So it's more accurate to say that some coal miners may be able to learn to code: Watch out for those blanket generalizations, they bite back.
If you actually RTFA, you'll see that Bloomburg didn't actually make the blanket generalization he's accused of, he was referring to exactly what you said here: Not all coal miners are fit to be programmers, so to say "just teach them to code and they'll all become programmers" smacks of elitism and a lack of understanding about how the non-tech world works.
To that end, Zuckerburg's quote sounds like it could have come straight from the mouth of Marie Antoinette.
More like "could have come straight from whoever originally said 'let them eat cake'". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I don't know what the BPPE requires with respect to compliance (article does not say in what way these places are not in compliance), but maybe I want that too. =Smidge=
I fully agree. While at first it sounds like a typical bureaucratic money grab, I'd like to see what laws they're violating before further rushing to judgement.
150 years ago,
Well to be fair, I doubt they're the exact same assholes.
When I see a wealthy person using kickstarter I just see greed and a complete lack of dedication to their own ideas and abilities.
Isn't it awesome how sweeping generalizations like that are so accurate?
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen