July 2010
123 posts
“According to the findings, seven out of 10 Americans could have landed their...”
– Report: Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Funnier because we are interviewing candidates today and tomorrow.
“The Kindle as razor. Buy any 8 bestselling books on the Kindle ($10 each) and...”
– Seth’s Blog: Paperback Kindle
I was going to call bullshit on Seth’s more recent post on the $139 Kindle (he says it is $90 too expensive) but he is 100% on the money: the Kindle at this stage is a powerful candidate for a razor and cartridges business model (don’t make money on...
My War, WikiLeaked: Why the Public (and the... →
Lovely: how can you trust these leaked documents to be accurate when REPORTERS that were embedded with troops during these incidents find holes in the reports?
Two problems:
1. These are raw data, and war is fluid. You can’t pick just one report and assume everything in it is accurate and absolute (funny thing, that is the same of every work document I have read for the past 20 years or...
Slashdot Science Story | Data Sorting World Record... →
This is funnier because I was arguing with a coworker today over certain data tables that were giving us some grief. I vividly recall complaining that a well-tuned SQL Server has no trouble spitting out more than 10,000 records in under a second.
These people SORTED a terabyte of data in just a minute.
*Beep*
Pedro: I just pointed my cell phone cam at Dr Phil's forehead
Pedro: I am positive it will read it (the wrinkles) as a barcode
Slashdot Games Story | Frustration and Unhappiness... →
This is why I only work at companies that build custom web-based, data driven applications, with specialization on workflow management solutions. Is it fun? Sometimes, but I don’t take a job expecting it to be a major source of entertainment and amusement. Instead I get a job EXPECTING TO GET PAID. Anything else I get out of the job is just icing on the cake, but amusement and entertainment...
BBC News - Precious legal case is dismissed →
They could have at least quoted the name of the movie, I read that headline and for a second thought it was from The Onion.
“Well, if you’re reading a hardcover book, strangers try to start...”
– E-Books Surpass Hardcovers At Amazon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | American Voices
The Worst Teacher I Ever Had
School bus
My English teacher in 8th grade, hands down the worst teacher I have ever had. Runner ups: some university professors I ran into that didn’t give a shit about teaching, they were simply punching their ticket for whatever reason.
