Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:31:39 -0800, Alistair wrote:

> On 26 Feb, 21:23, tim <T...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Some have claimed here that programming ability is orthogonal to
>> personality. From my research and experience this is not the case. For
>> example, the incidence of autism in the children of Microsoft employees
is
>> so high that MSFT has a special program for autistic children (geeks
>> breeding with geeks).
>>
> 
> 1. A defense along the lines of what Hans will do is not necessarily
> the same as what a juror would do in the same cir***stances is most
> likely to convict the client. (IMHO)
> 

You are probably right.

> 2. Orthogonal means perpendicular. A good programmer, in my
> experience, tends to be insular and not particularly social. Autistic
> people also tend to insular and unsocial behaviour, My interpretation
> of your paragraph is directly opposite of what I perceive you mean.
> Could you please rephrase your text such that I can understand your
> meaning.

It also has the meaning in statistics of "not dependent on, or not
statistically associated with". Sorry for being obscure.

Some people argued that there is no association between personality type
and ability to program computers. I think there is such an association.

Tim