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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Aaron F Stanton' | ||
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Number of Comments: 203 |
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| Number of Words: 16,857 | ||
| First Comment: 29 Feb 2004 | ||
| Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 6 |
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| First Topic: 01 Mar 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 21 Jul 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 02 Sep 2004 | The Curious Incident.... | I'm a programmer. Most people aren't. .... >> |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Baby coming, Changin.... | I'm thinking a minivan is the next vehicle of choi.... >> |
| "Don't fake the plur.... | In the state of Indiana there is no minimum number.... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2004 | why bother being a c.... | Simon - Well, jamming needles into your eardrum.... >> |
| 24 Aug 2004 | Gopher | kermit...owww...god, that's painful just to rememb.... >> |
| Trusted computing | You can't stop rampant mp3 distribution without st.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2004 | Preferred ways of ba.... | Amanda and/or rsync. >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | develop cross-platfo.... | Here's how you can decide if it's worth your time .... >> |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Determining a Produc.... | This is exactly how market research should be done.... >> |
| How good an employee.... | Aussie Chick - Congratulations! I am enjoying .... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Software piracy | 'The guy says he will pay a soon as he can.' Ye.... >> |
| I have to agree with what several others here have.... >> | ||
| interesting FAQ on '.... | What will likely happen is that new music and movi.... >> | |
| I want to start my o.... | Why is that in this thread? >> | |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Documentation for type library format? >> | |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Why Microsoft Wins | moght? I hate typos. >> |
| You know, it occurs to me that all this talk tells.... >> | ||
| Documentation for ty.... | Thanks, but I'm not looking for information on how.... >> | |
| I want to start my o.... | I want to be the devil other people sell their sou.... >> | |
| New mouse, part thre.... | Maybe Ward has unlimited experience? >> | |
| The Plague of Minimu.... | TJ - I sold computer software retail about 12 y.... >> | |
| Rant: Can't so.... | Didn't think so. Go back and read the line at t.... >> | |
| Kyralessa, I was simply noticing the similarity an.... >> | ||
| 20 Jul 2004 | Rant: Can't someone ask a simple question? >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Technology in a Busi.... | Justin, I think you've hit the nail on the head. .... >> |
| Rant: Can't so.... | '...they are so bad, they come out the other side .... >> | |
| Free program to wash.... | Hmm...I guess real open source would be a forest, .... >> | |
| Like I said...swap space. >> | ||
| No, burn them. >> | ||
| Swap space. >> | ||
| Hey, Kyralessa's the one who specified open source.... >> | ||
| Me, I'd just to look at the internals of the dishw.... >> | ||
| MORE IQ | 'If a smart person can not be a success in life, g.... >> | |
| Free syntax highligh.... | Amusing that I didn't try Google and this time it .... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Free syntax highlighting editors? >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | MORE IQ | I had a friend who used to comment that 'Anyone ca.... >> |
| Free syntax highligh.... | I didn't mention a platform because I have access .... >> | |
| What exactly is Joel.... | Uh...since it's pretty obvious what the product do.... >> | |
| Yeah, I know it's easy to block them. I just ment.... >> | ||
| Oddly enough, www.lookoutsoft.com is not on the Wa.... >> | ||
| 'If you missed out on downloading Lookout...' N.... >> | ||
| Education System: Ev.... | I'd say that nothing beats visiting the school in .... >> | |
| More IQ-ism | Ken - Well, my wife works. My salary alone wou.... >> | |
| Ken, I sometimes have the same feeling. I too am .... >> | ||
| Mongo - I don't believe it to be an ability so .... >> | ||
| See, it's things like this that make me glad I no .... >> | ||
| 17 Jul 2004 | Last Straw | Matthew, I don't think he has any control over the.... >> |
| More IQ-ism | I taught some highschool classes a bit over a year.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2004 | I'm not a joiner, either, and don't feel the need .... >> | |
| I had the good fortune to be in a school with a go.... >> | ||
| Finding any books on.... | Good point, Dennis. I wonder if Bill Gates w.... >> | |
| Honestly, how long does it take for people who wan.... >> | ||
| 15 Jul 2004 | IQ-ism | I have to agree...a rich mommy and daddy can buy a.... >> |
| 12 Jul 2004 | Can we use GIFs yet? | Ok, my apologies...If it was indeed new and non-ob.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2004 | In a way, stupid patents like this are a good thin.... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2004 | Evolution | Are you referring to the .Net program? There's .... >> |
| Run, Run as fast as .... | But...then again, Bored may be right. I knew what.... >> | |
| KC - congrats! Very cool. Bored Bystander - Ye.... >> | ||
| I guess the key is to try to align your bosses' in.... >> | ||
| Volunteer for high profile projects that make your.... >> | ||
| Myserious billboard | 'Or if I did, I certainly don't remember.' I'm .... >> | |
| The Myth of Technolo.... | Just remember, half the people you meet are below .... >> | |
| How to spot a SW dev.... | Isn't Stephen Jones the guy who gets so irked at '.... >> | |
| Cross-platform .NET:.... | The whole point of a .Net VM is to allow Microsoft.... >> | |
| Got the excuse to or.... | I have to agree with Sam here...Linux can get insa.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2004 | BrainBench | Hm...the only tests I can think of that really tes.... >> |
| floppy drive | Ok, I'll admit to having been glad on more than on.... >> | |
| Why exactly is the decreasing use of floppy disks .... >> | ||
| 36% of software is p.... | Mr. Analogy - Bravo. Well put. >> | |
| SK - Sorry, but if the tools you *need* are $10.... >> | ||
| '...SCO vs DaimlerChrysler suit...' What? Man,.... >> | ||
| Music | I brought in a boatload of 80's cd's and put them .... >> | |
| Reading glasses | Actually, in many cases the eyes don't focus as we.... >> | |
| Objection to XP (ext.... | Ok, I'll admit I only skimmed the previous posts, .... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | Crazy ass question | Pretty much the only time you need to concern your.... >> |
| Cost of a home setup | Hardware is insanely cheap. Software is actu.... >> | |
| Job Titles | The best part of having a wacky job title is watch.... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | What price / reasons.... | You spend a large percentage of your waking time a.... >> |
| 03 Jul 2004 | Confidentiality/Non .... | I'd suggest doing it without him. Start a co.... >> |
| My advice is to stay the hell away from him. Than.... >> | ||
| software patents and.... | Patents were originally intended to protect the li.... >> | |
| Good software takes .... | 'I am much smarter than you or anyone you've ever .... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | Computer technicians.... | Hmm... Shy = poor social skills but acceptable .... >> |
| your most absurd IT .... | Uh...how about the fact that at my old company the.... >> | |
| Java->Visual J++ | I would choose J# over J++. J++ is dead. >> | |
| No More Improvements.... | I'm sorry, but this is like saying, "Office 4.3 on.... >> | |
| Visual Basic 6 build.... | Oh, yeah, so it was...oops. Um...that, I jus.... >> | |
| Sorry, let's make that a real link: http://www.vb.... >> | ||
| www.vbadvance.com vbAdvance is a plugin (not free,.... >> | ||
| 30 Jun 2004 | The Cost of Validati.... | The more mission critical the app is, the more imp.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Now I know where the.... | 'What I hate is the gratiutious use of Grok.' A.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Fear of computer upg.... | Hoping that Be can support your new machine. It.... >> |
| Afraid of success | Also, there's the vague idea of 'I'd like to own a.... >> | |
| $20 doesn't buy jack.... | Things break easily for the same reason Sony loves.... >> | |
| Upgradable API stand.... | So it's pretty much ok if you're the only one usin.... >> | |
| What possible advantage could there be in forcing .... >> | ||
| Blogs written by gee.... | Blogging is like writing a diary on tissue paper. .... >> | |
| Linux at work? | Hey Snotnose - You might try out OpenOffice and.... >> | |
| Hey Debian Geek - We're in Indianapolis - send .... >> | ||
| 25 Jun 2004 | Question to ask inte.... | uhhhhh....it would appear to me that some intervie.... >> |
| Linux at work? | We're mostly a Debian linux shop here, with a litt.... >> | |
| Anybody know anythin.... | "purchased in packs of 50"??? Wow...man, tha.... >> | |
| I know that SAS is heavily used in the Pharmaceuti.... >> | ||
| Microsoft Backwards .... | The important backward compatability that MS lost .... >> | |
| Another C question. | Off topic... Hey, OP, I used to work for Covanc.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | Linux distribution | Try Gentoo. *snicker* Not for the faint of hea.... >> |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Software Development.... | 'For the record, I'd consider myself an employee.'.... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | Ethics of running an.... | Now that's funny...thinking I am Joel. Sorry, n.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Hey, you never know why he's gone. Eight days ago.... >> | |
| Ph. D. Material | I skipped the M.S. and went directly to Ph.D. .... >> | |
| 'Hmmmm, isn't the point of a Ph.D. that you do ori.... >> | ||
| Random numbers in a .... | Be wary of Numerical Recipies. It's ok for a.... >> | |
| "X years of experien.... | Good lord, if I were allowed to go all the way bac.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2004 | Where are all the ne.... | 'I'm glad you find all of your jobs via networking.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2004 | "X years of experien.... | It's tempting to just say 'Well, the first time I .... >> |
| POLL : Do you enjoy .... | I love being able to find a use for my brain. .... >> | |
| Where are all the ne.... | The the OP, Anon: I have been *exactly* where y.... >> | |
| Number line -> Co.... | I was posting as anon most of the time in this thr.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Dell Laptops | I use a D800 at work as my primary. Nice mac.... >> |
| Are you a less produ.... | Don't wind up unemployed with a kid at home. It's.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | My own VM | 'Or would I have to have had the languages to go w.... >> |
| 20 May 2004 | The ‘Holy Grail’ of .... | I'd add a step zero to your list: 0. Design yo.... >> |
| 19 May 2004 | Bored and want to pr.... | Write a natural language parser that builds contex.... >> |
| thoughts on new arti.... | As far as physics knowledge goes, I'll certainly g.... >> | |
| 18 May 2004 | Website Monitoring S.... | I second Nagios. Pretty easy to set up services t.... >> |
| thoughts on new arti.... | I haven't read any Chopra, but I have studied quan.... >> | |
| Any suggestions for .... | 'Aaron, That sounds good in theory. The reality i.... >> | |
| Norrick Throws In th.... | Good for you, man. Go for the people who can af.... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | Any suggestions for .... | If I were you I'd tell her that since you are not .... >> |
| 14 May 2004 | Norrick Throws In th.... | Dude, that just sucks. I hate when people give up.... >> |
| 09 May 2004 | Explain this to me...... | I think it's that learning burns a lot of calories.... >> |
| A few random ideas | By the way, David Roper is right - change in accel.... >> | |
| Think of it in terms of driving your car. At rest.... >> | ||
| 08 May 2004 | translation software.... | 'Yes, you do. So go buy one. ' Even better: .... >> |
| Is Empower Gone? | The interesting thing about it is that it's now re.... >> | |
| 04 May 2004 | Why do fax machines .... | I can tell you with 100% certainty that the FDA ac.... >> |
| software registratio.... | I do not work for Silicon realms. http://www.sili.... >> | |
| 25 Apr 2004 | Perfectionism | 'The perfectionism is also a main ingredient of p.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Examples of Microsof.... | I actually believe Microsoft's counter-suit agains.... >> |
| 07 Apr 2004 | Identity Theft? | It's also possible that he did get a ticket in Phi.... >> |
| 03 Apr 2004 | Number of developers.... | Worry about how to market it - who would likely bu.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2004 | ThrowTheBumsOut | Oh, as long as someone has resurrected the specter.... >> |
| I have to agree. As much as I'd like to dispense .... >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2004 | Linux: First determi.... | Actually it's not the use of the word 'only' that'.... >> |
| Should I do it? | The best way to avoid being unemployed, in my opin.... >> | |
| Do it. It will be mind-crushingly hard, but it so.... >> | ||
| A big usability leap.... | 'give workers private offices' That's exactly w.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Another Sanity Check.... | It remind me of the underpants gnomes: Step 1: .... >> |
| Reference Mate Beta .... | DJ, that's not actually the most recent VB runtime.... >> | |
| Slowest computer | 'Interestingly, running the older version of the c.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Academic code steale.... | Oh, one other thing. I disagree with Karthik on.... >> |
| It's pretty easy to demonstrate his incompetence, .... >> | ||
| Slowest computer | I have a P133 with 80 megs of RAM running NT 4 Wor.... >> | |
| Wives and Entreprene.... | Ok, here's the thing. You're going to have to wor.... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | how did you find you.... | A friend of my wife's works there. >> |
| 20 Mar 2004 | Is the VB runtime in.... | There's even an updated version of the runtime (po.... >> |
| The Prisoner's Dilem.... | There was a program some time ago that tested a wi.... >> | |
| JOS Usability | I asked a question in the Ask Joel part and got no.... >> | |
| If You Can't Veto Fe.... | I have to agree completely with FullNameRequired. .... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | JoS Forum's law | Just as bad as dihydrogen oxide is hydroxic acid. .... >> |
| 16 Mar 2004 | Tip of The Day: Usef.... | Holy Crap! 'Thou Has Lost An Eighth!' Now there'.... >> |
| Win32 Programming | Thanks, Richard! >> | |
| Hi - please help me out here...'Rector & Newcomer'.... >> | ||
| 15 Mar 2004 | Since we're talking about outsourcing so much... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2004 | Lower Wages Is The S.... | One of the things that I despise about unions is s.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Is anyone using CruiseControl.NET? >> | |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Software for spec'in.... | What if you had a form editor that created defauly.... >> |
| Is anyone using Crui.... | Cool. Tell me, can Nant be used with a varie.... >> | |
| Lower Wages Is The S.... | 'I thought that inflation was caused when the gove.... >> | |
| 'Who decides what's artificial and what's real in .... >> | ||
| whups - sorry bout that...the "absolutely not" is .... >> | ||
| Absolutely not. As I said, artificially raising w.... >> | ||
| Then there's no point at all in writing software i.... >> | ||
| 'The high wages are probably because of the unions.... >> | ||
| People in this state (Indiana) tend to value physi.... >> | ||
| Opinions on demand-d.... | I very strongly suggest that you target an extreme.... >> | |
| Anyone else frustrat.... | Entrepeneur - I think I understand - contexts are .... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2004 | JOS and spam | I know, I know, never reply to spam - ESPECIALLY.... >> |
| I got the same email from the same person - replie.... >> | ||
| Why do people still .... | Because people are lazy. Because businesses .... >> | |
| Getting around the t.... | I've made the mistake of being more than a little .... >> | |
| Anyone else frustrat.... | entrepeneur - by your requirements - should a task.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Bizarre Situation | I had one company send me a letter thanking me for.... >> |
| Tactical Disclosure .... | Hmmm...maybe the way out of this depressing cycle .... >> | |
| 'Perhaps Best Buy is filled with 'B' people hiring.... >> | ||
| salary on current jo.... | I suppose you could always go to your current empl.... >> | |
| 09 Mar 2004 | How about responding with 'Nowhere near what I'm w.... >> | |
| 08 Mar 2004 | Sunblock for a lapto.... | Interesting. I've honestly never tried it. I t.... >> |
| Were you facing the sun or did you have your back .... >> | ||
| Analogy for why outs.... | If talent follows a bell curve (which it may or ma.... >> | |
| Explaining things in.... | Actually, I've found an amazingly large number of .... >> | |
| not in my job descri.... | I suppose you could trademark it yourself and then.... >> | |
| 07 Mar 2004 | The integration of c.... | A slightly different point of view: I had the g.... >> |
| 06 Mar 2004 | Gwyn's "Why won't yo.... | I posted this in the other thread, and I'll post i.... >> |
| Windows XP SP2 Will .... | Causes problems with just-in-time code generation?.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2004 | how to return for ni.... | void foo(void) >> |
| Cooments on this boo.... | I think that books like that are things that every.... >> | |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Normal not to get pa.... | If the contract is indeed unenforceable (because t.... >> |
| 02 Mar 2004 | Apprentice : tactic .... | I watched the first half of the first episode and .... >> |
| Stock Market related.... | I've always believed SS was a big Ponzi scheme, pe.... >> | |
| On a lighter note... | Trogdor. Definately Trogdor. >> | |
| Cubes vs. Offices - .... | Ah...perhaps the 'where I'd rather work' is a key .... >> | |
| It sounds to me like there should be metrics such .... >> | ||
| Advice on pluggable .... | Hi - I've never tried to implement C++ COM obje.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2004 | Advice on pluggable app >> | |
| 01 Mar 2004 | Help me bring my dep.... | Alright, here's my suggestion, from someone who ha.... >> |
| Cubes vs. Offices - .... | I spent about two years in a cube farm. About 6 m.... >> | |
| Advice on pluggable .... | Hi - I'll take these one at a time in the order.... >> | |
| 29 Feb 2004 | I'm DOne. I Do.... | How about having a doctorate in chemistry and not .... >> |