, and it doesn't seem to have the verify/reset/etc jobs necessary for username & password.

Verify/reset/etc is always what pushes me away from doing multi-user webapps. Its a headache every time due to needing to think about e-mail, and I'd love an all-in-one oauth2 provider with signup and etc thats super lightweight and just does everything through an API.

Buddy this is the most corporate bootlicking statement I've seen in a while. I think I see what I hope you're going for and would love to hear that this advice is oriented towards achieving your own goals and not the goals of someone you don't fundamentally agree with.
Haha, yeah. I guess things like Cargo bikes don't exist. Nor does just bringing your stuff onto the train and putting it into it's cargo holds. Or bringing your cargo bike onto the train.

Yup, private carriages are the only option for your occasional weekly or monthly tasks.

I guess its also just outright impossible to just allow for mixed zoning that'd allow for daily grocery shopping as well.

Re:Everyone should be ‘quiet quitting’ on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:22PM (#32455444)
Buddy you had every ability to half ass that on-call and no one would have faulted you for it and it would have resulted in the corporation realizing they needed to harden that duty better.
Re:Why aren't smart people happier? on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:37PM (#32418072)
Maybe stop having transactional friendships?
Re:Not My Job on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:56AM (#31502718)
Delegate the prioritization by using a template similar to this one.

> "Hey, I noticed [this thing that I think might be a problem]. Would you like me to [do a specific action that would probably fix it] or move onto something else?"

Re:The death of 'mandatory fun' in the office on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:14AM (#31447669)
Thats horrifying. I think I'd genuinely just start eating the construction paper out of protest.
Re:Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku? on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:15AM (#31293632)
Get a generic server and toss dokku on it.
What do you acquire by having this opinion?
I use a laptop cause I can't sit right for a desktop. I'm currently resting my laptop on my leg. I have my other leg tucked under that leg. The back of my chair is being used as an arm rest.
Re:Ask HN: Should I/We start a 4-day work week advocacy org? on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:33PM (#30028819)
Companies don't reward morality, they're trained to extract as much value out of a resource as possible - it is the duty of a worker to establish limits and enforce them at every opportunity. "Doing only what needs to be done" is a perfectly normal limit.
If the Netherlands are anything to go off of, thats just due to lack of infrastructure that trains people and helps prevent mixed traffic and conflicts caused by mixed traffic.
Re:Ask HN: How's the Miami Scene? on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:04PM (#29804998)
Ahahahahaha oh man. Oof. Oh. Jeeze.

I was born in Davie, somewhere outside Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Everything in Florida is a scam that does not discriminate. A scam on the users. A grift on the employees. A land inflated by speculation. You won't get paid enough to live there and everything will price you out of paying for it anyway.

How does personal fiscal responsibility effect the global housing economy and availability of a highly limited good?
Any chance you have plans on making this usable by groups instead of individuals? I've been looking to find, adapt, or make something like this for collaborative fiction.
Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:13AM (#29430907)
Why is it on the viewer instead of on the producer to learn color theory? You can perfectly imply darkness with shades of blue and purple and get a far stronger ranger than shades of black can provide.
Re:Ask HN: What is your current side-project? on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:21AM (#27366601)
I've been cleaning my house, and binging old anime like dragon ball and sailor moon. Aside from that, dabbling in tabletop game design. Usually card focused role-playing.
It used to be tongue in cheek, but then we got to see Poe's Law prove itself in real time. Every time I join a 40k community, 80% will be communists making fun of nazis. The other 20% will be mask-off nazis. Game Workshop's focus on trying to be marketable instead of comedy doesn't help this at all, as they start choosing sides to turn into the good guys for traditional storytelling and marketing purposes.
Re:Evolution of Random Number Generators on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:12AM (#27013590)
for JS you can probably just do `[...Array(n).keys()].sort(()=>Math.random() - 0.5)` ?
Re:Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL (2015) on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#26428548)
Why did you use a database instead of just creating a global map and running in memory? Sharding?
Hey, take care of yourself. Stop giving into this macho-ism that only benefits a corporation. Value yourself more than profit. Anxiety and mental diseases are still diseases. They're worthy of sick time. Physically being unable to work and Mentally being unable to work are both being unable to work and they both damage you when ignored.

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