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Re:This Open Source Coder Wants to be a Congressman by eropple on Friday March 14, 2014 @09:53PM (#7403138)
"He recognizes other people are underrepresented too and that makes what I am less important" is pretty weird. It's not healthy to be so defensive that inclusion makes you feel unimportant (let alone identifying that strongly with "being a developer," that's kinda creepy).

It's not unlike the "equality means I lose" mindset of the "men's rights" asshats.

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Re:This Open Source Coder Wants to be a Congressman by Fomite on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:03PM (#7403302)
Exactly this.

An incredibly even handed statement about how it's not just software developers, but entire classes of workers who have no actual congressional voice, and the interest in trying to apply problem solving on a system level somehow reduces the importance of programmers?

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