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Zuckerberg's Rent-A-Coder profile from 2002
- tbgvi 16y agoKind of off topic, but I'm not a fan of their re-branding. Perhaps there's some oDesk envy? (Rent a Coder is now vWorker for those that didn't click through)
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoIt's not surprising: a lot of what's happening there isn't coding related. e.g., I keep getting unsolicited requests to do technical writing.
- RACNicole 16y agoThank you HeyLaughingBoy. Yes, vWorker is changing to reflect the diversity of the many talented workers on the site. Read all about it at http://blog.vworker.com/2010/04/about-our-name-change-from-rent-coder.html http://blog.vworker.com/2010/04/about-our-name-change-from-r...
- GYf 16y agoHow do you mean, HeyLaughingBoy? Employers send you private bid requests for technical writing? I think that only happens if you put it in your resume or if you did a technical writing job for someone. I like that they have more than a programming category -- for one thing, makes it easy to hire out the tech writing parts.
- GYf 16y agoReally, tbgvi? I like it. The control panel is easier to use in the site redesign that came with rebranding. Pay by the hour is new for them, but I don't see them as being more like the competition. And I figure the re-branding makes sense for them. Everyone here is a coder, but vWorker has lots of users, with those projects for SEO and logos and transcriptions. Changing from "coder" to "worker" probably helps the designers and writers, now that vWorker is marketing to their buyers as well.
- theycallmemorty 16y agoI guess it turns out that all of those people who want rentacoders to make facebook clones really aren't that far off the mark.
- vaksel 16y agoi notice there is no php in that profile
- mbyrne 16y agoTotally lied about graduating from Harvard.
- kloncks 16y agoNot saying he graduated, rather simply saying he's attending Harvard, part of the 06 class, which at the time was definitely true.
- sean12345 16y agoNot really. It says his last login was 2002. The clear assumption was he was a student at Harvard in the class of 2006.
- mbyrne 16y agoTo those who don't yet associate the mbyrne handle with Bringing The Funny (as we say in my home country), my above comment was meant as an obvious joke. Probably not obvious enough. Probably not funny enough, either.
- lanstein 16y agoYou have 10 karma. The list of those who don't yet make that association is quite extensive.
- mbyrne 16y agoI just gave your comment one point.
- delackner 16y agoHN may seem a little dull to you at times, but there's a lot of people here that would prefer that the humor be restricted such that your posts would still be worth reading if you stripped out the humor.
- tommynazareth 16y agoI like how he graduated from Harvard in '06 in '02.
- mbyrne 16y agoIn case your post wasn't a joke (like mine), the '06 is his class year, not necessarily his graduation date.
- wildmXranat 16y agoHmm, could it be the projected graduation year ?
- GYf 16y agoThat makes sense to me.
- pierrefar 16y agoHow can we be sure 100% it's reallly Mark Zuckerberg's of Facebook fame? I couldn't see anything definitive in the profile.
- detst 16y agoSign up Date: May 23, 2002 9:30:12 PM Username: zberg02 Formal Education: Phillips Exeter Academy '02 Harvard University '06 Unless someone was impersonating him in 2002, I'd say it's a safe bet that it's him.
- tlrobinson 16y agoHe's from Dobbs Ferry. He went to Phillips Exeter and Harvard. He graduated high school in 2002, so the "zberg02" username makes sense. No one has logged into the account since 2002 so it definitely wasn't faked recently, and it's unlikely it was faked before he was well known. Seems likely it's his.
- ziadbc 16y agoIt is kind of interesting how there is some kind of karma in the whole privacy debate here. All of his info is being aired out in public. So far its been fairly benign, but it looks like it might get dirty here pretty soon.
- mbyrne 16y agoI just submitted a job request through that site to him, to fix some privacy bugs in a "large social networking" application thinking that would be funny. Damn, if he didn't reply back within 30 seconds and tell me to just "Relax, retire, enjoy your family. It's just a web site. Not worth it."
- zaidf 16y agoWow, I was a top coder on RAC around the same time :) Good times! That said, the site is a joke for US-based programmers IMO. It worked for me because I didn't care about the $ amount being a HS freshman who'd just fallen in love with programming.
- GYf 16y ago[quote]Wow, I was a top coder on RAC around the same time :) Good times![/quote] zaidf, you miss the days when you would code for free? vWorker has like 300k workers now. I wonder if it's easier or harder to be a top coder now, compared to then. The #2 and #3 Top Coders right now are from the U.S.