Just wondering how this might be tied to the statistic[1] which ranks top countries (hours/week) where parents help their kids with their homework. India ranks as the top country. This might set bad habits to the students with learning, as they come more dependant to get help from their parents (and other peers) and it might also hamper their problem solving skills.
What happens to those 10 year batterylife IOT devices when they start doing blockchaining and maybe even needing to get info from server to just send the damn temperature data. Also these kind of devices might use wireless networks like LoRa with very limited bandwidths[1] and usually extremely low data caps(50 bytes per minute anyone?)
IMHO biggest problem with blockchain hypers is the denial of current status of the blockchain technology in regards of the number of transactions. For example bitcoin get around 2000 transactions per second and median confirmation time sitting in somewhere 8-9 minutes[2]. Would you like to wait 8 minutes at counter for them to confirm your payment? Likewise in IOT applications for critical temperature monitoring, would you like to know only after some time find out that your subject(person/machine) has overheaten?
Granted not all blockchain tech is equal in performance and compromises can be achieved to avoid those performance pitfalls. But at what point it would just be better to use basic signing and leave it at that(crypto engines are more or less standard features in microcontrollers).
Quoting from OP:
> He's very concise, a bit rough around the edges and got a dry sense of humor. He told me he means well and has tried to be more verbose (slack is 1/2 of all our communication). He's also tried to tone down the dry. He really enjoys working with 2/4 folks who complained about him and wants to make it better.
Defining "reasonably normal" way of interaction is hard often to define, especially with limited understanding of all parties involved. People react differently based on their backgrounds and surroundings. Granted there are cases that can not be remedied and in those cases letting people go or isolating them might be the right thing to do.
> Folks in wheelchairs have totally different, physical, problems that are way easier to deal with from the POV of a company.
I agree that some disabilities can be easier for the company to deal with(ramps, parking, elevators, toilets etc. for wheelchair user). But even these things require to people to adapt("Why i lost my parking spot/office to a neckbeard in a wheelchair?" "Why we lost our end of the year bonus to get an ramp/elevator for one hire that can't walk like rest of us?").
Some requests are too demanding, but also some requesters are too demanding, but even then some requestees(/-ted?) are too demanding.
> Yet, this is exactly what is expected of healthy staff when people with, for example, Asperger join the team and I believe it is not fair and not right.
And yet this is what "healthy" AND "sick"(?) people must do. Asperger is a "spectrum" as a part of the "spectrum" of autism, which is within the "spectrum" of human behaivior. I belive it's not fair or right to expect everybody be like you or become like you. You have rights not to like someone, but they also have right to not like you.
IMHO it would be nice to see commenters to question more on the involved parties actions and motives. Also being involved in startup can be demanding and stressful job.
-Is the SDE's workload demanding to a degree that makes it difficult to him interact with people in verbose/"flowery"/"warm" way like those people expect?
-Is the SDE not working at full capasity or competently that makes friction? Or other employees for that matter.
-What kinda interactions they are having? Are they interacting in work related discussions or are they unrelated to task at hand?
-Is it the case of backlash to asking/requesting something (work/information) not authorized relating to work/products?
-Generational and other cultural factors in play? Are peoples expectations differing from each other in regards what they consider "reasonably normal"?
-Anklebiting? Case of slowly outing someone not like them.
-Is the SDE actually a problem case or other way around?
-Can some employees affect others views of the situation, ballooning the situation to over the treshold of complaints? Supportive complaints (under social pressure?) against the defendant?
-Politics! Do you necessarily want to talk politics(and other dividing issues) in an enviroment(like i see the USA from outside) where they can be career ending or atleast really harming to relationships?
More questions are needed to be asked and less kneejerk(?) actions taken. Based on information given in this post it's really hard to say anything definitive about the case. One might have experience where the kneejerk reaction of firing might have been the right thing and other have other kind of experiences of these situations.
It's disability not be able come to terms with other people disabilities. We need to be flexible, but not too flexible so we can still keep our heads up.
(Offtopic: How do you like my sorry aspergers behind vomiting questions which people should take into consideration? Are the questions above too insulting(not fair or right) to be taken seriously? Am I too insulting to be taken seriously just becouse I (want to) ask these questions or that I would like people to be better to each other? No hard feelings, just letting my diseased my drool over my keyboard.)
Just throwing this out here, with pure speculation. I don't mean to offend anyone or cause unnecessary friction.
I suffer from aspergers in some form or another(diagnosed by Dr.). While im usually "normally" functioning, I happen to have wierd sense of humor, lack some social skills and being too concise at times. These things crop up usually when around extrovert people(like non-tech people stereotypically are) and it can cause them to feel that I'm intentionally hostile towards them, where as it's more about me(unconsiusly) feeling outside their social wavelength. I don't want to be hostile towards others, but my capabilities for social interaction often cause friction unintentionally, and some people are more sensitive to take offense becouse of it. How people react to my actions are also really varied, biggest factor(be my speculations) being their social backgrounds(groups like family/friends/prev. workplace/school/generation/culture).
Maybe what I'm trying to say that it might not be entirely fault on the sSDE. Maybe the non-tech people haven't had experience working with someone who is less extrovert than their social group before. Too many times i have seen that introvert and socially "handicapped" people are left behind just becouse they are different.
Not every anti-social behavior is malicous or intentional. People react to different interractions differently. People can learn to accept peoples differences and live with them. Working on their work relations is a good start, since sSDE has said that he wants to make it better.
--Sorry about my (personal) ramblings and bad writing(non-english speaker)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16882430