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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Sum Dum Gai' | ||
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Number of Comments: 312 |
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| Number of Words: 29,193 | ||
| First Comment: 29 Aug 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 26 Apr 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 1 |
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| First Topic: 29 Jan 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 29 Jan 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 26 Apr 2004 | C++ is faster than J.... | If you had to write your whole program in assembly.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2004 | Piracy detection | Most companies are not fully compliant with the li.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Comments on function.... | I tend to agree that allowing the editor to soft w.... >> |
| 12 Apr 2004 | Interviews and firin.... | It's funny how many people here will accept the id.... >> |
| Spelling and Coding | I don't see how well educated corresponds to being.... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Keyboard Rant | I don't see the point of virtual desktops, whether.... >> |
| Code Review Websites | Rubbish. Rarely is one implementation going to be .... >> | |
| Have you ever been f.... | Not really, there's a difference between being fir.... >> | |
| Best Dev tool for wr.... | If you're capable of finishing an app of sufficien.... >> | |
| Moving away from Sof.... | I'm not sure a technical background is even desira.... >> | |
| Faking pass-by-value.... | Nothing in the standard says they're copy on write.... >> | |
| Goodbye strcpy | Nearly every C++ program in the real world has to .... >> | |
| strcpy has its uses. You just have to be very care.... >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2004 | Are there really sof.... | I was just about to say it occurs to me that modem.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2004 | Even with broadband, I'd still rather have the sma.... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Hiring your next use.... | Thank you semantic nazi. @_@ >> |
| > YOu never hear a programmer saying 'use XYZ lang.... >> | ||
| 19 Mar 2004 | Information Overload | Once you realise that most of the information out .... >> |
| But are you happy? | 'Sorry, but as Nigel pointed out the opposite is a.... >> | |
| Actually, there are three 'arcs', but it has nothi.... >> | ||
| Honesty in companies | 'Unless you're unemployed of course.' So being .... >> | |
| nakedCode: So you're saying that because some i.... >> | ||
| How Do You Use Your .... | Never use the back button, but I sometimes use the.... >> | |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Honesty in companies | You didn't go through hell because you were honest.... >> |
| If You Can't Veto Fe.... | If the PM refuses to take a schedule hit, and refu.... >> | |
| JoS Forum's law | The problem with the John Howard call is that he l.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | If You Can't Veto Fe.... | I disagree that you're not the tech lead if you do.... >> |
| Lies on CVs | I garee, you don't want people to lie. I agree wit.... >> | |
| Anyone learn to prog.... | I taugh myself C without books. I just started wit.... >> | |
| How to spot a 9-5 co.... | 'Competencies are easy to come by, or indeed teach.... >> | |
| Outsourcing has been.... | 'If you have a person who is the best doctor and t.... >> | |
| 16 Mar 2004 | const--use it? | 'its like always putting an immutable on the LHS o.... >> |
| 'I cannot see how somebody else not using const wo.... >> | ||
| 'Latent typed generics I DO miss, and it seems we .... >> | ||
| How to spot a 9-5 co.... | The pinball machine and stuff from fog creek doesn.... >> | |
| 'People in their 20's and 30's want young, fun, hi.... >> | ||
| Immigration and comp.... | I've always thought the problem with the aborigina.... >> | |
| Outsourcing has been.... | Kindergarten children need supervision. If the .... >> | |
| 'There is a wealth of talent in this nation' Th.... >> | ||
| 15 Mar 2004 | seeking career advic.... | You don't want to be doing 'enterprise level techn.... >> |
| Outsourcing has been.... | Of course it's about costs. If it was about qualit.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2004 | Validating HTML... i.... | You didn't say what operating system (I'm assuming.... >> |
| Could this installer.... | You need a new video card if the redraw of file na.... >> | |
| Framework and "big c.... | Frameworks are well meaning really. People have th.... >> | |
| What is a software d.... | Realistically, titles vary from one organisation t.... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Framework and "big c.... | I don't know about the stupidest creating the bigg.... >> |
| Does good code matte.... | The bit about jobs being so boring that people are.... >> | |
| What configuration i.... | RAM is important. I've used VS.NET on a 600MHz mac.... >> | |
| I've been blogged... | 'Also, you shouldn't automatically dismiss the pos.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2004 | The great thing about the net is that you have a r.... >> | |
| Not all public serva.... | Governments are just like any other large organisa.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Getting around the t.... | Recruiters are like real estate agents. They prey .... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | Another (bad) Analog.... | 'Then comes the part we all hate - providing for b.... >> |
| 07 Mar 2004 | Organize Against Off.... | 'How do you copyright something that you've posted.... >> |
| Are DVD recordables .... | You risk is the same if both forms of media are eq.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2004 | get/set routines in .... | * complicated copycon/assop instead of good use of.... >> |
| 04 Mar 2004 | Bill Gates on Charli.... | Maybe my view of the future just doesn't mesh with.... >> |
| Reject Via Telephone | > Bah, you wimps. There's no liability if you didn.... >> | |
| 03 Mar 2004 | "Getting Things Done.... | 'What tools or templates do you use to keep track .... >> |
| How to test candidat.... | Maybe you can get them to draw up a logic tree dia.... >> | |
| An idea for intervie.... | A more worrying thing is that the real skill is no.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2004 | How to test candidat.... | I'm not even sure what you want to test for. Sound.... >> |
| What is NULL | 'When using functions like this in your WHERE clau.... >> | |
| You don't. Oracle doesn't believe in empty strings.... >> | ||
| 01 Mar 2004 | Lacking Enough Techn.... | It's not what you know, it's what you know how to .... >> |
| How to welcome a new.... | Start him out on the bug list. The reason for t.... >> | |
| 29 Feb 2004 | Dvorak on cookies | EULA makes it OK? What a load of crap. I'll sup.... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | I'm DOne. I Do.... | 'I have never smoked weed. ' Maybe that's the p.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | I disagree that he's done the hard part. The hard .... >> | |
| Outsourcing & Pr.... | 'The only solution to this problem is to do what t.... >> | |
| Anyone who can't be productive in Java within a we.... >> | ||
| Tom Peters: Sixteen .... | How about the hard truth that 2.5 billion Indians .... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Getting smarter or d.... | You might get smarter in some ways as you get olde.... >> |
| C/C++ Pointer Questi.... | I must be weird, I usually write it as: char * .... >> | |
| Why are .NET strings.... | It's about correctness, not performance. Immuta.... >> | |
| Class (static) metho.... | You can do it in smalltalk. It's not that it's con.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | Are Older Developers.... | The question doesn't matter. The variance due t.... >> |
| DSP programmer inter.... | Well, it's certainly good to see that it's not jus.... >> | |
| Suggest career path .... | 'As usual, things aren't always black & white. Ag.... >> | |
| 23 Feb 2004 | I find it funny how people complain about being di.... >> | |
| 22 Feb 2004 | Strawman terminology.... | 'A real 'expert' wouldn't accept $35-40 per hour.'.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Taking Steering Whee.... | If the job is as bad as he says, you could define .... >> |
| 18 Feb 2004 | I hate developers | 'I just got back from 2 days training' Well, th.... >> |
| 17 Feb 2004 | How does UML fit int.... | Agile or not, the run away strategy is the best on.... >> |
| Monster.com | Re: Outsourcing. The figure being slung about a.... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | It's not like recruiters don't post the same ad da.... >> | |
| What the hell does o.... | I'm not at all surprised that Oracle is 3 times bi.... >> | |
| Pitfalls of oursourc.... | ^^^ I wonder if trolling can be outsourced. ;) >> | |
| Norrick Bitches Abou.... | ERP is a scam though. It usually ends up costing m.... >> | |
| 15 Feb 2004 | Knowing you can get .... | It's a very impersonal attitude to expect people t.... >> |
| Norrick Bitches Abou.... | One of the problems is that each business thinks t.... >> | |
| As I said in another thread, I think that the best.... >> | ||
| 14 Feb 2004 | Just think it could be worse. At least you like.... >> | |
| All you single guys | The downside of it all is you'll have to watch Ani.... >> | |
| 13 Feb 2004 | Leaked W2k Source co.... | I've heard it was leaked from inside microsoft. Th.... >> |
| 12 Feb 2004 | If it's a hoax it's a good one. The responsibil.... >> | |
| Is it still worth le.... | 'Not entirely: people who know assembly know not o.... >> | |
| To say you need to be a wiz at machine language (o.... >> | ||
| You and your classma.... | Is it normal to even know how most of your classma.... >> | |
| Thunderbird - Reques.... | The release notes for 0.5 seem to suggest it's pos.... >> | |
| What's Your Greatest.... | OK, here's my new answer: My biggest weakness i.... >> | |
| If you're hiring for a development position, which.... >> | ||
| Maybe my greatest weakness is that I sometimes ans.... >> | ||
| 11 Feb 2004 | "I think it would be imprudent to answer such a qu.... >> | |
| just how much math i.... | Mental fatigue is a very real problem, much like p.... >> | |
| I think I can answer the question 'how much maths .... >> | ||
| XML Schema & XSD.... | If you want to work with the .XSD files directly, .... >> | |
| Good vs Bad Code | 'Geeks need to up their biz I.Q. big-time.' May.... >> | |
| That definition is too simplistic. Imagine a pr.... >> | ||
| Stupid regular expre.... | It's a frigging one liner without the regex, how m.... >> | |
| 10 Feb 2004 | Good vs Bad Code | 'best practices' == 'way the author does it'. I.... >> |
| But no simpler! ;) >> | ||
| You can make rules, so long as you understand that.... >> | ||
| Stupid regular expre.... | I prefer the string.Split method, if only because .... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Search Engine work -.... | I'd say it's a largely meaningless term now days, .... >> |
| Ricardo is not an ea.... | 'Maybe we need all those people to develop particu.... >> | |
| More experience? | Experience is also a negative. Experienced people .... >> | |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Programmed Death Of .... | You can compete, but why bother? Why bust a gut.... >> |
| You should tell them that being a programmer is ju.... >> | ||
| 07 Feb 2004 | most productive fire.... | THere is the flip side of the problem too: If y.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Does bad code lead t.... | The question is like asking 'Does getting hit in t.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2004 | Worst Ever: 7350 Lin.... | Someone I used to work with tells me that when he .... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | DVDs and customer ab.... | One thing about tapes is that although they may be.... >> |
| Client's bad coding .... | Well, I'm not sure why people assume that if you d.... >> | |
| Using shame to stop .... | Well, good on you. You've mastered the art of ad h.... >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Lost JOS Topics | It may be a conversation, but it's damn annoying w.... >> |
| Using shame to stop .... | That 'who knows what will happen' may well include.... >> | |
| 'I am thinking the key is stored on the user's PC..... >> | ||
| Option Shame is largely unworkable. Your applicati.... >> | ||
| 01 Feb 2004 | "Top grades and a tr.... | 'Yes friends, I too agree that you don't have to d.... >> |
| 'The only way to become a good engineer is to do g.... >> | ||
| re su me | One has to question how much of the importance is .... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | .NET linking ... why not hack mono >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Linux and Innovation.... | Why do you care about innovation? I think it sh.... >> |
| Clearing the air on .... | I agree with Bored Bystander, except for his last .... >> | |
| Massive runtime down.... | 'Windows doesn't change everytime there is an impr.... >> | |
| Downloading Runtimes | Downloads from microsoft.com have been resumable i.... >> | |
| .NET linking ... why.... | 'Just a hunch but I think Joel would probably rath.... >> | |
| I'm a programmer and.... | I work on a product that has a nice shiny .NET log.... >> | |
| Delphi compiles to s.... | I should also note that when I started using Delph.... >> | |
| Well, C# has all these neat features that Delphi d.... >> | ||
| .NET and classic fil.... | They *are* standard exe and dll files, at least to.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Only three reasons w.... | Just one question: What the heck do you think the .... >> |
| Linker available / f.... | The framework is dead easy to deploy too. The o.... >> | |
| Neither Java nor .NET are programming languages. T.... >> | ||
| The real point is that any 'linked' version of a ..... >> | ||
| The important lesson.... | Joel is complaining about a strawman, that's what .... >> | |
| Philip's lifestyle m.... | 'Sure you can. Just give up your all money and ma.... >> | |
| If someone with no money criticises capitalism, th.... >> | ||
| Taxes & US Devel.... | As an Australian, I don't feel cheated at all. .... >> | |
| The problem isn't the tax scale. The problem is.... >> | ||
| Delphi for ShrinkWra.... | Delphi is something you should be able to pick up .... >> | |
| Need some kind of fr.... | The GIMP looks pretty ugly, but it certainly works.... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Who Moved My Cheese? | The idea 'change is the only constant in life' is .... >> |
| Managing Idiot Savan.... | Keeping him around seems like a lose/lose situatio.... >> | |
| Anyone else get hate.... | I don't see the point in leaving your email addres.... >> | |
| Next generation OSes | Whatever Microsoft decides they can sell, I'd thin.... >> | |
| Leadership memo of t.... | Senior management do it because that's what's most.... >> | |
| LOL - resume article.... | One space after a full stop is the norm on compute.... >> | |
| Where Joel REALLY go.... | Philo's objection doesn't seem to be the time invo.... >> | |
| Value of degrees? | Value to you as a person: Whatever you got out of .... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | Winamp Job vacancy? | Flash in the pan? Perhaps, but if AOL gave me a hu.... >> |
| Now I had it with Jo.... | I don't know, reading resumes is a pretty cushy jo.... >> | |
| 'When you're unemployed, getting a job should be t.... >> | ||
| 23 Jan 2004 | How Does GPL Work wi.... | 'That's why He created .torrents. :-)' I though.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | Extreme Programming .... | Couldn't have said it better myself. >> |
| Dealing with Madness | Do not waste your time getting a CS degree. If .... >> | |
| Sealed Classes C# | I've got to say that I think that the .NET team to.... >> | |
| SOFTWARE CANNOT BE G.... | 'powerpoint, still needs people to create presenta.... >> | |
| 'Yes we have oracle, access, excel ... but these i.... >> | ||
| Linux as a Disruptiv.... | Alex: Most of the important development on Linu.... >> | |
| Metric Units on Wind.... | Monitors can be set to display multiple resolution.... >> | |
| How Does GPL Work wi.... | The real answer is that nobody can be sure what do.... >> | |
| Who does recycle the.... | Well, recently my dad decided to do the right thin.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | How Does GPL Work wi.... | The rules are simple really: If you link to GPL.... >> |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Article on going ind.... | It's not a matter of social skills. It's a matter .... >> |
| 18 Jan 2004 | Length of Time to be.... | There are too many factors to consider. Some pe.... >> |
| 16 Jan 2004 | trust new grad with .... | I find it ammusing that if someone suggested using.... >> |
| 15 Jan 2004 | It sounds plausible if he's good enough, but for o.... >> | |
| Windows common save .... | 'it can be, if you have a CD-R/W device installed,.... >> | |
| A CD-R/W device is not the same a CD-ROM device. Y.... >> | ||
| Interview Technique | 'They should also read a book by Ayn Rand in under.... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | Scientific Apps prog.... | It may be only January, but anon already wins comm.... >> |
| Anger-Oriented Progr.... | I agree with Alyosha`, this is a perfect introduct.... >> | |
| Protecting IP | The only obvious solution is to hire a friend you .... >> | |
| Complete About Face .... | Yeah, what Mr Fancypants said is basically what I .... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Probably the only risk you run is that you're now .... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Aptitude vs. Qualifi.... | If they had programming experience in something (a.... >> |
| 09 Jan 2004 | ASP.NET developer in.... | If you're going to get someone to write code in an.... >> |
| Which of these CS Co.... | None of the above. I doubt any of the courses will.... >> | |
| US:More degrees in “.... | I don't think the 'need a degree to work here' is .... >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | Knowledge management.... | If you just want to organise documents, that's wha.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | static class members | Judging by the trailing semi-colon for the first p.... >> |
| 05 Jan 2004 | No ASP Comments? | 'I mean, this is not compiled code, every time the.... >> |
| 02 Jan 2004 | Sanity checking FogB.... | The installer does suck, but you're a pretty pathe.... >> |
| 11 Dec 2003 | LISP - why? | 'If emacs is written in lisp, why do I need gcc to.... >> |
| "Better" language vs.... | Why? Because there are ways of implementing garbag.... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2003 | U.S. Programmers at .... | Housing prices seem to be the problem, not salary..... >> |
| "Better" language vs.... | The way .NET and Java implement garbage collection.... >> | |
| I believe C++ can never be as inherently productiv.... >> | ||
| Our jobs... (again) | In my experience, most people are emotionally inad.... >> | |
| Man, you must have worked at some really bad place.... >> | ||
| Some people say that IT in the west will be decima.... >> | ||
| Software Babe | 'Excepting that I have never seen a chick with a m.... >> | |
| That John Romero chick is hot. ;) http://www.pe.... >> | ||
| productivity tip | I agree that Delphi is excellent if you want to wr.... >> | |
| Do we deserve fragme.... | Hmm, I'd never really thought of it as a tool to c.... >> | |
| open source | 'JasonB, your enthusiasm for this line or arguing .... >> | |
| Wait a minute. I thought the consensus from the ot.... >> | ||
| 09 Dec 2003 | What the hell | Yeah, I heard that Linus doesn't know Vee Bee and .... >> |
| Do we deserve fragme.... | The other reason why it sucks to be a generalist i.... >> | |
| Eric Raymond and Ric.... | On the other hand, have a look at the income of th.... >> | |
| I think it's pretty harsh to tell a hobbyist who i.... >> | ||
| open source | 'So.. programmers as a group should optimize their.... >> | |
| 'Well, if a smart 16 year old can do everything in.... >> | ||
| Am I a unique hybrid.... | 'I sure wouldn't want to drive a car or put my mon.... >> | |
| "Low Skill" Rhetoric | 'So now director is a low skill occupation as well.... >> | |
| The guys may be dicks and not know anything about .... >> | ||
| 08 Dec 2003 | Am I a unique hybrid.... | I agree, that desire is what should be normal. .... >> |
| "Low-skill jobs like.... | > How do you get to Carnegie Hall? I've never b.... >> | |
| If there are few dec.... | Doing a law degree doesn't mean you'll be a lawyer.... >> | |
| The real enemy of pr.... | 'It is fascinating counting how many commercial Mi.... >> | |
| 07 Dec 2003 | New Career? | Um, the poster says people are dying, and your res.... >> |
| "Low Skill" Rhetoric | 'ESR is merely speaking what he observes. Anyone .... >> | |
| analyst: I wouldn't take Eric Raymod too seriou.... >> | ||
| "Low-skill jobs like.... | Yes, a concert pianist and a rock musician are art.... >> | |
| The more I think about it, the more I agree that p.... >> | ||
| 05 Dec 2003 | Are Debuggers Wastef.... | A debugger is invaluable when you don't know what .... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Why are 80% of progr.... | Of course you don't make that much. If management .... >> |
| Joel's Strawman Argu.... | 'Obviously it helps if you have a sense of humour..... >> | |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Any Programmers Agre.... | Some people can shoot the breeze and talk about pr.... >> |
| 30 Nov 2003 | Interview Question | gcc will warn about it with suitable warning setti.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | Continuous income fo.... | There's another model you're missing: * One tim.... >> |
| 23 Nov 2003 | JoS - Delphi... | Borland have unfortunately never seemed to really .... >> |
| 20 Nov 2003 | World Class Programm.... | No, I'd say there's no substitute for talent. With.... >> |
| Well, not everyone can be a world class programmer.... >> | ||
| When Will the 'Sunse.... | But the plan is come longhorn that every single on.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Silly Question: How .... | ' Basically, figure out what you enjoy doing, and .... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | how much your salary.... | 2001: ~10% 2002: ~25% 2003: Yer jokin' right? >> |
| 16 Nov 2003 | cool companies in me.... | 'It was actually fun to see people come in to work.... >> |
| 08 Nov 2003 | Music Selection Whil.... | Music collection is too big to list, i listen to j.... >> |
| 07 Nov 2003 | What's on your quick.... | At home: Nothing. :) >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | I wasn't a CS / EE m.... | 'There are two things that I got from my time in U.... >> |
| How to scare away yo.... | 'This isn't a 'normal' product or company. No othe.... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | The REAL problem wit.... | You get to screw around on someone else's dime at .... >> |
| 03 Nov 2003 | I went to University and think that a University d.... >> | |
| Redesign at FogCreek.... | I quite like the design, the simplicity is good an.... >> | |
| I Still Don't "Get" .... | I feel that a lot of the technologies surrounding .... >> | |
| What's wrong with Te.... | "Get things done" is really not related to how man.... >> | |
| Benefits of a degree | I don't claim to be a genius. I don't see what mak.... >> | |
| 02 Nov 2003 | SW Mgmt Part 2 - Des.... | Sounds very similar to my job (details are differe.... >> |
| Benefits of a degree | Imagine what you can learn while employed, when yo.... >> | |
| I think that 3 years working is far more valuable .... >> | ||
| Why CEOs will never .... | Walter has it spot on. If there's been no growt.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | 360 students | I think the problem is that there are just too man.... >> |
| Programming for fun .... | I can relate to that ... low level stuff is appeal.... >> | |
| Longhorn, you, and y.... | I agree that metadata hasn't worked in the past, a.... >> | |
| "Programmer Folkways.... | Rich too early? Not sure that's common. Certainly .... >> | |
| 31 Oct 2003 | Maybe you should add to your list: * We're grea.... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2003 | What angered me the .... | As for the original post, I know some business own.... >> |
| 'An artist would never be happy as an art dealer. .... >> | ||
| 28 Oct 2003 | Academics vs. Engine.... | I agree with the sentiment that the approach of ha.... >> |
| You can't just sprinkle magical OO dust on a produ.... >> | ||
| Programming is no mo.... | And I can't stand the arrogance of assuming that j.... >> | |
| 24 Oct 2003 | Creo Tokens | I'd guess nothing happens if your computer is offl.... >> |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Poor Man's Double Bl.... | I'd say the best testing choice is the music you n.... >> |
| Since the standard MP3 format only allows for up t.... >> | ||
| More on internationa.... | US spelling grates on my nerves. I can't stand the.... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Terror Profiles Don'.... | I'd like to point out that a certain man going by .... >> |
| DLL Hell | An ActiveX control is just a COM component that im.... >> | |
| Patterns of Human In.... | As far as the people who declare that such and suc.... >> | |
| Any music sites with.... | Your CD is not a master copy. The CD is a lossy fo.... >> | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | eMusic encodes with LAME at alt-preset standard, w.... >> | |
| ITunes: What rubbish.... | There is a warning before your songs are moved. If.... >> | |
| What goes down must .... | 'A lot of people here are using 1999 as a base lin.... >> | |
| The Australian IT article mentions 8.9% growth. Th.... >> | ||
| 20 Oct 2003 | CityDesk too much fo.... | If it ever gets successful enough, I'm sure a clon.... >> |
| Licensing/Unions | Well in fairness, for many jobs sales is a complet.... >> | |
| Specialization - Whi.... | Well, there was a story on Kuro5hin about the porn.... >> | |
| The great start up t.... | I think you also have to realise the barriers to e.... >> | |
| What do coders do?? | I'm assuming this is the Bendigo Bank? Seems to.... >> | |
| When was the last ti.... | That depends on what algorithm your GC uses ... .... >> | |
| 19 Oct 2003 | What coders can lear.... | 'Incompetance will rule the profession.' Just l.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Policy on exceptions.... | I'd rather have my program crash than continue on .... >> |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Funny thing about GO.... | 'JMP is allowable in assembly because there aren't.... >> |
| finally, exceptions .... | Without trying to troll, after reading Joel's litt.... >> | |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Parameters to check .... | Why do you care whether a keyboard and/or mouse is.... >> |
| 11 Oct 2003 | Making the jump to C.... | I'd say use it only if you have to - it causes as .... >> |
| 10 Oct 2003 | character encodings | It's fundamentally solving the wrong problem. T.... >> |
| what affects windows.... | It doesn't necessaril;y save you if you're using h.... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Hiring Q: Value of d.... | That's strange, when I was using Delphi I thought .... >> |
| Need a new compile e.... | I use parameters a lot more than member variables..... >> | |
| When does cool becom.... | 'Simply put, the minute it starts making or saving.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | More on the Half Lif.... | That would be copyright violation, not theft. They.... >> |
| The half life 2 code was stolen? And here I was th.... >> | ||
| 07 Oct 2003 | Counterculture junki.... | I'd say that the Lisp and Smalltalk people are the.... >> |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Where do all the cra.... | I know some very crappy coders who have managed to.... >> |
| I'd guess that the thing is that far more than 80%.... >> | ||
| 30 Sep 2003 | Multi-threading reso.... | That your memory is protected is the benefit of se.... >> |
| 29 Sep 2003 | In general, the easiest way to take advantage of m.... >> | |
| Storing files in dat.... | If you're accessing the databases using oledb, you.... >> | |
| 28 Sep 2003 | be careful about wha.... | I think it's a sad reflection on the society we li.... >> |
| 25 Sep 2003 | 99.9 percentile | It's marketting rhetoric, what do you expect? joel.... >> |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Standardizing a Deve.... | Why get all religious about it ... why not just do.... >> |
| 21 Sep 2003 | Style of XML tags an.... | The style that's currently in vogue seems to be: .... >> |
| Portability: rougue .... | You also have to consider that you'll never get an.... >> | |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Oracle complaints? | What type of application are you developing? Web b.... >> |
| 09 Sep 2003 | Code snippet of tedi.... | You can just create any control on the fly in Delp.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | It's about results. | Building 'a system that will store data in a relat.... >> |
| I think you're being just as neive as the people y.... >> | ||
| technical books | Technical books are, in the most part, a waste of .... >> | |
| 30 Aug 2003 | Citidesk v2.0 critiq.... | 'Why didn't you build a feature rich WYSIWYG edito.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2003 | Steven, I disagree with your view that the site.... >> | |