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campylobacterDEAR LiveJournal:
You just sent me a notification that my Paid Account will expire in 5 days. Then you change the HTML font from monospaced Courier (which helps to align code tabs and display preformatted text properly) to squinchy little proportional Arial (which doesn't differentiate the 1il| characters very well).
To add insult to injury, you also convert my Auto-Tweet posts (which have been a royal pain if not impossible for me to edit due to your RTE tweaks) to a Russian subject & timestamps displayed in Cyrillic.
Clearly, the message you're sending is that you're relying on Paid English-speaking users to be beta-testers for bugs & to fund all the free bloggers in Russia, without employing a native-English-speaking Perl programmer to ensure that shit like this doesn't happen.
LiveJournal, I don't want to leave my fandom friends here, but you're not enticing me to be loyal to you.
You just sent me a notification that my Paid Account will expire in 5 days. Then you change the HTML font from monospaced Courier (which helps to align code tabs and display preformatted text properly) to squinchy little proportional Arial (which doesn't differentiate the 1il| characters very well).
To add insult to injury, you also convert my Auto-Tweet posts (which have been a royal pain if not impossible for me to edit due to your RTE tweaks) to a Russian subject & timestamps displayed in Cyrillic.
Clearly, the message you're sending is that you're relying on Paid English-speaking users to be beta-testers for bugs & to fund all the free bloggers in Russia, without employing a native-English-speaking Perl programmer to ensure that shit like this doesn't happen.
LiveJournal, I don't want to leave my fandom friends here, but you're not enticing me to be loyal to you.
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Date: 2011-10-01 05:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-01 06:23 pm (UTC)I fully expect new code to be tested in the Sandbox by volunteer beta testers before the head codemonkey commits branches to the trunk, according to best practice. This unprofessional manner in which SUP & LJ are handling site development ensures that LJ's future as a blogging platform can't keep up with Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, Posterous & Movable Type in the next decade. For cryin out loud, they fired 12 US employees without severance from its 28 paid staff members in 2009 so they could hire cheaper Perl programmers in Russia. One look at
What's worse, Perl isn't "sexy" anymore. New, up-and-coming IT workers in the US can't take courses in Perl because schools prefer offering courses in PHP, Ruby, & C#. Of the awesome Perl programmers left, they're being paid by companies who can afford them, such as Amazon.
Unless LJ fixes a lot of their old, outdated core code, they won't be around 10 years from now, and that's a damned shame.
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Date: 2011-10-01 06:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-01 06:51 pm (UTC)However, with your degree, I'm wondering why you haven't explored technical writing as a career. I'm willing to bet that you'd get heavy traffic if you started a Wordpress blog of basic, for-dummies-level tutorials with screengrabs on how to use accounting software. It'd serve as free publicity & an online portfolio to show potential employers or contract clients. When readers post questions that aren't covered by existing tutes or are esoteric to their situations, charge them for tech support.
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Date: 2011-10-01 07:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-01 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-01 08:03 pm (UTC)http://www.spiletta.com/UTHOF/files1.html
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Date: 2011-10-01 08:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-01 08:27 pm (UTC)