I got a great job offer...

I received this email today. Enjoy :)

Subject: Associate Manager USA

Hello competitor,

We are glad to report you that in our stable company, the vacancy of transaction manager is opened. The world is smashed by a crisis, people lose their workplaces, and many companies are being closed. Our company offers a product in the field of services; therefore the demand on our suggestions remains even in so difficult period for the world economy.

The followings factors are required from you:

- industriousness;

- efficiency;

- to be the habitant of the USA;

- command aspiring to success;

- to have sure vital position;

- to have initial PC skills

- you must be more senior than 21.


NO INVESTMENTS FROM YOU ARE REQUIRED, you will be fully acquainted and trained for discharging of your duties. We need valuable staff. We will teach even a janitor to be a businessman!

Do not lose the chance of fully legal earnings with a dynamically developing company. We will help you to build a career which you always dreamed about. Your chance is waiting for you.


We wait for your resumes to the address [obscured]@gmail.com of our department of personnel.



With kind regards,

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I have to say it's quite hilarious with perhaps "We will teach even a janitor to be a businessman" sentence being the only reasonably worded one. I especially like "The world is smashed by a crisis, people lose their workplaces, and many companies are being closed..."

Automated translation still has a long way to go :)

WCF Performance (continued)

This evening I was trying to determine if compression options in IIS had any significant effect on WCF performance. In my four tests, there were two variables: message size and compression on/off setting. For message size, I used 1 byte and 4KB settings. The binding configuration for all endpoints consisted of unsecured communication (security mode="None" and encryption and signing turned off). The response consisted of randomly generated bytes. Compression was detrimental to performance for larger messages (I attribute this to the randomness aspect) and seems to not have any adverse effect on small messages (I was a bit surpised about the latter). Perhaps, for a more realistic test, tomorrow I will try a sample XML message instead of random bytes.