On: A Non-Programmer’s Apology

[mahmud]

Silicon Valley programmers have to compete with a growing pool of domestic and global workforce.

Hardy was a Cambridge brat; people like him were born & bred for foreign posts. The closest thing today might be being born anglo, going through military academies all your life, then graduating West Point: you ARE guaranteed certain top positions for life.

[defen → mahmud]

You seem to have a lot of righteous anger on this topic.

[mahmud → defen]

Is that all you're contributing to the already long and offtopic discussion? really?

[defen → mahmud]

I was hoping you would use it as a lead-in to discuss why you're so angry about a man who died 65 years ago and who devoted his life to doing things that he thought would have no impact on the world.

[burgerbrain → defen]

Seriously, this is just baffling. If there wasn't a clear time-separation, I would go so far as to think that it reeked of personal grudge.