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I sit here quite impressed with my Pseudo 50s SciFi book cover

https://imgur.com/a/NZuGTXU

However... This gallery on imgur gives a better idea of capability https://imgur.com/gallery/coWN44P

"however iperfect" encapsulates exactly my point - we can't know - but jeez, we try as best as we can

I'm pretty lousy at asking people what they feel, my job role, thankfully, has an optional people management component, I've opted out. However a mandatory (welcome) part of my role is mentoring, coaching, call it what you will. I need to listen to junior members of staff sharing their woes and it's a two way flow of ideas, they often share, or overshare their difficult life moments, and at that point, I hang up my "mentor" role and just listen, I'm not their manager, I'm just their colleage, in fact, their friend. Empathy, as I said is guessing, but I do everything I can to do my best guess

Assumption

I work for a well known media company where I live, a brand, our grad scheme is really good (disclaimer I'm a small part of that) and attracts the best of the best out of colleges, people like having my company on their CV, it doesn't do any harm, our allumni typically go on to have good careers, or stay for the long haul. We love it when our people take the skills we've honed into, for example, Amazon, JP Morgan and amazingly often return to the fold and are welcomed back with open arms. There isn't a prestige trap really, but maybe we just think we're the best of the best and going anywhere else is just for rounding out experience.

Jeez, I read the whole of that, it was a rollercoaster of something (his art) or someone I thought I knew and somehow got to the person, good writing

This sounds very much like the fraud/risk part of the business are not correctly joined up with the sales function. LEGO - you should have your guys talk to each other more often... maybe make Fraud/Risk a sign off on sales decisions?

I interpret this to mean that human brains work best with constraints, artists do this all of the time, constraints are great

This is the one - http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

My brother in law works in aerospace, he worked on a project which involved a mars mission - the catastrophic error was that part of the software worked in metric and part of it worked in imperial measures. Each independantly worked in factory testing, but together the imperial readings threw the metric system (it was just a number) - or vice versa - no one caught the error

I agree, empathy is a bit fake, you have to guess and I for one will do my very best to guess what others are thinking and feeling, but at the end of the day, being in someone else's shoes is a guess. Compassion is entirely solid though. Both are needed.

btw - Caro Numquam is what I came up with

Don't be me - at work c. 2001 - heard about a colleague who was "vegetarian" but ate fish and sometimes chicken... I wanted to create a pseudo-scientific name for this way of eating. I was thinking something along the lines of eats some meat but predominantly vegetarian.

So I opened up google and typed "Latin meat" - the results did not translate to the latin for meat!

Ha, I have a couple, created in 2011 - who knew (well... remembered!) - now going to archive and delete them

10 years ago, my daily grind, nowadays rarely, but good to have in the back pocket

HR data is necessarily controlled though, there are pretty stingent controls in law around that. I understand the pain of not being able to report on stuff, but there is probably a sound reason. However, the delivery you describe sounds like a broken organisation tbh

I love perl because it's fast, but it definitely follows the WORN pattern. Write Once Read Never. No matter how many commnets I leave for future me, it's always a voyage of discovery reading my own code, forget reading anyone else's :)

460-375BCE - Greece - Hippocrates on people who couldn't focus but were good at reacting to events - attributed to an "overbalance of fire over water"

1693 - Scotland - John Locke - in "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" - discussed a class of students who "could not keep their mind from straying"

1798 - Scotland - Sir Alexander Crichton - "The Disease of Attention"

1800s - Various - Medical Textbooks of the time - referred variously to conditions “nervous child”, “hypermetamorphosis”, “mental instability”, “unstable nervous system” and “simple hyperexcitability”

1902 - England - Sir George Frederick - describing the same systems named the condition an “abnormal defect of moral control”

1937 - USA - Charles Bradley - first began experimenting with prescribing benzedrine (an amphetamine) to Children initially for headache and noted that it greatly improved focus in those who previously had not demonstrated that ability, but could not explain why stimulant drugs could induce a calming effect.

1944 - Switzerland - Ritalin developed (Methylphenidate, Rita from his wife) as a safer replacement to benzedrine

1968 - USA - DSM-II lists these by now well recognised and medicated symptoms as "hyperkinetic reaction of childhood"

1980 - USA - DSM-III - changed the name to "Attention Defecit Disorder"

1987 - USA - DSM-III (3rd edition) - changed the name to "Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder"

1994 - USA - DSM-IV - refined the disorder into it's currently diagnosed form with 3 different types of ADHD, namely: Inattentive Type, Hyperactive/Impulsive Type and combined type.

2013 - USA - DSM-5 - refined to acknowledge that the 3 different types are not in fact types, rather presentations that can change over the course of an individual's life.

or...

maybe it's a newly invented fake phenomenon

ps - not a response to the comment preceding :)

Good material, nicely presented.

This is similar to My Cognitive Bias - they have a browser plugin that opens a random cognitive bias when you open a new tab (chrome, firefox) - basically like flashcards for embedding the knowledge - I probably found that one here too.

https://mycognitivebias.com/?utm_source=MyCognitiveBias&utm_...

David Graeber also did an excellent BBC Radio Series on the same subject - Promises, Promises: A History of Debt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054zdp6/episodes/player - (registration required / geo limited)

That seems more similar to the plot of that Halt and Catch Fire show on Amazon Prime

Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle juggling - which would be not too bad a solution in a semi-permanent place like your car

Microphone, speakers, charging port - lots of holes. The Sony Walkman Sport from back in the day was waterproof, it had a standard jack

Horrible idea. I'm on holiday at the moment, didn't bring my headphones - don't often use them, but on flight and occasionally lazing by the pool would have liked to listen to my audiobook.

I decided to get a new cheap pair when I was shopping, remembering just in time that my phone model doesn't have standard audio equipment. So from what was available instead of a simple €5 purchase, I would be on the hook for another little adapter cable priced at €10 or €39 for another set of Apple's headphones with their bespoke charging port.

It's not "brave" it's shit and annoying. Also travelling with Bluetooth speakers, which use standard cables, means I need to carry multiple cables around because of proprietary charging port that they continue to be able to get away with.

I like my phone, does what I need, but not being able to pick up a cheap pair of headphones on holiday, yeah thanks Apple. Shit decision. Google... please read this real world experience, don't make your equipment annoying too.

I bought an iPad a little over 5 years ago. At college (longer ago) I used Unix (ultrix) and have had a Linux server ever since and that won't stop any sooner than will my iPad use. Back 8 years ago, I bought a beautiful 17" Sony laptop that was stolen from my car, working in Australia (I'm Scottish) along with mine and my wife's passports (a different story) but once insurance money came, Apple had upped their spec on the MacBook Pro 17" so I got that, and I'm still happily using today. However... I love my "proper computer", my PC (you know what I mean), had one with CGA when jealously looking at my fiends Atari STs and Amigas, but those things plugged into TVs, not monitors like a proper computer, as PC tech advanced, it was clear what the winner was and I'm still trading on the skills picked up when I was in secondary school. I bought the iPad, it was (is actually, still using it, and recently added an air to my arsenal) brilliant, but as this article nicely spells out, it's casual. I've never (as an analyst) managed to successfully use it as a tool, it's a toy and truth is, so is my MacBook. The apple version of excel isn't good enough (or familiar enough) to replace my essential windows version. I've been writing my next big thing software (stop many times on too many platforms) for over a decade and still not made traction, despite learning every library on multiple releases and paying apple's "developer" tax - though I see they've removed that recently. Long story short, I've just ordered a Microsoft tablet thing, with hope that it will be a real productive business device, which for my use my MacBook or iPads (or iPhones or iPods) will never really be.

So I look forward to delivery of my windows tablet (my brother has an RT first fen one, so I've got an idea) and my work phone is a windows phone, it's functional.

I hope to write my next big thing app, and this article has reminded me to not have any shame about marketing it as windows only, because that's what I use and like (though in my heart, I still think of windows as being win.com).

All that and I can play skyrim on it. Meantime I'm sticking with windows too and not many of my colleagues or friends even think this is a controversial thing.

I've always thought of this as the Jewish calendar, where Monday start is the Christian calendar. All based upon the day on which God rested. So if Sunday is the sabbath, then Monday is the start of the week. Whereas if Saturday is the sabbath, then Sunday is the start. (For the purposes of balance, I'm aware other religions exist too)

I surprised myself by figuratively sitting at the edge of my seat reading this tale. The thing that interests me more though than the tale itself if the buyers. I'm not a collector. I can understand the shady dealings and the clandestine meetings to make cash selling these things, but I would love to read about the mind of the buyer of these things, that I consider junk. If I came across something in the attic that was judged by someone to be worth cash, then I'd happily part as long as it contained no sentimental value of course but I honestly can't understand how value works. I view it as a failing on my part, I'd honestly love to get into the head of collector types. Maybe I'm just too habitually frugal.

Nationality is a pretty common way, if not the most common way to describe someone. What's wrong with it's inclusion?

couldn't resist though, it certainly made me "WOW!" when it appeared in the local arcade, might not have had R2D2 projecting it, but it looked like a hologram to me. Reading more, seems a better effect than the POV thing in the video

His career is already defined, take it you've not seen "Dude, Where's My Car?"