Facebook already has a good mechanism for validating account owners which involves showing users random unlabeled photos of their friends and asking them to guess who's who.
I guess an excuse like "you got hacked" helps you get much more important information from your users.
No one is talking about how all of the sudden, a lot of accounts supposedly got "hacked".
If an Entrepreneur can't pay for the resources needed to build/ensure a product/service at their market prices, he should and eventually will, close business.
There is nothing wrong with that. That is the economical system in the works.
If no one is willing to pay for his product/service at the price he needs to charge, it is because either people do not need it, or they can get it cheaper somewhere else. In business, if you can't compete, you shouldn't.
In this specific case, these jobs are getting oursourced to china or replaced by machines. This is wonderful. Not for infimal number of people that lose their jobs, but to the huge number of people who will be able to afford that product/service cheaper.
I can't set up an ice-cream kiosk in antartica and whine about how business is hard and what will be of the antartica ice-cream industry.
My opinion is the same as Rick Falkvinge's: "The role of any entrepreneur is to make money given the contemporary constraints of society and technology. They do not get to dismantle civil liberties, even if - and perhaps especially if - they are unable to make money in the face of sustained civil liberties."
I agree, there was never a concrete job proposal. And I should be clear, that If my priority was to get the job then maybe I would not have been so honest in my reply and would have made an effort to send him a pretty CV.
"I would n't go as far as to call your half-finished NodeJS/MongoDB tinkering and yet another mustache clone "real work on real projects" "
I believe that most of the time, even the silly little pet projects, because their're made out of fun and passion and not because is paying you can provide a better insight into one's programming habbits, practices and skills.
A traditional CV tells you _nothing_ compared to a "half-finished" pet project.
"I also want people that work for me to do what the duck I've told them to do in the end"
Remember, you came to me, asking if I am interested in your "offers", as soon as I say "yes, please tell me more" you assume I work for you? I don't. Thanks, but no thanks.
You should not assume I am at your service because you privileged me with your invitation.
"Sure, be I also hire for other 5,000 open positions in this company that are not "developers, programmers or software engineers" and I want a bloody CV document to put in my document management system alongside theirs."
Hey, it's your job. I don't complain to users about how they should use web apps to make my work easier.
I'm not going to tell you how to do your job, and don't ask me to do it for you.
Sorry if I came across as a dick. I assure you I did not mean to offend you.
I just feel that if I was recruiting, I would like some feedback as harsh as it may be.
I figure it is always better than being ignored.
Otherwise, I'm just sorry I wasted our time.