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by gemstones 3y ago
Reposting my comment above - you only need the OP’s words and some reasonable logic to arrive at that conclusion: These people tell me HR knows it but everyone is afraid of getting sued or something so it's a don't ask d
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by gemstones 3y ago
These people tell me HR knows it but everyone is afraid of getting sued or something so it's a don't ask don't tell situation. People simply ignored him. This doesn’t require soft skills to logic out that there is r
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by gemstones 3y ago
From the description, it sounds like the team has started excluding him based on similar communication gaps as the manager is seeing. That’s a material deficiency, that even an autistic employee is expected to fix. It’s hard; no doubt. But
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by gemstones 3y ago
Document. Clearly state your goals for them, and have them written down in a 1:1 document. Communication style and tone are important, and autistic people do not get a pass on trying to understand them, even if you may want to give them mo
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by gemstones 3y ago
He won't respect you simply because you're a manager. You have to earn his respect. This is good practice even for non-autistic employees, but… it’s reasonable to expect that an autistic person knows that there is a hier
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by gemstones 3y ago
Imagine a doctor 100 years post-Galen "considering the waning days of medicine". We are a young, young discipline.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Read it and misinterpreted it! I will amend my comment since it seems I'm wrong.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Edited - this was just flat out incorrect given the paper. Thanks for pointing out my error!
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by gemstones 3y ago
Not according to my morals!
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by gemstones 3y ago
That applies to backends equally, but you don’t get thinkpieces on how that makes it a great idea for frontend devs to avoid all those silly DTOs and design patterns that complicate the server code.
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by gemstones 3y ago
I get real confused by these. Imagine if an iOS developer posted a blog about the specifics of files backing UIViews and how the XML configuration language was underutilized. Wouldn’t that be kind of a weird blog post? The declarative synt
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by gemstones 3y ago
I’ve met enough people that aren’t like you that your lived experience, real as it may be, doesn’t really change my opinion much. For every one of you who isn’t scared of CSS there are like 40 people into HTMX that make bad UXs even by the
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by gemstones 3y ago
Can the people that want this HTML-first world style it to look the ways they want themselves? My experience has been that proponents of HTMX and the like skew heavily backend and never feel comfortable with CSS. Why listen to UX thoughts f
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by gemstones 3y ago
I’m happy for these researchers on finding happiness. To the first example, in all seriousness - of course industry does DEI better than academia! Academia is 1. costly, 2. long, and 3. weighted to favor people from backgrounds that can af
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by gemstones 3y ago
Unethical according to your system of ethics. I never claimed that was part of my ethical system. Unless you’re religious or something and believe in a global definition of ethics that applies to everyone, there’s no real point in telling
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by gemstones 3y ago
This shows how woefully unprepared I am to have wealth. It is crazy that at some level of wealth, you will run into someone like Masa Son, who has the ability to talk his way out of destroying generational wealth. What do you even do to p
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by gemstones 3y ago
The town didn’t protect its young economically when it had the chance, and how there are no young people left to take care of the elderly. Raising the money was the “easy part,” Mosbrucker says. “Staffing is going to be the hard part.
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by gemstones 3y ago
ORMs are worth it for `includes` and wrapping up nested objects. SQL support for associations in a result set could use some work.
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by gemstones 3y ago
I feel like I hear "best practice" used in one of two ways: - By well meaning people describing that they're using a tool or practice because it's a community standard - By juniors using it as a weapon An example of the
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by gemstones 3y ago
I'm familiar with Fable, it's a very conscious choice not to use it in any web applications. Debugging its JS output is not fun.
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by gemstones 3y ago
My favorite FTX fact is in the Going Infinite book, on the informal org chart drawn up by the psychiatrist to help him keep straight who worked with who. There’s a biggish department of game devs that takes up almost the same amount of vert
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by gemstones 3y ago
Google is making the smart bet that there will be juniors who will learn Rust and can contribute to Binder 10 years from now, while their experienced C++ devs will only shrink and need to be reserved for more critical projects.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Isn’t rule 1 of trading that it doesn’t matter if you’re right if the timing is wrong?
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by gemstones 3y ago
I think every datacenter I've ever worked with, across ~4 jobs, has had an incident report like "generator failed right as we had an outage." Am I unlucky, or is there something I miss about datacenter administration that mak
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by gemstones 3y ago
No, they don't need fixing. But computer jobs are not an inherent right to them, despite the field being uniquely suited to them in its infancy.
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by gemstones 3y ago
You should be hesitant.
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by gemstones 3y ago
(Educationally)
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by gemstones 3y ago
For real. It's telling that the kids don't jump in here to defend the practice, hardly ever (also homeschooled, education was great, socialization was absolutely problematic despite doing all the homeschool group things.)
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by gemstones 3y ago
The best critique of HTMX is the same critique of Rails + partials + a bit of helper JS for inserts (the popular stack that predates modern SPAs.) Say you’re writing a true web app. You’re making a mobile view, and the user has scrolled do
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by gemstones 3y ago
I think it's realistic to expect this to be the work of decades! Great talk by Bjarne. Will attrition make a decades-long timeline viable? I'd never touch C++ myself, I'm too scared there will be a long period of time where

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