Just out of curiousity, does anyone here listen to old Bollywood songs while coding; the likes of Kishore Kumar and such? They are very melodious.
Autism and Programmers
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#22This whole autism-geek connection is a useless myth. I have a son with autism, and we know a lot of parents with autism. Parents come from every income range, social class, profession and "geek orientation". And contrary to another myth, most autistic kids (the vast majority) have no savant skills. It is a disease. The ones who recover do tell how they felt trapped inside. For those of you who have young children or…
Seriously, while I feel for you, get the facts. There is no evidence linking autism to vaccines. While dosing frequency has increased, dosing volume has decreased. Not only that, even if you are right, a lot more kids would die from the vaccinated diseases if we lose herd immunity as a whole. Don't you find it the least bit suspicious that the only people who "figured out" this mystery are quacks with books and suppl…
For your information, the government recently legally conceded a case of autism-vaccine connection where the parents (both medical professionals) had a perfect record of their daughter's medical history.
Keep down-voting me; but if you have a kid, please, please investigate this before you accept conventional wisdom.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously, while I feel for you, get the facts. There is no evidence linking autism to vaccines. While dosing frequency has increased, dosing volume has decreased. Not only that, even if you are right, a lot more kids would die from the vaccinated diseases if we lose herd immunity as a whole. Don't you find it the least bit suspicious that the only people who "figured out" this mystery are quacks with books and suppl…
For your information, the government recently legally conceded a case of autism-vaccine connection where the parents (both medical professionals) had a perfect record of their daughter's medical history. Keep down-voting me; but if you have a kid, please, please investigate this before you accept conventional wisdom.
I know both sides. I have a friend who is one of the greatest proponents of alternative medicine treatments of autism. Both my children have been vaccinated.
http://www.babble.com.au/2009/02/24/bad-science-how-the-auti...
I shouldn't have to explain how a legal ruling doesn't equal evidence. Scientific proof is demonstrated using repeatable studies, which have been done. Go look them up.
There is no validated mechanism by which vaccines cause autism. At the moment, my money would be on things like genes (highly likely) or environmental contaminants. But, it's just speculation. We just don't know at the moment. This may be hard to accept as a parent, but it's the reality.
Re: Autism and Programmers
#24This whole autism-geek connection is a useless myth. I have a son with autism, and we know a lot of parents with autism. Parents come from every income range, social class, profession and "geek orientation". And contrary to another myth, most autistic kids (the vast majority) have no savant skills. It is a disease. The ones who recover do tell how they felt trapped inside. For those of you who have young children or…
For those of you who have young children or planning to have children, here is a suggestion: investigate just how many cellphones we carry around these days, and compare that to how many were around 25-30 years ago.
> investigate just how many cellphones we carry
Or how many pirates there are on the high seas.
The connection between any kind of background EM and any human disease was discredited many years ago (and in fact was proposed by one specific crackpot.)
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#25Lou has to have the right music in his head to spot his patterns and I, like many developers, have experience of getting into the zone with the help of familiar ambient music. It’s as if the regularity of the music, it’s lack of surprising contrast, drowns out the rhythmless noise of our environment. The alternative is to completely remove all noise... Any suggestions on this kind of ambient music? Thanks! EDIT: I'm…
I usually listen to the di.fm stations, without any strong preference to any one in particular. Some days chillout or ambient works best, while sometimes its goapsy which won't let you out of the zone.
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#26Lou has to have the right music in his head to spot his patterns and I, like many developers, have experience of getting into the zone with the help of familiar ambient music. It’s as if the regularity of the music, it’s lack of surprising contrast, drowns out the rhythmless noise of our environment. The alternative is to completely remove all noise... Any suggestions on this kind of ambient music? Thanks! EDIT: I'm…
Anything by Radiohead.
Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" - single hour-long track.
Rachmaninoff "All Night Vigil".
Cabaret Voltaire "Plasticity".
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
Anything by Stereolab.
Tim Hecker "Harmony in Ultraviolet".
late-1960s cool jazz (Miles, Herbie, Freddie Hubbard, etc)
Most stuff by Bach.
Older stuff by Autechre.
Philip Glass "Koyaanisqatsi" - another hour-long track; can't play it too loud though or it gets tiring.
Re: Autism and Programmers
#27Lou has to have the right music in his head to spot his patterns and I, like many developers, have experience of getting into the zone with the help of familiar ambient music. It’s as if the regularity of the music, it’s lack of surprising contrast, drowns out the rhythmless noise of our environment. The alternative is to completely remove all noise... Any suggestions on this kind of ambient music? Thanks! EDIT: I'm…
Baroque music generally does it for me. Bach is the exception. When I listen to his more abstract works -- the keyboard partitas, the violin partitas, the well-tempered clavier, the english and french suites, goldberg, the art of the fugue, a musical offering, inventions and sinfonias -- I become so totally absorbed that I just cannot do anything else or even think any other thoughts. Is this what is called /samadhi/?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often listen to... David Sylvian - Look for albums: "Camphor", "Alchemy" & "Approaching Silence" Brian Eno - His Ambient collection. and some varied classical music. Strangely when I get into rhythm I tend to switch to something more "driving" like Radiohead
Well, my classical music (e.g. Beethoven 9th, Mozart Magic Flute that kind of thing) is too exciting, actually. What's yours?
Mozart as well. Also Bartok, Wagner, Stravinsky & Prokofiev are frequently played.