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To extreme this could ban Github in most of Europe.
It is also probably against Github license agreement.
> nothing true is ever said in Florida
> you can't be sexist to men
> straight people don't deserve pride
There is a good brand, existing user base, big customers with references...
Lean distributed company could make a good profit here with minimal investment.
- Even church agreed that Earth is not static, but is rotating.
- Nobody observed star parallax, major proof for Copernican model was missing until 19th century.
- Ptolemaic model with its epicycles provided better predictions.
- Copernican model is also wrong, planets are orbiting around center of gravity, which is outside of sun..
In other terms, image as coder you are paid by number of lines you produce. And there is no compiler, no unit tests...
My point is that many women voted for those rules. This problem could be solved in a single election.
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> To carve out a safe space on campus where black students can get support from people who look like them and share similar backgrounds
> That’s one reason another institution, the University of Connecticut, earlier this year announced a living community specifically for black men.... the school pointed out that young men of all backgrounds will be permitted to apply to the living community,
I think this is just a word-game and schools are backpedaling to remove ugly word 'segregation'. But in reality 99.9% people in those safe-spaces will be black.
It is nice they do something for men, but it will not help unless underlying sexism is solved.
> Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent “racist attacks” on campus, such as “racially insensitive remarks” and “microaggressions”
I think progressive black activists are supporting racial segregation. One university even offers segregated housing.
- It is a form of compensation. Cash/stock is preferred form here. To get other benefits (private office, remote) look at different place.
- Office space is at premium, private offices are expensive. Again look somewhere else.
- Startup culture is associated with open office. Large corporations are better with this :-(
- 'Extremely unproductive' is not an argument. Managers believe that programmers are equivalent/interchangeable cogs. There is no such thing as 10x ;-)
I would recommend:
- Block visual distractions as much as possible, 3x30" screen in pivot mode should do.
- Move into corner.
- Invest into big closed studio headphones with amplifier. Not active noise cancellation, but passive which covers entire ear. I got DT 770 PRO, best investment I ever did.
- Get ready for starting your own business and working remotely. I am afraid it is the only way :-(
- you are technically competent
- can handle design aspects of full stack (backend, persistence, frontend)
- have enough credibility and confidence to say NO to business people
- you can lead a small team of developers (2 to 5 people)
Imagine if BB would produce hardened-secured-enterprisey version of Android, rather than doing their 'not invented here'. They could had 30% of market by now.