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Submission + - Ambitious-yet-Ethical Software Jobs 1

Submitted by hwaccaly on Sunday June 10, 2012 @05:38PM

hwaccaly writes: I'm a mid-career developer with a fair amount of experience working on data-intensive, mathematically ambitious software projects for fun-- things like physics and systems simulations, written mostly in CUDA, targeted at Tesla GPUs and small clusters. Ideally, I'd like to get paid for this kind of work, but I've found little call for these skills outside of the financial and defense industries. My conscience won't allow me to accept money from either. The medical/pharmaceutical industries undoubtedly require complex software, but the unavoidable animal testing at the end of the pipeline probably lifts its body count higher even than the defense industry's. And academia pays in degrees, not dollars. So what's left? Do any ethical businesses have a pressing need for high-performance computing, or is it basically a hobbyist niche?

Submission + - UK Developers quit US app store over patent fears (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by iamflimflam1 on Saturday July 16, 2011 @05:32AM

iamflimflam1 writes: The Guardian is running a story on how app developers in the UK are withdrawing from the US app store over patent fears. After this blog post from the iconfactory about the death of independent developers. Have the big corporations really won — is this end for the small team and one man band developers?

Comment Re:This reminds me of Japan (Score 1) 493

by cognibrain on Sunday August 03, 2008 @08:47PM (#24461023) Attached to: Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name

Did I read you right that the only word of Japanese you knew was "dame"? If so, you should not be surprised that you can't get what you want from people if you can only speak *one word* of their language. How much success would someone speaking entirely in Japanese have at ordering in a restaurant in your country?

I had almost universal success getting items not listed on the menu, even in chains like Watami, where the menu is laminated and identical from Sapporo to Fukuoka. My first success was with a whole roast garlic, and it was well worth the effort.

But I digress. It's possible to infer from what you wrote that you think that Japanese people act like machines more than people of other cultures. I don't know whether you really think that or not. Whichever is the case, I felt the need to challenge that implication.

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