I don't like this trend of putting "wacky" pictures in an otherwise professional project. Last week there was a project where the final screen was a gif of dancing duck with clapping pigeons. Now it's a smoking monkey. Before that it was the "This is a test, bitches!" email. Then there was the time a web hosting company accidentally charged all their customers for a full year and then posted a picture of Homer in a dress saying 'Oops'.
As a consumer, I would prefer to be treated in 'business casual' manner and not like a 13 year old. I hope this trend gets old.
To be fair, its one of the biggest success stories that you know of. In interviewing for a CIO from some top companies, I was a little surprised to discover how many large sites you are using on a daily basis that are .Net with IIS / SQL. Personally, where I work, we have been very very successful with our MS stack. We have been in the Inc 5000 for the last 4 years and in the Inc 500 (top 20) 1 year.
OccupyWallStreet should notice this. A group of people focused on actionable items makes results. A group of people camping in a park makes conversation.
This is such a clear contrast: 1) Set a goal 2) achieve it v.s. 1) Reject any goal setting 2) ???
I suppose the exception would be the response to BoA's $5 fee.
Anyways, good job community. This is effective protest.
Due to headlines like this I get to start every engagement with a consultant with the disclaimer: "We are not switching our database to MongoDB." MongoDB is good for one set of problems and relational databases are good for another set of problems. Consultants, a lot of students and hobbyists seem to think MongoDB is good for ALL problems. The amount of time senior engineer must spend having to explain why you would not want to use MongoDB for XYZ must be incredible.
Wow, that's... interesting. When I hear an ex-employee talk about why the company is laying people off I always take it with a grain of salt-- but still interesting none the less.
As a consumer, I would prefer to be treated in 'business casual' manner and not like a 13 year old. I hope this trend gets old.