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+ - Fanboys and trolls are the cancer killing Free Software-> 1

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An anonymous reader writes "Martin Gräßlin, the maintainer of the KWin window manager, writes an informative blog post about his experiences with the less favorable pockets of the Free Software community:

Years ago I had a clear political opinion. I was a civil-rights activist. I appreciated freedom and anything limiting freedom was a problem to me. Freedom of speech was one of the most important rights for me. I thought that democracy has to be able to survive radical or insulting opinions. In a democracy any opinion should have a right even if it’s against democracy. I had been a member of the lawsuit against data preservation in Germany. I supported the German Pirate Party during the last election campaign because of a new censorship law. That I became a KDE developer is clearly linked to the fact that it is a free software community.

But over the last years my opinion changed. Nowadays I think that not every opinion needs to be tolerated. I find it completely acceptable to censor certain comments and encourage others to censor, too. What was able to change my opinion in such a radical way? After all I still consider civil rights as extremely important. The answer is simple: Fanboys and trolls.

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Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 404

by datavirtue (#44041275) Attached to: Have We Hit Peak HFT?

I like that. Maybe shares will then be a representation of the value instead of penny fragments. Their investment value is minuscule until you can purchase a certain amount anyway. Imagine, real investment instead of speculation. I think you are on to something.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bershire+hathaway+share+price&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#client=firefox-a&hs=ovL&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=berkshire+hathaway+share+price&spell=1&sa=X&ei=BZrAUeiwN6XWygHOwIGoAw&ved=0CCsQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.aWc&fp=af3742879feae6e9&biw=1371&bih=837

Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 404

by datavirtue (#44039911) Attached to: Have We Hit Peak HFT?

You're obviously a smart guy--as evidenced by your low id number--but I always cringe when sweeping generalizations are made about what will happen given changes to tax code and when people say "Way too much of our economy is tied into the stock market."

Economies adapt, as they are really just aspects of human desires and the activity people engage to fill those desires based on their tradeoffs or costs. Economies do not rely on any particular market.

Comment: Re:dice (Score 1) 2

by datavirtue (#44035413) Attached to: Fast and Furious Developer Job Market

This is not a slashvertisement. I had one decent contact in the first month but I have now realized this was just luck. I tried CraigsList and had a lot better leads but now Dice has picked back up and I'm getting run to death. Dice is kind-of THE site for IT jobs though. I would love another suggestion for a tech job site if anyone knows of one. Monster is blah compared to Dice, and frankly I don't have the energy to maintain another stream of connections.

+ - Fast and Furious Developer Job Market 2

Submitted by datavirtue
datavirtue writes "Hello fellow Slashdot'ers. I've just entered the job market (this last month) and have been mostly using Dice.com with a smattering of CraigsList. I feel like I'm getting attacked! The question I pose is this: How do you deal with getting a job when you already have one? The recruiters literally ring my phone off the hook like a psycho girlfriend and I now spend more time on the phone, answering emails, and in interviews than I do actually working. My paid time off is starting to run out and people are getting suspicious, and I have just started looking! Please help, I need advice.
As a side note, I ran a job posting on CraigsList to get resumes and cover letters from other people looking for similar jobs and all I have gotten is almost a complete failure of applicants to submit cover letters--and the ones who did had a string of developer jobs where they lasted only a year or less. Is this the norm?"

Comment: Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either (Score 1) 727

by datavirtue (#44023307) Attached to: Sexism Still a Problem At E3

For crying out loud, women are not blow up dolls to be paraded around like show animals.

The women begin paraded around like animals feel otherwise. We have a few faults of nature working here, male animal reproductive drive and economics. Men can't help it (so they are in fact being exploited as well) and the women find the price offered by the (probably female) marketing director equitable (economics).

PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5

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