I am trying to access daddy's home and all I get is " Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)".

Do you know what's going on?

It is working again. Daddy may have messed with his IIS settings.

The first day of adulthood is when a person learns that his daddy can get a "Bad Request" error.

OMFGWTFBBQLSD! A site I never visit is momentarily down. What are we to do?

His newly announced jobs.joelonsoftware.com is not working fine: it is very slow and randomly reports internal errors (Error 500).

Too bad for the launch day. :-(

[x],

I went there to see what his jobs site looks like. Apparently it is not yet ready for prime time.

I don't care, you don't care, and no one really cares (except daddy's fanatics). It's just curiosity from a former JoS lurker.

Meh, it's more interesting than anything I had to post, and I had no idea there was a jobs.jos.com.

Wow $350 a pop.

I extrapolated the number of jobs on there * cost.

$2 million a year.

Nice.

How do you get 2MM?

Programmer / Developer (31 Jobs)
+ Test / QA (3 Jobs)
+ Management (9 Jobs)
+ System / Network Administration (4 Jobs)
+ UI / Web Design (3 Jobs)
+ Summer Internships / Coops (1 Job)
+ Miscellaneous (2 Jobs)
= 53 jobs in the last 7 days

53 jobs a week
* 52 weeks
* Posting an ad costs $350
= 964,600 per year.

Right. Thus, how did you get 2MM.  Not that $964,600 is bad....

They refund if you can't hire anyone.

Creative accounting.

Jeez. They don't teach nothing in school anymore.

Oh, that makes the 2nd million.

Don't forget that a job listing can remain there for 3 weeks.

So your sum should be reduced to the half if we assume that not all positions will be filled quicly (in less than a week).

Anyway, $0.5 M is still a good income for such a simple site (less than 1 day of work for implementing it).

Daddy, today I do really envy you!

You know what they say, the second million is much easier than the first.

"Daddy, today I do really envy you!"

Well, you don't know much he made in the last few years since he first started JoS.

I envy him today because launching this job site did not require any investment (only a few hours of coding) but will be a cash cow for him for the coming years.

It's very different from selling FogBugz or CityDesk which needed tens of thousands of hours of development and testing.

But you didn't count all the hours he spent on all his articles.

Those are his real investments, personally.

I mean, without those articles there wouldn't be so many people in the forums to read the job postings!

And the hosting cost for joelonsoware... maybe not, I think he gets free hosting!

More for you to envy :)

Granted that he worked hard, but writing an article is still not a 1000-hour task.

Joel's bright idea was to create the discussion forums and to let people make his place a meeting place for the software industry people. The years did the rest.

This jobs site is probably the project which has the best return on investment since he left MS.

I read what I wrote and it's a pity. Too many "People" and "Place" occurrences in the same sentence!

I'll have to STFU and go have some rest.

Do you really believe 'years' did the rest?

I don't think so. That's why I don't envy him a bit. I prefer staying in my tiny cubicle...

Yup, rest and you won't envy him anymore since he probably couldn't...

cash cow + years = bullshit

"(less than 1 day of work for implementing it). "

Noah and I designed and coded the whole site over the course of three weeks, which included two weeks of vacation--each.

But coming up with the idea and writing the business plan probably take more time?

"Noah and I"

Who are you? Who is Noah?

Are we supposed to know you?

No.

"...yes, there's customer service, with a toll-free phone number..."

That's going to cost $$$ :)

Methul....it's a quote from the jos home page.

"I don't think so. That's why I don't envy him a bit. I prefer staying in my tiny cubicle..."