Some Subversion naming conventions are downright lousy. For instance, “svn revert” reverts your code to some older revision, right? Well that’s what you think, my sensible friend, and you’re wrong! All it does is it reverts your working file to the latest version in the repository, the same thing that can be accomplished with a [...]
There’s a new site called Vision 20/20 that allows you to find sex offenders in your neighborhood. That’s neat and all, but the cheerful messages kind of sound like social networking for rapists and pedophiles: “Locate Sex Offenders”, “Wouldn’t you like to know if any of them are living in your neighborhood? Now you can!” [...]
That’s right. I have too much work on my plate and am looking for evil minions to do my bidding. You must be:
Awesome (no exceptions)
Cheap (within reason)
Freelance (no agencies)
Scandinavian/Baltic location would be great, but not required. Knowledge of Java, Ruby on Rails or PHP preferred.
Please send CV’s and hourly rates here.
Before getting to the point, allow me to bang my head against the wall one more time:
Me: I can do this in Ruby on Rails or I can do this in .NET.
Client: Which would you prefer?
Me: Thanks for asking! I personally prefer Rails. Development will take half the time, and will cost you half the [...]
John Dvorak and I are not saying that Web 2.0 technology is useless. Hell, Web 2.0 is revolutionary and exciting. The point is, so was Web 1.0. What we are saying is that thousands of companies are getting much more investment capital than they’re worth. We’re saying that for every YouTube, there are dozens of [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, but only idiots don’t learn from them. That’s why we laugh at Germans for starting a huge war two decades after losing one. And that’s why I’m laughing at the vast number of idiots out there with money to invest in stupid ideas. It’s like they completely forgot what happened in 2001. [...]