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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:33:41 +0000

The subsequent time I learn a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I really thought youd have one thing attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could possibly fix if you werent too busy searching for attention.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:11:24 +0000

I believe I will write an article entitled “If I Were an Arrogant White Dick”…Can you hear me, FORBES?

I can not believe this asshole actually got paid for this trash.

mark

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:54:57 +0000

“If I was a poor black kid I would get technical. I would learn software. I would learn how to write code. I would seek out courses in my high school that teaches these skills or figure out where to learn more online.”

It’s amusing and sad at the same time that he thinks that kids going to school to learn to be programmers in this day and age are successful. Programming is a very difficult field, often with long hours and often with low pay.

Programming is an extremely competitive field – and for US programmers, the competition is in India and in (surprisingly) Mexico for the most part.

This field is one of the fields that readers of Forbes have been offshoring for years. I work at a software company that has largely offshored development (there are engineers left in the US, but nowhere near what there was in the 80’s and 90’s), and even some product management and project management roles have moved to Bangalore.

So how is the “Po Black Kid from the Inner City” supposed to succeed in that career?

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If I Were A Poor Black Kid « CSS Tips — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:52:28 +0000

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