Coders Who Don’t Job Interview: Zed Shaw

July 12, 2011

I wrote a piece about the current state of job recruiting from a coder looking for work. I wondered: What would it be like if you didn’t have to do a job interview? (The non-tl;dr summary is below.) By “job interview,” I just mean the normal process where I job candidate replies to an ad, [...]

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Django Follows the Law of Least Googling

July 11, 2011

What web framework should someone new to web development learn? Any framework that follows what I call “The Law of Least Googling.” This law states that a tutorial will not let a learner have to Google anything for as long as possible and for as little as possible. I’ve followed the Django Tutorial all the [...]

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I Did What I Loved and Nearly Destroyed Myself

July 10, 2011

This is a polemic against the well-written blog post of Adam Conrad called “Do What You Love or You Will Destroy Yourself.” The same warning that he applied to his post, I am applying here. There’s lots of stuff, but feel free to skip down to the useful bits at the end. I start off [...]

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Recruiting is Broken: The $2400 Face to Face Interview

June 13, 2011

I lost a week of billable last week. That’s how much it costs if you go all out and turn on the recruiter fire hose. I got a face to face interview today. It was my $2400 face to face interview and I had to just turn it down because of the back log. Right [...]

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What’s it like to be recruited?

June 8, 2011

First off, I’m very grateful to my parents for getting me a computer when I was 8. I am not sure where I’d be if it wasn’t for that. I got inspiration from this HN article and did the same. My #s are way higher. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608900 As an experiment, I submitted my resume to Dice, [...]

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How Do You Explain WordPress? Use Ruby Metaphors!

June 1, 2011

Last night I went to the WordPress Meetup at the Automattic office on Pier 38. I was late, but thank goodness that their sponsors had free booze and pizza. What struck me about this meetup was how folks explained WordPress and how to do production pushes with it. They had to use Ruby best practices [...]

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5 Ways to Reduce Twitter Spam

May 31, 2011

I’ve been working on reducing the amount of twitter spam. To me Twitter Spam is any sort of @ reply or DM that links to a site that tries to hack you back, and it can do so more than you care for. Here are 5 ways that work for reducing twitter spam: The silent [...]

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EmpireAvenue.com is Addictive

May 28, 2011

{EAV_BLOG_VER:b09730a5ab0973e6} I’m currently hooked on this virtual stockmarket for Social Media: empireavenue.com.

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Fake User Wins Instagram Contest

May 9, 2011

What’s a fake user? What’s fake? On Instagram, the photo-sharing social network for the iPhone, I caught eye of a drama that’s unfolding right now over who is a fake user and a real user – not to mention the distinction between fake photo and real photo. Here’s the blow by blow. User @sunshinepeyton starts [...]

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Quora’s Troll Proof Trade Off

April 18, 2011

I wrote an answer to a question using scientifically backed up data on Quora. The result? My answer is totally at the bottom. Who’s on top? The Internet Famous. Quora does a good job of giving you troll-proofed answers, but after Scoble burst onto Quora’s scene it’s not obvious that troll-proofing comes at the expense [...]

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