I just wish we'd learn to appreciate this in the software/startup world and stop expecting people to come up with code/answers as quickly as possible. This is exactly why whiteboard coding is so bad of an interview metric.
You say that, but I've received offer letters where I was expected to keep my salary secret. Companies are demonstrably interested in suppressing such information.
No worse than normal, at least for me. I found the experience dull. Always having some internal auditory stimulation may have been part of the cause of that.
Also, I meditate very easily and prefer a whitenoise environment for meditation. And I'm very happy in my own head and used to being alone. So the whole thing was not much a novelty in any respect, and the lack of whitenoise made it suboptimal for meditation.
I wonder how people's response to these things varies as they move along the extroverion-introversion scale. It seems plausible that extroverts would find them a much more novel and disturbing experience than introverts.
The fact that a float tank would never be true sensory deprivation makes me sad.
Having tinnitus drives me crazy. Not in literal sense, it's not like I focus on it all the time. But at night when I hear the crickets and other nightlife, I mourn the lack of silence in my head.
$30k might not sound like a lot, until it's your parents that are asking you for financial help and not the other way around. And that's before adding in the psychological "tax" of worrying about them. I'm not even asking for rich parents, just financially neutral ones.
You might also like Shadowfist (http://shadowfist.com), a card game that used to have the Purists, a playable faction powered by esoteric, math-centric magic.
Markov chains need lots of training data to be useful. If you feed it just one comment, it pretty much reproduces that exact comment, maybe switching around or repeating a phrase somewhat.
Seconding this. I went from "HTML Programmer" to "Lead Software Engineer" (however briefly) in less than three years by changing jobs three times. It wasn't always a voluntary change, but the title improved with each new job.
