I wish you wouldn't say things like this. It seems to fuel a popular narrative that's leading to underdiagnosis and treatment.
There's a good chance that much of the ADHD behavior is being written off, eg. as a moral failing, when it's really a disorder that's really harmful to the person.
It presents in different ways. Someone isn't having 5 conversations, but could be drifting in and out of thoughts. It might just look like they aren't very interested. If it's more severe you would have more trouble controlling these kinds of things for a number of reasons related to the condition (poor executive function and impulse control).
I've met "people with ADHD" who seem to not have the condition at all, though pretty much always medicated. On the other hand, I've met people with far more clearcut symptoms, and I felt like I had way more in common with them. It sounded like they were living the exact same life.
There needs to be a real cultural shift here, and spaces like HN are doing a really bad job. The moderation heavily favors this privileged SV mindset, and criticism, results in extra scrutiny.
What?!?!? Why him, or why white collar crime specifically? He simply HAS to get a substantial prison sentence.
He is among the worst of the worst in society. It's really easy to do what he did. Everyone's got a story, or could come up with one if you let them.
We have punishments for the worst of the worst in society. I think we should be more lenient, and under my values he might not be going away for 10 years, but there should be something substatial here.
I find it quite shocking to find people on HN that think he should get NO prison, but perhaps this is a typo.
This just goes to show all the critiques of this kind of investing were very true. FTX and Theranos are examples of how this can all go very wrong.
I've gotten in a number arguments with people who don't understand white collar crime, think these guys are "smart", and are so surprised by how basic their scheme is, and how they thought they'd get away with it.
These people aren't smart, any more than your local gang banger, or small time fraudster... the stories are remarkably similar.
There's lots of white collar criminals that have cloaked their schemes as part of "altruism". This isn't even new.
The quality at the end of the day may be a bit better, but overall it's the same system. You can only speak for specific country. I know someone from France that was pulled out of a car for having an Arab name.
When Floyd died paris pd changed policies and the police broke the law in order to protest. Lets not look at Europe through rose colored glasses. This can be quite hard to do on HN, because you are often silenced.
> Selling the idea that the higher the test code coverage is the better and safer your code is.
I don't think someone that believes this has a good understanding of unit testing. You can easily get 100% coverage without testing anything at all!
Coverage is a great metric if it's predicated on high quality tests. Even then 100% coverage doesn't equal "safe". It means that a lot of effort has been put into understanding and testing internal behavior.
You still need higher order tests, arguably even more.
The industry itself could be to blame. It's not fun to have your provider insult your appearance and try to push you to make devastating career choices, while cutting you off from effective treatments.
While non-gender conforming people need special protections, it's deeply sad that the industry wasn't able to recognize this itself... they just keep doing it with other people.
As always with these issues, no one stopped to think at a high level about labeling people's personality as a disorder that must be fixed. They just said, "we have to stop doing this to trans people"... "we'll make an exception for them"
IMO opinion, the patient hostile nature of mental health providers is likely driving some of these suicides, and the industry isn't even trying to detect this (although it would be hard).
I thought I was the only one that got offended by that kind of thing, it's ridiculous. How have these people convinced themselves that they're actually better.
To be honest, I don't see it as that different as a developer. None of my work makes the world a better place, and I work on products most people would see as essential and important. I want to be vague, but it's not like we make useless junk. The people pushing this garbage will be the ones seeing the benefits, I'll get a pat on the back if I'm lucking (and maybe like 1-3gs which will go right in my 401k)
Realistically, at mid-to-senior level, I've already seen all the significant changes to class that I will likely see. Hard work isn't even the main way to get ahead in the corporate world. Politics and social BS will have way more sway, and besides that, you just have to ensure that you don't have a reputation for incompetence (however exceptionalism is optional). Your mileage may vary, but in any case, hard work only gets you so far.
While I might be able to squeeze out an extra 10 or 20 grand here and there, salaries don't really go down, and it's not likely for that incremental improvement to have much of an effect. You know what will effect me though? Sacrificing the little personal time I do have.
It will only make me crazier and less healthy, by causing me to skip self-care and socialization. Something has to give, and I will not be seeing my friends, skip working out and cooking, or my house will be a disaster. I've done the math and 40 hours plus cooking/cleaning/exercise, basically yields 0 free hours, and whatever remains has to be use to relax or hang with friends.
It's just a bigger middle finger to the kind of low paying jobs you're talking about, because at least in engineering, you get a bigger payout for that sacrifice, and a chance of advancement. That's no small thing, and I'm not trying to say things are exactly the same, but it's not so different.
I'm never going to get effective treatment, essentially due to doctors that wanted to bring a shitty attitude to the workplace.
In other words, I've literally never even been given the first line treatment.