Take a good long hard look in the mirror and repeat after me, "I am part of the problem. I have no business preaching about a profession of which I don't belong"
If I go to a conference I want to listen to the best and the brightest, not the most "under-represented" or whatever trendy bullshit it is this week.
This used to be a respectable profession. Funny how it's being destroyed from the outside and not from within.
Oh look, it's hackernews! Business graduates discussing at length their irrelevant ideals that no actual developer gives a holy fuck about.
I am removing everything I put on github, right now, and it's a lot. Don't like what their doing? Fuck them, they are popular because we shoved our code into it.
The best part of this all is, I am willing to bet I know what Linus's (the creator of git for all you retards) opinion of this whole thing is.
More business graduates gravitating to the "tech" field full of useless piffy advice peddling themselves and their shoddy unoriginal offerings. When will these people realize they are like chefs who can't cook, nobody cares what they think.
I know I'm in the belly of the beast here but you all need to hear it.
I'm not American, I don't live in America, and I can to a degree I can understand all this retardation coming from a country with such a rich history of overt racism. But goddamn the internet != america and these international tech companies having to pander to you delicate tulips is getting old.
Hell, why not go after Samsung for hiring too many Koreans.
No, your the problem. Hysterical social-justice-warrior making problems where there is none. There was a study done not long ago that shows the number of people taking computer science was predominately white and male. And the fact is any company that does not have a workforce along those numbers (pinterest for example) should be considered as having suspect hiring practises.
But hey it's only bigotry against "white" "males" and it hip to be ok with that nowadays, right HN?
although the account is new I've been lurking for some time. [deleted tirade] in short, no I would not and am not surprised. this article was a nugget buried inside a mountain of irrelevant shit.
I'm always humbled when I see other peoples soldering skills. goddamn. And I love reading this type of stuff, doing things just "because". I found a rusty usb under a overpass a few months ago, after some cleaning/soldering/tricks I was finally able to read it and it turned out to be some kids schoolwork from 3 years ago haha
on a side I would suggest posting this over at hackaday, the marketers-pretending-to-be-hackers crowd here won't appreciate this.