There's a thread on /v/ at the moment (yeah, yeah, Back to /v/, please.) that is about the disabilities of video gamers.
I'm wondering what disabilities besides assburgers are represented on /prog/. What do you programmers and trolls have and how does it affect your ability to code?
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Anonymous2009-08-14 19:21
Attention Deficit Disorder. Not really, but I am smarter than 99.99% of humanity and I therefore find it difficult to focus my attention on matters that I mastered many years before my peers but am nevertheless expected to need my hand held for me to understand
feels good, man
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Anonymous2009-08-14 19:22
As an experience programmer, I think that the lack of girlfriend is a great handicapp.
EXPERIANT PROGRAMMERS
I just have the assbergers, which means I can focus on a problem for long periods of time, although my concentration does get interrupted by thoughts of how fucked my life is :D
>>2,6
Same as these guys, except I don't think that I'm exceptionally smart, but rather than humanity in general is exceptionally stupid and I'm just a fair bench-mark.
What sane person would believe if some mindless system drone declared him crazy?
In fact despite what you imagine, it very easy to fabricate such diagnosis. Just find a couple of character flaws and some eccentric qualities and you can have a justification to incarcerate at least a quarter of population as "dangerous to society".
Really 'sane' standard-average-normalized people which internalized their semi-schizophrenic host culture don't have a problem, it the people who defy the norms and informal rules of thought who get problems. In reality the closer to the host culture a person its the more "sane" he is considered.
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Anonymous2009-08-15 3:44
>>13
Insane people that think of others as mindless drones are mindless drones.
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Anonymous2009-08-15 3:46
I have a small leg disability (makes it very difficult to keep my balance while standing still or running, I have mastered walking though, I also fall down more than usual).
>>13
What buggy program would believe if some mindless debugger declared him buggy?
In fact despite what you imagine, it very easy to fabricate such diagnosis. Just find a couple of bugs and some more bugs and you can have a justification to debug at least a quarter of programs as "considered harmful".
Really 'bugless' standard-average-normalized programs which internalized their semi-buggy host OS don't have bugs, it the programs who defy the norms and informal rules of thought who get bugs. In reality the closer to the expected output a program produces, the more "bugless" he is considered.
>>19
Wow, you have such a high IQ! You certainly are better than most people at solving silly puzzles, aren't you? And you believe so firmly in your demented numerical intelligence measuring system, that you will think that I denounce it because I have a low IQ, eh?
>>19
hahahahahaha, that's funny, really.
you're blaming your retarded angsty teenager attitude on your high-middle IQ.
150 is not impressive in the least
>>26
Over three standard deviations is ``high-middle''? I know you're just trying to troll a self-pitying whiner, but try to keep it a bit realistic. That's the 99.93th percentile.
Instead, try attacking the credibility of his IQ testing. Suggest he took one online, for instance.
>>19
Extrapersonal intelligence is real. I know this because I've made tons of real progress on mine by learning to make others feel smarter than me without making myself appear as an idiot.