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Great analysis, although I don't completely agree with this statement: "GitHub, a company that, having raised $350 million in venture capital, was not going to make it as an independent entity."

If it is referring to the fact that, in the crazy VC spiral of the startups world, once you have received such a big investment, a sale to a big corp is the only choice, then I sadly agree. But GitHub could have been an independent entity with a sustainable business, if they had not fallen into VC's startups trap. I have to agree with DHH here: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1003611913924894720. We need more independent software companies instead of only having 5 big players.

My response may sound stupid, but the question asked how much the increase in percentage was... So I just answered the question.

I guess 100% (doubling it), since he wrote that he was cutting it in half before

So what do you suggest, for example in this case?

This is creepy. First, there is no serious scientific proof that your facial expression can tell if you are homosexual or not. Correlations here are total garbage. Sexuality is a really complex thing to discuss and, most importantly, is a private thing. Second, software detecting if someone is gay or not seems to me quite similar to jews being forced to wear the Star of David in Nazi Germany, so everyone could spot them and act against them, including people being wrongly labeled. Seriously guys, stop this. We have to be really careful about the potential uses our software. There can be serious impacts in society and in people lives.

This article may help:

Why Asking Developers for Time Estimates in Software Projects Is a Terrible Idea and How to Bypass It With Scrum: http://www.romenrg.com/blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers...

Thank you for writing this. I was about to write it myself to stop this madness. It seems to me that most people don't even have a clue about what software development is about. That's the only possible explanation for this classification as a blue collar job.

Agreed. Cash is key to privacy and to prevent totalitarian states from doing even more mass surveillance, controlling every single thing we buy.