Just because you get funded doesn't mean you have to do shit. Kickstarter creates as much obligation as a hobo standing outside a liquor store asking for change "for the bus".

Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks, "Here's clear evidence that, contrary to popular rhetoric, there is a powerful pro-female bias in this society, and any underrepresentation and underfunding that exists can therefore be entirely attributed to, I won't say failings... attributed to the character, capabilities and choices of women"?

The business persons job is to keep the bureaucracy and the aristocracy from interfering with the people dealing with reality. If he's good, he keeps the dragons at bay so the engineers can focus on creating brilliant things for us all to enjoy.

This link isn't working >:-(

That's why there is a "flag" option. Next time he shows up, add him to your foes list, and apply an automatic -5 to your foes posts. Poof, gone!

Personally, I type faster than I speak and think faster than I can type. Much, much faster. I was forced to take touch typing in high school as a prerequisite for computer courses and despite being insulted at having to take a class I considered "secretary work" at the time, I now see it as the most useful course I ever took.

10 lines of code... dear God are you literally retarded? When I'm in the implantation phase I churn out literally thousands of lines of code in a day. You have to be making this up.

When you're not good at anything, you think everyone else is faking it. When you're gifted and you don't challenge yourself, you think you're good at everything. But, if you're gifted and challenge yourself regularly, you learn to acknowledge what you do and do not know. Once that happens, you claim the mastery that is your due, respect it when you see it in others, and lose patience with those who constantly want to dispute the validity of what you've become. You learn to despise the word "opinion", because you constantly have it thrown in your teeth by people whose ego is incapable of acknowledging that expertise exists at all, let alone acknowledge that you might have it.

At least, that's been my observation and experience. It's part of why I like volunteer work. When people are benefiting from your brilliance and watching you let others lead while you learn from them, they're less inclined to constantly challenge your capabilities, and more pleasant to be around. Purely social environments like bars and parties on the other hand, are a psychologically draining environment where bullshit flies, assertions are never compared against objective reality, and just listening to people talk threatens to make you stupider by normalizing a lack of rigor and discipline in acknowledging that you have areas of ignorance that no inherent brilliance can overcome.

Hey, you don't need to be a genius to know that the best way to judge a barber is to check out his sons hair!

Artificial scarcity is inherently immoral in the first place. I'm not lazy nor am I greedy, I contribute as much as I can to the common wealth, and a little more than most. Therefore, I feel no guilt when I ignore artificial scarcity rules and enjoy things that are naturally abundant.

NERD RAGE!!

I would hypothesize that, by preventing access from Linux users in such an easily defeated way, they shield themselves from legal responsibilities for proper functioning of the service on the multitude of Linux configurations out there, while still making it easy for the knowledgeable Linux user to pay their monthly fees and "make it work" on their own if they so desire. Which, really, is a win for everyone in the current environment.

When mankind needs a vertical hierarchy to make it strong, it chooses a leader to give it one. When that need is exhausted, if he fails to bow out gracefully, they call him a dictator. But they always choose him. If they need him and he doesn't arrive, the people become archeological remains. The perfect structure will make both transitions smooth and painless. Most people aren't able to see this clearly, and fall in love with one configuration and attack others blindly, without considering the local situation.

The site suggests that this can run on the DE0-Nano Cyclone FPGA Board for $90 or the Altera DE2-115 FPGA Development Board for $600. As someone who doesn't know anything about this type of computing... can anyone explain what the difference is between the two?

Meh. I don't need food. My nerd rage sustains me.

Are you familiar with the debacle where the Gnome Foundation went broke because they blew all the money on their Outreach Program for Women?

Here's coverage if you're unfamiliar, although if you're a queer slashdot reader you probably aren't:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

The Eich issue showed the world that Mozilla is chock full of the same sentiment. And Mozilla's lost so much market share that they're only a bit player now. When push comes to shove, their "Real Work" is not cutting the mustard.

I've worked on technology projects with people who didn't agree with my views on the issues, and done volunteer work on community projects with people who didn't agree with my views, but everything worked because the projects were focused enough that they became something we could both agree on.

The reason gender issues are screwing up technology projects is because technology projects are extending their mission statements in political directions and it's removing the focus that made it possible for people who disagree on political issues to work together.

Expressed simply, if you stand for one thing, you get half the people agreeing with what you stand for and half of them not agreeing, and 50% of the people give you their support.

If you stand for two things, half the people who were supporting you will no longer feel comfortable supporting you, and they will leave. You shrink your support from 50% to 25%.

It's not that we disagree. It's that I can't actively support organizations that vocally espouse things that I think are nihilistic and therefore immoral, and logic dictates that if I was the only one, there would be no controversy, so therefore, I'm not the only one.

The ability to agree to disagree has been removed, and it's not going to do anything but harm.