If these Asperger symptoms are caused primarily by stress, caregivers could learn to steer children away from situations that would add to anxiety, the researchers said.
But as a diagnosed asperger's sufferer myself, NONONONONONONONO! This is EXACTLY the type of wrong response we've been getting all along to this disease. No, you don't "steer the children away" from situations, you train them to find other ways to deal with the situation. And you work on research to find other ways to increase Cortisol production.
I think it would help mightily if the researchers on High Functioning Autism, actually had High Functioning Autism themselves. Then maybe we'd have suggestions that would really help in the real world.
Writing to you is almost like talking to my five year old- care to post a link so that the hundreds of thousands of programmers thrown out of work in the last decade or so can apply?
That's where you should start. Move to India. The only places that are hiring no experience are places like Infosys and Tata Consulting. They're more likely to hire you as a Project Manager than a coder though, if you're American.
What gets me about that is that Indian Engineers like managers who aren't *also* engineers- a completely different mindset.
The best thing about the Peter Principle was that you could be sure that at one time, your boss did your job and knows what it takes to do your job.
With the Dilbert Principle the chain is broken- and the only reason I can see for breaking that chain, and liking a manager who has only had academic experience, is if you're trying to hide your own incompetency.
You're essentially telling us you have a negative opinion of team-based projects. It behooves you to at least have a neutral opinion. Being able to work as effectively on a team as you do independently is an asset that would make you less likely to be replaced by outsourcing. The reality is, depending on the size and scope of the individual project, many projects do require contribution from an entire team in order to be successful.
This is true, and I do work on it. However, the same genetic mental illness that makes me good at software engineering (and not much else) also makes it hard to work on a team. A disproportionate number of developers have this mental illness- which makes it a bit hard to have team development of software work, which is the reason behind Brook's Law.
Traditional reporting and traditional OLTP apps are still going to be the majority of development. If you disagree on my OLTP statement, who do you think is going to be GENERATING all of the data that 99.99% of these new grads are going to be mining? It takes multiple OLTP apps to generate one data warehouse worth mining, after all.
I don't necessarily disagree that reporting and OLTP are big. I do disagree that these require *development*. Instead, to a large extent, OLTP and traditional reporting are just reinventing the wheel- one can just slightly modify an open source program, change the UI and port to a new platform, and whammo, you've got your OLTP and traditional reporting.
So you think from here on out no new games are going to be developed? We'll just keep porting Tetris to new environments?
More like Doom to new environments. Or rather, it seems that most of the video games that sell these days fit into narrow categories- FPS, Role Playing, Sims, or Puzzles. And Puzzles- like tetris and it's millions of clones- the one area of video games which requires NEW development- is losing big time in the market to the other three. You can only get so complex and still have something playable.
Data mining (and good database design) absolutely SHOULD be a basic principle in this day and age. A good DB design is the underlying data layer below your classes, you should have a minimum 1:1 ratio between classes and tables in the next layer up. And 99.99% of the applications anybody will PAY you to write, will be data mining applications at this point (as office software and the gaming industry are basically at market saturation level).
Anybody working as the only developer in a company of less than 40 people.
That's getting a bit rare, since contract programming is getting so cheap, but it's the situation I'm best in. Luckily, it's what I landed in this last round- after my contract with Intel went tits up in the last round of 90% decrease in net profit, my contracting company, which usually does only internationalization jobs, suddenly realized that they had a bunch of back-office proprietary software that needed updating, and nobody to do it.
From the requirements I gathered in January, I've got a good year to a year and a half's work if I'm not stupid and don't delagate to a team.
These ain't programmers, nor are they REAL "Software Engineers", the article writers are throwing Project Managers and Software Architects into the mix to get their numbers:
"The latest unemployment numbers for 2008 for computer software engineers is 1.6%...That's beyond full employment," says Josh James, Director of Research and Industry Analysis with TechAmerica. "Computer programmers' unemployment rate has gone up from 2.5% in 2007 to 3.7% in 2008. That's a sign that programming skills are easier to do from anywhere in the world. But the high-growth jobs include skills that are hard to send abroad such as systems integration and IT managers."
In other words, for the type of *real programmer* who isn't on a team and does everything from Requirements Gathering to QA (and everything in between) your job is STILL threatened by outsourcing. But the schools have finally figured that out, so instead of teaching basic concepts like data mining and programming, they're teaching people to be managers right out of the box. Dilbert Principle, here we come.
Yes it was- people went nuts with images on their pages. I even remember one early commentator saying that text-only web pages were actually *better* for people on 14.4k baud modems.
Mod parent up- this is happening to BOTH American and Immigrant recent graduates. Unfortunately, it's not Uncle Sam who built this barrier to entry- more like Auntie Fannie.
It was, but doesn't it create a continuity problem for a 5th season (especially since, unlike the other three episodes where the characters ended outside the universe, THIS TIME all possible universes were also destroyed by the incredible number of alternate universe benders)?
In my case, my really bad terms I WAS the BOFH, and it was management above me that concocted a set of files to "prove" somehow I never slept, was always at work, and was visiting a new website every 2.5 seconds from the firewall logs.
And yet still I had 10 reference letters from outside of my chain of command who were perfectly happy with the job I did for them and would recommend me in the future.
Just make sure they pay for that mile. As in, the contractor rate is 10x the salary rate. See how much they really want to keep you.
As to the question in the original article- I've never had a job last more than 5 years, and I left that employer on REALLY bad terms. I've found that two things are true with respect to long term jobs and references:
1. You can always find somebody outside your chain of command that you did a favor for once who is grateful enough to be a reference, even if they had nothing more to do with your department.
2. Nobody bothers with references further back than the last job anyway.
So therefore, I wouldn't worry about it- get good references from the people you helped, fuck HR, and tell them that if they want you past X date, it'll be $1000/hr.
MOD PARENT UP. I had a fundamentalist Christian girlfriend once who thought that the only valid version of the Bible was the King James version- revealed truth handed to King James on a cloud. She utterly refused to believe any of my more esoteric theological arguments based on Latin, Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew.....
To a large extent though, that's due to historical economic dominance. What happens when it is China, not America or Europe, that is economically dominant?
How many of the Great Kahn's Subjagate failed to learn rudimentary trade Mongolian the last time that area of the world was dominant?
When the next Batman movie and T-Pain record come out in Farsi, then you can start talking about the "Death of English". And dubbing doesn't count. I speak Italian, but watching The Simpsons in la Lingua just isn't as good.
They already come out in Hindu- Bollywood exceeds Hollywood in box office sales already!
I doubt greatly that English will be a reasonable choice for trade language into the next decade. Perhaps you meant Chinese. English speaking countries have run out of fiat credit-based currency to continue to be consumers.
First off, of course computer sales are in a slump. They were in a slump during the last big economic downturn, too. (Remember the "bubble"?) That doesn't mean much of anything.
And the jobs never did come back to America- it took 7 years for the number of jobs to be EQUAL to that before the crash, and during that time we imported just about as many workers as we gained jobs.
Second: Microsoft's slump is probably due more to peoples' general (and increasing) dissatisfaction with Microsoft than anything else. But the economy will hurt them, too. Maybe a lot. After all, a 5-year-old PC can run Linux just fine. But try Vista on it. Nope, didn't think so.
Look at the 2nd link above- this isn't just about Microsoft. Software development in general is about as economically efficient as textile work now.
I would be willing to bet that Microsoft's slump lasts longer than any slump for Intel
Whose last big processor, the Nehalem, was designed and built in Bangalore
AMD
I'm going to be amazed if they're still in business now that their credit has dried up
Google.
Who just opened a development office in Mumbai- goodbye Silicon Valley.
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But as a diagnosed asperger's sufferer myself, NONONONONONONONO! This is EXACTLY the type of wrong response we've been getting all along to this disease. No, you don't "steer the children away" from situations, you train them to find other ways to deal with the situation. And you work on research to find other ways to increase Cortisol production.
I think it would help mightily if the researchers on High Functioning Autism, actually had High Functioning Autism themselves. Then maybe we'd have suggestions that would really help in the real world.
CNBC just claimed that the United States is bankrupt today. What the heck else would you call it, and what kind of idiot hasn't ALREADY stampeded?
Writing to you is almost like talking to my five year old- care to post a link so that the hundreds of thousands of programmers thrown out of work in the last decade or so can apply?
Is your company hiring?
That's where you should start. Move to India. The only places that are hiring no experience are places like Infosys and Tata Consulting. They're more likely to hire you as a Project Manager than a coder though, if you're American.
NOBODY wants American coders. Analysts yes. Project managers yes. Coders, no.
What gets me about that is that Indian Engineers like managers who aren't *also* engineers- a completely different mindset.
The best thing about the Peter Principle was that you could be sure that at one time, your boss did your job and knows what it takes to do your job.
With the Dilbert Principle the chain is broken- and the only reason I can see for breaking that chain, and liking a manager who has only had academic experience, is if you're trying to hide your own incompetency.
You're essentially telling us you have a negative opinion of team-based projects. It behooves you to at least have a neutral opinion. Being able to work as effectively on a team as you do independently is an asset that would make you less likely to be replaced by outsourcing. The reality is, depending on the size and scope of the individual project, many projects do require contribution from an entire team in order to be successful.
This is true, and I do work on it. However, the same genetic mental illness that makes me good at software engineering (and not much else) also makes it hard to work on a team. A disproportionate number of developers have this mental illness- which makes it a bit hard to have team development of software work, which is the reason behind Brook's Law.
Which is the difference between CS and SE degrees, usually. Thus, exactly what I'm complaining about.
Traditional reporting and traditional OLTP apps are still going to be the majority of development. If you disagree on my OLTP statement, who do you think is going to be GENERATING all of the data that 99.99% of these new grads are going to be mining? It takes multiple OLTP apps to generate one data warehouse worth mining, after all.
I don't necessarily disagree that reporting and OLTP are big. I do disagree that these require *development*. Instead, to a large extent, OLTP and traditional reporting are just reinventing the wheel- one can just slightly modify an open source program, change the UI and port to a new platform, and whammo, you've got your OLTP and traditional reporting.
So you think from here on out no new games are going to be developed? We'll just keep porting Tetris to new environments?
More like Doom to new environments. Or rather, it seems that most of the video games that sell these days fit into narrow categories- FPS, Role Playing, Sims, or Puzzles. And Puzzles- like tetris and it's millions of clones- the one area of video games which requires NEW development- is losing big time in the market to the other three. You can only get so complex and still have something playable.
Data mining (and good database design) absolutely SHOULD be a basic principle in this day and age. A good DB design is the underlying data layer below your classes, you should have a minimum 1:1 ratio between classes and tables in the next layer up. And 99.99% of the applications anybody will PAY you to write, will be data mining applications at this point (as office software and the gaming industry are basically at market saturation level).
Anybody working as the only developer in a company of less than 40 people.
That's getting a bit rare, since contract programming is getting so cheap, but it's the situation I'm best in. Luckily, it's what I landed in this last round- after my contract with Intel went tits up in the last round of 90% decrease in net profit, my contracting company, which usually does only internationalization jobs, suddenly realized that they had a bunch of back-office proprietary software that needed updating, and nobody to do it.
From the requirements I gathered in January, I've got a good year to a year and a half's work if I'm not stupid and don't delagate to a team.
These ain't programmers, nor are they REAL "Software Engineers", the article writers are throwing Project Managers and Software Architects into the mix to get their numbers:
In other words, for the type of *real programmer* who isn't on a team and does everything from Requirements Gathering to QA (and everything in between) your job is STILL threatened by outsourcing. But the schools have finally figured that out, so instead of teaching basic concepts like data mining and programming, they're teaching people to be managers right out of the box. Dilbert Principle, here we come.
Yes it was- people went nuts with images on their pages. I even remember one early commentator saying that text-only web pages were actually *better* for people on 14.4k baud modems.
Exactly. Now the cyborg implant of a magnet in the middle finger of the left hand- that at least does SOMETHING NEW.
All they've done is replace their highly advanced "running in spirals" AI brain with a rather large trackball.....
Mod parent up- this is happening to BOTH American and Immigrant recent graduates. Unfortunately, it's not Uncle Sam who built this barrier to entry- more like Auntie Fannie.
It was, but doesn't it create a continuity problem for a 5th season (especially since, unlike the other three episodes where the characters ended outside the universe, THIS TIME all possible universes were also destroyed by the incredible number of alternate universe benders)?
In my case, my really bad terms I WAS the BOFH, and it was management above me that concocted a set of files to "prove" somehow I never slept, was always at work, and was visiting a new website every 2.5 seconds from the firewall logs.
And yet still I had 10 reference letters from outside of my chain of command who were perfectly happy with the job I did for them and would recommend me in the future.
Just make sure they pay for that mile. As in, the contractor rate is 10x the salary rate. See how much they really want to keep you.
As to the question in the original article- I've never had a job last more than 5 years, and I left that employer on REALLY bad terms. I've found that two things are true with respect to long term jobs and references:
1. You can always find somebody outside your chain of command that you did a favor for once who is grateful enough to be a reference, even if they had nothing more to do with your department.
2. Nobody bothers with references further back than the last job anyway.
So therefore, I wouldn't worry about it- get good references from the people you helped, fuck HR, and tell them that if they want you past X date, it'll be $1000/hr.
MOD PARENT UP. I had a fundamentalist Christian girlfriend once who thought that the only valid version of the Bible was the King James version- revealed truth handed to King James on a cloud. She utterly refused to believe any of my more esoteric theological arguments based on Latin, Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew.....
To a large extent though, that's due to historical economic dominance. What happens when it is China, not America or Europe, that is economically dominant?
How many of the Great Kahn's Subjagate failed to learn rudimentary trade Mongolian the last time that area of the world was dominant?
When the next Batman movie and T-Pain record come out in Farsi, then you can start talking about the "Death of English". And dubbing doesn't count. I speak Italian, but watching The Simpsons in la Lingua just isn't as good.
They already come out in Hindu- Bollywood exceeds Hollywood in box office sales already!
The clerical worker moved offshore last recession. And the geek is next.
I doubt greatly that English will be a reasonable choice for trade language into the next decade. Perhaps you meant Chinese. English speaking countries have run out of fiat credit-based currency to continue to be consumers.
First off, of course computer sales are in a slump. They were in a slump during the last big economic downturn, too. (Remember the "bubble"?) That doesn't mean much of anything.
And the jobs never did come back to America- it took 7 years for the number of jobs to be EQUAL to that before the crash, and during that time we imported just about as many workers as we gained jobs.
Second: Microsoft's slump is probably due more to peoples' general (and increasing) dissatisfaction with Microsoft than anything else. But the economy will hurt them, too. Maybe a lot. After all, a 5-year-old PC can run Linux just fine. But try Vista on it. Nope, didn't think so.
Look at the 2nd link above- this isn't just about Microsoft. Software development in general is about as economically efficient as textile work now.
I would be willing to bet that Microsoft's slump lasts longer than any slump for Intel
Whose last big processor, the Nehalem, was designed and built in Bangalore
AMD
I'm going to be amazed if they're still in business now that their credit has dried up
Google.
Who just opened a development office in Mumbai- goodbye Silicon Valley.