SubscribeI’ll add one more thing to the people reading this: I mean business when I say I’ll take anyone on who wants to fight me. You think you can take me, I’ll pay to rent a boxing ring and beat your fucking ass legally. Remember that I’ve studied enough martial arts to be deadly even though I’m old, and I don’t give a fuck if I kick your mother fucking ass or you kick mine. You don’t like what I’ve said, then write something in reply but fuck you if you think you’re gonna talk to me like you can hurt me.
Sure people would contact me for their tiny little start-ups, but I’d eventually catch on that they just want to use me to implement their ideas.Well, what does he expect? I mean, that people are just going to let him code up open source stuff all day long?
Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting _400 times/day. That’s a production application that can’t stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.I'm not a Rails programmer -- what's the context for this?
And about Ruby - um, duh. It may be buzzword-compatible, but a bill-payer it ain't.Wow, this is so far from the truth where I live. A good Rubyist can make $100+/hour here, and there's a shortage of us. I've seen plenty of gigs in NYC offering similar rates.
That is the most pertinent part of the whole rant. Had the rant just been this one section, it would've been much more powerful.Notice how it took me a few seconds to reply. This one single statement basically means that we all got duped. The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting _400 times/day. That’s a production application that can’t stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.I'm not a Rails programmer -- what's the context for this?
Did you guys know that Michael K. and Dave Thomas pretty much threatened me into not releasing a Mongrel fix for the problem for three months? They actually let it sit for three months before other people crafted the cgi_multipart_eof_fix which I could include.Yipe! I'd like to hear more about that.
The stuff about ThoughtWorks was interesting, about driving programmers hard and whatnot. That's one thing I really do not like about the programming world. Too much focus on spending lots and lots of time coding. I don't know what the productivity curve is like, but a really good programmer can do more 30 hours then an average programmer can do in a month of 80 hour weeks. And the quality and maintainability won't even compare.I haven't been with ThoughtWorks for nearly five years now, but it was definitely not like that while I was there. They were (and still are) big into Extreme Programming which espouses the 40 hour work week. There are other consulting firms which do that, and I've found their M.O. to be to get in as many hours as they can before the client realizes that a) the consultants are incompetent or b) the project should never have been implemented in the first place.
The MBA attitude is best summarized in this statement, “I demand all of your creativity, yet trust none of your judgment.”That one line made wading through the bile fairly tolerable.
+1 for strongly-typed languages.+1 what?
lambda{|a| a*2}.call(4)+2.5lambda{|a| if a <>
(but, of course, this does not)
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