Archive for the 'business and economics' Category

…but you have to know RUBY to be our CTO

Monday, February 18th, 2008

This popped in my e-mail box just now:
Subject: Anyone know a top Rails programmer for Tech Advisor role
Could be as little as one hour per week? Great opportunity for this person to inherit vp of engineering position once we get funded. We are close to launching, and hopefully to being funded.

This is wrong in so [...]

Eating while you are shitting

Friday, February 15th, 2008

E-mail received.
I am writing to introduce myself and see if you would be interested in talking with me.
My name is [redacted] and I am in Candidate Generation at Yahoo! for our Engineering, and I wanted to touch base with you to see if you might be open to hearing from us about opportunities we [...]

PENIS certificate

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Received an e-mail today advertising a great example of three rights making a wrong:
Recipe for disaster
Ingredients:

1 part favorite web programming language

1 open source book publisher
1 alma mater

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients.
Spinkle terminology liberally.

Charge $1600.


Not sure what to think about this, but I’m starting to wish I got rejected from graduate school. When people start charging for what [...]

I love books, but obviously not enough.

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I love the printed word. I have an Amazon Prime membership. I think there is a great future in e-paper.
I should love Kindle, but every time I visit Amazon, there is only one thought going through my head:

This looks like ass.
Please make this product suck less.

Time to set my phasers on “kill” (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 4/5)

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction:

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?!. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. Why PHP’s advantages in enterprise are a form of backhanded compliment.
Sinking a fleet of FAIL. Reasons for why PHP should not be used in enterprise fail you.
Time to set my phasers [...]

You Used PHP to Troll WHOM?! (PHP and Enterprise Scalability Part 1/5)

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Why Enterprise Web Scalability is Science Fiction. Its five part mission: to explore myths of PHP, to seek out this “Enterprise Scalability”, to boldy go where no web developer would bother going before… *queue music*

You Use PHP to Troll WHOM?! <——THIS POST. The wherefore of this article and an introduction.
Even the Pros are Cons. Why [...]

LEGOs of things past

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Scott Beale notes the 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick.
Burka asks, what is our preferred LEGO theme?
Does it show my age when I mention that pretty much the only theme available at the time was SPACE:

LEGO Space Shuttle (Model 442—1978)
Just so you know, the antenna in the back turns into a long range gauss gun. [...]

Must…resist…urge…

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I’ve been a big supporter of Zivity.
My PHP friends tease me about this because Zivity is built on Rails.
Well, I got an invite to Zivity Beta the other day, so I figured I should subscribe to their blog. Today, I just wanted to link this great article from Forbes when I ran across this…

Okay, when [...]

Economic darwinism and bleeding hearts

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Tomorrow, the stock market will crash. The fact of this crash is already written in the future’s market, but the depth and duration of the coming recession it may herald is the realm of the astrology and numerology that is part and parcel with macroeconomics.
Like Krugman, I’d like to mark this point in time with [...]

…then I’m going to say it

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Inspired by a phone call from Dave Kellogg.
Marc wants to keep politics out of his blog. But since my self-imposed moratorium is over, I’ll just go out and say it: Ron Paul is a socially-regressive, batshit-crazy asshole and support for him makes me ashamed for the bandwagon-following bullshit of my socio-economic peers.
[What Ron Paul represents [...]