As someone in the UK this is kinda strange to read someone wanting to try quorn like I've been wanting to try the impossible burger.
Honestly Quorn is not a great meat replacement for anything other than mince, or maybe foods that are so processed all you can taste are the additives.
As a dyslexic the mechanism for OpenDyslexic always seemed a little off for me. How does a differently shaped font help adjust for a difference in cognition?
However in this case it would seem like focusing on ensuring that the letters can be distingushed with poor vision has a more direct mechanism? - though it may be that other fonts are better
>"How does a differently shaped font help adjust for a difference in cognition?"
AIUI for some people with cognitive difficulties when using text they find orientation of glyphs (which form letter characters) to be difficult to discern, and similarities across glyphs to be confusing. Thus, if glyphs are more differentiated from one another, and if they have a non- rotationally-symmetrical shape, then letters can be easier to comprehend.
I'm curious whether fonts like Dyslexie mighty bed better for those learning to read. Children learning to read often confuse letters, b/d/p/q for example. I can see ways it could both help and hinder.
This is a tension in the field of dyslexia/reading. Most academics in the US believe that dyslexia is phonological, not visual. If this is true, then visual supports like OD would not help dyslexic readers.
Many practitioners (and researchers outside the US) have a different view, which is that there are different strains of dyslexia, and some strains are more visual than others. I've talked with SPED teachers who laughed when they heard that researchers think dyslexia is phonological, not visual.
My own belief, based on years of working in the field, is that there is a significant portion of the dyslexia population who can benefit from visual changes to text presentation. This may be a direct symptom of their dyslexia, or it may be an indirect effect of (1) having dyslexia and struggling with reading, which leads to (2) not reading as much and having less-developed pathways related to the visual aspects of reading.
But given how dyslexia is defined as a residual category (roughly: a person who has a low reading level, not caused by visual impairment or deficits in general intellectual ability), it seems highly unlikely that no people with dyslexia have any visual aspects to their condition. There may be some, or even most, for whom the condition is phonological. But reading is visual in nature, so it would be very surprising if the group of people who struggle with it didn't happen to include anyone whose difficulties are visual in nature.
Of course, one can define dyslexia more narrowly (and some do), but schools typically don't. So if a broad range of kids are diagnosed as "dyslexic" in school, then it doesn't make sense for experts to proclaim "dyslexia is never visual, and people who say otherwise are wrong!".
My experience is based on launching a speed-reading tool (on HN, of course! [1]) that ended up becoming popular in the dyslexia and ADHD communities. It is a tool that is visual in nature, and I have gotten tons of emails from people with dyslexia who describe it as life changing. Some experts believe in what we're doing, but others are completely opposed to it. The dogmatism among certain experts conflicts with what I hear from people IRL, some of whom I have literally seen brought to tears by how effective our tools are. Even if what these people have is not "dyslexia" as defined by some people, they struggle with reading and are told they are dyslexic.
If you want to target the sme's I might suggest just separating out your value, set a few simple tiers and make it easy to plug a cloud backend in (only needs one provider at first). This way your value and cost is direct and obvious and you're not left managing a fleet of vm's. This probably increases the total cost a little as there's less sharing, but a lot of medium org's can manage that internally and it's much easier to convince a manager to spend $xx/$xxx a month rather than $xxxx or more
Not sure if this would be the most cost effective solution but maybe some pc water cooling parts, with clear tubing it would also allow them to see it flowing through the system. With quick release systems they might (age dependent) be able to re-arrange the system to experiment with different systems and flows.
Difficulty would be keeping it safe with regards to electric.
I bet you could rig a water cooling pump to run off a 12v power tool battery, and completely remove the need for dangerous wall AC power from the equation.
Firstly I think this idea of rockstar programmers is truly damaging. Yes there are differences in peoples coding abilities but the vast majority of your ability to develop good software, that solves peoples problems is in how you and the team works together, not your ability to write a technically proficient algorithm. It's important to find a team you can work well with and that works well with you.
Secondly 70-90hrs a week is not a healthy work schedule, you're going to be constantly working while exhausted. Even the most productive people I've seen are tired at the end of a 45-60 hour week. If possible give yourself time to rest.
ps. Piecing together code from multiple sources is what 99.9% of programming is. Calling libraries is piecing together code just as copying and pasting from stackoverflow is. You need to understand that code to be able to piece it together effectively as you clearly do.
Transgender inclusion in sport has brought to the front that sports are inherently unfair. Wherever you draw the lines there is someone thats going to be just the other side of that line.
Trans people have been allowed compete in sports for the last 18 years, however this is the first trans athlete to make it to the olympics, this seems to suggest that trans people competing in sports has not pushed IFAB people out of sports to any significant degree, especially not at the highest levels of competition.
Work is political - saying that people should get on with work without discussing "political topics" prevents them from discussing and solving the issues within their own work.
Yes there is a need to make sure work that directly brings money into the organisation gets done but part of that work is making sure everyone everyone works equally.
"There's no way the ring is getting to Mordor if Gimli is pushing for elf reparations." This suggests we can't deal with more than one thing at once. We can deal with the big bad of our generation (I would argue climate change), while also improving the material condition of disadvantaged people across society.
> improving the material condition of disadvantaged people across society.
The average modern activist in software organizations is well educated, underperforming in terms of actual code contributions and a master at forming committees, work groups and assuming power.
This activist fights for keeping his/her own job while others are doing the work.
Classic leftist/pro-worker policies have been extinct since at least the 1990s.
This is a strawman, unmoored from evidence or reality.
Here's my read, based on your supporting the blog post and your two comments:
You've constructed this fantasy as a defence mechanism. You use the classification of those with earnest beliefs that you find threatening as worse at 'actual code' and obsessed with 'work groups', and on that basis you reject those beliefs without having to introspect.
As collaboration, design, and people skills become more valued as ways to produce better software alongside sheer lines-of-code output, you fear that the power you derive from skills is being diluted.
As the corporate world realises that people who aren't men or who aren't white might matter, need to be taken into account, and might have something to contribute, you fear that maybe some of what you got you didn't deserve quite as much as you thought, and the fear of being seen as privileged makes you want to cling onto your existing power all the more.
This is an opportunity for growth. You can choose whether to create resentful posts on HN, writing off anyone who cares as a leech, or you can engage with those underlying feelings and become a better human, and better at your job.
This is extraordinarily vicious, and yet entirely par for the course, a good example of the basically pro forma denunciation OP is arguing should be verboten in the work place.
It depends on what you refer as political. Saying a certain president is crap and making an open invitation to a protest against him or her is not the same as discussing your views on things that directly affect your work performance.
I am a white cis male. Normalising the statement of preferred pronouns is very important for people who's gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth. I state my pronouns on both my social media and work emails.
Your statement of being "LGBT / neutral" seems strange to me, being neutral on whether other human beings should have the same rights I enjoy does not seem to be something I can be neutral on. I accept that myself and others with privilege must help create a more equal society for everyone, even in the relatively small changes such as stating our pronouns.
I would never want to be an "ally" (don't like the term, implicates antagonism without reflection). And this criticism seems also true for these suggested changes. Is that really good or helpful? Before enacting such changes, you should ask people if you have their support or you might get the opposite reaction, which at least partially happend on the topic of gender overall.
You group people by privilege, which is a judgement you cannot accurately make if you don't know a person very well. Some people judge others by large demographic group affiliation, but that doesn't sound like progress to me at all, on the contrary.
Being occupied by pronouns displays privilege far more accurately than skin color for example. I think that is a reasonable position.
Especially in a corporate environment, norms are created by employers and employees and they are in a constant flux. Traditionally we worked for gender becoming less relevant in a corporate setting.
If you want to change others, change yourself and be an example. Maybe people will follow, maybe they will not. While there might be sympathy for the cause, speech codes will hit limits rather quickly.
Honestly Quorn is not a great meat replacement for anything other than mince, or maybe foods that are so processed all you can taste are the additives.