[AUTISM][THEDAILYWTF.COM] Male Services

As one of the few females in the software development field, I’ve grown accustomed to a certain “awkwardness” with my male peers. Actually, maybe “creepiness” is a better word. Several people – many of whom were guys I’ve shared all but a few words worth – have told me that, not only is it “hot” that I’m a female programmer, but that my Eastern European accent “really adds some points.” While I’ve mostly heard that at conferences and networking events, the sentiment is definitely there in the day-to-day. It’s certainly flattering, but it can get annoying when I’m just trying to do my job.

Why don't female programmers have autism too?

Source: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Programmiss-and-Male-Services.aspx

shut up and write better code

Binary Cunts Tree

Autism is overly weak and complicated and was conceived in a time when computation was not yet mainstream or accessible.

Disorders like Avoidant Personality Disorder are a much better attempt at trying to solve the problems autists first ``set'' out to solve.

They lack the BALLS to.

>Everyone on the team seemed to have all sorts of different technical questions and I was able to answer them without hesitation. I was on fire! And then, someone threw me off.

“Laura,” one of the guys asked, “are you familiar with male services?”

“Errr,” I didn’t know how to answer, “uhhh, male? Services?”

An uncomfortable air of silence filled the room, and some of the guys shot awkward glances at each other, wondering why a teammate would ask such a strange question.

“Male services,” someone quickly offered up, “you know... postfix, exchange, and SMTP!”

“Ooooh,” my face went pale as two homophonic words immediately flipped in my mind, “mail services.”

They room burst into laughter, and thankfully I didn’t have to explain the horrible confusion my dirty mind had caused. But it all worked out in the end – I was hired shortly after that, and it’s been one of the least awkward places to work in my entire IT career.

hahaha

Why don't female programmers have autism too?

Didn't read the artcle but my my theory: (A lot of) male programmers go for programming to get away from being social and so on. But (most) female programmers go for it because they are actually interested. If a girl was autistic she has the option of not going for a job at all.

>> When I finally met Natalie, I was half-surprised to see that she was more on the “average” side of the hotness scale, but that was okay. Being a supermodel was clearly no requirement for the job – after all, she’d probably still write fun code and be a great member of our team.

>> The technical portion always starts with a simple test: create a function that calculates the average of a random amount of integer parameters in your favorite programming language. As I started to explain the assignment, I noticed a few bewildering looks.

>> “I’m sorry,” the not-so-hot programmiss interrupted me, “I have no idea what you're talking about. You want me to program something?”

>> As it turned out, there was an HR mix up and a female candidate did not actually apply for the job. We still don't have a hot programiss on the team... which is probably for the better.

How would you guys implement that function in say... LISP or Python?

>>8 average = lambda *a: float(sum(a))/len(a)

>>8
(defun average (&rest numbers)
  (/ (reduce #'+ numbers) (length numbers)))

Argh, my BBCode.
(defun average (&rest numbers)
  (/ (reduce #'+ numbers) (length numbers)))

sub avg {
  $sum += $_ foreach @_;
  return $sum / scalar @_;
}

Even a girl could get this job.

>>12
Using variables without declaring them considered harmful.

>>9-13
Why are you doing this?? It's supposed to be fucking simple...

/+a÷⍴a

>>4
[*] Hypersensitivity to rejection/criticism    well, only in social situations...
[*] Self-imposed social isolation
[*] Extreme shyness or anxiety in social situations, though the person feels a strong desire for close relationships
[ ] Avoids physical contact because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus
[*] Avoids interpersonal relationships
[*] Feelings of inadequacy
[*] Severe low self-esteem
[*] Self-loathing
[*] Mistrust of others
[*] Emotional distancing related to intimacy
[*] Highly self-conscious
[*] Self-critical about their problems relating to others
[ ] Problems in occupational functioning
[*] Lonely self-perception, although others may find the relationship with them meaningful
[*] Feeling inferior to others
[ ] In some more extreme cases — agoraphobia
[*] Utilizes fantasycomputer science as a form of escapism and to interrupt painful thoughts

So... what do I win?

They actually do. It's just not noticable. Here's quote from BeeBeeCee news site that discusses

Professor Gillberg said that, at an earlier age girls with autism were likely to be more passive and not as active or aggressive as boys with autism are - and may be seen as simply shy.


TL;DR female autism is under-diagnosed.
TL;DR2: wymen can't even even autism properly

>>17
Yeah, I bet most of them are closet programmers.

>>17
Sounds like wild speculation.

>>16
Shit, I have it too.  Good thing I have a computer to program =)

>>21-22
say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens