miracle of miracles, like a light switch was turned on he started talking. And when he started talking, he started talking in long sentences, with big words and complicated ideas. He was "cured"
No, he just demonstrated yet another fucking indicator of ASD.
Don't pretend he's neurotypical, and don't think that being hyper intelligent will make life easy for him.
The various therapies offered to you may not be needed, but make sure he's aware of them and has the choice by the time he's in his late teens. Social skills are not fucking easy for someone with ASD and are fucking crucial for most of adult life.
Actually, most software developers haven't heard of Dijkstra but just figured out that using goto is rarely the best thing to do, or even as good as other solutions.
Worrying if most programmers haven't heard of Dijkstra, but they've also learned how to program - and that's very very difficult without learning from someone that (directly or otherwise) has been influenced by that single Dijkstra paper.
"How do I do X" - well, here's the best practice from the last four decades, none of which involves the use of 'goto' because four decades ago everybody had read the paper and realised the point it was making.
Which is reasonable, as it's an implementation of an OO design pattern - so firmly in the software engineering camp, rather than the computer science one.
As with all patterns, it appears to be overused and used inappropriately. But maybe I'm just a grumpy old man.
I can't remember. It's made by Dell, but I already knew they made attractively priced but ultimately unsatisfying hardware, and unattractively priced but ultimately reasonable spec gaming hardware.
No, the name is totally forgettable and fucking hard to differentiate on Dell's website, leading me to purchase another device from another vendor because then I can be certain of what I'm getting.
It's like Sony's laptops, where I can't tell the difference between the WXCa, the WXC, the WYCa, the WYCd and the WXYC and I have to go to a different fucking website to buy each of them. Or just go and buy a laptop from someone that wants me to buy one I want, not whatever wank marketing gimmick they're trying to sell.
I think it's good that they made it available. I chose not to watch. I don't condemn people that wanted to see the evidence themselves. I feel sorry for the people that only want to see it for entertainment value.
But I'd rather live in a society where this video can be shared, now that it exists, than one where it can't.
The best landscape/storm photos are about timing, you have to be there when the awesomeness happens and snap the shot.
Problem is, the photo you linked is from someone taking a snap.
Sure, if you're familiar with that vista when there aren't clouds then it conveys how unusual the scene is, but as a photograph it's nothing special at all.
A photograph like http://www.terragalleria.com/p... would be a better example. That doesn't happen because someone with a camera just went "oh, that's cool" *click*
These things take months. Maybe a bit quicker in localities with no employee protection legislation, but generally, months. Sometimes years. They probably started planning this in June.
I don't work for IBM, but I do influence major hardware purchases.
I'm very happy to include IBM Mainframes as a viable lower-cost option for certain workloads. I'm never going to describe them as 'cheap' but that doesn't stop them being cheaper than the alternatives.
What are the alternatives? x86 based virtualisation (which suffers vertical scaling constraints and can't match the IO), converged infrastructure (which can match the IO but still struggles to vertically scale) and cloud based options.
Ideally I'd like some unix boxes with serious grunt to be available as an option too, but my current choices are constrained by the skillsets available, and gearing up an entire IT department to cover a whole new technology at scale isn't cost effective when you already have other options.
So anything that just needs several terabytes of RAM and a massive amount of CPU is most effectively deployed on the mainframe, with those resources reallocated to other workloads outside those narrow windows where that scale is required.
Modern server rooms are all about flexibility, unless all of your software engineers are Google grade and redesigning the OS as they go.
That's the biggest impact. Even if they do successfully cut the bottom 10% and none of the good people, the whole approach destroys corporate culture and drives negative behaviours - particularly from the people lacking the skills/confidence to get a job elsewhere.
This will cause the great people to be rather more receptive to the approaches they'll already be receiving from competitors, and even if IBM don't ask any top performers to leave, they're going to lose many.
The less effective they are at identifying those bottom 10%, the worse that'll become, so basically they're fucked.
If you want to reduce your workforce, take out an entire division or department, make it clear that's what you're doing, and do your best to find new roles for the people you want to keep. The rest of the company will understand that far better, and be impacted by it far less.
Your abusive spam based advertising for an anti-advertising service tells me that I can't trust your service and it would be fucking insane to let it anywhere near my computer.
Will you please shut the fuck up and get off slashdot?
ATMs in the UK are also protected by ink - but I'd guess the ink release mechanisms are linked to shock/tilt triggers, rather than the back door being opened (even explosively).
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Rainbow tutus are never unfashionable.
miracle of miracles, like a light switch was turned on he started talking. And when he started talking, he started talking in long sentences, with big words and complicated ideas. He was "cured"
No, he just demonstrated yet another fucking indicator of ASD.
Don't pretend he's neurotypical, and don't think that being hyper intelligent will make life easy for him.
The various therapies offered to you may not be needed, but make sure he's aware of them and has the choice by the time he's in his late teens. Social skills are not fucking easy for someone with ASD and are fucking crucial for most of adult life.
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I find this ironic. Many of the people at my local Aspergers support group do in fact act like arseholes much of the time.
It's not necessarily intended, but it's the perceived behaviour.
Actually, most software developers haven't heard of Dijkstra but just figured out that using goto is rarely the best thing to do, or even as good as other solutions.
Worrying if most programmers haven't heard of Dijkstra, but they've also learned how to program - and that's very very difficult without learning from someone that (directly or otherwise) has been influenced by that single Dijkstra paper.
"How do I do X" - well, here's the best practice from the last four decades, none of which involves the use of 'goto' because four decades ago everybody had read the paper and realised the point it was making.
Which is reasonable, as it's an implementation of an OO design pattern - so firmly in the software engineering camp, rather than the computer science one.
As with all patterns, it appears to be overused and used inappropriately. But maybe I'm just a grumpy old man.
Sure, if you want your outsourced dev team writing // add 1 to i
i = i + 1;
Yes, I've seen this.
Tell me, which adverts am I watching on my TV?
Just that I don't seem to see any. Should I watch something other than full length feature films and BBC2?
In the UK you can - although costs are only £100 or so, as the whole thing is set up to be quick, easy and low cost.
Cederic's highly amused that several days later someone's come in and flamebait spammed his post.
Guess someone can't take the criticism.
The campaign, for what exactly?
You keep hooting, it's a good audible warning for the rest of us to stay clear.
Not just the sub-brands. My Zojirushi rice cooker is fantastic.
I can't remember. It's made by Dell, but I already knew they made attractively priced but ultimately unsatisfying hardware, and unattractively priced but ultimately reasonable spec gaming hardware.
Who are you?
I'm participating in the marketing? How, exactly?
I understand the point you're failing to make, but you're failing to make it. Step up your persuasion, possibly with evidential logic based reasoning.
No, the name is totally forgettable and fucking hard to differentiate on Dell's website, leading me to purchase another device from another vendor because then I can be certain of what I'm getting.
It's like Sony's laptops, where I can't tell the difference between the WXCa, the WXC, the WYCa, the WYCd and the WXYC and I have to go to a different fucking website to buy each of them. Or just go and buy a laptop from someone that wants me to buy one I want, not whatever wank marketing gimmick they're trying to sell.
I think it's good that they made it available. I chose not to watch. I don't condemn people that wanted to see the evidence themselves. I feel sorry for the people that only want to see it for entertainment value.
But I'd rather live in a society where this video can be shared, now that it exists, than one where it can't.
The best landscape/storm photos are about timing, you have to be there when the awesomeness happens and snap the shot.
Problem is, the photo you linked is from someone taking a snap.
Sure, if you're familiar with that vista when there aren't clouds then it conveys how unusual the scene is, but as a photograph it's nothing special at all.
A photograph like http://www.terragalleria.com/p... would be a better example. That doesn't happen because someone with a camera just went "oh, that's cool" *click*
"any subject can be part of a stunning portrait regardless of their looks."
Yeah, good luck with that!
http://www.art-spire.com/en/ph...
Make-up? Nah. Beautiful faces? Nah. Same kind of lighting? Nah.
Just photography. Good photography.
Portraits aren't just picking up a camera and pressing the button.
When it comes to portraits, framing is piss easy. I know, even I can manage it.
The pros earn their money because of the lighting.
Shouldn't all this have already happened by now?
These things take months. Maybe a bit quicker in localities with no employee protection legislation, but generally, months. Sometimes years. They probably started planning this in June.
I don't work for IBM, but I do influence major hardware purchases.
I'm very happy to include IBM Mainframes as a viable lower-cost option for certain workloads. I'm never going to describe them as 'cheap' but that doesn't stop them being cheaper than the alternatives.
What are the alternatives? x86 based virtualisation (which suffers vertical scaling constraints and can't match the IO), converged infrastructure (which can match the IO but still struggles to vertically scale) and cloud based options.
Ideally I'd like some unix boxes with serious grunt to be available as an option too, but my current choices are constrained by the skillsets available, and gearing up an entire IT department to cover a whole new technology at scale isn't cost effective when you already have other options.
So anything that just needs several terabytes of RAM and a massive amount of CPU is most effectively deployed on the mainframe, with those resources reallocated to other workloads outside those narrow windows where that scale is required.
Modern server rooms are all about flexibility, unless all of your software engineers are Google grade and redesigning the OS as they go.
Or possibly he's read some of the 2000 other posts made to Slashdot between this story being posted and his response.
Sure, not all of those 2000 were in this story, but enough of them were that he's had plenty of opportunity to read other posts attached to it.
It's fine though, you're welcome to be ill-informed and inappropriately disgusted. I hope your outrage doesn't stop you having a wonderful day.
That's the biggest impact. Even if they do successfully cut the bottom 10% and none of the good people, the whole approach destroys corporate culture and drives negative behaviours - particularly from the people lacking the skills/confidence to get a job elsewhere.
This will cause the great people to be rather more receptive to the approaches they'll already be receiving from competitors, and even if IBM don't ask any top performers to leave, they're going to lose many.
The less effective they are at identifying those bottom 10%, the worse that'll become, so basically they're fucked.
If you want to reduce your workforce, take out an entire division or department, make it clear that's what you're doing, and do your best to find new roles for the people you want to keep. The rest of the company will understand that far better, and be impacted by it far less.
Your abusive spam based advertising for an anti-advertising service tells me that I can't trust your service and it would be fucking insane to let it anywhere near my computer.
Will you please shut the fuck up and get off slashdot?
I don't understand the term "red piller". Could you please explain?
ATMs in the UK are also protected by ink - but I'd guess the ink release mechanisms are linked to shock/tilt triggers, rather than the back door being opened (even explosively).