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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'matt' | ||
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Number of Comments: 430 |
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| Number of Words: 37,840 | ||
| First Comment: 14 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 13 |
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| First Topic: 31 Dec 2001 | ||
| Latest Topic: 13 Aug 2004 | ||
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| 02 Sep 2004 | web services / 'thin.... | I've done this for a couple of small apps with wxP.... >> |
| New discussion board.... | Why not use phpbb or php-nuke? because they're bot.... >> | |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Equivalent of mshtml.... | There's also Tag Soup ( http://mercury.ccil.org/~c.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2004 | Best Way to develop .... | Ehm... excuse me but how the fuck did you get this.... >> |
| I want out writing w.... | Yeah I know the feeling. A few ideas: For the m.... >> | |
| IP spoofing/altering | Well yeah, if you have access to a proxy you can u.... >> | |
| Rewrite Gecko in Jav.... | Quite. If someone suggested I use a browser writte.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2004 | Folder view periodic.... | Hmm. This has happened to my 'My music' folder. It.... >> |
| 27 Aug 2004 | If you like this... | Mark: As the similarity metric is symmetric it als.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2004 | Mark, the vector method does attempt to compensate.... >> | |
| Jeff - How could someone suggesting Nickelback eve.... >> | ||
| ...and the recommendations are generally quite goo.... >> | ||
| For a music website I run, we have something like .... >> | ||
| 25 Aug 2004 | Need a text editor t.... | You could try Large Text File Viewer 2.0 ( http://.... >> |
| Database Relationshi.... | It's not really cludgy when you think about it in .... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2004 | OT - Anyone jog with.... | There's also the fact that the white earbuds mark .... >> |
| Progessively slower .... | Also under WinXP, Ctrl-Alt-Del and the Networking .... >> | |
| Table inheritance: w.... | Ah, I think I mean something different by 'relatio.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2004 | When I said 'proper relational' I meant that in th.... >> | |
| I think the 'proper' relational way of doing is so.... >> | ||
| 22 Aug 2004 | Not-so-hypothetical .... | I've done some low-level games stuff before and am.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2004 | Card shuffling routi.... | An interesting question in probability theory (gro.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2004 | Why learn basic sear.... | It depends if you care. If you don't care then fai.... >> |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Coldfusion programme.... | What's this Alex, a competition to see if you can .... >> |
| My penis is so small I can't find it. >> | ||
| 14 Aug 2004 | No, don't. In my (limited and possibly unfair, but.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Coldfusion programmer wanted to work for assholes >> | |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Well, I do a fair bit of freelance web work, and c.... >> | |
| Sorry, was addressing 'You know who'. Admittedl.... >> | ||
| Haha... look at Mark 'Our logo guy' on that webpag.... >> | ||
| Haha. Whatever. You're a rude guy (judging by a lo.... >> | ||
| Maybe it works for them, but I suspect they're rul.... >> | ||
| Well I didn't say the requirements were unreasonab.... >> | ||
| Of course the question remains of whether any comp.... >> | ||
| Heh. Well you go work for them then! I just tho.... >> | ||
| Freelance Site | freelancers.net same thing probably done better >> | |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Purchase this forum? | Well just pay a programmer to spend a few hours at.... >> |
| 08 Aug 2004 | {kill time}site with.... | blogdex ? metafilter ? memepool ? b3ta? plastic ? >> |
| 07 Aug 2004 | Why are pointers use.... | '_' : Well I didn't make any claims that pointers .... >> |
| 06 Aug 2004 | You need to stop thinking in terms of high-level l.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Computability | Um... If you're working with the definitions of 'f.... >> |
| Oh and on the computability front - there are lots.... >> | ||
| Yeah most (all?) of the Goedel examples are pretty.... >> | ||
| 04 Aug 2004 | How to decide on sw .... | Infact you can just use the contraints in the data.... >> |
| Not really sure what you're asking, but here goes..... >> | ||
| SORT | If you're sorting lines in the file, maybe you hav.... >> | |
| A question for our n.... | Yeah this sort of thing happens a fair bit here (U.... >> | |
| Platform for Commerc.... | Writing a web app in C... ouch! just a little maso.... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2004 | Developers retesting.... | >>Asking him if it's reasonable that, once I id a .... >> |
| Your typical program.... | Surely blancmange is french? ('white eat' / white .... >> | |
| Can't say many (any?) Brits I've met consider blac.... >> | ||
| 01 Aug 2004 | Can do anything with.... | Oh and: >Things like the 'big-Oh' notation. I'v.... >> |
| Like... solving the halting problem! eh... wait... >> | ||
| 31 Jul 2004 | Determining Linux fl.... | Isn't this what all that horrific GNU Autoconf cra.... >> |
| Array | About higher than 3 dimensions - a mathematician w.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2004 | Why you shouldn't st.... | What's the difference between weblogs.asp.net and .... >> |
| Probability question.... | If you're interested in my mathematical justificat.... >> | |
| Okay, I decided to try writing a little algorithm .... >> | ||
| 29 Jul 2004 | What's a good FREE F.... | Yeah, the FTP windows explorer extension comes as .... >> |
| Which version of CSS.... | Learn CSS2 but be aware that certain bits aren't f.... >> | |
| Probability question.... | What we're saying is - the general case is a fairl.... >> | |
| Yeah wolfram is great for reference - trying to ac.... >> | ||
| Aha! as I suspected after playing around with it f.... >> | ||
| I have a fricking BS in Maths! and will have a mas.... >> | ||
| Actually I just saw the bit where he was asking fo.... >> | ||
| Ah yes, a2800276's approach is good, conditioning .... >> | ||
| For the first question, it's just a matter of coun.... >> | ||
| 28 Jul 2004 | SPAM | I've been using www.SpamStopsHere.com for the past.... >> |
| Fun with bits | Yeah, x & ~1 is just anding it with 1111111111..... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Software Pricing for.... | Well, y'know, it was just a suggestion. Depends a .... >> |
| Then someone steals your idea, or the vaporosity o.... >> | ||
| Getting Excel to wor.... | Do you need to output fancy graphs? if not it woul.... >> | |
| $75K-$100K/year to M.... | Hmm... just tell them you've been travelling aroun.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Postel's principle >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | My users have threat.... | Woah! What a bunch of psychos. Get the police o.... >> |
| XML/Perl based CMS w.... | Not XML but - you could try the SQLLite PHP extens.... >> | |
| Fun with bits | Clear the rightmost bit - surely it's missing the .... >> | |
| Bzzzt! | (I wasn't talking about missing closing tags) >> | |
| Bzzt - you misunderstand. See my post just next to.... >> | ||
| The problem being if one browser accepts your dodg.... >> | ||
| Postel's principle | Eh... the most recent post! >> | |
| 24 Jul 2004 | Inquirer/Register:Wh.... | I think you'll find there's the odd sarcastic dig .... >> |
| no respect... | Dave - what makes you think anyone'd want to work .... >> | |
| pet projects that fi.... | >>'PHP was put together by some college student to.... >> | |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Possible to view .AS.... | No, you can't view the source of an ASP script ove.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Nasty virus/worm on .... | I have recently set up a cololocation server --> W.... >> |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Shell Scripting Fana.... | Shell scripts - so ugly. I cringe inwardly every t.... >> |
| Windows "Briefcase" | Problem is, most of the users had no idea what it .... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Simple XML Compressi.... | http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/xmill/ >> |
| Guys - he's talking about sending custom UDP packe.... >> | ||
| My pointer stupidity | Can't you just go through the string replacing the.... >> | |
| What exactly is Joel.... | And to the (forgotten) point about search. It mig.... >> | |
| 'Joe Blow building a product around a Sourceforge .... >> | ||
| RE: Dennis Forbes 1. Inclusion of Sourceforge bas.... >> | ||
| 19 Jul 2004 | Lowest Common Denomi.... | Annoying. to be honest though, if someone claimed .... >> |
| What exactly is Joel.... | I'll try to say this in the politest possible way,.... >> | |
| Social Software | Yeah, whatever you say about livejournal it does s.... >> | |
| software vs program | And on that topic, what's wrong with just admittin.... >> | |
| Well who says there's any one formal definition? y.... >> | ||
| 18 Jul 2004 | PHP and references | Yeah, I've also written a quite complex CMS / rela.... >> |
| >>>I also believe there is a syntax that will allo.... >> | ||
| 17 Jul 2004 | Worst Use of Technol.... | Yeah floating toolbars in photoshop annoy me somet.... >> |
| Qt : Panacea or Mena.... | Yep, wxWindows all the way. Results in some very n.... >> | |
| More IQ-ism | Yada yada Intelligence is not a scalar quantity an.... >> | |
| PHP and references | Yeah, I know, that still involves the overhead of .... >> | |
| I'll tell you what's really fucking annoying about.... >> | ||
| 16 Jul 2004 | Python for a commerc.... | PHP is dynamically typed, yes. Python web frame.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Perl CGI | Clay - I wouldn't be too surprised that something .... >> |
| And for reference, I do use heredocs in PHP when a.... >> | ||
| Ehm... OK! not really sure what your point was the.... >> | ||
| I know multiple inheritance can lead to a mess, bu.... >> | ||
| PHP's shortcomings... hm. (NB: I recognise some.... >> | ||
| CGI (in the traditional sense) just isn't a good p.... >> | ||
| Help Optimize this c.... | I agree with Lou... this exercise is singularly po.... >> | |
| Dreamweaver rant | Well like I said - I'm perfectly capable of produc.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Dreamweaver rant >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Yes I agree a lot of the problem is with the desig.... >> | |
| The Coffee Test | Jesus man, surely bringing some nice toilet paper .... >> | |
| 12 Jul 2004 | Help optimize this c.... | Other problems aside, I suspect your SetBitV (or w.... >> |
| Object diagram | You know what? if you wanna draw objects on your .... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2004 | javascript mouseover.... | Actually you can do something like this (a dropdow.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2004 | Myserious billboard | Here are two days of defining e: e is the inver.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Slashdot | Try the forums at lambda-the-ultimate.org for some.... >> |
| Acorn Computers? | Yes, ARM assembly code is very nice to work with. .... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | Yep I had one of those back in the day and wrote s.... >> | |
| 05 Jul 2004 | Wikis and IMDB | Nope. IMDB has a carefully designed and detailed d.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2004 | Good software takes .... | So what should that be then - I'm smarter than any.... >> |
| medical clinic softw.... | Evidently not, haha. I suspect I'm missing somethi.... >> | |
| Does this site turn swearwords into 'beach'? I'm w.... >> | ||
| Stretched too thin | Come on then, which country is it? We're all curio.... >> | |
| I'd say (1) start looking for another job (2.... >> | ||
| Just. for web server.... | Sounds like a no-brainer - just configure Apache t.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | My word processing e.... | Yeah I'm not saying that approach would necessaril.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | https tracking - pub.... | oops i got the wrong end of the sticl../ nevermind >> |
| Well if paypal own the domain I can't see anyone e.... >> | ||
| 28 Jun 2004 | My word processing e.... | Interesting points people. I'd like to see a wo.... >> |
| Trademarks | Surely that should be 'h4xx0r' :) >> | |
| event-driven php web.... | Yes, but PHP makes it pretty hard for those who di.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2004 | Not sure if this is quite what you mean, but somet.... >> | |
| Pranks on people's c.... | >>Icons will be still there but not clickable. Ver.... >> | |
| DBAs vs. Coders | Why are nulls useful? well for an integer field, s.... >> | |
| I'll tend to make fields NOT NULL in the database .... >> | ||
| 23 Jun 2004 | GMail Marketing Blun.... | >> >>So what's the point? And don't tell me it's .... >> |
| Lookup tables vs. ex.... | Normalise, nor-norrr-malise-alise >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | .NET book reccommendation >> | |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Killer App(s) for De.... | From what I've heard, this is what MS are trying t.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Real use of CSS | CSS is 90% of the way to making table-based layout.... >> |
| Why does Windows slo.... | Aagh. Yeah I know what you mean. Windows just slow.... >> | |
| Encapsulation--to wh.... | I'd say: the main reason for implementing getters .... >> | |
| strings in C++ | Ah, you just reminded me of how goddamn annoying C.... >> | |
| REST assured | Another quick-and-dirty hack method which works wi.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | Interview with Scott.... | I think a more interesting bit from that interview.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Today's Provocative .... | Definately going for the 'who gives a flying fuck'.... >> |
| Ph. D. Material | The neat thing about a Ph.D is that you get to s.... >> | |
| Random numbers in a .... | Here's a little trick for simulating a normal dist.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2004 | POLL : Do you enjoy .... | Depends what I'm programming, innit. >> |
| Where can I find jus.... | Great site . . . interesting to note in his models.... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | C++ and accessors--w.... | Oh ok. That's a bit nicer. It's a while since I've.... >> |
| Yeah, I know you can often get away without them, .... >> | ||
| Having to write trivial getters and setters in the.... >> | ||
| new grads | So assign him to something that he _can_ do. .... >> | |
| Number line -> Co.... | Ah cool. Yeah that's how I found it too :-) See.... >> | |
| To the OP, if you're really interested this paper .... >> | ||
| Oh yes pure mathematicians love to sneer at anythi.... >> | ||
| Infact I think the lecturer referred to quantum me.... >> | ||
| Oh okay... well I've not done any quantum mechanic.... >> | ||
| Oh Quantum mechanics is pretty hardcore, I mean it.... >> | ||
| No worries, it's a good question to ask! thinking .... >> | ||
| Woo! I remember thinking like this when I first fo.... >> | ||
| My custom JOS Reader.... | The fonts / layout in the lower pane is a bit butt.... >> | |
| challenging SQL ques.... | Ah yeah I see what you mean. I'd just moved that b.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Just a thought | Yeah I think moving the 'help me with this technic.... >> |
| Confused by K&R .... | It's Octal. Why K&R weren't content with just h.... >> | |
| challenging SQL ques.... | Ah I've just spotted something. Try making the sec.... >> | |
| I really think a simple variation on what I sugges.... >> | ||
| 09 Jun 2004 | What's a Good Perl I.... | learn vi. >> |
| Hiring programmers: .... | I would agree: Give him a bunch of little thing.... >> | |
| Correct term please | Homogenize? Standardize? Regularize? Normalize? Ma.... >> | |
| Avoiding Indecisiven.... | I can sympathise with the guy. He's probably just .... >> | |
| challenging SQL ques.... | Hmm, try something like this: SELECT p.* F.... >> | |
| Yeah MySQL lacks decent subqueries until a pretty .... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2004 | Eric Sink -> Law #4: The Law of Perception >> | |
| 05 Jun 2004 | Kiwis and Kiwi Fruit.... | Yeah, and 'orange' is a colour. The thing you eat .... >> |
| What shareware model.... | 1) Just give it away, with a polite and non-irrita.... >> | |
| MYSQL in trouble | PostGreSQL is great. What I don't like, though, is.... >> | |
| using opaque primary.... | That's interesting, any idea as to why the charact.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2004 | The thing I hate mos.... | No, the worst thing about windows is that you fuck.... >> |
| Evolution of a progr.... | I'd like to see the J2EE version of hello world on.... >> | |
| Aeron Chair | As far as overpriced task chairs go I like the Swo.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | using opaque primary.... | I'd hazard a guess that most RDBMs are optimised t.... >> |
| Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand has always sounded incredibly irritating .... >> | |
| Best language for GU.... | Paulo: I wasn't doing anything terribly complicat.... >> | |
| Sorry not to jump on the Java/.NET bandwagon but I.... >> | ||
| 02 Jun 2004 | Anyone here familiar.... | Oops just saw you're interested in the windows pac.... >> |
| A couple of my clients are hosted there. Seems pre.... >> | ||
| Just a thought | Zope sounds incredibly cool in a way but every tim.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Norah Jones | >probably the uglies and most badly written thing .... >> |
| Very painful project.... | I really hope that IT managers post was meant to h.... >> | |
| If you were thinking of resigning anyway, that is. >> | ||
| Explain to him carefully and tactfully why his cod.... >> | ||
| Off-the-wall UI | I've had the same feeling before. Recently I came.... >> | |
| Are you a less produ.... | Ehm... well writing off all under 25s as boring ce.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | Becoming a C _develo.... | Haha. Beats all the 'my boss sucks and my job suck.... >> |
| Pointless, if you're handed the more convenient op.... >> | ||
| Woo tricky one in C... the prototype alone is pret.... >> | ||
| Nope, but it's still pretty cool, in a pointless s.... >> | ||
| Really, unless you need to write low-level code, o.... >> | ||
| Are you a less produ.... | >Increasingly I find the conversation of those und.... >> | |
| 30 May 2004 | Definition of a "soc.... | Well they have different implementations and quirk.... >> |
| If business is so ...... | How on earth did I manage to type 'mysql' in the m.... >> | |
| I'm in a slightly similar position. I'm actually s.... >> | ||
| 28 May 2004 | When you have to be .... | Python is nice for that sort of thing. Not real.... >> |
| UK Contractor Rates | www.jobserve.com is THE resource for UK contractin.... >> | |
| Explain why emacs is.... | I think I would love emacs if someone came up with.... >> | |
| Tips & Tricks to.... | Ah, I see. Bummer. But still, if the tank is av.... >> | |
| 27 May 2004 | Tech work a "special.... | You know what? posters to this forum are more or l.... >> |
| Tips & Tricks to.... | Pardon me if this is obvious, but why do you need .... >> | |
| Screw math... | Oh yeah probability and combinatorics like that is.... >> | |
| 26 May 2004 | Hmm... good point CH is less contrived than the us.... >> | |
| And, no I wouldn't really consider Newton or Leibn.... >> | ||
| Simon: I see where youre coming from now and I th.... >> | ||
| Simon: Well yes there are definitely a lot of i.... >> | ||
| Well, he showed that there are statements that are.... >> | ||
| 25 May 2004 | When you say 'I'd be interested in seeing a descri.... >> | |
| Aha! yep I'm should have thought of all that time .... >> | ||
| Phase angles in degrees? I cringe at the thought o.... >> | ||
| Well yeah, I know they're used all over the place .... >> | ||
| Haha. I'll bite on the troll bait. Yes square r.... >> | ||
| Best Feature of OO | Yep, good way of putting it. People try to impleme.... >> | |
| 24 May 2004 | Yes I know these things can be done well, in which.... >> | |
| Haha this is turning more into 'what sucks the mos.... >> | ||
| teach Procedural or .... | I'd second Python as a good choice. Python is a.... >> | |
| "The New Me" | Well yeah, using POST is all very well for forms, .... >> | |
| Because it working by default would be undesirable.... >> | ||
| Not sure if having that as a simple check-box opti.... >> | ||
| Math library questio.... | Interesting points... but radians needn't have any.... >> | |
| Might also help to note that e, pi, and the sin an.... >> | ||
| Yes, any FPU hardware will take radians. But this .... >> | ||
| Yep, as pointed out above, any radian/degree conve.... >> | ||
| 23 May 2004 | Sigh. Having (almost) got a maths degree I thin.... >> | |
| Why Google will not .... | Hmm. Not sure if I buy that. Just because the majo.... >> | |
| 20 May 2004 | Bored and want to pr.... | http://ipsc.ksp.sk/ >> |
| 19 May 2004 | What examples to tea.... | Oh yes, and fractals! good point. Have them plo.... >> |
| If they've done any mathematics, try drawing an an.... >> | ||
| 18 May 2004 | what you don't know | Sounds like you work with a bunch of jerks... I'd .... >> |
| Ternary Operators an.... | Yep, as that points out, a very common and useful .... >> | |
| Brad, good point, bad example on my part. :) >> | ||
| I think whether a programmer uses the ternary oper.... >> | ||
| I use 'em all the time. Save a lot of space and ar.... >> | ||
| Leaked personal data.... | >> I just think it's pretty interesting that the o.... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | Any suggestions for .... | >> When I offer to brainstorm on the phone (she li.... >> |
| "Inductive" User Int.... | I found the contrived 'Properties' dialog box very.... >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Design Skills are Wo.... | If this guy is as bad as you claim, how come you c.... >> |
| Extensible Programmi.... | Seems to be suggesting storing programs as a sort .... >> | |
| >> If you're going to suggest, and implement, a ne.... >> | ||
| 11 May 2004 | Dig thy own grave, d.... | Yada yada, programmers made redundant by software .... >> |
| The simplest way to .... | If you really need it to run lightening-fast, you .... >> | |
| 10 May 2004 | Learning RDF | Be careful - RDF and XML have little to do with on.... >> |
| 09 May 2004 | Coding is Math? | I'd say if you /understand/ the mathematical conce.... >> |
| Explain this to me...... | Oh ok. Well yeah I tend to feel like that sometim.... >> | |
| Ehm... perhaps this is obvious to some but what is.... >> | ||
| A few random ideas | OK, sorry i thought you were puzzled about the act.... >> | |
| Speed and accereleration won't really make full pr.... >> | ||
| irreversible | and I mean domain, not range. doh. >> | |
| Ehm... XOR is reversible! since: (a XOR b) XOR .... >> | ||
| 01 May 2004 | Microsoft says 8 mil.... | Who is 8 million a surprising number to? I'm surpr.... >> |
| The Office - season .... | 'My favorite quote from the Training episode: 'I t.... >> | |
| 'Still didn't tell what was so great about it.' .... >> | ||
| 30 Apr 2004 | Who has been keeping.... | >> I am astounded that people are complaining abou.... >> |
| When STL is considered, C++ has a large number of .... >> | ||
| 29 Apr 2004 | Keith Ray's opinion .... | I think anyone who expects to be able to test GUIs.... >> |
| 28 Apr 2004 | teaching programming.... | Many universities are attempting to address the is.... >> |
| By the time I finished my BS in CS I had been expo.... >> | ||
| There are post secondary institutions that teach t.... >> | ||
| "attribute" driven c.... | >>Employee.TendedTransactions.Add(transaction); >.... >> | |
| 24 Apr 2004 | Computer/AI Hybrids | Good points, but I think you put too much weight o.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Error handling - why.... | 'I mean I knew it existed but always thought it wa.... >> |
| If not, why not ? | - Lack of libraries - Fragmented community -.... >> | |
| I wrote a small amount of LISP in college. I don'.... >> | ||
| 22 Apr 2004 | Application developm.... | Everyone here seems very dismissive, but if what y.... >> |
| Computed Columns in .... | Normalise your database structure and everything w.... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | What an awesome day..... | Dude - if you don't want to read what Philo has to.... >> |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Why I hate Swing | The UI locks up because the developers didn't use .... >> |
| 15 Apr 2004 | Apache Maven | Wait, is 'Apache Maven' a thing, or are you lookin.... >> |
| What an interesting question! There are probably .... >> | ||
| 13 Apr 2004 | Attn. J2EE Gurus - J.... | If you're having trouble referencing files (it sho.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Should I do it? | University is the last time in your life when it d.... >> |
| 28 Mar 2004 | No, don't do it. You're 17 years old and about to .... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Is grokking pointers.... | I personally found pointers quite easy to learn wh.... >> |
| Local Candidates Onl.... | Perhaps they simply want to be able to easily meet.... >> | |
| 19 Mar 2004 | Best freeware projec.... | XPlanner, if you're interested in taking on a bit .... >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Functional Requireme.... | Anonymous, it sounds like the product is already c.... >> |
| 17 Mar 2004 | Bad Programming Team.... | Let's drop the term 'alpha male'. What we have he.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | MS Word/Excel propen.... | Even on a smaller scale, MS programs exhibit this .... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Report development | > Are you seriously telling us that it's faster fo.... >> |
| Object-oriented data.... | PostgreSQL supports table inheritance, which makes.... >> | |
| 27 Feb 2004 | How do you manage so.... | This isn't an OO vs. procedural vs. functional iss.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | If it's possible, keep your variations in terms of.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Now it's for real: h.... | London (or the City, which is a lot of the tech ma.... >> |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Question for Florida.... | Yes, I love in Florida - yes, you should wear a su.... >> |
| 12 Feb 2004 | You and your classma.... | The people I always thought of as dumbasses turned.... >> |
| What's Your Greatest.... | Let me translate that question into English for y'.... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | More experience? | We should probably replace the word 'ability' with.... >> |
| Documenting an appli.... | How about a wiki? Simple to create. Simple to ed.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | It's NEVER legitimat.... | > I know this was said in humour, and I know I usu.... >> |
| O.K. What's so bad a.... | Yeah, I really enjoyed Troll77's comment, too ... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2004 | What is Hacking the .... | 'It doesn't matter how you name your variables (mo.... >> |
| 3D CAD development,n.... | In addition to the industries Tim mentioned, there.... >> | |
| Mathematical symbols.... | 'Word comes with an equation editor' Unfortunat.... >> | |
| Brilliant IDEs - VS .... | In general I agree with you about foldup sections..... >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | definition of "Kille.... | The definition I'm familiar with is the same as Jo.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2004 | I'm a programmer and.... | I don't understand why users not having the runtim.... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Is Eiffel a contende.... | > Does anybody have any idea why Eiffel isn't more.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Windows XP command l.... | Here are some of my favorites: runas - This all.... >> |
| Quick hits on Joel's.... | 'It doesn't matter if you're the misbegotten love .... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | In Defense of Joel's.... | Personally, I don't see anything to get upset abou.... >> |
| Resume Post | I noticed Joel is a big fan of commas in this arti.... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | displaying distance .... | 'I'm building a (inhouse) web-based database app t.... >> |
| Extreme Programming .... | >> I've just noticed whenever somebody says they t.... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2004 | what's your choice o.... | Embarcadero DBArtisan >> |
| Files in the DB | I haven't used MySQL for this, but I've used other.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Why 'win'word and no.... | At least Microsoft has the sense to keep the execu.... >> |
| 20 Jan 2004 | A Random Walk Down W.... | Brownian motion and finance? Hmmm... sounds .... >> |
| Backups comment/ques.... | 'How do they control the rate of cooling when it's.... >> | |
| 'So Matt, just to clarify, CD-RWs are MODs because.... >> | ||
| Laser Printer Proble.... | 'every page that prints out is completely blackene.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | The computer delusio.... | 'The fellow who wrote THE COOKCOO's EGG wrote a bo.... >> |
| Home electronics ran.... | 'In order to get a DVD technology license, players.... >> | |
| The cabling issue doesn't really matter to me sinc.... >> | ||
| Backups comment/ques.... | 'How many years ago were MOD invented?' Accordi.... >> | |
| 'Ultimately a harddrive is your best bet. Joel's 1.... >> | ||
| 15 Jan 2004 | Startup Versus Big C.... | Big company stability if for people with kids and .... >> |
| Private offices: fai.... | Just bubbling. Do all the deveopers want an offic.... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Game development for.... | >You didn't say if he's programmed before, so I'll.... >> |
| Creating a mod is a good suggestion. For getting .... >> | ||
| Learning Multiple La.... | yes, it's possible by virtue of the fact that most.... >> | |
| Internet Tax is here | 'Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, w.... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | rule of engagement, .... | Well, my experience with non-technical users/clien.... >> |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Let's talk about key.... | I'm the owner of a Kinesis and I have mixed feelin.... >> |
| 06 Jan 2004 | To Struts or not? | >Complaining about the TLDs seems silly - you don'.... >> |
| NathanJ, did you forget tiles-defs.xml? validator.... >> | ||
| 05 Jan 2004 | Struts is total overkill. Just step back and thin.... >> | |
| 02 Jan 2004 | Cross Platform GUI R.... | The downtown office needs to provide more details .... >> |
| 22 Dec 2003 | Master Pages in .NET.... | It's hilarious that this is even a feature with a .... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | IT at School | In my CS courses my instructors were very knowledg.... >> |
| 03 Dec 2003 | Advice For Somebody .... | Im also dreaming of a move to NYC and have done so.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | working for core vs .... | CFO told me just a couple weeks ago: ' 2 things.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | How did Amazon becom.... | Personally, I hate all the new links and crap they.... >> |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Does Programming mak.... | name not available, I share in your sickness. D.... >> |
| 22 Nov 2003 | The Lifestyle | San Diego Freeways. It's a Northbound vs. Southbo.... >> |
| Wake up 7 AM. Shower, Shit, Shave Coffee Breakf.... >> | ||
| 21 Nov 2003 | IT is being moved to the 5th Floor >> | |
| 21 Nov 2003 | web development rate.... | You can quote an hourly rate or a per-job rate.&nb.... >> |
| IT is being moved to.... | Forgive me. Whining was not my intention, ra.... >> | |
| An end to blog spam | 1. No one will use it, because 2. No one cares. >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Silly Question: How .... | People always say 'figure out what you enjoy doing.... >> |
| Career Change Adivce.... | Meh ... I've looked into it. It looked like a lot.... >> | |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Java Collection (or .... | I second the javax.swing.tree.TreeNode interface a.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2003 | Unix File Encoding | Thanks Tim! What you have said has cleared up m.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | God in the firmware | For a more complete and balanced view of the above.... >> |
| Unix File Encoding | Hello! Thank you all for your comments, I am ve.... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | Where Did You Go To .... | University of Florida B.S., Software Engineering >> |
| 03 Nov 2003 | Unix File Encoding >> | |
| 20 Oct 2003 | Simulting Reduced Network Bandwidth >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | AI | Real PC wrote: However intelligence is not someth.... >> |
| 08 Oct 2003 | Thomas Stanley - The.... | Retire with money- good. Retire young with mon.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2003 | XML Formatted Resume.... | Philo, Yes, I'm inclined to agree. HR XML may eve.... >> |
| Hmm. I can't make the link to my site work when I .... >> | ||
| Ramarao Kanneganti wrote: Take a look at http://.... >> | ||
| how to start own com.... | I think maybe I got a spurious character in the li.... >> | |
| 02 Oct 2003 | If you are interested in doing tech support (ie as.... >> | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | Software Ill never w.... | Is this anything like how you imagined the meta br.... >> |
| 27 Sep 2003 | Spam killer for pers.... | +1 vote for Cloudmark Spamnet. It's very easy to i.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2003 | Username field lengt.... | Why would you (the programmer) set a short limit a.... >> |
| 08 Sep 2003 | Build scripts: expli.... | I would also vote for the consensus of all - excep.... >> |
| 31 Aug 2003 | Sympathy for teekid? | I don't understand-- is writing a virus or worm no.... >> |
| Check this out... | Haven't you seen the kids in the hall? 'Never p.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2003 | Safety in India | There are many places in the world that aren't par.... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | Any net admins? or I.... | You can get close by configuring the switch to fil.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Carpal Tunnel | Gimp, I've had some mild problems which were fixe.... >> |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Equity distribution .... | This is what a real entrepreneur would do- go and .... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | What should the mini.... | Price is directly related to the value of the prob.... >> |
| 29 Jul 2003 | Sessionbased logins,.... | A setup as you have described is extremely vulnera.... >> |
| 1000$ a month in San.... | I'll second the notion that you can't live in San .... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2003 | Maintaining Exported.... | For verifying Java APIs, you can't be Artima Suite.... >> |
| Time to pakc your ba.... | Quick question- have any of you who say 'we can mo.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2003 | Is this salary decen.... | 70k is plenty. It's completely normal in LA to dum.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Linux in Munich... D.... | Ther deal is for desktops, services and support ov.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2003 | Protecting IP when p.... | I have worked in VC and with entrepreneurs for a l.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2003 | game programmers | I moved to game programming from business software.... >> |
| 07 Jul 2003 | damn crackers :-( | Now that is *very* clever. Don't try to defeat th.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Dual monitors for de.... | Double twenty one inchers, baby. I love it and .... >> |
| 25 Jun 2003 | Ideal nummber of pag.... | I don't know guys, most multi-page resume's I've s.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2003 | Excellent grades | I disagree. Software is a team effort. Social skil.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | Survey:: Personality.... | I/ENTJ - developer / tech lead >> |
| 11 Jun 2003 | This categorization system has a very Ameri-Britis.... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2003 | Missing C++ feature? | See? Vtable shmee table. It's not in C++ because o.... >> |
| I believe there is an Official Reason For It. T.... >> | ||
| 02 Jun 2003 | "Entertaining" compu.... | Hofstadter's other books are worth reading too - M.... >> |
| 22 May 2003 | Favorite Quote | I've always liked, 'woo the muse of the odd' - don.... >> |
| Movies and the Mind .... | Haven't posted here much before, but it's a good l.... >> | |
| 20 May 2003 | Self modifying code | I used to play a lot with self modifying code in x.... >> |
| POLL : How Many Of Y.... | 1. No, except to test the ones I work on. 2. Ye.... >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | Hack Hack Hack | Guilty. I have several well commented 'This is.... >> |
| 12 May 2003 | How do I sell an app.... | Just a general comment here, but there is a lot to.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | The excellent times .... | People always want to talk about the good old days.... >> |
| 28 Apr 2003 | Software Startup Boo.... | I agree cold calling is not a good way to sell mos.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2003 | Is Registering a Dom.... | I believe it is less about sullying someone's name.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2003 | how to sell a web ap.... | The best way to sell it, in my opinion, as someone.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Higher-end headphone.... | Yeah, I've used a pair of Grado SR60s for a few ye.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2003 | Meta Build Tools | I have a separate Ant script that does the build n.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | This is SPAM. | I used to use the yahoo 'this is spam' button to t.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Compromise | I can completely sympathize- in my previous life (.... >> |
| Joel and reading | Ritalin helps immeasurably. >> | |
| 24 Mar 2003 | Lunch At Cubile or A.... | If at lunch time I couldn't get up, grab my MP3 pl.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2003 | what comes first, pr.... | Having worked with 100s of entrepreneurs, I can st.... >> |
| 14 Mar 2003 | Design and implement.... | Often, designers will create a reference implement.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2003 | VB or VC++ | 'VB is dead, forget it. Your choice is .net or C++.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | Joel's XUL fears cor.... | 'the behavior of an XUL application is mixed with .... >> |
| 04 Dec 2002 | Doesn't anyone make .... | It's simple, virtually all the 1400x1050 panels in.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2002 | Windows C++ Development >> | |
| 15 Nov 2002 | Mathematics Software and Hardware >> | |
| 30 Oct 2002 | Making life make sen.... | Nobody ever said Elves are good. Elves are bad. .... >> |
| 23 Sep 2002 | Calculation of Resul.... | It may sound like an obvious simplification, but g.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2002 | What would you? | It's got to be sailing, out of sight of land. No d.... >> |
| 31 Jul 2002 | what do you guys dev.... | I'm with skautsch - Large logistics systems for mo.... >> |
| 05 Jul 2002 | Am I supposed to wor.... | My thoughts on this are fairly simple... They pay .... >> |
| 12 Apr 2002 | Migrating to .NET | Some real-world advice: despite what Mike says abo.... >> |
| 14 Mar 2002 | .NET, Visual Studio.NET, VB.NET, C# >> | |
| 29 Jan 2002 | MCSD Value? >> | |
| 08 Jan 2002 | Payflow Link exploit | Unfortunately, many e-commerce gateways have flaws.... >> |
| 31 Dec 2001 | OOP Question >> | |
| 31 Dec 2001 | OOP Question | Thanks for the input. I was thinking it was rather.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2001 | Ecommerce | I work for a credit card processor and Yahoo Store.... >> |
| 27 Oct 2001 | Discussion Board Imp.... | One problem i've noticed with this approach though.... >> |
| 20 Oct 2001 | Smarter Tracking in .... | a: it doesn't require a double time-stamp! I don't.... >> |
| 18 Oct 2001 | New Discussion Featu.... | Let's not forget: A lot of people HATE threading. .... >> |
| Why the name CityDes.... | I think the point is that you make the templates y.... >> | |
| 17 Oct 2001 | Similar to Userland? | While it's true that we can't be sure, there are a.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2001 | Cute :) but what for.... | I should be clear: What I'm proposing is a quick a.... >> |
| Hmm, no, I mean: you set the cookie when you read .... >> | ||
| 14 Oct 2001 | Underline Edit Boxes.... | I love it, I think it looks great. I've seen a lot.... >> |
| Cute :) but what for.... | Why not just pass a cookie to the user that lists .... >> | |