I was speaking more about the use of the term advantage by OP. When these types of discussions arise people often talk about how it's unfair about giving someone an advantage over others.
The problem is it doesn't go any deeper than the surface, about the underlying advantage that some parts of society have that others don't. It simplifies the discussion into an almost child like argument about who gets the sweets and assumes that it's a zero sum game.
I am a strong believer in meritocracy, but I also am aware of the actually reality of society means that it doesn't perfectly exist. I feel that if people feel strongly about meritocracy they should be open to increasing the funnel of people that can participate.
As other have said this problem doesn't seem to be self correcting in the tech industry, and if promoting someone just because they are female is something people try I don't really have a problem with it. I have seen many people in my career in this industry promoted for worse reasons.
barriers to starting a company are not based on getting permission, as you rightly say there are other factors such as social economic.
The fact that you were able to start your own company and succeed is a mixture of your upbringing, your standing in society as much as your intelligence and access to capital.
It's a common fallacy to think that just working harder or having the grit to strike out is the only factor. I would suggest that line of thinking would lead to some form of survivorship bias.
I would reflect on the fact that computing isn't just a market based economy. That is just on facet and even then you're assuming that entry to the market is equal.
Have a look at Uncle Bob's fitness app, IIRC this is written using the red green refactor cycle, in fact I would suspect most of his other code on github will be the same.
This is true, I live in Hong Kong. It's easy to find yourself in an apartment, internet/phone, electricity provided by LKS. Then you go downstairs to the shopping centre that's part of your apartment and the food store, the pharmacy and the shopping centre itself are also owned by LKS.
Hong Kong, is owned by a bunch of families, it's as far from a free market and is more like a capitalist aristocracy.
For HA you simply run a distributor process for each logical event on windows cluster and add as many worker nodes as you see fit.
Because NServiceBus uses the store and forward pattern if a NServiceBus process/machine hosting it goes down, you are still guaranteed the eventual delivery of messages when the process/machine is resumed.
In Hong Kong and mainland china whatsapp is pretty ubiquous,its shown on adverts and business cards as a contact method. Some mobile carriers make whatsapp data traffic free on most plans.
Also the big reason in mainland china is that Facebook is blocked there :)
It's full HD 1080p IPS screen, switchable intel HD/ nvidia graphics, expandable RAM and HD. I've had one since November and find the keyboard and build quality to be excellent.
Since I bought it I've upgraded the HD to a SSD and add a additional 8gb for ram to bring it up to 10gb total.