Oh please. Return of the Jedi was better than Spy Kids but I can watch either without my manhood feeling threatened. Neither of them are in the same league as Jaws, which is another kids film, or even something like The Outlaw Josey Wales which has an awful lot in similar with something like Star Wars.
Hell, The Princess Diaries is watchable but flawed. Metropolis (i.e. Metoroporisu, the Japanese animated film) is quite awesome. The Spongebob Squarepants movies are terrible.
The ewoks are also terrible. The film would be better if it didn't try and portray them as cute adorable dangerous little creatures that gambol and play and use primitive weapons. Fuck that, it's just lazy bad writing and shit direction. Take it from someone that fucking enjoyed The Maze Runner even though it's apparently some sort of tween movie aimed at a younger audience. Good films are good films and don't include ewoks.
I'm looking forward to this happening. It'll cause a public backlash which will hopefully extend to background music captured in videos of live events.
The sooner copyright law starts reflecting modern realities the better. It just looks like we need to slide down the slippery slope into the cesspool before the public wakes up and demands change.
If someone asks you "how are you" and doesn't really want to know, why are you having a conversation with them in the first place?
Welcome to society, where "Hi, how are you?" is a greeting and "Hi, I'm good, how are you?" is the expected response.
Maybe you can get through an entire fucking day without walking into a room (or being in one someone else walks into) or walking past someone, or bumping into someone for the first time that day. I generally can't, especially at work, and in this country "Hi, how are you?" isn't a conversation, it's a societal norm.
Nobody is FORCING us to go out and make friends with every douchebag and bastard we meet.
No, just giving us a fuckton of shit if we don't obey societal norms.
I don't see what it has to do with autism. If you don't want to know about someone's sick kid (to one of the other posts), don't freaking ask. That's disingenuous and some people can tell.
Fuck me, are you dense or autistic?
Functioning in 'normal' society requires conformance to certain norms. Autistic people don't necessarily notice that shit. They don't do it out of instinct, or at all.
I could ignore someone's divorce, poorly child, crashed car, other sources of stress. I could ignore their birthday, promotion, lottery win, other sources of happiness. I frequently do. But I get a better response and a better relationship and a more constructive engagement with them if I do the bullshit smalltalk and fake interest up front before moving onto the topic of conversation that's made me talk to them in the first place.
Is that them being a douchebag or bastard? No, it's them having an implicit understanding, acceptance and expectation of conversational norms and a level of disconnect with people that don't follow them.
My point was that this is shit that people with Aspergers have to explicitly think about. It doesn't come naturally, no matter how much you practice it.
Maybe some people can tell. Even then, they know you at least fucking tried. What's the alternative? Walk around being called weird, being called a douchebag or a bastard, being called insensitive, being called antisocial? Sure, that's an option. It's also a massive barrier to building friendships, relationships, a career..
Programming : Computer based research, learning, applied problem solving, sense of accomplishment, requires accessing specialist communities that use arcane taxonomies. Hacking : Computer based research, learning, applied problem solving, sense of accomplishment, requires accessing specialist communities that use arcane taxonomies.
There's a hypothesis and some evidence that Aspergers in women isn't necessarily less prevalent than in men, but that women are far better at faking social interactions than men are and that prevents a lot of the problems which lead towards diagnosis.
My own view is that hiring should be based on relevant skills, and any plan like this should be implemented as efforts to recognize the technical abilities of applicants with more limited social skills.
Yeah, with you on that. Hire people that can effectively do the job, not people that know how to tell you that they can.
can't hold more than 1 variable in play at a time in their limited brains
No wonder you're posting AC, registering for an account would require a modicum of intelligence which you've amply demonstrated you're sadly lacking.
It's ok, I'm sure you're a nice person anyway.
Incidentally have you considered that when you're talking to someone with Aspergers that they're concurrently processing the conversation with you, an internal dialogue examining your body language, an internal dialogue processing what you're saying to try and assess whether it's what you actually mean, another conscious examination of possible responses and which would be appropriate and very probably thinking through the complex problem that they'd have solved already if you hadn't walked over and asked your stupid fucking question in the first place.
Maybe people that aren't classed as having ASD or Aspergers find it interesting, scary or insightful. I found it pretty dull and quite dreadful, and got very irritated with the internal monologue of the protagonist.
I discussed this with medical professionals and they felt I should inform my employer.
I haven't told anybody I work with. Some of them have clearly figured it out anyway, but have never asked or explicitly discussed it.
I did inform the HR department, but under clear instructions they weren't permitted to tell my managers. As I said to them, I was employed to do a job and it's fair to assess me against my performance in doing that job. I want the managers to have the same expectations of me that they would of other employees, and I'm happy to work to meet those expectations.
At this company (which I joined before diagnosis) it's working superbly. The only reason HR have been informed is in case the shit that's happened to me at previous companies happens again - with the benefit of hindsight I could've taken three different employers to tribunal for discrimination. At my current company I'm adopting approaches, working patterns, ways of working and decades of coping mechanisms to avoid any of that shit in the first place. Just knowing the underlying cause of the disconnects that caused the problems means I can compensate, adjust and focus the attention on the shit I do well, and minimise the negative impacts of the shit I just can't do.
Going public would merely cause everybody to instinctively treat me differently. That may help or hinder, and it may indeed change general perceptions, but it would also put me under a social spotlight that - oddly enough - I'm not equipped to manage.
Because after you perform enough, the act isn't rehearsal, it's natural.
Bullshit. I have to consciously remind myself to ask about someone's poorly child. I frequently think, "I'd better say because that's expected now" even though it's pissing me off by extending the conversation in a direction I just don't give a shit about. I put a lot of effort into almost every single conversation in the office - indeed, the only easy conversations are the ones with people that exhibit severe symptoms for Aspergers.
why dont you just talk to girls, its not that hard
I was 35 before anybody told me that someone asking, "How are you" as part of a greeting doesn't actually want to know. Yes, I had to be told.
You really think the complex nuances of establishing potential relationships is 'not that hard' for someone that struggles with as basic a human interaction as that?
If they create a truly non-discriminatory workplace: they'll have 1% of their jobs without this requirement.
Which is total bullshit. How about finding ways of enabling collaboration that suit people with diverse personalities and ways of working.
I've been medically diagnosed as having Aspergers and I fucking love collaborating. I just hate sitting in a room talking to people all day. So I use IM a lot, I email people, I get on the phone rather than arranging face-to-face meetings, I schedule some quiet time, I work from home frequently.
Other people have different tolerances, and different approaches. Being non-discriminatory means accepting multiple approaches, not going "oh, you're a special snowflake, your type don't need to be human". Fuck that.
Being asked to work in a team has never been discriminatory for me. Getting fucked over at year end review because I don't smile when I'm not happy, sure. Getting harassed by female colleagues because they misinterpret my body language, sure. Getting suicidal because of the stress caused by trying to meet a manager's expectation of normality, sure. Getting turned down at a job interview because I couldn't read body language, sure. Getting called weird because I actually answer questions people ask me, sure.
But really, being asked to do the job I was employed for? That's not discrimination. That's why I applied for the fucking job.
Competently set him on fire, assure an adequate supply of oxygen, shortage of flame repellants and other extinguishing devices or materials, prevent him jumping in a lake, restrict others from providing aid or other assistance and he'll be warm for the rest of his short, painful, miserable life.
I've known some very good managers who explicitly state that they will not ever fire anybody for making a mistake.
Make it twice however..
Even there though, root cause analysis. Is the developer lazy, or is this just within the reasonable bounds of human limitations and best addressed through a change in process, an authorisation, an automated test, additional training? Are Ops incompetent or making rational decisions that have bad outcomes because there are no good options available, focussing on a different issue that has significantly high impact, being ordered to prioritise the wrong things?
Nobody is intentionally dumb, so look beyond the obvious and sometimes, encourage them to find another career. Sweeping the streets, changing adult nappies at a care home, something they're actually capable of.
Any good software engineer has already helped Ops through automation. Any good Ops person has already given a developer a raft of suggestions on how the shit they handed over could be improved. DevOps merely points out that this is actually a good thing, and seek to do it instead of being asked.
No funding required. Just do your job like a professional, not a fuckwit.
Continuous delivery on the home-grown intranet? Sure, go for it. Hell, Facebook do it on their mammoth shitfest.
Continuous delivery to car ECUs? How about continuous delivery to the engine testbed, and keep the fire extinguishers primed.
Even where you're putting a manual authorisation with specific checks and balances in place though, one that authorisation is given the rest should be automated. There's no point having thorough, extensive, durable, repeated and manually reviewed tests for a global payments system if you then let some sysadmin enter a typo while manually deploying it and cost the company $200m.
This is where Alan Sugar is a far more appropriate business leader for the TV show The Apprentice (the US version of which Trump is on).
Sugar does actually talk sound business sense, does have a clear reading of people, isn't afraid to receive advice and can justify his decisions. Sometimes he gets them wrong, but he also takes accountability for that.
ou don't think, for a second, that common people, without being "told what to do" by the NRA or Fox are arming themselves just out of common sense?
Nope. 'Oh noes, criminals, terrorists, home invaders. I have to army myself' is more likely to lead to 'how the fuck did that 2 year old kill my wife' than 'I shot dead a criminal that would have killed me otherwise'.
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Oh please. Return of the Jedi was better than Spy Kids but I can watch either without my manhood feeling threatened. Neither of them are in the same league as Jaws, which is another kids film, or even something like The Outlaw Josey Wales which has an awful lot in similar with something like Star Wars.
Hell, The Princess Diaries is watchable but flawed. Metropolis (i.e. Metoroporisu, the Japanese animated film) is quite awesome. The Spongebob Squarepants movies are terrible.
The ewoks are also terrible. The film would be better if it didn't try and portray them as cute adorable dangerous little creatures that gambol and play and use primitive weapons. Fuck that, it's just lazy bad writing and shit direction. Take it from someone that fucking enjoyed The Maze Runner even though it's apparently some sort of tween movie aimed at a younger audience. Good films are good films and don't include ewoks.
They're shit. Crap acting, crap special effects (not for the era, but they've aged awfully - contrast to Blade Runner), frankly horrific dialogue.
The plot is decent enough, holes aside, but the whole thing relies on the universe in which it's set. That's the fucking magic, not the films.
The films are shit.
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People can build roads without needing a government to do it for them.
See also: Significant portions of human history.
Sorry but if you want to post contrary arguments do at least try and make them superficially credible.
Ah, you miss the point. There is income to be derived from photographing the item; destroying it prevents that income.
Thus the act of destruction inherently reduces the future income of the designer. Why, it's practically theft!
I'm looking forward to this happening. It'll cause a public backlash which will hopefully extend to background music captured in videos of live events.
The sooner copyright law starts reflecting modern realities the better. It just looks like we need to slide down the slippery slope into the cesspool before the public wakes up and demands change.
If someone asks you "how are you" and doesn't really want to know, why are you having a conversation with them in the first place?
Welcome to society, where "Hi, how are you?" is a greeting and "Hi, I'm good, how are you?" is the expected response.
Maybe you can get through an entire fucking day without walking into a room (or being in one someone else walks into) or walking past someone, or bumping into someone for the first time that day. I generally can't, especially at work, and in this country "Hi, how are you?" isn't a conversation, it's a societal norm.
Nobody is FORCING us to go out and make friends with every douchebag and bastard we meet.
No, just giving us a fuckton of shit if we don't obey societal norms.
I don't see what it has to do with autism. If you don't want to know about someone's sick kid (to one of the other posts), don't freaking ask. That's disingenuous and some people can tell.
Fuck me, are you dense or autistic?
Functioning in 'normal' society requires conformance to certain norms. Autistic people don't necessarily notice that shit. They don't do it out of instinct, or at all.
I could ignore someone's divorce, poorly child, crashed car, other sources of stress. I could ignore their birthday, promotion, lottery win, other sources of happiness. I frequently do. But I get a better response and a better relationship and a more constructive engagement with them if I do the bullshit smalltalk and fake interest up front before moving onto the topic of conversation that's made me talk to them in the first place.
Is that them being a douchebag or bastard? No, it's them having an implicit understanding, acceptance and expectation of conversational norms and a level of disconnect with people that don't follow them.
My point was that this is shit that people with Aspergers have to explicitly think about. It doesn't come naturally, no matter how much you practice it.
Maybe some people can tell. Even then, they know you at least fucking tried. What's the alternative? Walk around being called weird, being called a douchebag or a bastard, being called insensitive, being called antisocial? Sure, that's an option. It's also a massive barrier to building friendships, relationships, a career..
Programming : Computer based research, learning, applied problem solving, sense of accomplishment, requires accessing specialist communities that use arcane taxonomies.
Hacking : Computer based research, learning, applied problem solving, sense of accomplishment, requires accessing specialist communities that use arcane taxonomies.
Oh wow, you're right. No fucking overlap at all.
There's a hypothesis and some evidence that Aspergers in women isn't necessarily less prevalent than in men, but that women are far better at faking social interactions than men are and that prevents a lot of the problems which lead towards diagnosis.
My own view is that hiring should be based on relevant skills, and any plan like this should be implemented as efforts to recognize the technical abilities of applicants with more limited social skills.
Yeah, with you on that. Hire people that can effectively do the job, not people that know how to tell you that they can.
can't hold more than 1 variable in play at a time in their limited brains
No wonder you're posting AC, registering for an account would require a modicum of intelligence which you've amply demonstrated you're sadly lacking.
It's ok, I'm sure you're a nice person anyway.
Incidentally have you considered that when you're talking to someone with Aspergers that they're concurrently processing the conversation with you, an internal dialogue examining your body language, an internal dialogue processing what you're saying to try and assess whether it's what you actually mean, another conscious examination of possible responses and which would be appropriate and very probably thinking through the complex problem that they'd have solved already if you hadn't walked over and asked your stupid fucking question in the first place.
1 variable my arse.
I wouldn't recommend it. It's not terribly good.
Maybe people that aren't classed as having ASD or Aspergers find it interesting, scary or insightful. I found it pretty dull and quite dreadful, and got very irritated with the internal monologue of the protagonist.
I discussed this with medical professionals and they felt I should inform my employer.
I haven't told anybody I work with. Some of them have clearly figured it out anyway, but have never asked or explicitly discussed it.
I did inform the HR department, but under clear instructions they weren't permitted to tell my managers. As I said to them, I was employed to do a job and it's fair to assess me against my performance in doing that job. I want the managers to have the same expectations of me that they would of other employees, and I'm happy to work to meet those expectations.
At this company (which I joined before diagnosis) it's working superbly. The only reason HR have been informed is in case the shit that's happened to me at previous companies happens again - with the benefit of hindsight I could've taken three different employers to tribunal for discrimination. At my current company I'm adopting approaches, working patterns, ways of working and decades of coping mechanisms to avoid any of that shit in the first place. Just knowing the underlying cause of the disconnects that caused the problems means I can compensate, adjust and focus the attention on the shit I do well, and minimise the negative impacts of the shit I just can't do.
Going public would merely cause everybody to instinctively treat me differently. That may help or hinder, and it may indeed change general perceptions, but it would also put me under a social spotlight that - oddly enough - I'm not equipped to manage.
Because after you perform enough, the act isn't rehearsal, it's natural.
Bullshit. I have to consciously remind myself to ask about someone's poorly child. I frequently think, "I'd better say because that's expected now" even though it's pissing me off by extending the conversation in a direction I just don't give a shit about. I put a lot of effort into almost every single conversation in the office - indeed, the only easy conversations are the ones with people that exhibit severe symptoms for Aspergers.
why dont you just talk to girls, its not that hard
I was 35 before anybody told me that someone asking, "How are you" as part of a greeting doesn't actually want to know. Yes, I had to be told.
You really think the complex nuances of establishing potential relationships is 'not that hard' for someone that struggles with as basic a human interaction as that?
If they create a truly non-discriminatory workplace: they'll have 1% of their jobs without this requirement.
Which is total bullshit. How about finding ways of enabling collaboration that suit people with diverse personalities and ways of working.
I've been medically diagnosed as having Aspergers and I fucking love collaborating. I just hate sitting in a room talking to people all day. So I use IM a lot, I email people, I get on the phone rather than arranging face-to-face meetings, I schedule some quiet time, I work from home frequently.
Other people have different tolerances, and different approaches. Being non-discriminatory means accepting multiple approaches, not going "oh, you're a special snowflake, your type don't need to be human". Fuck that.
Being asked to work in a team has never been discriminatory for me. Getting fucked over at year end review because I don't smile when I'm not happy, sure. Getting harassed by female colleagues because they misinterpret my body language, sure. Getting suicidal because of the stress caused by trying to meet a manager's expectation of normality, sure. Getting turned down at a job interview because I couldn't read body language, sure. Getting called weird because I actually answer questions people ask me, sure.
But really, being asked to do the job I was employed for? That's not discrimination. That's why I applied for the fucking job.
Competently set him on fire, assure an adequate supply of oxygen, shortage of flame repellants and other extinguishing devices or materials, prevent him jumping in a lake, restrict others from providing aid or other assistance and he'll be warm for the rest of his short, painful, miserable life.
More accurate but I feel it loses the humour.
Except I called it "running a professional software development shop where everyone works together to meet goals"
That'll never work! Why, if it did everybody would be doing it.
To be fair, I'd settle for people even bloody trying..
I've known some very good managers who explicitly state that they will not ever fire anybody for making a mistake.
Make it twice however..
Even there though, root cause analysis. Is the developer lazy, or is this just within the reasonable bounds of human limitations and best addressed through a change in process, an authorisation, an automated test, additional training?
Are Ops incompetent or making rational decisions that have bad outcomes because there are no good options available, focussing on a different issue that has significantly high impact, being ordered to prioritise the wrong things?
Nobody is intentionally dumb, so look beyond the obvious and sometimes, encourage them to find another career. Sweeping the streets, changing adult nappies at a care home, something they're actually capable of.
Any good software engineer has already helped Ops through automation.
Any good Ops person has already given a developer a raft of suggestions on how the shit they handed over could be improved.
DevOps merely points out that this is actually a good thing, and seek to do it instead of being asked.
No funding required. Just do your job like a professional, not a fuckwit.
As with most of these things, it's a balance.
Continuous delivery on the home-grown intranet? Sure, go for it. Hell, Facebook do it on their mammoth shitfest.
Continuous delivery to car ECUs? How about continuous delivery to the engine testbed, and keep the fire extinguishers primed.
Even where you're putting a manual authorisation with specific checks and balances in place though, one that authorisation is given the rest should be automated. There's no point having thorough, extensive, durable, repeated and manually reviewed tests for a global payments system if you then let some sysadmin enter a typo while manually deploying it and cost the company $200m.
Oh ffs. STOP conflating Scrum with Agile. Anybody that does that gets promoted to become
the overpaid secretary (project manager) play jira as an rts
This is where Alan Sugar is a far more appropriate business leader for the TV show The Apprentice (the US version of which Trump is on).
Sugar does actually talk sound business sense, does have a clear reading of people, isn't afraid to receive advice and can justify his decisions. Sometimes he gets them wrong, but he also takes accountability for that.
I'm not a massive fan, but he's easy to respect.
My little AT-AT with laser sighted shotgun mounts and pink sequins? Yeah, they'd sell.
ou don't think, for a second, that common people, without being "told what to do" by the NRA or Fox are arming themselves just out of common sense?
Nope. 'Oh noes, criminals, terrorists, home invaders. I have to army myself' is more likely to lead to 'how the fuck did that 2 year old kill my wife' than 'I shot dead a criminal that would have killed me otherwise'.
How many left wing theocracies are there?
Authoritarianism could be an extreme on either wing but the theocracies seem to adopt facism which would put them on the right.