FYI if anyone wants to pick up the kindle version of this book from Amazon, don't bother. It is an incredibly poor quality scan of a physical book, compiled horizontally and full of pencil markings. I can't for the life of me see a way to report the listing, and the comments about this issue are drowned out by comments about the book contents and being ignored
FYI using the terms ADHD/ADD when not talking about the actual disorder is often offensive to people who have ADHD. It fails to acknowledge that the condition is more complicated than just getting bored quickly, especially when your statement can be interpreted as implying that people with ADHD "lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough". Things are hard enough for people with ADHD without trivialising/generalising/moralising their problems.
Often you need to preserve some state that is lost when using bookmarks (e.g. scroll position, a confirmation message that will be lost on refresh, a paused game/video etc.)
For number 115: by moving the bigger piece side to side you spin the two wheels. Each wheel spins the same amount but in opposite directions. Shafts attached to those wheels can be used to drive components that need to move equally but in different directions.
I was diagnosed with bilateral arterial T.O.S. last year after reading about it in a comment on HN. I very recently had corrective surgery on my right side and I hope to have my left side done soon. I was diagnosed when an ultrasound showed full occlusion of my subclavian arteries whenever I lifted my arms (but only when sitting or standing upright, like at my desk, which was not a standard discovery).
If anyone has any questions feel free to message me.
You cannot cure ADD or ADHD. Not with our current drugs, and not with any known cognitive therapy. The article (and particularly its title) belittles those with the disorder, perhaps without meaning to do so, but it does it all the same. I understand the author was simply trying to put a name to a sub-clinical societal trend they have noticed, but they should not have used the name of a real and tragic disorder. Still, I found it to be an interesting and thought provoking read.
Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running on Windows machines?
There are already dozens of tools for Windows that do side-by-side diff comparisons, not to mention the fact that Word itself has a side-by-side comparison tool in Windows, but not Mac.
The reason this tool is worth $99/year to someone like me is that I need it for publishing, not coding or simple business document comparison. It's a nice thing to have if you're an office worker, but not vital, and probably not something you'll be able to get your boss to pay for.
In the publishing world, on the other hand, it's a critical function that would save untold hours of paid editors' time.
For anything other than publishing, there are "good enough" tools already out there. It's very surprising to me that it wasn't developed as a Mac solution first.
What do you mean by mind boosting? Do you mean that the effects of the drug when used by people with ADHD are no different then when used by an NT person, and that everyone is just being "boosted"? (if so, this is not correct, responses to these medications and the dosages required for certain effects differ between the two groups)
When you suggest that people need to "develop the abilities" themselves, do you mean to include ADHD people in this? It is believed that people with ADHD literally cannot develop such abilities. (actually, there appears to be about a 30% lag in their development of them .718yrs = 12.6yrs, .721yrs = 14.7yrs, .7*30yrs = 21yrs etc)
The big problem is that there is no easy definition of what is happening. There are some words that describe the important undertone i call "boosting", they all have some euphoric impression too, but it declines after a while. These descriptions are somewhat like "ability to concentrate", "self-discipline", "motivation", "clarity". Some people say the difference is a lack of fears, or Mr Hyde is deactivated, who always manipulates you as a second personality who only seeks short term gratification.
Maybe it is easier defined by the complete opposite: There were tests with mice without dopamine production who starved next to food.
Maybe this is the real problem, we still don't know what we are really dealing with and we compare school grades to create some numbers.
Can you please elaborate on your numbers and who they are coming from and what they really mean?
I know some people here are easily offended, by saying there is no big difference between someone who has ADD and someone who hat not. But i am diagnosed myself and can't see a difference. We have a bigger problem here so maybe we are more entitled to take these. In the end, the problems are the same.
The main thing is, fucking everybody around me starts taking Ritalin, for the simple reason being a student. I have friend's who talk only about learning and convert into a Chinese stereotype.
That is a broken argument. Are you trying to suggest ADHD doesn't exist?
Not being able to sit still is only one of multiple symptoms (from only one of the two categories - inattentive and hyperactive) used to diagnose people with one of several different sub-types of ADHD. (ADHD-HI, ADHD-PI, ADHD-C)
You need a certain minimum of symptoms for diagnosis.
Right now I have a strong pain in my left shoulder, I'm sure I am not alone in this right now of all the people in the world. I bet some of your successful entrepreneurs have had shoulder pain before. When it turns out I am not having a heart attack, and that all those entrepreneurs were not having a heart attack, would you think it correct to suggest that heart attacks aren't real? That is pretty much what you said above.
And beyond that, you need more then just a certain number of symptoms for a diagnosis of a disorder like this. There must be negative effects to your disorder in multiple spheres of your life. (home, education, romantic)
