Jay Marcyes

Fernyb made the comment:

I actually had this idea a very long time ago but never got around making something.

to which Fred replied:

cool! Here’s a bucket of non-existent cash, and an unsigned lease on a yet-to-be-built office where you can fail to start a company to do something with that idea you never acted on.

Dan Lyon's thoughts on a current tech bubble...

if you characterize a bubble as something that can only take place in
public markets, fine, there is no bubble. If you characterize it more
broadly as a phenomenon in which companies with no profits and
unworkable business models are able to raise millions of dollars in
venture money, and then when each unworkable company leads to six or
eight copycat companies that also get funding, and when a company like
Facebook is valued at $15 billion — um, in the broader sense of the
term bubble, I’d say that would be one.

Greatest description of XKCD ever...

Well, I draw XKCD, a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play
with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex.
It’s about three-fourths autobiographical.

via, via. Interestingly, he also accurately describes what I did at my last real job in pretty good detail...

Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures
and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is
largely what I did at my old job, too. Maybe that’s why they kicked
me out.

Post, not so good (contains a seriously bad analogy). First ~10 comments are great.

my favorite:

"More like Galactus Devourer of Worlds attempting to eat Pluto."

and in response to all the all the epic fail comments,

"If you're going to fail, don't do it half-way..."

He definitely would read the manual...

WWJD? He'd RTFM God Damnit!

<Wolfpaws> I hate being mocked at by people who don't even read a manual.
<hatzis> lol
<hatzis> mate i read the karma sutra if that counts
<Wolfpaws> hatzis: You want to stay in the channel? Go read the manual first.
<flavious> karma? :)
<hatzis> yeah
<Jaymon> flavious: you know, it's like the kama sutra, but for your chi
<Wolfpaws> hahahaha
<flavious> yeah, for the karma
<garrett__> my chi isn't that flexible :(
<flavious> stretching your soul
<hatzis> yeah
<garrett__> i sprained my ethics last time i tried position #23
<hatzis> thats right
<Jaymon> lol
<Wolfpaws> My soul has long paws :]
<flavious> hahahaha

funny #php irc chat because he switched kama with karma for the kama sutra, garrett__'s was the funniest.

With the death of HD-DVD, there has been a firesale on players, and in every HD-DVD deal thread on Fatwallet the BluRay guys have to chime in, well, philmont had some words for them...

I really can't understand having some kind of emotional attachment to a company or data format. I know probably most of the BR owners probably actually do have a life and do not do this, but for some, they remind me of the worst of the Ron Paul fanatics. They both show up where not wanted, say things that are not entirely true, and insult you if you don't adopt their views.

I feel the same way...

Update 2-28-08

Jeff Atwood has a great post on douchebaggery that goes along with the above sentiment, the whole post is worth a read, but here is a choice quote about David Heinemeier Hansson, the guy that created Ruby on Rails:

David expressed the same sentiments in a 2007 technology prediction piece.

"Apple will continue to trounce everyone else for the preferred geek platform. The stigma of being a Web programmer still using Windows will increase."

Here's what I don't understand about statements like this. They have exactly the opposite effect that the speaker probably intends. There are two possible reactions:

1. Wow, David's right. I made the wrong choice in my career. It's high time I looked into OS X and Rails programming. They sound great!

2. F****************k you.

Guess which reaction is more common?

The past couple days I have been knee deep refactoring the Javascript libraries we use.

While looking for a solution to a problem I came across this slashdot post with some funny comments responding to a developer's claim of having developed a 25,000 line javascript application:

ignavius said:

"25,000 lines of Javascript ? What could you possibly be doing which requires that level of Javascript interaction ?????"

to which walt-sjc responded, and which made me laugh hysterically:

1000 lines of application code, and 24,000 lines of browser compatibility code.

Anyone who has spent anytime using javascript would know just how funny walt-sjc's comment actually is.

scene: reading about total cost of ownership between maintaining an old collection of game cartridges and consoles or just buying them on the Wii at Ars Technica.

BForrester said...

When I fire up the NES Virtual Console, I smack the Wii around and blow air into the slot until I hyperventilate.

All for nostalgia.

That brought back some memories, and made me laugh...

Scene: Forum discussion about Circuit City's falling stock price and recent problems...

AdamK47 said, "When Circuit City is gone how am I supposed to get my $100 monster cables?"

To which ShockwaveVT responded, "Go across the street to Best Buy, where they cost $105."

But the zinger came from marvdmartian, "Better yet, go to the going out of business clearance sale at CompUSA, where, after applying the 75% off savings, it'll only cost you $110!!"

The whole exchange made me laugh.