That snippet is from:https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/the-high-stakes-battle-for-the-pentagons-winner-take-all-cloud-contract/ …
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Footnote: I made my critique well aware of this. Possibly this comes from having a long military history in my family, but selling weapons systems to the Navy doesn't really worry me, while selling even a paper clip to ICE does.
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Replying to @yonatanzunger
I don't intend to criticize you; actually I'm not targeting anyone in particular but more the general naivity of the developer community in these matters.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @yonatanzunger
You might be surprised who knows what about govt contracts in these Twitter streets.
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I don't think any given person would surprise me, but I would be shocked to discover a significant percentage of web-sphere developers having any context for this.
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I've spent the *vast* majority of my career doing government contracting and dealing with the contempt culture of shifting from that space to the contemporary Scrum/Agile world (and vice versa, the contempt flows both ways).
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@EricaJoy is saying is that a lot of Black developers work in the government contracting space, and may not necessarily be in the networks of folks who aren't Black.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
I am nevertheless unsure how this relates to my comment about the general naivity of SF/SV culture w/r.t. gov money, except to perhaps reinforce the comment that the underrepresentation of Black developers in the latter contributes even more to the *general* lack of insight.
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I think the objection is to the conflation of all the communities on Twitter with white supremacist SF/SV culture. But anyways, don't mean to shove words in Erica's mouth :)
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I mean I am aiming to be calling out SF/SV/startup culture and its sequelae specifically here, and not those other communities.
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I just saw @EricaJoy's post from earlier :) I wasn't referring to that or even aware of it, ftr, and I agree with its sentiment entirely.
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Ah, that would... certainly explain the talking past each other. Sorry!
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Since I'm not subtweeting anyone in this thread, I'll be a bit clearer: I am deeply frustrated with reporting on this that does not, for instance, put the past 15 years of contracts into context, having the effect of distorting scope, impact, and burden.
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