The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults

So it sounds a lot like the US is heading down the gov.uk path, which, as a small business owner in the UK I can say has been a big improvement.

I can't begin to imagine the scale of such a monster in the US, ten times the population for starters makes it an order of magnitude bigger.

UPDATE: fail on the US population, I thought it was 700 million - didn't bother to check

Definitely bigger, but not quite ten times. More like five (318 vs 65 million) [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

Wow the title of the article is pretty insulting. You're not an adult unless you're in a suit or business casual attire? I thought this sentence was pretty biased and disparaging as well:

> So if you do take a job at the White House, you may want to bring your own snacks, expect to work at a desk, not a couch, and hold off on bringing your skateboard to work.

Wired's framing of this story is entirely to generate rageviews. And if it stays on the HN front page for a day because we hate it so much we have to comment, it will be one of their top articles for this month, and mission accomplished.

The fact that majority of people think programmers are superhuman... I can live with that.