These are some very good points.

From neuroscience there is very clear evidence that the human conscious experience is somehow a function the brain. The patterns in which neurons fire seem to be the key. If this is so then we should look for quantum effects in people's neurons. When you look at the way neurons work, it turns out they are remarkably reliable devices. Also, they are almost identical to the neurons found in much more primitive animals that seem to lack consciousness entirely. They incredibly resilient. For example epileptics or stroke victims suffer massive brain trauma and yet their personality and consciousness can endure them fully intact. So in light of this it is difficult to reconcile quantum effects which are minuscule in scale with the very well understood functioning of individual neurons. No one has found anything in them that "amplifies" quantum fluctuations to macroscopic scales.

Indeed consciousness is a subjective experience but the hardware of it in humans does not show any evidence of relying on quantum blurriness for its functioning.

Yes I'll chime in in favor of Python here too. It can easily do everything you need with a stock install, including unit testing, GUI, executing command-line commands, and generating web or email content. Plus it is easy to turn Python scripts into standalone executables http://www.py2exe.org/ Powershell would also get the job done, but it is not nearly as elegant.

This is "no shit" because many Slashdot readers have personally felt this effect. Since Slashdot readers are probably above average intelligence, a reasonable fraction of us probably are gifted. They remember how bored they were, how they felt constantly ignored and unchallenged. They know full well that they were wasting their time and their academic potential. The system has already failed them, so it's not as if there was not clear evidence of this problem before the study.