Where do we stand on hoarding code to protect against outsourcing? I have a friend who is encouraging his team to do everything he can to hoard and make it impossible for recently onboarded individuals in a “cheaper cost center” to mess with it.

I think it’s the right call, for both the team and the company. The team wants to keep their job, and to keep building the thing they worked so hard on. But I think it’s also best for the company. Management can’t control themselves when they see that they can get literally 10 engineers for the price of 1 local engineer. They know that each of the 10 is going to be less good than than a local engineer, but they always fall for “but still, they’re not that much worse and for that price how can I lose!”. Of course, the damage of 10s of mediocre-bad engineers is far more costly, especially when outsourcing an existing project. So I’d say it’s the right thing for everyone for the team to protect their code ownership anyway they can.

Like gabapentin? I was on them for years, in theory to help with really bad restless legs (keeps me up all night). My normal ADHD meds are 60mg Equasym XR + 20mg methylphenidate SR.

The gabapentin never helped, even up to relatively high doses. I’m seriously suspicious that the long and short term side effects are under emphasised, especially for long term use. Titrating up felt bad, but coming off them was absolutely awful, probably one of the worse experiences I’ve had with medication. I don’t normally get anxiety but it skyrocketed, and I was nauseous and groggy for weeks, even titrating really slow. Anxiety is still worse months later, and while I don’t entirely trust my judgement on this, I do wonder if it’s maybe had longer effect on me than is explained by just the half life.

Still pissed that my neurologist just dropped them on me and never really followed up!

Given the lack of info on official side effects, I do wonder if the methylphenidate did somehow interact with the gabapentin to make the whole thing worse, but that’s just a conspiracy theory on my part.

Thanks for clarifying!

I was enjoying plexamp but had no idea of the restrictions. My missus probably hadn’t bothered to try it yet so we hadn’t noticed.

Such a shame because plexamp seems to me superior to the experience from all other streaming apps, apart from my less than perfect music collection!

Will have to give this Symfonium a look!