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ehm, could you point to the minute?

I found the book "The Reason I Jump" enlightening to understand what Autism really is. It was written by a 13-year old autistic kid. When you read it, you really understand that Autism itself is not just "being slightly odd", but a whole different, out-of-control experience for that person, which you do not want to live through. Some may be talented in a narrow type of tasks, but that is not the point. So I heartily recommend reading "The Reason I Jump" to get an insiders POV.

Hey, there is some valuable stuff on tumblr these days, for example http://frenums.tumblr.com/tagg...

Interesting, the Wikipedia page does not even mention the upper case version (since it is not an acronym?).

Sure they rely on the kernel and basic OS. But a lot of interface components are developed by them. The right way to think about it is if someone created a new GNOME or KDE, would it be reasonable for them to ask for some donations? Writing a DE and perfecting the usability is very tough work, especially when it comes to consistency across components (some derived). Slashdotters frequently complain that they want GNOME different, so here are some people doing it, put your money where your mouth is.

All of the features you mention are present in Eclipse. But whether you use IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, it does not matter to me. The killer feature on Eclipse, for me at least, is Mylyn.

But contrary to python or ruby code, for example, most Java code is not written by hand. No one ever writes import statements for example. Eclipse is so excellent at understanding Java code structure that the writing efficiency is comparable. It brings other benefits too -- I have found re-factoring of large code bases is substantially easier in Java than any other language. This is thanks to the strong structure implied by the language, which can be exploited by tools. In other languages this is prohibited, e.g. Ruby, where every word can mean something different and you can not know until runtime, or C when cluttered with macros.

Many distributions have package groups now, which should fill the role of a "LAMP distribution". In Fedora you can for instance install (yum groupinstall) "Web Server", "MySQL Database", "Authoring and Publishing", "Development Tools". That should give you a basic PHP/MySQL setup.
Gentoo has added something similar too recently, probably Debian has also somthing like that, at least in the GUI.

Greece's financial problems can be solved if corruption and tax aversion is drastically reduced, which is part of the program Alexis Tsipras promotes. That is why the Troika only gives money if reforms are made and I think they know it is the key for Greece to become financially independent again.

Why is everything a slippery slope for you people? Is it not possible that we find a middle way?

The question is not whether a Linux distribution uses systemd or not -- the question is what it uses instead to achieve the goals of systemd (suspend, user switching, daemon monitoring, ...).

That is exactly why it became popular; brevity and free structure. If you concentrate on sent messages (@recipient) I suspect that the trolls (actually rather death and rape threat-sending harassers) are largely repeat offenders. If everyone has a chance to flag them (something akin to karma), and responses/notifications from those troll accounts do not show up anymore, the problem is largely solved(?).

Slashdot moderation isn't web scale ;)

And do not state the size of the effect.

Here is a nice article about exactly this, titled Mindless statistics