While freelancing seems to be the best way for a web developer, here are some HR interview tips & common HR questions and answers. You know.. just in case Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s say that you want to write an article/blog post about the World Wide Web – WWW. And you want to embed a (copylefted) image. What do you do? Obviously you’ll search for it using your favorites search engine. Let’s try it with Yahoo! Image Search:
You must read this blog post if you’re in the software industry.
“Where are students supposed to learn about version control, bug tracking, working on teams, scheduling, estimating, debugging, usability testing, and documentation? Where do they learn to write a program longer than 20 lines?”
Apple might be wrong, Microsoft’s Windows 7 might be the best operating system! I have played a little with an RC of Windows 7 and it rules.
But the ad is very funny!
“Raindrop’s mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend’s blog or as part of a social networking site.”
“Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).”
Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid!
Limited experience
Lifelong domestication
Too many mouths to feed
Way too risky
Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves. Morons. Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (“You’re fired“) sound like a safe and secure situation to you?
You Become a More Progressive Worker and Less Reactionary
You Will Be More Well-Rounded
You Will Be a Better Negotiator
You’ll Be in a More Strategic Position
You Will Be Happier
When you step back and look at the way work is done today, it’s not hard to see that a successful freelancer has better job security and a better ROI than an equally successful employee.
“Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the Firefox and IE toolbars each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more.”
When I discussed it with a friend, he suggested that perhaps Alexa.com has a lot of DNS servers and every DNS request updates the information about websites ranking. Actually, they using on data from a limited number of epic morons who have Alexa Toolbar installed. That’s lame!