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Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com)
Autistic people are methodical and detail-oriented, and a new Microsoft program is trying to hire more of them, according to Fast Company. Slashdot reader tedlistens writes:
Vauhini Vara takes a look at the at the (difficult) efforts of Microsoft to recruit more autistic engineers and make a more neurodiverse workplace, through the lens of one of those coders. "The program, which began in May 2015, does away with the typical interview approach, instead inviting candidates to hang out on campus for two weeks and work on projects while being observed and casually meeting managers who might be interested in hiring them. Only at the end of this stage do more formal interviews take place.
"The goal is to create a situation that is better suited to autistic people's styles of communicating and thinking. Microsoft isn't the first to attempt something like this: The German software firm SAP, among a handful of others, have similar programs -- but Microsoft is the highest-profile company to have gone public with its efforts, and autistic adults are hoping it will spark a broader movement."
One autistic coder says they make better employees because "You don't have to tell someone not to go home early. They'll just stay." But there's also a push to bring different analytical and creative approaches into Microsoft's company culture. The article ultimately asks the question, "Could the third-largest corporation in the world make the case that hiring and employing autistic people, with all their social and intellectual quirks, was good, not bad, for business?"
"The goal is to create a situation that is better suited to autistic people's styles of communicating and thinking. Microsoft isn't the first to attempt something like this: The German software firm SAP, among a handful of others, have similar programs -- but Microsoft is the highest-profile company to have gone public with its efforts, and autistic adults are hoping it will spark a broader movement."
One autistic coder says they make better employees because "You don't have to tell someone not to go home early. They'll just stay." But there's also a push to bring different analytical and creative approaches into Microsoft's company culture. The article ultimately asks the question, "Could the third-largest corporation in the world make the case that hiring and employing autistic people, with all their social and intellectual quirks, was good, not bad, for business?"
And, people who will worry about the "how" instead of the "why". Perfect for Microsoft, based on their past history.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
I suspect that most coders fall somewhere on the spectrum anyway. Are they specifically looking for the rocking back and forth level of autism? The "awkward, can't look you in the eye, bad grooming"? Or the "I'm always right and get insanely defensive" (also includes defense extremists who have OVERLY strong political views)?
One autistic coder says they make better employees because "You don't have to tell someone not to go home early. They'll just stay."
Ah, it makes it easier to exploit employees.
And now, businesses are going to start putting in their requirements "diagnosed autism" in their job descriptions. It's like when MS started asking those brain teasers and every business started doing it.
I'm glad that business is starting to see non-normal behavior as being a reason for instant disqualification, but I see this going to extremes.
You have to be autistic to like Windows 10. Mystery Explained.
Considering the state of their GUIs, particularly Ribbon and Tiles, I assume that they could hire trisomy-21 cases as coders and it would still be an improvement.
They need to balance out all the autism in their UI designers. I mean, going by what they thought was a good idea for Windows 8.
One autistic coder says they make better employees because "You don't have to tell someone not to go home early. They'll just stay."
And they often think very literally. For example, many will think "sweatshop" is a place where sweat is made, not an IT office.
(Also, can't wait for someone to sue MS for not getting hired because they weren't autistic.)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Microsoft already has it's own issues, it's also likely they will find it difficult to herd the aut-spectrum employees using their usual combinations of coercion and bribery. But I'd still say that the corporate culture of Microsoft in far from neurotypical.
or at least regarded
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A flawed hiring strategy was passing over better candidates in favor of people with more social skills, because bigoted and incompetent hiring managers were failing at their jobs by favoring people they like over better-qualified candidates. "Being liked by the sort of people put in charge of hiring" shouldn't be a job qualification.
(although I'm rather suspicious of this "hang out on campus for two weeks and work on projects" approach, at least if it is not paid)
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Thanks, Donald. You might want to get back to your debate prep now.
Who would want to code while they could be out socializing?
Aspie people made this Valley.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
You seem to be describing sociopaths, not autistic people.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
For whatever reasons they're doing this, it seems like a good idea. I'm in the systems integration world, so I don't write software per se. However, I do a lot of "glue scripting" and automation work, and work with lots of developers getting their creations to function in the real world. Our chosen field of work is _definitely_ suited for autism spectrum folks...doing it right requires intense focus and literal thinking. For Microsoft, it seems like they would win on a couple fronts...they get kudos for hiring the disabled [1] and they get a workforce who is happy to work untold hours that "normals" wouldn't be able to.
It does sound like a plan hatched by some evil HR VP though. A bunch of normal execs tour the back buildings at Microsoft, see the more autistic of the bunch basically living in their offices, and conclude that hiring more of these will keep productivity high. It could definitely devolve into a sweatshop quickly. I wouldn't classify myself as ASD, but I'm definitely introverted. i can deal with normal people, but don't like to, as in it doesn't give me pleasure but I'll avoid it if given the choice. Fortunately I've found workplaces that let me have a healthy mix of socialization and independent work. I wouldn't thrive in a startup "brogrammer" environment as an example. If Microsoft encourages an adaptive workplace, that's a good thing in my mind. All companies need a healthy mix of cocaine-fueled salesmen and caffeine-fueled worker bees. Giving those worker bees what they need to be productive (offices, privacy, etc) is key.
[1] Yes, I'm aware that ASD being classified as a disability is very controversial. But as the number of technical jobs dry up in the First World, I can see it becoming a fully protected disability. When the entire employed world is extroverted project managers and executives, us introverts are going to be in for a world of pain.
Favoring a particular demographic because they have a particular disability is still discrimination. If it's against the law to discriminate against someone because of a disability, it should not matter whether they actually have that disability or not.... one should not be using said disability as a basis for discrimination, period.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
It's fine that Microsoft wants to start hiring more autistic programmers.... Just as long as they hire them from INSIDE the U.S.
Sociopaths do better in management than coding.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Judging by Windows 10, it seems the idea of hiring coders with Down syndrome didn't work too well.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Don't laugh. The above right wing nationalist post is winning lots of votes. How else can you explain his success?
As someone who looked liked the poster child for mongolism (large head and slow learner), misdiagnosed as mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing lost in kindergarten, and spent eight years in Special Ed classes, I can tell you exactly what quality Microsoft is looking for. It's the same quality that my Special Ed teachers prized the most when I was in class: a well-behaved idiot.
I would love to "try out" new employers for a couple of weeks before committing, without having to through a more formal temp-to-hire or contract-to-hire arrangement.
Granted, this probably won't work for most people who already have jobs, but it would be very good for new-college hires, independent contractors looking to get back into W2 work, and people who are unemployed or who have been told they will be laid off and whose employers are willing to let them take vacation or go on unpaid leave. It might work for some professionals who are looking for a career change and who have vacation to burn.
Now for the nitty gritty:
I would expect to be paid and a weekly cash stipend of at least minimum wage plus enough to cover taxes for that period of time. If I was hired on permanently, I would expect to be paid my full salary retroactively. If I was out of the area, I would expect to be given per-diem to cover hotel, transportation, and food expenses during that time. If the work I did during that two weeks was something that would have cost the company more than it was paying me (including the per-diem costs) if it were done by an employee or outside contractor, I would expect to be paid accordingly. In other words, if they were using the time to get to know me and for me to get to know them, then minimum wage + expenses and taxes is fine, but if they were using it as a source of real labor, then I would expect to be paid real-labor wages.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
or more like cutting the QA team and I have seen that with software from other places.
"Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism "
They can pay them in Skittle and iced tea. And they never want breaks to like... go home and stuff.
That explains the Metro UI demographic.
There's an entire class of managers, millions of them, who are of the opinion you can never allow your staff to feel confident or secure in their jobs because when the staff feel secure and confident, their focus shifts from complaining to their co-workers about their situation and management, to reducing costs, improving operations, increasing real profitability, and ultimately, their cut of the pie.
When you have multiple layers of managers, they do it to each other, and the stories of those fights are often epic. Managers do not want other companies to have leaders, who grow their people and their business, because those companies tend to have great, innovative staff focused entirely on eating the dysfunctional enterprises they build for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So we end up with lobbying to put in a spider-web of red tape to trap entrepreneurs, then the scraps end up in these "startup hotbeds" because hey, startup capital can never come from secure, confident people, it has to come from managers so they can keep their thumb on the company and grind the entrepreneurs into dust when needed (why do we have a market crash every 10 years? who survives the winter the best, the little guys or the big guys? Who expands when winter is over?).
Get that kids? "Nuerodiverse" is the new infotainment code word to get all the programmers insecure again. We started with sexism and racism from these people (relabeled of course diversity and inclusion to sugarcoat and make easier to swallow what we all know is immoral and unethical behavior), now that that's run dry (we've made a complete mockery of them) we're floating "Nuerodiverse". Putting this in laymens terms, unless you are a non-white, borderline retarded female, good luck finding a job at Microsoft.
You literally cannot make this up.
Let me tell all of you where this one is going.
It wasn't until the triangle shirtwaist factory fire where 143 people died that someone figured out that "management" was a bad idea, got people killed, and got an entire labor movement going. That resulted in building codes and engineering standards, something the IT industry lacks today.
Mark my words, the regulation won't come down on the abstract stuff. It will come down to "your company is going to take financial responsibility for X", and the large and small companies that don't, get shut down. Imagine Microsoft being handed a fine for 10 billion dollar find and a "next time, we break you up" for the next 5 years for the OPM data breech (assuming their software was involved)?
Now, let's hire people with personality disorders, who will work hard for less, and we can lock away from the public because they make us uncomfortable.
"The German software firm SAP, among a handful of others, have similar programs"
Thanks. I wish I'd realised that the one time I had contact with that particular company. Explains an awful lot.
> "Being liked by the sort of people put in charge of hiring" shouldn't be a job qualification.
Wow. That sounds an awful lot like SJW rhetoric. Maybe they are actually on to something.
"You don't have to tell someone not to go home early. They'll just stay."
So basically, MS wants people that can be manipulated and enslaved. I guess they are going to install cages in the basement at MS HQ to keep their employees from leaving. Corporate America the closes thing to Tyranny.
as a novel, as a poem, song, etc. As soon as Bill Gates stopped working on Windows, it became what it is now.
My Ethernet card stops working periodically as soon as I installed Windows 10. And I cannot find a solution, no matter what I try. Such things would have never happened when he worked there. Bill Gates would have thrown papers in the developer responsible for this bug.
I will have to install Ubuntu with a dual boot, as I still sometimes need Windows for some applications.
Hurry free vaccines!
That's who MS will be after. Good luck trying to get a job with them if you are a US Citizen.
3 out of 4 autists are men. This is clearly intended to push for less female inclusion than to helping the mentally disabled.
Why not just call them Drones and get it over with. It's not like either of them are reproducing anyways. (Thank you I'll be here all week and save everyone a warm seat in hell!)
So, Microsoft wants to hire more autistic engineers? Maybe they think they''ll get along better with the managers who seem to have the same issue.
If it is going to work anywhere, Microsoft would be the place.
Unfortunately, all of the exceptional autistic coders are writing for Linux. That also explains our reliance on the terminal.
I have to currently work with one right now. It's fucking awful. Great analytically, but forgetful, doesn't know how to do things on his own, doesn't know how to respond in meetings, doesn't pick up on what questions are truly being asked, doesn't code very well, doesn't think about the big picture (only his immediate task; making shortcuts all along the way that aren't sustainable).
That said, I did have the pleasure of working with someone on the spectrum for 5 years previous to this one. He was great. You either get a good performer or you get the worst performer
I did not realize that Pervasive Developmental Disorder had been added to the spectrum (2012) until last summer, but it explains a lot. While I was in the civilian business sector and self-employed I called myself a solutions developer. I could go into any technical situation (software, hardware, network) that I had never encountered before, and figure out a solution and correct the problem often in under an hour. These were problems that their internal IT hadn't been able to fix sometimes for weeks before they went to contracting out. The high functioning autistic mind thinks in different ways than the neuro-typical mind. It faces a lot of challenges, but the level of technical creativity *can* far surpass the neuro-typical learned ways. Before I knew that my daughter and I were autistic, a good friend of mine and I were talking about it and he described it as the neuro-typical mind running windows, where the autistic mind runs Linux. Same hardware, and you can still run Firefox, get to your email, do most of the same things, but there is an underlying fundamental difference in the way it all happens. FYI, if you're curious as to the social and verbal issues they face, look up echolalia scripting. High functioning people are able to adapt to language, but the scripting becomes far too difficult for some, leaving them mute or not wanting to interact.
Young people don't use landlines and do use call blockers. I keep my hopes on that hook.
Back when Gates was in charge, I read that many ambitious MS employees used to rock back and forth with their eyes closed when attending a technical presentation, just like the big boss. Jeff Raikes, who became one of Gates' top lieutenants, was one.
In my experience we don't more autistic coders, we need less, a lot less. We need more coders with social skills and personality ;P
"Autistic people are methodical and detail-oriented"
Whoever wrote that clearly never met my eleven old, slightly autistic boy.
I think SAP, who has been hiring autistic employees for a while, has a better handle on it. To quote on of their HR people:
"If you met one autistic person, you know just one ."
I understand the current mantra is "hire more vaginas!", but women have a lower incidence of autism, so how ever will they choose which disability to cater to?
-Styopa
I think the difference is that the autistic person who has become successful in overcoming his failings has tended to be methodical and observant. It isn't a guarantee, and it takes us often into 20s or far more to reach that point. It is the most common means to success for a person who is not neuro-typical to develop that way, not a natural trait.
People with autism aren't "completely lacking ethical/moral boundaries." They might not pick up on social cues or realize that something they said was inappropriate, but that doesn't mean a moral failing. In fact, many people with autism have an overabundance of empathy which cripples them in social situations. They fear saying or doing anything because their lack of social knowledge means they'll likely do something to upset someone. Being alone is preferable to insulting the person, so they avoid social situations.
Take my son, for example. He has high functioning autism/Aspergers Syndrome. We took him into a museum a few years back and they had a butterfly house. We all went in but my son was screaming about how he didn't want to go. We finally got him in and he stood like a statue by the door for a few seconds before we excused him. I went to talk with him and he revealed that he wasn't scared of the butterflies themselves (my first guess) but that they were all over the place, including the floor, and he was afraid of hurting one. His empathy for the butterflies was so high that he couldn't stand being in the room with them lest he hurt one.
That's not "lacking ethical/moral boundaries" at all.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
I wonder if Microsoft will treat these employees with more dignity and respect than their customers?
So tired of the pro-vaccination agenda...
Step 2: Apply for job
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
Thanks for sharing that. Very insightful.
The problem with this is that how is an autistic person supposed to ever be noticed in amongst the thousands of applications they receive per position? That end up mostly being filled with H-1Bs? Sure, its great that Microsoft wants to make its hiring process accessible to autistic people, but since they're overwhelmed with good talent applying to its relatively few jobs (that actually hire Americans), just how is an autistic person supposed to get noticed?
Assburger's is fake. So fake it got removed from the DSM. All you people who claim Assburger's are just wanting an excuse to be a dickbag.
What they should do is make a management hierarchy with people increasingly higher up on the spectrum so that they can translate language and cognitive styles kinda like in this Hot Fuzz scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw
While I agree that the parent post is full of bullshit and ill-informed malice, your anecdote actually touches on one of the strange distinctions with autism vis a vis empathy. I am almost 40 now and have never once experienced empathy for another human on an emotional level. As I got older I substituted cognitive processes to know when it is appropriate to act the part, but the base 'feeling' has never been there. It's kind of like running software-based graphics because you lack a video card - you can kind of get the effect, but with a lot more work and never the same quality of output. Before I started to learn this (which is still an ongoing process) I most certainly did hurt or offend many people. I never wanted to, but I was so oblivious as to how to navigate these situations that it still happened a lot.
Anyways, the relevant point with regard to your story is that I have always had a very deep level of empathy for animals, more so than most other 'empathetic' people. I can be face to face with extreme human tragedy (even my own) and react to it purely on a rational level, but things involving the suffering of animals can reduce me to tears easily. I've never really understood this very well, but I think it has something to do with the fact that animals lack the emotional complexity of humans which is primary the cause of the distance felt by people with autism. Another possibility is that animals interact with humans but neither party understands their other's motives and often hurt / get hurt by them due to a lack of mutual understanding, and there is a much stronger feeling of kinship with the animal over the human.
Your son may too young to discern this, but out of curiosity, does he also have a strong emotional reaction to movies, perhaps more so than if the same event were occurring in real life? This is another weird facet I have noticed. I can get choked up over some pretty dumb schlock in a move while everybody else is unfazed. I have actually had to get up and leave rooms on occasion during movies that, overall, would not exactly be described as tear-jerkers just because something in it got to me. Wondering if this is also a common theme.
Posting AC as I do not care to observe the torrent of 'special snowflake' insults which resulted the last time I tried to have an honest discussion about this. The very idea that there may be people in the world who are different in some way that gives them a unique set of aptitudes and deficits really seems to set people around here right the fuck off.
Same AC here. I forgot to add that if there is any human I truly empathize with, it is your son and those like him. I wish him all the best, and I am glad for him that he is growing up in an era that is (somewhat) more understanding of this than during my childhood. It was not easy. As an adult however, I wouldn't change a thing. I don't know how many of my traits will show up in my son (who is 1 now), but I actually can't help but hope that he has at least received some version of my 'condition', perhaps tempered a bit by my very loving wife. It created so many opportunities for my life to take a non-standard path that I would never have discovered otherwise, and I'll take weird over boring any day.
See, now I'm getting choked up over a comment to a stranger on the internet over a child I've never met. Like I said, the 'empathy' thing is...complicated.
Yeah, let me walk around for two weeks, before you tell me if you want to hire me. I have nothing better to do in the meantime.
No, seriously. Apparently many autism spectrum people also have deficiencies in processing certain types of carbohydrates, where their digestive system does a half assed job and leaves a lot of strange intermediaries. One of those apparently is an opiode precursor. So if you have autistic people with a heroin bliss face after eating a PB&J sandwich and who get REAL ANTSY if they don't get their sandwich, that's probably it.
So, free PB&J sandwiches in the cupboard/minikitchen area would do wonders for employee retention and as a recruiting tool...
Catbert, is that you?
Project meetings, are they still a thing?
If so, this could make them more lively,
or, more likely, kill then off.
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I wish I could participate in American Democracy, but I can't afford it.
See subject & this vintage quote of your words:
"As far as IQ, there are people smarter then I, but not many" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:44AM
I must be one @ a 135/140 IQ so yours MUST be lower as you can't backup your bs below anymore than you can that drivel above from you!
(You're deluded & here's the proof next)
"I validly refuted every one of your points" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 19, 2015 @04:14PM
I'll give you the opportunity to try & fail publicly again in on "AlmostALLAdsBlocked"'s MASSIVE inferiorities to hosts (you'll try move the goalposts to DNS, fine - I'll dust you with facts there too, easily) IF you wish. Just ask... lol!
Personally - I don't think you have "assburgers" @ all but used it to get jobs based on discrimination bs (seen a LOT of that in my time, fake it till you make it liars that talk a lot of trash & can't backup their bs... like you are).
P.S.=>
"APK, I have done so much more than you" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:19PM
Prove it! You never do - you're a blowhard man... Oh: The other guy is using assburger (lol, a new "meme" it seems) but it's NOT me - I don't bug you unless you note me 1st & then I let you crush yourself everytime - it is TRULY, hilarious...apk
See subject: Who's looking for attention? You are. You said you disproved ALL my points, quoted. Care to deny it-> https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?
* Tell you what - let's SEE you validly technically disprove my list of points about "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" (or UBlock etc.) & its inferiority to hosts? Want to try it again & fail again?? Ask.
APK
P.S.=> Obviously I outclass you on intelligence - It's coders like MYSELF that create tools that MENIALS like yourself merely USE - prove you've created such a tool as I have (of many, some even commercially sold) then... you can't & you KNOW it - you're ALL blowhard hot-air talk, nothing more (bullshit in other words)... apk
Can't you read? See this quote of you again "I validly refuted every one of your points" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 19, 2015 @04:14PM & YOU didn't get me to remove a damn thing - Omnichad did, saying it days before you did, menial!
* He's the ONLY one who ever has - & it was me taking a risk on something but no biggie - 16 points STILL stand strong, unscathed & inviolate!
Want proof of that too, dated & pointed to directly? Ask (since you won't face my points on hosts vs. inferior slower more resource consuming bloated inefficient addons)... please, DO - just so I can make you "EAT YOUR WORDS" yet again as always (it's fun & YOU ALWAYS DO THIS TO YOURSELF w/out fail, which tells me you have NO PRIDE (obviously, as you also have no technical accomplishments you can show for yourself either, so that makes sense)).
I have literally 100's of YOUR technical mistakes vs. myself bookmarked - shall I put out a few to humiliate you? Ask!
(Plus @ least I have the skills to make a GUI app that's never been found with a bug that gives folks more speed, security, reliability + anonymity online - surely, a "SELF-PROCLAIMED SMART MAN" such as you can do better? No, not, lol - you're the menial type that merely USES what guys like myself create for you to use, nothing more (prove otherwise - oh, that's right - you can't - but you sure "toot your own horn" you can minus proof, blowhard)).
Whatever your IQ ALLEGEDLY is (noone will believe you minus proof fool, don't you get it? You, Mr. CITATION himself who demands those of others which I have bookmarked from you many times also)? You don't do SHIT with it... nothing you can prove substantially, meaning you're full of bs blowhard windbag HOT air.
Lastly fool - I've worked for the Fortune 100/500 when I still had to work for others (haven't in almost a decade now - my money works for ME, wageslave, debtfree too) - I can show 100's of things there but how? I'm not lazy like you though - I do things on the side that have profited me too, but then, I code... LIMITED menials like you? Don't.
APK
P.S.=> & lastly Coren22 - I literally have 50 times you've talked about me behind my back when I'm not even around - so your butthurtness @ constantly failing vs. myself is showing along w/ your childish signatures regarding myself as well (talk projecting))... apk
Coren22 = Dunning-Krueger effect personified You say you proved all my points wrong https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8348675&cid=50965043/ to others asking Mr. Citation (& yes, I have tons of times you asking proof but YOU NEVER PROVIDE ANY & especially of things you've done BETTER than I blowhard - hypocrite pot calling a kettle black bullshitter that you are).
You haven't once.
WHO HAS THE DIM MEMORY NOW STUPID?
Again, ask, & I'll put out my list of adblock (or ublock MASSIVE inferiority vs. hosts) & we'll see "what's what"... ask. Why do you RUN from this? I know why, lol!
Then, you will HAVE to PROVE EACH OF MY 16 POINT WRONG, go for it (you'll run, "Forrest" OR GET SMOKED by "yours truly" once again, lol - & you KNOW it).
Now, since you're SO big on asking "citations", where did THAT happen (& I know I smoked you totally on the technicals, I always do). I proved that hosts block spam mail payloads there iirc, & yes, you ran.
Yea & AGAIN FROM YOUR MOUTH I see the blunders your company has made (so much for their expertise & smarts you spoke of) https://slashdot.org/comments.... "I work in a tech company, most people are rather knowledgeable, and we still get hit by this one about once a month" - New Mac OS X Trojan Hides Inside PDFs" LMAO - sounds like CHUMPS to me!
LOL - must be "smart guys" self-proclaimed, like you (not considering you can't show things I've done while I was only 2-5 yrs. into this field no less - things you NEVER can or will be able to show since you're a menial).
Coren22, your signatures about me ALONE evidence your butthurt & again, ask & I'll literally PROVE you bring me up to try "put me down" when I am not around so nigh constantly - projecting your "butthurt" & I can literally point out 50 easily.
There's NO WAY you can take me on STRAIGHT UP mano-a-mano - you're a limited menial. Coren22 I've built things you NEVER have - what company have YOU built? What program even? You'll run again.
*In the end, YES - I am going to Cardinal Richelieu you ass & you know it making you EAT YOUR WORDS easily. I'm going to shatter you in public beneath at +5 post - you have it coming.
APK
P.S.=> At this point, IF you keep up your crap? I'll start putting out your tech blunders vs. myself, 1 by 1 publicly, just to HUMILIATE THE HELL OUT OF YOUR LYING ASS publicly... keep it up! apk
See subject: See what happens then - I keep my promises (notice you haven't had any of those +5's lately - guess your sockpuppet pals ran out of modpoints or you don't get them for trolling so much, eh? I'd wager I have more of those to my credit too (me the AC vs. your "registered luserishness" no less)).
I bring up my points on hosts YOU HAVE NEVER PROVEN WRONG & when I challenge you to face them again vs. your bs? You evade it... why's that? I know why, lol!
* I'm going to do another Coren22's "APKolypse", for sure now after this - @ your expense!
(... & as to your question? YOU ARE (autistic or assbergers, whatever, it's YOUR problem - not mine)).
APK
P.S.=> You recently said it was "fun" to troll me?
Get ready - you sow your BLOWHARD HOT-AIR wind directed my way? Heh - well then I'll make certain you reap the whirlwind, publicly, in a fresh thread - time's on my side (& so are you TONS of technical fails)... apk
Whatever. You've literally tried "trashing me" in 50++ posts I have bookmarked so who are you trying to fool? I'll concede you're not as BAD as your usual this time though - so no Coren22 "APKolypse" necessary (unless you start doing that crap again).
* Coren22, tell you what - if you steer clear of me, I'll do the same with you (which I've tried this with you 2-3 times before but you kept it up)... ok?
IF you want to "talk tech" OR validly disprove points I make on hosts (or anything else really)? I'll speak with you civilly. In fact, the 1st time we spoke WAS that way (regarding lags due to antivirus programs in screensaver operations I illustrated that used multithreaded code (which actually slows on SINGLE cpu rigs)) - it was decent conversation & on topic.
I'd like to keep it that way - how about you?
APK
P.S.=> Face facts - your "crusade" to stop me posting & to figure out HOW I beat post restrictions is moot - you can't do it, & I'm personally astounded you couldn't figure out HOW I was doing it before, so I will tell you (& you'll be pissed @ yourself):
VERIZON DSL is just like dialup & allows dynamic reassignment of IP address everytime you activate/deactivate your modem (which I did on every post almost to protect myself & keep myself a "moving target" online by flipping IP addresses - so, NO vpn, proxy, tor, OR other means were necessary as you thought)... happy now? apk
I have always said that this sport (Computer Programming) is NOT for people with normal minds. OCD is helpful. Asperger's is super helpful. Autism is better than nothing.
OCD is effectively institutionalized in the Art of Computer Programming through the concept of unit tests.
People with Autism just focus better than people without.
People with Asperger's are the best. If you want to write computer programs, and you have Asperger's, you should list it on your resume. Those guys make you spell out your grey B.S. specifications. They want to be communicated with in clear unambiguous terms. They want to make you EXACTLY what you asked for.