Offended

Dear [NAME REMOVED],

Are you making a pun about my last name? Thats pretty offensive.
Please don't contact me again.

-Michael Economy
Senior Software Engineer
Goodreads Inc.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM, [NAME REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Although the economy is by no means in recovery, there are some encouraging
> signs to indicate that improvements are ahead. In addition, technology
> stocks seem to be making a comeback. As a result, we are seeing some of our
> clients making cautious plans for new product/project initiatives.
>
> I am contacting you to see if you or others in your company have any high
> priority projects that require additional temporary or regular full-time
> employees. If yes, please email me the job specs, and we’ll start presenting
> you with qualified candidates right away. If not, do you anticipate any
> staffing needs in the second half of 2009?
>
> Regards,
>
> [NAME REMOVED]
> Director of Research

maybe it wasn't the nicest reply

Subject: IT Help Desk Technician needed - $17.00 per hour
Body: Hi Michael ,

Our company is currently hiring a motivated IT Help Desk Technician to join our staff, and, after reviewing your resume I would like to speak with you about this opportunity. Based on your qualifications I feel that you would be a fantastic applicant for this opening.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to advance their career to the next level. Our ideal candidate will be friendly, outgoing, and have a strong desire for continued learning and growth. This position offers competitive pay starting at $17.00/hour plus outstanding benefits to match!

Michael , I have only extended this opportunity to a few people as I would like this position to be filled soon. Please view our website through the link below to complete an online application and to view a more extensive description of this position regarding requirements, benefits, and more!

--- url removed ---

I am beginning the interview process shortly so I look forward to receiving your application today and hopefully working more closely with you!


With Regards,

C. Benn
Human Resources Specialist




reply:
Subject: Re: IT Help Desk Technician needed - $17.00 per hour
Body: Are you kidding me? whats next "Big Mac Technician - $9.25 per hour"?

My boardgames

title num_players

lost cities 2
gloom 2-4
dominion 2-4
taluva 2-4
settlers of catan (travel version) 3-4
zooloretto 2-5
carcassonne + expansions: 2-5
-river
-thief and king
-master builder + lakes
-the count
race for the galaxy + expansion 1-5
puerto rico 3-5
cambria 3-5
age of steam 2-6
condottiere (3rd edition) 2-6
power grid 2-6
mag blast (3rd edition) 2-8

Zarbee's Children Cough Syrup / buzz.io - spammers (Danny Villarreal)

At goodreads about an hour ago it seems a email marketer (see: spammer) from the company Buzz.io Tried to send some 300000 goodreads invite emails to an account (now deleted).

Looks like the name of the guy is Danny Villarreal, who uses the emails cari@buzz.io, zarbees@gmail.com, and buzz@zarbees.com. Unfortuntunately some of those emails did successfully go through our system, and Goodreads is definitely sorry about anyone who got a fraudulent invite email from this guy.

Danny's LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/942/224

The zarbees twitter account: http://twitter.com/ZarBees

Text of this users fradulent profile:

Zarbees all Natural Cough Syrup for children. Made with a unique blend of dark honey, vitamins, and other all natural ingredients.

Developed by pediatrician Dr. Zak Zarbock our cough syrup contains no harmful drugs or alcohol. Making the safest and most effective cough syrup available.

Goodreads is committed to keeping our site spam free and stopping garbage like this.

Its just one of those days.

irb(main):017:0> 100 == 100 * 1.0000000000000001
=> true
irb(main):018:0> 100 == 100 * 1.000000000000001
=> false

Charles Schwab Emails

Dear Charles Schwab,

Can you please quit sending me a billion emails. I have opted out numerous times.

-Michael

acts_as_solr, solr_destory doesn't work as a callback

So we had a bug where acts_as_solr will screw up our data integrity when the server is down. The solr_destoy method will not catch the exception it throws when its down, so it doesn't work properly as a call back. I've decided to monkey patch it like so:

module ActsAsSolr::InstanceMethods
def solr_destroy_with_error_handling
begin
solr_destroy_without_error_handling
rescue => e
logger.error "error deleting from solr: #{e}\n#{e.backtrace.join("\n")}"
end
true
end

alias_method_chain :solr_destroy, :error_handling
end


which seems to work...