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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Phillip J. Eby' | ||
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Number of Comments: 245 |
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| Number of Words: 39,909 | ||
| First Comment: 27 Dec 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 28 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 3 |
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| First Topic: 04 Sep 2003 | ||
| Latest Topic: 16 Oct 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 28 Aug 2004 | The API is king | '''What I have seen happen is a strong OO tehcnica.... >> |
| 27 Aug 2004 | Cracking The Three L.... | Actually, I once read somewhere that Asimov argued.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Your Thought on IP (.... | '''Is there really a silver bullet that can take w.... >> |
| '''There is nothing fundamental here. It is a comb.... >> | ||
| Python: Whitespace a.... | '''So what if *you* don't want to use a mutable de.... >> | |
| '''If you assign a new value to a variable that ge.... >> | ||
| 12 Aug 2004 | Python on Windows comes with IDLE, a nice shell an.... >> | |
| '''I have the tedious task of going up and down to.... >> | ||
| 06 Aug 2004 | Who is your messiah? | I like Ted Nelson, too, but he didn't invent hyper.... >> |
| 03 Aug 2004 | Sort of a business p.... | I like to design from the outside in, but code fro.... >> |
| E-Myth | The E-myth in a nutshell: * Most people who sta.... >> | |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Thinking outside the.... | '''He's just a better programmer than you. He acts.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Confidentiality/Non-.... | A short list of complaints you can give the guy: .... >> |
| Software piracy | copying != stealing && copyrightInfringement != t.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Free syntax highligh.... | Another vote here for jEdit. I've actually w.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | Python for a commerc.... | '''Has anyone ever done web development with Pytho.... >> |
| '''By the end of development, I had wasted hours o.... >> | ||
| Mono ditching wine. | '''Why would Microsoft CARE the .01% to 10% of thi.... >> | |
| .Net devs that went .... | For what it's worth, a number of functional langua.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Mono ditching wine. | Actually, the debate over whether Mono is a perfec.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Database Pooling - I.... | Write FastCGI apps, not CGI apps. http://www.fa.... >> |
| On Eudora | '''I still need to get rid of the x-html tags Eudo.... >> | |
| 13 Jul 2004 | Hm. Interesting. I've got nearly a decade's wort.... >> | |
| About the only thing currently stopping me from sw.... >> | ||
| 02 Jul 2004 | software patents and.... | '''supportive of patents and their role in encoura.... >> |
| Microsoft cuts price.... | '''Innovation is produced by the right stimulus - .... >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Experiences with XP .... | '''How do you guys organize your tests? Do you pu.... >> |
| SWT is hot! | Isn't there an implementation of the Swing API, th.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Confidentiality/Non .... | My suggestion: simply ask what he's going to pay y.... >> |
| Language-aware diff .... | 'diff -uw' does whitespace-insensitive comparisons.... >> | |
| 20 Jun 2004 | Distributing Joel's .... | Ooooh... that would be totally sick and twis.... >> |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Yep. Download Firefox, run it, then go to this UR.... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | CVS : I can't imagin.... | With regard to Subversion, keep in mind that it us.... >> |
| Speed of development | 'Test-Driven Development By Example' Why test-d.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2004 | Reality check on pro.... | The funny thing about that test, is that, given th.... >> |
| Where are all the ne.... | '''The point, some people are given jobs before jo.... >> | |
| Got an internet acce.... | Well, Mac OS X is based on BSD code, and so is Win.... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | And of course, if you run a CVS server on Windows,.... >> | |
| Thanks for the heads-up. I run an anonymous .... >> | ||
| 03 Jun 2004 | Ayn Rand | And if you're interested in being happy, try readi.... >> |
| 26 May 2004 | Programmers not peop.... | '''To your typical programmer, The Big Picture is .... >> |
| 20 May 2004 | The last time you us.... | The first example that springs to mind was a compa.... >> |
| 07 May 2004 | The developing in fr.... | If the company doesn't own it via contract, you st.... >> |
| 02 May 2004 | Deveoper Jokes 'Not .... | '''3) At one meeting a few years back, my boss co.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2004 | Testing Time sensiti.... | Or else always supply dates as parameters to your .... >> |
| The problem of the o.... | Use an already written library to parse URLs, unle.... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Have you evaluated e.... | Pyrex and IronPython are a bit more work to use, t.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | "The Apprentice" (sp.... | '''Nick, as I've said all along is a classic sales.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2004 | April fools | Actually, the "Dating Design Patterns" book review.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | I Hate The New Googl.... | Maybe that'll be your next project at MS. :) >> |
| '''In my opinion they are just making their interf.... >> | ||
| So, I dropped on you.... | No, racism is a term for a specific kind of xenoph.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | "The Apprentice" (sp.... | Actually, there was a subtle point that you might .... >> |
| No one left to despise? What about Nick?! >> | ||
| 25 Mar 2004 | Amy had other ideas besides the advertisements, an.... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Management Metaphors.... | '''Commercial software allows the creators to coll.... >> |
| 19 Mar 2004 | The Prisoner's Dilem.... | Actually, the really silly thing about Nick giving.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Has anyone used SQLi.... | '''SQLite is nothing more than a SQL interface to .... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | The Apprentice (spoi.... | I was impressed that it looked like both Troy and .... >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Anyone else frustrat.... | Have you looked at LifeBalance? It has an outli.... >> |
| 05 Mar 2004 | Influence: The Psych.... | '''They often appeal to your memories and ask you .... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | A Quote By Charles S.... | A big second here on the Meyer book: the insights .... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Suggestions of best .... | ActiveState sells a Python add-in for VS.NET. Lin.... >> |
| Python for Windows d.... | Python can use either native DB drivers (Oracle, S.... >> | |
| '''Where are you going to find the biggest pool of.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2004 | If you want to do MFC-style stuff, you want Python.... >> | |
| Pricing a document m.... | It looks public to you, but it really isn't. .... >> | |
| Boolean expression U.... | Regarding parentheses, jEdit has a nice feature th.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | Is there a name for .... | The sad thing is, in a decent OO language, the who.... >> |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Text-editor as Appli.... | Actually, I think jEdit is almost as customizable .... >> |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Java or Python? | Oh, by the way, see this thread: http://discuss.... >> |
| '''an interactive debugger mode which Python lacks.... >> | ||
| 18 Feb 2004 | Finding a good algor.... | A quick note on using MD5 or any other hashing tec.... >> |
| Java or Python? | '''the fact that it is GPL type open source''' .... >> | |
| '''no solid way of protecting the source''' htt.... >> | ||
| How do I break the p.... | '''I go look where the report was generated and se.... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Placing Password and.... | There's no 'secure' way to do this, in the sense o.... >> |
| 09 Feb 2004 | SpamBayes | '''(For the clueless -- If I can type 'quit' and g.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | What's the daily spa.... | Alex: if you can run software on your server, Spam.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Web Services using s.... | I have production XML-RPC web services written in .... >> |
| 02 Feb 2004 | writing a paper on s.... | Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting at least one big .... >> |
| '''it would be commercial suicide for companies in.... >> | ||
| 22 Jan 2004 | How Does GPL Work wi.... | The GPL is not a contract. You don't sign it. Yo.... >> |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Were 80's developers.... | '''Sure, that copy of 'Electric Pencil' was rock-s.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Custom Client or Acc.... | '''As IT resources become commoditized, perhaps ea.... >> |
| 05 Jan 2004 | Database versus flat.... | Prevayler works if and only if your data all fits .... >> |
| 29 Dec 2003 | Lovers at Work ... | Wow. Lots of negative opinions here. My wife and.... >> |
| 24 Dec 2003 | Highly programmable .... | Oops, forgot to include the URL: http://www.jedit..... >> |
| jEdit. It's scriptable with Jython and BeanShell..... >> | ||
| Latest on SCO/Linux .... | me: '''McBride clearly has principles and believes.... >> | |
| Dennis: AFAICT, SCO is not claiming that those .... >> | ||
| 15 Dec 2003 | Caution on Bayesian .... | There's also a *lot* of difference between the alg.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Lisp and Productivit.... | '''But for some complex apps that's not feasible''.... >> |
| 11 Dec 2003 | Lisp Jargon - A litt.... | Tayssir, I'm not aware that I've been 'ragging' on.... >> |
| I think this is easier to explain in Python. Here.... >> | ||
| Lisp and Productivit.... | The page you linked talks about 'application state.... >> | |
| '''Is 4375495 an object ID assigned by the system .... >> | ||
| Yep, although I've been doing REST since before th.... >> | ||
| You've missed the point entirely. A REST style le.... >> | ||
| You're confusing application state and UI state. .... >> | ||
| 10 Dec 2003 | Odd situation | Technically speaking, they'd have to prove that he.... >> |
| Lisp and Productivit.... | Continuations in a web UI are simply syntactic sug.... >> | |
| Continuations are to web programming as functional.... >> | ||
| "Better" language vs.... | AFAIK, Java and .NET use 'true' garbage collectors.... >> | |
| Refracturing | I expect the reason for your lockdowns is to preve.... >> | |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Recruiting Ethical P.... | Just make sure you're honest with the new recruits.... >> |
| Stupid specific inte.... | Um, 7! is 5040, not 355687428096000. Good th.... >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Inexpensive Relation.... | The reason people like MySQL is because it claims .... >> |
| XAML Revisited | Hmmm.... interesting. But also, not very techn.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Software development.... | I'm going to second the comments about marketing...... >> |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Why MSN search is so.... | Even lamer... The 'tech.msn.com' link it gives .... >> |
| Ok, seriously, why W.... | I can't even imagine wanting to use Windows for an.... >> | |
| Open Source Software.... | '''Long term, the commoditising of software develo.... >> | |
| New note taking soft.... | Interesting... one of the VoodooPad screensh.... >> | |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Subversion? | I can think of at least one reason why CVS might h.... >> |
| 03 Nov 2003 | Benefits of a degree | Ha, you pampered kids and your college computer sc.... >> |
| 16 Oct 2003 | Confused about exceptions vs. status returns >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | Confused about excep.... | I'm still confused. In a language with exceptions.... >> |
| bn.com link in addit.... | Damnit. %$%$$%$ ASP page... javascript:url=loc.... >> | |
| Argh. The links were mangled. Here they are agai.... >> | ||
| What, you haven't already set up a javascript book.... >> | ||
| 13 Oct 2003 | PHP Unicode FUD | Um, Python has what I'd consider 'transparent' Uni.... >> |
| A solution to spam? | There's some work being done on combining tools su.... >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Mail Sending : Enter.... | Philo - that algorithm's already been cracked. Se.... >> |
| More on the Half Lif.... | That's called 'adverse possession', and the requir.... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | '''Ummm well, it doesn't require a police state at.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | Yep. The charges of breaking and entering, and un.... >> | |
| What source control .... | I installed Tortoise on my work machine, and playe.... >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | Yet another CVS user... I use Cygwin on my Wind.... >> | |
| Counterculture junki.... | '''Five years ago, Java was the 'underappreciated .... >> | |
| 01 Oct 2003 | which language to le.... | I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dylan, which ni.... >> |
| 30 Sep 2003 | How to behave in soc.... | '''Have you considered that they may be treating y.... >> |
| Weird .NET / Athlon .... | I'm having the same problem (for some value of 'sa.... >> | |
| 25 Sep 2003 | Open Source is the n.... | '''oss is actually commercial and thus benefits pr.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | GPL question | The OSS programmers who do the bulk of the work on.... >> |
| Keeping track of cod.... | '''issuing 'cvs commit' or 'cvs update' at the com.... >> | |
| Open Source is the n.... | '''A commercial company has *invested* into a prod.... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Open Source is the new Microsoft? >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | When is a bug a bug? | What Johnny Bravo said. And, this is also why '.... >> |
| Open Source is the n.... | 'You've been living with the same thing for 15+ ye.... >> | |
| Potential new busine.... | Heh. My old boss in the real estate software busi.... >> | |
| 21 Sep 2003 | Portability: rougue .... | If your objective is to fight the 'portability == .... >> |
| Book on Design Patte.... | The Visitor pattern is easier to implement using g.... >> | |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Books on Sodftware D.... | Hm. Well, I bought my copy of Code Complete back .... >> |
| '''There are only a few best practices that are un.... >> | ||
| 16 Sep 2003 | Anyone else aghast g.... | Maybe a different tack will help explain my (and H.... >> |
| Regarding MVC: The 'value object' pattern can be u.... >> | ||
| '''how do you do mvc without getters/setters?''' .... >> | ||
| I think Anon hit the nail on the head: think queri.... >> | ||
| 15 Sep 2003 | Doctor Dobbs Journal | "Verity Stob" is the pseudonym of a columnist in D.... >> |
| Overcoming Procrasti.... | 'All rooted in the idea that you can teach your br.... >> | |
| 14 Sep 2003 | You don't need Tony Robbins, or at least not all o.... >> | |
| Artcile on the evils.... | Dive Into Python is definitely cool. Depending on.... >> | |
| 12 Sep 2003 | For the Python version, start at: http://peak.t.... >> | |
| Portabella, I didn't mean to start a language flam.... >> | ||
| '''If the output format of the XML stream you are .... >> | ||
| Getters and setters are useless Java bloat. Reaso.... >> | ||
| Conformity in platfo.... | 1. I've said nothing about Linux except in relatio.... >> | |
| '''transfer costs to the customer''' That only .... >> | ||
| 11 Sep 2003 | Friendster.com's alg.... | Actually, what I suggested for the multilevel cach.... >> |
| Conformity in platfo.... | '''I fail to see how you profit from something you.... >> | |
| You seem to have missed my point (or ignored it). .... >> | ||
| He already gave you the economic driver: programme.... >> | ||
| 10 Sep 2003 | who will do the UI ? | I'll second that: the second form has a variety of.... >> |
| Friendster.com's alg.... | My question would be whether you're trying to veri.... >> | |
| 09 Sep 2003 | It's about results. | Oh... important other point... salespeople love .... >> |
| I think many of the people that Roger (my old boss.... >> | ||
| 08 Sep 2003 | Honors Major in Comp.... | I can't remember the last time I even glanced for .... >> |
| It's about results. | I'm not sure I see where there's a conflict betwee.... >> | |
| 06 Sep 2003 | Yep. My old boss had a deliberate practice of typ.... >> | |
| You're *so* right... obviously you have found me .... >> | ||
| 05 Sep 2003 | OODB: Are they viabl.... | ZODB is *not* indexed. You can store indexes *in*.... >> |
| ZODB isn't really an OODB. It's a persistent obje.... >> | ||
| It's about results. | Peter: you might interpret it that way, but it def.... >> | |
| AB: did I say anything about giving anything away?.... >> | ||
| Prices ending in 9, .... | ...or maybe that's just what they want you to *thi.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | It's about results. >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | That may be another reason. But I really doubt it.... >> | |
| If you dislike the irrationality of such prices, y.... >> | ||
| the open source busi.... | Kentasy: your cable TV analogy only works if we we.... >> | |
| 03 Sep 2003 | business logic | There are sometimes legitimate reasons why busines.... >> |
| CMM and XP | 'Cargo Cult Project Management' I love it! I'v.... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Almost never occur in nature? Funny, I've worked .... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2003 | A Kinder, Gentler Ti.... | Maybe the zealots would act more peacefully toward.... >> |
| 28 Aug 2003 | Subversion | I don't know as much about subversion as I do abou.... >> |
| Joel, Seek of Spam? .... | Actually, there's another reason for the garbage t.... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Python or Ruby? | Python's 'whitespace requirement' is a *feature*, .... >> |
| 23 Aug 2003 | I'm curious what 'warts' you have experienced with.... >> | |
| Dynamic Languages an.... | Peter, what you said is quite true -- if your comp.... >> | |
| 22 Aug 2003 | When developing larger applications and frameworks.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | The thing that drives me up the wall about the Sie.... >> | |
| Interesting... the company I work for actually wo.... >> | ||
| 20 Aug 2003 | Oh yeah... VBScript is not a dynamically typed la.... >> | |
| Re: Python Enterprise Edition Heh, actually, i.... >> | ||
| Carpal Tunnel | Okay, perhaps we are talking about different thing.... >> | |
| The braces and pads tend to do one of two things: .... >> | ||
| Actually, 90% of the supposed explanations of carp.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2003 | See http://www.egoscue.com/ for what I use. His.... >> | |
| Development Paltform.... | Having developed web applications in both Perl and.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2003 | GNU Cash (What Went .... | And you'll notice that 'Free Software' is not spel.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2003 | Signature usability | Read the Clay Shirky article on communities that J.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2003 | How to get taken ser.... | Don't think about selling. Think about two things.... >> |
| 29 Jul 2003 | A thought | Well, I'm also pretty good at intimidating people .... >> |
| I'm a star programmer who earns his six-figure com.... >> | ||
| 18 Jul 2003 | What's a "Troll"? | See: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html for m.... >> |
| And Leonardo shouldn't have bothered with the Mona.... >> | ||
| Is this salary decen.... | Take the 50K in the rural area. Your money g.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2003 | Minority owned biddi.... | Just give your wife a majority share in your compa.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2003 | XP founder explains .... | I think the folks who are arguing that static typi.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Do you folks use col.... | It must be just me, but I clicked on the links inc.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2003 | PHP 5 beta 1 | I'm surprised nobody has commented on the fact tha.... >> |
| FastCGI or Apache Mo.... | I've used FastCGI; I prefer the process model to t.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2003 | How do I get a job a.... | Interesting that you seem to think there's a corre.... >> |
| Private Communicatio.... | Really? I thought it was called "networking".... >> | |
| Data warehousing res.... | Also check out: http://www.ralphkimball.com/htm.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2003 | What Exactly Is A Pe.... | I don't know if Apple originated the term, but I w.... >> |
| Ideal nummber of pag.... | One of the most impressive resumes I ever read was.... >> | |
| Technologies develop.... | I'm not sure regular expressions are for *anything.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | Suggestions please? | I don't know how heavyweight a platform you're loo.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2003 | For those geeks seek.... | 'If we can cut the amount of time to only y per in.... >> |
| Freelance websites? | Actually, with all the interest in offshore develo.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | Want feedback on new.... | So, in effect, to create any significant data stru.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2003 | A Damned Good Link | In college, I did one 22 hour semester and one 19-.... >> |
| 10 Jun 2003 | Better than KLOC | It's even worse that that. There has been a fair .... >> |
| 09 Jun 2003 | Raising prices | Why sell the stock? Red Hat makes money by c.... >> |
| OO benefits - a coun.... | 'Its been my experience that, when organizations s.... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2003 | Want feedback on new.... | Um, if you have automatic memory management, but n.... >> |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Suggestions of progr.... | I still use Ecco Pro. Its export facilities .... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Pair programming | Wow. Such volatility. Such defensiveness. I hav.... >> |
| How important is a p.... | The 'No Va' thing is an urban legend. http://sp.... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2003 | Rules Engine? Expert.... | Do you really need for them to be able to define *.... >> |
| 22 May 2003 | Shady Characters | Yep, my first thought was that this was a thread a.... >> |
| 20 May 2003 | Self modifying code | Okay, I'm definitely a Python zealot, but IMHO usi.... >> |
| 05 May 2003 | How would I move Mou.... | Microsoft 'invented' ODBC like Al Gore invented th.... >> |
| Software libre | I'm curious about the 'most open source projects a.... >> | |
| 02 May 2003 | Programmers, Languag.... | 'Python at the speed of C' is doable now, for vari.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Striking Out On Your.... | Basically, the E-myth explains why 'crappy' compan.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2003 | Does contributing co.... | Does it pay off? Sure, if I'm interviewing you .... >> |
| 09 Apr 2003 | Thoughts on CAMEL? | If I were heading up this project, here's what I'd.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2003 | Interviewing for Sen.... | I don't think you're out of line on the Java quest.... >> |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Allowing developers .... | Actually, this thread has made me realize that, sh.... >> |
| 16 Jan 2003 | anti-spam | Also check out SpamBayes: http://spambayes.sf.n.... >> |
| 07 May 2002 | XP is wearing no clo.... | I have the feeling I'm responding to a troll, but .... >> |
| How to spot a bad co.... | Re: 25 years vs. 2.5 years The difference betwe.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2002 | anyone else find thi.... | Crap CMS? Jeez. I use CityDesk to run an open sour.... >> |
| Argh. Make that "hear", not "here". I can't believ.... >> | ||
| If I found the site excessively annoying, I wouldn.... >> | ||
| 27 Dec 2001 | Pair Programming suc.... | Every time I've done pair programming it has been .... >> |