Though the headline is obviously doing its job, I'm just not willing to swallow the presupposition that developer people exist in the same way that male and female exist or that Asians exist. Developers as they are called are just people with a range of skills, and the same goes for accountants. I even heard a good accounting school has a program for accountants with a proclivity for programming.
I admit the title isn't absolutely fascist, racist, or sexist, but it is some kind of ist, and it is annoying. Maybe accountants, with self congratulatory pride in their profession, feel the urge to divide the world up into neat little categories?
Are you suggesting that nobody should class themselves as a developer, and/or that as self-identified developers, who I can agree are just people with a range of skills (and I never suggested otherwise), we should not attempt to write a document attempting to explain accounting to other self-proclaimed developers, who, in our decades of experience, tend to have certain viewpoints, vocabulary, and interests in common?
Finally, while I'm delighted that you agree the title isn't absolutely fascist (which you never claimed in the original post and suggest in your response it to be partially), racist or sexist, I'm entirely baffled as to why you felt compelled to post a comment stating it in absolute terms in the first place.
0xdeadbeefbabe|10 years ago
I admit the title isn't absolutely fascist, racist, or sexist, but it is some kind of ist, and it is annoying. Maybe accountants, with self congratulatory pride in their profession, feel the urge to divide the world up into neat little categories?
tmornini_ey|10 years ago
Finally, while I'm delighted that you agree the title isn't absolutely fascist (which you never claimed in the original post and suggest in your response it to be partially), racist or sexist, I'm entirely baffled as to why you felt compelled to post a comment stating it in absolute terms in the first place.