the_clarence's comments

On: Ask HN: How do you solve bottleneck engineers?

[the_clarence]

This book has been recommended to me a number of times! And I have it on my desk as I'm typing this comment :) Do you remember how they fixed the problem without annoying the Brent too much? (if Brent quits it's not good)

[dudul → the_clarence]

Maybe you can pick up the book and read it since it's next to you.

[the_clarence → dudul]

what a condescending comment

[dudul → the_clarence]

More or less condescending than "Oh you mean I have a book right there next to me that contains the information I want? well I would rather you - random on the internet - to take time out of your day to summarize for me what I could find out by myself - ok thanks bye!"?

On: Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode

[the_clarence]

I wrote a unicode library for Pascal back when I was in my 40's, it is challenging

On: Learn TLA+

[the_clarence]

I've been writing TLA+ for like 10 years, it's been a great tool and I found many bugs in protocols thanks to it

On: Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust...

[the_clarence]

Ken Thompson really did something great in there

On: Ask HN: Autistic employees think they’re better th...

[the_clarence]

Not sure why you’re being downvoted

On: Ask HN: Autistic employees think they’re better th...

[the_clarence]

I agree but this doesn’t help gamma-male. I’ve dealt with people who were producing more than everyone else and must have been on the autism spectrum. It’s not a bad thing per se, but it makes you wonder “can non-autistic people achieve as much and compete with their asperger coworkers?”

[cjblomqvist → the_clarence]

Gamma-male should probably learn to frame/ask his (?) questions (statements...) better, and not jump to baseless generalizing conclusions. In that light I actually think my comment could've helped him, by highlighting that problem.

Didn't help with his specific situation though. But it seems like he needs to learn the other part more.

[terminalcommand → the_clarence]

Coding capability is not everything, the asperger programmer probably has serious problems in social skills, social life. Let people be. If you're neurotypical aim for management, earn more code less.

[orwin → terminalcommand]

You can have big social skills issues and a really good social life. Aspergers i know have trouble lying, and they're a blast to be around, especially if you do something stupid/bad, and ask them what they think about it. Setting them up for a date can lead to hilarious situations (ask them if they're okay first), but they can find people who appreciate their bluntness (which is still hilarious). And above all that, the honesty is really refreshing.

I think your social life doesn't depends on your social skills, but on who you met and how functional is your family.

[terminalcommand → orwin]

I'm not saying thet can't have a good social life, but it is harder and later in life. Aspergers you met probably spent years learning social cues.

On: Ask HN: Autistic employees think they’re better th...

[the_clarence]

OP didn’t say he was the one responsible for bad code. Autistic here probably means that he seems better than most people and most engineers can’t compete with his output

On: Lessons from Writing a Compiler

[the_clarence]

I really like Golang’s inference which is much dumber than Rust (left type = right type)

On: Lessons from Writing a Compiler

[the_clarence]

Just use Arc

On: Lessons from Writing a Compiler

[the_clarence]

OCaml really messes with you if you try to prototype as you can’t have two modules that depend on one another. Rust is def. much better.