robertakarobin

> If I have a good day it's impossible to day whether that's due to Prozac. But since starting Prozac I have been much more likely to have good days than bad. So, since Prozac is cheap and I don't seem to suffer any side effects, I plan to keep taking it in perpetuity.

I was acknowledging that the "good days" could be due to Prozac or could be a placebo effect, but since being on Prozac correlates with having significantly more good days, and I experience virtually no ill effects, I choose to continue with it.

We had/have a lot of reservations about it too, and discussed it at length with our pediatrician over months of observation. We decided what was more horrifying was hearing a 7-year-old — who has supportive family and friends, good health, no traumatic events, no major life changes going on, never worries where food/shelter is coming from — say he feels like "he shouldn't be on Earth anymore" and suddenly react with extreme physical anxiety to almost everything. It was bad enough that he couldn't really implement any of the coping skills he learned in therapy. His therapist hoped that medication would bring him to a baseline where he was able to benefit more from therapy. My family's historical success with Prozac also made the decision more palatable since depression appears to be hereditary.

There has been a phenomenal positive shift in his behavior since he started medication. All that said, another commenter pointed out that the study specifically says that Prozac is no better than placebo for depression, which is similar to but distinct from anxiety, which is what my son is being treated for. My mom and I were both diagnosed with depression, but anxiety may be more accurate -- I'm not sure.

I was very young when my mom started Prozac but do remember how angry and sad she was before compared to after.

Years later there was a time when me and my sister noticed our mom was acting a bit strange -- more snappish and irritable than usual, and she even started dressing differently. Then at dinner she announced proudly that she had been off Prozac for a month. My sister and I looked at each other and at the same time went, "Ohhhh!" Mom was shocked that we'd noticed such a difference in her behavior and started taking the medication again.

I've been on the exact same dose as her for 15 years, and my 7-year-old son just started half that dose.

If I have a good day it's impossible to day whether that's due to Prozac. But since starting Prozac I have been much more likely to have good days than bad. So, since Prozac is cheap and I don't seem to suffer any side effects, I plan to keep taking it in perpetuity.

What I tell my kids is that getting depressed, feeling sad, feeling hopeless -- those are all normal feelings that everyone has from time to time. Pills can't or shouldn't keep you from feeling depressed if you have something to be depressed about. Pills are for people who feel depressed but don't have something to be depressed about -- they have food, shelter, friends, opportunities to contribute and be productive, nothing traumatic has happened, but they feel hopeless anyway -- and that's called Depression, which is different from "being depressed."

My company still uses Heroku in production actually. Every time I see the Salesforce logo show up I wince, but we haven't had any issues at all. It continues to make deployment very easy.

I had the same thought but found there are very few TV-size monitors on the market, and the ones there are cost an arm and a leg. There are also very few "dumb" TVs -- we finally got one by Insignia, Best Buy's store brand, which has been fine. If someone knows a better alternative please let me know!

Worth clarifying that when I was a kid "TV-size" meant anything above 13", but the times have changed considerably. :)

It's basically a fork of VSCode.

I can vouch for it. It's the main reason I quit: none of the "hard" skills necessary to code at Google were transferrable anywhere outside of Google. It would have been easy enough to skate and use "soft" skills to move up the management ladder and cash big checks, but I wasn't interested in that.

The reason it's not transferrable is that Google has its own version of EVERYTHING: version control, an IDE, build tools, JavaScript libraries, templating libraries, etc, etc. The only thing I can think of that we used that wasn't invented at Google was SCSS, and that was a very recent addition. Google didn't even use its own open-source libraries like Angular. None of the technologies were remotely usable outside Google.

It might sound cool to use only in-house stuff, and I understand the arguments about licensing. But it meant that everything was poorly-documented, had bugs and missing features that lingered for years, and it was impossible to find a SME because whoever initially built a technology had moved on to other things and left a mess behind them.

Some people may be able to deal with the excruciating slowness and scattered-ness, and may be OK with working on a teeny slice of the pie in the expectation that years later they'll get to own a bigger slice. But that ain't me so I noped out as soon as my shares vested.

Aw darn, they are? I was just considering migrating my frontend to them after seeing all the positive reviews. What's the issue?

This is an April Fools joke. Don't go to a .exe link (unless you know what you're doing).

"Fine-grained pats" is what a herd of cows produces when their feed contains too much fiber.

Developer Experience, i.e. the developer's "quality of life" while developing. Things like good tooling, good documentation, and lack of distractions contribute to DevEx.

My dad was a piano professor and my mom a German professor, so throughout my childhood PDQ Bach was a big presence. Dad would joke that I was the only kid who knew the 1712 Overture but not the 1812 Overture. On a road trip to drop me off at summer camp, he and I made a big detour just to stop in Hoople, North Dakota, home of the fictional university at which Professor Pete did his research and of the fictional orchestra that performed PDQ Bach's works. (Unfortunately the city of Hoople doesn't seem to have embraced its provenance.)

My wife, who grew up in a normal family, thinks the fact that my family's idea of a good time is listening to a cassette of "classical music humor," is the nerdiest thing ever.

I was just listening to the 'WTWP' album yesterday. Thanks, Dr. Schickele, for being such a cherished part of our family!

Not allow myself to be so spooked by freshman Calculus that I switched to the least-technical major possible (American Studies), and ultimately dropped out of Stanford after two years. Now I'm 12 years in to an accidental career as a software engineer. I often think about going back to get a Computer Science degree, but there isn't any point at this level of seniority; it would just be for the love of learning. That feels like too big of a luxury for a guy nearing 40 with a family.

They're not mutually exclusive. Plenty of managers have engineering backgrounds. What is generally mutually exclusive is managers and individual contributors. It may be that if individual contributors did all the decision-making then the outcome would be different; it may be that it would be exactly the same. We can't really know, for the same reason we can't know how society would be different if we elected "normal people" to Congress instead of "politicians."

> The idea that TS is great but JS sucks is silly.

Isn't all programming just layers of abstraction that make the layers underneath it more usable?

If you view Typescript as a standalone language that is another abstraction -- just like every other programming language -- that may make it more palatable. Yes, it's technically a superset of JavaScript, but I don't think anyone uses it that way. It would defeat the purpose, like buying a car and then tearing out the seats, air conditioner, and sound system.

Why not both?

In the words of Calvin and Hobbes, "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, MINE are even WORSE!""

Ooh, that's a much better explanation for my zillion half-finished projects. I'm not an undisciplined perfectionist, I'm just too intelligent. :)

Perhaps not so obvious.

It seems many services are experiencing an uptick in outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/

If you're in the Twin Cities, my team at the Mall of America is looking for a freelance Drupal developer! https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3548448347

I'd run an API using Deno (https://deno.land), and consume that API with an SSR/SSG site built using Astro (https://astro.build). SCSS for styling, and probably just Vanilla JS (written in Typescript and compiled via Deno) — I increasingly find that unless my site is massively interactive, plain old Vanilla JS is totally sufficient.

You might be surprised at how many Americans think that Jesus spoke English.

Source: am American.

You're absolutely right. However, that trial-and-error can be really difficult for people who have less ability to maintain immediate communication with their doctor, retrieve a new prescription, etc. For someone like me in their 30s it would be a minor-ish annoyance, but for someone who is elderly, or who is having some sort of medical emergency, such an inefficiency goes from being an annoyance to being a pretty critical issue.

Yep, that's exactly correct. We lay out the process at https://geneticure.com#howitworks, but you've already got the idea. I'm happy to answer any questions — if you email support@geneticure.com I'm one of two people who looks at support/info requests.

I'd have the same concerns. Fortunately our research is in several peer-reviewed journals, like the Lancet and the Journal of Clinical Medicine. We list our research on our homepage: https://geneticure.com/#article

Yes, we're careful to not put any labels on him. In his words, he doesn't like it when people call him a girl, and wants people to know he's a boy, but he does like to do things that girls do.

Yes, that certainly all makes sense. If I recall correctly, growing up in the 90s we were sort-of put under the impression that DNA determines almost everything about a person. It's only more recently that science and society have discovered how much is actually determined by things like gut bacteria.

We have identical boys, James and Charlie, about to turn 5. Got a DNA test for a holiday present that confirmed it. They're very healthy and happy kids, and are each other's best friend.

When they were about 3, James asked to wear a dress. Now James wears a dress every day, and is -- for lack of a better word -- extremely flamboyant. At first Charlie wanted to wear a dress too, but that seems to have just been FOMO because now he never wears them. Charlie is maybe more cerebral and cautious than your average boy, but still very clearly feels like a boy.

This has all been really interesting and mystifying to us. My wife and I and most of the people we interact with are pretty ordinary cisgendered, heterosexual people. We've never consciously pushed the boys toward any particular social norm. And we both figured one's sexuality and gender identity was hardcoded in one's DNA. Now we have living proof that doesn't seem to be the case. Our best uneducated guess is that something in utero caused the boys to develop with different levels of hormones, and that caused their "wiring" to diverge.

I thought this was just supposed to be a cool little portfolio project by the developer. Now they have a "careers@" email address... implying this is a business? What is their product? This seems very peculiar to me.