How Rentacoder Staff Spams Technorati 3

Rentacoder staff refined their methods to spam technorati but it is obvious that there are more posts after I published my opinion

http://www.technorati.com/chart/rentacoder?chartdays=180&language=n&authority=n

Now they post less dummy postings but probably they make different registrations as different blogger to write advertisements about rentacoder

Please be warned:
When dealing with serious projects rentacoder staff make mistakes. And they are proficient to blame someone else. Read more about my experience with rentacoder here

Another dishonest person trying to defend rentacoder?

Probably Thomas Hruska is another dishonest person hired by rentacoder staff to make attempts to hide the truth and to bark against me?
http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/rent-coder.html
http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2007/04/internet-brings-out-weirdest-people.html

When I explained him that I'm right he deleted my comments and said that I'm weird.
Probably is difficult for him to admit that he is not right, this pattern is similar to the behaviour of rentacoder staff... :-)

Very funny, it is interesting how much rentacoder staff pays for this.

If rentacoder staff had invested in education they would not had now problems with the truth and facts

Every wise man can confirm that I'm right and it is fair to warn all buyers and coders

:-)

Questions And Answers

copied from http://www.davesaraiva.com/2007/03/17/making-websites-for-other-people-vs-making-them-for-yourself

on 30 Mar 2007 at 8:29 am1kamen 123
Hello
You may wish to read my experience with rentacoder athttp://kamen123.blogspot.com/They are doing all possible to hide these facts
:-)
on 30 Mar 2007 at 9:43 am2Dave
I read it, sounds like you have a bone to pick with Rent-A-Coder.
I’ve done several jobs over $1000 US on Rentacoder for my main business. Used it a lot and haven’t caused any problems or had any problems with coders.
I say give it a rest.
on 30 Mar 2007 at 10:35 am3Jay
I’m no coder but I don’t see how that article involves the kind of freelance talent a buyer would find on Rentacoder.com ? Ok so whoever started the site goofed up.. I don’t agree with Dave’s unnecessary bone picking comment either but I hardly think the problems RAC is having is really related to what we were trying to tell people about freelancing..
on 30 Mar 2007 at 11:08 am4Dave
Well read some of the other articles he’s posted, it becomes apparent that he’s just a disgruntled programmer.
I can see his complaints with the arbitration problems he had, but he didn’t work with the arbitration system at all and therefore they ruled against him.
on 30 Mar 2007 at 10:51 pm5kamen 123
thanks for opinions, it’s useful to have other points of view
yes I have experience as programmer but I can bring projects as buyer too because there are bigger projects and often help is needed
In general I’m disappointed with mental abilities of rentacoder team. I wish to stay far away from them. Also I do not wish they to blame me for their mistakes
For me there is obvious pattern in their behaviour:they are proficient to make patches, for bigger projects they make mistakes and they blame someone else for their mistakes
I have worked on projects that cost millions. Probably for $1000 you get several forms or good customization. For me this is just bigger patches. Also projects bigger than $1000 are exceptions for RAC
Probably for your projects you have avoided RAC after first several steps in the project, this is the recommended approach
on 30 Mar 2007 at 11:39 pm6Dave
If you work at such a high level, why are you wasting your time caring about RAC, or carrying on this vendetta?
Sorry, but I just don’t buy it.
on 31 Mar 2007 at 6:09 am7kamen 123
well the slogan of RAC is “how software gets done”
now I see that RAC lied from the beginning to the end during my experience with them
I expected that RAC really are making software and I wanted to test But they make mistakes for bigger projects and even blame me for this
I do not like to be excuse for stupidityIt will be useful to warn other users(like me) in advanceIt is fun to give them a lesson, they are living in dreams, someone have to wake them up. There is no vendetta
I do not expect from you to buy anythingI’m just interested to have opinions
:-)
on 31 Mar 2007 at 6:11 am8Dave
That’s fine and entitled to your opinion. However, our opinion is that RAC is helpful for getting projects done.
We’ve used it extensively and had no problems.
on 31 Mar 2007 at 6:25 am9kamen 123
probably your style is in harmony with RAC and this is why you had no problems
or probably you work on projects that fit to rac proficiency
but if you look at the size of the projects done on rac you will see that I’m right
majority of people use such sites to find partners/affiliates and after that avoid the site
on 01 Apr 2007 at 12:06 am10kamen 123
hi Dave
thanks for opinionsit was nice to talk with you yesterday
sorry that you thought that I expect you to buy anything
on 01 Apr 2007 at 8:02 am11Dave
I never thought you wanted me to buy something from you, I just don’t agree with your views on RAC at all.
on 02 Apr 2007 at 1:04 am12kamen 123
why?I have obvious evidences:rac owner even is not capable to read and understand the documentation of ASP/IIS. As result he makes mistakes for years and blames Microsoft
This is just perfect example. Rac are proficient to make patches, for bigger projects their stupidity is endless
rac is excellent source of fun and jokes:-)
on 02 Apr 2007 at 5:40 am13Jay
Kamen,
I don’t think you quite understand what we’re talking about when we recommend RAC..
We don’t know how intelligent the owners are all we know is from our own experiences we’ve found good coders from that site who work for a very reasonable wage.. Thats it.. thats all
Obviously you’ve had a bad experience and it happens but in the few occasions that we’ve had to take things to arbitration the staff have always ruled in a way which kept both us and the coder happy and things got done.. thats all I care about..
on 03 Apr 2007 at 5:53 am14kamen 123
I seeI understand you completely now
RAC staff are proficient to deal with small tasks(I call them patches), you are working on such tasks and you are happy with RAC
You don’t care that for significantly bigger tasks the stupidity of RAC staff is endless and RAC staff even are not able of understanding the issues
on 03 Apr 2007 at 6:28 am15Jay
Ok… I think it’s time I retract my statement about you not having an axe to grind
Kamen.. As much as we appreciate your comments, the things your saying don’t really make sense.. Even if the RAC staff are total incompetent morons like you claim it doesn’t really matter since you hardly ever deal with them and the owners knowledge of ASP has no impact on the user experience.
We’ve used a number of different freelancer sites and found the talent on RAC to be one of the best, we’re not affiliated with them or anything like that we just use the service and so we endorse it.
If you have something to say about the buyers, sellers or even the arbitration process then we will listen and even report on it, otherwise please move on.
on 04 Apr 2007 at 4:42 am16kamen 123
well I’m speaking about RAC staff, their slogan and the fact that they promise fair arbitration
For projects significantly bigger than several hundreds their stupidity is endless and they speak unlimited stupid comments
This is obvious from the exampleRAC owner was not able to understand recommendations and best practises perfectly described by MicrosoftAs result he was fighting for years against his stupidityThis shows that he is too stupid to provide fair arbitrationAnd he is senior arbitrator, you can imagine mental abilities of junior arbitrators…
Do you understand my way of thinking?
:-)
on 04 Apr 2007 at 6:27 am17Dave
Kamen,
Perhaps you misunderstood Jason. This discussion is closed

How Rentacoder Team Spams Technorati 2

Now the spam is over

This posting will place my comments on the first page on technorati
Let's see if rentacoder staff will spam again
:-)

How Rentacoder Team Spams Technorati

It's wiser rentacoder team to admit that they are not right

But they are acting as a child and try to escape. In order to hide my opinion they send many dummy postings to technorati.com on date after my posting. It's easy to see on technorati activity chart http://www.technorati.com/chart/rentacoder?authority=n&start=0

This is copy of the chart with explanation



Very funny. Now I have another topic for jokes

Very Funny Link That I Found

I don't have time to dive in the endless examples of mental abilities of rentacoder team. But there is very funny link that I found. It's interesting to see how rentacoder owner blames Microsoft. Obviously mental abilities of rentacoder team do not allow them to read and understand the documentation of IIS 5.0 that came with every IIS 5 many years ago.

The url of the fun: http://rentacoder.com/CS/blogs/real_life_it/archive/2006/03/19/448.aspx

They can't stop me to laugh at them, if rentacoder hides this article there are copies at:
http://pages.citebite.com/p1s4t5s6s5ctb
http://web.archive.org/web/20060429110120/http://rentacoder.com/CS/blogs/real_life_it/archive/2006/03/19/448.aspx
http://www.webcitation.org/5OA68UZxe

This is the text with my explanations:

Real Life Microsoft IT
this title is lie, right title is "real life rentacoder mental abilities", "real life rentacoder stupidity" or "rentacoder - shame of the international global marketplace"

Classic ASP: Not ready for prime-time?
This title is silly, it is well described many years ago in IIS 5 documentation:"ASP should not be used for business logic. If you find that most of your business logic is embedded into the ASP, your application will probably not scale properly. It is true that ActiveX® scripting languages, hosted by ASP, are capable of accomplishing a great deal of business logic processing. However, if the business logic required for your Web application is more than trivial, then that business logic should be folded into a new COM component, rather than embedded in ASP scripts. "

The right title is "the code of rentacoder site: the biggest mistake of rentacoder team", "the biggest patch on the site for patches"

There is a VERY bad problem with Active Server Pages (ASP...or what is sometimes known as "classic ASP") which prevents it from being a viable system on which to build a "big IT" project. For 2 years we've been fighting a problem in which the IIS (Internet Information Server) 6.0 web servers will run fine for a while. But then after 18-20 hours, every pages will stop running properly and instead display random errors (that change from refresh of the page to refresh). The errors always say things like "Cannot find property or method" regarding classes that do exist, or "Cannot create object". The exact property or object changes from "refresh" to "resfresh"...even on the same page. Restarting will fix the problem for an hour or so...but then it reoccurs. Only a hard reboot will fix it for another 18-20 hours. And then the cycle repeats itself.
Obviously rentacoder team has overloaded the server. They have been fighting for years with their stupidity and blame Microsoft. There is vey bad problem with rentacoder: they are proficient to make patches and blame someone else for their mistakes.

We started a ticket over 2 years on this. Today Microsoft acknowledged the problem publicly with a KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;914156

Obviously the stupidity of rentacoder is endless and Microsoft is their excuse.

Basically the problem is that ASP fragments the heap under certain conditions:1) When an app uses INCLUDE files 2) When an app uses significant memoryAnd it doesn't defragment the memory and as a result, will ALWAYS crash IIS in this way. The new restart services of IIS 6.0 don't help, becuase only a hard reboot can truly get rid of the defragmentation.
Probably the owner of rac is proud that he understood several technical terms. He uses every opportunity to show it. Probably he thinks that this way will prove that he is professional. :-)

Of course, two things that any site that has any sophistication has lots of INCLUDE files and any site that has any traffic uses lots of memory. If both of these apply to you, your ASP site is in trouble. This is what's called a "bug" in my book. I'm sure if ASP were MSFT's current technology they would have to fix this. But Microsoft has moved on to ASP.NET...so I suspect the incentive is pretty much nil.

Of course rentacoder team think that many people are so stupid like them. Probably because of the "buyers" asking for clone of google for $100.
If you look at the KB article, Microsoft gives a "workaround" (which is the same workaround that they suggested to us). The workaround is to rewrite your INCLUDE files as COM objects. The article sites a # of benefits like speed, etc..
If rentacoder team was able to understand IIS 5 documentation they will know the best practices and will not call it "workaround"

The KB was probably written by a systems engineer who knows alot about running systems, but has no idea how computer software is developed, and how impractical this workaround is in the real world. In a previous position we went down the COM object route. We did it for other reasons...because it was the Microsoft "best practice" at the time. It's obvious why it no longer is. The problems we ran into were:

Again someone else is responsible for the stupidity of rentacoder team. The real problem is that rentacoder do not have idea of the real world. They are lost in their illusions

1) Memory: COM objects have a known memory leak problem. If two COM objects reference each other and you set them to Nothing, they don't clear themselves in memory as they should. The problem is due to the internal way that COM objects work and was fixed in .NET with a rearchitecture. But that isn't an option for you if you use COM objects. This COM memory leak bug will cause your machine to eventually crash, EVERY TIME.
Also for Java application servers when there is no more memory it is recommended restart, so restart is common way to solve such problems. But not for rentacoder team, they have to blame someone else
2) Slowness to initialize objects: COM objects are not designed to be created and destroyed thousands of times like .NET objects. Our object rich COM model running on the internet was VERY slow...some pages took 5-10 seconds to render. One way to work around this is to not use objects in COM, but instead use functions. But of course, this "solution" causes almost as many problems. A non-object oriented framework is exponentially more difficult to debug and maintain which makes delivering the code on time and on budget frustratingly (and unnecessarily) difficult.
there are 2 problems here:
- they have overloaded the server with bad structured asp code
- it is recommended the com objects to live in application scope: "Cache Application-scoped objects and data, either by creating the object in Global.asa, or creating it on-demand in an individual ASP script, and placing it in Application scope."...

3) Slowness to develop: This was a real show stopper. Every time a change is made in the COM object code (the COM object has to be completely recompiled from scratch, which took 2-3 minutes on a state of the art machines (This # could vary depending on the size of your COM objects). Also, many times IIS would lock the COM object .dll, so in addition, IIS had to be stopped and restarted too, which took another minute or two. (The latter might be alleviated with object pooling, but all the other negatives forced us to abandon COM before even looking at this possibility).
Probably rentacoder team is using IBM XT or they need to read about Script components: "Script components are an excellent technology for developing prototypes of COM components." Or may be the real problem again is mental abilities of rentacoder team, they may need 1000 times to compile for every letter
How does this affect things? When code is created, it is never right the first time. Even creating a single function is an iterative process where it's coded, run, bugs are removed, and the process repeated. A typically complex function created by a top notch developer might require 3-4 iterations...and an average developer might require 10,15 or more. Being able to iterate quickly is what allows you to deliver it on time and on budget. If creating just a single function requires 9 more minutes for your "star" developer and 30 more minutes for your average developers, you are going to have problems. It is FRUSTRATINGLY difficult to develop under these circumstances and try to meet time and budget commitments.
Obviously rentacoder owner is lost in his stupidity and gets frustrated. I can understand him. It is not easy to live with closed eyes. With closed eyes there are many dangers
I tried to explain to the Microsoft systems engineer why this was impractical, but simply got the standard "spiel" repeated to me that COM objects were wonderful and the way to go. Obviously he believed something he read from a KB article, more than me, who he did not realize had personal experience with this supposed "solution".
Obviously rentacoder team again tried to blame someone else for their stupidity. With so many "coders" flattering for 1-2 dollars rentacoder team is lost in their illusions.

Conclusion: If you develop a web app with any sophisticiation or any size, ASP (classic ASP) is NOT a suitable or scalable environment for you. Instead go to a non Microsoft platform. If you choose to say with Microsoft, choose the newer ASP.NET.
Conclusion: we see well known pattern. The mental abilities of rentacoder team do not allow them to understand more than several words. They try to blame someone else for their stupidity. With so many "coders" flattering for 1-2 dollars they are lost in their illusions. They think that barking against Microsoft will prove that they are right. Rentacoder is site for patches and endless stupidity.

1 Link, another opinion confirming that I'm right

another opinion confirming that I'm right
rentacoder is shame for the international global marketplace

http://mnour.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-freelancing-experience-in.html

or http://pages.citebite.com/g1e4k6o7n4gur

"s-poland said...
This is my first comment on RAC actually. I have been working there for 2 years now, bidding on "high paid" (above avg) projects.I disagree with some points brought up by the author.First: you should never bid on low paid projects. On RAC there is no problem to get high paid project with even no rating (read on).From my experience i know that people that pay very little are most demanding and most "unhappy" customers, requiring you to do thousand things that were not included in the initial bid spec. BUT: most (not all!) of the RAC's coders are lame uneducated noobs looking for "first rating" that are trying to do "ebay" or "youtube" clones for 50$ posted by another lame and greedy buyers that think "youtube looks simple". They have of course no idea how to code that ("youtube is free so i could get it written for $50, right?").Its really a shame that someone is taking projects like: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=612224For $700 when single license for phplivesupport is $100 and the project (if written well) can be completed in 6m-1year by experienced coder.When competition is soo poor you can sound professional by even mentioning some text from bid request. I easily get $500 project @ start making only 3 bids! NOT quantity - QUALITY counts.@Ian: I agree that generic bids are just plain bad (it tells the customer that you have noting to say about the project or time to read REQ's / you eventually won't be able to finish it anyway).BUT: Placing a bid amount is A MUST on your site. Want to know why? Because of noobs that want thier job to get done for $1/hour (or less).Taking a week project to get 30$, then give 15% to RAC and dont even be able to get the money (Western Union is sooo expensive). Just to get a rating. That's just insulting. I bet you understand me here.I live in Poland, costs of living here are VERY LOW. Even taking that into account i couldnt earn a LOWEST COUNTRY WAGE sitting on your site and professionally doing IT work (it BTW takes much time, dedication and skill - i have 9.9 rating on 40 projects!). I could earn more as a street seller of hot-dogs.Why im still on RAC you ask? Because of 1/100 projects posted by honest people that want to give little but at least FAIR money for my hard work. They in return receive well tested, well written, stable and extensible code. What can be done for $1/hr? You can skip all testing, write some unstable, unmaintainable sh*t and still get eg. $8/hr.Then you see all those "(repost)(repost)(repost)(repost)", "90% finished", "fix it, almost done" bids for humorous $$. I firstly considered bids like that but now AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS. I just saw some "90% done code" that people write on RAC. Hint: "search engine" with "one database table and working form to enter queries" working isnt anything near 90% completed.What is my overal experience @ RAC? Very good. Im doing ~1 project / month. WAITING for someone to post something thats even WORTH READING.RAC can't be considered anything near "full time job", "stable job", "fair paid job", etc. 99% of bids is by people that want thier projects done for 1-2$/hour. Professionally. They also want things not included in SPEC completely for free (0$/hr).RAC is a great place to come 2 times a day for 5 minutes, look for some SERIOUS clients, then make FAIR ($10-$20/hr) bid (as you must moderate costs of RAC fee and enormous costs of getting your money by WU).For the very hostile (towrards RAC) comments that can be found elsewhere:- "slave labour"- "silly coders"- "waste of time"I totally dont understand people that wrote this. First: You can find some fair paid job there - 1/100 bids as i mentoned. Second: If a buyer is trying to get a project done and he's choosing cheapest coder for $1/hr and then he whine about all coders on RAC being a bunch of script kiddies and code stealers... well the buyer being idiot is the problem.Last word for Ian: you should consider setting lowest bid request amount to $10. I think i must not explain why.Second: Please consider telling coders that making things that hasn't been mentioned on SPEC can get them better ranking (its written in coder help materials) as encouraging buyers to post "silly" spec and then wanting coders to work for free.
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