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Comment Re:Go ahead (Score 5, Insightful) 446

I get the feeling most of the profiles are fake anyway to pull in gullible males.

Never give in to blackmail.

Even better yet: Make every effort to be loyal to your spouse. If you fail, repent, hope for forgiveness, and try harder next time. Flee from all forms of temptation to do evil.

Easier said than done, to be sure.

Comment Re:It's a strange thing (Score 2) 55

I have a hard time siding with anyone using software patents offensively. Fuck these guys and their patents. And if Apple asserts software patents in a non-defensive manner, fuck them, too.

You may want to go a little more up stream. How about, "Fuck the corrupt U.S. Congresses and Presidents. Fuck the psychopath lawyers and business people who want to infringe upon our freedom so they can make more money. Fuck the SCOTUS for not recognizing software as math. (And frown at Donald Knuth who also thinks software should be patentable, but is otherwise a swell guy.)"

Comment Look hard and long (Score 4, Informative) 318

I managed to do it, but it took almost a year of looking, even in a job market supposedly favorable to programmers.

My strategy was to basically scour the job boards, looking for remote jobs, and apply when it looked like a good fit. Some boards I found helpful for remote, non-contract work:

  • https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
  • http://www.indeed.com/l-Remote-jobs.html
  • https://weworkremotely.com/
  • http://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-remote-jobs

Job sites which don't have a specific category for "remote" tended to produce a lot of noise, because searching on "remote" would get hits for things like "remote work not allowed".

Two other things which seemed very helpful in landing a job:

  • Experience with using Github
  • Having been involved in open-source development.

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