gavinmckenzie

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by gavinmckenzie 17d ago
That’s basically how the end of my diagnosis went because aspects of my results were borderline, so she suggested that I just try meds to see. But keep in mind that only one type of ADHD involves being hyper. Some of us are inattentive type
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by gavinmckenzie 1mo ago
I have moved between clients (as a contractor) within the same industry every couple of years for nearly two decades, often cycling back around to the same clients more than once. There have also been cases where a previous client kept my c
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by gavinmckenzie 2mo ago
As a high-functioning autistic person, the description of being “a half-step outside the frame” perfectly captures the way I live. I am, and have always been, aware that I am experiencing the world and my own sense of self slightly removed
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by gavinmckenzie 3mo ago
Well done. As a colour blind person (and iOS developer) I am thrilled anytime an app doesn’t rely on colour cues alone. I’ve used Hack and Octal but I am going to give your app a try.
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by gavinmckenzie 8mo ago
Putting aside the greater variety of physical traits that you describe, dogs generally are more adaptable than cats. They are estimated to have twice the number of neurons and are much more malleable whereas cats feel more hardwired into a
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by gavinmckenzie 10mo ago
I admit to invoking the phrase “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see” at least once a year when something feels like it’s going horribly wrong.
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by gavinmckenzie 11mo ago
There are many motivations for shooting jpeg with film sims, from just not wanting to expend the effort editing photos to my motivation as a colour-blind person who simply cannot see colour well enough to manually adjust photos. For me, it’
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by gavinmckenzie 2y ago
What my doctor has told me, after attending a urology + prostate cancer conference, is to think of the prostate as a sponge that absorbs testosterone. And once the sponge overflows, prostate cancer can be triggered. But once cancer has occu
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
I thought the accepted explanation of Annihilation was a metaphor for cancer. The slow seemingly unstoppable spread. Mutations creating new things that mimic the familiar but in often grotesque ways, mechanistically expanding to destructive
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Wow, that's a throwback. I remember when my Ontario high-school in '84 or '85 got a whole room full of ICON computers. It was a total miserable nightmare for the teaching staff as each computer class had at least a couple of
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
I agree that truthfully we're not talking about excluding those users, but only preventing those users from upgrading to the latest version of the app. But for lots of businesses those two things are viewed as effectively the same, bec
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
If you're a business with a consumer facing app, you don't want to exclude 5% or 10% of your users. Most of the client projects I've worked on had a requirement to support iOS(-4) which is super painful from a development sta
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Very true. And I’m an iOS/macOS/tvOS developer who has all the toys, yet even I had trouble coming to grips with paying a premium for AirPods over a good pair of wired buds.
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Hopefully the troubles with Siri are understood enough in Apple that they won’t make that mistake, because Siri is truly awful on my HomePods for thinking I’m talking to Siri when I’m not. Thankfully many of the people in the demo videos we
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
100%. I thought the same thing with my Apple Watch and I resisted spending what I considered to be an unreasonable amount on earbuds as I didn’t care (or so I thought) about having wireless earbuds. But eventually so many colleagues had the
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Thankfully it does pair with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad for the scenarios where you want to use it to do “work”.
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
This is interesting. I've had both cats and dogs, and with the theory "they don't have fingers" I wonder why do dogs understand human pointing? Dogs of course communicate with a direct gaze (looks at empty food bowl, loo
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
I love using the knob to navigate CarPlay, but I admit the Music app is nearly unusable with the knob and IMHO only marginally better with touch. The music app in CarPlay just generally sucks and appears to intentionally limit how deeply yo
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Yes exactly. The children at that age in a “Casa” classroom cycle through self-chosen activities every day and may not choose the same activities consistently. If a child is observed to be avoiding a particular learning activity over a peri
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
My daughter went through a Montessori education from 18 months old through grade 8. As part of her Montessori experience, starting at age three, she began to learn to write. They trace "sandpaper" letters with their fingers; movin
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
Yes, my understanding is that some people present with anxiety (and/or depression), and that anxiety will become the focus of treatment by their doctor or psychologist, when in fact the anxiety stems from the undiagnosed ADHD. For thes
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
A need to multi-task is 100% ADHD. Our (inattentive) ADHD brains are like a car engine that will stall if it's allowed to idle, and so we have to keep the revs up in order for it to keep running. For us inattentive ADHD people, the med
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by gavinmckenzie 3y ago
I was diagnosed ADD (or what would now be called inattentive ADHD) in my 30s. But the testing results were not clear, in part because I'd developed a lifetime of coping mechanisms and skills that allow me to behave in non-ADHD ways thr
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Oh man, I got this for Christmas when I was 13 and spent nearly all of the holiday playing it. It was absolutely amazing, for 13 year old me. While my game is long gone, I still have the little metal figurines of the dragon and the treasure
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Takes me back to the days of dBase, Clipper, and my favourite FoxPro which was acquired by Microsoft and continued to exist in the 90s. Access definitely destroyed the market for these other products by combining aspects of Visual Basic and
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Ha, yes our Gen-X “slacker” generation (LOL) started out with a potentially different worldview. I think you’ve described the challenge 20-somethings face when it comes to resisting the tribal messaging from their employer pretty well — com
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
It’s definitely not for everyone, and certainly living in a locale without social safety nets like healthcare would add to the stress.
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
This is very true. Though it’s really tough for most employees (especially the 20-somethings) to resist the internal tribal messaging from their employers and instead see their employment relationship as just transactional.
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
Historically, yes. Post-pandemic, not as much. When the pandemic caused a migration to work-from-home and companies increased their remote-hiring efforts, I expected that the move to “work from anywhere, hire from anywhere” would push contr
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by gavinmckenzie 4y ago
In the first couple of years I would worry about this, but I haven’t in a very long time. The only occasions when I’ve had a gap between contracts is when I’ve chosen to take a break. I manage my finances to ensure I have several months of

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