After reading what you just wrote here, I am now much more convinced you are experiencing a Schizophrenic episode. Please please seek treatment immediately.
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Please realize Schizophrenia affects 1.1% of the American population, and that's just the general form, and that which is diagnosed. The real number is likely higher. It is neither an 'extreme diagnosis' nor is it that rare.
It always starts out small like this though, and it's extremely common for a person after their first few episodes to still not believe they have Schizophrenia, so please don't trust yourself.
I should also be clear, we could be talking about Schizoaffective Disorder. Schizophrenia is sort of umbrella term. I find it's often used incorrectly. Lots of people who suffer still have prolonged periods of being completely normal and lucid, some even go into year long remissions. It's a complicated disease, and you've displayed the tell-tale first sign almost to a T.
I have a close family member, and close friend who both suffer from Schizophrenia. Although I'd hate to make any type of diagnosis over a medium like this, I feel you've been descriptive enough for me to make an educated guess.
Schizophrenia is a fairly complex disorder with varying levels of severity. What you described sounds very close to what a lot of people describe as their first 'episode', which commonly comes between the ages of 18-30. It includes what you've described, a long period of being awake, with intense thoughts, paranoia, and a inescapable need to 'do something' (such as wipe your devices).
One of the greatest challenges of dealing with this is finding treatment fast enough before the disease progresses. Often once it progresses, the person no longer is able to realize something is wrong. As you've described it, you still have that sinking feeling that something isn't right. Often at this stage general practitioners will not understand the disease enough to make a diagnosis, so it's important you see a trained psychiatrist as soon as possible.
For your question about evaluating your condition objectively, this is part of the core treatment of Schizophrenia and it's related disorders, so it would be best a doctor helps you with this. Adderral is a known to aggravate Schizophrenia as it interferes with Dopamine, I'd advise to cut down or stop taking it until you can speak to a doctor. There is also a very small chance you are experiencing a reaction to long term Adderall use it's self, experiencing a Amphetamine psychosis which has very symptoms to Schizophrenia but is temporary. Do not risk it though, for a lot of people if Schizophrenia advances, they are unable, or refuse to seek treatment.
This is asinine. Motorola has licensed deals with almost every American and Canadian police/government force. They basically own digital RF encryption. They have a foothold in this industry and it's not close, and they can't be pushed out. If I was an employee in their radio division I could really care less if they are involved in phones are not.
It's still a billion dollar company, what are we even saying 'bye' to?
- Has the domain for 16 years, doing nothing with it. - Strings a long a deal for purchase because it doesn't meet his demands. - Continues to fight extremely hard to do nothing with said domain.
I find it convenient the author never mention why the guy backed out of the deal, probably because his demand was $50k+ and completely unreasonable.
People forget, documentation needs to be written, interpreted, then passed down through different channels, like programming communities, schools, person 2 person. This can take 4 years+. As soon as English speakers have mastered it, China is just starting to for example.
Node is here to stay, and it's already at a point with decent enterprise adoption, meaning it's going to take a lot of money and time to reverse the trend.
There isn't even an explanation on why they built this or released it, only that, "oh hey guys it's event driven". ASP.NET did this over a decade ago Twitter, but thanks for coming out.
I usually respond to such nonsense by countering with some huge number. I figure it's better than ignoring it as one day they might take the bait and I can cash in.
Only benefit to being a hedge-fund is you have lots of money to play with, which you'll need because the profits in arbitrage are very thin. You need likely 20K+, good spreads, fast execution, and an automated strategy to consider it worth your time.
For something concrete, I suggest sticking to C syntax like languages like c#/js/java and even python to some extent. As history would show, the most popular languages seem to follow this syntax and it's fairly easy to pick up new languages based off experience. I went from c++->delphi->c#->js relatively easily.
My personal opinion as well is that now is the time to start getting into security software, pentesting etc. The proliferation of new languages, frameworks and api's is a pandoras box waiting to be opened by the security community. We've barely scratched the surface, as today's security community is really, really far behind. Once they catch up, and more automated tools and exploits start showing up that target these newer applications, these hipster startup companies will be forced to start spending. Right now it's mostly financial institutions, and companies using legacy stacks like php, wordpress, drupal that are being attacked.
That or data science/parallel programming.
At a previous job in a major corporation we wouldn't use it in production, but given the chance others would always use angular for internal tools/portals/mockups etc. I think mostly because it was the fastest way to make something, with Visual Studios support of Angular syntax, and similar MVC style to what the team was used to. There is also something to be said about being able to reason about your code long after you wrote it. I think Angular is by far much easier to read than any other structure I've seen so far (yes even React). Also until Reacts testing libraries can catch up Angular is still the winner here - not the best but not the worst.
On reflection, I think Angular really shines in Enterprise software, with large teams. I agree it might be wasted time on one-off projects with 1 or 2 people. I've even been in a board meeting where the big emphasis was it's auto sanitization in application with lots of user input/display would save the company hours of baby sitting jr dev's. So you can see why verbose/defensive-programming can mean a lot on big teams.
There are numerous ways to pack, and unpack code. It's really going nowhere tbh. It is mostly a meta-game between you and the person you'd expect to be RE your code. You think he's going to use a vm to RE? Then you prevent your code from running in that vm. You leave red herrings - like obscuring control flow, disabling ability to set breakpoints, delay unpacking, and phantom unpacking (where it only truly unpacks a certain percentage of the time)
There will NEVER be a way to prevent RE, and there will never be true polymorphic code. The world is still flock with people fluent in ASM and low level debugging, and all code will revel itself. Commercial protection suites aren't even where the real tricks come into play, malware and 'anti anti-virus' packers, are at the forefront of ingenuity. Even when the hardware is a part of the protection (a la Xbox) it still means nothing. I've seen some nasty stuff done to electronic payment devices by rather unsophisticated people, and those are some of the most hardened systems available (think self destruct if the casings are opened, or if JTAG is conntected)
Sorry for being so Keynesian, but it's the damn truth.
First let's start with the misconception that io.js is "bleeding edge" or that it is any less stable than node. This is 100% factually incorrect, hundreds of open tickets have been closed with io.js that have not for node. It is tenfold more stable, and it's trajectory has already outpaced in two weeks what nodejs has in a year and a half.
Second, this is not a win for either party or the community. For the community, you'll get people like you who now think node.js is somehow automatically more stable and reputable because they have a fancy big-wig 'foundation'. For io.js team, it now shows Joyents true colors that they are stubborn and wish to continue down their path and are now unlikely to merge at all in the future. For the node.js team, it now means they are just prolonging their decline. They still have not a single full time node developer, and have lost almost all of the developers who actually made node.js with 0% chance they'll ever come back (the governance will never be compatible with Joyents new corporate dictatorship model).
Finally, the choice to use io.js should not be ES6, it should be the fact it's a more stable, secure, and actively developed project, plain and simple. It does not force you to use ES6 so I don't know why you're talking about browser adoption at all. I have io.js running in production right now and I didn't change a single line of code when 'porting' my codebase from an old node.js installation.
Contracts are not just for 'the courts'. It is a standard business practice of having some clear terms for the both parties. Not only that, but any company who could sue and, 'wipe you out' already has their own contracts and NDAs, you not showing up with one just looks unprofessional. It should be also used as a place to outline your workflow and what the client should expect from you. Clients love this, trust me.
To tell new developers that, 'go ahead and put 5K-50K of your earnings on good faith' is just a dangerous thing to say.
So yeah, spot the guys who have done their fair share of hiring, the ones who have been burned already, and hit them with your best quality focused pitch. I take this controlled approach, bid high, and do my research.
I think if these sites need improving at all, it's putting the spotlight more on the employer. These lowballers will become more visible to the seasoned developer who will avoid them, thereby only attracting the lower quality workers who don't even bother to read past the title of the job post. Half the battle is these employers just don't always know better yet, let em loose a few thousand and they'll come around quickly.