Microsoft announces pilot program to hire people with autism

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That you can but mine was a CGI contract. It was Bing Maps while I was there last year before the division was bought by Uber; now it's just 'Maps' & ships in 10.

I can't say if they know about that one or not actually, it's just been my experience with the 'Reimage Repair' malware 2x this year, while I agree 10 is probably the worst go-around in quite some time, I haven't really heard any excuses regarding any of this stuff & that includes talking to a Redmond developer friend in person a couple days ago. I also watched it sniff for a nonexistent DLL on every boot for pretty much the whole first year upon release.

For context, the only Windows instance I ever really do anything with these days is a QEMU-hypervisored 10 Pro N virtual machine, it's ~32gb for now and runs no antivirus besides Defender because despite all the security hype I still feel barebones is the way to go. For that matter I'm pretty sure the 'N' Euro region encoding or whatever makes it a bit less of a target. No issues yet.

Yeah they know, for quite a long time. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insi ... ad2?auth=1

No known fixes helped me when I had this problem.



Well, that's quite a different beast.

So, I tried to contact Micrososft about AMA a few weeks ago and haven't got any answer.

As janitors?

I wish there was an autist hiring program for those of us who are not geniuses.

If you're asking about pay, yeah basically, skills however are demanded en masse.

Can we make the argument that the IT field is a wash and not a viable field anymore?

Sure, get me a megaphone. My supposed "I.T." consultancy client owes me a 15,000 dollar bill right now. 19k since I told him I'm not willing to do anything with that software except turn it off, unless he pays.

i'm wondering how long before AI takes it all over?

Kill all humans!

Huh. Some 15 years ago I was absolutely ecstatic about programming. But the more I work in programming, the more I hate this industry. Too much "Asshole-driven development" everywhere.

a fella named "dean betz" [a microsoft exec] attended one of our aspie meetups trolling for talent.

PM me for details & send the vampires to me.

May I ask for some more details? How was he doing it?

I can do entirely too much with anything from Microsoft so I've been challenging myself lately hardly running anything of theirs. XenoMind's probably got more interest than me in handling this type of work directly because I've been angling for any way I can work %90+ remotely, in advisory capacities. That's also just if I'm not working adjunct between my contacts in the northwest & more scholarly developers worldwide. For that matter, at the moment I've had more interest coming at me in my ability to apply all this to telecom, smaller enterprises, open source, nonprofits & the like. We can form our own standards & integration groups!

We need many more cohesive means of organization for independent public & academic work in these fields, which calls for funding from the top. For now, real life has me oh so gratefully preoccupied but I have many strings to pull for you guys.