I have a diagnosis of ADHD and autism.
Do you think that in my personality there's a neat little section labeled "ADHD", then one section labeled "autism", and then one labeled "me", and that I can just separate both of those from "me"?
it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel.
I'm an expert in being confused and would love to know where I could apply for this position
I will give your suggestion 100% of the careful attention and obedience that it deserves.
I'll be appropriating this phrase. This requires no further action on your part. Thank your for your cooperation.
Imagine how old I fucking feel
Funny you should mention that; guess where I don't work anymore?
But yes, absolutely right. While I honestly believed (and still do) in what the company is doing and really wanted to do my part in making it work, I'm not going to bother pouring so much of myself into work if I don't get treated as an equal. Honestly there were so many red flags before that too, thinking back, but that was definitely the last straw. Took me a while to get the message, heh
usually all that was required to get the appropriate help was to say I read the manual, and I tried the XY and z that was suggested that didn't work. What do I do now?
Oh yes this is definitely how it would ideally go, on both the part of the one asking the question and the ones answering it, but hoo boy has it not been my experience a lot of the time, although it absolutely has gotten better over the decades. Ye olde Usenet could be a bit of a shitfest for asking technical questions, and so could eg. Linux forums. I'd know this because when I ran into something like that happening and I had the spoons for it, I'd try to be a bit more constructive.
Not all that rarely, the people answering beginners' questions with something like RTFM at best or abusive diatribe at worst thought what you're describing is what they were doing, even when the question was completely legitimate and possibly even somewhat nontrivial to piece together from some manual or whatever guide. People have some wildly varying ideas of what constitutes basic knowledge of some subject, and many also seemed to feel that because something was hard for them to learn, it should be hard for others too. And metaphorically kicking people in the teeth (and yes that's hyperbole) for eg. not reading some FAQ isn't really going to help anything; people – just like any other animal really – will generally react better to a carrot than a stick.
There's a reason why it's still a semicommon stereotype that Linux forums are full of assholes, although thank the fucking gods things are much better nowadays. The best part about writing about this stuff is that sometimes people show up in the comments to prove me right by acting like assholes
Well it may be be fuckin important but people have to fuckin eat and have a roof over their fuckin heads, too
Yeah that's usually been the stated reason for as long as I can remember, but that absolutely wasn't what it was in practice especially earlier on (say the 90's). Getting help for eg a Linux problem wasn't exactly a pleasant experience for a long time exactly because people thought they'd be "helpful" by acting like massive assholes
Why risk putting money in something new that hasn't been thoroughly market tested so that it's guaranteed to appeal to the widest possible audience, when you can just churn out sequels to existing properties that won't really offer anything new let alone challenging, and be sure that the studio executives will be getting new yachts again this year?
Rtfm is so unhelpful even when it is correct.
A lot of the culture around computing used to be just people being huge cunts to beginners so they can feel superior
Some conservatives may occasionaly seem like they have a spine, but the moment it's measured the wavefunction collapses and the spine disappears.