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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Mike Swieton' | ||
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Number of Comments: 435 |
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| Number of Words: 44,426 | ||
| First Comment: 29 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 25 |
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| First Topic: 28 Oct 2001 | ||
| Latest Topic: 02 Feb 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 02 Sep 2004 | Caching Theory | Measure your bottlenecks first, of course. Chances.... >> |
| 31 Aug 2004 | Version Control : Op.... | The problem with putting those types of files in v.... >> |
| Database access in W.... | If there's not a lot of domain logic, there's noth.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2004 | Relational databases.... | 'relational' is the key feature of relational data.... >> |
| Cross Platform devel.... | Some Random Guy: I have a bit of porting experi.... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2004 | To the OP: It's a little unclear what your look.... >> | |
| mutliple access to s.... | A good start may be to read the Concurrency chapte.... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2004 | OT - Anyone jog with.... | Aussie Chick: What's wrong with the radio is no.... >> |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Diff program | Vim actually has a 'diff' mode, and a windows port.... >> |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Paying a Sales Guy | Mr. Analogy: You seem to imply that if the sale.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Unix neophyte seeks .... | The wxWindows toolkit is indeed quite crossplatfor.... >> |
| 20 Jun 2004 | So let me get this s.... | I don't really think Joel messed up with the 'put .... >> |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Need a free mp3->.... | I'm sure WinAmp can do it through an output plugin.... >> |
| Killer App(s) for De.... | If the concept for the next killer app was that ob.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2004 | POLL : Do you enjoy .... | Yes, but much much more so when I'm doing somethin.... >> |
| 02 Jun 2004 | Simple task but on a.... | 10 mil isn't large scale ;) At least, not on today.... >> |
| 31 May 2004 | Good email services | When did POP3 become rare? I've never used anythin.... >> |
| 20 May 2004 | Tom Friedman: Global.... | The problem with doing that in America is that the.... >> |
| 12 May 2004 | Automated testing of.... | If you're in java, we've written a small handy fra.... >> |
| 03 May 2004 | U.S. Is Losing Its D.... | For an on-topic opinion: I think we'll see this tr.... >> |
| 01 May 2004 | Interesting Old Book.... | I still love my copy of Knuth's Art of Computer pr.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2004 | Bank Identification .... | It's for your business; why not subscribe to that .... >> |
| Apache Maven | Hmm, methinks I pissed someone off... Never use.... >> | |
| It sucks! >> | ||
| 13 Apr 2004 | securing docs & .... | I am a flaming douchebag. >> |
| Quick answer: check out gnu privacy guard: http://.... >> | ||
| 12 Apr 2004 | Outlook question | I don't know much about outlook, and this would de.... >> |
| Does the ShareWare m.... | Some of the Chicago suburbs are like that. I know .... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Spelling and Coding | Mistakes are annoying in comments and such. Mistak.... >> |
| 03 Apr 2004 | Who else is digging .... | I hate to be the voice of pessimism, but I'm not s.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | keeping the toothpas.... | Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If y.... >> |
| Kinesis Contoured ke.... | I have a basic kinesis and I'll second that recome.... >> | |
| 31 Mar 2004 | Personal computer se.... | My Cousin: I bet it's a question of the network.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | A sysadmin must know.... | sindarin? >> |
| 20 Mar 2004 | /onSoftware & Jo.... | Philo: This is why things compete, from my pers.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Tricky character cou.... | Cheap solution: make the field 50x4. Put a note ne.... >> |
| Has anyone used SQLi.... | Gunga: So in 2 years experience *using* PHP and My.... >> | |
| FullName: You can't quite give it any arbitrary.... >> | ||
| 17 Mar 2004 | Very good experiences with it. The author is extre.... >> | |
| What is a lot of res.... | I don't think you can tell much from that, really..... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Collaboration Softwa.... | Have you considered just using a version of VNC? >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Building Text Parser.... | If you are actually interested in writing a parser.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | Good command-line sh.... | At work a buddy uses cygwin without X, and uses th.... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | Nextel direct connec.... | I thought that they provided free walkie-talkie se.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Tom Peters: Sixteen .... | What an asshole. He has the nerve to say that broa.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Blue background + An.... | ack the memory leak! *whimper* >> |
| How many people have.... | 'most people in the us' is not a barometer for any.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | Naming conventions f.... | Inheritance means IS-A, so often, but not always, .... >> |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Stupid XCode questio.... | This may not be helpful, but if you are familiar w.... >> |
| Basic C API Design Q.... | To me, I think generic pointers (void*) indicate e.... >> | |
| This reply isn't meant to be offensive, so please .... >> | ||
| 16 Feb 2004 | Placing Password and.... | It seems to be common practice to do this with web.... >> |
| 15 Feb 2004 | Down with WYSIWYG? | I'd have to agree TeX and friends seem extremely p.... >> |
| 14 Feb 2004 | Sincere question abo.... | The policy, as far as I've observed is this: Th.... >> |
| All you single guys | Hey, that just means it's easier for the rest of u.... >> | |
| I dunno, I think the anime costumes are a bit more.... >> | ||
| 09 Feb 2004 | Join the development.... | As far as getting involved in open source software.... >> |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Trusting Book Review.... | I usually just restrict myself to recomendations f.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2004 | Media players | It's missing a bit on the UI end of things, but th.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Books on platform di.... | This was VC6. I don't know why our windows build w.... >> |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Books on platform differences? >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Google groups is useless: by the time I've run int.... >> | |
| Database issues | A one time check at program launch shouldn't hurt .... >> | |
| 01 Feb 2004 | How common are sniff.... | A server at the same colo facility as my company's.... >> |
| Amazingly stupid, si.... | Sorry guys, I still say you should code defensivel.... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2004 | Caliban: You only *might* get an access violati.... >> | |
| A few things: Don't use sprintf. Ever. Under an.... >> | ||
| Why not use a string class, such as the C++ standa.... >> | ||
| 30 Jan 2004 | Seven out of Twenty | succeeding from the union? ;) eh? >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | How do PIM's handle .... | Define efficient :) The quick little note app I ju.... >> |
| 26 Jan 2004 | How many resumes do you get Joel? >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | How many resumes do .... | Yeah, at 30 resumes a day it is completely reasona.... >> |
| Now I had it with Jo.... | I'm going to defend Joel here for a minute. Fir.... >> | |
| Resume Post | > As a college graduate I resent the obvious impl.... >> | |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Searching web pages .... | Hmm... it should be pretty easy to write a proxy t.... >> |
| Anyone tried/used ZO.... | Btw,: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftwar.... >> | |
| On a similar note, does anyone know of a Unix-frie.... >> | ||
| Technical Ladder -- .... | Anon, I believe my current employer definately is .... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | convert an integer t.... | The Integer class can do it. >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | SOFTWARE CANNOT BE G.... | Tell me why, again, that I cannot volunteer more o.... >> |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Linux as a Disruptiv.... | The more interesting point, I think, is that softw.... >> |
| Microsoft SFU & .... | I've not touched SFU, but my thoughts are this: yo.... >> | |
| How Does GPL Work wi.... | The thing is that the GPL is per-product. So SuSE,.... >> | |
| Database Analysis To.... | Well, I don't know anything about a specific tool .... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | The computer delusio.... | It's merely symptomatic off all of the problems wi.... >> |
| 18 Jan 2004 | Power brick rant | My cheapo viewsonic has a brick, but it's one of t.... >> |
| When to use 'const' .... | I was under the impression that const at the end i.... >> | |
| 17 Jan 2004 | Internet Explorer: B.... | Wayne: you can re-use technology without using ext.... >> |
| 14 Jan 2004 | What next after Kern.... | Wow, look at that enthusiasm :) The suicidal ur.... >> |
| Why Struct in the st.... | In all languages I am familiar with, the use of ne.... >> | |
| 20-minute skill sess.... | Some basic virus/adware avoidance skills might be .... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Bitwise vs Booleans .... | By the way, what language are you using? Is that V.... >> |
| I generally don't use a bitfield for a simple set .... >> | ||
| 11 Jan 2004 | Advice Wanted | I have no managerial experience, so no advice I ca.... >> |
| 10 Jan 2004 | How to Copy Files fr.... | You have inserted a disk, right? 8-} On a more .... >> |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Let's talk about key.... | I really like my model M. Great feel. Recently .... >> |
| Which of these CS Co.... | My college experience is that most courses seem to.... >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Knowledge management.... | We have had great success with a wiki. Of course, .... >> |
| Keeping synchronised.... | I've setup backups for people using rsync. I don't.... >> | |
| 05 Jan 2004 | Ideas are cheap | 'Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it'.... >> |
| Managing holiday dat.... | Don't make things more complex than necessary. If .... >> | |
| 04 Jan 2004 | Database versus flat.... | Standardization? XML is XML. On the other hand, I'.... >> |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Question about ink c.... | Doesn't it usually cover the electrical contacts? .... >> |
| Defining moment in c.... | World War II. Alan Turing and friends in Bletch.... >> | |
| 16 Dec 2003 | Embedded Databases (.... | SQLite is extremely good. It won't allow you to ha.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2003 | Help, my HTML Always.... | HTML is just bad :) I've found it hard to get thin.... >> |
| Dual monitors ... at.... | Prakash: 'Which monitors do you use?' Well, .... >> | |
| 13 Dec 2003 | I have three screens in front of me right now. It .... >> | |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Secure file transfer.... | I believe that the cygwin distribution of linux to.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2003 | Odd situation | If they can't pay you, their own employees, what m.... >> |
| 09 Dec 2003 | Some logic puzzles | Stephen - Sheer genius! >> |
| Eric Raymond and Ric.... | I never claimed that changing the C code to a prod.... >> | |
| 08 Dec 2003 | Chest Pain ... Am I .... | Change the diet. I don't know what your symptoms i.... >> |
| Eric Raymond and Ric.... | Dennis - you hit the nail on the head on that one..... >> | |
| I'd like to add that just because you don't WANT t.... >> | ||
| Tony - 'which are far more powerful and easy to us.... >> | ||
| 07 Dec 2003 | New Career? | I don't get that guy. What happened that has a man.... >> |
| "Low Skill" Rhetoric | I think you make a dangerous statement when you sa.... >> | |
| 05 Dec 2003 | The knife and the ax.... | Of course, Mark, your wife can do a search on your.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Requiring pre-interv.... | Jeff - Interesting code bit. A bit inefficient,.... >> |
| Jeff - I am curious how you accomplish #5. Plea.... >> | ||
| 29 Nov 2003 | Book recommendation .... | There's always the great Hithchiker's Guide books,.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | The relentless march.... | Linux has a long way to go before it gets anywhere.... >> |
| The bookshelf | For information on analysis of algorithms, read Kn.... >> | |
| Does Programming mak.... | I often notice things that I do differently, thoug.... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Useability:: Backwar.... | I do believe that you've discovered the fundamenta.... >> |
| 23 Nov 2003 | Stupid Users | It's not irrelevant whether the users are stupid o.... >> |
| When someone asks me how I would design an OS, I d.... >> | ||
| Linux Refactoring | I question whether or not the kernel needs rewriti.... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2003 | Application Architec.... | Repeat after me: 'No silver bullet!' Now say it.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2003 | World Class Programm.... | I think it's more interesting to look at time than.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Order of things (aka.... | I'm not a great designer myself, so I'll leave tha.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | CVS Query | My serious advice is to download a front-end like .... >> |
| Aeron Chairs | There's a handful of them at work for me. They are.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Will technology impr.... | Screw the machines. If the people are offensive, t.... >> |
| The Meijer's around here has those automated check.... >> | ||
| How do I develop a p.... | Does windows have an equivalent to the linux iptab.... >> | |
| A good C++ editor fo.... | second the vim recomendation. If you can get over .... >> | |
| 16 Nov 2003 | Creating Secure Appl.... | I don't know what the industry standards are, but .... >> |
| Software Licensing | Sounds like you and your friend need to sign a con.... >> | |
| 15 Nov 2003 | Need a reasonable da.... | I'll third the SQLite recomendation. It is indeed .... >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Airport Security - a.... | Dennis, If everyone is armed with steak knives,.... >> |
| Making really Zero-D.... | n/a: Nasa's software is rock-solid. Challenger'.... >> | |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Software Factory Pac.... | Hold a second, Philo. Just because no one *has* do.... >> |
| 09 Nov 2003 | Developing a Replace.... | I disagree with many of your points, but nothing o.... >> |
| Running multiple OS .... | As I recall, VMWare lets you do a lot of magic wit.... >> | |
| Object Oriented VS S.... | My bad, I just read that first article ;) Given.... >> | |
| X. J.: Your position on C++ doesn't look too st.... >> | ||
| 08 Nov 2003 | Downloading Linux | I believe debian has an irc channel on openproject.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2003 | Suggestions for buyi.... | This information is a bit out of date, but as of a.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | CDC computer virus | What antivirus software are you using? If it's not.... >> |
| Recommend an ergonom.... | For those fans of the model m, the place currently.... >> | |
| An additional question: A keyboard with a closer e.... >> | ||
| 29 Oct 2003 | Computer aided patte.... | I'll bet this isn't very helpful, but I recall a f.... >> |
| 23 Oct 2003 | More on internationa.... | Aussie Chick: That may work on the internet (wh.... >> |
| 22 Oct 2003 | More on internationalization >> | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | The "zip code" is no.... | Anyone know of a place where I can get information.... >> |
| 18 Oct 2003 | What coders can lear.... | There is a very real difference between plumbing o.... >> |
| 16 Oct 2003 | How does one program w/o exceptions in C++/Java? >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | An alternative to exceptions and error codes? >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | An alternative to ex.... | Flamebait: I don't understand how the command p.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | What should programm.... | Note: any language that doesn't make pass by refer.... >> |
| I don't know what the programmer should learn firs.... >> | ||
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Anu: Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under .... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | I accept your arguments that having multiple threa.... >> | |
| 13 Oct 2003 | skills do you want t.... | Self-discipline ;) The ability to make myself .... >> |
| Funny thing about GO.... | I think people like to declare things as extremes..... >> | |
| JUnit and packages | We have a parellel tree (src and test), and place .... >> | |
| Larry Wall half-wron.... | Anything to extremes is bad. If browsers give too .... >> | |
| Cast Iron | By the way, cast iron may be bad for gardening too.... >> | |
| It's hard to write robust software in any language.... >> | ||
| 08 Oct 2003 | Legal Question | Not a lawyer, etc. BUt anyway, I doubt that you.... >> |
| Are we all crappy co.... | Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. .... >> | |
| When does cool becom.... | uh... WHen it's useful? Why are the two exclusi.... >> | |
| More on the Half Lif.... | I'm not certain there's likely to be a point to st.... >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | Thomas Stanley - The.... | Sausage: If those are not good investments, wha.... >> |
| Books on GUI app arc.... | Thanks for your responses, everyone. I'll check it.... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Counterculture junki.... | THat's always the case, though. Have you looked at.... >> |
| Examples of well-wri.... | On Qt: it demonstrates a lot of good design, but I.... >> | |
| What kind of library? If it's a widget set, GTK ma.... >> | ||
| 04 Oct 2003 | Books on GUI app architecture? >> | |
| 04 Oct 2003 | is this industry int.... | I think it's just that the easy problems are solve.... >> |
| 28 Sep 2003 | Joel, how do you com.... | Actually, I am thinking back to the article, thoug.... >> |
| A point: in a software company, the developer is p.... >> | ||
| 27 Sep 2003 | Do you Google just a.... | Take any information with a grain of salt, but it .... >> |
| 25 Sep 2003 | Very long term stora.... | Nick: 200 years? If you have data from an apple fr.... >> |
| 22 Sep 2003 | Unit testing a datab.... | I believe the general practice is to rebuild the e.... >> |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Unit Testing the Des.... | Prototype it. Maybe you can't do it well, but you .... >> |
| 16 Sep 2003 | Database Search | How much are you actually planning on updating it?.... >> |
| 11 Sep 2003 | Trying to be C++ con.... | Const rules as I recall: const return-type func.... >> |
| Text based browser??.... | I'll second the nomination for links, which I use .... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | VSS and CVS interact.... | Thanks for the input mb - I realize that tying .... >> |
| 18 Aug 2003 | VSS and CVS interaction? >> | |
| 16 Aug 2003 | Don't throw rocks... | 'Don't ask us to keep quiet'? No one did 8-} I .... >> |
| 15 Aug 2003 | I guess Fog Creek's .... | Natural gas generators are available now; Peer 1 c.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2003 | Job Titles | my work, your titles are (in ascending order): .... >> |
| C++ IDE as Cool as I.... | insert mandatory vim plug ;) Does anyone know h.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | High hourly rate guy.... | I am also curious about this. What work are you.... >> |
| what does it take fo.... | Beat MS in what field? I already prefer develop.... >> | |
| OpenGL or DirectX? | What's your market want? I'd like to be able to ad.... >> | |
| Joel Test Number Eig.... | I work in a very open environment. No office, 6-8 .... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Software condoms? | 'If the GPL is ruled illegal'? I've not looked .... >> |
| Why not ask the free software foundation to clarif.... >> | ||
| Messageboxes are evi.... | Tim, Wise thought: that would make the message'.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2003 | What would be better than messageboxes? People's r.... >> | |
| I think that stems from this observation of mine: .... >> | ||
| 29 Jul 2003 | Are these reasonable.... | Danil: What kind of answers would you expect? I.... >> |
| Easy for anyone with five or more *years* of exper.... >> | ||
| 28 Jul 2003 | What do you do once .... | 'Every program attempts to expand until it can rea.... >> |
| Interning | I am of the opinion that your school ought to requ.... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2003 | how relevant is opti.... | Don't worry about keeping code 'fast' or even pick.... >> |
| great UI design is d.... | Hmm... should have looked at that name a bit close.... >> | |
| I'm reminded of a similar phrase: 'Perfection i.... >> | ||
| 24 Jul 2003 | freshgrad: good comp.... | Any companies suggested here are likely to be big .... >> |
| About To Begin A Job.... | On displaying non-commercial experience: These are.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | Satisfactory program.... | First random Quake 1 game mod ;) first significant.... >> |
| 20 Jul 2003 | Beginning Programmer.... | The only advice I'd give to any beginning programm.... >> |
| too many files! | i back things up on CDs. *LOTS* of CDs. As for hom.... >> | |
| Can a bad speller be.... | I think it's more important to be a consistant spe.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2003 | Speaking of Religiou.... | http://pobox.com/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html .... >> |
| 15 Jul 2003 | Internet Concepts | 'The web' is not a verb. OO concepts, etc., are us.... >> |
| 13 Jul 2003 | Comprehensive online.... | Not what you are looking for, but the jargon file .... >> |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Cool Stuff | Philo: in practice, that happens a bit. The idea i.... >> |
| 07 Jul 2003 | Cloned Programs? | In many cases, I'd worry about problems. Like anot.... >> |
| Fault Injection Soft.... | What OS? For Unix, you may be able to just drop in.... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2003 | Unix signals and C++ >> | |
| 05 Jul 2003 | project complexity n.... | A few complexity measures listed in the pragmatic .... >> |
| 03 Jul 2003 | Teaching good coding.... | I do take points off for style, but it's hard to m.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Camouflaging an OS? | Two points: Firstly, if the laptop was just a p.... >> |
| I love tabs/UI peeve.... | This really is just a rant. Why not write Apple.... >> | |
| Dual monitors for de.... | To the poster that was wondering about arrangement.... >> | |
| One caveat that slipped my mind earlier: fonts. .... >> | ||
| I have not run dual head under windows for some ti.... >> | ||
| 29 Jun 2003 | PHP 5 beta 1 | The flip side of that is this: if the open source .... >> |
| FastCGI or Apache Mo.... | I've no experience with what you're wondering abou.... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2003 | Aeron vs Mirra - Mor.... | Not to be an asshole (or more of one than usual), .... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | How do I get a job a.... | Phillip: Devil's advocate here: A lot of skille.... >> |
| Problem with colleag.... | It's interesting that a number of the suggestions .... >> | |
| Time for comic relie.... | Computer Science is the only discipline in which w.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Non OOP Java Experie.... | I think it's largely a question of the programmers.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2003 | Is "version" the cor.... | Is it the correct word? Yes. Because people .... >> |
| 18 Jun 2003 | Define "Effort" in c.... | I'm afraid I've not read that book. What contex.... >> |
| 17 Jun 2003 | Techies and Non Tech.... | People who hold stereotypes hold stereotypes. That.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2003 | Hiding my ignorance .... | Looks like a macro ;) don't know what it's defined.... >> |
| Who here works on ca.... | I'm interested in just about anything I can mess w.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | cold-calling companies in job hunt >> | |
| 11 Jun 2003 | Would you move? | Can you afford it? Personally, I don't place money.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2003 | Comprehensive survey.... | I think a more interesting and just as applicable .... >> |
| 07 Jun 2003 | OO benefits - a coun.... | Right tool for the right job. OO has plenty of dam.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2003 | C++ question | Hmm... I want my private parts. I *like* encapsula.... >> |
| ASP/Access or PHP/My.... | 200 - 300 per *DAY*? I admit I don't know ASP/A.... >> | |
| Anyone used java for.... | Jan, I stand corrected. I was under the impression.... >> | |
| The only big Java desktop package I know of (are t.... >> | ||
| 01 Jun 2003 | Memory Management Qu.... | Oren: On the note that it's hard to preallocate.... >> |
| Is it hard? No, not really: you create objects and.... >> | ||
| 22 May 2003 | finding educated wor.... | I think many here are missing the big picture. T.... >> |
| Favorite Quote | Mike Gamerland: That quote is Henry Louis Mencken,.... >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Cheap tech booxs? >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | - Every silver lining has a cloud. - U.S. schoo.... >> | |
| Movies and the Mind .... | I doubt there's much of a consensus between softwa.... >> | |
| User Database Select.... | While I'm referring primarily to open source softw.... >> | |
| Cheap tech booxs? | I'm not making millions, but I'm not complaining e.... >> | |
| On whether or not to buy tech books: I have pretty.... >> | ||
| 19 May 2003 | Build times >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | Design Question... | clarification of the above: what is the differe.... >> |
| question: what is the difference between these .... >> | ||
| The thing I see with it is that the function that .... >> | ||
| Build times | Matt: I'm over at Atomic Object, in Eastown. I nee.... >> | |
| Self modifying code | I have not. I've considered it, but the languages .... >> | |
| where did all the so.... | Marc: What questions are those that so impresse.... >> | |
| ^_^: 'A shot at the job without being judged by m.... >> | ||
| 17 May 2003 | User Selectected Int.... | I always liked customizable user interfaces, mysel.... >> |
| 16 May 2003 | Anyone use Multiple .... | IIRC, the C++ iostream libraries use multiple inhe.... >> |
| I'm an idiot | And on the rather depressing other hand, I am almo.... >> | |
| Most satisifying sof.... | The QuakeC compiler (used to generate the bytecode.... >> | |
| Poll: Most used scri.... | So much of my stuff is hacked together with many t.... >> | |
| 15 May 2003 | Better system - home.... | Home. Work has some damned good hardware, but no s.... >> |
| How To Ask Questions | I've read ESR's Questions document before. My t.... >> | |
| 14 May 2003 | UI Mockups | Andrew: I think it's similar to the case of the.... >> |
| Do You Drive? | On drivers thinking they are above average drivers.... >> | |
| 13 May 2003 | I drive. I think its affect on you is largely rela.... >> | |
| 12 May 2003 | C++ objects, optimiz.... | On the last, I have no comment. Nothing immediatel.... >> |
| BMW computer crashes.... | Here's a question: why aren't there manual locks a.... >> | |
| 06 May 2003 | OOP paradigm shift | There's a big difference between knowing it in the.... >> |
| 04 May 2003 | How would I move Mou.... | Scenario: Rich Guy Joey wants Mount Fuji, which is.... >> |
| 02 May 2003 | How should I comment.... | I think the most important thing is to document yo.... >> |
| 01 May 2003 | Job Advice | The one thing everyone is saying is: 'never be afr.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2003 | software engg. at sc.... | You learn to do by doing. Courses can give you ide.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2003 | dependancy checking .... | http://gnu.org/automake/automake http://gnu.org/s.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2003 | software dev. on Lin.... | steve: what debugger do you use? I use GDB beca.... >> |
| Nat: My take on a whole lot of things is that w.... >> | ||
| I can't testify as to the quality of the different.... >> | ||
| 17 Apr 2003 | Comparing MS SQL Ser.... | If you can get a copy of the standard unix diff ut.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2003 | What to do about sle.... | Get up. Walk around. Get a drink. Write terse sent.... >> |
| bad decisions on com.... | Things go on sale after you buy them. Stocks go up.... >> | |
| Does "Versioning" In.... | I think it's a good thing, when the differences ar.... >> | |
| Non Stop Coding - Ho.... | A couple hours. The thing is this: I've yet to run.... >> | |
| 14 Apr 2003 | Portuguese Accents | I am not at a Win box at the moment, but iirc, the.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2003 | Unemployed how long? | If you don't have the money to pay the bills, eith.... >> |
| Leaving open communi.... | It doesn't matter. Just make sure you can change i.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Microsoft Profits | Question: Profit margin is what percent of a sa.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | Pattern(s) for Calcu.... | If you're looking into parser generators like yacc.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2003 | New Office : Office .... | Look at the furniture. I'm betting that you'll be .... >> |
| 31 Mar 2003 | Sending work samples.... | Another poster suggested not sending too much with.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2003 | Sources/ Training fo.... | Read the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. It'.... >> |
| 28 Mar 2003 | Best editor: Visual .... | I have to go with vim myself here. That's mostly b.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2003 | Trivia - In a For lo.... | Eat lead: world peace? We already have world pe.... >> |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Coding: Means or End.... | The act is more important than the product to me. .... >> |
| html indentation | I have tidy do indentation, and after I muck it up.... >> | |
| Pen-and-Paper coding.... | I got pissed one day (ran out of paper and desk sp.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2003 | scroll bar | On a tangential note: Odd little things like th.... >> |
| Greed and Total Cost.... | Brent: People cannot live on minimum wage. *A P.... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2003 | Tips, Advices for wr.... | Ori: I beg to differ. id Software has written g.... >> |
| 20 Mar 2003 | The language of func.... | A counterpoint to that: while most of a spec I rec.... >> |
| 19 Mar 2003 | Commenting Code | I comment rather sparsely. If something is confusi.... >> |
| What allows GNU/Linu.... | Rob: I can't offer great insights, but I can offer.... >> | |
| Genetic Algorithm to.... | It was once thought that an infinite number of mon.... >> | |
| 18 Mar 2003 | What allows GNU/Linu.... | Sam: Unix systems have come up with some of the.... >> |
| I think it may partly be the goals. For instanc.... >> | ||
| Genetic Algorithm to.... | I don't think it would work on that low a level. A.... >> | |
| Ripped from Slashdot.... | Yes and no. XML itself is simple. DTD's are rel.... >> | |
| Do employers ever sa.... | Ian: It is my understanding that nearly all com.... >> | |
| My gut tells me (though I have little experience t.... >> | ||
| Military Systems... | Bulk email? I can see the spam now: Get your pe.... >> | |
| Pure speculation: I imagine that there is the m.... >> | ||
| 13 Mar 2003 | Joel on Writing | My suggestion, call up a publisher or two and ask..... >> |
| Social aspects of "w.... | My specific experiances answering questions people.... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | What does a 'world class' programmer know? >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | What does a 'world c.... | Specifically: does VB matter? I can understand arg.... >> |
| 11 Mar 2003 | Gadget freak or conservative? >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | Shared email archive.... | What kind of email mailboxes are you talking about.... >> |
| Reluctance to Learn | Alai: That last description of the situation ma.... >> | |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Software Development.... | Chris: Using an analogy as support for an argum.... >> |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Some of the Best Com.... | For the finding answers criterion, google wins han.... >> |
| 04 Mar 2003 | Asynchronous lazy lo.... | I'm not really that concerned about optimization. .... >> |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Asynchronous lazy load? >> | |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Brian: Well, as for the client making requests .... >> | |
| Doing it in a seperate thread is perfectly feasibl.... >> | ||
| Just as a note: the current solution i've been con.... >> | ||
| A good desk | I have to suggest you think hard before going to I.... >> | |
| 28 Feb 2003 | Utility functions? | I'm not so sure it won't scale. I think good organ.... >> |
| Porches and Schools | X.J.: I'm not so sure. I think it's largely a c.... >> | |
| I understand and agree with many of the sentiments.... >> | ||
| 27 Feb 2003 | Help with Modeling A.... | Best design tool I've ever seen is a nice big whit.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2003 | Most Admirable Perso.... | I must disagree with the Gates nomination... True,.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2003 | If we're going back that far, why not Turing/von N.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2003 | Music | Just Me: I'd tend to agree with that study. I a.... >> |
| Depends what I'm doing. When I'm working on a part.... >> | ||
| 14 Feb 2003 | Tell me again, why J.... | I have begun an independant study at my school whe.... >> |
| 08 Feb 2003 | cs masters | If you wish to go into teaching, a masters will be.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2003 | how difficult is ker.... | I've browsed the source of the Linux kernel: it's .... >> |
| CVS: Joel not taking.... | On a similar note, is there a real difference betw.... >> | |
| Is CM meaningfully c.... | Ahh, I am now understanding what you're getting at.... >> | |
| 03 Feb 2003 | I've not heard of it either; at least, not by that.... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2003 | How to promote good .... | Some of the others mentioned that a break area is .... >> |
| Healthy Computing | A note on wrist-rests (and also wrist-braces): wha.... >> | |
| 30 Jan 2003 | volunteerinng | If you want to volunteer, why not *actually* volun.... >> |
| Good developers don'.... | Note the question: 'Good developers don't *just.... >> | |
| Does usability matte.... | I think the definition of usability is important h.... >> | |
| Healthy Computing | On breaking the fast food habit: It happened to me.... >> | |
| Well, I used to lean towards my screen because eve.... >> | ||
| Pocket PC Audio | Well, the speakers on headphones are driven by the.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Best C/C++ Compiler | A thought: The best compiler is the standard one. .... >> |
| How many times do yo.... | I can certainly see the value of solving problems .... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | Nightly Builds and D.... | What format is the file in? Is it text? If it's.... >> |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Recommendations soug.... | I'm not sure if this is useful or not, but here's .... >> |
| 19 Jan 2003 | Why didn't you tell .... | This is a big issue with technology in general. It.... >> |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Pointers for dummies | I've found the reason most people I work with don'.... >> |
| 16 Jan 2003 | Just had one of thos.... | I feel like that a lot. An interesting thing that .... >> |
| 15 Jan 2003 | Perfectionist? | I am a bit of a perfectionist, but I generally don.... >> |
| 14 Jan 2003 | Perfectionism is not a problem, in my book. And I .... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2003 | C++ Exceptions >> | |
| 10 Jan 2003 | Extraction Translati.... | I know this is probably not immediately helpful bu.... >> |
| embeddable open sour.... | I'll second SQLite. Damn good library, fast as hel.... >> | |
| 06 Jan 2003 | Learning new paradigms >> | |
| 05 Jan 2003 | C++ Project Document.... | I'll second doxygen. Powerful enough to get the jo.... >> |
| 02 Jan 2003 | Open source from a d.... | I think you're picking on a specific and narrow, t.... >> |
| 01 Jan 2003 | Is Linux as really s.... | Having written the below, I realize I speak about .... >> |
| Best Java IDE? | I've done all my stuff by hand in Swing (Learning .... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2002 | Promoting software | Get it listed in the appropriate directories. If i.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2002 | Version control for .... | CVS can take binary files, but it doesn't like it..... >> |
| Did you stake your c.... | Regarding cost of entry going up... Well, I think .... >> | |
| programming games | Modding games is valuable. I got some of my first .... >> | |
| 25 Dec 2002 | Listing directory vi.... | I don't have any experiance with Win32 (Well I do,.... >> |
| Why all the flame wa.... | Erik: on the issuing firearms to zelots, check out.... >> | |
| 2 stories about impo.... | Not entirely in the same vein, but nevertheless in.... >> | |
| 24 Dec 2002 | Why all the flame wa.... | About the flames where people are seeking help, I .... >> |
| I'm not sure why, but I think there are some impor.... >> | ||
| Your opinion on the .... | I don't know anything about or anyone from that ar.... >> | |
| 22 Dec 2002 | The real benefits of.... | Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Archi.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2002 | foo.conf | The thing that I think needs to be pointed out her.... >> |
| 11 Dec 2002 | Explorer or Yahoo-is.... | On whether the web client and desktop clients shou.... >> |
| UI for Database that.... | What works well on paper doesn't necessarily work .... >> | |
| 05 Dec 2002 | Enterprise app. languages >> | |
| 05 Dec 2002 | Intelligence | Henry Ford: 'Whether you think you can or think yo.... >> |
| Enterprise app. lang.... | I should have mentioned this before, but I intend .... >> | |
| 04 Dec 2002 | Doesn't anyone make .... | Why not a CRT? I know this isn't exactly what y.... >> |
| 30 Nov 2002 | Coding vs. design | Beka: What I'm getting at is that there is no m.... >> |
| 29 Nov 2002 | running project on s.... | I'm not running on SF myself, but so far my little.... >> |
| Coding vs. design | I think many terms in tech culture are poorly defi.... >> | |
| Development Workstat.... | Dual-proc compiles: Under VC a poster above sta.... >> | |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Well, if your looking at a desktop I'd suggest a d.... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2002 | speaking of leaky.. | Here's the thing: At least on Linux, malloc() uses.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2002 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture >> | |
| 17 Nov 2002 | Expected out of college experience? >> | |
| 14 Nov 2002 | Stick-shift or Auto-.... | Depends on where you are and what you know. I g.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2002 | Best Books for Windo.... | A few years back (NT/98 era) there was a book publ.... >> |
| Learning Ways | This doesnt exactly fit your question, but I find .... >> | |
| 31 Oct 2002 | MAC Emulators for Wi.... | Apple would lose that suit. Look at the case of.... >> |
| 30 Oct 2002 | GUIs considered disa.... | An interesting comparison, but not entirely valid:.... >> |
| On the light side: s.... | I wouldn't call it `social benefits'. Here's th.... >> | |
| 24 Oct 2002 | Any Open Source code.... | I haven't done much. I use a lot of it, but haven'.... >> |
| 21 Oct 2002 | Programming & Po.... | I think the connection between coding and poetry i.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2002 | What's the best text.... | I second the vote for vim. It does plenty and runs.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2002 | "rt of Computer Prog.... | I wouldn't classify it as trivia. As stated by pre.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2002 | typedef is evil, and.... | I dislike declaring things as evil/wrong/bad/dange.... >> |
| 26 Jun 2002 | One Smoking Job | Damn thats weird. Almost reads like Kafka... Odd. .... >> |
| 24 Jun 2002 | Common UI design/met.... | Choice == good Why not give a multi-level undo .... >> |
| 18 Jun 2002 | Why Software Is So B.... | I hate this generalization: software is not good o.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2002 | Programmer psycholog.... | Tony: True. I need a wall... It's something I need.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2002 | It depends on the type of person I think. I, being.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2002 | Bug in "Back to Basi.... | I'm not sure how wise it is to try such tricky lit.... >> |
| 09 May 2002 | best looking softwar.... | "guys who can't hold down a job"? Not to start a r.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2002 | Learning to program .... | Don't learn Java first. It's not a bad language, b.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2002 | My views on .NET | I admit a lack of knowledge, but I have a question.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2002 | Simple question. | I come here because I find Joel's writing to be in.... >> |
| Open source projects | To an extent, this is true. I don't think this app.... >> | |
| 12 Apr 2002 | Easy on the eyes | Well, the only computer hardware solution I'd sugg.... >> |
| 22 Mar 2002 | Open and Closed | Actually, the terms of the GPL and LGPL do not all.... >> |
| 14yrs experience, No.... | The others here may be bored, or may not. Don't as.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2002 | anyone else find thi.... | You entirely missed the point: It isn't that he st.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2002 | specific problems wi.... | My thoughts: on a FAST system, it runs ACCEPTABLY..... >> |
| 11 Mar 2002 | What makes you a pro.... | The difference is how they respond when intimidate.... >> |
| 18 Feb 2002 | Certification/Licens.... | Well, I don't think this is possible. I agree w.... >> |
| 25 Jan 2002 | Ultimate programming keyboards? >> | |
| 15 Jan 2002 | how is CityDesk doin.... | I'd like others input on this, but this is how I'v.... >> |
| 10 Jan 2002 | Age/Years in softwar.... | 18/5 >> |
| 08 Jan 2002 | Why Game Programmer .... | I'd be inclined to doubt that the engineers of a p.... >> |
| World Class code - H.... | Just a guess here: would you not measure 'World Cl.... >> | |