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?
You're right about Turing. He was the gay one, not von Neumann. I can't help but wonder however, how come you know so much about homosexuality amongst coders? Is it perhaps because of your own deviances? (I'm just curious. If the question is too personal, you don't have to answer)
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.
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.
The more you drink, the more you'll need to drink. It's an endless cycle, until you are dropping more on Starbuckses than on your rent, your teeth are brown, and your kidneys are shot. It may also turn you gay. And gay people can't program - all the gay programmers I know (and I know a few) love programming, but are terrible at it.
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 :-(
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?