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For developers, we are constantly being hassled by head hunters and recruiters. The demand for a good developer is very high – and the supply is low (excluding the mediocre developers out there – you know who you are).  Good developers all have a common trait – they are smart! So to attract them, you…

Thanks to brilliant, financially savvy Colorado politicians, Amazon had to let go 4,200 of it affiliates:
DENVER — Amazon.com Inc. cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax.
The move hurts businesses — many of them small,…

As regular readers know, here at Techwankers we write how we feel. And add a touch of our crazy humor (yeah – its humor).  We’ve written many post criticizing and making fun of the tech industry. Most notably Techcrunch and Google. Today we did a post on the YouTube rickroll issue (which hinted on the…

Techcrunch posted an interesting post today on a leaked My Space app review doc by a UI design ‘expert’.
The doc is located on scribd. It’s titled ‘Apps Expert Review’. Expert???
First, the docs looked like it was scribbled over by a 3 year old with color crayons.

The ‘expert’ advice : ‘the button must follow style guides’,…

Sometimes I think humans are pretty stupid and we are probably no smarter then our dogs. Here is an example.
This is got to be the stupidest idea we’ve come across. (And we’ve seen some crazy ones)
This is a butt hole cover for your dog!!! WTF? So apparently there is a problem with ugly dog butt…

Real world stuff .
PMS Buddy:
PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on “that time of the month” – when things can get intense for what may seem to…

A 16 year old girl from Iowa apparently has the fastest thumbs, according to Yahoo News
… her aptitude for texting goes beyond sending sneaky messages to friends during math class: Moore’s messaging habit has won her $60,000 in prize money
for FASTEST texting speed. The winning message?
“Zippity Dooo Dahh Zippity Ayy…My oh MY, what a wonderful…

Today’s tragic accident bought out the comment trolls in droves.  Comment trolls are probably the worst side of the internet/blogs.  (The techwankers are a close second).
These trolls can be classified into the following:

1) High Almighty:
Trolls who think they know what is right.  Today, many news outlet/blogs wrote about the tragic Tesla accident – but also,…

Let’s face it. There’s no WAY in hell not one, not two, BUT THREE Tesla execs died at once in a single accident. The chances of that happening is equivalent to Joe getting laid with a REAL person.
Here are possible “enemies” of Tesla Motors, an electric vehicle company, that might want to see such tragedy
1)…