Zelnox’s Black Hole
O hai
This is my tumblelog. And I use the boxfactory theme.
The placeholder I use for my web presence is at zelnox.com.
Apparently, this came with from an official Microsoft publication. Click-through for the entire scans.
Iz sad.
Fri 04 Jul
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Don't let Jeff Atwood lead your web project
The Stack Overflow podcast with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood is great when Joel is relating excellent software stories and opinions… but it’s pretty painful to me, as an experienced web developer, listening to Jeff Atwood spout off wrongly about web development (which he knows nothing about).
Atwood is a Windows-apologist programming blogger. By his own admission, he has no formal computer science education and spends more time blogging than programming. He’s more qualified to write about programming than to actually do it.
Joel and Jeff are working together on Stack Overflow, designed to be a better Experts Exchange: a community site for programmers to ask and answer questions. It’s a noble goal, and I hope it works.
Joel, whose main product is a web app, has a lot of experience writing web apps. But since he’s busy running a company, he’s not doing any programming for Stack Overflow: that’s Atwood’s role (and a hired developer working under him).
Every week, Atwood mentions something in the podcast that makes me cringe. He has no idea what he’s doing. As a fellow developer, I’m supposed to be nice and helpful and positive. I’m never supposed to insult someone else in my profession. And I really try to avoid it, because everyone screws up. I screw up all the time.
And there are vast areas of my profession that I know nothing about. I know I’m not qualified to lead an AI research team, maintain a J2EE server farm, or develop a .NET desktop application.
I really don’t want to watch Stack Overflow explode with trolls and spam, or (worse) simply fizzle out and fail. But you have to know your limits, and Jeff Atwood repeatedly shows that he doesn’t.
O_o
Fri 04 Jul
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I'm on board.
I just watched the first episode of The Wire at the relentless insistance of my friends and coworkers. And I’ve got to say, I came to this party late but I am HERE TO STAY.
I still haven’t found the opportunity to watch this series yet!
Fri 04 Jul
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Hotels.com ad right before news that thousands of their users were victim of fraud.
Thu 03 Jul
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Crazy sister, last December.
Finding funny little things.Here is one of them on her Flickr.
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PS.: Dear Marco, I would love to have this in better quality, but it seems the file must be smaller than 500kb and less than 400x400 in order to not be resized?
Mon 30 Jun
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Matt Pond PA - Locate the Pieces →
Fri 27 Jun
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