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Re:Being a Developer After 40 by foldr on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:47AM (#11571784)
How do you figure that getting a more diverse group of people interested in programming will make us more homogenous? Seems like it ought to do the opposite.
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Re:Being a Developer After 40 by exstudent2 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:51AM (#11571804)
We shouldn't be "getting" anyone to do anything. People should be celebrated for making their own choices, even if that means not being an engineer. The push to make everyone a STEM professional us what's homogenizing.
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Re:Being a Developer After 40 by interpol_p on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:58AM (#11572412)
But we are "getting" people to do things now by supporting a culture that stigmatises the choices that people make if they are not deemed appropriate for their class, gender or race.
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