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Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

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[–] Cruel@programming.dev -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but your code will be culturally one-sided! You need diverse coding practices, like three-space indentation!

My favorite was companies like IBM setting a goal for 50% female engineering representation even though barely 20% of the respective college grads were female. Like, they're just blatantly picking from a smaller pool, making it statistically inevitable that they're bypassing more qualified people.

But people here evidently support this sort of gender/race based discrimination. 🤷

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Cultural bias for indentation styles, lol. Your math checks out though, statistics say women earn about 20-25% of CS/engineering degrees so if companies set a 50% target then they're either:

  • Hiring less qualified people to hit quotas
  • Poaching talent from competitors (zero-sum game)
  • Living in fantasy land