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Number of Comments: 314
Number of Words: 37,494
First Comment: 19 Nov 2001
Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 6
First Topic: 27 Aug 2003
Latest Topic: 10 Aug 2004
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02 Sep 2004   Which data type woul....   'If I use mNextFriend as a MyFriend type, I solve ....   >>  
01 Sep 2004   CEOs being paid to o....   'Just goes to show you can use statistics to prove....   >>  
27 Aug 2004   Union threatens Jame....   'the fact that it is normally the small company an....   >>  
25 Aug 2004      'assuming both the same amount of information' ....   >>  
      'You got shares in James Hardie, Mr Jones?' Whi....   >>  
20 Aug 2004   Why so much negativi....   'Give me a corporation any day instead of other in....   >>  
19 Aug 2004      'I mean in general scheme of things without these ....   >>  
18 Aug 2004   dooooooom!!!   'If I were to upgrade should it be to XPpro or 200....   >>  
17 Aug 2004   Strange: Queries are....   'I spent ages going though the execution plans of ....   >>  
12 Aug 2004   benefits of daily bu....   > what are the benefits of doing a daily > build....   >>  
   Windows XP Lite   'You mean like: Here is XP lite that runs our own ....   >>  
   Opinionated people   'Now, I'm not saying there aren't idiot co-workers....   >>  
10 Aug 2004   Java, dates, and time zones   >>  
06 Aug 2004   You too can run up $....   «Actually, I'd like to see a course taught in 'Pop....   >>  
05 Aug 2004   Munich puts Linux on hold   >>  
05 Aug 2004   Munich puts Linux on....   'no offense but your views on lobbying are way too....   >>  
      'Note that this was initiated by the OSS lobby its....   >>  
03 Aug 2004   Acres Gaming Softwar....   'Is it Friday already?' Well, I wasn't expectin....   >>  
      >> I do, but I'm not talking. > You did, just the....   >>  
   lacking telecommutin....   'WEP is notoriously insecure' S....   >>  
02 Aug 2004   Do you play computer....   'Gaming coders have a kind of problem-solving skil....   >>  
      'If I start a company, I will make it a point to h....   >>  
28 Jul 2004   Why the need to stam....   'If you're feeling energetic you can engage with t....   >>  
   Work for nothing, ho....   'JFC, what planet are you people on?' I'm on a ....   >>  
      'How can I make happen a project where I'm in comp....   >>  
27 Jul 2004   Open Source = no rig....   The most ironic is that OS's success has little to....   >>  
26 Jul 2004   Third, er, sixth, er....   'Revenge of the Sixth'????? Shouldn't that be '....   >>  
   Daylight Saving Time   'but then how Luxembourg got on the list is a myst....   >>  
22 Jul 2004   Shell Scripting Fana....   I do a lot of batch stuff in shell scripts, usuall....   >>  
21 Jul 2004   Indentation   Ah! Indentation is absolutely worthless! Watch ....   >>  
02 Jul 2004   A great day to be at....   'don't you mean Sun instead of Microsoft.' That....   >>  
      It is indeed a great day! I'm going on a 2-week....   >>  
   I don't have a probl....   'Two sides to every story' IMHO, that should be....   >>  
      'A motto I try to abide by is, don't attribute to ....   >>  
01 Jul 2004   your most absurd IT ....   A bit 'off-topic', maybe, but the worst case I've ....   >>  
   Data Types Chosen On....   'They also used strings to hold numbers' I do....   >>  
29 Jun 2004   Now I know where the....   Damn! I would've preferred to get my nickname f....   >>  
24 Jun 2004   This is why software....   'Comes down to cost...Not cost, experience and qua....   >>  
   Download manager   GetRight is fine, if you can live with the ads :) ....   >>  
   Why Web based apps S....   'It sounds like a nice Technical Architect challen....   >>  
23 Jun 2004   Induce Act - Shall w....   'If anyone knows of a real objective review of the....   >>  
22 Jun 2004   Induce Act - Shall we outlaw pen & paper?   >>  
22 Jun 2004   New IIS Hole?   'Thinking your safe on the web with IE is a little....   >>  
18 Jun 2004   Rebates? Not yet?   'I am wondering if anyone else out there has actua....   >>  
   Writing code is dead   Just a couple of thoughts... 1. Support will st....   >>  
04 Jun 2004   Run screaming into t....   'Anyone on these boards know someone who writes th....   >>  
      'So do you trust Mandrake?' No reason not to, s....   >>  
      'This being reason I swich to Mac. Virus painters ....   >>  
   If you were Microsof....   'If you charge for the HW, someone could maybe for....   >>  
      'Does it matter what they tell you you pay for if ....   >>  
      'just like you get a Sun with your Solaris licence....   >>  
   Ayn Rand   'make political administration into a strict disci....   >>  
      'Sorry, but the average human is an unwashed, uned....   >>  
03 Jun 2004   Long-term prospects ....   Another example of their new extended-support poli....   >>  
   Ayn Rand   'So I would submit to the jury that communism has ....   >>  
      'BTW, too bad for Euro-weenies that nasty GWB took....   >>  
      Ah, what the hell! Let's have some fun! 'I feel....   >>  
      >> 'Communism is as evil as capitalism.' > I have....   >>  
      'Shall we compile the deaths under Monarchist Grea....   >>  
   sounding off: Linux ....   'Now that you're done installing PHP and MySQL on ....   >>  
      'Installing most software on Windows is usually a ....   >>  
      If you think that's tough, you should try install....   >>  
   Best language for GU....   Hi, Matt. 'I wasn't doing anything terribly com....   >>  
      'Sorry not to jump on the Java/.NET bandwagon but ....   >>  
      If you decide to go with Java, take a look at Axis....   >>  
01 Jun 2004   How do I turn pirate....   'I want to give the CDs to people at work, because....   >>  
28 May 2004   Nomic World: By the ....   'btw., this group seems to be doing a torough job.....   >>  
21 May 2004   So what about the bu....   Just go ahead, build it, and ship it. Then, whe....   >>  
   "not alot of people ....   Actually, it works a litle different from what I e....   >>  
      'Doesn't appear to work in win2K' I just did it....   >>  
      1. Open notepad. 2. Type '.LOG' on the first line....   >>  
20 May 2004   Ok, now more generic   I usually do a mock UI first, and try to see how i....   >>  
   Tom Friedman: Global....   'I don't consider it relevant what the motivation ....   >>  
      'I take it you are an anti-globalization person. ....   >>  
      'The comments here about why America doesn't do th....   >>  
      'Why doesn't this happen in america?' This rare....   >>  
19 May 2004   Why doesn't Opera ge....   'It often ignores keystrokes, it crashes all the d....   >>  
      'They seem to have fallen into the trap of configu....   >>  
14 May 2004   Hey, hey 16K (someth....   '+1 for Castle Wolfenstein as being incredibly add....   >>  
      'old school rampaks were much better.' I'll sec....   >>  
   C++ refresh...   Dependeing on how much time you have before the in....   >>  
   More Win XP Pro Blue....   'Either you got lucky, or I got unlucky ' Could....   >>  
      'I know with Windows SFU 3.5, you have to be runni....   >>  
   Media coverage of in....   «No.4 - 'keep garden areas free from dense shrubbe....   >>  
   RIP Ask Joel   'Still perhaps there's a difference between my cal....   >>  
   Americans rejoice. I....   'oh, yes...so we've taken that government, removed....   >>  
13 May 2004   Design Skills are Wo....   'The bigger problem with this is that it can hurt ....   >>  
   RIP Ask Joel   'The word 'dirt', colloquially, can be derogatory ....   >>  
   Americans rejoice. I....   'To clarify, An American is easy to identify, be h....   >>  
12 May 2004   Coupling and Cohesio....   'template class a{ private: T foo_; ....   >>  
   Witty   'Paulo, with that I agree. and this is where e.g. ....   >>  
11 May 2004   Women in IT   «In the words of Dennis Miller - 'If you could see....   >>  
   Witty   >> ''More code == more vulerabilities' seems >> p....   >>  
      «Tacking on a 'black-ice' product to secure an OS ....   >>  
      'So why did you never hear about its dubious recor....   >>  
10 May 2004   Boy shouts "missed a....   So, you're assuming that whoever wrote this really....   >>  
07 May 2004   Mono released/Used i....   'But this time M$ is fighting not wimp like corpor....   >>  
06 May 2004   Why does everyone th....   'Now, some musicians apparently are doing well wit....   >>  
30 Apr 2004   What's the Deal with....   'Get back to work, Paulo!' Hum... Must be so....   >>  
      What's the Deal with Indentation Handbook? Who....   >>  
   The number of forum ....   It's kinda cloudy here in Lisbon. Everyone is l....   >>  
   Who has been keeping....   Bah! Weaklings! Real men program in Befunge! ....   >>  
   Delphi vs. VB or C++   'I want a compact downloadable install, and means ....   >>  
29 Apr 2004   Lack of social skill....   'First: Lack of social skills could not possibly b....   >>  
      I call it the 'social hipocrisy'. The first (an....   >>  
   Outsourcing "hype cy....   'But the difference in productivity was six to one....   >>  
   Google - Microsoft b....   'How many people here run Linux on the desktop.' ....   >>  
28 Apr 2004   "attribute" driven c....   'Nothing wrong w/ exposing strongly typed collecti....   >>  
      (Disclaimer: I don't know the exact meaning of 'te....   >>  
27 Apr 2004   DLL deployment best ....   Unless disk space is at a premium (which isn't usu....   >>  
   Ctr+Tab in Word   'I'd rather have a decent implementation of virtua....   >>  
   Uber Cool   'Probably dynamic linking, i.e., you're not linkin....   >>  
      'Then why is it that every program I see that is w....   >>  
      Yes, any C++ compiler allows you to create self-co....   >>  
   Regarding EU Microso....   'it's just a very inexpensive way of getting a box....   >>  
26 Apr 2004      'Perhaps we should spend some time thinking about ....   >>  
      'Millions of people paid for MS software against t....   >>  
      'That being said, I still hold to my original poin....   >>  
21 Apr 2004   Auuuggghhh!  Ad....   'Having Adaware, Zonealarm and an AV running? That....   >>  
   The big disadvantage....   'Those most vehemently denouncing VB .NET are also....   >>  
20 Apr 2004   Auuuggghhh!  Ad....   'Don't install any open source or free software, m....   >>  
      A couple of points. 1. IE requires more work to....   >>  
   Software Patents   'What is your opinion about software patents? I do....   >>  
   What an awesome day.....   '...but what if the auto maker will then build a f....   >>  
19 Apr 2004   Microsoft's C++ comp....   'Maybe it didn't include the optimizations.' Ye....   >>  
   The big disadvantage....   'The fact that mere mortals can use it blinded 'pr....   >>  
16 Apr 2004   Why I hate Swing   Did you check out Task Manager? I use DBVisuali....   >>  
   Monolithic Function   'I agree, that seems to be what I have to do. But....   >>  
   Object design questi....   How about this: Put a non-static Delete() meth....   >>  
   CA Visual Objects   Thanks for the links. Gonna take a look at this....   >>  
   What unemployment?   'Paulo, you're not a fool, you're good enough, you....   >>  
15 Apr 2004   CA Visual Objects   >>  
15 Apr 2004   Delphi   'But it sounds like the only argument you had for ....   >>  
      'It's interesting that you describe operator overl....   >>  
      >>Comparing it with C++ is more problematic. >> I....   >>  
   What unemployment?   'Get something out on the street ASAP, even if you....   >>  
      'If I can afford 3 months to train someone on J2EE....   >>  
14 Apr 2004   First internet usage   My first time on WWW was in '97, on Borland's webs....   >>  
   The problem of the o....   Regardless of what you choose, avoid putting any k....   >>  
08 Apr 2004   Why do people just w....   'Now everyone is complaining because the barbarian....   >>  
03 Apr 2004   Defeating piracy wit....   'I've been thinking – piracy means being able to c....   >>  
02 Apr 2004   Illegal behavior by ....   'Are we the problem? We tolerate illegal (forget ....   >>  
   Do you think SharePo....   'But for small companies who wants to sell DMS for....   >>  
   Personal computer se....   'Firewalls have become more important because upda....   >>  
      'On the other hand an anti-virus that runs all the....   >>  
01 Apr 2004      'Do you mind if MS bundles good anti virus, pop-up....   >>  
      ' Even the XP laptop purchased in 2002, 'too slow'....   >>  
      'My cousin, most of the users are clueless moron u....   >>  
   ThrowTheBumsOut   'Places like Indonesia are cheaper to have Nike f....   >>  
31 Mar 2004   Wrapping code at 80 ....   80 columns, usually, sometimes less. Sometimes,....   >>  
   Complicated APIs vs ....   'You thing what you go through there is a horror, ....   >>  
      This is what I was talking about: SimpleDateFor....   >>  
      'Nothing restricts you from putting a simpler inte....   >>  
   ThrowTheBumsOut   'Clinton didn't donate millions & millions to fund....   >>  
      '88% of statistics posted on the internet are made....   >>  
   Transferring XP home....   'No, Microsoft will not use activation as a tool t....   >>  
      'Activation Done Right(tm) works.' Well, you mi....   >>  
30 Mar 2004   You may be a novice ....   'De Fault is ven somezing haz happened und it must....   >>  
   Transferring XP home....   'Piracy is a simple option in this ca....   >>  
      'So you bought a PC with an OEM copy of XP home an....   >>  
26 Mar 2004   How common are Win X....   I haven't seen much in home environments, either. ....   >>  
   capitalism is beauti....   'I don't know about Portugal but in Spain...' S....   >>  
      'Many a homeless person has survived for years on ....   >>  
25 Mar 2004      Enough of US bashing Europe and Europe bashing US.....   >>  
   Poll: What car do yo....   A) Ford Fiesta/Opel Corsa B) Definitely    >>  
   One more thing about....   'For C# code it does (and probably VB.Net) Of c....   >>  
   Pentagon:Windows Upg....   'Well, that resolves the whole outsourcing issue!'....   >>  
   A sysadmin must know....   > 'Foul' language. > For when the server goes dow....   >>  
   So why _did_ they go....   'Now if you really wanted to be geeky, you should ....   >>  
      'People have been telling fairy tales and myths fo....   >>  
24 Mar 2004   Scary, Bad Code at N....   My past experience is that sometimes it can be inf....   >>  
   Microsoft fined $616....   ' tell it to Joel so he will not complay about not....   >>  
      'So as a yank, I get to enjoy a free media player ....   >>  
      'So, Europeans now have to pay money for a media p....   >>  
      'How many times should you reinvent the wheel in y....   >>  
      'It's called component architecture and reusable c....   >>  
      'I can now sue Microsoft for abusing its monopoly ....   >>  
      I'm having a hard time understanding why there's s....   >>  
   Communist Western Eu....   'The ceasefire has been continuous (unless you cou....   >>  
23 Mar 2004      'When a state decrees what applications a software....   >>  
19 Mar 2004   EU "Competition" Com....   > BTW: The rest of the industry seems to > believ....   >>  
17 Mar 2004   Choose Two   > A lot of the choices are not mutually > exclusi....   >>  
   Anyone learn to prog....   I taught myself programming in a ZX Spectrum (Basi....   >>  
12 Mar 2004   How Should a novice ....   Since (almost) everyone else is mentioning books :....   >>  
11 Mar 2004   Why do people still ....   >> 'jump on the bandwagon of another email >> cli....   >>  
      I, for one, am thankful that the large majority ke....   >>  
06 Mar 2004   Open Source: Get up ....   > The use of american in this context is not > to....   >>  
   Tom Peters on Outsou....   > What industreis did the Chinese or Indians > st....   >>  
04 Mar 2004   Microsoft ISV Empowe....   Regardless of whether or not Gwyn overreacted, thi....   >>  
19 Feb 2004   Naming args in heade....   Ask yourself the following question: When I wan....   >>  
   Drucker and Friedman....   > Paulo, your ability to argue for > higher price....   >>  
18 Feb 2004   How do I break the p....   I have been working on it for the past 8 years... ....   >>  
   Drucker and Friedman....   Damn... First bug report just in... Replace ....   >>  
      Yes, the example is somewhat incomplete. How about....   >>  
      > pay more money to workers, stop legal pollution,....   >>  
28 Oct 2003   Programming is no mo....   > Or Person A is *not* really all those > things,....   >>  
      >>If you believe, that you're better, more > hard....   >>  
09 Oct 2003   Design Oversight   > So, in this case, copy-protected CD's must > ha....   >>  
04 Oct 2003   Honeypot?   I can't really help you here, but I will add anoth....   >>  
   Next version of Delp....   This sort of stuff has happened a few times. They ....   >>  
03 Oct 2003   should stupid people....   > In the United States of America, > intelligence....   >>  
      Re the idea, I'd like to hear the author's opinion....   >>  
23 Sep 2003   The Story of the Blob   >>  
23 Sep 2003   Norton Personal Fire....   > Maybe my trial version of ZA was misconfigured. ....   >>  
      > I tried Zone Alarm, and its default settings was....   >>  
12 Sep 2003   Why outsourcing ofte....   > Why don't our clients understand this?! I co....   >>  
09 Sep 2003   Code snippet of tedi....   I believe it's the project files that are now XML.   >>  
08 Sep 2003   Excruciatingly frust....   > (...) Mozzilla (...) Cool! Ozzy Osbourne h....   >>  
   Decision makers that....   Well, from my perception, there are two kinds of c....   >>  
02 Sep 2003   Database Triggers - ....   I can't see how you can avoid scenario 2, with or ....   >>  
27 Aug 2003   NASA - Columbia Report   >>  
27 Aug 2003   NASA - Columbia Repo....   Oops! This is what happens when you do an 'opti....   >>  
14 Aug 2003   Winning the Cookie a....   > And if you send your username and password to >....   >>  
04 Jul 2003   Dangerous Competitor....   > The unjustly lauded 'Indy' internet component to....   >>  
02 Jul 2003   Evaluating Programme....   > /* > Some overall explanation of intent of ....   >>  
01 Jul 2003   The "white picket fe....   > Do we not wish that our children become success ....   >>  
      > I am an entrepreneur. I currently earn 3x the mo....   >>  
      > The skyrocketing of property prices in large par....   >>  
      > But I wonder, why are not more people striving f....   >>  
25 Jun 2003   Outlook time precisi....   > Outlook is notorious for sending alerts whenever....   >>  
24 Jun 2003   Rearranging Furnitur....   > Now that we're going live in ten days, there's a....   >>  
17 Jun 2003   Opera Browser, User ....   This was always one of my fav features in Opera, e....   >>  
06 Jun 2003   Analyst reports on S....   Actually this article brought me an idea I'd never....   >>  
   Doctors, Pair Progra....   > tapiwa writes that this is 'healthy scepticism' ....   >>  
05 Jun 2003   Undo/Redo algorithm ....   > - When it starts (to clean up garbage from a pre....   >>  
      > For cleanup do what Paulo suggests but within th....   >>  
      Disclaimer: You didn't mention any detail about th....   >>  
04 Jun 2003   Damned Lies and stat....   > Fair enough that Windows has never dropped in pr....   >>  
   What Exactly Are Obi....   > It's also a city in Portugal, for whatever that'....   >>  
   C++ question   I can understand why people would want to remove f....   >>  
   ...the vast majority....   > FullNameRequired: how are others experiencing th....   >>  
   Shrink-wrap develope....   > Also, the suite of TurboPower components was > ....   >>  
03 Jun 2003   A simple programmer'....   > Golfers make a 100 yard chip shot landing four f....   >>  
   Shrink-wrap develope....   > My biggest concern with Delphi is how well it'll....   >>  
   A new web broswer   > IE is the only browser on Windoze, and will rema....   >>  
02 Jun 2003   Pair painting   > I did think about the lyricist/composer team. Ho....   >>  
   My browser hijacked!   > 2. How come it is so easy for a site to get into....   >>  
29 May 2003   Surprised this news ....   > The employees on these systems literally can't d....   >>  
   Programmers Attack! ....   > If I refused to work in Access, I'd be unemploye....   >>  
28 May 2003      > But the similar latitudes that software develope....   >>  
27 May 2003   Any reason to consid....   >> 'What was the reason for using C# again?' > >....   >>  
   Evolving code layout....   I started using the commas (and other operators) a....   >>  
23 May 2003   How did you get here....   I started on a ZX Spectrum, with BASIC. Then, in h....   >>  
   Amazed at uninformed....   > This is a very good point. I am constantly amaze....   >>  
   Experience with proj....   Two projects in which I've been involved failed be....   >>  
   Evil and truly evil   > Centralised errors handling is the programmer Ho....   >>  
22 May 2003   Movies and the Mind ....   MovieList := TMovieList.Create(); MovieList.Sorte....   >>  
   User Database Select....   > But with big databases or complex applications i....   >>  
21 May 2003   Recent Threads   > 'Poor Me, my boss is a jerk' > 'Poor Me, everyo....   >>  
20 May 2003   where did all the so....   > If I need to create a detailed spec and define a....   >>  
19 May 2003   POLL : How Many Of Y....   1. Yes, irregularly. My faves are the Myst/Riven s....   >>  
16 May 2003   Anyone use Multiple ....   I've made limited use of it in C++, to simulate in....   >>  
   Worst engineering mi....   If only it was just memories :) Imagine an app ....   >>  
   Most satisifying sof....   Damn! Forgot Wilbur, a personal search engine. ....   >>  
      Delphi Norton Utilities (DOS) Clipper 5 (DOS) M....   >>  
   Poll: Most used scri....   > It is interesting, but the Unix side seems to ha....   >>  
   DOUBLE STANDARDS   > Two questions arise here. > 1. What is minimal....   >>  
      > I am not sure of the dates but I doubt Bastiat w....   >>  
      > You say: 'There are persons who lack education,'....   >>  
15 May 2003      > I really recommend that you read the entire text....   >>  
      > All these plans as a whole — with their common a....   >>  
09 May 2003   Why isn't Delphi mor....   > When I used Delphi, I was always impressed by th....   >>  
07 May 2003   survival of the fitt....   > What I like about this is that it's transparent ....   >>  
06 May 2003   Reply To The Challen....   > Also I don't see a way a file down load can be ....   >>  
05 May 2003   A Challenging Proble....   I don't know if I understood your problem correctl....   >>  
25 Oct 2002   The Brickie Programm....   > But programmers are not the entire universe. In ....   >>  
      > Suddenly, your pretty list of requirements doesn....   >>  
11 Oct 2002   How much time do you....   Depends on the workload, but I'd go for the 2 hour....   >>  
02 Oct 2002   Not all the news is ....   Here in Portugal, we have two expressions: 1. 'In....   >>  
      > Oh yeah? Then why is Dell stock down over 50% fr....   >>  
   Why you should (not?....   > I don't see how DRM implies treating users as cr....   >>  
      > I wonder exactly how high a correlation coeffici....   >>  
01 Oct 2002   Visual problems - mo....   > Today, I made some searches on the net about mob....   >>  
   Why you should (not?....   > My reality is that most people will steal, infri....   >>  
27 Sep 2002   Data-structures draw....   Yes, Visio might definitely be useful, here. It ha....   >>  
   Why you should (not?....   > leaving justise up to the individual is generall....   >>  
26 Sep 2002      > So you think it is OK to steal just because you ....   >>  
      > I've heard this one before, but I think the reas....   >>  
24 Sep 2002      > Is there a solution which can both satisfy the p....   >>  
20 Sep 2002   Gilmore Girls   > WTHIGG? Soap?    >>  
19 Sep 2002   If you're good, don'....   > Writing user manuals - is that 'creative'? Learn....   >>  
18 Sep 2002      'whatever they did would like Satriani?' Meanin....   >>  
      > This is so ridiculously incorrect that I assume ....   >>  
   Memoriam   > Paulo, you think you're not being manipulated by....   >>  
17 Sep 2002   building a community   I got here from a link in a Borland newsgroup. ....   >>  
   Make it too easy, an....   > I know ths was probably tongue in cheek Well....   >>  
      > A word, ... Honour, and an unquestioned faith in....   >>  
      > That is what this tread is about, how to protect....   >>  
13 Sep 2002   Advertising   > We have systems like this. They are called 'Netw....   >>  
      > I guess the only thing left to do is go grass ro....   >>  
   Memoriam   > Imperfect though it is, America has a realistic ....   >>  
      Ok, this is long-ish. Sorry. Robert Anderson, ....   >>  
   One insightful inter....   > 5. The absence of a 'try ... finally' construct ....   >>  
12 Sep 2002   Memoriam   > Anyone who says 'America is no better' has no >....   >>  
      > Because some loser donated their dollars... A....   >>  
      > but as long as educated people don't > understa....   >>  
      We should have it better than this. There shoul....   >>  
10 Sep 2002   Outsourcing limits i....   tapiwa, what you say makes perfect sense. Unfortun....   >>  
09 Sep 2002      > It leverages the economies of scale and competit....   >>  
06 Sep 2002   Shrink-wrap apps bui....   > Why is it not interesting to you ? As far as mem....   >>  
05 Sep 2002   Software Estimates E....   > Right! So how can you explain that in a way that....   >>  
29 Aug 2002   J2EE, .NET - what wa....   The problem has never been the language, but rathe....   >>  
   Strategy Letter V Ra....   My mistake, then. That does describe the 'probl....   >>  
28 Aug 2002      > Economics is a social science which does the bes....   >>  
27 Aug 2002      > *Eyes wide, DW backs out of the thread, careful ....   >>  
      >Okay, yes, yes, yes, microeconomics are such an ....   >>  
22 Aug 2002   Programming Language....   I spent 4 years trying to get the company I work f....   >>  
   Ansi C++ Book   You could also take a look at 'Thinking in C++'. I....   >>  
   Top programming lang....   > I doubt you'd be looking on JoS just dying to fi....   >>  
      > I think my problem with that philosophy is that ....   >>  
21 Aug 2002   Serious question abo....   > However the technology people share a lot of the....   >>  
20 Aug 2002   Catching all uncaugh....   I never understood why all the commotion about 4-l....   >>  
19 Aug 2002   Changing font size..   > Non-designers should not impose their uninformed....   >>  
   Catching all uncaugh....   I don't believe it's accurate to say that C++ exce....   >>  
16 Aug 2002   non-tech books you r....   'The Wheel of Time'. Book 10 is coming out in Nove....   >>  
15 Aug 2002   Form Designers and l....   Boris, the point I was trying to make is that if y....   >>  
14 Aug 2002      > use the form designer to create all controls, an....   >>  
30 Jul 2002   what kind of music d....   I did read Peopleware. And I am aware of that expe....   >>  
      I listen mostly to instrumental/ambient stuff - So....   >>  
19 Nov 2001   How did you stumble ....   I was doing some reading on a Delphi NG (borland.p....   >>  



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