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Comment Re:Institutionalized Prejudice (Score 1) 779

Where are girls pushed ahead of boys here? How is "a plan to engage historically underrepresented students with computer science" some kind of quota? As I read it, schools need to demonstrate that they're trying to recruit so-called under-represented groups into CS, not force them into it via quotas. I think you're being too touchy and reading more into it than is there.

Comment Re:Perl is more expressive (Score 1) 192

Give people a sharp chef's knife and they will find 81 ways to cut themselves. Give a skilled chef a sharp chef's knife and he/she will get the job done correctly and injury-free. The lesson is not that chef's knives are bad tools, it's that the unskilled are better off with plastic because they're not ready for the real thing and they'll hurt themselves, otherwise (and then blame the tool).

Comment Re:Way to Elevate the Debate.... (Score 1) 496

Nice try. Kennedy took the top tax rate down from 91% to 70%. He also got Congress to pass his economic agenda, which included:

  • "Increasing the minimum wage.
  • Expanding unemployment benefits.
  • Boosting Social Security benefits to encourage workers to retire earlier.
  • Spending more for highway construction."

Still think he'd be welcomed by today's Republican Party?

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