More Wisdom From Pownce
/ 18.Jan.2008
You know, Ted, it's not nice to say mean things. This is San Francisco, everyone is supposed to be friendly to eachother. Yeah, I know, the world can be a scary place sometimes, but sooner or later, you gotta face facts.
Anywho, Pownce's lead developer has imparted another gem of computing wisdom on us. Hm, what could it be? Empirical evidence that incoming messages can be modeled with a Poisson process, and how this affects capacity planning with a multiserver queue? Maybe not, that could be too academic. Oh, I know. It's got to be some clever database sharding strategy re-implemented in Python because Java is big and scary. Nope, not that. Django methods to avoid because they're inefficient, something determined by judicious use of hotshot? It's not that either. It's how to generate random strings.
It comes as no surprise that this problem has been solved already, better than she or I ever could (It's called APG).
Kevin Rose's Real Name Is Robert
I'm treading of difficult ground here, but there is a point I need to make. I am all for having more women in technology. There's far too much of a disparity between the sexes in this field. To that end, I have met women who are far better engineers than I will ever be. I think that more companies should follow Google's lead and offer scholarships to young women pursuing educations in computing and technology.
But people like Ms. Pownce aren't doing the movement any favors. Wearing your ineptitude around your neck and parading around under the guise of "hot geek" only lowers the opinion of females in the eyes of male engineers who can recognize that you don't know what you're doing.
But hey, this is the internet. Don't take anything you read seriously.
I'm Going To The Crunchies Tonight On Valleywag's Dime
I bet I can even liberate a few cocktails out of Owen Thomas's man-crush on me.
Anywho, even with the recent press, Pownce's numbers are still falling. Their Alexa rating now is lower than when Arrington and I suggested that they were on their way to the deadpool. Fail.
35 Comments
FAIL
Sorry, comments are closed for this article.