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Your link answers your question: "Vegetarian supplementation with creatine seems to be especially beneficial as they appear to have lower average body stores, since meat is a primary source of dietary creatine."

> No, I'm pretty sure being "hyper-focused" is the opposite of ADHD

This is a common misconception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus

"It is typical for individuals with ADHD to say they 1), cannot focus on boring things and 2), can only focus on stimulating things, and that focus is often extreme. Thus it is both a concentration deficit and over-concentration, or generically: "hyperfocus." More concisely, some types of ADHD are a difficulty in directing one's attention, not a lack of attention"

Avatar and Gravity are the standout examples.

I know someone who found journaling cured severe RSI, when nothing else worked. I learned about this on HN and was skeptical, but lots of people had testified that it helped them, so I passed the recommendation on - amazingly it did work. See The Mindbody Prescription by Sarno.

Preventing people making unreadable list comprehensions is exactly the sort of thing the 80 character limit is for ;)

There is far more demand than supply for developers right now. If there are other equivalent employers available to you, you don't have to do anything other than politely insist on market rate, and be fully prepared to walk away if they won't meet that.

I was pushed hard on this last time I was interviewing. We danced around a bit, with them requesting and me declining, until they said they must have my previous salary because it is their policy. So I responded that it was my policy not to disclose my salary. They couldn't argue with that, and I got the offer I was looking for (which I ended up turning down anyway, but that isn't the point.) This is in the UK, but I don't see why it wouldn't apply anywhere.

The issue is that solving real problems is hard, but making things complicated is easy, fun, and looks a lot like solving real problems if you aren't paying careful attention.

Agreed, enforcing standing up but not brevity is the worst way to do standups, and a clear sign of pure cargo-culting.

Looking at the name I thought this was going to be some kind of wiki-encyclopedia of bullshit, where people could submit reasons why any given thing is bullshit.

Am a little disappointed actually, that would be a handy reference. Though naturally such a thing would almost immediately devolve into arguments about the degree to which anything is bullshit, but that could still be valuable.

People pay for things according to the value they provide, not the cost to the provider. If this provides $1k/year of value that no other provider can replicate, it is a good deal.

(Thanks patio11 for drumming this into my head!)

Preferences differ then, in changing roles I moved from an X1 to MBP and it felt like a step backwards; heavy, ugly and poorer keyboard.

Looks like rents are down a little but not too dramatic: https://homelet.co.uk/homelet-rental-index/london?range=24

This isn't too surprising, since I think London rents were seriously testing what the market would bear - plenty of chatter about London becoming completely unaffordable.

Hah, I was similarly pleased by finishing with exactly 59.5% - the threshold for a 2:1 in the UK system, meaning I hadn't wasted any energy on getting higher marks than necessary.

London COL is very similar to SF/NY I believe.

Are people in America seriously getting offers of $120k with no degree, no experience, and not even a side-project? That is mind-blowing.

In London, probably the biggest/richest market outside of USA, that sort of salary is beyond what most experienced developers get, even some very good ones.

I must be missing something here (some sort of bubble?) because I can't see how businesses can be profitable paying those sort of salaries to people who know almost nothing about professional programming. Either that or businesses in America are just waaaay ahead of Europe at turning code into cash.

I was curious so I did a quick bit of Googling:

Since 2013 councils can levy an “empty homes premium” of an additional 50% council tax [1]. No idea how many actually do.

The rate of unoccupied dwellings in London is 1.7% [2]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/21/tens-thousan...

2. http://www.emptyhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Empty-H...

Yes, this is primarily a neat marketing idea, surprising that HN seems to have collectively missed this so far! Guess the hive mind is having an off day.

Heh, classifying by "genre" is exactly what I was thinking of doing.

Had some debate with myself if I should start by focusing on training for shopping pages (product pages & product reviews) - because that might make some money; or start by training for forums - which I'd enjoy a lot more. Or build a more general system which would definitely never work and never get finished.

Google actually let you filter by "discussions" until a few years ago, so they certainly do this kind of classification. It didn't work perfectly but sometimes did the trick. Don't know why they removed that feature.

I'd love a search engine which only indexes forums. Something I've been thinking of doing for years, but it'd be a lot of work.

Oversimplified to the point of absurdity. The original Google was based on Pagerank [1], which came out of the postgrad research of Larry and Sergey.

They also had to build a crawler, systems to calculate pagerank on relatively huge graphs, and the search engine.

That is years of decidedly non-trival hard work, both academic and engineering - pretty much the opposite of the 'snowball' the author claims it to be.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

It depends on the bank I think, some are still doing it that way but others you can set up over the phone no problem.

Yes, I did it this year, over the phone, ready to use same day.

Could you give an example of that?

Best thing I did since starting work was take a few months off!

That time and space was invaluable for me, gave me the time to work on myself, to figure out what was important, and come back stronger.

I feel a lot better for doing it - but even ignoring that, I'm sure it has had a huge ROI on the missed income I 'spent' by not being employed.

Putting on cyberpunk goggles, you could take the idea a step further and speculate that Apple is preparing to become a transnational entity, and doesn't want pesky nation-states dragging it down. They already have revenue around the GDP of Hong Kong or Israel.

That hiring is broken seems to be the one thing HN can agree on.

Looking for my next role at the moment, I'm having to use up a lot of energy just resisting the urge to think about doing a hiring startup. It seems like such a ripe target for disruption, and sure as hell would be scratching an itch.

Not in UK.

I completely agree with all of that! If only more hiring managers were so thoughtful. Now, I'd only do this kind of at-home work if I can talk to someone who will explain how their hiring processes works, and I get the sort of good vibes that your post gives.

If used wisely, at-home coding tests should be far better than the average mess of a technical interview.

The problem is in the hands of TrendCo, they can be used crudely to find the trendy hire who has the exact same ideas about engineering as the hiring person. Because giving the test costs TrendCo nothing, they are happy to throw people at it until they randomly find someone who is exactly what they are looking for.

Anecdotally, I and 2 people I later befriended applied for the same role. We each spent 4 hours on the task, all 3 of us strong coders who made a solution that would be suitable for any startup, all 3 taking different approaches based on our styles. We were all rejected, because none of the 3 of us hit upon the exact approach the company was hoping for, but didn't ask for. There was no opportunity to ask for this feedback either. And it took them nearly a month to bother looking at my code (even after I called).

Since then, I won't take these kind of tests unless I have reason to believe they are being given in good faith as a way to determine if a programmer is capable, not as a way to find their perfect ideal of a programmer.