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Intense focus, sharp memory and pattern recognition are some of the traits that a great software tester has to have. It so happens that those traits are prominent in individuals on the autism spectrum.
Who knew? That's pretty cool...
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Yeah because they're always busy sharping their own memory. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I can't buy into this hypothesis: many/most who are autistic have little control over what it is they are "locked in" to paying attention to (albeit in great, obsessive detail) at any given moment; they are often overwhelmed by unexpected sensory input. Depending on the nature of damage to the brain, autistic individuals may have trouble with motor-control, impulse-control, emotional control, etc.
Historically, within the cohort lumped together as "autistic," are rarer individuals who are now referred to as having Aspberger's, or being "high-functioning" autistics, and the modern taxonomy of neural-cognitive disorders carefully distinguishes those persons from other discrete categories within what's now referred to as the "autism spectrum."
Some even rarer few in the highest-functioning levels, like Kim Peek (deceased) [^] (made famous by the "Rain Man" movie), are savants with mental powers that seem almost supernatural.
The (still living) Dr. Temple Grandin is another example of the rare, specialized, gifts that some autistics may have : [^]. Her book, "Animals in Translation," is one of the most powerful examinations of human identity and behavior in the context of "animal life" I have ever read (and I've read it twice, it's so compelling).
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
modified 1-Dec-14 21:57pm.
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Your DSLR can do much more than just take a few nice portraits or the occasional vacation photos – with some DIY magic you can actually turn it into a device which can detect planets outside our solar system – something that 20 years ago was impossible even with the most sophisticated telescopes. Who needs NASA?
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Related question - if two people many thousands of km apart took photos of the moon using this kind of set up would it be possible to turn that into a 3D image?
( On average the moon is 380,000 km from the Earth... would the 5130km between Dublin and New York produce any parallax?)
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Dunno about that; but I suspect taking images taken a few months apart to exploit the moon's libration[^] while keeping illumination levels similar would work better.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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When it comes to successful software, does it pay to have fast coders? Or does slow and steady always win the race? "The low rider drives a little slower. Low rider is a real goer"
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I found that those who can keep calm while solving urgent problems will give a much stable solution, while those who rush into the work-field will introduce a new bug with every one solved...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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...*a* new bug?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm not too good with big numbers 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So you're a tribal programmer: 0, 1, OverflowException?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fast coders make happy-path code quickly.
Slow coders make robust code slowly.
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There's so much truth in your words... my 2 cents are that I'm a slow programmer, and my colleague-boss makes me write/rewrite the code foundations and the standard releases, while he is a fast coder and makes the tens of quick customization required day-by-day. We are achieving much more now...
Luckily I can be a fast coder too to cover his occasional absences
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Immediate gratification is never better, regardless of what we're talking about.
Jeremy Falcon
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Well surely you need both, being able to work slowly when you have the luxury of doing so, but being able to work quickly when the need arises without churning out crap, right?
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The language has a substantial stake in Web development, but it is marred by design flaws. They use it (that's the answer to at least one of those)
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I wrote PHP and never had the 'love' part...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Then it's the answer to the second 
TTFN - Kent
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So you're to blame!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Good: It's popular and easy to learn No. It may be popular, but it's not easy to learn.
How did everyone learn it then?
Well they didn't, they only think they did, but they don't know even 1 percent of the subtle traps that PHP has.
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Totally agree. I also agree it does have some design flaws, but like Windows 9x, some have to linger around for compatibility. It's just the nature of trying to please everyone while being so popular. Now that it's popularity has dwindles though, a face lift is really needed. Fortunately, PHP doesn't require you to use all aspects of it, so you can still write a decently designed app in it. And it's still free and multi-platform and speedy. So, I'm still using it.
Jeremy Falcon
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"If only I could go back and choose another language," said Mark Zuckerberg.
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that was like trying to beat a dead horse with a feather.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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posted in error as separate thread. sorry about that.
the content was a summary of my experience using the Visual Studio Macro tool announced on the thread below, and I have posted that content on that thread.
and, I've asked this post be deleted.
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
modified 1-Dec-14 19:13pm.
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