[HN Gopher] InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best ... ___________________________________________________________________ InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Dev Contests to Crisis Author : zdw Score : 27 points Date : 2022-06-01 16:41 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (cacm.acm.org) (TXT) w3m dump (cacm.acm.org) | neilv wrote: | This bit at the end made me do a double-take, about the | impression that was emerging from what I'd read thus far: | | > _It can be said that there were no Russian projects this year, | but I was very unpleasantly surprised by the negligence of the | moderators who allowed several projects from Ukraine to use the | contest platform for unworthy political statements and posting | spam links to resources unrelated to the contest._ | | But then I considered that maybe it is best when a writer is | candid about things that potentially bias their assessments, or | could be perceived to. Maybe better than reading an assessment of | X, and it later turns out that the writer had an undisclosed | conflict of interest, or entirely separate reason for being upset | about X. | | (BTW, I don't know the exact nature of the "political statements" | from Ukraine, but I suspect I'd find it hard to blame someone | whose country is being invaded, for calling out for help however | they can. And I could imagine moderators being hesitant to censor | some things. I think most all of us want peace and prosperity for | everyone, and have especial empathy in some situations.) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-03 23:00 UTC)