Look at the article that was linked here. I'm not blaming any of this on her. The guy who added this and the people who upvote it only did so for one reason.
There is hardly anything informative in this article that hasn't been said a million times over. EDIT: I shouldn't even be calling it an article.
Your idea that its hard being a woman in a male-dominated industry such as this...that's a whole other argument for another time.
I'm sure I'll get buried for this, but I have a hard time believing I'm not right. Before I start, I don't know Leah and I'm not judging her character or her coding abilities.
Leah gets a lot of attention for the one obvious reason that doesn't need to be restated. That is why these articles are posted. This blog post doesn't contain any unique information that is presented any better than you could find elsewhere. She has not been involved in that many projects and few of them have gone very far. Pownce was probably her peak.
So I'm not trying to be negative or a nitpicker or anything else like that. I just can't stand that people post the most minute things she does. I remember Techcrunch posted an article the other day because she joined some other company and left SixApart.
There are so many developers and designers that are switching around every day and we barely hear about it aside from the big league players. The fact that Ms. Culver gets her own slice of attention for doing almost nothing of noteworthiness starts to wear on my patience is all.
I thought I was going to be the only one commenting on how terrible this article is. Its a few sentences away from being aimless. Someone just has a personal problem with Facebook. The crowd that's using Facebook isn't the same crowd that was inhabiting some old message boards with him/her back in the AOL days. Those are the borderline geeks.
News Flash: You can't turn off people. If you really can't learn to deal with the inane comments of morons, your life is going to be nothing but stress. Plugging your ears just attracts more attention and will make people want to kick and scream more than before.
This is going to happen with big announcements. Just suck it up and deal.
I pirate because I would never be afford all the things I want or use.
I'm not saying I wouldn't pay someday when I have money, but the $ to content ratio is too high. It is not stealing a product, but a service. I'm stealing an experience created by a company (video games) or a sound created by musicians and not paying the entrance fee.
There is another side to the issue that he completely ignores.