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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Saving Throw Against Stupid Ad Copy
Dice has pretty much fixed their embarassingly bad ads for tech jobs. I can't find a whole lot wrong here, because they've finally quit trying to write an ad that's supposed to read like code. See: they're writing comments in the code instead! (Clearly, Dice has received the recent memo that Comments Are More Important Than Code. In any case, comments always compile.) And
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Dice has pretty much fixed their embarassingly bad ads for tech jobs. I can't find a whole lot wrong here, because they've finally quit trying to write an ad that's supposed to read like code. See: they're writing comments in the code instead! (Clearly, Dice has received the recent memo that Comments Are More Important Than Code. In any case, comments always compile.) And
find_great_jobs() is a perfectly respectable function call. But ... isn't that an unbalanced brace at the end? Or is the matching brace just somewhere up beyond the top edge of the ad? I guess we'll never know...
