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if you notice, there is a higher level of asians in tech (compare to non-tech) and ratio of women to men in non-tech is almost 50-50. If might suggest that men

by rusabd 12y ago

if you notice, there is a higher level of asians in tech (compare to non-tech) and ratio of women to men in non-tech is almost 50-50. If might suggest that men (mostly white and asians) are more likely brain damaged in certain ways which let them succeed (or survive) in such unnatural environment.

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trhway 12y ago
>If might suggest that men (mostly white and asians) are more likely brain damaged in certain ways which let them succeed (or survive) in such unnatural environment. my wife's IQ is 30+ points higher than my :) I do pretty well - a senior engineer (and among "the best programmers", etc... according to many people i worked with). My wife just can't stand the tech environment, nor the people, nor the work. Primitive, plain, boring, single-sided, ... - some adjectives used by her.
- rusabd 12y ago
  I cannot stand my industry as well
- pvdm 12y ago
  Just curious, what is not primitive, plain, boring ? Math/Physics/DNA sequencing ?
  - sn41 12y ago
    A Techie here - I think, for example, literature is none of these. Every time I read Graham Greene, there are these terse sentences which leave me with admiration for his observation into human nature, and his masterly sardonic sarcasm - e.g. "I am easily moved to anger by cruelties not mine own" [ A Sort of Life ], or when describing how assurance in youth ends in doubts later "even our handwriting begins young and takes on the tired arabesques of time" [ The End of the Affair ], the sentences stay in your memory long after you've read them, and you see that pithy phrases can carry a world of experience behind them. Another great sentence - "We live as we dream - alone" [Conrad, Heart of Darkness] Literature may be considered boring because it takes patience to appreciate, but I think it is neither primitive nor plain. If some programming reaches the level of art, as in a clever hack, maybe we can tell others about the beauty of the solution. (G. H. Hardy says that "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not". At least history has not borne this out - people do find literature easily more beautiful than they do theorems and programs.)
makaveli8 12y ago
... brain damaged?
- rusabd 12y ago
  closer to autistic spectrum which is, well, sort of deficiency. It is certainly not the "norm" compared to the general population.

by rusabd 12y ago

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trhway 12y ago

>If might suggest that men (mostly white and asians) are more likely brain damaged in certain ways which let them succeed (or survive) in such unnatural environment. my wife's IQ is 30+ points higher than my :) I do pretty well - a senior engineer (and among "the best programmers", etc... according to many people i worked with). My wife just can't stand the tech environment, nor the people, nor the work. Primitive, plain, boring, single-sided, ... - some adjectives used by her.

rusabd 12y ago
I cannot stand my industry as well
pvdm 12y ago
Just curious, what is not primitive, plain, boring ? Math/Physics/DNA sequencing ?
- sn41 12y ago
  A Techie here - I think, for example, literature is none of these. Every time I read Graham Greene, there are these terse sentences which leave me with admiration for his observation into human nature, and his masterly sardonic sarcasm - e.g. "I am easily moved to anger by cruelties not mine own" [ A Sort of Life ], or when describing how assurance in youth ends in doubts later "even our handwriting begins young and takes on the tired arabesques of time" [ The End of the Affair ], the sentences stay in your memory long after you've read them, and you see that pithy phrases can carry a world of experience behind them. Another great sentence - "We live as we dream - alone" [Conrad, Heart of Darkness] Literature may be considered boring because it takes patience to appreciate, but I think it is neither primitive nor plain. If some programming reaches the level of art, as in a clever hack, maybe we can tell others about the beauty of the solution. (G. H. Hardy says that "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not". At least history has not borne this out - people do find literature easily more beautiful than they do theorems and programs.)

makaveli8 12y ago

... brain damaged?

rusabd 12y ago
closer to autistic spectrum which is, well, sort of deficiency. It is certainly not the "norm" compared to the general population.