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hh22··on Show HN: Find the cheapest Amazon for your books
This may be a technical problem, but it's hard to really know the best price of a book when you exclude used books from third-party sellers. For example I found a $70 book that was in the $60 range on a foreign site, but then if you clicked through on the US site you could find one for $45 that was slightly used. Without that kind of contextual information the site is less useful.
hh22··on I hired someone with Asperger's – now what?
I agree completely about the "disability" description - I think that I became used to calling it that because in situations where I did need to get support for it in college (ie. requesting a single room, which seems to be a natural human need and not just an aspberger issue) it always had to be done through the disability services office, and maybe that definition stuck in my mind. It's good to be aware of how bureaucracy can unconsciously influence our mental thought patterns.
hh22··on I hired someone with Asperger's – now what?
As someone who was diagnosed with Aspberger syndrome, reading that article made me want to throw up. There can be significant differences between a number of people with the same diagnosis, and generalizing them all under one mocking nickname of "aspie" is disrespectful. My diagnosis is not obvious to anyone talking to me unless I were to disclose it, and I have done very well in school leadership activities; I particularly enjoyed being involved in a debate club. I don't want Aspberger's to define me, and I wish that CNN would be more supportive of people who are working to overcome their disabilities instead of writing a puff piece about how special and disabled we are.