What about OpenID, the best damned federated authentication scheme the world has ever seen, but nobody in the world can figure out how to use? If not, surely you must have heard of Google Gears. This was the Firefox plug-in that was supposed to establish Google as a first-rate operating system vendor, even before Chrome was supposed to do the exact same thing? I’m still waiting for these technologies to change the world…any day now.
Ted Dziuba on Web Technology
1 October 2008
6 September 2008
I get where the argument is going about web apps being more dominant than desktop apps. That prediction is a crock of shit. A 2007 survey found that 73% of Americans have never even heard of Google Docs, and 94% have never tried an online office suite. Yeah, desktop apps aren’t going anywhere.
Ted Dziuba on Web Apps
2 August 2008
One of the most common butthurt reactions to web services is the login barrier. Forcing people to create an account before they can use your product makes a lot of potential users say fuck it.
Ted Dziuba on Logins
6 July 2008
Worst ISP Ever.For a while, I had Comcast’s cable internet service. It was clear after two years of putting up with their horseshit that they don’t care about customers at all. Oh, wait, they set up a Twitter account. Fantastic, but my BitTorrent shit still didn’t work on their network. Their installation staff is rude and has questionable hygeine, and their customer support representatives are downright lazy.
Ted Dziuba on Comcast
20 May 2008
If you are more than 50 pounds overweight, are unmarried, have no children, and your only reason to get up in the morning is your shitty software job, the healthy lifestyle is not for you. You are better off eating yourself to the grave: you will get much more satisfaction out of life by eating cheeseburgers than you will by torturing the pounds of fat off your gut.
Ted Dziuba on Weigth Loss
26 April 2008
Saying “Rails doesn’t scale” is like saying “my car doesn’t go infinitely fast”. Alternatively, saying “We’ll have no problems scaling because we’re using Django” is like saying “I will win every race because my car is the most powerful”. Maybe so, but you suck at driving, and you’re up against professionals.
If you’re having scalability problems and blaming it on a single technology, chances are, you’re doing it wrong.
Ted Dziuba on Scaling