Thanks a lot for clarifying this. The meds a bipolar will take are identical to the meds a schizophrenic will take for handling psychosis and paranoia.
I would agree that any description of his misconduct not including reference to his literal bipolar manic state to be not painting the true picture. If we swapped “bipolar” for “schizophrenic” would you have the same opinion?
I think he argues quite harshly against himself and says that his actions cannot be excused. He seems to harbour quite a bit of guilt and shame around this topic.
For context, bipolar is one of the highest suicide risk diseases due to this. When you come out of a manic episode you tend to feel intense shame and guilt for your actions. For reference, 1 in 2 bipolar will attempt suicide in their life. 1 in 5 will successfully end their life in the long run. So it is important to take his real admission of guilt and request for forgiveness into account.
As somebody in a family with bipolar I have to disagree. Someone's schizophrenic episodes should be taken into account in judging their actions, just as one's manic episodes should be as well. This in no way excuses their behavior. Whether or not you want to continue associating with that person is a different matter.
Bipolar is a tragic disease. It's something that's pretty rampant in my family. You eventually get to a point that the author is. You can't excuse your behavior, but you want people to know desperately that those actions aren't the normal you. There's an acceptance that people will cut you off from their lives, and that's fair. Hurts but its the way it is.
I’ve been there. It sounds like you’re starting to blame yourself for their failings. You’re not sure if you’re a little crazy or they are. They’re gaslighting you. Get. Out. As. Soon. As. Possible.
If they’re using your valid concerns as issues on performance reviews, then the company values making low quality software, not their employees. Get out of the sausage factory and get into a place that values their employees and product. You’ll be much happier.
I've practiced zen and Tibetan Buddhism for years. They both contain lots of "spiritual bullocks woo" at times, as does most forms of Buddhism I've encountered. You really need to filter out the good parts for yourself, I find. There are many paths to "meditation" or "mindfulness"; I disagree that those are necessarily separate traditions. This sounds like a "No true Scotsman" type fallacy.
Yeah, this guy has worked in an enterprise. Reminds me of the experience in big non-tech corporations. Years and years of terribly executed legacy SaaS and PaaS building into a permalayer of crap mostly created by contractors that will be gone in 6 months. The top level management don't understand tech, so they pay for cheaper and cheaper contractors to "maintain" the permalayer of crap. It's a never ending spiral of pain, hiring turnover, and bad code.
Not sure what cake we're talking about here but a pound of cheddar has roughly 1800 calories. A slice of cake is worth about 4 or 5 thick slices of cheese if you're trying to compare calorically.
Yes I quit social media a couple of years ago and agree with pretty much everything the author says. Social media environments encourage incendiary discussion because it fuels upvotes and general attention. Most people won't take the time to consider a more valid grey opinion because they've jumped to a conclusion and are busy attacking someone, or because it won't get as much attention. The first thing that came back for me after quitting social media was that "slow thinking" brain that tries to empathize with all sides rather than just call out some "evil" and check out intellectually.
"Things" is a pretty abstract term here. I think Paul is more guiding you to consider your values rather than your identity when considering a topic. I don't think he is proclaiming that you should eliminate values or some sort of subjective ethics.
"Programmers don't like this (shit) tool addition you wrote because it doesn't work with the existing (shit) programming tools" is a better paraphrase TBH.
"I only see such spellings when people are trying to convey some sort of sophistication"
McCafe and Buckingham Palace would want the "sophistication angle". Both spellings work obviously, but IMO (and the majority of English books) "cafe" is the "correct" spelling.
Believe I included this in my original comment. It's likely a big contributor in these types of survey. It's a little easier on your health to not be living paycheck to paycheck.
In Canada, at least, happiness surveys tend to find the cheaper, smaller, more rural areas to be the happiest. Theory for this is less stress due to finances, shorter commute times, and less people to deal with overall (foot traffic, road traffic, lineups, etc). So, maybe cheap rent and short commutes are some of the elements of a happy life.
Yeah, I actually just got back from a trip to Spain last week. I saw the "TOURISTS GO HOME" graffiti in Barcelona and Granada. Very weird thing to run into when you're from Canada; we're all about new people and cultures and tourism bucks over here. I don't really feel guilty for wanting to see these famous historic places, though, and I'm not going to feel guilty when I go to Amsterdam in April and Japan in September to see their way of life.
Meh, this study is misleading. They didn't test if any other foods had the same effect. So sure, sweeteners might have a detrimental effect by this biomarker. But they didn't check if anything we'd consider healthy, like broccoli or onions, have similar effects.
This is like saying "smoking increases your change of a heart attack 10X after one puff!" without noting "...but having sex increases it 7X and drinking a can of coke increases it 5X".
Yeah, as kerbalspacepro says, the valuations all seem random to me. The salient point in this article, to me, was that workers' quality of life and pay has only gone down with time, whereas CEO and board stakeholder quality of life and pay has only gone up. I don't think I agree with mandatory capping of CEO salaries, but I do agree with companies making $1billion+ in profit per year playing by different rules than smaller companies to close the wage gap.
Eh, I don't think CEO's should get 361X the normal employee. I think 42X was already insane. $250 billion towards shareholders vs $7 trillion is also insane. Workers just arn't getting compensated the same now as they were in the 70s. Worker quality of life should get better as time goes on, not worse. So I'd support anything that aims to even out that ludicrous greed filled gap.
Yeah, rereading this article today it really doesn't give a summary of what "tries" are until pretty deep into it. Smiling that the author updated the title because of my debauchery last night.
Ah, well then I'm too drunk to be reading this. Never heard of "tries", guess I haven't read enough. Conclusion could have used some improvement for sure.
I'll admit I skipped straight to the conclusion after a few demos. How is knowing a "tries" count going to help me beyond knowing "nothing can be sorted faster than n(log(n))"? Every "try" is a retrieval and costs read time?
EDIT: I'm much worse at algorithms than I originally thought.
Hmmm, interesting. I wonder how important self advertising is in this case, though. I know that she usually posts content she can't get done with her normal freelancers on this writer's freelance site. Freelancers make bids, negotiate terms, etc, through the website. After she's worked with someone she likes through it she tends to keep their email and ask them directly next time.
I think you're right that this type of model benefits freelancers that manage their own group of clients rather than through an agency, however.
If you're a company that commonly outsources, you should have good freelancing game. By that I mean you build a network of freelancers you've worked with before or have heard good feedback from trusted sources.
My girlfriend is a manager at a writing company. She has a group of about 30 freelancers she keeps in touch with on top of the 10 people who work directly under her at her company. When too much work comes in she leans on the freelancer that best fits what she needs. These are people she has worked with before, has had success with, and most of all trusts. She, of course, has to try new freelancers occasionally. But the bad ones get spit back out.
It sounds like the company you were working for doesn't have very good freelancing game.
Yeah this is really dumb. If you're charging hourly, but don't trust someone is actually working, don't charge hourly.
If you want full control of an employee don't get a freelancer. If you want to constant surveillance of any artists' computer; fuck off. If you don't trust the artist to work, get a new artist.
I think people here aren't saying they hate shorting in general, but that Musk hates people shorting his company. So it's Musk enjoying twisting the knife in the shorters, not these guys on Hacker News.