When I was a kid, the distraction was 'outside'. Parents didn't want to deal with you anymore 'Go play outside', and we'd be gone until dusk or dinner time. We had access to softer porn - mostly playboy and penthouse borrowed from someones dads stash, but it was just curiosity until puberty. I think in hindsight it would have been healthier to not have sex and nudity as taboo, but as a normal part of life that could be openly discussed rather than giggling children learning from their almost equally ignorant elder siblings.
Not worked in helpdesk have you? There are people who literally cannot follow the simplest of directions without you being physically there to direct them.
Banner Blindness. I've taught my brain to ignore the ads on twitter and just flick past them. The only time I have ever clicked on a twitter ad is by accident and I hit the back button immediately before it loaded.
There's a huge variance in home schooling. So you will get the dire and worrying religious fanatics, but you can also get 'my child is too smart for school and it'll just hold them back' child prodigies. The thing about standardised schooling is that they try to reduce the variances. So they give help to the kids who are struggling, and hold back the smarter kids; to output more uniform workers. Which is great when you want soldiers and factory workers who can read, write and obey orders.
The best argument for us not being in a SimCity is that there's lots of 'not fun' parts left in our 'game'. eg. There's no NIMBYs or BANANAs in SimCity nor people who will protest when you demolish their ghetto and build clean and safe new houses because such bits aren't fun for most people.
Put the first one on Kindle Unlimited? Then there's a very low barrier to entry so that people can try a new author without worrying about spending money on a book that sucks or only the first 10% has been edited with trying a sample. Once you've established trust with the first book, the later books can be $3-5 depending on page count. Find a few readers/reviewers of the genre and ask them to read and review. Usually just being asked personally will do the trick. Doesn't take much time and as soon as you have ~5 reviews of even 3-4 stars, you'll get more readers, especially on KU. And finally, focus on the readers and writing what you enjoy. There's an almost 0% chance that you'll ever be able to give up your day job, so don't worry too much about making money as that's just the cherry on the top of a self-pub author.
I did this myself for a while so I might be biased. I also went legit for one contract by working under an umbrella corporation. During that contractor had the privilege of paying the extra tax/NI while still not getting holiday pay, sick pay, pension contributions and for 6 weeks, never getting paid at all because the contract said they would only pay me once they were paid and the end client decided not to pay. If I'd been working directly, I could have sued them, but since I was under the umbrella, it was the umbrella that would need to sue them - and they couldn't be bothered as it would only be worth a ~hundred quid to them. So yeah, I didn't go the umbrella route again.
There are more men than women with autism. People on the scale will gravitate to jobs that require less social interaction. Coding is one of those jobs. People with less social interaction will often say and do things that aren't PC because they don't care that much about what other people think and don't keep up with the latest trends in PC terminology.
That said, if they want to get more people into coding, then there's one really easy thing they can do - pay them more and give them better working conditions. If your company has free on-site childcare, you'll have women beating down your door to get in.
When there's a shortage of lawyers, they don't say 'we need better role models', they say 'to get the best we need to pay the best'.
I'm sure that MS and Google would like to adjust supply and demand so that there's more supply to keep wage demands down, but for the rest of us, offer us 10% more than what we're being paid now and we'll jump ship. And with more money being offered, then more people will consider taking it up as a career choice.
I actually tried. Apparently I wasn't 'passionate' enough about teaching. The gatekeepers want it to be a vocation rather than just a job.
As to why other guys don't, it's a thankless low paid job and just an accusation of sexual impropriety can run you out of the profession.
The worst that women have to deal with in IT is variable hygiene standards and some non-PC jokes. (Okay, they have to deal with a bunch of other stuff as well, but they aren't IT specific).
I would have guessed that if there are biological differences, it would be because males are more prone to aspergers/autism than females, and gravitate to professions where there are fewer interpersonal interactions required.
May be related to the above, but there's also a slight bias towards being introverted for males, which may help in choosing a more solitary occupation.
And just the other day, the head of GCHQ was complaining that he couldn't hire hackers with previous experience and that the schools weren't turning out students who knew how to do unexpected things with computers.
They are like HMRC, don't ignore them and they don't bother you (much). Just took a phone call to tell them that I didn't own a TV and then every year or so do a declaration online that I still don't have a TV (or in the last one, watch iPlayer). They've never shown up to my house in the 10+ years that I've not had a TV license.
Cables across walkways would be consider a Health and Safety violation no matter what the age of the employees. Ideally, they would be routed out of the way, but sometimes if they company is too cheap to do that, they'll put a protector or a rug over them so they aren't so much of a trip hazard.
As long as they still have the dates, that's fine. I have partial anosmia which means I literally cannot tell if the milk has gone off until it pours out in clumps. It has it's good points. I'm not very fussy about my food as I can't appreciate 'fine dining'.
(Speaking for the UK market) I got a mortgage because it was cheaper than paying someone else mortgage. Seriously, if you have the deposit, it's actually much cheaper to buy than to rent here eg. £1200pcm for rent vs £1000pcm for the mortgage on the same cookie cutter house. Sure, some of it will be taken up in maintenance, but after 25 years, you'll have a house rather than 20 landlords that you've rented (they don't like tenants getting too comfortable and will turf you out every 6 months-2 years) from having houses.
I wish people would forget about censorship, and just insist on tagging. So if I'm offended by the naked breast, then all I need to do is filter on the 'naked breast' tag.
I'm pretty jaded about most of the stuff that I see on the internet, but even I'm reaching for the brain bleach when I come across surprise necro-bestiality. And that's not just beating off a dead horse there.
Just tag that shit so that people who don't want to see it don't see it (and conversely, those who do want to, can.)
And against smoking. It took decades longer for Germany and Japan to even start cracking down on smokers because whenever it was brought up, it was 'yeah, Hitler was against smoking too'.
It's faster at my supermarket as we get a handheld scanner and scan the barcodes as we put them straight into the bags. The till at the end is just to pay. Occasionally there is a wait if you're buying booze or a random check of 10 items to make sure you're not trying to leave without scanning everything.
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They give promotions and raises to engineers??!
Everyone know that to get a promotion or a raise then you have to move to another company.
Promotions within company are for management level and above only.
When I was a kid, the distraction was 'outside'. Parents didn't want to deal with you anymore 'Go play outside', and we'd be gone until dusk or dinner time.
We had access to softer porn - mostly playboy and penthouse borrowed from someones dads stash, but it was just curiosity until puberty. I think in hindsight it would have been healthier to not have sex and nudity as taboo, but as a normal part of life that could be openly discussed rather than giggling children learning from their almost equally ignorant elder siblings.
It would be great for the sight impaired to develop this technology into live narration.
And develop sexy robot voice to go with it.
Not worked in helpdesk have you?
There are people who literally cannot follow the simplest of directions without you being physically there to direct them.
Wife finds out about the other woman and in a fit of anger, goes to his safe deposit and destroys the thing that the husband most loves?
Banner Blindness.
I've taught my brain to ignore the ads on twitter and just flick past them. The only time I have ever clicked on a twitter ad is by accident and I hit the back button immediately before it loaded.
There's a huge variance in home schooling.
So you will get the dire and worrying religious fanatics, but you can also get 'my child is too smart for school and it'll just hold them back' child prodigies.
The thing about standardised schooling is that they try to reduce the variances. So they give help to the kids who are struggling, and hold back the smarter kids; to output more uniform workers. Which is great when you want soldiers and factory workers who can read, write and obey orders.
I had one do that to me in Eindhoven. Drove all over the place to increase the fare when I admitted I'd not been there before.
The best argument for us not being in a SimCity is that there's lots of 'not fun' parts left in our 'game'.
eg. There's no NIMBYs or BANANAs in SimCity nor people who will protest when you demolish their ghetto and build clean and safe new houses because such bits aren't fun for most people.
Put the first one on Kindle Unlimited? Then there's a very low barrier to entry so that people can try a new author without worrying about spending money on a book that sucks or only the first 10% has been edited with trying a sample.
Once you've established trust with the first book, the later books can be $3-5 depending on page count.
Find a few readers/reviewers of the genre and ask them to read and review. Usually just being asked personally will do the trick. Doesn't take much time and as soon as you have ~5 reviews of even 3-4 stars, you'll get more readers, especially on KU.
And finally, focus on the readers and writing what you enjoy. There's an almost 0% chance that you'll ever be able to give up your day job, so don't worry too much about making money as that's just the cherry on the top of a self-pub author.
I did this myself for a while so I might be biased.
I also went legit for one contract by working under an umbrella corporation. During that contractor had the privilege of paying the extra tax/NI while still not getting holiday pay, sick pay, pension contributions and for 6 weeks, never getting paid at all because the contract said they would only pay me once they were paid and the end client decided not to pay. If I'd been working directly, I could have sued them, but since I was under the umbrella, it was the umbrella that would need to sue them - and they couldn't be bothered as it would only be worth a ~hundred quid to them.
So yeah, I didn't go the umbrella route again.
There are more men than women with autism.
People on the scale will gravitate to jobs that require less social interaction. Coding is one of those jobs.
People with less social interaction will often say and do things that aren't PC because they don't care that much about what other people think and don't keep up with the latest trends in PC terminology.
That said, if they want to get more people into coding, then there's one really easy thing they can do - pay them more and give them better working conditions. If your company has free on-site childcare, you'll have women beating down your door to get in.
When there's a shortage of lawyers, they don't say 'we need better role models', they say 'to get the best we need to pay the best'.
I'm sure that MS and Google would like to adjust supply and demand so that there's more supply to keep wage demands down, but for the rest of us, offer us 10% more than what we're being paid now and we'll jump ship. And with more money being offered, then more people will consider taking it up as a career choice.
I actually tried. Apparently I wasn't 'passionate' enough about teaching. The gatekeepers want it to be a vocation rather than just a job.
As to why other guys don't, it's a thankless low paid job and just an accusation of sexual impropriety can run you out of the profession.
The worst that women have to deal with in IT is variable hygiene standards and some non-PC jokes. (Okay, they have to deal with a bunch of other stuff as well, but they aren't IT specific).
I would have guessed that if there are biological differences, it would be because males are more prone to aspergers/autism than females, and gravitate to professions where there are fewer interpersonal interactions required.
May be related to the above, but there's also a slight bias towards being introverted for males, which may help in choosing a more solitary occupation.
And just the other day, the head of GCHQ was complaining that he couldn't hire hackers with previous experience and that the schools weren't turning out students who knew how to do unexpected things with computers.
They are like HMRC, don't ignore them and they don't bother you (much).
Just took a phone call to tell them that I didn't own a TV and then every year or so do a declaration online that I still don't have a TV (or in the last one, watch iPlayer).
They've never shown up to my house in the 10+ years that I've not had a TV license.
My variant is "The Internet: where men are men, the women are also men and hot 14yo girls are FBI agents...and men."
Cables across walkways would be consider a Health and Safety violation no matter what the age of the employees.
Ideally, they would be routed out of the way, but sometimes if they company is too cheap to do that, they'll put a protector or a rug over them so they aren't so much of a trip hazard.
As long as they still have the dates, that's fine.
I have partial anosmia which means I literally cannot tell if the milk has gone off until it pours out in clumps.
It has it's good points. I'm not very fussy about my food as I can't appreciate 'fine dining'.
If someone is happy to do night shift or graveyard shift, don't keep switching it around every 2-3 weeks with the inevitable disruption.
I still haven't heard anyone explain _why_ workplaces want to keep regularly changing everyones shifts.
It takes me up to a week to get used to a new sleep schedule, so my body would be screwed up for 2 weeks every month if I had to do changing shifts.
(Speaking for the UK market)
I got a mortgage because it was cheaper than paying someone else mortgage.
Seriously, if you have the deposit, it's actually much cheaper to buy than to rent here eg. £1200pcm for rent vs £1000pcm for the mortgage on the same cookie cutter house. Sure, some of it will be taken up in maintenance, but after 25 years, you'll have a house rather than 20 landlords that you've rented (they don't like tenants getting too comfortable and will turf you out every 6 months-2 years) from having houses.
"I only built the bomb. I didn't DROP it!" - Bryce Lynch.
I wish people would forget about censorship, and just insist on tagging.
So if I'm offended by the naked breast, then all I need to do is filter on the 'naked breast' tag.
I'm pretty jaded about most of the stuff that I see on the internet, but even I'm reaching for the brain bleach when I come across surprise necro-bestiality. And that's not just beating off a dead horse there.
Just tag that shit so that people who don't want to see it don't see it (and conversely, those who do want to, can.)
And against smoking. It took decades longer for Germany and Japan to even start cracking down on smokers because whenever it was brought up, it was 'yeah, Hitler was against smoking too'.
It's faster at my supermarket as we get a handheld scanner and scan the barcodes as we put them straight into the bags. The till at the end is just to pay.
Occasionally there is a wait if you're buying booze or a random check of 10 items to make sure you're not trying to leave without scanning everything.