Cloaking Rudeness as Telling the Truth
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Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on Twitter, people are downright rude to each other. Now I know the internet is not the shining example of human decency, but I’ve been watching people pass off being rude as ‘just telling the truth’. As if some flippant statement about being a truth teller can absolve them…
Talking about Time Tracking
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Ruby Freelancers had a great discussion on time tracking. As a freelance developer tracking and billing time is how you make money. If you don’t bill enough time you don’t pay bills. I’m always wondering if I could bill more time so hearing them talk about how much time they bill each week on average.…
Twitter: Turning Kings in to Serfs
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Ben Brooks felt strongly enough about the changes to the Twitter API changes that he pushed this post past his recently implemented pay wall. When you are focused on just making money you not only end up screwing people over, but you end up gutting your service. Twitter is gutting the soul from itself and…
A Primer on Recovering as an Athlete
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This year I’m way faster on the bike that I was last year. I’m not talking a few seconds, I’m talking minutes faster with lower effort on the same hills. Here’s the funnier part, I’m training with less focus this year than I was last year. I’m mainly just riding my bike for fun. I…
RadioShack Nissan Trek does have an Adult Athlete Employed
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I’ve written more than once about the woes of RadioShack Nissan Trek. Ultimately it has seemed that there really aren’t any adults on the team. Adults do things like talk to those they have issues with, instead of running to the media to tell about their issues. Well it does seem like they have an…
Lenovo Steps Up
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Hot on the heals of the child like complaining from Acer we have Lenovo with a totally different response. “Although we don’t like Microsoft providing hardware, for us, it just adds one more competitor,” Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said during the conference call in response to analyst’s question. “[They’re] just one of our many competitors.…
Acer Whines
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So Acer is complaining that surface is competing directly with them (and it is) and threatens that they’ll look at alternatives to Windows. I can certainly see that they’d be upset, but what alternatives are there? Apple won’t license OSX and the general consumer isn’t interested in Linux (despite how rock solid it is now).…
Dicking Around or Putting Out?
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Go talk with a group of bloggers or programmers for a few minutes and you’ll end up talking about the tools you use or the specific workflow. Some people in that conversation are going to go dump what they are currently using to try out the tools that others suggested in the quest for a…
Surprise, Facebook Lied to it’s Developers Too
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So guess what, not only does Facebook not respect it’s users, it screws developers too. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says Facebook duped application developers into paying $375 for a phony [sic] security authentication, the latest to come out of the privacy investigation Facebook settled on Friday. Basically Facebook charged extra to be ‘verified’ then…
IE is Doing the Right Thing with Do Not Track
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Microsoft gets a pretty bad wrap for it’s browsers. IE (specifically version 6) has been a thorn in the side of every web developer for years. With that type of history it’s sometimes hard to give MS credit when they do right. In IE 10 ‘do not track’ will be enabled by default, and I…
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