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Scalped!

At first I was all excited about Live Nation… some­one was com­pet­ing with Tick­et­mas­ter! This had to be a good thing! There was no way it could go hor­ri­bly wrong! Then I tried to buy some tick­ets to see Los Campesinos in Feb­ru­ary. $7.00 sur­charge on $14.00 tick­ets. 50% markup. 50% markup! Unbe­liev­able. UPDATE I worked the math, and …

January 21, 2009 – 12:15 pm | By Ryan | Posted in diatribes, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

fuck you, austin sarner

Matt Ball has posted a siz­able write-up which neatly sums up the ris­ing tide of back­lash against the so-called "Deli­cious Gen­er­a­tion" of soft­ware devel­op­ers cur­rently bilk­ing milk­ing aban­don­ing their installed base every 6-to-8 months. I had been work­ing on some­thing sim­i­lar, though admit­tedly much, much less details when this dropped. My inter­est in this was strictly …

February 23, 2008 – 11:35 pm | By Ryan | Posted in applications, diatribes, shit stirring | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off