Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ...
by FT_intern on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:03PM
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Gender and race are orthogonal to shortsightedness and nerdiness.
>diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check.
The term diversity by itself has no meaning. One needs to specify how groups of people are split up whenever using the word "diversity". Are we splitting the groups up by race, gender, economic class, technology experiences, etc.?
There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.
Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ...
by sjc_native1980s on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:31PM
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There's a happy gray area between less c/overt bias/discrimination and promoting people whom aren't qualified/interested to ameliorate guilt of the former.
Re:Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity ...
by awfgylbcxhrey on Thursday January 05, 2017 @12:10PM
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I'm not particularly interested in gender and race, I'm interested in culture. Gender and race happen to be pretty easy metrics to break up monoculture on a typical programming team.
The term diversity by itself has no meaning.
Yes it does.
There are very valid arguments for diversity in working styles/technology expertise. The same can't be said for diversity in race/gender.
Okay, thanks for the tautology.
In my opinion, no. It's been my experience that a large portion of programmers are the type to easily lose track of the real goal (delivering a product that generates business value) in favor of relatively unimportant details.
To make this short and blunt: I've watched a pair of mega-nerds geek out for a week, over-engineering and prematurely optimizing an unimportant feature. I've also watched an adult have an absolute emotional meltdown over curly brace placement.
In my opinion, diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check.