SudoNhim

Exciting! This has a lot in common with Nock/Hoon

> Once you start looking for confirmation bias you see it everywhere.

Hah. I can't tell if you are joking, because it's true.

Grrr. If you adjust for population of course the top places in the list will be dominated by small populations who've had a particularly bad time recently.

When I can, I try to just not have a computer at home for this reason. I have an e reader and a shitty cellphone that can is hard enough to use that I don't waste much time with it.

The trick is trying to find things that you can only use productively.

Terrible WiFi can also work if you can set it up. Something with 300ms lag is enough to stop me playing games. If you live with other people making sure your workstation is in the living room and not your bedroom also helps.

Huh... approaching this from the opposite side, when my boss has suggestions I always take it as an opportunity to let them feel some ownership of the work, even on occasions where the suggestions don't turn out to be that useful in practice ("I implemented your suggestion of X, which led me to come up with Y").

Trying to game professional relationships goes both ways I guess :)

That's dodging the issue though... the issue was that relentless is apparently masculine. What if they say the same thing about dauntless?

I don't think relentless has to be as mindless as you say. Someone who gets in the zone and attacks a hard problem 20 different ways until they solve it is relentless in my books.

Relentlessness and fearlessness are inherently masculine words? So if I want to find candidates with the qualities of relentlessness and fearlessness, I need gender neutral synonyms for these now... Bloomberg I think this is getting out of hand.

> Depression is an illness Well, not really. Depression is a "disorder". You can be more biologically predisposed to depression, but that isn't the same thing.

How can you not affiliate with any god and not be an athiest?

Surely (not athiest) => theist => (believes in a god) => (has a religion)

I understand the feeling of needing to "catch up" to fit in. For the first three years after I started programming I kept my work almost completely private, I felt so far behind. I wrote several hundred projects that I never showed to anybody, and didn't even keep. I still feel the gap a little bit today (five years in), but it seems mostly gone.

I fit the programmer archetype exactly, and it took me three years of near constant engagement before I felt I could even begin to fit in (culturally) with experienced programmers. I can easily imagine the task is considerably harder if you don't fit the archetype.

On the flip-side - the desire to "catch up", and the solitary nature of the challenge lent me considerably more motivation and creativity than I seem to have now that I have "acclimatized".

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I'm very interested to see how it is going to turn out for my sister. She's a very talented programmer, but she doesn't try to immerse herself in the culture of it at all, rather she is treating it as an auxiliary skill to her studies in GIS. I feel some smug satisfaction knowing she is coding circles around most of the guys in her classes, despite not taking on the identity of "I am a programmer".