rtfa

Have you seen the last season of the sopranos where the fat guy goes into an antique store, and he is told that he is a "natural" (w.r.t. appreciating art). So it's OK to stereotype gays as being better at artsy stuff, but not OK to think of straights as being better at, well, some other things?

... Do you find it too far-fetched to think of wanting to kiss a fireman as a girlish quality?

But you are not skeptical about correlations between programming talent and gender, are you?

So you are not a WASP. Case closed.

> I'm a straight white male

I find it interesting that you decided to mention your race.

I agree actually. Gays are as intelligent as straights, on average. So are women. But I think it takes a real man to implement a complicated app.

My sample is 3-4 : bad. 0.8 (suspected gay) : good. That's not counting Von Neumann. This isn't statistically significant. That's why I'm asking about others' opinions. Why is everyone so quick to say girls tend to be bad programmers, but gay programmers are a touchy subject?

This is not a troll. I'm just stimulating a discussion that AFAIK has never taken place before.

Thanks

Good point. I'll try to explore how trolling can be converted into cash flow more closely. Thanks.

It makes sense, actually. If you do programming full-time, your brain is too tired to think about how to best market your product, etc. When I program too much for too long, I feel like I turn into a machine myself, finding it hard to interact with humans.

Excellent: a combination of C's syntax and extensibility with Common Lisp's speed. That's what I've been waiting for!

I think there is value in the idea itself. If I just give it away for free, whoever implements it has no incentive to share the profits with me.

If I share the idea, I make no money from it. If I don't share, I might one day have enough time to implement it myself, or run into people I can trust 100%. If these are the only options, I HAVE TO choose the latter, and not share it for now :-(

It's not as so much anti-troll as it is pro-money :-)

I just had an idea for how to turn the trolling phenomenon into potentially very lucrative profits for a startup. Anybody interested?

On the one hand, I don't want to give away my idea. On the other hand, implementing it might take several people working on it for a few months. What should I do?