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The author indicts Trump's use of language. While his speech does have a certain word salad quality, the left's use of language has been far more damaging. The proponents of academ…

The EU's power structure is currently occupied by people who reject the idea of value judgements, by post-modernists who don't understand the fragility of civilization. They litera…

Counterexample: big parts of fintech have workplace cultures straight out of the 50s, dress codes and all. They're much less diverse than regular tech. SJW remedies for social ills…

People who crusade for diversity and inclusion usually start with innocuous measures, but after these approaches fail to bring about Utopia, these people always end up crudely 1) a…

Congratulations, SJWs. When you exile someone with legitimate technical chops from polite society, you'll get work on projects with which polite society disagrees. I hope this is t…

If I were on a team where management tried to micro-manage conversion toward some ideal of "diversity", then believe me, "empathy" would not be the emotion I would be feeling. Okay…

> No one said anything about removing code reviews. They said remove the culture of aggressive and mean code reviews. In practice, that means making code review comments unclear an…

The entire purpose of a code review is to highlight things that are wrong. You can't point out things that are wrong without someone being able to spin your comments as some kind o…

Wow. So in the name of getting women women into tech, we need to abandon * Code reviews, design documents, and anything else that might provide a forum for "chest thumping" * Oppor…

Mozilla doesn't pay nearly as well as the top tech companies out there do. Maybe the people who are left after all the best people leave end up making bad decisions. Human capital …

You are right. It's frustrating how often I see a good idea (like mandatory parental leave) being a thing for women instead of a thing for people in general. I wish I could point o…