[THE CREATURE STIRS] or "A rare FA code update"

[graeme]

I also wonder how many other people have secretly and privately been told they could do FA Rewrites with Neer's blessing.  Your average software project of this scope is much longer than three months, and if he can't remember someone he approved three simple months ago, I wonder how many more there are out there.

[Conan]

And we're a few days in and already developers are storming off the project.

http://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/907176-2013-rewriting-attempt?p=4358527&viewfull=1#post4358527

Zaush, to me and Myr, also showed quite a lack of knowledge, which is probably why he's going with NodeJS - he's probably picked that one language up the best and stuck with it. It became even more worrisome when he started belittling me and Myr, thinking we were unintelligent in the subject - according to himself, he has been a "PHP Pro" for 12 years! Pretty sure he's not old enough to have been doing Pro PHP for 12 years. When he said PHP was FAR slower than NodeJS, he wouldn't accept me or Myr's reasonings to use it, it was ALWAYS about speed and nothing more - not maintainability, not flexibility with its settings, not its ability to distribute easily etc. despite the fact that both of us have worked for large corporations (and have credentials to prove it) and he just expected us to take his "skills" at face value. Even his "proof" that showed PHP being slower clearly stated in plain english that the test was Biased to Node JS - and the Graphs he constantly pointed out showed NodeJS having higher CPU usage as well, kind of ruining his argument of "less resources".

He wants things done his way regardless of logical reasoning. I like NodeJS, but for FA's usage I don't think it'd be a good fit - Java, PHP, Python et al. I think would be better but he just wouldn't have it. Even something as powerful as Java he shunned away because NodeJS is apparently some magical elixir that fixes EVERYTHING.

The final nail in the coffin was when he flat out patronised me, asking me basic questions like "Explain to me, what are Database Indexs?" - I didn't answer, playing dumb, and he replied with how Index are slow () even though by definition an Index is a faster method for data retrieval. He actually dodged his own question with a hair-brained answer that in itself was incorrect. He even said how we had NOTHING to show for our month of work except for the fact that we DID and I even explained it in detail + our future plans - yet he didn't show us anything in return except a PDF with some bullet points for "development milestones" (that didn't really make a whole lot of sense because they included no real back-end work) and two mock-ups that looked like knock-offs of Weasyl with rounded corners. He says I can't take criticism, yet he thinks his mockups where the shit and bit down on us when we pointed out things we didn't like; yet my front end was actually made based on user-criticisms and feedback. He says he doesn't want idea men, either, and no crowdsourcing because to him that is "designed by committee" and that is bad, apparently.

He said that anyone who didn't share his drive was dead weight, he didn't want to motivate people and he was going to be a hard ass, me being busy with my real world job and Myr trying to pull money together to fix his car meant that "we were not suitable for the position" because our full attention was not on the subject - he even went as far to call Myr's money management pathetic if he couldn't afford to fix his car! It was a LOT of money Myr had to fork over! Like, A LOT, he needs to make it back somehow!

Zaush lives up to his name of being an insufferable jerk.

Me and Myr bailed.

According to Zaush it is HIS project, along with ONE of his friends. Two people in total, everyone, and I'm not even sure they really know what they are doing.

Likelihood of this actually going somewhere? HA.
Get used to Weasyl and SoFurry, folks, because what Zaush has in store will mostly likely fall over in a heartbeat. The way he was describing it all, it really did sound like a bit of a mess.

Yeah, I'll probably get banned for spitting bile about him, heck I may even get a white knight or two he's such a damned stereotypical Pop-Fur! But damn oh damn oh DAMN! People needed to hear this.

Don't expect anything, and if it does work, expect it to break instantly due to lack of adequate planning.

If he asks you to work with him, don't. He wants yes men and bitches and will break you if you have an idea that conflicts with his.

I'm done. Peace out. Enjoy your new FA if it ever gets here or even works. My team? Its dead, everything has been removed from public viewing because Zaush wont allow us to do anything.

[a pigeon]

Meanwhile, it's the same old same old on Twitter:

We will be bringing on new admins soon to help quell the queue as well (week or two?).

^
https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/418545263670607873

AUP is in final draft, pending approval. AUP will be updated, clarified, massively re-written.

^
https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/418547840344788992

It's just a shame the site won't be massively re-written!

Also I loved this:

he didn't show us anything in return except a PDF with some bullet points for "development milestones" (that didn't really make a whole lot of sense because they included no real back-end work) and two mock-ups that looked like knock-offs of Weasyl with rounded corners

[Kindrift]

Zaush, to me and Myr, also showed quite a lack of knowledge, which is probably why he's going with NodeJS - he's probably picked that one language up the best and stuck with it.

Now I really wanna know if his decision making process was as simple as it looks, i.e. "does Ryan Dahl share my laidback brogramming slacker lifestyle"

[Pi]

Node.JS, where you can go from "Does anyone I know use this" to "an expert" in 10 days!

[ColeTrain]

At this point it's evident all Zaush wants is a group of yes-men who will do all the hard work for him.

If it succeeds? He'll take all the credit for himself.

If it fails? He'll have a group of naive suckers to shift the blame onto when things crash and burn.

[winserv03fan]

http://benanderson89.tumblr.com/post/72023618116/a-chat-with-zaush-over-fa-2-0

videozaush: speaking to ant of you: if your dedication does not match my own, then you'd just be dead weight
Ben Anderson: Moral 101 - don't say anyone is dead weight
Ben Anderson: you have to motivate people
videozaush: how do you motivate a soldier?
videozaush: you make them realize how human they are, strip him of his pride and his self importance
Ben Anderson: or ya know "for queen and country"
videozaush: from there, you can motivate them to the stars
Ben Anderson: we are NOT soldiers
Ben Anderson: we are website coders
videozaush: you see this as a way to get attention, or money, or something
Ben Anderson: we are people who want to do a good thing for a large community
Hunter: He's right zaush. You motivate coders with irish coffee. :3
videozaush: you need to be prepared to get nothing in return, have people jeering at you and throwing rotten fruit, but not drop out
Ben Anderson: so
Ben Anderson: your idea
Ben Anderson: to motivate your co-workers
Ben Anderson: is to basically stomp them into the dirt and say "get this shit done" ?
videozaush: i motivate them by putting us against the world
videozaush: and you don't get anything done just jamming on ideas, or having wishful thinking

Zaush:
stripping people of their pride and self importance since 2005.

[rodox_video]

I still struggle to understand how he still has a job. If he had some iota of talent, he'd probably come off as one of those micro-steves Apple is attracting and churning out in horrifying number. Silicon Valley is teeming with egotistical brogrammers, and he's a particularly caustic example.

Problem is, unlike the majority of said brogrammers he can't seem to code his way out of the toilet. You have to wonder what the fuck is going on here that makes him useful to an organization in the slightest.

He did get canned at Google a few years back, and he occasionally brings up how much he hated his supervisor. Needless to say, I'd love to hear from any of his former co-workers there because with the way this guy swaggers around there have to be some stories.

Speaking of Micro-Steves:

he didn't show us anything in return except a PDF with some bullet points for "development milestones" (that didn't really make a whole lot of sense because they included no real back-end work) and two mock-ups that looked like knock-offs of Weasyl with rounded corners

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt

[nrr]

Zaush:
stripping people of their pride and self importance since 2005.

Man, I wish I kept logs of my conversations with him on IRC from way, way back in the day. He particularly liked belittling me for refusing to use some of the more questionable parts of PHP, like its object system.

As he mentioned to someone else, "But he's passing everything around as hashes!" Oh, if only you knew, Zaush. If only you knew.

PHP lacks structs, and swaddling everything in objects didn't seem like the thing to do. Passing around associative arrays in a manner fitting for PHP that were full of strings containing names of functions (as function "pointers") and other key-value pairs was about as good as it got. It was delightfully arcane, like JavaScript.

Oh well. Gotta use the trendy shit, right?