On 02/11/2016 06:53 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
I know some will disagree with me, but I will say it anyway: IT community, especially developers, are known for poor social skills... People tend to forget that...
There may be a certain *small* level of truth to that, but most of it is nothing more than decades of Hollywood's pejorative stereotyping. And people being naive enough to believe what they see in the fiction that was produced by people who have spent decades proving themselves to have zero comprehension of basic reality, let alone even a basic high-school level research ability.
It's the standard old Hollywood complete and total disconnect with reality - hell, look how they portray Tourette's a having a relationship to swearing (which is just plain bizarre to anyone actually capable of spending a mere one minute on a basic web search), or how cracking security always involves playing a 3D puzzle game. And then there's the oddity that any time a writer or director uses a computer in real life, the machine is clearly built to detect it's being used by Hollywood personnel, so all login systems automatically switch from the normal "Username and Password don't match \ Incorrect login \ Password was incorrect" to a flashing red "ACCESS DENIED". Because presumably they actually see this flashing red "ACCESS DENIED" when they actually do use a computer in real life, because they couldn't really be THAT dumb when producing a film, right? At least that's the only explanation I can come up with for its appearance in otherwise "realistic" movies, at least aside from LSD...which really could explain all the rest of their delusions too...hmm...
Hollywood mental flakes spend decades inventing and reinforcing their own myopic stereotypes, such as "technical ability == dorks with no social skills", most likely because they feel threatened by people with at least half a function brain (which most of them clearly lack), and then the masses believe it, and it becomes *cough* "fact". That's all there is to it.
