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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'anonymous' | ||
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Number of Comments: 381 |
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| Number of Words: 25,463 | ||
| First Comment: 15 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 30 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 43 |
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| First Topic: 07 Nov 2001 | ||
| Latest Topic: 06 Aug 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 30 Aug 2004 | What motivates you t.... | Seeing my name out on the Information Superhighway.... >> |
| 19 Aug 2004 | Uses for the C keywo.... | the 'auto' keyword dates from a _very_ old era, wh.... >> |
| 18 Aug 2004 | SQL Server - Up or D.... | performance throttle with kicks in around.... >> |
| Strange: Queries are.... | Frustrated Maintenance Programmer,
Thi.... >> |
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| 17 Aug 2004 | Working as a SW Deve.... | I've been living in Japan for over two years, and .... >> |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Favorite Screen Save.... | I use a custom one I wrote. It's a 3d OpenGL one t.... >> |
| Excutable bit always.... | Q: How is Modify different that Write? A: It allo.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2004 | Get it in Writing | For some things, the writing is there for a contra.... >> |
| Hiring Mistakes | Buddy, how about writing if (p) s = p; else.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2004 | Employment contracts.... | It is a staff job. I can send an email to the HR .... >> |
| 06 Aug 2004 | Employment contracts & Intellectual Property >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Web App: Clickable F.... | Our company had an internal application that was t.... >> |
| 25 Jul 2004 | MORE IQ | I have been a member of Mensa, but I don't talk ab.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Politics in a startup >> | |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Mac OS X Tiger | Max OS X Tiger is looking really cool. some of .... >> |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Spying | There's a great This American Life (a great radio .... >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | Better Windows Explo.... | Also check out Powerdesk. It has 2-pane brow.... >> |
| 13 Jul 2004 | How did these HR Dro.... | Muppet, I guess you don't agree with Peopleware.... >> |
| Our HR 'lady' used to be a flight attendent until .... >> | ||
| I am a Bad Employee .... | While I have done their work for them on occassion.... >> | |
| By "do less work" I mean number of hours worked, n.... >> | ||
| What I meant was that I often help them and I'm ab.... >> | ||
| I'm in a similar situation. I basically do a.... >> | ||
| 09 Jul 2004 | Ripping DVD | The best tool I've found is Handbrake, if you have.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Testing is a FUNDAME.... | One of the fundamental things, i learned in my sho.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Working in Canada? | Anybody who votes for the Liberals in the coming e.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | A few idiotic Window.... | 1. No. 2. N/A. 3. Make sure their usernames and .... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | Web applications | Not quite on topic with the poster, but it should .... >> |
| He is back, He is ba.... | 1. Most well known open source developers are pai.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Ethics of running an.... | Joel was abducted by a group of Linux zealots and .... >> |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Yup the problem is n.... | Too bad everyone isn't an honest, upright person -.... >> |
| 08 Jun 2004 | Lazyness | I also recommend exercise. Join a gym. .... >> |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Whats the deal with .... | Why don't they invest in locking their boxes down?.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | I hate this industry | >>>After they made me buy that goddamn book. Th.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | sounding off: Linux .... | I am hardly a Linux zealot. I don't even like Lin.... >> |
| And why is it that you didn't use the package mana.... >> | ||
| 28 May 2004 | Company I work on wo.... | Quote: Oh, and I've used those tapes to restore.... >> |
| 27 May 2004 | Where are all of the.... | The single biggest problem is the companies knowin.... >> |
| 26 May 2004 | I knew it | And how exactly does this prove your point? >> |
| 22 May 2004 | Bored and want to pr.... | Write a game. If you pick a simple enough co.... >> |
| 19 May 2004 | Temp table or not in.... | >Apparently the table variable is the best solutio.... >> |
| 18 May 2004 | insomnia | I suffered from insomnia for quite a while and the.... >> |
| Question about India.... | A friend who moved back to india was unhappy abou.... >> | |
| Would a Wiki Work? | A summary can be found at: http://www.possibility.... >> | |
| > It's tough leading from the rear. Stick with .... >> | ||
| 17 May 2004 | > However, in a group of about 10 only 2 of us use.... >> | |
| I have found wikis very hard to integrate into a .... >> | ||
| 14 May 2004 | How much is risk worth (ratewise)? >> | |
| 14 May 2004 | How much is risk wor.... | Son of Parnas, In theory - no. In practice -.... >> |
| C++ refresh... | http://www.possibility.com/epowiki/Wiki.jsp?page=I.... >> | |
| 07 May 2004 | Laugh at me, but enl.... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_p.... >> |
| 06 May 2004 | Is 16% increase good.... | Dividing your yearly income by 1000 will most defi.... >> |
| Joel's post today: C.... | If you want a degree that teaches you how to progr.... >> | |
| 05 May 2004 | How good is POSTGRE .... | There are only a few instances where MySQL is fast.... >> |
| Joel's post today: C.... | Why is it that companies expect people with CS deg.... >> | |
| One problem is that CS degrees aren't designed for.... >> | ||
| Why do fax machines .... | Everyone knows you can't trust the return address .... >> | |
| Security - unrealist.... | Most Windows security issues are due to seriously .... >> | |
| 02 May 2004 | W-2 Hourly vs. Incor.... | Also remember that if you are 1099, and they refus.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Creating online orde.... | Basically copy everything that Amazon has done. >> |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Why programmers so d.... | I don't think the problem is formal education. Th.... >> |
| when to do perf/scal.... | You should be testing the implementation feasabili.... >> | |
| 21 Apr 2004 | I want to work for a.... | I would bet he worked at OTC. >> |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Auuuggghhh! Ad.... | Use FireFox or get a Mac. >> |
| 10 Apr 2004 | Have you ever been f.... | There are lots of examples where a pay raise costs.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Spammers have email, too >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Spammers have email,.... | True, the small, pure registrar firms who make the.... >> |
| Jeff, you're right: if the domains themselves are .... >> | ||
| You're right: email/electronic revenge isn't likel.... >> | ||
| FreeLance Services &.... | Being a successful consultant is about understandi.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Poll: What car do yo.... | A. 2003 Mazda Protege (averages 25MPG+) B. Humani.... >> |
| NULL pointers vs. em.... | The geniuses here use a single space to represent .... >> | |
| Is grokking pointers.... | I wonder if most of the confusion has more to do w.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2004 | Drowning in one's co.... | I'm not a big fan of PHP, but to believe that ASP..... >> |
| 22 Mar 2004 | What should I know w.... | Don't bother with an LCD unless you get one with a.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2004 | A halfway decent online backup >> | |
| 21 Mar 2004 | A halfway decent onl.... | Err... well, I never would have guessed it, but th.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Lies on CVs | One of my best friends got a position as a financi.... >> |
| 17 Mar 2004 | Functional Requirements >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | Software Distributio.... | http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/capab.... >> |
| Functional Requireme.... | Loïc, Our application has a web interface and w.... >> | |
| I can assure you that the purpose is not to get a .... >> | ||
| I guess my question was more how would one even an.... >> | ||
| databases are danger.... | >They could change from 1 database to another and .... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Does good code matte.... | It seems to me that Perl had the biggest part in d.... >> |
| Java officially announced: May 23, 1995 First pub.... >> | ||
| 10 Mar 2004 | Anyone else frustrat.... | I've always thought that project management, bug t.... >> |
| 08 Mar 2004 | not in my job descri.... | I would have just told them that filing a trademar.... >> |
| 04 Mar 2004 | SSL - Is dedicated h.... | I assume by "To use SSL" you mean to serve web pag.... >> |
| 29 Feb 2004 | Nextel direct connec.... | I think the advertising is rather poor, but most p.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Are Older Developers.... | I'm an 'older' developer. I would say I'm better t.... >> |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Monster.com | Usually I'm contacted and asked for my resume in w.... >> |
| How discouraging | My recommendation is to pursue a minor or two.&nbs.... >> | |
| 07 Feb 2004 | IANAL - Software Pat.... | I would be very surprised if your idea was actuall.... >> |
| Is goto dead? | Perl already has goto. It also has redo whic.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Worst Ever: 7350 Lin.... | Wow. Just... wow. >> |
| 04 Feb 2004 | 3D CAD development,not games >> | |
| 04 Feb 2004 | blackmesa, Unfortunately most people are not so.... >> | |
| Unfortunately the stories in this thread are not o.... >> | ||
| Where to begin... ~100K lines of Perl 95% of a.... >> | ||
| 31 Jan 2004 | re su me >> | |
| 30 Jan 2004 | Submitting Job Appli.... | At my company we spend our days on unix workstatio.... >> |
| Building Community w.... | Ha ha >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | A linker for .NET? | It's not a linker they need. They had one in VC++.... >> |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Quit-Programming Tutorial >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Quit-Programming Tut.... | I do the job.. computer programming, So I have to .... >> |
| it's not about computers it's about programming >> | ||
| Home Brew PVR update.... | I've been researching the best PVR packages availa.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Who's your favorite .... | joker.com is $12 per year and offers free DNS serv.... >> |
| 20 Jan 2004 | Verisign 40-bit and .... | Verisign has always misadvertised their certificat.... >> |
| Attending top univer.... | I've never understood the naive belief that anyone.... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Private offices: fairness vs. productivity >> | |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Yahoo dumping Google | I'm surprised that so many people are surprised by.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2003 | Israel Stops Buying Microsoft Software >> | |
| 30 Dec 2003 | Israel Stops Buying .... | You do realize that Word documents that are 'fomat.... >> |
| "Compiling" scripts | Have any of you actually read about literate progr.... >> | |
| Take a look at literate programming and some of th.... >> | ||
| 29 Dec 2003 | Bookmarks/Favorites .... | A bit off topic but I believe why Firebird uses an.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2003 | Joel on installing D.... | I agree with Stephen Jones; the average Windows us.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2003 | LISP - why? | I'm a Lisp programmer. Why should I bother to con.... >> |
| 07 Dec 2003 | Win32 admin: I'm pat.... | I would just not let the children install anything.... >> |
| 05 Dec 2003 | Why are 80% of progr.... | I would definitely say the number is closer to 90%.... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | itunes ACC restricti.... | Information on how to deauthorize a computer you n.... >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | An outsourcing/offsh.... | My argument against this article is that it's so o.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2003 | Being pushed | Is it legal to tape record conversations where peo.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Linux in China >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Linux in China | By the way, I'm not talking about the China deal, .... >> |
| If this forum weren't like Slashdot, we would read.... >> | ||
| The real problem wit.... | Unemployment is high. So is tech unemploymen.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | efficient / fast sof.... | Don't forget local developers have an inherent spe.... >> |
| how much your salary.... | 5% in 2002. No increase in 2003. Let's see what .... >> | |
| Search engine censor.... | Brad, I understand your point, but we're not talki.... >> | |
| The real problem wit.... | American engineering is so 'good' because there's .... >> | |
| 16 Nov 2003 | Significance of the .... | If you judge its visibility by the number of inane.... >> |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Cycles in the econom.... | Careful, you'll scare the westerners: 'user organ.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Linux hack attempt | 'During the three months in which the hackers had .... >> |
| 12 Nov 2003 | A small rant about L.... | Can you name one unbiased news source? The closes.... >> |
| 11 Nov 2003 | I don't think some people on this board understand.... >> | |
| Speaking of Marketin.... | Not only are the credit-card CD-Rs more expensive .... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | ITunes And A Pocket .... | If you bought the songs with iTunes on the Pocket .... >> |
| 03 Nov 2003 | End of Redhat Consum.... | This is not unprecedented. Being on this for.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2003 | Viruses | Perhaps it has something to do with the theory tha.... >> |
| Investing Money In C.... | I have heard hedge funds compared to the 'Martinga.... >> | |
| You can rebalance AND have a long-term buy-and-hol.... >> | ||
| The 98% figure is a personal estimate, based on wh.... >> | ||
| Dollar cost averaging explained: You decide you.... >> | ||
| I also started investing around March 2000, but be.... >> | ||
| 30 Oct 2003 | At Least Microsoft P.... | Jim, the nice thing is that the mainstream Windows.... >> |
| 29 Oct 2003 | The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing >> | |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Let me amend that. "If Mac users immediately.... >> | |
| It is possible to charge the Mac faithful more mon.... >> | ||
| D.O.D. CIO says "Uni.... | He's not talking about Windows, though the tenor i.... >> | |
| The problem is, this article's not making sense.&n.... >> | ||
| Development has beco.... | What makes Cobol the best? Is it better than incr.... >> | |
| Microsoft encourages.... | It sounds like the guy might have violated a nondi.... >> | |
| The Hidden Costs of .... | Ooops: http://tinyurl.com/su4v >> | |
| What angered me the .... | This is an interesting thread. Eric Sink, th.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | What RSS feeds are y.... | News about technology professionals and offshore o.... >> |
| 20 Oct 2003 | CityDesk too much fo.... | 'its not marketed to my segment of the marketplace.... >> |
| Made Me Laugh... | There is no maximize button in OS X software. .... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | Top 5 tax deductions.... | Vanguard has kits for 401(k)s? My experience was .... >> |
| 12 Oct 2003 | ANDY GROVE (!!!) war.... | By the way, I am very undecided on this issue.&nbs.... >> |
| But we do have a lot of anticompetitive behavior. .... >> | ||
| Grove has a good point: As a community, we should.... >> | ||
| 09 Oct 2003 | How can people excel.... | I was friends with a person who studied piano at J.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2003 | "C" 32 bit short? | A 32 bit short is standard compliant. The only .... >> |
| should stupid people.... | Robots are the answer. I've often wondered w.... >> | |
| 01 Oct 2003 | Does anyone send rej.... | If a company gives a rejection letter with a reaso.... >> |
| Efficiently storing .... | For star schemas check out: Use the find featur.... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2003 | How to beat lethargy.... | I saw a movie call fight club.. it suggested somet.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2003 | I had an idea drivin.... | The solution seems to be to rent. Has anyone tr.... >> |
| 25 Sep 2003 | Top notch developmen.... | Those low end Dells are pretty much disposable lap.... >> |
| Smart, But Don't get.... | One thing I've been doing on personal projects is .... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | 99.9 percentile | We are having a problem with hiring only 99.9%. P.... >> |
| New FC office | This reminds me. Back in 1996 when I was in .... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Who pays for unemplo.... | Also, your employer's unemployment payments depend.... >> |
| 22 Sep 2003 | How do we shut down .... | Not to be too ignorant, how did you find these web.... >> |
| 16 Sep 2003 | Suggestions for scre.... | Ultrasnap is my personal favorite. http://www.m.... >> |
| interviews but no jo.... | Don't forget that sometimes companies post fake jo.... >> | |
| 13 Sep 2003 | Overcoming Procrasti.... | I was like that. But the bills kept piling up and .... >> |
| 11 Sep 2003 | FTP mode (passive or.... | FTP is not really safe, but if you are planning to.... >> |
| Optimizing a query | Looks like you have a star relationship around the.... >> | |
| Am I damaged for goo.... | Sometimes you can learn more by observing a disast.... >> | |
| Try to survive there for a year or two until the e.... >> | ||
| Here we go again | All of our boxes are patched already. >> | |
| 10 Sep 2003 | Security in your dev.... | Regarding: I don't think you could do much more th.... >> |
| The system is locked down so you can't check mail/.... >> | ||
| 09 Sep 2003 | Win32 hosted DHCP se.... | How did this discussion make it past "We use the D.... >> |
| 04 Sep 2003 | Linux stabilization | Simply_Linux_Fan: I don't know if you are troll.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Teekid vs Stupid-Laz.... | BTW, I didn't mention the really smart, dedicated .... >> |
| It's a hard problem with lots of blame all around..... >> | ||
| 01 Sep 2003 | Sympathy for teekid? | I think the point was that people never analyze th.... >> |
| I'd be much more worried about patents than some v.... >> | ||
| Interesting... | It seems Microsoft doesn't want to be penalized fo.... >> | |
| 30 Aug 2003 | A Kinder, Gentler Ti.... | 1) I've encountered it whenever talking face-to-fa.... >> |
| 27 Aug 2003 | My new job rocks | I think you should really wait for the honeymoon t.... >> |
| 25 Aug 2003 | Click on a.... | Internet Explorer likes to disregard content types.... >> |
| XML - the only pract.... | Philo, >IT1*023*1*EA*10.84**BP*E1147C*...... .... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2003 | Python or Ruby? | I've made the same observation about Ruby as that .... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | Mozilla use rising? | Eh forget that last part of my post, I don't want .... >> |
| I recall seeing somewhere that Germany had the hig.... >> | ||
| 21 Aug 2003 | Nuclear Power Plant .... | Tony, Troll. >It is Bush's fault because he .... >> |
| >Is it time to implement some sort of UN or NSA >a.... >> | ||
| Yugo | And salad cream is a subset of the salad dressings.... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Awesome article by E.... | These negative criticisms are what happens when yo.... >> |
| Useless rant, reading this article and going to th.... >> | ||
| Blaster - How are bu.... | If you're intersted in a detailed explanation of h.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | Job (and life) Advic.... | The DC area is a good place to raise a kid??? You .... >> |
| Hierarchical or flat.... | Have you ever read "Mythical Man-Month" ? >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Free PC database ser.... | PostgreSQL also has a decent Windows client called.... >> |
| PostgreSQL is hardly slow... >> | ||
| What of Macromedia C.... | The observant reader may also have noticed that th.... >> | |
| Eureka Moments | I've had eurekas come to me while I was in the sho.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Disk space | Additional costs might also include cleaning tapes.... >> |
| Depending on how much compression is achieved it w.... >> | ||
| Now calculate how long that drive is going to take.... >> | ||
| I meant to type that hard drives tend to be more s.... >> | ||
| Backing up to hard drive is not a viable option. .... >> | ||
| Why don't a few of you look into the cost of backu.... >> | ||
| Outsourced Overseas | I second what MikeG said regarding 'stay-on' bonus.... >> | |
| The list of companies you should avoid on are the .... >> | ||
| MSBlast - I don't un.... | The goal of Microsoft is to push Windows to everyo.... >> | |
| 14 Aug 2003 | Is anyone else compl.... | 'It should be noted that I think ISPs need to take.... >> |
| Half of Windows cras.... | What's wrong with MS being honest? This strategy .... >> | |
| Upgrading to visual .... | How many people out there secretly believes that e.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2003 | Web Worm Hits Window.... | Fullname, what are we without our Religions? Stop.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Surviving unreliable internet connections >> | |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Surviving unreliable.... | I know it's hard for some to believe, but before w.... >> |
| VB6 license | I am wondering if you can conservatively gamble. B.... >> | |
| Programmer hourly ra.... | Around USD$700 per hour >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Computerizing Bad Business Practices >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | ADVICE REQ: UPS vend.... | Until your needs are above 5KVA or so APC is reall.... >> |
| Boycott companies th.... | H1B has four major requirements: 1. Get interna.... >> | |
| It's easy to boycott bad quality offshore stuff, b.... >> | ||
| 07 Aug 2003 | Please help:) Softwa.... | http://www.salesforce.com/us/ >> |
| 04 Aug 2003 | reverse engineering >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Joel on Tech TV's 'T.... | I don't know, TV interviews are really fun while t.... >> |
| reverse engineering | data mining one >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Employer paying for grad school? >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | So much misunderstan.... | I just wanted to point out that Apache is not dist.... >> |
| Outsourcing Honesty .... | For the original poster, did you find a reasonable.... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Negotiating a reloca.... | I got screwed on a relocation deal once. The clau.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2003 | Calendar on weblogs | Eric's a perceptive guy, and I'd enjoy reading his.... >> |
| AFAIK, it is the worst interface one could possibl.... >> | ||
| 22 Jul 2003 | New Position/Company.... | I'd split it up into 3 paragraphs: 'The position..... >> |
| 18 Jul 2003 | Bad job requirements.... | I feel your pain. On the other hand, if you know y.... >> |
| I'm not defending Mi.... | Jay Cheese, we know this is all anonymous, but ple.... >> | |
| Good Morning America.... | You want to reply when everyone's asleep, that way.... >> | |
| Is Govt use going to.... | 'It's not just Windows vs OSS; the level of expert.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2003 | Linux in Munich... D.... | I think most people just want to line up the progr.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2003 | Picking a DIFFERENT .... | I would learn K and KDB in a heartbeat if only the.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2003 | Mouse Alternatives? | Even better, get a thumb-operated and finger-opera.... >> |
| Andy Grove: "US may .... | I think the thing that will kill the tech industry.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Regarding cracks - C.... | pb, they can only trace you if your software depen.... >> |
| 03 Jul 2003 | Dangerous Competitor.... | Apache and Perl were not created by the FSF, are n.... >> |
| 26 Jun 2003 | early retirement que.... | How are you managing to retire by age 30? By my.... >> |
| Trickery | One of the reasons why big companies outsource rec.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2003 | G5's | What software do you feel is missing? >> |
| Teleworking | If your job can be easily done from home, why woul.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2003 | Setting a Price, The Black Art Of >> | |
| 19 Jun 2003 | Setting a Price, The.... | We are a micro-company and don't have the resource.... >> |
| product manager !! | I believe that a Product Manager is more of a cust.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2003 | Expecting the return.... | Every new military empire thinks it's the latest a.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2003 | Not my problem... | Ah, you've hit the point DingBat. It is common se.... >> |
| Hmm, I seem to have some remaining anger about tha.... >> | ||
| Are you calling futile situations 'edge cases', Di.... >> | ||
| 13 Jun 2003 | Intelligent people quickly learn not to continue d.... >> | |
| Cool title | Mine, rather mealy mouthed, says: Java/C++ Expe.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | Parties using VC Money >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | How much does a shar.... | Ultimately, the value of your company is "whatever.... >> |
| 07 Jun 2003 | The Let's Make a Dea.... | >The odds of flipping a quarter and getting heads .... >> |
| 06 Jun 2003 | Why no really destru.... | I honestly believe that the reason that we don't s.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2003 | Turned down again | I would think about what it is you actually want t.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Confusing times for .... | I truly think you should forget about what is goin.... >> |
| Pair painting | I thought computers flew modern airliners and that.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2003 | You can't be an acco.... | Prisoner: 'The thing is, I don't want to end up be.... >> |
| 30 May 2003 | Database Version Con.... | In some projects, the entire database is re-create.... >> |
| Any theories on this.... | The theory that MS is funding SCO becomes more cle.... >> | |
| 29 May 2003 | Surprised this news .... | I don't know about NIH. We're perfectly happy let.... >> |
| Integration and The .... | Well, how else do people integrate themselves into.... >> | |
| 28 May 2003 | Surprised this news .... | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/185522.... >> |
| problems with Java c.... | In Java 1.5, isn't Java going to have better synta.... >> | |
| 24 May 2003 | finding educated wor.... | Dennis, do you notice you're going weird on us? C.... >> |
| 22 May 2003 | Before we advocate prison rape for teachers, we sh.... >> | |
| Recent Threads | Um no, I just pity self-defeating people. Th.... >> | |
| The difficulty is not the victim thing, but in gen.... >> | ||
| 21 May 2003 | Evil and truly evil | Someone above wrote: >1. In retry-code (like do.... >> |
| 19 May 2003 | Hack Hack Hack >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | First to Market >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | ICQ in one week? | First of all, I think the test is hardly impossibl.... >> |
| Most satisifying sof.... | Galactic Civilizations >> | |
| Mac OS X and many of the "i" applications are trul.... >> | ||
| Opera Miranda ICQ Quake 1, 2 & 3 >> | ||
| 15 May 2003 | waiting for distributed dev >> | |
| 15 May 2003 | DOUBLE STANDARDS | Hi T. Norman, you mention captive programmers... d.... >> |
| C++ objects, optimiz.... | ray tracer? >> | |
| 12 May 2003 | BMW computer crashes.... | Although there have been countless problems with t.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | SQL Server time outs >> | |
| 06 May 2003 | SQL Server time outs | I have worked with stored procedures that took day.... >> |
| Programmers who are .... | Well, personally I think that the more you read th.... >> | |
| 05 May 2003 | Is Software a dead i.... | I think the software industry in the US may very w.... >> |
| Matrix Reloaded | Interesting Slate link. I like these reviews beca.... >> | |
| 04 May 2003 | How long does your s.... | I think there are several reasons why you see Free.... >> |
| 03 May 2003 | How should I comment.... | http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sarcasm >> |
| 30 Apr 2003 | Is free software is .... | Free software has existed for decades. The G.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Linux != future | My comments were directed at the people with an ob.... >> |
| Hotmail originally used FreeBSD for web servers an.... >> | ||
| 24 Apr 2003 | Layoffs >> | |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Linux IDE for C++ development? >> | |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Linux IDE for C++ de.... | Any IDE's which are free? >> |
| 05 Apr 2003 | If you were not a de.... | I would be a cricketer >> |
| 03 Apr 2003 | what % of population.... | yeah general population...not a subset >> |
| 02 Apr 2003 | what % of population can be good developers? >> | |
| 02 Apr 2003 | I am talking about a western country, not web apps.... >> | |
| 29 Mar 2003 | average salaries of software developers in India >> | |
| 29 Mar 2003 | average salaries of .... | Bella, around Rs.3000-4000 pm, so around 80-90$ pe.... >> |
| Prakash, how about in Delhi? >> | ||
| 2-3 years experience >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2003 | Discuss: Win9x/MacOS.... | It sounds similar to that "They did studies that s.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Headphones. | I use these, because music distracts me if I'm no.... >> |
| 16 Mar 2003 | Boomerang of offshor.... | Wipro coded some Corel products, or part of them l.... >> |
| 15 Mar 2003 | job prospects | Do all empoyers actually get back to you? I am yet.... >> |
| 14 Mar 2003 | most of my previous experience is in C++ and Java,.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | job prospects >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Actually I had nothing in the previous 2 and half .... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Laptop recommendatio.... | On a laptop, spend until it really hurts and then .... >> |
| The Tyranny of Email | One of the recommendations in that article is for .... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | Reluctance to Learn | I guess I didn't make that clear. Learning s.... >> |
| These are the types of issues holding this industr.... >> | ||
| This topic is like saying: - my coworker is a C p.... >> | ||
| 08 Mar 2003 | followup >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | Any SysAdmins Out Th.... | Traceroute timing out means nothing. Many ho.... >> |
| 06 Mar 2003 | It might help if you provided the actual error mes.... >> | |
| Some of the Best Com.... | http://www.dotnet247.com/ >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | "Less than expert" T.... | Any books that are used in CS courses are availabl.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2003 | A good desk | I would recommend taking a look at the Hon 38000 s.... >> |
| "Less than expert" T.... | While I understand that not everyone can learn thi.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2003 | I have definitely noticed this. I work with a bun.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2003 | Not Programming | http://www.homestarrunner.com >> |
| 28 Feb 2003 | The experiment | And there are obvious ways to subvert any counterm.... >> |
| I feel bad for Joel. Some people are basically tr.... >> | ||
| Unit testing and pro.... | Joel Spolsky said: '...just create a few input .... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2003 | Software Patents >> | |
| 24 Feb 2003 | Know Anyone Persecut.... | Here's how I would do things different after the o.... >> |
| 20 Feb 2003 | Cheapest VC++ Profes.... | Bella, you da (wo)man! Dat was funny. .... >> |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Calling all Nerds | Home schooling. Sure, that will solve the whole t.... >> |
| 17 Feb 2003 | current salary level.... | 10 years experience in C++, currently doing .NET s.... >> |
| interview related qu.... | I think so , he is the Chief exec. in the company..... >> | |
| I can make contact with the person in charge of hi.... >> | ||
| 16 Feb 2003 | interview related question >> | |
| 11 Feb 2003 | EvC Problem | Thank You saf deleting that file did fix the probl.... >> |
| 10 Feb 2003 | EvC Problem >> | |
| 09 Feb 2003 | Digital Cameras - 2:3 or 3:4 >> | |
| 09 Feb 2003 | Digital Cameras - 2:.... | Dino,
you need 300 dpi to print true p.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2003 | New Server at Peer 1 >> | |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Recommendations soug.... | Joel, I think the problem with your backup stra.... >> |
| 18 Jan 2003 | Windows XP is not an.... | I'm not a fan of MS, but this article is pure igno.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | Jurassic Software | If your new sever has a large amount of memory and.... >> |
| 03 Jan 2003 | So...Joel's Still Us.... | This is the first time I've heard the term "Entity.... >> |
| 02 Jan 2003 | What Should I Do With My Life? >> | |
| 02 Jan 2003 | What Should I Do Wit.... | Have a search on Erich Fromm for some refreshing t.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2002 | Storing credit cards.... | Put your credit card database on a server in a bun.... >> |
| 20 Dec 2002 | If you could do it a.... | I would have started a business right away to get .... >> |
| 11 Dec 2002 | "Lord Palmerston...".... | The people I know that are highly specialized comm.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2002 | Best Data Structures.... | I think this topic came up here recently. An.... >> |
| 03 Dec 2002 | Assembly Language | Note, when you find yourself writing a compiler yo.... >> |
| 29 Nov 2002 | Coding vs. design >> | |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Unemployment Woes >> | |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Unemployment Woes | I have a degree in Engineering and I have been wor.... >> |
| 25 Nov 2002 | Honest days work | 4 hours undisturbed sounds like a good day - often.... >> |
| 24 Nov 2002 | Need a better UI for.... | A visual of it would be helpful >> |
| 20 Nov 2002 | Dead Wood "III" | Re the female/male thing: Let's just say that, .... >> |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Spam | I get virtually none, somewhat less that six I'd s.... >> |
| 16 Nov 2002 | Mathematics Software.... | 'Modern-day phycho-babble education theorist 'airh.... >> |
| 07 Nov 2002 | Visual Basic For Tes.... | For the kind of time investment you're talking abo.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2002 | Which companies hire.... | Pre-Compaq, Now Part of the New HP hires Program M.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2002 | Automated Build Tool.... | I use a batch file with all the make info in it.&n.... >> |
| 02 Nov 2002 | Hiring superstars? | >> I have been looking to get hold of an >> arti.... >> |
| 01 Nov 2002 | Most powerful notebo.... | I've been happy w/ my Compaq Presario lappy. (I've.... >> |
| 16 Oct 2002 | Employment | Employed, by myself in Belgium. Only one answer.... >> |
| 10 Oct 2002 | Joels worst piece ye.... | I don't agree with your analysis. But if you want.... >> |
| 06 Oct 2002 | Volunteer Programmin.... | Look at www.sourceforge.net maybe you will find an.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2002 | Stopping pop up ads | Opera has an option to refuse pop-up ads. Works gr.... >> |
| 19 Sep 2002 | Owner Drawn Menus In.... | Thanks Mathew and Joel for your help. >> |
| 18 Sep 2002 | Owner Drawn Menus In VB >> | |
| 18 Sep 2002 | Make it too easy, an.... | 'You don’t see a lot of rotten Oracle applications.... >> |
| 17 Sep 2002 | building a community | Searched for a good ui design tutorial and found a.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2002 | Fog FTP >> | |
| 06 Sep 2002 | Joel's attitude prob.... | > Someone as bright as Joel wouldn't normally make.... >> |
| 03 Sep 2002 | Shrink-wrap apps bui.... | The chess program perfect chessmate is written in .... >> |
| 31 Aug 2002 | Royalty Free Components >> | |
| 31 Aug 2002 | Royalty Free Compone.... | All good points that I hadn't thought about. Take .... >> |
| 30 Aug 2002 | WISE vs. InstallShie.... | Does InstallShield still have 'Package for the web.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2002 | Software Rights, Res.... | I would put a clause in my license agreement the s.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2002 | how to make money in.... | Well, there's no hope if the thrill is gone. Try t.... >> |
| 14 Aug 2002 | CS - MIT, Stanford, .... | If you're not hardcore about computer science or s.... >> |
| 05 Aug 2002 | are rich client uis .... | For such an "AMAZING" technology, Windows Terminal.... >> |
| 24 Jul 2002 | Rhapsody is positive.... | Yes.. I love Rhapsody. Is it me or did they sp.... >> |
| re: Listen.com.. | 12 AM is midnight. Duh. >> | |
| 26 Jun 2002 | What's the big deal? | In addition I would say yes, your attitude does ch.... >> |
| In some companies the only career path available i.... >> | ||
| 24 Jun 2002 | Strategy Letter V vs.... | Interesting, but IBM is neither a services pure pl.... >> |
| Not everything IBM does is open source (WebSphere .... >> | ||
| 30 May 2002 | www.joelonlife.com?? | http://www.mormon.org >> |
| 28 May 2002 | What do you use for .... | We currently use VSS for corporate docs as well as.... >> |
| 03 May 2002 | Good software engine.... | 'require forum members to lurk and read posts for .... >> |
| 19 Apr 2002 | Anti Visual Basic | Back in the day I was at a company that was develo.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2002 | Open source vb proje.... | http://www.vsoftdev.com has free and commerc.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2002 | How about a Fog Cree.... | I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss this idea. Joel.... >> |
| 19 Dec 2001 | Invoking Change | The one way I know of doing this is to be known fo.... >> |
| The Story Behind Yah.... | Actually, what am I saying? If the applet is in co.... >> | |
| Chris Dunford: Well, I do know Java applets (un.... >> | ||
| So, the back button can do one of three things: .... >> | ||
| 13 Dec 2001 | Back to Basics | Good article, as always. I vote both hands that XM.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2001 | Would you hire someo.... | I'm coming up on 30. It's already clear to me that.... >> |
| 05 Dec 2001 | Protecting software .... | Why bother 'protecting' the code if the client won.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2001 | Fog Creek home page >> | |
| 12 Nov 2001 | Measurement of Joel's Preaching >> | |
| 07 Nov 2001 | Time to fire?! >> | |
| 19 Oct 2001 | Programming Language.... | Never restrict yourself to one programming languag.... >> |
| 17 Oct 2001 | Great Article! Just some comment on the languag.... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2001 | Internship | Spelling mistakes has nothing to do with coding. |
| 15 Oct 2001 | Why don't you have any programs you've worked on, .... >> | |
| Some bugs, fixed | test. >> | |