vegancap

I'm going through this exact thing currently, too. I sometimes struggle to follow even the most basic of instructions, I have to really, really focus very hard to follow someone explaining something to me because my mind starts to wander half way through the explanation. I have to have things explained to me two or three times, and I can feel very dumb at times because of it.

I find struggle to have productive meetings, because I'm bored to the point of physical discomfort at times. I went to the doctors about it and they referred me for relaxation therapy (?!). So I'm struggling to know what to do about it currently. I was tested for ADHD as a child, but they concluded that I was just poorly behaved.

It seems to be a pretty common issue with engineers, I've came across loads who have similar issues.

I actually posted something similar to your post in the funfunfunction forum recently: https://www.funfunforum.com/t/attention-and-focus-issues/389...

This is awesome!

This is an exciting read for me as I start as a Software Engineer at the BBC on Monday!

Hey! Sorry for the late response. It's not listed yet I don't think, drop an email with a CV to ewan@ladbible.com and I'll pass it on to HR and make sure they follow it up :)

This will be the role I believe: https://theladbiblegroup.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening...

It may be lawful, but it's not necessarily moral.

LADbible Group - Manchester, UK iOS Engineers (Swift), front-end engineers (react, redux), back-end engineers (Typescript, nodejs, Golang, PHP).

LADbible Group has become a way of life for fans around the world. We provide news, entertainment and community to a global audience of young people. Our mission is pretty straightforward: to deliver content that our audience love.

http://www.ladbiblegroup.com/careers/

I don't think a shopping comparison channel, which actually doesn't command a particularly large share of price comparison sites, is comparable to life savings. Surely, you'd take these results with a pinch of salt and 'shop around'?

That's very true, I think Google are in a very unique position where the normal understanding of monopolies perhaps don't apply, or are even more serious as they essentially control the flow of information to such a large degree. Very good point.

Surely as a user you'd view promoted shopping results in Google with a pinch of salt and look around first? I just don't agree that warrants a €2.4bn fine. Again, unless I've misunderstood the full picture

I get that competition is vital for a free-market to function, unless Google gained power in this scenario through external influences such as government, then surely it has gained its position through market competition?

America? I thought this was Google vs the EU?

Unless I've misunderstood what the fine was for. Fining a private business €2.4bn for promoting its own affiliates over other networks, how is that in any way an abnormal business practice? I'm not trying to be controversial, I just don't understand how that warrants such a hefty fine.

I just don't understand how surfacing affiliated ads over others on Google own sites is a big deal? They're a revenue generating service, of course they're going to favour ad networks and channels which benefit them the most financially. To fine a private business €2.4bn for conducting pretty standard business practices.

The EU are verging on gangsterism, extorting businesses for increasingly specious violations and terms. Of course Google favour their affiliates on THEIR web services, their property.

I'm not a front-end dev, I just bought a theme and clicked 'install', I can see why it's annoying though

I've been pretty happy with Go (no framework), React/Redux/Webpack, Mongo for loose data, Postgres for relational data.

Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations'. Very old, very heavy, but very eye opening. A must read for anyone interested in economics.

Same here!

Usually economic 'equality' is at the expense of wealth creation. So you almost always end up in a situation where everyone's equally as poor.

Awesome! Good find :)

I absolutely love FEE, I probably read their articles almost daily.

Absolutely true!

Henry Hazlitt - 'Economics in one lesson' Mises - 'Theory of Credit and Money' Adam Smith - 'Wealth of Nations' Milton Friedman - 'Capitalism and Freedom' Murray Rothbard - 'A New Liberty'

Have been my personal, but somewhat one-sided favourites.

For the record, I use Senheiser C500 headphones. They cost about £30, but the bass response is fantastic for an in-ear bud.

Cloudflare. It's been a real life saver for us.

I think the great think about React, and stop me if I've missed your point, is that they're actually just libraries, not framework's, you can just pull in the parts you need and work off of those.

Say you're just doing a single page application, with some basic logic. You can just use React on its own to create components, as you don't need an entire state life-cycle. We do this a lot to 'enhance' our statically generated sites.

Or completely on the other end of the spectrum, you can use Redux, isomorphic rendering with Nodejs for example, react-router, and you can create a complete, dynamic site, with state, storage, authentication, whatever you need.

Then you have everything in between.

So you really can use React "for everything" in my view, and that's partly why I love it so much.

I don't think React is just an "evolution of template libraries", I think React is a concept, I know React didn't invent this concept of 'components', far from it, but I think it brought about the most clear-cut, concise way of creating web components, largely thanks to React's use of JSX, I think. When you team that up with Webpack (which you totally should btw), you can house all of that components dependencies in the same directory, and call them within the component, a truly modular approach.

(I promise you I don't secretly work for Facebook, I just love React).

I've been using React for just about everything front-end wise for the past year. I don't think it's particularly hindered me, really. Sure, it was a learning curve, as was Redux, but now I understand those concepts better, my process is, I clone a 'react starter pack' from git, which has all of the build set-up I need, webpack, sass, ES6 etc, etc. And that's really it, I find it quicker to develop in React and Redux because the component approach, along with the immutability of Redux, allows me to overcome bugs pretty quickly. I find I run into less bugs, too, due to the predictability of doing everything the 'react/redux' way. I also find writing unit tests so easy in React, using 'dumb' components. So the result is, I've got some of the most bug-free, well tested front-end codebases I've ever worked on.

I guess everyone's experiences are different, and I understand that it's a difficult series of libraries to learn and understand fully, and that can be time consuming. But long-term I think it's a time saver.

The LAD bible Group (Manchester, UK) - http://www.theladbiblegroup.com/careers/

I honestly don't know. They're very practical.

I still internally laugh at men who use umbrellas.

The LAD bible Group (Manchester, UK) - http://www.theladbiblegroup.com/careers/