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Re:Ask HN: What was the most stressful time in your life? on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:04PM (#26876493)
My childhood. Coming from a place with lots of (domestic) violence and severe psychological abuse.

Adulthood is troublesome as well for me, but it isn't the most stressful so far. It feels like a never-ending ultra marathon on crutches. And that's ADHD for me. Making my life harder for no real benefit.

Re:Ask HN: What's Your Process for Learning? on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:00PM (#26876433)
My approach: Learn such that you can explain it (linear algebra concepts) to somebody with basic knowledge (high school math).

Explaining (linear algebra) to a kindergartener might be possible, but harder.

That's the Feynman method for me.

This might be ADHD-specific, but these things help:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back

- meditation/mindfulness:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403871/

Taking DHA/EPA and proteins as well as zinc might help too. There are studies conducted on this.

Also, from my personal experience: water fasting for >= 5 days (not only do you get autophagy and ketosis, you get a clearer mind too). If you are interested in this fasting thing, then I suggest consulting Valter Longo and his findings.

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't JavaScript long-lasting? on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:29AM (#26873210)
Good point, but when I purposefully limit the amount of dependencies and use dependencies that have no dependencies (like Vue.js), can I make my web app long-lasting that way (like I can with C89 and SDL)?

IOW: is there an issue with (vanilla) JS despite it being a standardized language?

Ask HN: Why isn't JavaScript long-lasting?

Why is it apparently perceived as a "dayfly development language"? JS has an ISO standard like C and SQL. Yet, only C, SQL, Lisp and the SDL API are recommended[1] for the long run (>= 20 years).So why can't I expect a JavaScript program with HTML5, CSS3 and Vue.js to last me for at least 20 years much like C89 and SDL? What's the issue here? I don't get it, since JS, HTML and CSS are...

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Ask HN: Any Software Engineers here with diagnosed but unmedicated ADHD?

Are you diagnosed with ADHD and a software engineer, but you don't use any medication? In that case, how do you survive? Is that even possible?I have no access to professional help nor medication until the end of this year, but I need to survive my SE job somehow...Remarks:I got fired from my last position b/c of my ADHD symptoms and cannot really afford to lose my job again. The only...

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