Sure, if you want to be a creeper.

Games development is one of those fields where everyone wants to do it*, so the games companies can afford to pay peanuts. Get them in, burn them out, get a fresh batch in. EA is notorious as a meat grinder: fresh faced college grads go in, meat comes out, jaded, exhausted, and relegated to working on ancient VB apps for the rest of their careers (I jest). Granted, it's not like they're getting paid minimum wage; from a pure numbers standpoint they do okay for themselves. But those numbers are eroded when you factor in the fact that sure, you're making $80-100k, but you're also working 120 hours/week since you're exempt. Family life? Good luck. Hell, good luck finding the time to meet the ones you want to start a family with.

*Seriously, how many software developers do you know that came out of college saying "Golly, I really can't wait to work on making SSRS reports with pie charts for some MBA to use in a meeting to justify replacing me with an H1B?

That they're using PUA. Now maybe the "pick up artists" can finally see themselves as what they truly are. Potentially Unwanted Applications (Programs).

I'd just be happy if they offered an Unlimited Tethering plan on top of my Unlimited Data plan and not have to worry about it.

Furthermore, there are plenty of self-described geniuses who are actually retards, and vice-versa. It's like someone making fun of Hinduism and then espousing the veracity of the fucking Bible.

I said the exact same thing when looking over the site last night. Part of me is "Wow that's expensive" and the other part of me is "Well, it's only the most important part of my body; I should be willing to shell out some money to protect it" and the other part of me is "But it costs over half what I paid for my bike!" Decisions.

Seriously. One of the bigger demotivators my shoplifting peers had back in high school wasn't the misdemeanor (as a juvenile); it was getting the shit kicked out of them by the mall cops. Ah, the 80s.

Wouldn't that be funny if we just needed to apply calculus to the whole problem and assume infinitely small slices of an infinite number of universes.

TIN FOIL HAT TIME:

1) The .mil has been experimenting with ebola for decades. What biological weapons program wouldn't? In the process of experimenting, they've also developed countermeasure in case the Ruskies (or other enemy agents) are doing the same.
2) These countermeasures have been sitting in secret in secret .gov labs for awhile, awaiting for weaponized ebola.
3) Bunches of Africans die from the disease. Who cares?
4) Two white Americans get it, and suddenly "Oh, right, we have a cure."

What if they dig the tunnel, then build a lifted "bridge" viaduct inside this tunnel? WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

The guys that made all the money during the San Francisco Gold Rush weren't the guys panning for gold, but the guys selling shovels and food. Same concept here. Why get out there and hope to "get lucky" on a completely unproven commodity when you can sell the equipment to the actual speculators? It's not just a matter of flipping a switch and waiting, btw, there's power consumption. A farm like in the article isn't running off house mains, generally speaking, not to mention the actual space, cooling, and probably a security system to make sure someone just doesn't come in and steal your shit (or defecate on everything because $DRUNK).

Maybe there is something to the SV culture that's either rotten or just too self-absorbed to acknowledge there may be a problem. I'm down in SoCal (LA) and having worked for several small tech shops, I've never seen the issues that a lot of folks complain about up in SV. My workgroup is 50% female, and other than my manager, everyone is a minority (black, asian, indian-asian (and not H1Bs). Upper management tends to be of the white-male variety (I dunno, do we count gingers in that?) although our CEO is white female. I've been on the interview panels and it's not like we were hiring for diversity. We were just looking for people who had the technical know-how and personalities that would not be detrimental to our work group. And, I must add, our women engineers are engineers, not just "tech evangelists" or "tech spokeswomen" and the like that seem to get a lot of controversial press up there. Our black developers? The same. Maybe there really is a tech-bro-fraternity mentality in the SV, I've not moved up there to find out for myself (and as an asian, I don't imagine I'd actually see much of it directed against me, but who knows? More likely, I'd face issues because I'm over the age of 40).

Formatting ate my brackets. Chances are, if you're interested in a language, there's a /r for it. In that /r there's usually talk of projects built with that language, or articles comparing that to other frameworks. It's kinda like a wikipedia style hole you fall into. For example, on a whim I was looking at /r/smalltalk and found pharo. Once I was digging around pharo, found newspeak. Or in /r/lisp, found dr. racket while reading through. I haven't read through /r/linux though, mainly because I'm rather content with my Mint installation, although I have been eyeing trying a slack release again on another box.

Honestly, /. still gives me some leads on occasion. hacker news, reddit.com/r/, and then just googling for shit.

Hell, I'd be happy if we could open up code shops on Indian Reservations here and help get a lot of those kids out of their cycle of poverty and alcoholism.