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Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context

a chapter from A Mind-Body Look at the Concept of Asperger's Syndrome (pdf) by Michael Samsel, LMHC

A Hacker News discussion (2021) on this list

Uncommunicative Eye Contact

In humans, eye contact is the center of the attachment system. In Asperger's Syndrome there is either an avoidance of eye contact (most common) or an unvarying, relative unblinking, staring, constant eye contact (less common). Avoidant eye contact gives an impression of 'having something to hide', and also eliminates a big channel of communication and trust. Staring eye contact, because of its unchanging nature, is also uncommunicative, and is generally experienced as disturbing on the receiving end.

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Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

Orthodox C++

What is Orthodox C++?

Orthodox C++ (sometimes referred as C+) is minimal subset of C++ that improves C, but avoids all unnecessary things from so called Modern C++. It's exactly opposite of what Modern C++ suppose to be.

Why not Modern C++?

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	#!/usr/bin/python3
	#
	# Simple Bloom filter implementation in Python 3
	# Copyright 2017 Hector Martin "marcan" <[email protected]>
	# Licensed under the terms of the MIT license
	#
	# Written to be used with the Have I been pwned? password list:
	# https://haveibeenpwned.com/passwords
	#
	# Download the pre-computed filter here (968MB, k=11, false positive p=0.0005):

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name HN Ignorance Is Bliss
	// @description Hide your comment scores and karma counters. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203
	// @author sillysaurus3
	// @version 1.0
	// @match ://news.ycombinator.com/
	// @grant none
	// @downloadURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw
	// @updateURL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e4c7ec6f6bb96c94ef5c/raw
	// ==/UserScript==

	this.ycQuestions = [
	"So what are you working on?",
	"Have you raised funding?",
	"What makes new users try you?",
	"What competition do you fear most?",
	"What’s the worst thing that has happened?",
	"Will you reincorporate as a US company?",
	"What’s an impressive thing you have done?",
	"Where is the rocket science here?",
	"Why did you pick this idea to work on?",

	==========================
	How Software Companies Die
	==========================
	- Orson Scott Card

	The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
	marketing types - and vice versa.

	Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
	you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into

	// Usage:
	// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
	// then use as follows:
	//
	// query(term \| [term, term, ...], term \| [term, term, ...], ...)
	//
	// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
	//
	// Term is of the format:
	// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )