But... https://xkcd.com/927/

https://browserleaks.com/canvas

My brother & I have read up on it quite a bit, and think that it's a combo of genetics triggered by environmental sources. There is a similar gene that is related to ADD, Bi-polar & Schizophrenia. Which we all have the first 2 of the 3.

My father, & his father were both mechanics, with my father's brother who showed the most signs of being possible autistic as well.

It does appear to skip around. I've a younger son also who was born way early in my life at 19. He doesn't show much signs of it. My younger brother doesn't either nor younger half sister.

It's a strong correleation for me personally that it's definitely genetic but seems to vary on some triggering factor in gestation or the tech environment of today's constant barrage of stimulation. The rise in diagnosis correlates to mass farming also on large scales. But also correlation doesn't mean causation.

I'd agree it's genetic, but with multifaceted triggers which is like cancer that could cause or trigger either.

I've also considered it's just our evolutionary path to a more tech geared world. I would be curious to see the rates of autism in 3rd world or outside untainted tribes.

Some reading, - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2018/suspect-mole...

- https://www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/

Those who slam spaghetti code. Posit: Lasagna is just spaghetti flavored cake. Too many abstracted layers to fulfill a request. Down the layers, & back up, just to fulfill a simple request.

Autoloading can be expensive as well for I/O until cache is involved, especially with large code pools. Caching isn't optimization.

Trim the fat, reduce layers, use leaner pasta & or less special sauce.

If you've started tweaking costs/time from the ingredients & cooking process (lower level, OS, daemons, etc.) to start then move onto frameworks/libraries; it's less to consume & healthier. Ie., cache invalidation is much faster which should be at the end of your optimization journey.

Fundamentals are being abstracted away daily, while it's great for rapid prototyping & easier maintenance of code. It's imperative to understand problem spaces before delivering a solution.

A very highly recommended book is:

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HHORGA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...

The demo scene is a very good example to attempt to mimic with the culture of optimization. It's been bragging rights way early on. https://www.pouet.net/ granted hardware is much faster than it was back in the olden days. But a quick note from admiring their creations you get a taste for older hardware & milking every cycle you can. Maybe forcing younger up & coming devs to use older hardware means they'll appreciate it more & you'll know on current hardware it'll fly.

Another thing to think of is the von Neumann bottleneck & how it was solved (partially) with cache levels or Harvard architecture. I/O is a basis for optimization.

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

With all of the above said, I'm agreeing whole heatedly with the article & yourself as it's nice to see others focused on this as it seems to be a dieing breed.

I'll leave this here for web developers: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

It's a shame to see so much bloated, over abstracted development these days with more emphasis on delivery than doing one thing well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

After seeing what the demo scene is able to pull off in very little code makes me hope that the art of fundamentals & single responsibility principals like in Unix/Linux resonates with younger developers the ability of truly understanding a problem scope before implementing a solution. Above all else have fun with it, be curious on even a low level how your program functions at an os & hardware levels. Things like what is the von Neumann bottleneck? Or even those building boolean logic gates in minecraft is inspiring to want to know "how does it work? And why?"

Having paid for sublime and PHP storm, both have vim modes. But I prefer nano (yes I'm one of those lol ;-) )