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Jul
8th

Tue

Web 2.0 for developers This is hilarious (and where I found the FDMS link). My favorite part is the “Let’s consider Ruby on Rails — okay, done that.” Exactly.

One web to rule them all If you visit this site with Firefox, you’re greated with a polite “fuck off” message that says “We only had enough money for one web developer.” How embarrassing.

Jul
1st

Tue

Working at Google vs. Microsoft Nice write-up on the differences between working at Google and Microsoft. Having interviewed at Google, I can confirm their process is geared toward inexperienced college graduates who know how to make two robots collide. And yes, their management structure is extremely shallow, as were their interview questions. Not at all impressed, I’d rather work at a “real” big company.

Oh no, flip-flops are bad! Some extremely limited study using test subjects that undoubtedly grew up wearing “proper” shoes indicates that switching suddenly to flip-flops causes them to walk differently. Wow, imagine that. No mention as to what other people in the world who wear thongs all the time have to say about this. What’s amazing is the number of people leaving comments who seem to know more about feet than the people running the study.

Jun
25th

Wed

Bill Gates realizes Microsoft software sucks The proof is all there. If Bill really sends emails like this every day, why is their software still so bad? What surprises me is that Bill doesn’t seem to have an entire department to keep his machine updated. I honestly thought that he would not perform these mundane tasks himself. It’s poetic justice to see him have to suffer the way I did for all those years of using Windows. Too bad it was for only one hour. Makes me glad I’m using a Mac, everything just works.

Jun
24th

Tue

You Walk Wrong As a result of this story, I bought three pairs of Terra Plana Vivobarefoot shoes. They are quite remarkable, and really do change the way you walk.

Jun
23rd

Mon

The lamest thing you can ever do to a tree. A single cut would have been better.

Jun
18th

Wed

Top 10 reasons Ballmer should be fired I couldn’t agree more with this derisive assessment of Ballmer. Failure, he’s a total failure. And he screams and sweats and looks like an idiot, too. He should be fired.

Jun
9th

Mon

Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement speech: the one and only commencement speech I’ve watched, and yet it’s hard to imagine a better one.

In less than two minutes this guy makes nearly everyone’s life look utterly boring.