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by phillmv 14y ago
Of course there isn't. A programmer will probably always be a (relatively) high-skill, high-wage job. The point behind the post is that 'programmer' in business thoughtspeak means you're basically an undifferentiated commodity. "Programmers
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>I agree there should ideally be more encouragement, but I don't think it should be required for conference organizers to do that, to avoid allegations of discrimination. So, it gets more complicated than that. Most conferences can't fi
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by phillmv 14y ago
I quite liked the profile of @harper in The Atlantic the other day, even if it was a little too fawning. To me the lesson to be drawn from these articles is that the Obama campaign saw their IT infrastructure as a 'core business unit' and v
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by phillmv 14y ago
>How do you propose to fix things? Make sure you pick two or three females for at least every eight to seven males. Aim for as high a mix as you can. >how do you know they aren't being subconsciously racist/reverse-racist in exactly
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by phillmv 14y ago
I did read what you wrote. You just spelled out a very common fallacy. It is racist, and/or sexist. It's just a kind of wholesale discrimination, visavis the retail, personalized kind of racism/sexism we're more accustomed to. It's not in
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by phillmv 14y ago
To be strictly fair, I live in Toronto so that may skew my own perspectives - my graduating Computer Science class was definitely <60% white.
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by phillmv 14y ago
For posterity: I edited my comment to clarify my statement prior to seeing this comment. Half of all people are women. !caucasians and !males are probably at least 30% of the industry, especially when you consider how minorities are overr
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by phillmv 14y ago
Yeah, 51% of the population are also women .
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by phillmv 14y ago
Listen, white guy, the simplest counter argument is that white guys just aren't 100% of the field. They're probably <60-70% of the field. So yeah, you do end up with a problem if somehow, conference after conference, we only field white
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by phillmv 14y ago
That's a very nice sentiment, but it won't fly if you're trying to provide third party authentication in a manner that minimizes the potential for fraud (hence, the oauth clusterfuck).
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by phillmv 14y ago
Because you're only beholden to the people who live in your ward, you only really have the interests of those specific 10-50 thousand people (less in smaller cities, more in larger ones) in mind. This, it turns out, really harms the capacit
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by phillmv 14y ago
I feel like I can't contribute much further than Yglesias did, >Political partisanship is kind of like representative democracy itself—a terrible mess, but clearly superior to the alternatives. After all, we don't need to guess at what
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by phillmv 14y ago
My only problem is that they don't version the docs. I couldn't care less if it were easy to find the docs. I had to revisit a bootstrap 1 site I put together for a client and it was very annoying to track down the documentation. I consider
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by phillmv 14y ago
It's a matter of resource allocation. If you hire lots of, I don't know, compiler specialists but you allocate them to write web apps we're all possibly worse off. The issue is, and what you're not cottoning on to, is that in a company the
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by phillmv 14y ago
Everyone's allowed to take pride in a job well done. What's pathetic in that?
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by phillmv 14y ago
raising funds != success What was that comparison? No one says, "congratulations on that huge loan you just took out!". I'm sure the team was great, but I'm confused as to why we should be lauding this state of affairs. If they were making
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by phillmv 14y ago
Why is that even something worth working on? I find modules work pretty good.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Of course, you are correct. I'll have to modify my attempts at witticism in the future.
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Crowdfunding startups has always sounded to me like the best way to hide risk from retail investors seeking a quick buck since the invention of the mortgage backed security credit default swap.
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by phillmv 14y ago
You're still making an originalist argument. Who cares what Alexander Hamilton had to say about anything? He's dead. To steal a quote from the Economist article I linked to above, suppose we fast forward this conversation fifty years. Do we
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by phillmv 14y ago
>But would the lower/middle classes be able to afford them? Or as readily? I'm in favour of globalization. I agree with you that they'd be more expensive (it'd be interesting to determine what percentage of the iphone's cost is due to l
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by phillmv 14y ago
>but it would be interesting to see how quickly the greater affordability of homes started driving the prices. This was probably one of the leading causes of it. However, you know what contributed the most? Greenspan lowering interest r
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by phillmv 14y ago
I'm not an American so I only have a passing knowledge of what you're referring to, BUT: That depends on whether you believe in an originalist interpretation of the constitution. Like most legal theories, it's up for debate but I'm not in t
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by phillmv 14y ago
Standard social welfare and insurance comes to mind. There are many possible policies, but that's the outlook at least.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>I would believe US is far better of at this than any other country I know of. It's not a leader overall. It may have the most billionaires, but if you're looking at average outcomes you're probably best off in Norway. >I think any
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by phillmv 14y ago
1. What constitutional limit? >Yet we don't realize that it was precisely the largeness of the government and its influence on the market and money that caused the crisis. 2. Just how was overregulation responsible for a massive price
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by phillmv 14y ago
Barely felt a prick? Really? That's 9+% unemployment to you? Or the millions of foreclosures?
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>The moment you enter the game the advantage is already favoring the rich. If you're progressive, the idea is to try to level the playing fields somewhat. We don't have to equalize them, just try to improve everyone's odds a little bit.
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It always pays off to be an elite. It's just even better now than it was in the 1950s-1970s.
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by phillmv 14y ago
You're missing the point entirely. The point is, the process which you describe above where pluck and hard work will get you everything is only possible in states whose ruling structure is inclusive and not extractive – i.e. you can open a

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