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Re: High WIS

Jeff Atwood talked about about this a while back: http://blog.codinghorror.com/software-developers-and-aspergers-syndrome/ ( with interesting follow-up pertinent to the original story here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-can-men-do/ )

The ratio of autism diagnosis is 4:1 in favour of males, but the incidence of female autism spectrum problems is higher than most people realise because women tend to manifest symptoms a little differently - possibly as a result of cultural conditioning - and they can often go without being diagnosed.

Or maybe "Standardised National Identity Format Unification"?

Re: @Tim Worstall

In this case I'd say education will be very important in mitigating the effects of change, but it needs to be oriented towards flexibility and skills that can be transferred across industries and environments. Unfortunately the current system here appears to be oriented towards passing the kind of exams that ministers took fifty years ago, which probably won't help develop the adaptability people will need in future economies.

Fear Uncertainty and Dismay caused by the suggestion that the World Series only features American team. I'm just not sure how afraid, uncertain or dismayed most people would be by that implication.

Re: It certainly seems to have downsides

That is absolutely perfect.

I hope El Reg take notice and start using "Belgium Everywhere" instead of IoT across the board.

Re: This is so exciting

I'm surprised Apple aren't branching out into this area.

Re: Time to leave

Serious question! Is there anyone keeping a list of awesome places to live? Like ones where the government isn't on a brisk dive towards Orwellian disaster?

I have vague hopes that if they manage to drag us out of Europe the EU might offer some kind of asylum scheme to those of us who find more value in belonging to the EU than in belonging to England...

The problem with allowing users to write their own question is that although it confers security to smart users, it confers broad new vistas of insecurity to dumb ones. Which is, unfortunately, most of us...

You've reached Half Life? Wait until you reach Deus Ex, you'll love it.

Re: ITYM NGINX...

I've used it extensively, but I still want to pronounce it "nnn-ginks" whenever I see that name.

Re: Like grep? sed? awk?

Powershell does give you Windows equivalents of most of the standard unix commands, but they work to an inexplicably designed standard that ensure these must always have an entirely unmemorable name, return output in the most unexpected format possible and have at least one massive functional flaw that makes them useless in a medium-size swathe of scenarios.

Re: Oh fuck it, if it compiles then ship it

Look we need to get this out ASAP - either we get this running properly or the consultant will have to come back from the golf course. It's big picture stuff.

Re: Let me get this straight

But everyone has access to the same developments, and the highest frequency is once per minute, so even where algorithms are ruling most decision making they don't have to be impossibly fast, so can take the wider situation into account and more sophisticated ( and consequently less liable to cascade failure ) algorithms can be developed.

Re: There's a joke in there somewhere

"Punchline number 4 please."

Re: Devonian?

From what I can tell it is not impossible that the Deccan Traps were antipodal to Chicxulub- the asteroid hits and pushes such a forceful wave through the planet's core that it bursts out at the nearest available point on the other side. If this was to be correct then the Siberian Traps may be antipodal to another impact somewhere in the southern hemisphere. I don't know how Siberia and Australia were positioned relative to one another at that time, though.