I would not hire a person like him even if I was drunk, even if he would work for free. Too many fish in the sea.

I can’t fathom their hiring practices.

I also can’t fathom their stock price. Has anyone noticed that AdSense is now paying like 15% of what it was a year ago? That’s a huge drop in revenue, and yet the stock price is still up there. Either that or Google is just using the economic downturn as a way to screw the little sites out there.

Anyway I enjoyed the rant. Though I have to agree with some. If you are so freaking good why are you wasting your time doing things for other? Do it yourself and reap the rewards. Get your head out of the socialist open software society and into some real honest to god capitalism and make your millions if you are that good. Then go back to giving away your time for nothing, at least then you don’t have to live in your parents basement anylonger…

Wake up and Smell the Coffee….

If google did, truely offer him a job, then they should thank their lucky stars that he turned it down.

In conclusion…

Zed is not JWZ.

Mongrel is not Netscape/Mozilla.

Web 2.0 and RoR would’ve still worked w/out his contributions.

Overuse of “cock sucker” reveals Freudian undertones.

Some people self-destruct over equating job titles to success.

We can’t spew vitriol and then pull the “j/k” parachute cord like in 8th grade.

The “I’d rather be hated than ignored” argument is very Mansonites circa ‘98.

Archive.org will forever bite us in the ass when employers, banks, landlords, partners and family members do any form of background checking.

This public breakdown is the tech industry equivalent of doing porn. You can never turn back.

an advice.

write a “how to do good ruby coding” of something like that

@Gubatron: there’s already a framework for Python called Django that generated a buzz a little while back.

I spent a year basically killing my career as well trying to get a Rails app running because our investor thought it was so hot. Holy shit…a complete disaster. If anyone has _real_ successes…then chime in. I want to hear “Dude, I made $5M on my Rails webapp…we produced code 10x faster than everyone else and made a mint”

Instead I hear the general “Hey I can do Hello World in ten lines of code”. the problem is simple:
1) No compiler – this means that you get to remember everything in your head…change this, break that….lots of fun when you have customers down
2) Crap threading – this has all the problems that a web app without threading brings
3) Crap performance – not only is Ruby slow…but you have to improve performance with caching….for God’s sake wtf wants to cache dynamic content..why can’t stuff just work.
4) Nightmare to manage – This is the worst….its like working on live electricity all the time…its terrifying to deploy new code because how much testing can a startup really do.

My only complaint about Rails is that the rails wiki needs to be monitored better because it’s become (if I dare say) Ghetto.

Those times were wrong. Read the post again, and tell me if all this anger comes because he thinks he’s no good at anything, a loser etc (low self esteem), or because he’s arrogant and narcicistic (too high self esteem).

This whole self-esteem movement the last 30 years, where we teach kids how special they are (even when they are clearly just average), and that they have to go out and demand their place in the world was bound to create problems like this.
Far too many of them.
That’s why the rest of the world is reviling against anglo-saxon cultures, we’ve created a generation that is just too damned selffish, demanding and think the world owes them.
It’s time to switch the emphasis to results, and self-control. Doesn’t look like Zed posseses either.

He is pretty solid technically (Mongrel certainly is clean code), but one can only hope he finds a position he is happy in, in the kind of company that recognizes the contribution he can make.

No-one really wants to work with an asshole that thinks he is better than you.

Compromise in your working life, and you will find it much easier to start earning serious money and concentrate on things important to you.

Jobs where you are doing what you love, are well compensated and working with a home-run team are rare, and fleeting (key people always leave, eventually).