I like pair programming. You're working with someone, but you're also always discussing the code.
When your specialist interest is the code, that's fucking nirvana for someone with Aspergers. You're not just able to talk to someone because it's their job to listen, they're actually interested and you can learn from them.
I do struggle to see why agile development processes and use of Java would be seen as a bad thing. One thing to always remember when reading bad java code: Imagine if the idiot that wrote it had been using a language that let them shoot themselves in the head.
There's a difference between perfectionism and OCD.
I write code that works. It fucking works perfectly. I fix every single bug I know about, and I do a hell of a lot of work to find any that I might have missed.
I'm not OCD about it though. I don't run the same test 28 times in a row. I don't refuse to go home until a bug is fixed. I don't rewrite the same code fourteen times because the initial design wasn't symmetrical. (Maybe 2-3 times).
Wanting code that looks like it's been through a pretty printer isn't OCD. Wanting code that's well structured isn't OCD. Wanting code that uses sensible naming conventions isn't OCD. It's actually bloody good software engineering, and the perfectionism is realised through the application of good software engineering and distress at the people that don't understand how much easier it makes the end-to-end process.
That's not being OCD, it's not being obsessive, it's being logical, rational, somewhat perfectionist and just more fucking intelligent than the fuckwits you have to work with.
I'll get flamed for this post, but hey, fuck the NTs. They get the easy ride everywhere else in life.
Most of us are of average intelligence, some higher and some lower. Having autism doesn't mean your retarded.
There are some definitions of autism that actually do include the criteria of being significantly below average intelligence. Those definitions tend to give other labels to people with average or above average intelligence that are also on the spectrum.
But on your other points, you did reply to an ignorant twat, and all neurotypical people are indeed liars. Interestingly some autistic people are not.
That being said, to my knowledge, one cannot really put that they're autistic on their resume if they have any hope of hiding it (as i do) lest they be rejected from the job for it (unless that's illegal, which i don't think it is).
I wouldn't want to put it on the job application myself, but I have informed my HR department (diagnosed since joining). My management team don't know - and appear not to have guessed, which I'm delighted by.
HR know because I've had trouble at four previous jobs as a result of this (which was one reason I went off to find out what was so different about me) and in the UK it is a legally protected disability.
What I don't want to do is beat my manager about the head with that (so no "You can't say that to me, I'm disabled!") which is one reason he doesn't know about it. I do want the safety net in case I get feedback along the lines of (to quote actual feedback from another job) "You're weird" followed by deep criticism of my interpersonal skills, after I'd spent months improving them and was really chuffed how well I was doing. Should that happen now, I can bring HR into the conversation and switch focus away from "You're shit" and towards, "How can we mitigate this?"
But admitting it as part of the application? Tricky. Very tricky. I'd probably seek advice from local experts, and temptation would be to mention it on the equality assessment that only HR see, and leave it off the stuff the hiring manager sees.
Bear in mind that some companies would be glad to get someone on board that improves their balance of disabled people - I've known companies get worried that they haven't met some invisible unstated quota before now.
He'd more likely look to correct you, as you're clearly wrong.
Met someone last night that interprets everything so literally that when someone mentioned that they talk to their cat, he got intrigued and wanted to know how they understood what their cat was saying and how the cat knew English.
In another conversation, someone mentioned visiting a local park at dawn and swimming in the sensory feedback of the birdsong, the light, the warmth as the sun moved onto them. This guy asked, "How deep is it there? When you're swimming?"
That's very extreme but people with Aspergers very often suffer from taking things literally to a lesser degree.
Dedicated bus lanes : yes Enforced : yes Done right : no - if they were doing it right they wouldn't have fucking bus lanes
I can get to work by bus. It involves a 3 minute walk, a 0-15 minute wait for the bus, a 40 minute bus ride, a 7 minute walk, a 0-10 minute wait for the bus, a 14 minute bus ride and a 50 yard walk from the bus stop to work.
Or I can drive to work in under 20 minutes (including walking/parking time) at rush hour, on roads made slower by the fucking bus lanes.
Of course, by driving I can also get home in under 20 minutes, which means I can finish a meeting at work, shut down my PC, drive home, boot up my PC and call into a transatlantic phone meeting in half an hour. This adds tremendously to my work-life balance.
* it's full of hipsters (any subsequent person who denies/contests this is in all likleihood a hipster themself)
What's a hipster, and why is it a bad thing?
Bear in mind that my personal observation is that pretty much any definition of 'hipster' would automatically include anybody that uses the term in a derogatory way.
There's a description of an interview a woman had at Amazon, where she was upset because she only was interviewed by males who didn't make eye-contact with her.
It took me several years and a lot of conscious thought to keep eye contact with people while talking to them. Even now that's the case.
It's got fuck all to do with gender; clearly she was discriminating against the socially inept by calling out their problem.
Fuck you and your associating of inarticulate incoherence with Aspergers Syndrome.
Here's a thought for you: People with Aspergers are highly articulate online as they don't need to deal with the complex and difficult non-verbal conversational cues that cause them issues in face to face conversations.
I'm a man, but my profession has more women in it than men. Someone wanting to do good things for society is not a justification for paying them less.
Do you earn more than your female colleagues?
Irrespective of whether you feel teachers are paid enough or not, "teachers get low pay" is a recognised phenomenon and anybody entering the profession should know in advance that they wont be getting rich from it.
In other words, low pay for teachers is not a gender issue, irrespective of whether it's a profession dominated by one gender, as people deciding to become teachers are consciously choosing to enter a low paid job.
They could choose instead to embark on a career that has above average salaries. It's not mens' fault that female teachers don't make that choice.
And yet the feminist response to CEO pay is to demand quotas for women in the boardroom.
Which means that as a man my already miniscule chance of ever getting a C level position would get reduced further as if I ever do get to the level of experience, capability and contacts needed for such a role, I may still miss out purely because of my gender.
You are highlighting 'female' professions; how does your assessment change when we throw in some 'male' professions such as street cleaning, mining and military service?
The fact that his salary lost parity due to time out of the workforce is the reason some of us don't give any credibility to the alleged gender issues to which you refer.
It should be perfectly normal for a woman to make the same as a man, for doing the same job, working the same hours, making the same contribution, having brought the same level of experience to the role.
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I like pair programming. You're working with someone, but you're also always discussing the code.
When your specialist interest is the code, that's fucking nirvana for someone with Aspergers. You're not just able to talk to someone because it's their job to listen, they're actually interested and you can learn from them.
I do struggle to see why agile development processes and use of Java would be seen as a bad thing. One thing to always remember when reading bad java code: Imagine if the idiot that wrote it had been using a language that let them shoot themselves in the head.
There's a difference between perfectionism and OCD.
I write code that works. It fucking works perfectly. I fix every single bug I know about, and I do a hell of a lot of work to find any that I might have missed.
I'm not OCD about it though. I don't run the same test 28 times in a row. I don't refuse to go home until a bug is fixed. I don't rewrite the same code fourteen times because the initial design wasn't symmetrical. (Maybe 2-3 times).
Wanting code that looks like it's been through a pretty printer isn't OCD. Wanting code that's well structured isn't OCD. Wanting code that uses sensible naming conventions isn't OCD. It's actually bloody good software engineering, and the perfectionism is realised through the application of good software engineering and distress at the people that don't understand how much easier it makes the end-to-end process.
That's not being OCD, it's not being obsessive, it's being logical, rational, somewhat perfectionist and just more fucking intelligent than the fuckwits you have to work with.
I'll get flamed for this post, but hey, fuck the NTs. They get the easy ride everywhere else in life.
Most of us are of average intelligence, some higher and some lower. Having autism doesn't mean your retarded.
There are some definitions of autism that actually do include the criteria of being significantly below average intelligence. Those definitions tend to give other labels to people with average or above average intelligence that are also on the spectrum.
But on your other points, you did reply to an ignorant twat, and all neurotypical people are indeed liars. Interestingly some autistic people are not.
That being said, to my knowledge, one cannot really put that they're autistic on their resume if they have any hope of hiding it (as i do) lest they be rejected from the job for it (unless that's illegal, which i don't think it is).
I wouldn't want to put it on the job application myself, but I have informed my HR department (diagnosed since joining). My management team don't know - and appear not to have guessed, which I'm delighted by.
HR know because I've had trouble at four previous jobs as a result of this (which was one reason I went off to find out what was so different about me) and in the UK it is a legally protected disability.
What I don't want to do is beat my manager about the head with that (so no "You can't say that to me, I'm disabled!") which is one reason he doesn't know about it. I do want the safety net in case I get feedback along the lines of (to quote actual feedback from another job) "You're weird" followed by deep criticism of my interpersonal skills, after I'd spent months improving them and was really chuffed how well I was doing. Should that happen now, I can bring HR into the conversation and switch focus away from "You're shit" and towards, "How can we mitigate this?"
But admitting it as part of the application? Tricky. Very tricky. I'd probably seek advice from local experts, and temptation would be to mention it on the equality assessment that only HR see, and leave it off the stuff the hiring manager sees.
Bear in mind that some companies would be glad to get someone on board that improves their balance of disabled people - I've known companies get worried that they haven't met some invisible unstated quota before now.
He'd more likely look to correct you, as you're clearly wrong.
Met someone last night that interprets everything so literally that when someone mentioned that they talk to their cat, he got intrigued and wanted to know how they understood what their cat was saying and how the cat knew English.
In another conversation, someone mentioned visiting a local park at dawn and swimming in the sensory feedback of the birdsong, the light, the warmth as the sun moved onto them. This guy asked, "How deep is it there? When you're swimming?"
That's very extreme but people with Aspergers very often suffer from taking things literally to a lesser degree.
Books already exist. The problem is knowing you need to read them.
I can understand how that might be traumatic for hamsters.
Personally I'm now trying to resist the temptation to add 'fucking cats' to my Youtube search history :(
You're so full of shit.
I know of no cultural let alone systemic bias against women in IT. I've seen a lot of bias by women against IT, but you're just trolling.
In the UK if he was presented as a girl they'd have to treat him as one, due to laws around transgender equality.
I find it ironic that the best protection against sexism available to men is to pretend to be a transgendered woman.
People that go into programming as a career are ostracised by women, but apparently that's the fault of men too.
Contributed, or was present? I can believe one, would like to see the underlying data that proves the other.
Clearly you missed the twenty minute period on Friday in which amazon.co.uk was returning HTTP 502 error codes.
I guess they should've used some cloud servers to cope with the increased load or something, huh?
To me a JCB is this:
http://www.jcb.co.uk/Products/...
I guess you maybe meant this?
http://jcbpowerproducts.com/Pr...
High power indeed, but not sure it's in the desired price range.
Nah, I've played American Football computer games.
Getting hit by 300lb of muscle would have me curled up in pain, but the playbook? Please.
Yeah but I've seen rugby matches with hits on players without the ball as hard as anything you get in American Football, and no penalty given.
Passing the ball to the next guy doesn't always save you ;)
Dedicated bus lanes : yes
Enforced : yes
Done right : no - if they were doing it right they wouldn't have fucking bus lanes
I can get to work by bus. It involves a 3 minute walk, a 0-15 minute wait for the bus, a 40 minute bus ride, a 7 minute walk, a 0-10 minute wait for the bus, a 14 minute bus ride and a 50 yard walk from the bus stop to work.
Or I can drive to work in under 20 minutes (including walking/parking time) at rush hour, on roads made slower by the fucking bus lanes.
Of course, by driving I can also get home in under 20 minutes, which means I can finish a meeting at work, shut down my PC, drive home, boot up my PC and call into a transatlantic phone meeting in half an hour. This adds tremendously to my work-life balance.
So if someone is found guilty of copyright infringement twice Cox may need to terminate their account.
Who's been found guilty so far?
the trafficking of foreign children by the British State
Historical, or contemporary?
Linky?
* it's full of hipsters (any subsequent person who denies/contests this is in all likleihood a hipster themself)
What's a hipster, and why is it a bad thing?
Bear in mind that my personal observation is that pretty much any definition of 'hipster' would automatically include anybody that uses the term in a derogatory way.
There's a description of an interview a woman had at Amazon, where she was upset because she only was interviewed by males who didn't make eye-contact with her.
It took me several years and a lot of conscious thought to keep eye contact with people while talking to them. Even now that's the case.
It's got fuck all to do with gender; clearly she was discriminating against the socially inept by calling out their problem.
Fuck you and your associating of inarticulate incoherence with Aspergers Syndrome.
Here's a thought for you: People with Aspergers are highly articulate online as they don't need to deal with the complex and difficult non-verbal conversational cues that cause them issues in face to face conversations.
I'm a man, but my profession has more women in it than men. Someone wanting to do good things for society is not a justification for paying them less.
Do you earn more than your female colleagues?
Irrespective of whether you feel teachers are paid enough or not, "teachers get low pay" is a recognised phenomenon and anybody entering the profession should know in advance that they wont be getting rich from it.
In other words, low pay for teachers is not a gender issue, irrespective of whether it's a profession dominated by one gender, as people deciding to become teachers are consciously choosing to enter a low paid job.
They could choose instead to embark on a career that has above average salaries. It's not mens' fault that female teachers don't make that choice.
And yet the feminist response to CEO pay is to demand quotas for women in the boardroom.
Which means that as a man my already miniscule chance of ever getting a C level position would get reduced further as if I ever do get to the level of experience, capability and contacts needed for such a role, I may still miss out purely because of my gender.
You are highlighting 'female' professions; how does your assessment change when we throw in some 'male' professions such as street cleaning, mining and military service?
Surely you meant "When men stop putting women down"?
The fact that his salary lost parity due to time out of the workforce is the reason some of us don't give any credibility to the alleged gender issues to which you refer.
It should be perfectly normal for a woman to make the same as a man, for doing the same job, working the same hours, making the same contribution, having brought the same level of experience to the role.
In fact, it is.