This month
Unlimited Novelty: "Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?"
Le blogueur.
My attitude is if I'm a good Ruby programmer, and you're trying to hire me when the supply for Ruby programmers is low and demand is high, that before you even talk to me you've spent at least 10 minutes Googling for my name, looking at my code, and figuring out who I am, rather than spending an hour subjecting me to a series of ad hoc programming questions in areas I may or may not specialize in. That 10 minutes of Google will tell you a lot more than asking me to come in and scribble stuff on a whiteboard.
Le commentateur.
I take your point about the interviewer asking appropriate questions for the interview. But it sounds to me like you're telling me your skills as a coder don't extend to making your ideas and plans understood without handing someone actual finished Ruby code, written on a laptop. If that's the case, then I can't work with you.
Je suis plutôt de l'avis du commentateur : quand on embauche un développeur, ça n'est pas pour travailler avec un sociopathe qui ne voit la vérité que dans son code. En même temps, c'est un Rubyiste, donc c'était à craindre.
December 2011
Cambodia Tuk-Tuk Drivers Hit a Bump | News | Khmer-English
While demand is sinking, costs for tuk-tuk drivers continue. Sambath has recently invested in a new tuk-tuk and motor, that cost him close to $2,000. Drivers are also required to pay the government $5 annually to renew their operating licences.According to Sambath, living expenses in Siem Reap have risen, especially in the areas of housing and food, making it more difficult for the working class to make ends meet. He said more than a third of drivers' salaries go to room rentals, as most of them come from villages in search of better job opportunities in Siem Reap.
October 2011
Marriage and the Law of Supply and Demand - NYTimes.com
An imbalance in the opposite direction characterizes the contemporary marriage market in China. The Chinese government’s one-child policy, combined with a cultural preference for sons and technologies that permit selective abortion, have helped to create a large sex-ratio imbalance among young Chinese. For every 100 women in that group, there are now more than 120 men.
September 2011
July 2011
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Tweetbook: express auto-biography print-on-demand
book with the content I’ve put on Twitter for few months.
Mondays | Listen to the Complete Album, On-Demand, on KCRW.com
The right price for digital music. - By Adam L. Penenberg - Slate Magazine
C'est un peu le système de pinboard mais sans la décente.Here's how it would work: Songs would be priced strictly on demand. The more people who download the latest Eminem single, the higher the price will go. The same is true in reverse—the fewer people who buy a song, the lower the price goes. Music prices would oscillate like stocks on Nasdaq, with the current cost pegged to up-to-the-second changes in the number of downloads. In essence, this is a pure free-market solution—the market alone would determine price.
Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market
market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with "big data" took a huge leap over the last year.
Stop Torture in Healthcare
May 2011
Crystal-clear HD with Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
OpenProj | Serena Open Source and Hosted Project Management Software
March 2011
February 2011
IPad Makes Space in Tiny Japan Homes by Removing Shelves - Bloomberg
Japanese buyers of Amazon’s Kindle reader are redirected to the company’s U.S. site since no Japanese-language titles are available. Lack of content and low demand forced Tokyo-based Sony to stop selling e-readers in its home market in 2007. Osaka-based Panasonic Corp. gave up in 2008.
Les premiers à avoir eu des liseuses électronique grand public n'en ont pas fait usage à cause des éditeurs. La technologie ne sert pas à grand chose sans contenu.
January 2011
iSendr - On Demand P2P File Sharing and Transfers
December 2010
A LA RENCONTRE DES AUTRES HOMMES
Wikio Group veut devenir le Demand Media européen - Kelblog
October 2010
:: p · b · x es :: virtual PBX · hosted PBX · CRM on demand · SaaS · VoIP · SIP
September 2010
iSendr - On Demand P2P File Transfers
July 2010
Good Designers Ask “Why?” - Retinart
been there done thatThe client, or some of the nastier ones, think along these lines, but aren’t stopped by the cure carrying designer. They demand we do it their way. And that’s fine. What isn’t fine is when the designer doesn’t question the decisions. Because when you, the designer, doesn’t question and just acts, then you simply become an interface that sits dumbly between the client and the software. You know the magic buttons to press, you have the software and the large monitor. Apparently this makes a designer.






