Interesting Links for 24-05-2013

[andrewducker]

• SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'
  (tags: autism )
• How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
  (tags: computers autism )
• What does the next generation of mobile internet look like?
  (tags: internet phones )
• EU shelves plans to ban refillable olive oil jugs
  (tags: europe )
• If you commit a crime

Comments

[drdoug]

I'm already dubbing his 'Geometric Unity' theory Wrelativity.

[kerrypolka]

Edinburgh trams: Overhead cables to go up during summer

I don't even live in Edinburgh, and even I responded to this mentally with "HAH!"

[ashfae]

I think you get an Honorary Edinburgher sticker for this. =)

[cahwyguy]

To be precise, Andrew's link is to my entire blog (so you'll get a different story later today when I do my lunchtime post -- of course, I encourage you to read that as well -- it will be a bunch of articles on media). If you want the specific item on things parents miss, go directly to this post. You'll also find in that post links to articles about things students will miss.

[andrewducker]

Well _that_ was particularly stupid of me. I must have been half-asleep when I linked to it!

[cahwyguy]

Well, I'm not going to object. I'd love to get more people reading and commenting on the blog as a whole (or even on the LiveJournal or Dreamwidth journal to which it is mirrored, hint, hint :-)).

[ice_hesitant]

- wishing they had sold things I no longer needed (5%)

I also wish to have sold things the author of that article no longer needs. It does seem like a financial best practice to sell other people's stuff and pocket the proceeds.

[steer]

I have to feel slightly sorry for the woman in collision with the cyclist -- it sounds more like a cyclist hit her and she just phrased it badly. But that's the internet for you -- "justice" happens before facts.

[andrewducker]

That's her side of the story, expressed _after_ she posted saying that she'd knocked him off his bike and got in trouble for it. His side of the story is that she hit him, while she was travelling on the wrong side of the road.

At the moment, I'm more inclined to believe him than her.

[steer]

His version of the story makes no sense whatsoever mind you.

"I bounced back off the car and went through a hedge for about 20 metres. I managed to keep control of the bike; the back brake had locked but I managed to rejoin the road and stop in the middle of it."

Guess we will never know who's right... only who got all the abuse.