I found the part of the article where it talks about the what if situation about Japan getting rid of work visa to be really interesting. Honestly it shocked me, and has changed the way I think.
Also I never thought of it this way, but feminism/brogrammers are super similar in the way they try to colonize nerd culture.
A lot of unskilled people are trying to get a career in tech for its perks. They are not good at it or as good as they should be for the industry standard. When they get called on it, they hide behind something like feminism.
Essentially it's all about grabbing power in our community via subversion rather than skill.
And This is a problem because computer programming is intensely logical problem. It requires a lot of skill.
I'm glad I read this article, I feel like I understand people like Linus Torvald a little bit more.
Before all those late-night commercials in the late '90's ("Make $70K a year!!!") only people that were interested in computers chose a career in them. We make, on average, twice the national average (for U.S.) salary of our peers: people that want the bucks will move in, whether they enjoy bits and bytes or not.
TBF, software development itself is only a relatively small part of the whole tech industry - marketing, communications, recruitment, even food supply and whatnot are all part of it. Just because there's more people that want to work for one of the cool companies, doesn't mean they're actually infringing on the domain of the weird nerd hacker/programmer.
Also I never thought of it this way, but feminism/brogrammers are super similar in the way they try to colonize nerd culture.
A lot of unskilled people are trying to get a career in tech for its perks. They are not good at it or as good as they should be for the industry standard. When they get called on it, they hide behind something like feminism.
Essentially it's all about grabbing power in our community via subversion rather than skill. And This is a problem because computer programming is intensely logical problem. It requires a lot of skill.
I'm glad I read this article, I feel like I understand people like Linus Torvald a little bit more.