personalityson

Highlights from the previous thread:

"I experienced this working for the US arm of a Japanese company. To report a bug would cause the programmer to lose face, so we had to waste a lot of time going through all kinds of contortions to lead someone to the bug without calling it out. We wrote a lot of "feature requests" that were really bug reports."

"In a Japanese company, people in general do not speak openly in meetings, because they are afraid of disrupting group harmony. Ideas need to be circulated in a series of one-on-one discussions--this is called "newashi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemawashi). This means that for a group of N people, it's N*(N-1)/2 private discussions that need to happen. And everyone needs to be in agreement and comfortable that the idea is "right", and that there is nothing the slightest bit off with it. Only after all these discussions have happened and everyone is fully bought-in, there is then a meeting to "rubber stamp" the idea."

"While the risk-adverse and face-losing-adverse traits of the Japanese culture can explain the (in general) slow development and response of Japanese companies (not limited to software), they cannot explain the quirky, often ugly and not user friendly UI of Japanese software. Germans are a bit risk-adverse, too, though not comparable to Japanese, their software, especially enterprise software are showing the same rigid UI and in general difficulty to use. In fact, you can not use them without reading the manual or being trained and that is expected from the end users, too! In a stark contrast, user-oriented software today are very intuitive, offers pleasant onboarding thus every user can use them casually."

"The same holds for Germany. Beside the "no pain no gain" attitude, the pursuit of "perfection" leads to weird outcomes. For example, the music band Kraftwerk dissolved because half of the members wanted to make sounds that looked "perfect" on an oscilloscope and not how good they sounded."

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https://github.com/personalityson/VBANN

- I have a condition which makes me physically unable to bear seeing or hearing just 1 second of ads.

- I am immune to propaganda and see the world in undistorted way, resulting in previous point.

- My favorite algorithm is most likely Hough transform.

- It physically hurts me when someone says "the reason ... is because" or "just because ... doesn't mean".

- I immediately turn off any documentary where a woman starts talking as a "scientist"."

Ah, I miss personal webpages.

Reminds me of an article which said that positive side of autism is that autists are impossible to brainwash, and that they are the only ones to speak up in a nazi society -- because they ignore the social cues.

"High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180315101805.h...

I had one anyway

It was of course possible to fix with 3rd party software, but I absolutely can't wrap my head around why they were so stubborn about it.

Let's see how it goes