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14y ago
You're right. People with dwarfism are disproportionally not software developers, too, but it's not trendy to care about them, so DevBootCamp doesn't care. Transgender people are disproportionally not software developers, but it's not trend
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14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! This really is impressive.
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unit_testing
14y ago
I can't reply to your comment, so I'll comment here. Let's think about some poor, uneducated white kids living in a trailer park without an internet connection. What should they feel when they hear of programs like this? "I'm not important
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unit_testing
14y ago
Why not NonCodersCode? There are plenty of poor, uneducated white girls and boys who could benefit from programs like this. Oh, what's that you say? We already have enough people with their skin color in the computer science field? Shame
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14y ago
Are poor, uneducated whites less worthy of help than wealthy, affluent blacks? If you believe so, you're a bigot. Also, are poor, uneducated whites less worthy of help than poor, uneducated blacks?
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14y ago
Why add the "white" qualifier? Think about it: By many measures, all things being equal , it's actually (institutionally!) easier to be a non-white (non-Asian) male. The all things being equal qualifier is extremely important, of course—
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14y ago
Tell this to an unattractive, poor white male[1] who watches enviously as an attractive, middle-class black male is given a subsidized college education. "Your life is easier because you're white. Feel guilty . Feel sheepish about any of
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14y ago
Congrats on the release! I'd love to take this opportunity to dive into Node, but I have yet to stumble accross an effective way of organizing medium to large Node projects. What tools do you guys/gals use?
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unit_testing
15y ago
I'd love to take this opportunity to dive into Emacs, but the past few times I've tried, it's felt like my keyboard was fighting against me. For those of you using Emacs on a Macbook (or an Apple keyboard), which key do you use for 'alt'?
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unit_testing
15y ago
I had the very same thought. This mentality is fine if you don't want to (or have to) maintain and support anything—and from looking around the author's site, it appears he makes dozens of small things and then leaves them to rot.
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15y ago
What's the purpose of complex testing frameworks like this? What's wrong with using a simple framework whose tests must simply return a bool? For example: var myObject = new Something("foo", "bar"); assert("simple operation