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I speak English and Dutch. I have no problem adjusting my day to suit your time zone. Desperate enough to accept almost any offer.

SEEKING WORK: Belgium, Europe; Manchester, UK

Remote: No. Yes please, not required though.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, FFmpeg, Lua, Win32, x86 assembly

Resume/Résumé/CV: http://j_darnley.neocities.org/resume.pdf

Email: james.darnley@gmail.com

PGP key ID: 0x99412908 fingerprint: 5612 F4E9 53A6 ADA1 0E9B 285A CC26 DD10 9941 2908

OpenHub profile: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/J_Darnley

GitLab profile: https://gitlab.com/u/J_Darnley

I speak English and Dutch. I have no problem adjusting my day to suit your time zone. Desperate enough to accept almost any offer.

Oh many reasons. It is the most colossal waste of money. It is a horrible IP abuser. Almost everything surrounding it is massively corrupt. Some sports don't deserve to be in because they are not about (or less about) individual athletic performance.

Even if you like the competition those seem like strong reasons not to watch.

I personally think that if you are going to allow finely engineered shoes, poles, javelins, boats, balls, bicycles, then you should allow finely engineered bodies.

No. This place hates humour, hates fun, and hates anything that distracts from the serious discussion that happens. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.

Paying for travel to the games, maybe.

Amateurs, except for the tennis players, the football players, and the bicycle riders. All of which are the big name stars who get paid to compete in other dedicated tournaments. I'm sure there are others too but those are the most promoted sports.

I don't think the ones above get paid for the Olympics though.

With a grant of up to €30,000, software developers [...] can write code and develop open source prototypes over a period of six months.

You have 6 months to implement your idea from the first concept to a prototype.

Oh, it wants to fund new stuff and not fund a Firefox, Gimp, Linux kernel, whatever dev to work for 6 months.

It is the new Live Journal, Blogger, Wordpress, or whatever.

To me it doesn't look like the FLOSS people are on it but rather a bunch of marketing types. Usually the new startup of the month has its company blog on it. Fashionable javascript library of the week too. Or is that just because most links I see published here are for this kind of use?