My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft.
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@fiend_unpleasant @crazyeddie @fesshole yeah, I meant them. I got what you were trying to say, and totally agree: the IT world has more than the average proportion of autistic people.
@lizzard @fiend_unpleasant @crazyeddie @fesshole IT department where i work is majority neurospicy. not all diagnosed, but some of them are kind of obvious? (i'm an autist myself.)
personal take: hire us for IT! we're good at it!
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@jonm Most of all, give people the time to complete their tasks in the way that best works for them. Deadlines are an unfortunate fact of life, but don't create unnecessary deadlines that just stress people out, and try to plan for both people to be slower and more meticulous and for unforseen delays. You don't need to go all Scotty and quadruple any time estimate, but at least increase it by half if not doubling it.
(2/2)Yeah, I'm not seeing anything there that's specific to autism. That's sage advice for dealing with just about anybody.
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This must be why all those people fled from England to America back in the day.
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@fiend_unpleasant @fesshole That's actually a really unkind thing to say.
@crazyeddie @fiend_unpleasant @fesshole something wrong with being autistic?
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@walsonde @StarkRG @jonm this test is for you then: https://german.millermanschool.com/
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@sldrant "Now you're just arguing semantics." Yeah, no shit, I'm arguing semantics, because the meaning of the words being used to communicate directly influences what's actually being communicated. If we don't make sure we're all using approximately the same meanings, then you get the issue where the term "inflammable" was assumed to mean "not flammable".
@StarkRG @sldrant Highly recommend "The Tyranny Of Words" by Stuart Chase (1938)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2343374.The_Tyranny_of_Words
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My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
@fesshole
Your parenting course is good.
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@argv_minus_one @StarkRG @jonm funny enough, today I wouldn't flee from Germany to England, but I'm genuinely considering emigrating to Scotland.
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@argv_minus_one @StarkRG @jonm funny enough, today I wouldn't flee from Germany to England, but I'm genuinely considering emigrating to Scotland.
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@argv_minus_one @StarkRG @jonm nothing special really. It's just that fascists have taken over Germany and it's no longer a matter of "if" but "when" people like me will be put in KZs again.
Never in all my travels across europe have I encountered nicer and kinder people than in Scotland (by a very great margin). So I was hoping that I could find a small village somewhere in the outback where I would be left alone and in peace. -
My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
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Any idea what went wrong at the workplace? In theory, updating one library shouldn't be hard…
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Any idea what went wrong at the workplace? In theory, updating one library shouldn't be hard…
Although to be fair, Minecraft isn't exactly mission-critical. Nobody's going to die or lose a million bucks if it crashes. One kid will be temporarily annoyed, and that's it.
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@fiend_unpleasant @fesshole That's actually a really unkind thing to say.
@crazyeddie @fiend_unpleasant @fesshole i'm autistic and i must respectfully disagree
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Although to be fair, Minecraft isn't exactly mission-critical. Nobody's going to die or lose a million bucks if it crashes. One kid will be temporarily annoyed, and that's it.
@argv_minus_one @murodegrizeco Tell that to a community of hundreds of kids for whom the Minecraft server is the center of their social life
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Any idea what went wrong at the workplace? In theory, updating one library shouldn't be hard…
@argv_minus_one @murodegrizeco The bad guys were already on the server. Minecraft was, where log4j was first discovered.
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My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
@fesshole Probably also responsible for at least one of those engineers getting an adult-autism diagnosis and finally receiving care.
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@murodegrizeco @argv_minus_one Container mess is especially strange thing, as a lot of those containers are essentially 3rd party "managed". So it might take a while before 3rd parties fix anything on the container images.
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My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award
@fesshole "Treat your coworkers like you love them and support their growth and success"
