Porn. Ruby. *headdesk*

This guy doesn’t get it. Brief background: At The Golden Gate Ruby Conference Matt Aimonetti gave a talk on “CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star”. There’s more about it here and some perspectives from women here.
Now Matt’s post tries to explain why he’s, basically, not at fault. Example:
It genuinely was not my intention [...]

Amazon Fail 2 - the techies broke it

Looking at this off-the-record interview with an Amazon staff member, the whole accidental flagging thing makes a lot more sense - someone accidentally flagged thousands of items using a field that’s been around for a while (not a newly developed feature as some early reports suggested, or a user-defined field that racked up numbers of [...]

Amazon Fail

Amazon are stripping the sales figures and associated ranks from some books deemed as “adult”, preventing them from showing up in bestseller lists and some searches. This is on the grounds that “adult” material doesn’t suit their entire customer base (see post including email from Amazon here).
There are two issues here. The first (albeit less [...]

Link round-up

Starting a blog again during the mad panic of applying for courses probably wasn’t the best idea. Bad blogger. Here’s what I’m reading anyway:
Free the Shministim!:
ISRAEL’S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. Show your support [...]