Mediocre Tech Jobs

I don't even know what it means.

email me your resume. f g a r r i e l a t g m a i l d o t c o m

@spacezorro Your in Vegas, Which Area? you can email me at a i s s o u l at g m a i l dot c o m

@Foxborn I sent you an email... and it bounced. I was going to send you an email at your marrakech medispa or one of the other french sites.. but they are broken also.

@spacezorro that's cause I can't keep my emails straight, it's A O L (don't hate me for using them it goes back to dial up days!)

You should probably apply or better yet, just show up for work

We have our new lead developer, folks.

I love purple

I've seen a billboard for the remake of the show Dallas.

Bryce Dallas Howard is an actress.

I was in a band with a guy from Ft. Worth.

I used to be like you, I moved here from SoCal about a year ago. I promise it's not as bad as you think.

It's worse.

It's not even Texas so much for me as it is leaving my current area. We moved here to be close to family and raise children in a place...

...similar to the one in which we were raised. Texas is geographically, demographically, and public-educationally too different for me to..

...even consider as long as I am employed / haven't lost hope of finding work locally.

Also, possibly giving myself too much credit assuming you'd find a spot for me to be productive

I feel you. Liking your current job is the worst.

Doesn't he have a daughter named Katy? That may be a reason.

@magic_cave You say that as if a politician by any other name is a bit better.

@cengland0 Being employed by Meh probably precludes you from even being able to buy one. Better to not work there so that you may fully reap the fuku benefits.

@jsh139 Employees can certainly buy everything else, I suspect that @Snapster lets them buy Fukus too. In the tech industry, it is called "Eating your own dog food". Employees get the same customer experience as everyone else, so they can tell when things need improvement. There were nearly 1 thousand Fukus this time, so if 10 Meh employees also partook, it would only be a 1% hit. But those 10 employees would know more of the customer experience.

@hamjudo buying the Fukubukuro as an employee is frowned upon. we want to reserve all of them for our customers. we don't allow special employee only purchases because we want to "eat our own dog food" as you pointed out. oh, but here's one mediocre employee benefit: free VMP.

@shawn "here's one mediocre employee benefit: free VMP" It's very thoughtful of @snapster to not charge you five bucks to let you walk into the warehouse and grab your box.

@SSteve when you put it that way it sounds kinda lame, which is why you don't see us hyping that up in our job postings. but honestly, we try to avoid just grabbing crap out of the warehouse so we can experience the same shipping process as everyone else.

@shawn Sorry if I came across as a dick–it was not my intention. Just a lame attempt at humor. It's really based in jealousy. I'd love to work with you.

@Kidsandliz Wouldn't it be funny if they had a large server farm but they used AOL as the ISP and that was where the bottleneck was?

@cengland0 wait, is AOL bad? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL US!!??

@cengland0 Or maybe they buy server space from Amazon. Then occasionally someone notices that meh's item for the day is in competition with something at Woot, so: "Hey, someone, unplug meh's server for an hour or two. If they call, tell them we're working on it and it should be up in a few minutes."

@rockblossom Azure is Microsoft's competition to Amazon's cloud offerings. Its primary advantage over Amazon is that it is not run by Amazon. They also have a less than stellar reputation, so the sales critters sometime offer very good prices.

@Kidsandliz That would make all future Fukus sell out in 2 seconds. Leaving the whiners to complain for the next 86,398 seconds about why Meh didn't make a million Fukus available. As others have said before, the fun is in the chase. I suspect there is a reason this was never completely fixed even way back from the Woot days of old, and I'm happy to see it continue that way. It adds more of a random chance event to getting a fuku rather than just a fastest to the draw situation.

@hamjudo @heli0s I love purple.

@hamjudo mmm... warm cache...

@hamjudo That last Fuku experience almost created a synthetic customer load in my pants.

@hamjudo On rereading the caching bit, I see I didn't clarify the huge amount of work required to get the caches warm. It requires a big chunk of parallel infrastructure. Also, I'm sure the coders involved have noticed the impact of cold caches. It shows up every time you run a benchmark twice in a row.

@hamjudo I imagine it's pretty hard to design a site that can (gracefully) scale to handle 1500% of normal traffic a.k.a DDOS-levels without being able to drop/reject any of the traffic like you would for an actual DDOS

@Kleineleh Hmm I wonder if warm caches would be even better with melting butter and blackberry jam

@Kidsandliz I've never had blackberry jam, but right now anything warm sounds good to me!

Yeah, give him a job already, but send me the paycheck!

@kuoh wow, that's the third time in 24 hours that someone's called me a dude. Wow. I blame @cengland0

@Foxborn Force of habit from the BBS days when it was assumed 99% of online users were dudes and unless their handle implied a dudette, they were considered to be dudes or ridiculed for having a poorly chosen handle. Also the dudettes, except for the crazy ones, commonly chose dude like names to avoid harassment from the other 99%.

@kuoh All's forgiven, the other two times though, that was something special, a supervisor with FedEx (it's a long painful story that starts with a woot shirt order) twice called me Sir the second time was after I called him out on it too. amazing. and dumbfounding

@hamjudo when the site is slow you usually can't load the forums either...but just between us two, check their Twitter feed if all you want to know is the item.

@ABitterWoman I don't have any power to share at the moment, sorry. But in all seriousness it's very likely that we'll have volunteer mods at some point in the future.

@JonT I'll be a volunteer mod if you pay me enough.

@SSteve @jont maybe pay them by letting them have first crack at the fuku's...

@JonT Nice. I'd definitely throw my name in the hat.

@ABitterWoman I think they throw the hat AT you, more than you ask.

@Thumperchick Well if that's true, I'd just do what I always do- say I'm going to lunch and never come back. That excuse works for everything.