1PM What You Get for Hiring a “Programmer” with a Degree in English Literature
Manager: Why doesn’t our testing server work?
Programmer: I’ll tell you exactly why it doesn’t work. I built it.
Manager: I’m leaving now.San Diego, CaliforniaOverheard by: He’s right.
Overheard in the Office | What You Get for Hiring a “Programmer” with a Degree in English Literature
I submitted this a while back.
In regard to why I’m going back to Prague…
Shoot. It’s been over a month! Since then I have:
That is all. More soon.
I have a plane ticket to Munich in April. Now what? Where should I spend 5 days? Leave comments.
$844.06 gets you a plane ticket from LAX to MUC (Lost Angeles to Munich) in April. I’m pretty excited. One piece of the puzzle in place. Now I just need to get the train tickets, accommodations, oh yeah, pick the city we’re going to… It’s gonna be great!
Everybody knows the difference between an opinion and a fact. Unless it’s politics. Suddenly the two merge. Opinion polls drive policy and polls are taken as indicators of the way things are or should be. But people forget, it’s an opinion. For example, this poll says that McCain is seen as more knowledgeable on foreign policy. That doesn’t mean he is, that means that people think he is.
Another news article says:
In a finding suggesting the difficult terrain Mr. McCain needs to navigate as Congress considers the Wall Street bailout 52 percent of respondents said Mr. McCain cares more about protecting the interests of large corporations, compared with 32 percent who said that he cared most about protecting the interests of ordinary people. By contrast, 16 percent of respondents said that Mr. Obama was more concerned with protecting the interests of large corporations, compared with 70 percent said he was more concerned about ordinary people.
Again, this is an opinion poll. This should not be quoted as fact that one candidates is better suited than another. It means that people perceive them to be better. Take for example the war in Iraq, obviously opinion polls show a vast majority of the country of the country does not support it. But the vast majority of the country probably shouldn’t be making that kind of decision. Or the current economic crisis, this article says that only 30% approve of the $700 billion bail out. But 99% of the people are hardly able to understand the intricacies involved in the global economy.
Why do I say that the average American citizen doesn’t know what’s best? Because 1.5 million people think Marc Zomberg is going bring back the old Facebook (see post below). Because something like 40 million Americans voted on American Idol.
This whole post is opinion. My opinion. It is not fact. You can disagree with any or all of it. I am not endorsing one Presidential Candidate. I am not supporting or rejecting the war in Iraq or the proposed $700 billion bail out. I am merely commenting on the trap of using opinion polls as proof of merit for an idea, action, or solution
Does anyone know? Google doesn’t know. And Google knows everything. There’s a facebook group with 888,835 members hoping that Marc Zomberg, the “founder of the greatest company” (which company?), will bring back the old facebook if they get 10 million members.
Today I received a message from Marc Zomberg the founder of the greatest company and he told me to make this group he wants to know how many people really want the old facebook back, so he could bring it back.
Now we need everyone who want the old facebook back to join this group and invite everyone because he gave us only 20 days to do this.
Hurry up and invite we only have 18 days left to do this.
876,000 members in 2 days!!! we need 500k every day to achieve our goal and to bring back the old facebook so invite everyone.
First of all, why would the request come in this format? A message to start a group. Why wouldn’t there simply be a facebook wide announcement? But more importantly, who the hell is Marc Zomberg? And what company is he the founder of? Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of facebook. There’s a Marc Andreessen on the Board of Directors. But who is Marc Zomberg? And why would Mark Zuckerberg listen to him?
If half the people who joined the group to get the old facebook group back, they’d have almost 5 times as many signatures as they are asking for on The One Campaign they would have almost 5 times their goal. What is The One Campaign?
ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – one by one. So far, over two million have signed the declaration in support of a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world.
A much more worthy cause. Go sign the petition. It takes a little more time than clicking “Join” on facebook but not much. And you have a better chance of making a difference than a fake group started by some random dude from London.
I was watching Jay Leno last night and he had Kate Hudson on. Here I’ll state the obvious, Kate Hudson is gorgeous. Wondering who was on David Letterman I flipped channels to see David Letterman demanding Richard Simmons get off the furniture… Letterman needs to have a chat with who ever is booking his guests. Talk about unfair.
Hmmm… might need to reconsider Dubai as a vacation spot. Apparently they’re not very forgiving. Or a whole lot of fun
Privacy is a funny concept on the internet. It’s so easy to publish your life online. MySpace, Facebook, blogs, Flickr, Twitter, the list goes on and on. There’s a website for every occasion and every type of person. It’s also a place where you can feel anonymous in the mass of others who, for various reasons, do not disclose their identities. But once you give up that privacy it’s very difficult, if not impossible to get back. Things that go onto the internet can’t not be recalled. An email sent can not be unsent. The degree of anonymity goes both ways. There is no easy way of knowing who is looking at the information just as there is no easy way of knowing who is posting.
I have a blog (obviously), I’m on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, Pownce, Good Reads, DeviantART, and a few others I’m sure I’ve forgotten about. All of these sites tell people something about me. Where I live, where I went to school, where I work, what my hobbies are, where I like to hang out. An interested person could probably find out in under 30 minutes where I live within say… 10 miles. If they know San Diego geography, within 2.
The internet is an open source of information, for better or worse. But you can’t choose who gets to access it and who doesn’t. MySpace and Facebook allow for basic control of access, but both have been hacked several times. Blogs are open to the world. Anyone with a semi-active social life or involved in extracurricular activities, is probably mentioned in an article, press release, bio, or organization website in some way.
A little bit ago I asked a question as a half joke, “can you be too connected?” The answer is yes.
