It makes a difference when the path to the field, and the field itself, is hostile to non-straight, white, men. Reading through the comments here there's a lot of really angry, hostile, dismissive posts. Which certainly doesn't help counter the argument by TFA..
Exactly. It's the same zero-sum, majority-privileged mentality. Someone wants to have a women-only programming class? The straight white male cries "Discrimination!!" You know, because the mere existence of such a thing DENIES him his "right." It's fucking pathetic.
Yes. When developer salaries rise to match the salaries to those in medicine, then the field will get flooded with all types of people looking to do development work. This will include women. That's economics 101: supply and demand.
Have you seen the salaries being offered at Google, et. al these days?
Simply increasing salaries mostly means you get people who get into a field simply for the money.
Increase your outside hobbies to fulfill the "boredom" you feel, and maybe that'll cure your blues.
The answer also REALLY depends on age, relationship, family, etc. More so than can really be addressed here on Slashdot. The fact that you ARE asking is a good sign, though:)
Do you want to become an architect at some point, so you are able to make the big decisions and decide direction? That may be an option if you want to keep some of the perks of your current job. Do some night classes or w/e and make the move!
Depends on what it's being used for. For small-scale transactions in time and value - e.g. turning $7 into BTC to immediately buy a CD - a relatively unstable currency is fine.
Of I could just use the $7 and buy the CD directly.
Kathy Davies Muzzey of Wilmington, N.C., said she hid the car keys from her husband, John, on Tuesday night because he was thinking about driving to Chapel Hill for the Duke-UNC basketball game. He has missed only two games between the rivals since he left school in the late 1960s.
Yeah, driving in a snow storm for a fucking college basketball game. Good to see people's priorities are straight!
Soo Keith of Raleigh left work about a little after noon, thinking she would have plenty of time to get home before the worst of the snow hit.
Instead, Keith, who is three months pregnant, drove a few miles in about two hours and decided to park and start walking, wearing dress shoes and a coat that wouldn’t zip over her belly.
Do people not read the news or weather forecasts or something?
They don't leak right away, so obviously the ones that leak later are cheaper. At least on the balance sheet at the end of the quarter that the tank was installed, which is all that matters in corporate finance.
No doubt, but he didn't know how to innovate or even keep up with new technologies and markets. Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it. Their strategy lately is almost monkey throwing darts. Let's try this! No, this! No, that!
At the same time they poisoned their own corporate environment and created a ton of churn in their lower ranks, bleeding young new talent to rivals and startups.
Lately? No, that's pretty much been their strategy SINCE the 80s. Enter into every market possible, promise that their solution will blow everyone else's away (see: FUD), and then maybe, just maybe, the 3rd version will work correctly.
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OK, internet tough guy. I hope you record their "royal ass kicking" for the court so you can be sued for assault & battery.
It makes a difference when the path to the field, and the field itself, is hostile to non-straight, white, men. Reading through the comments here there's a lot of really angry, hostile, dismissive posts. Which certainly doesn't help counter the argument by TFA..
Exactly. It's the same zero-sum, majority-privileged mentality.
Someone wants to have a women-only programming class? The straight white male cries "Discrimination!!"
You know, because the mere existence of such a thing DENIES him his "right."
It's fucking pathetic.
Yea, there was a Ruby workshop I was interested in attending; but seems it was only open to women
So go to a different one. Stop treating this as some ridiculous zero-sum game.
Yes. When developer salaries rise to match the salaries to those in medicine, then the field will get flooded with all types of people looking to do development work. This will include women. That's economics 101: supply and demand.
Have you seen the salaries being offered at Google, et. al these days?
Simply increasing salaries mostly means you get people who get into a field simply for the money.
Somebody should invent the FDIC!
...but with BitCoins!
Bitcoin was fine...
Nope. Not even close. The blockchain size is getting unwieldy, the entire system is still 51% attack vulnerable, etc.
You have no idea what "critical thinking" actually means.
Programming is a technical skill. Anyone can learn to do it.
That seems pointless when you can just click the Deny button.
Increase your outside hobbies to fulfill the "boredom" you feel, and maybe that'll cure your blues.
The answer also REALLY depends on age, relationship, family, etc. More so than can really be addressed here on Slashdot. The fact that you ARE asking is a good sign, though :)
Do you want to become an architect at some point, so you are able to make the big decisions and decide direction? That may be an option if you want to keep some of the perks of your current job. Do some night classes or w/e and make the move!
Yeah, how DARE anyone have a dissenting opinion on ANYTHING!
Depends on what it's being used for. For small-scale transactions in time and value - e.g. turning $7 into BTC to immediately buy a CD - a relatively unstable currency is fine.
Of I could just use the $7 and buy the CD directly.
Pounds sperging.
Autism kroner.
Bitcoin was never "fine." Except maybe when it was still a PDF.
It is if your bitcoins were held in MtGox and you couldn't withdraw them to another exchange.
When will the goats hatch?
Not everyone has your texting plan. WhatsApp does group chats very well. That's enough for people to find it useful.
There's nothing stopping people from taking off their Glass when it is socially inappropriate to wear it.
Sounds like there's a lot of Glass owners who don't know what "socially inappropriate" means. Hence the etiquette list?
you could just go back to playing Bejeweled for free.
Kathy Davies Muzzey of Wilmington, N.C., said she hid the car keys from her husband, John, on Tuesday night because he was thinking about driving to Chapel Hill for the Duke-UNC basketball game. He has missed only two games between the rivals since he left school in the late 1960s.
Yeah, driving in a snow storm for a fucking college basketball game. Good to see people's priorities are straight!
Soo Keith of Raleigh left work about a little after noon, thinking she would have plenty of time to get home before the worst of the snow hit.
Instead, Keith, who is three months pregnant, drove a few miles in about two hours and decided to park and start walking, wearing dress shoes and a coat that wouldn’t zip over her belly.
Do people not read the news or weather forecasts or something?
They don't leak right away, so obviously the ones that leak later are cheaper. At least on the balance sheet at the end of the quarter that the tank was installed, which is all that matters in corporate finance.
And we all know how free and open the PRC is.
Nope.
No doubt, but he didn't know how to innovate or even keep up with new technologies and markets. Microsoft has been floundering for the past decade, riding the momentum they built up in the 80's and 90's but never successfully adding to it. Their strategy lately is almost monkey throwing darts. Let's try this! No, this! No, that!
At the same time they poisoned their own corporate environment and created a ton of churn in their lower ranks, bleeding young new talent to rivals and startups.
Lately? No, that's pretty much been their strategy SINCE the 80s. Enter into every market possible, promise that their solution will blow everyone else's away (see: FUD), and then maybe, just maybe, the 3rd version will work correctly.
The problem is acerbated over time since engineers don't have time or opportunity to procreate, so the next generation has even fewer of them.
Thank for you for the biggest laugh I've had reading Slashdot in a while.