finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:04 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Alyosha`' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 707 Number of Words: 69,436 First Comment: 19 Oct 2001 Final Comment: 28 Jul 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 9 First Topic: 05 Nov 2001 Latest Topic: 03 Jun 2004 When Item Comment 28 Jul 2004   The burst is about t....   China's gender imbalance is far more likely to cau....   >>   27 Jul 2004   Open Source = no rig....   'Simon, so you are in fact arguing against the GPL....   >>         'How do you know it is over priced, and why should....   >>         It's like you're insisting on price controls for s....   >>   26 Jul 2004      'This really comes down to a issue of freedom.' ....   >>   20 Jul 2004   Light Bulb: How many....   'Then I extrapolated that to one of our company pr....   >>      OT: unbiased coverag....   I'll join the chorus of people who say you can't p....   >>   08 Jul 2004   Seattle v Vancouver   Lived in Seattle since 2000. The rain is pretty m....   >>      Go West - Part II (S....   hoser, I'm gonna ... uh ... disagree with you ... ....   >>   06 Jul 2004   New app dev manager ....   I think the first thing you want to do is establis....   >>   30 Jun 2004   Business Names   In light of No's suggestion, I believe Hitler Soft....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Converting no capita....   Economically, that's a bit muddled ... Capital ....   >>   16 Jun 2004   UI question   Option1 strikes me as a waste of space, so of the ....   >>   04 Jun 2004   Slacker Coworker   Ask yourself -- how would I handle this in the mos....   >>      what do you do when ....   What the hell? What is the big frickin' deal wi....   >>      smart people   One of these days, I'm gonna write a blockbuster n....   >>      Long-term prospects ....   Now that we're in sillyland ... Prove that ther....   >>         ... no buffer overflow problems ... ... that yo....   >>   03 Jun 2004   If you were Microsoft, what would you do?   >>   03 Jun 2004      'Buffer overflows are so trivial to discover, so e....   >>         'Managed code doesn't cure bugs'. Firefighters ....   >>         Alyosha`s conjecture: the prejudice against manage....   >>      Ayn Rand   I would have to say that democracy is the worst fo....   >>         Can we disabuse ourselves of the notion that a per....   >>      Where's Joel?   1000 of our currency units? It just so happens ....   >>   02 Jun 2004   Passing args by refe....   There are two reasons why you'd ever want to use p....   >>   01 Jun 2004   Norah Jones   So, the nature of the problem is that ... you can'....   >>      Passing args by refe....   Okay, now do it without any {s or }s.   >>   27 May 2004   Not Quite New York C....   Yes, it's Sandia Mountain. I liked the Seattle ....   >>      Company I work on wo....   You're suffering from an inflamed sense of duty. ....   >>   26 May 2004   Opening my mind   Learn by doing. It is the only way.    >>   24 May 2004   Why Do We Need Gener....   Because brand name prescription medication is just....   >>      Why Google will not ....   On topic response: Philo's riposte ('you mean Goog....   >>   21 May 2004   unindented HTML   You write HTML by hand? Tell him you're doing i....   >>      FUD: it's not just f....   Absurd is right. I highly recommend reading AT'....   >>   20 May 2004   FUD: it's not just for breakfast anymore.   >>   20 May 2004   IEEE: Japanese best,....   Whoops, wrong title. The actual title was 'IEEE....   >>   14 May 2004   Norrick Throws In th....   'The Road to Success is Paved with Failure' The....   >>   12 May 2004   Learning Assembly--o....   Yes, learn it. You'll never program in it, but ....   >>   11 May 2004   Women in IT   'Now don't get all in a huff. You do it too.' I....   >>      Dig thy own grave, d....   'I've been trying to think of a single current tec....   >>      US Universities   I sense a fellow University of Arizona grad in the....   >>   10 May 2004   Speaking of math....   'but that's a simple constant' Saepe sed non se....   >>         'If it's not a fixed-width font, you'll need to su....   >>   06 May 2004   Hiring the Best   The 'developers' actually don't know how to develo....   >>      5 Yr Goals for 48 YO....   Off topic ... The cause of inflation is not ver....   >>   30 Apr 2004   What is a "standard"....   There are committee standards and de facto standar....   >>      Deveoper Jokes 'Not ....   Yes, what JP said.   >>      Math wizards - look ....   Use atan, just be careful in the case that x1 == x....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Keith Ray's opinion ....   I think this is why you try to stablize the GUI as....   >>      Branding for SW and ....   Alyosha`s law of branding: You can't brand a tu....   >>   28 Apr 2004   Double-Byte Language....   First, find a list of all world languages. Then....   >>   23 Apr 2004   Computer/AI Hybrids   Sounds good. Go write it.    >>   21 Apr 2004   When you spend too m....   Contents of pkunzip.zip: pkunzip.exe   >>      Is it ignorance or r....   In short: Your job is to analyze a pile of hors....   >>   20 Apr 2004      Actually, it seems to me that he is 'requirements ....   >>      Annoying coworker ha....   If your solution is truly better, then you should ....   >>   12 Apr 2004   GMail being challeng....   Seems to me Google has complied with all parts of ....   >>   07 Apr 2004   Design Question (For....   Depends on your bandwidth requirements. Otherwi....   >>   02 Apr 2004   Arrggg!!   Why is this table not normalized? Having multip....   >>   01 Apr 2004   April fools   whitehouse.org (political satire site, not to be c....   >>   30 Mar 2004   ThrowTheBumsOut   Hey, don't blame me, I caucused for Dean ... *sigh....   >>   26 Mar 2004   Not able to understa....   Here's one that ticked me off the other day: no bi....   >>   23 Mar 2004   how did you find you....   I saw the posting on monster.  About the same....   >>   08 Mar 2004   Performance pay - bo....   Yeah ... I wasn't quite sure what Clay was referri....   >>   26 Feb 2004   How do you manage so....   Yes, modularize it. #ifdefs are your enemy. Po....   >>   20 Feb 2004   What customer asks for != what customer wants   >>   20 Feb 2004   What customer asks f....   Quoth the Joel ... 'What I need is probably five o....   >>         You're missing the point. Joel is arguing that ....   >>      my bizarre firing si....   I wouldn't ask that he would be fired. But I woul....   >>   17 Feb 2004   How successful has M....   Friend of mine got involved in Quixtar (the online....   >>   12 Feb 2004   Dim statement As Ann....   What gets under my skin is the anachronistic meani....   >>      just how much math i....   'See how much harder #2 is? That's just three days....   >>   11 Feb 2004      I expanded (x-1)^2 to x^2-2x+1 before integrating.....   >>         By the way, isn't the answer x^3/3-x^2+x+C?   >>      How do you say "list....   I say 'list sub i'. I don't know why, though.    >>   10 Feb 2004   Good vs Bad Code   I'll second (or third or fourth or fifth) 'too man....   >>   03 Feb 2004   Stop the insanity!   'I'm staying anonymous in case the programmer in q....   >>   02 Feb 2004   Client's bad coding ....   1. Relax. The natural first reaction most coders ....   >>   30 Jan 2004   Arguments against cu....   My response to "it shouldn't take three days to do....   >>   28 Jan 2004   Taxes & US Devel....   Clinton managed to balance the budget, but it took....   >>         Rob ... "tax cuts we can't afford" is an accurate ....   >>         I remember your destructive envy post, Philo. I t....   >>   27 Jan 2004   Brussels set to rule....   International trade law.  If you want to expo....   >>      Managing Idiot Savan....   'Don't confuse the tools with the resulting produc....   >>         'Savant' means 'a person of learning; especially o....   >>         I got the 'idiot' part. But 'savant'? How can on....   >>      Starting a company: ....   Products: high risk, potentially high reward. Ser....   >>      LOL - resume article....   25 separate resume-related threads.  Don't yo....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Mars Rover Software ....   Written in Java? I think I see the problem ... ....   >>         /var got filled up. Or the moral equivalent, sinc....   >>      I'd like to divert y....   Great article. This should get a bold. One thi....   >>      In Defense of Joel's....   Wow. A Bayesian Resume Filter. That's a GREAT co....   >>      Gay men on the plane....   It is a tounge-in-cheek response to http://discuss....   >>      Resume Post   You guys worry too much about what Joel thinks. ....   >>   23 Jan 2004   Why does Google cach....   Well, YOUR comments leave me puzzled! So there! ....   >>   22 Jan 2004   Dealing with Madness   Yeah, I hate it when they ask me to do work. Do....   >>      Why does Google cach....   If you think Google's cache is pointless, then don....   >>         I think it's that the page served up still has lin....   >>   21 Jan 2004   A plea for email add....   I remember trying to email Philo privately once, e....   >>         I haven't been DEAD lately either ...   >>         Won't matter, you'll be dead anyways.  What's....   >>         Unbeknownst to everyone else, I use president@whit....   >>      For Sale: Abstract B....   Well, I think it would be more salable if only had....   >>   19 Jan 2004   Define "Code Complet....   Alyosha`s Law: software is never 'done' - only occ....   >>      new direction for Am....   Isn't this a Republican administration? Shouldn....   >>   18 Jan 2004   search engine data m....   Six months seems about right ... give or take thre....   >>   17 Jan 2004   new direction for Am....   At last, Bush will finally be able to complete his....   >>      My Grammar be gettin....   I agree that's not a bug. It's a feature. It's....   >>   16 Jan 2004   Blatant Discriminati....   Life's not fair.  No one owes you a job. ....   >>      Internet Explorer: w....   Yes ... I was a bit amused by the fact that, altho....   >>         You can always go back to using Netscape, if you w....   >>      is there any point t....   Pakter: guilty as charged. I lived 60 miles from ....   >>      trust new grad with ....   'We have our own libraries for STL-like containers....   >>         I have a sneaky suspicion that 300 KLOC is cut and....   >>      Private offices: fai....   Well, also consider this ... (these figures are fo....   >>         Amen about the class warfare thing. One of the ma....   >>      Greenspan   Stephen: Reich is refering to defined-benefit cont....   >>   15 Jan 2004   What to use for Encr....   What do you want encryption for? 1. So the us....   >>      is there any point t....   Do it. The ability to speak another language open....   >>      trust new grad with ....   Even though LOC is a completely bogus metric, 12 K....   >>         1. How well spec'ed out is his module? 2. How cle....   >>      Speaking of neat wat....   My brain would work across an RS-232 cable.   >>      Resume critique?   In case anyone's wondering, the possessive form of....   >>      I am so lucky I have....   By the way, Joel already wrote your Architecture d....   >>         Dude, Alex was JOKING when he was talking about dr....   >>   14 Jan 2004   Resume critique?   I'd say yes. Careful tho, we're pretty harsh. ....   >>      Anger-Oriented Progr....   I'd say your teachers have taught you well.  ....   >>      Replicating code on ....   Only the data is allocated. If you have a structu....   >>      Greenspan   It's a common misconception that unemployment stat....   >>         I thought this was already common knowledge: first....   >>      I am so lucky I have....   There is some truth to what braid_ged says, but ke....   >>         The answer to your problem is the neglect of one o....   >>      Interview Technique   The previous comment by marktaw is closed captione....   >>   13 Jan 2004   Interesting Security....   What language are you going to write a C compiler ....   >>      Economy:Signs on the....   I was out of work for 18 months before finding emp....   >>      Vancouver BC?   Seattle too.  I've been tempted to ask about ....   >>      taking a year off   Assume that you won't get your job back. Also, ....   >>      My Next 'Save the Wo....   More specifically, it's rewarded for the number of....   >>         Another gaping hole in this scheme: you need to en....   >>         Hey, he got you too!   >>      Portlets?   What's a portal, anyways? I know the word comes....   >>   12 Jan 2004   My Next 'Save the Wo....   Thought about this more on the drive home. My s....   >>         Step one ... boil the ocean ... Honestly ... ho....   >>      Pay Rate as a Contra....   Depends on how many work hours a year you expect. ....   >>      Testing Question   I shouldn't be so sarcastic. Half the job is know....   >>         Let us know if you pass the take-home technical sc....   >>      The real reason we n....   What a horrible world it would be, if we allowed t....   >>         Richard P pretty much summed it up. It's like a l....   >>         I think the problem with micropayments is folks wi....   >>      Can't Copy Money   Is counterfeiting good?  No.  Does such ....   >>   09 Jan 2004   Strange Design Decis....   Software must be one of the few endeavors where th....   >>      What to make of "han....   When you compare the number of useless statistics ....   >>         Ditto what Philo said. It's neat that he can opti....   >>      fundamental question....   However, the problem with middlemen is that inevit....   >>      apprentice   I read about that in the paper today. Usually I h....   >>      Any JOS Readers in U....   A friend of mine who worked in the petrochemical i....   >>   08 Jan 2004   101 101   In most colleges, the courses are numbered. Every....   >>   31 Dec 2003   Wrong industry   Sorry.  My ability to read people's minds isn....   >>      High return skills i....   We use Sharepoint here internally.  I hate it....   >>   30 Dec 2003   Understanding Pixels....   A dot is the smallest pixel a printer can make. A....   >>      Create files from DO....   Stone-age solution: create a 0-byte file and just ....   >>      E-Vote Gear firm hac....   Simon: it's amazing, but I have come to roughly th....   >>         Electronic voting isn't 100% secure or reliable. ....   >>      Could it be that M$S....   I have come to learn that holding North America is....   >>      Lovers at Work ...   It strikes me as odd that most of us don't have a ....   >>   29 Dec 2003   sorting   Sounds like a candidate for "SELECT id,data FROM m....   >>         I would outsource it overseas.   >>      Lovers at Work ...   Bjarne: there's no way we'd ever have enough data ....   >>   15 Dec 2003   IBM sends more jobs ....   Actually, Nick, I agree with you. I just can't pa....   >>         Suddenly the Bush plan for creating new jobs makes....   >>   12 Dec 2003   Command line vs. Gui....   Hammer vs. Screwdriver.  DISCUSS!   >>      Simulate Slow Networ....   There are freely available programs on the interne....   >>      How "e" is the place....   Our company's workstations do not support this but....   >>      technical interview   I work in Seattle. Microsoft has their particular....   >>      Nul Folder   This, children, is why DOS should still be taught ....   >>   11 Dec 2003   IRS Systems upgrade,....   Dennis: please cite your sources more specifically....   >>      Bill Gates: agnostic....   Bored: what do you mean by 'provable'? Never un....   >>         'Anyway, I've always considered it the height of i....   >>   09 Dec 2003   How To Get Rich Prog....   By stealing a penny from every bank transaction!   >>      Chest Pain ... Am I ....   'Dude, when you kick the bucket, can I have first ....   >>   08 Dec 2003   Binary search in 5 l....   I believe hi = (hi << shift) | (lo >> (32 - ....   >>      Chest Pain ... Am I ....   The irony of the situation is that he's gonna die ....   >>         So ... doc ... the problem is my app is failing un....   >>      "Low Skill" Rhetoric   'Simon, this is an interesting idea. Do you think ....   >>   05 Dec 2003   Well, this is it   Must be a Manager's advice is correct if you could....   >>         Been there. I was unemployed for 18 months. But ....   >>   04 Dec 2003   Why are 80% of progr....   Sturgeon's Law applies to people. Also, the fact ....   >>      Code in Mind   The mind is a very small working space -- especial....   >>      ...ism at FogCreek?   Rabble Rouser: when would that come up in the subj....   >>         Yes.  That's SIR Fucking Asshole to you ...&n....   >>         'Slavery is a violation of individual rights. Disc....   >>         Dustin: your last comments were hard to understand....   >>         'Except it shouldn't be the gov'ts job to provide ....   >>         'Unfortunately, the idea of sunsetting laws seems ....   >>         I *so* should be doing work right now. But I'm a ....   >>         If it were only you, Tapiwa, I wouldn't be harmed ....   >>         And if you punch me in the nose, what have I lost?....   >>         You seem to say that 'you can't legislate morality....   >>         If you want to know how those laws came into exist....   >>   03 Dec 2003   how any interviews b....   I can't resist a political / economic digression e....   >>   02 Dec 2003      Name Witheld has a clue. I'd gladly criticize Mr ....   >>   01 Dec 2003   Dynamic formatting   Lemme guess, you're internationalizing?   >>      Interview Question   My roommate has a pet interview question that I've....   >>   26 Nov 2003   Master and Slave   'In the context of the Southern United States, Mas....   >>         To The Poster Without A Name: Would 'master' an....   >>         'Legal remedies and grievance for their own sake t....   >>         It's very unpolitically correct these days to defe....   >>      Death of Moore's Law....   ASICs and FPGAs are pretty well known acryonyms in....   >>      The bookshelf   Clearly, _Atlas Shrugged_ by Ayn Rand should be at....   >>   25 Nov 2003   Death of Moore's Law....   Moore's Law is on a collision course Stein's Law: ....   >>      Proposed Interview P....   I didn't mean to focus in on the whole Ayn Rand th....   >>   24 Nov 2003      Dustin: perhaps those are not your views, but I th....   >>         So, in other words, you're looking for somone who ....   >>         Dustin: Microsoft is very careful to ask questions....   >>         Aussie: I don't have that much confidence in psych....   >>         Your choice. I'm only pointing out that your proc....   >>         You are filtering candidates based on criteria tha....   >>      What do I say to thi....   Any project? So, Microsoft could rewrite Windows ....   >>   21 Nov 2003   Obscure acronyms   Are you sure that it doesn't refer to a Twelve Let....   >>      The Lifestyle   Stay away from my cat, dude.   >>      World Class Programm....   Those are all very FAMOUS programmers. I don't kn....   >>   20 Nov 2003      There's no such thing as a world class programmer.....   >>      Why are we doing thi....   Did I miss a meme or something?   >>      Being pushed   Then post it on JOS. It makes for interesting r....   >>   19 Nov 2003   What's your document....   The key to clean, uncluttered writing is not to wr....   >>         One lesson I've taken from the book, _On Writing W....   >>      Silly Question: How ....   Money can't buy happiness, but then again, neither....   >>   17 Nov 2003   how much your salary....   Well, I was unemployed last year, and now I'm work....   >>      Search engine censor....   Sure we want useful results from a search engine .....   >>   15 Nov 2003   Choosing a "voice" f....   I can't speak for the results as a service provide....   >>      Airport Security - a....   Poverty and violent crime are strongly correlated.....   >>   14 Nov 2003   Dressing up for job ....   Dress well, but not too well. Here endeth the l....   >>      Cycles in the econom....   MarkTAW: if I recall correctly, the definition of ....   >>      Where's Bella?   Conversely, Alyosha` is the pseudonym when someone....   >>      ...favorite light bu....   How many atheists does it take to change a light b....   >>      Imaginary Online Gir....   The most important thing is sincerity.  If yo....   >>      Airport Security - a....   The reason I think it is relevant is that you brou....   >>         Ah, but how many poor people do you know? Moreo....   >>         *cough* *cough* *China has extremely strict gun co....   >>         Correct - drug producers do not engage in the figh....   >>         Dennis: perhaps you're not aware of the autodefens....   >>         Ah, that explains why Colombia is so safe. Guns....   >>   13 Nov 2003   Lightbulbs   Oh, and one to capriciously delete the thread abou....   >>         One to write a ten-page post about his last experi....   >>   12 Nov 2003   Speed   Er. km/hr, I meant. Notice that I said *world*....   >>         I believe the world record for the fastest compute....   >>      Airport security - a....   Well, I try to avoid reasoning along the lines of ....   >>         I don't think anyone would dispute that reasonable....   >>         I think, when the revolution comes, you'll be spen....   >>   07 Nov 2003   Belkin routers   Outrageous!   >>      For Toronto-Area Joe....   Wow, a bulletin board all about posting on a bulle....   >>      Is Linux more Secure....   That was an insightful, reasoned, and fair treatme....   >>   06 Nov 2003   Amazon Sucks Now   I am so tempted to create a new thread: MarkTAW Su....   >>      teamate becomming te....   Some suggestions: 1. Earn your teammates' trust....   >>      God in the firmware   I don't know which bothers me more: the pretensiou....   >>      physics   If 'material' is a useless word, then it's even le....   >>         One of the leading minds in the field of philosoph....   >>         http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter breaks it dow....   >>         'Reality is not built from solid little particles,....   >>   05 Nov 2003   God in the firmware   I hate to admit it, but The Real PC has a point, t....   >>         I never did understand 'praying for things' from a....   >>         If it's not The Real PC, it's a well-done parody o....   >>         I'm not sure why this is really considered news.&n....   >>      physics   Nah, it's a reference to presidential candidate Ho....   >>         'And anyone who doesn't thing M theory is mysterio....   >>         Actually, the 'M' stands for 'mother of theories',....   >>         Yes - as DJ said, string theory does not displace ....   >>   04 Nov 2003   GUIDs   Yes ... the problem is that random numbers aren't ....   >>      Social Networking si....   Reminds me of the MOTD that one of the Dalnet serv....   >>      Where Did You Go To ....   University of Arizona; Bachelor's in Computer Engi....   >>   30 Oct 2003   Capability Maturity ....   Flamebait: sure. What works well for one team may....   >>         I'd like to introduce you to the Alyosha` Software....   >>      Online identity   As if Alyosha` is my real name (honest! the backt....   >>   24 Oct 2003   Alyosha   'In other words, there is more to consider than si....   >>   23 Oct 2003   VB for hand-held dev....   Embedded Visual C++, Embedded Visual Basic, and I ....   >>      Alyosha   Man, I feel like I'm on some sort of Dial-an-Athei....   >>   22 Oct 2003   Curse of the 4.0   You could do what the Word for Windows team did ......   >>         I don't know about Japanese, but in Mandarin, 'fou....   >>      Test Team Chaos   Quit!  =-)   >>      Alyosha   'If life is spontaneously self-organizing you don'....   >>         'But no one can provide a convincing argument base....   >>   21 Oct 2003      Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, most notably. Of course....   >>         Can I just remark that the fact that this ISN'T th....   >>         It seems I'm one of the few here who has only a la....   >>   20 Oct 2003      'Who made the stuff that eventually became the DNA....   >>         'Darwinism is absolutely disproven because it pred....   >>   19 Oct 2003      'What about the idea that there is a creative prin....   >>         Troy: folks discovered in the 17th and 18th centur....   >>         Macroevolution has never been clearly defined. I ....   >>   18 Oct 2003      Actually I think the real seeds of materialism and....   >>         Oh wow, an entire topic devoted to ME! You're r....   >>   17 Oct 2003   Annoying Signup Webpages?   >>   17 Oct 2003   When was the last ti....   Christopher: that's why I say if you have the poss....   >>         In the embedded space, memory allocation failing i....   >>      Y DOES it Matter wha....   throw new ThreadIsOverException( );   >>      Proof of the superna....   Hahahah Jim ... baseball as an existence proof for....   >>      AI again   I really wonder what your standard of comparison i....   >>         'You obviously have no understanding of ID'. Yo....   >>   16 Oct 2003      'Why isn't there fossil evidence of species gradua....   >>         'Most mutations are harmful'. Actually no. Mos....   >>         Godwin's law doesn't work when Hitler comparisons ....   >>         Let me restate what I meant in a more clear form: ....   >>         Devils Advocate: Behe discussed the bombardier bee....   >>         The reason why Behe would have a hard time publish....   >>         Jim Rankin: Darwinists have addressed Behe's criti....   >>         mackinac: well, cave animals DO lose sight; eyes b....   >>   15 Oct 2003      'There is no evidence for the Judeo-Christian crea....   >>         ''Creationist' originally meant someone who believ....   >>   13 Oct 2003   finally, exceptions ....   We had this discussion before. http://discuss.f....   >>      PHP Unicode FUD   Hrmm, seems my remark that this forum doesn't hand....   >>      Larry Wall half-wron....   Mike: and even moderation should not be practiced ....   >>         '[T]he problem is that defective web pages render ....   >>         'My webpage isn't rendering right in XXX browser!'....   >>      No karma numbers, no....   Hrmmm, I wonder who .desoc'd me ...   >>      How does one generat....   How to generate hype as a small company: first, ge....   >>   10 Oct 2003   ah, memories   The easiest thing to do is also the thing that got....   >>      Low cost intranet so....   'Requirements are vague and imprecise. They don't ....   >>      AI   I'm not accusing anyone of anything; I'm merely po....   >>         Man, this was a great thread until it got sidetrac....   >>   09 Oct 2003   Mail Sending : Enter....   Once botspammers learn to decode wonkified text in....   >>      AI   I don't know what is meant by 'computers can't get....   >>   08 Oct 2003   Design Oversight   >>   08 Oct 2003   Are we all crappy co....   Ah yes, the dream of telling a computer what to do....   >>      Design Oversight   And in other news, the same company rolled out the....   >>   07 Oct 2003   Thomas Stanley - The....   I'm guessing home ownership. As a long-term inves....   >>      What source control ....   Chris: FogBugz is a bugtracking tool.  We're ....   >>   03 Oct 2003   Who should name an a....   Eric: looks like you learned the Never Use the Pro....   >>      C/C++ Question   Yes, the Parent:: is unnecessary. You should be a....   >>      What's Happened to J....   Home Depot is hiring greeters? Hot damn! Hang on....   >>   01 Oct 2003      When I apply for a job, I usually send both -- let....   >>         Re: Career Services: why should I take resume advi....   >>   30 Sep 2003   How to beat lethargy....   When I start zoning out at work, I'll crawl under ....   >>   28 Sep 2003   Somebody, please exp....   When I call my girlfriend in Colombia, it's about ....   >>   27 Sep 2003   Why doesn't Java hav....   I'm curious: how is this a problem?   >>      Do you Google just a....   No. Just the women I think are hot. You know, fo....   >>   26 Sep 2003   Grudgingly admitting....   Not to hijack your thread, but I wonder if anyone ....   >>      Where to Place a Job....   Dave: have you asked your current employees who th....   >>      Best Cities for Smal....   Nevada has the nation's highest tax on people who ....   >>      I had an idea drivin....   Philo: I think anonymous's point was that once you....   >>      Who pays for unemplo....   George Bush did the American people no favors by c....   >>         That we killed, or Saddam killed? http://www.ir....   >>         It's funny. When Democrats waste a million here, ....   >>   25 Sep 2003   Double Byte Problem   'The computer at the logistics company do not hand....   >>      Who pays for unemplo....   If by 'protecting ourselves' you mean 'engaging in....   >>         Please explain to me what changed between 1991 and....   >>         Slow down, apw, I can't keep up with you changing ....   >>         If you mean to say our economy is in the toilet be....   >>         Ah yes, the old conservative canard: 'government d....   >>   24 Sep 2003   Banning email?   'People spend hours crafting messages when a simpl....   >>      Setting up a home wi....   Mike: I have a linksys ... I've only noticed probl....   >>         I did this about a year ago. You need to get your....   >>      99.9 percentile   Jim: it would have been a whole lot better if Joel....   >>         C+ ... take a look at what Joel said: 'I suspec....   >>         The number one conceit about 'we hire only 99.9 pe....   >>         Yes ... why does Joel need 99.9 percentile people?....   >>      Keeping track of cod....   Don't you mean to say that you're a one-woman team....   >>      Who pays for unemplo....   'If most people are just sitting around collecting....   >>         'I'd rather have the possibility of taking home an....   >>   23 Sep 2003   When is a bug a bug?   A bug is any violation of the Law of Least Astonis....   >>      Who pays for unemplo....   In the US, unemployment is paid by the employer as....   >>   20 Sep 2003   Do you bill for lunc....   I asked my superior about this once during a time ....   >>   19 Sep 2003   Interview Question   People look at grades? I never showed anyone my....   >>      C++ OO question   For more info about 'a circle is not a kind-of an ....   >>   17 Sep 2003   Understaffed   Almost overworked: I use the cygwin tools [ http:/....   >>   16 Sep 2003   Suggestions for scre....   Shift+PrtScn and GIMP work for me.  =-)   >>      Smart, get things do....   I'm not surprised. I noticed in college that th....   >>         'There are a lot of IQ and/or personality tests us....   >>         Also, don't forget the self-selection bias of most....   >>      Measuring Performanc....   Today I had the revelation that even the most soph....   >>   13 Sep 2003   What's your latest p....   I wish I knew ...   >>   12 Sep 2003   ot: brain parsing of....   artist: this is true of Latin, too; the function o....   >>         'I bet they rule even more in languages like Spani....   >>         jedi: this only tells me that you have limited exp....   >>      Job References Dilem....   And if you don't say anything, they might sue you ....   >>   11 Sep 2003   Trying to be C++ con....   Yes. Sometimes gets are unavoidable. However, ....   >>         'This would tell the programmer that the private m....   >>         Sheesh, William, don't flip a bit. I don't post h....   >>         You mean something like 'const BOOL CSomeClass:....   >>      Am I damaged for goo....   No. The only thing that may suffer is your resume....   >>      Smallest exe ?   Law #1: every program can be reduced in size by on....   >>      who will do the UI ?   'Let's take, for example, my old friend the autonu....   >>      Another take on Amer....   Godwin: clearly you are aware that Godwin's Law do....   >>   10 Sep 2003   who will do the UI ?   It's impossible to tell from a simple screenshot w....   >>      Another take on Amer....   At the schools I went to, questioning authority wa....   >>   09 Sep 2003      I received an American public school education -- ....   >>         Taxes?  I thought education was going to by f....   >>      Conformity in platfo....   'Actually, I have to admit I've never fully unders....   >>   08 Sep 2003   make a general produ....   I plan on conquering the world.  Should I go ....   >>      Distribute Tests Acr....   'Testing, automated or not, should be done on mach....   >>      Honors Major in Comp....   'If the guy from Podunk had 15 patents, and the BS....   >>   28 Aug 2003   Developers in Suits ....   My employer understands that a tie would clash wit....   >>   27 Aug 2003   Java guide for C++ c....   "All functions are virtual functions" ... except i....   >>         Good overview, Christopher. However one minor qui....   >>      NASA culture key to ....   See, that's what I mean though -- they didn't even....   >>         Albert: I think the real mistake was that they did....   >>   25 Aug 2003   Application Architec....   Coupling refers to the reliance of one component o....   >>      Safety in India   Google and ye shall find ... ... whatever it wa....   >>      XML - the only pract....   David Jones: but with a simple XSLT script, you co....   >>   22 Aug 2003   Contracting, Permame....   saber: think of it this way ... go to work for Mic....   >>         'Perhaps you should work for Microsoft (and do you....   >>      Goliath vs David   Why Google will always dominate: it is, and will a....   >>      US doesn't have an a....   Philo ... lemme get this straight ... You're fo....   >>         Eastern Europe dude: Yes, deep beneath those la....   >>   21 Aug 2003      Why should we go into space?  It costs a lot ....   >>      Outsourcing to India....   Take a lesson from thermodynamics ... Two bodie....   >>      Decline and Fall (se....   Not even close, Philo. At the moment we've got ....   >>      Google calculator   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe....   >>   20 Aug 2003   What'd you do with u....   Two chicks at the same time. (somebody had to s....   >>      Deadlines   "I love deadlines.  I love the whooshing soun....   >>      #define PRIVATE stat....   I have heard there is some confusion regarding pla....   >>      Poor poor me, the fi....   *buys PPM another round* You have quite a strin....   >>      Don't you malloc() m....   Yeah, I don't get that font obfuscation scheme. W....   >>   19 Aug 2003   Poor poor me, the fi....   Here are backlinks: http://discuss.fogcreek.com....   >>      Don't you malloc() m....   Eric: SCO has nothing more to lose.  SCO is a....   >>         This reminds me so much of the Synoptic Problem. ....   >>      "Good" worm?   Yes, when you have a security hole you could march....   >>         I think you folks should keep in mind that there's....   >>         PS: 'Despite the apparently good intentions of ....   >>         Damn. They stole my idea. The only problem is ....   >>      freeware lightweight....   I use GIMP on Windows.  It's pretty ugly and ....   >>   18 Aug 2003   Development Paltform....   Bait: because one figure out what the basic requir....   >>   15 Aug 2003   Got lights?   Philo: Power isn't competative.  There's a hi....   >>   14 Aug 2003   MSBlast - I don't un....   Assigning blame is always a fruitless activity. ....   >>         Tasha: this is the layman's version that I've been....   >>         At the risk of feeding the troll ... My Mom got....   >>      Database Programming   Yah. Your approach is too combative. For me, t....   >>      What is the differen....   Canonical joke required. Ponder this parable: ....   >>      Is anyone else compl....   Firewall your wireless base station, then.  I....   >>   13 Aug 2003   should I begin the p....   FullName: it's my impression she's useful already.....   >>         I don't see any reason why she should be fired. ....   >>   12 Aug 2003   C++ Test - Questions....   I like what Danil said about a coworker: 'After al....   >>   11 Aug 2003   Nice to know we're n....   George, Washington (about 30 miles east of where I....   >>   08 Aug 2003   Bob Noxious -- the t....   A pair is useless against a full house.   >>   07 Aug 2003   Microsoft Millionair....   Philo: the reason I don't spend much time talking ....   >>   06 Aug 2003   Is This Code style/S....   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small mi....   >>      HR Interview - How t....   Kryptonite.   >>      Space Shuttle Disast....   I don't get it.  It was a coal-fired engine i....   >>      Microsoft Millionair....   Jason ... I can't disagree much with what you've s....   >>         Philo: I think a case for reform can be made each ....   >>   05 Aug 2003   c++ before c??   It's quite a bit less messy in C++, since with the....   >>      S-Q-L or SeQueL?   I pronounce it "sequel" (it's easier), but if some....   >>      Building a build pro....   sgf: I've worked in a place where the compiler was....   >>      Joel Test Number Eig....   I worked in a cubicle at my first job. However, t....   >>      Microsoft Millionair....   Jason ... keep in mind that when you cut taxes whi....   >>         Philo: from the same link I posted above. 'In f....   >>         Jason ... I agree that the downturn in the economy....   >>         During the 2000 presidential campaign, I got hoppi....   >>   04 Aug 2003   Building a build pro....   Yes ... source control is not just for source ... ....   >>      Spa