DerKommissar

Music is even worse for me than chatter. I think it's because I'm a musician, I can't help but concentrate on it.

One other thing I've noticed about myself in this regard is that annoying noise irrationally enrages me when I'm trying to concentrate. For example when I'm working in my cube and a manager or maintenance guy walks by whistling, I really want to scream at them. Even if it's only for a few seconds. I ignore the feeling because I know it's totally irrational, it goes away and I don't actually feel any ill will towards people.

I've heard others talking about this kind of thing before so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's annoying because I'd like to be able to work around noise better, and I don't like being angry.

My brain must be wired differently. I listened to that for about three minutes before I wanted to pull my hair out. The only ambient sound I've ever been productive listening to is rain.

I've tried to work in coffee shops before. Every few minutes I realize I've been listening to my neighbor's conversation and not doing work. I really dislike working in noisy places.

> Err... bigger isn't always better, but I won't say no to a bigger noggin.

There is evidence that our heads would have kept growing if it wasn't for the fact that it makes it pretty likely that women will die in childbirth. So instead evolution got around this by having us born earlier, which is why we're basically born as fetuses compared to most animals. But there's a limit to that too of course.

I have seen this screwed up time and time again. People who don't know how all this works shouldn't be writing C++, but they do and I have to deal with the things they break. Most of my code isn't broken by incompetent colleagues, it's incompetent clients that use the code. Maybe the experience is different when you're writing commercial libraries which is what I've been doing for the past few years.

I guess you and I have had vastly different experiences. boost has improved my code immeasurably. I cannot stand the "C with classes" approach. All the code I've come across the uses that approach is always broken in subtle ways the could be avoided by using the simple utilities in boost. I think in the end it is probably just personal preference.

I'll agree with you about Bjork. But I am a serious musician and the best musician I have every been in the presence of loved Bjork.

boost has many problems, but I think not using any of it just because some parts of it are bad isn't very useful.

In this particular example it is very easy to screw it up. Your way involves many more lines of code and use of the preprocessor which makes searching through code very difficult. I can easily find all the noncopyable classes by searching for "noncopyable". I don't have to worry about someone coming along and screwing up the access modifier at a later date. It is much less likely that someone will misunderstand what the code is trying to do, even if they don't know much about C++ value semantics.

Edit: I guess my criticism regarding searching isn't valid here, but I have come to try and avoid the preprocessor as much as possible. I've just been bitten by it too many times.

  class Noncopyable
  {
  private:
    Noncopyable(const Noncopyable&);
    Noncopyable& operator(const Noncopyable&);
  };

That's pretty much was boost::noncopyable is, and it's the same thing you wrote, but it removes the preprocessor.

Even better:

  class foo : boost::noncopyable
  {
  public:
    foo();
  };

The problem is one of statistics.

Whenever they pull someone over, which is often, they have to judge what you're going to do. For them, the chances of you doing something crazy like speeding off, pulling a gun, etc. is not insignificant. That's what they're thinking about when they're walking up to your car. They've been trained about what things to look for. And getting out of your car is the way many violent interactions begin.

If you just get out of your car and act nice, I doubt it could really be a problem. It's just a dicey thing to do, making any sort of act that could be perceived as aggressive towards an officer.

Attacking someone's work is not ad Hominem. If he called him an asshole or some other unrelated insult that would be ad Hominem.

If just listing the guys work comes off as insulting, you gotta wonder...

The causal mechanism is that there is a correlation between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease? That makes no sense.

There is also a correlation between the frequency a male shaves their face and cardiovascular disease.

Timely. I'll be filing paperwork for the exact same thing tomorrow morning. Did you hit any obstacles?

Just because it's good for the music industry doesn't mean it's okay.

My research has led me to believe that only an adrenaline surge can produce this.

The thing to note about this is that it essentially impossible to not seriously hurt yourself when you do this. You will tear the muscles. They are operating at their highest power before the wheels start flying off, and you'll tear a lot of fibers.

You're right of course, but that last jump is quite a bit larger than the others.

I've heard good things about that book, I probably should get a copy.

I didn't word my question very well. I was wondering where you got your examples. None of the ADHD info I've read says anything about shyness or eye contact. A child playing by themselves would seem to be the exact opposite of the popular notion of what a kid with ADHD is like (assuming that they weren't totally spaced out to the world around them, which you didn't mention).

I'm just interested because that's me. I'm shy, I have minor problems with eye contact (more like I just have problems relating to new people) and I spent a large chunk of my childhood playing by myself with Legos and Transformers. That last bit was one of the reasons my parents said they didn't think I could have ADHD. "But you used to amuse yourself for hours by yourself. You certainly were paying attention to THAT."

This is kind a little off topic but I have a question for you.

I am in the middle of being diagnosed with ADHD (I'm 30). It was actually HN that prompted me to take action, but that's another story which I can expand on if anyone is interested.

I haven't read much about ADHD being linked to shyness and introversion, although I certainly haven't done enough research. But it describes me very well, could you possibly say a little more or point me to some resources? Everything I've read talks about impulsiveness and extroversion. I would guess that shyness and introversion are learned reactions to the impulsiveness.

>there is a reason that a task killer is the first thing every Android phone needs.

Hard to take seriously after read this.

I've always heard it in reference to politicians.

Everyone is wired differently. This is exactly why I go to libraries to work/study and not coffee shops. Listening to people yammer away is the last thing I want when I'm trying to concentrate. I can't get a thing done in a coffee shop.

His command does exactly what he says it does. Your command truncates the file and then writes a newline into it.