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Sorry, I meant to say software architect.

It's a job. Why should culture matter so much?

Condescension combined with a narrow view on diversity, that's a good look.

> Most people can't begin to program

Where did you pull this assertion from? There are a wide range of skills and behaviors that go into programming, and I see those attributes in people from all walks of life. Programmers are just the ones who've sat in front of a computer long enough to apply them in the same context.

It sounds like you're suggesting that the person who gets the project 80% done and needs a "closer" to help finish it is a bad thing. Isn't this a perfect example of good teamwork?

Probably because you say terrible things like, "why aren't we also forced to work with black female 10x programmers no matter how much we might dislike them?", and all the people with money, voice, and hiring authority look to people like you for validation.

It's a linear scaling factor for how many lines of code I tend to take to express the same medium-sized program across these languages.

At a certain point succinctness does more harm than good. Go captures nearly all of the sense of python's early values (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/), without requiring all that much more in the way of boilerplate. So you have to if-check an error value here and there, no big deal. You should be handling errors anyway.

If Haskell's succinctness level is 1, then I would rate python's at 2, go's at 4, and java's at 20.

Just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you should spend all that intelligence trying to figure out other people's messes. Simplicity and explicitness are paramount when collaborating.

Gross.

On the contrary, good satire is often founded upon deep insights.

For shitredditsays, there's also a lot of quoting and satire to account for.

I'm totally being helpful. If you increase the sincerity of the code (and remove the stupid non-apology and change the spiteful name) and provide more diverse oversight then you will have an immediate positive impact.

There is a well known and studied lack of diversity in the open source community, and particularly in linux kernel development. Putting this code in place is meant to address that, so it's reasonable to point out the various half-measures.

I love how grudging this is. It's like when someone apologizes for you feeling a certain way, rather than for what they did. Half the "code" is claiming that nothing is wrong and the kernel is perfect because reasons, and the TAB is 80% white guys. Isn't meritocracy perfect?

On the other hand, this is a step in the right direction and I'm not a kernel developer, so I shouldn't nit pick too much.

I think you're engaging in the common fallacy of dismissing things that happen on the internet as "not real." It's long past time we, as a society, grew out of such childish thinking.

For every randomly sampled population of 1000 humans, you can expect to find at least one or two people who identify as trans (and probably more who are too afraid or uncertain to publicly identify themselves). This is what I mean by everywhere.

Which is also not a radical subculture.

Calling these cultures "radical subcultures" is dismissive. What you're seeing is a more complete expression of humanity. Past media have generally filtered out much of the diversity and angst inherent in human lives, and that tradition has been carried forward to varying degrees by many social media networks.

Suicide is everywhere. Trans people are everywhere. Minorities are everywhere. Tumblr just isn't sweeping it under the rug as much as some other sites.

You don't think it could have anything to do with attitudes toward women in each respective field?

Segregation is not harmful in itself. It depends on how it's applied. It's easy to see that this doesn't map to Jim Crow, and a lot of disingenuous people try to make it map anyway to serve their own agenda.

That's what they'd like you to think.

Or maybe get better at finding and attracting all the talent that already exists in the US. A lot of people won't go near a SV startup with a 10 ft pole.

This looks like a longer, simpler form of twitter's 64-bit snowflake.

Another error the author made is adding to a sync.WaitGroup in a different goroutine than the one that waits. This is another rookie mistake that go test -race would probably catch.

You're trying to show how the active and passive sense of verbs contrast, but your examples are inconsistent. Let's keep A and B fixed.

"A eats B" -> "B is eaten by A". Makes total sense!

"A comprises B" -> "B is comprised by A". This makes sense too!

However, no one uses "comprised of" this way. The overwhelmingly common usage is "A is comprised of B", when what is really meant is "A comprises B". In other words, people rarely use the active form of "to comprise", and when they use the passive form they usually invert its meaning.

Arguably that's just how language works, and of course I can carry a conversation with someone who speaks this way without skipping a beat. But the written compendium of all the world's knowledge should aspire to slightly higher formality.

If companies didn't remove targets of takedown requests immediately and without scrutiny, then user content on the internet would not be able to exist.

This is where I think Paul Graham gets it wrong:

> Exceptional programmers have an aptitude for and interest in programming that is not merely the product of training.

This is the old "you're either an exceptional programmer or you're not" myth. This is one reason why diversity in tech has regressed since the 80s.

I agree that geopolitical boundaries should matter less in the software business. However, I strongly disagree that this is the solution to programmer scarcity. Expanding your source of resumes to the entire world only delays the inevitable. Why focus on removing the dependency on the passport variable, when we still have such a strong dependency on gender and race?

Nothing happened merely because he held opinions. It was when he began expressing them in a harmful and embarrassing manner that it became a problem for him.

I've had a lot of dealings with the "I'm just expressing my opinions" crowd. I think it's a disingenuous claim. You're not being shunned merely for opinions, you're being shunned because your application of those opinions is actively harmful.