* Posts by Ravan Asteris

2 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Sep 2008

How do you find the skills needed in the virtualised data centre?

Ravan Asteris
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Oh, so now you want generalists? Screw you!

Specialize, specialize, specialize! That was the drone of HR wonks for years. "Jack of trades, master of none" was a career death sentence, relegated to shitty help desk jobs to be canned as soon as the next Indian call center could open. Lofty specialists looked down their certificated noses at those of us who knew more than one area.

Now you realize that you need generalists who can bring it all together? Go soak your head, scumbag, unless you are willing to pay at least twice what a specialized insect commands. You belittled us for years, now when we are rare, we will hold your damned feet to the fire, payback for decades of derision.

Sure, money doesn't ease the pain of loosing possessions, friends and teeth to chronic unemployment, but it can at least buy dentures and booze, which will help get new friends.

OMFG, what have you done?

Ravan Asteris
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Fucking Owww!

Your main page now hurts to read.

Font: I shouldn't have to use ctrl+ on every fucking page. If it takes too long or too many clicks to read, I will click away. Seriously, what teenaged idiot has you convinced that a crampy sans-serif font is "trendy". Fucking ow. Now I have to pick between a headache reading the itty bitty font, or aggravating my RSI by hitting ctrl+ repeatedly. Not worth the bother, IMO.

Fixed Width: What 1995 Geocities amateur stupidity! The reason for variable width is to accommodate the user's browser, window width preferences and screen resolution. Whether it's a narrow monitor or a wide-screen (with narrow or wide browser windows), variable width adapts to all users, fixed width suits only a few, and makes for unpleasantness or extra work for the rest. Both tiny screen and wide screen users are annoyed. Dump it. (Hint: my browser window has lots of tabs, but does not take up my entire screen. I'm not going to resize my browser window just for your little site. The other sites I go to are either properly variable, or are amateur and not expected to be anything but bog stupid fixed width.)

Ads: Big, ugly, noxious. 1/3 of the page for ads and useless graphics/flash? Do not want.

If you paid someone for this design, you got horribly cheated.

I was unable to read clearly your headlines and teasers, so I'll have to give your content a miss for a while. Too bad, because you usually had good stuff, but now it's too much fucking work to read. If I have to do that much work and messing about to read something, I need to be paid.

I'll stop back in a week to see if you've pulled your head out. Now, I need some headache tablets.