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It's the nature of most types of volunteering work. If you sign up to be the conductor of your local choir, you have the same thing. People start expecting you to do stuff. If you'…

It's a person who applies engineering principles to the design and implementation of software. It's about the "rigidity" of the methods that are used to construct the software. If …

I had a colleague some years ago, who consistently said 'add hook' instead of 'ad hoc'. I never had the heart to correct him.

Usually it does have all the information, it just isn't able to put it all together. If you for instance ask it to name the female tennis players who have won the Wimbledon tennis …

That's a prediction you'll make only if you're not a programmer yourself. The entire purpose of a programming language, as opposed to a natural language, is to be able to communica…

44200 hits on Google, for that particular misspelling.

Dave Cutler is, seemingly, a good example of this. If you have not read it, I recommend the book Show Stopper! by G. Pascal Zachary, about the development of Microsoft Windows NT u…

I don't agree with this article. I write hundreds of lines of notes each day, as a part of my coding and work routine. I do it all digitally, in Visual Studio Code, as pure text. I…

I think you just have to make yourself do it for a prolonged period of time, all the while making sure that you do not overexert yourself. Make it pleasant on every occasion, and l…

> rather than on the finding and promotion of undiscovered geniuses. There's a catch in it as well, which is that you cannot really identify a genius up-front. A genius is, by defi…

Software development is inherently hard, and many software developers suffer from impostor syndrome. It's easy, within software development, to start doubting your own work, becaus…

How did it affect you?

> most of the hard problems were solved in 1960 to 1980 Yes, if you're talking about sorting algorithms and similar. But there are, of course, still many, many even harder problems…

> abandoning engineer culture in craft of software development I think it's just a function of the rapid growth our field has seen over the past few years. With 'everyone' becoming…

> I can "literally" see how people think about software when reading source code and pull requests (I say literally because these things are... objects I can manipulate in my mind?…

100% agree. The most important point is to make exercise enjoyable; the more it feels like a chore, the more you will not be getting out there doing it.

> What I don't know how to handle (as evidenced by some comments here) is when to divulge how much I study / what fields I have a lot of experience in. I never understood where the…

It's my personal experience from interacting with people who are on the spectrum. I generally find it very difficult to make sense of the communication that I have with people who …

Repost of an earlier comment I made, on a different thread: I think the difference is that an autistic person will see reality like this: | O O | | ----- ( inner landscape (fact) )…

I agree. They're pretty in the same way as fractals are pretty, but still boring and bland. I would not have any of the ones that I've seen this far on my wall, or as my blog icons…

Beautiful!

What is the most common attack vector to fear? I thought maybe auto-run had been disabled by default, in most modern versions of Windows, for the past 10-15 years at least.

I think the difference is that an autistic person will see reality like this: | O O | | ----- ( inner landscape (fact) ) ----- | | | | | | / \ / \ | While the non-autistic person w…

It seems that this should be a feature of the software too. You should be able to tell the software where your camera is, and you should be able to tell it to move the picture of t…

That might be true. But I think a good reader, such as a news anchor or a voice actor, will know where to put the emphasis and the pauses, in order to help the listener along. It's…