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That can only work if, on average, prisoners in prisons are innately better at programming than programmers in offices. Otherwise there may not be a competitive
by meric 13y ago
That can only work if, on average, prisoners in prisons are innately better at programming than programmers in offices. Otherwise there may not be a competitive advantage, there may even be a competitive disadvantage.
- csallen 13y agoMaybe, but the point of my hypothetical isn't to prove that prisoners can be good programmers. It's to show that lobbying for more prisoners doesn't necessarily mean that you are exploiting said prisoners. It simply means they are helpful to you.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoAny time you create an economic demand for more prisoners, you are exploiting people some of whom are not prisoners yet.
- rhizome 13y agoThat can only work if, on average, prisoners in prisons are innately better at programming than programmers in offices. It's been made abundantly clear in the "10x programmer" threads that there is no valid way to measure programmer productivity, so from where exactly does the speculative average here derive?