Seriously? This felt incredibly out of place in the article, it seems like its just pandering for clicks (lets talk about how women, minorities, and 'non-tech' people don't have a place in tech for the millionth time!). Not to mention the quote could have worked similarly with 'asian male' and 'indian male'. Why are you erasing the identities of other overrepresented people in tech?
Not true. And trust me, I hate substanceless articles as much as the next person. But once you get past the opening, the article is about mindsets, which are much more interesting.
>Imagine code written like that. Just the imagination is the pure horror.
People don't write code the way they write prose. If they did, Steve Yegge and Yossi Kreinin would have been fired years ago (what makes for good prose doesn't make for good code).