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It's not for a lack of trying I assure you. We can only interview those who accept.
by GarethX 11y ago
It's not for a lack of trying I assure you. We can only interview those who accept.
- brudgers 11y agoLooking at what Scot Hanselman is doing, I suspect that broadening the spectrum of who is deemed worthy of being invited to interview is the only way around the presumptions that establish the barriers to presenting a wider range of viewpoints drawn from a wider range of experiences. Programmers like Fogus are like Fogus and if StackExchange wants to interview programmers like Fogus then they are going to tend to get programmers like Fogus. Or to put it another way, Spolsky's high standards are understandable and reflecting them in the brand is a rational decision, but it is a branding decision. Even if StackExchange handles branding decisions better than Cognitect has with their podcast, the same forces are still in play so long as the objective is branding StackExchange rather than doing what ought to and could be done.