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An Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
- darkarmani 13y agoThis title is mostly flamebait. Obviously, they are talking about a very, very high functioning Autistic way of thinking and not talking about the non-verbal (stimming and behavior issues) end of the spectrum.
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- svenkatesh 13y agoI don't understand the racist quip about mods being Chinese?
- youngerdryas 13y agoSorry, should have said gov. When the Chinese Gov doesn't like what people are tweeting about they just delete millions of tweets and pretend it didn't happen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442620
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- kghose 13y agoI'm going to come out and say it. Mostly when people are rude and inconsiderate it's because they haven't been trained and have gotten away with selfish behavior from over indulgent parents. Aspergers is a RARE condition. It needs to be diagnosed properly (not over the internet and from movies). Most people who are rude and inconsiderate are simply rude and inconsiderate - never having been trained that other people matter and encouraged by competitive parents to look out for number one. I don't want my children growing up in a world where it is OK to be rude and inconsiderate with a cluster of people sitting at the sidelines claiming that this is excusable because they 'think different'. We need to teach children, before it is too late, that social graces exist because though we are all imperfect at being considerate THERE is NO EXCUSE for being inconsiderate. Sorry, that's my thing, my button. This fiction that there are some people, like the kings of old who had divine right, who have some kind of faux modern divine right, to be inconsiderate because they have some powerful brain that can't be bothered.
- darkarmani 13y agoI didn't see anything in the article condoning rude and inconsiderate behavior. The last sentence makes a mention that it would be difficult to "train" a person with aspergers, but it doesn't ever say rude behavior is acceptable.
- smartician 13y agoPointless article. The author gave a talk at a high tech company, some coders in the audience described how they wrote code, which reminded her of a small subset of the autism spectrum, thus Silicon Valley is powered by an autistic way of thinking? Doesn't make any sense. To me it looks like it's a desperate attempt by the author to make her book appear relevant to tech workers.
- knowtheory 13y agoIt might be worth your time to read up on Temple Grandin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin Also, she actually is substantially autistic, despite all of her work and achievements.
- foundersomeday 13y agoRegardless of what Jobs may have thought or felt, the AppleLaser writer was not the first laser printer.
- znmeb 13y agoThis article is total horseshit!