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Yearly Archives: 2011
Louis C.K. and a word about torrenting
• December 11, 2011 • Culture, Digital Media • No comments
For those who don’t know, Louis C.K. is a stand-up comedian. I personally find angry humor to be some of the funniest, and Louis C.K. is a balding, red-headed, middle-aged, middle-class, white guy who’s pissed off about everything. I’d heard that he’d recorded a live special and was making it available, DRM-free, for $5. That’s [...]
RIM: Just cut your losses and start afresh
• December 4, 2011 • Technology, Work and Business • No comments
Research In Motion (creator of BlackBerry devices) has been tanking for quite some time. Now, that time is up. Matt Alexander, writing for one37, in his piece entitled “That’s Enough, RIM”: The Playbook is dead. It’s taken a while for you to realize that, and I’m not convinced you’re fully aware, but you should really [...]
Cult of Ignorance
• November 28, 2011 • Notable Quotes • No comments
A very salient point by Isaac Asimov: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good [...]
Amazon Web Services is hiring PHP developers
• November 23, 2011 • Work and Business • No comments
Amazon Web Services is growing and we can’t hire people fast enough. For my team, I’m looking for some really fantastic PHP developers. Interested? Read on, take my advice, then get in touch at rparman (_et_) amazon. (This is not an Amazon-endorsed job description. These are my words and thoughts, so imagine that we’re at [...]
Clueless Recruiters, Issue #2
• November 14, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments
A web designer, online portfolio, XHTML, HTML 5, CSS 3, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, ASP, JavaScript and SQL Server — all in this week’s issue of Clueless Recruiters. (Cue theme music!) There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has [...]
Awesome new features coming in PHP 5.4
• November 11, 2011 • Code, Software • No comments
The next version of PHP, which saw its first release candidate today, has some really awesome new features. You can see a complete list of changes in the README, but here are the ones that caught my eye. Classes Support for Traits (i.e., mix-ins; addresses the multiple-inheritance problem). Support for chaining from the constructor: (new [...]
How to make technical professionals not hate your guts: A guide for technical recruiters
• November 5, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • 7 comments
I’ve been accused of not knowing how to do a Technical Recruiter’s job, so I have no business telling them how to do it. That’s a fair assertion. What I do know, however, are all of the things that Technical Recruiters do that drive me absolutely crazy. Not all recruiters do these things so I [...]
Clueless Recruiters
• October 26, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • 5 comments
Inspired by Daring Fireball’s Jackass of the Week columns, I’ve decided to do something similar for clueless technical recruiters who contact me for jobs that are clearly a terrible fit. There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has made [...]
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