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If it Looks Corporate, Change It

32 points by Mintz 17y ago

yan 17y ago
Zzz. Atwood rewrote the blog post posted here earlier[1] without really adding anything. At least he referenced it. Coding Horror has been feeling exceptionally desperate for new content. Lately it's been providing very little value and has been following the same schtick of saying something unimpressively generic and summarizing it in a sentence typeset in bold. [1]http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/youre-a-little-company-now-act-like-one.html http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/youre-a-little-company-now-a...
- tsestrich 17y ago
  At least it introduced me to the "headset hotties" blog, lol. Maybe that's something I should have come across before, but its hilarious
- phsr 17y ago
  It seems like Atwood is concentrating more on StackOverflow and the Dev Days Conferences. It seems like Coding Horror is falling by the wayside right now.
- edmccaffrey 17y ago
  Atwood's formula lets him make posts when he has nothing to say: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/nothing-to-say/ http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/nothing-to-say/
- anigbrowl 17y ago
  EDIT: it was funny when I wrote it, but it looks petty and mean-spirited now.
billswift 17y ago
I voted this one up, because I found two links in the comments that are worth checking out: Entertainment: http://www.despair.com/index.html http://www.despair.com/index.html and one that looks like it may be generally interesting or even useful: http://www.zx81.org.uk/ http://www.zx81.org.uk/
edw519 17y ago
"Coding Horror is the leading provider of relevant appearing tabularasa in the programming blogosphere. Hackers world-wide use Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog for its leading edge, paradigm breaking, deeply insighted, and profound grasp of the obvious."
puredemo 17y ago
Yeah we all know everything should look shiny and web 2.0 not corporate.
zoba 17y ago
I'd also say "If it sounds corporate, change it." Leverage, solutions, circle back, ping, value add, methodologies, goal oriented, etc etc etc. I cringe every time I hear a friend say one of these.
- whatusername 17y ago
  ping?

32 points by Mintz 17y ago

yan 17y ago

Zzz. Atwood rewrote the blog post posted here earlier[1] without really adding anything. At least he referenced it. Coding Horror has been feeling exceptionally desperate for new content. Lately it's been providing very little value and has been following the same schtick of saying something unimpressively generic and summarizing it in a sentence typeset in bold. [1]http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/youre-a-little-company-now-act-like-one.html http://blog.asmartbear.com/blog/youre-a-little-company-now-a...

tsestrich 17y ago
At least it introduced me to the "headset hotties" blog, lol. Maybe that's something I should have come across before, but its hilarious
phsr 17y ago
It seems like Atwood is concentrating more on StackOverflow and the Dev Days Conferences. It seems like Coding Horror is falling by the wayside right now.
edmccaffrey 17y ago
Atwood's formula lets him make posts when he has nothing to say: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/nothing-to-say/ http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/nothing-to-say/
anigbrowl 17y ago
EDIT: it was funny when I wrote it, but it looks petty and mean-spirited now.

billswift 17y ago

I voted this one up, because I found two links in the comments that are worth checking out: Entertainment: http://www.despair.com/index.html http://www.despair.com/index.html and one that looks like it may be generally interesting or even useful: http://www.zx81.org.uk/ http://www.zx81.org.uk/

edw519 17y ago

"Coding Horror is the leading provider of relevant appearing tabularasa in the programming blogosphere. Hackers world-wide use Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog for its leading edge, paradigm breaking, deeply insighted, and profound grasp of the obvious."

puredemo 17y ago

Yeah we all know everything should look shiny and web 2.0 not corporate.

zoba 17y ago

I'd also say "If it sounds corporate, change it." Leverage, solutions, circle back, ping, value add, methodologies, goal oriented, etc etc etc. I cringe every time I hear a friend say one of these.

whatusername 17y ago
ping?