I'm amazed that posting this article here resulted in good discussion while posting it to Reddit's /r/programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/

I'm amazed that posting this article here resulted in good discussion while posting it to Reddit's /r/programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/276oxb/where_are_the_african_programmers/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/276oxb/where_ar...) only results in downvotes... That probably says something about differences in outlook between those two forums.