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by larve 4y ago
Once you involve the cloud, things get exponentially more complicated. Your `fwrite(foobar)` has ramifications that no human can legitimately understand. That's what I meant with . I am happy to write `fwrite(foobar)` and get the proje
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by larve 4y ago
I don't understand your point. You are telling me I shouldn't miscommunicate in an article where I try to explain what it feels like when you have a disability that leads people to think you miscommunicate. I understand that I pro
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by larve 4y ago
On the topic of filesystems: for me, hardware storage systems, file systems, operating systems, user library, filesystem caching, file formats, persistence guarantees, recovery, that stuff is really complicated. I just can't say that i
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by larve 4y ago
I actually really enjoy the "politics" part of it. I think it's just a loaded word for "get many people to align and work together productively," and it's absolutely fascinating from a technical point of view.
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by larve 4y ago
thanks for the comment. for what it's worth, I absolutely don't recognize myself in either description. If anything, I am a pretty good software engineer because I can "literally" see how people think about software when
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by larve 4y ago
Making these kinds of judgments is exactly why autism is a disability. I understand from the comments and my life experience that there is something there, I learned to smile, be engaging, mirror body posture, ask questions instead of going
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by larve 4y ago
It could also be in between: Their actions are interpreted as way more of a rude behaviour than they intend them to be, and they don't know how to come across in a better manner. From my experience, it's usually not a problem to b
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by larve 4y ago
ADRs / RFCs are great. Compromise is a necessity for anything where there is no right or wrong answer, only unknoowns with more or less certainty and more or less strongly held opinions. Getting everybody's opinion and insight int
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by larve 4y ago
I recognize myself quite well in those words. Thank god I didn't have to encounter an actively hostile person yet, but my big discovery last year was indeed that not everyone at work is motivated by doing a good job. It obviously sound
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by larve 4y ago
Seeing how many people object to this first question that I think is just... perfectly fine (I talked a lot about it to my wife) unlocked something. I wasn't aware that a question like "do you think our checkout is not performing
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by larve 4y ago
Thank you, it's very nice to read this. I actually love "office politics" when people engage in it in good faith. I love crossing team boundaries, figuring out who is not talking to whom, who works well with certain kind of p
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by larve 4y ago
I was watching the netflix documentary about rubik's cube on netflix with my wife, and you see this autistic kid (rubik's cube champion), who doesn't speak until he's three, being friend with a much more socially accompl
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by larve 4y ago
I phrased this badly, none of these situations applied, they were just situations where I would recommend using React, to show I'm not opposed to React as such. The problem I think is that you think me asking a question is adversarial,
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by larve 4y ago
I am not sure why the manager should be shocked if an engineer asks for these kinds of clarification. Those are exactly the info I need to point out that this might very well be a problem with service XYZ, and that we might need to scale up
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by larve 4y ago
How do I even know we should switch or not though? A good reason could be "we are moving the office to the UK, and we were only able to find react developers there". That's a pretty good reason to switch, if not an easy one.
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by larve 4y ago
Many autistic people prefer to say they are autistic. Hopefully it's become clear that I think this way, and I can't just not think this way. Thinking is my main way of interacting with the world, it's not just "a trait&
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by larve 4y ago
Thanks! I wish you the best. Being bitter is something I hate, and it's very non-productive. The best way to move forward when I disagree with say, architectural decisions or tech stack decisions (because it's very valid to disagr
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by larve 4y ago
Thanks for the response. I do agree to all of these suggestions, and honestly we can't just make up hypothetical scenario after hypothetical scenario of what the best way to phrase things are. It depends so much on me, the manager, the
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by larve 4y ago
thanks for the thoughtful answer. I agree with quite a bit of it, but also would like to present a few nuances. 1. The problem is here that they will cut me off short (not a problem) and then say something that is not what I want to say.
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by larve 4y ago
It's not a secret that autistic people have trouble communicating in the workplace. This is not a post about my life's story and me self-diagnosing as autistic. This is me relating my experience explicitly in response to someone s
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by larve 4y ago
I am not sure why you are so aggressive, nor reading my words charitably. I do care about solving the technical challenges to fulfill the goals in the best way possible. I don't care what the goal is "about," if the business
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by larve 4y ago
Good point, thanks!
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by larve 4y ago
This does sound odd, but if it works for you... My examples are definitely all about the workplace.
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by larve 4y ago
The questions you bring up are really the questions I am asking? What do they think the weaknesses of the page are? Do they think rewriting the checkout will solve these problems? How much of the technical tradeoffs do they understand or ca
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by larve 4y ago
Asking clarifying questions is engaging with them as best as I know. To me, it's the gracious, honest, polite, and professional thing to do. I can't just make up an answer (say, that performance is what they are thinking about) an
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by larve 4y ago
Indeed. If anything, the point of the article is that this goes both ways.
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by larve 4y ago
True, this is very much about the workplace. What follows is not really directed at you but rather reflecting on this whole comment section, I hope you forgive me :) IN the article, the only case where I insist on being right is in scenario
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by larve 4y ago
Hi Bedon, can you contact me at wesen - at - ruinwesen.com and I can forward you the longer drafts I have, if you are interested. Thanks for following up.
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by larve 4y ago
These are all good points. It probably would have made sense to write in the article that there are so many resources out there tackling the problem of "the autistic person should make an effort to learn the rules,", something aut
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by larve 4y ago
It's actually just lifted from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192873

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