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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'mackinac' | ||
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Number of Comments: 499 |
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| Number of Words: 58,813 | ||
| First Comment: 22 Feb 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 30 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 3 |
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| First Topic: 27 Dec 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 05 Jun 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 30 Aug 2004 | Incentive Pay Consid.... | >>>finally, our office space is pretty well fixed,.... >> |
| Speaking as a developer... First consider the p.... >> | ||
| 21 Aug 2004 | Interviewing at Micr.... | So you guys that interviewed, did you get a job of.... >> |
| Web sites for buying.... | I have purchased quite a few books from bookpool.c.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2004 | Internet Operating S.... | Plan 9 http://www.vitanuova.com/plan9 >> |
| 18 Aug 2004 | Good Place to Move f.... | >>> True, it helps if you have a Government cleara.... >> |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Guide to being an in.... | That it-proletariat site also had this encouraging.... >> |
| OK. Thanks for posting. It looks interesting. I.... >> | ||
| 13 Aug 2004 | new management fad: .... | >>>Actually, they pay $175 if their daily rate is .... >> |
| This sounds a bit like a little extra benefit that.... >> | ||
| 06 Aug 2004 | Why are pointers use.... | They are very useful when writing low level system.... >> |
| Anyone else from Wis.... | Thanks for the leads. I looked at madison.com. N.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Are their any SWE jobs in Madison? I could b.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Open Source = no rig.... | >>>Societies around the world that support individ.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | What kind of (paper).... | - 8.5' x 11' lined yellow notepads - 5' x 7' line.... >> |
| Quiet workplace: how.... | >>> headphones that are designed to black the outs.... >> | |
| Humans can be quite adaptable. Management could t.... >> | ||
| 12 Jul 2004 | Testing floating poi.... | Theoretically, it would be possible to implement f.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2004 | Any Software for thi.... | What is wrong with JoS. Half the time, when I pos.... >> |
| This sounds like something that network address tr.... >> | ||
| 09 Jul 2004 | Myserious billboard | I've known about e for so long it is hard to remem.... >> |
| >>> I was in some seriously advanced honors level .... >> | ||
| The spurious trailing non-printing character corru.... >> | ||
| And to throw in a useful link: Wolfram/Mathematic.... >> | ||
| >>>Excuse me for being ignorant, but how does one .... >> | ||
| 08 Jul 2004 | initialzing an array.... | >>>Still looks a little weird to me though. I have.... >> |
| >>> I have an array of pointers to objects declar.... >> | ||
| 15 Jun 2004 | jobs are back? | On the east coast, at least in the DC area, there .... >> |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Getting hit by a bus | I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this topic.... >> |
| 05 Jun 2004 | smart people | >>>You make Rand sound much more attractive. <<< .... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | >>>Most of the posts in this and the previous Rand.... >> | |
| Who should I hire? | >>>Otherwise, A would work for some big corporatio.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | If business is so ...... | >>>One myth that has been dispelled many times is .... >> |
| 28 May 2004 | Explain why emacs is.... | I use it, actually XEmacs, for most of my program .... >> |
| 25 May 2004 | Spell Check your Pos.... | I can usually tell when a document has been spell .... >> |
| Paul Graham's "Why N.... | This is an interesting topic. I try to compare Gr.... >> | |
| 21 May 2004 | Backwards Interface? | >>>Here in Ontario the windows are referred by the.... >> |
| 07 May 2004 | Build/buy a quiet PC | I put together a PC using the Antec Sonata case. .... >> |
| Hiring the Best | Nobody ever asked me to apply for a job while I wa.... >> | |
| In some way the technique seems almost obvious, bu.... >> | ||
| 06 May 2004 | One of the ways to s.... | What an apparently conflicting set of beliefs we r.... >> |
| 03 May 2004 | Mini-ITX experiences.... | I have considered using the mini-ITX or getting a .... >> |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Is the job market st.... | That is interesting. Any idea why they decided to.... >> |
| Why did Zilog fail? | Fail? Zilog was exhibiting at an embedded systems.... >> | |
| 28 Apr 2004 | Could an alliance of.... | >>> As an independent, I don't think I have much c.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | I want to work for a.... | This question comes up here from time to time and .... >> |
| 14 Apr 2004 | The "Flow" | >>> including having my own office with a window .... >> |
| XL, what is the name of your previous employer?&nb.... >> | ||
| 13 Apr 2004 | XL, I just reread your OP and I don't understand .... >> | |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Why no CPANs? | Which came first, CPAN, http://www.cpan.org online.... >> |
| Emergency Vehicle GP.... | Various comments: The fire/ems system that I am.... >> | |
| 31 Mar 2004 | Wrapping code at 80 .... | The 80 column standard for punch cards goes back t.... >> |
| 28 Mar 2004 | Old technical books .... | By some coincidence I had the television on last n.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2004 | Your local public library might take them, not to .... >> | |
| US anti-spam laws | >>> The 'right' thing to do about spam is set up a.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Buying refurbished P.... | There is a good point about batteries above. .... >> |
| capitalism is beauti.... | >>>Here in the US, you get as much salad creme as .... >> | |
| US anti-spam laws | >>> None of this is that complicated, at least it.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Buying refurbished P.... | I am writing this on a HP Vectra that I bought use.... >> |
| US anti-spam laws | >>>This one's pissed me off because they're claimi.... >> | |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Becoming a C program.... | My current project uses C, so I hope it's not dead.... >> |
| 15 Mar 2004 | seeking career advic.... | Why have you not interviewed at employers who coul.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Cubes vs. Offices - .... | >>>But I think if you do a factor analysis on prog.... >> |
| 02 Mar 2004 | An article in the Washington Post a few years ago .... >> | |
| >>>I don't have the years of experience with cubes.... >> | ||
| 23 Feb 2004 | Suggest career path .... | >>> Ok, I don't see what the problem is. ... Fir.... >> |
| 07 Feb 2004 | Economy looking up | >>> Mackinac, official employment statistics do in.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2004 | >>> It is falling mainly because most unemployed p.... >> | |
| Interviews keep comi.... | That's almost two interviews a month. It sounds l.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Bad Fit in a Corpora.... | This sounds somewhat familiar. After several year.... >> |
| 31 Jan 2004 | Amazingly stupid, si.... | char temp[] = '>> |
| Berzerkley | Another case of the spurious non-printing trailing.... >> | |
| 30 Jan 2004 | P. Graham's "What yo.... | Follow the link at the bottom labeled "A Civic Dut.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Documentation | There seem to be two threads going on here: - Log.... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | People who lack a se.... | >>> George Carlin is the funniest person on the pl.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Frustated by .... | I am reading this thread because I like math probl.... >> |
| What function? Where does N fit in to this? Un.... >> | ||
| 25 Jan 2004 | Technical Ladder -- .... | >>> So the consensus is that the management ladder.... >> |
| The small ( 50 employees, mostly technical) compan.... >> | ||
| 20 Jan 2004 | Are Developers Typic.... | I am a developer doing embedded systems, scientifi.... >> |
| 19 Jan 2004 | The computer delusio.... | What ever happened to CDC's Plato? They put a .... >> |
| Please enter... with.... | >>>If it ever came up, I'd change it. However, no.... >> | |
| Article on going ind.... | >>>given that your likely to find your next job fr.... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | What's so special ab.... | In these various discussions of office space there.... >> |
| >>> If I recall correctly, Andy Grove, back when .... >> | ||
| 14 Dec 2003 | Recruiting in remote.... | Jeff, when you decided to locate your company in r.... >> |
| 13 Dec 2003 | Consider the school system. I live in the Wa.... >> | |
| Jeff, I expect that you'll find enough people who .... >> | ||
| 12 Dec 2003 | Getting started with.... | Here is another commercial Lisp vendor. Their Lis.... >> |
| Let's try those links again. Sometimes a non-prin.... >> | ||
| Speaking as one with limited lisp experience: C.... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2003 | Bill Gates: agnostic.... | >>> Ie, for most (all?) people the decision to bel.... >> |
| Auto-Hiding Menu Ite.... | You mean this idiotic feature can be disabled?&nbs.... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2003 | Software Babe | >>>Last time I checked I enjoyed talking here with.... >> |
| 08 Dec 2003 | open source | The notion that management thinks of programming a.... >> |
| 07 Dec 2003 | If there are few dec.... | >>> It seems like a lot of people who are unhappy .... >> |
| Warren, some people do just come here to rant and .... >> | ||
| 30 Nov 2003 | Private rooms vs. "r.... | And here's an article about the hidden costs of pu.... >> |
| Here is a link to a research report that indicates.... >> | ||
| 29 Nov 2003 | Bionic office sample.... | Here is an article about SAS. Note: 'Everyone wit.... >> |
| Private rooms vs. "r.... | What is best for executives might not be what's be.... >> | |
| 28 Nov 2003 | Bionic office sample.... | Joel, thank you for posting the link to the Santa .... >> |
| No, that's not the best way. With some effort the.... >> | ||
| Private rooms vs. "r.... | I saw the article referred to in the OP a few year.... >> | |
| 27 Nov 2003 | telecommuting proble.... | Whenever the topic of work space comes up I take t.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | The relentless march.... | |
| The bookshelf | For anyone who might have to get close to the hard.... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Some books I read through once, a few get read mul.... >> | |
| What is a Halon syst.... | Bob's questions illustrate an interesting characte.... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2003 | >>> I knew a guy (mainframe technician) who was in.... >> | |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Peopleware and war g.... | Participants in the coding war games did not 'volu.... >> |
| 08 Nov 2003 | Music Selection Whil.... | This topic comes up with some regularity. I'.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | Was I right? | After reading the OP a couple of times I'd agree t.... >> |
| 02 Nov 2003 | Peopleware : doors b.... | >>>A view from my desk :<<< Crowded, but the pi.... >> |
| >>>You think your office conditions are cramped....... >> | ||
| 01 Nov 2003 | I am a fan of Peopleware and a strong advocate of .... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Is Electronics &.... | The quoted post in the OP shouldn't have disparage.... >> |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Reverse offshoring? | >>> An afterthought - I'm in DC, which shows more .... >> |
| Their web site is awesome, in the worst sense of t.... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2003 | AI again | >>> Why isn't there fossil evidence of species gra.... >> |
| Alyosha` >>> mackinac: well, cave animals DO lose .... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2003 | >>> How would you prove Darwinism wrong, by the wa.... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Leave your language .... | >>> Green light means GO (dammit). <<< Sorry, n.... >> |
| 12 Oct 2003 | are there any true ".... | In the political capital of the country, what kind.... >> |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Well, I can't think of anything for you. Is AOL n.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | It is not really clear to me what kind of company .... >> | |
| 03 Oct 2003 | How many developers .... | For new code I generally write some sort of test d.... >> |
| 02 Oct 2003 | What's Happened to J.... | This is certainly an interesting thread. I have b.... >> |
| 01 Oct 2003 | >>> The GOOD workers have jobs, and therefore don.... >> | |
| Dave writes: >>> Don't people understand that I do.... >> | ||
| Uncommonly Awesome O.... | >>> you've got to factor into the equation all the.... >> | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | >>> mackinac, since you asked, ... <<< Michael,.... >> | |
| 28 Sep 2003 | Michael, it would be interesting to know what your.... >> | |
| 26 Sep 2003 | I had an idea drivin.... | Grumpy's idea is a factor, but not the whole story.... >> |
| Private offices, jus.... | >>>Maybe it's a personality thing. I really prefer.... >> | |
| 25 Sep 2003 | >>> Personally, where I work, I've never heard any.... >> | |
| >>> Well I'm frustrated that I think nearly everyo.... >> | ||
| >>> but you might have done better if you'd left t.... >> | ||
| 24 Sep 2003 | I have worked in a variety of office arrangements:.... >> | |
| New FC office | It can be quite interesting to read about some of .... >> | |
| Who pays for unemplo.... | In the current economic situation I might expect a.... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Good News for Americ.... | >>>Maybe it's a non sequiter for this thread, but .... >> |
| >>>The basic problem lies in the employee/victim c.... >> | ||
| >>> I don't know where people get the idea that [H.... >> | ||
| The most ridiculous statement in the referenced CN.... >> | ||
| What tool do you mis.... | Right now I miss having an employer. Without an e.... >> | |
| 21 Sep 2003 | Perspective | >>> While we worry about losing job opportunities .... >> |
| 20 Sep 2003 | Area wide Active Noi.... | Check out www.quietsolution.com This site has sev.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2003 | What's your latest p.... | Reading the Sunday job ads, emailing my resume, ta.... >> |
| hosting service that.... | >>> I'd like to ask: Do any of these offer shell a.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2003 | Developers in Suits .... | >>> Not as much of a morale boost as climbing into.... >> |
| 28 Aug 2003 | Licensing Legalities | Reading the license agreements, while tedious, can.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Things really starti.... | >>> Is it possible to get a clearance when you're .... >> |
| 25 Aug 2003 | If you aren't looking, how do 7-8 people even thin.... >> | |
| 4-5 calls in a week?!!! GiorgioG, where are you l.... >> | ||
| 21 Aug 2003 | US doesn't have an a.... | Another interesting web site http://www.rrs.org >> |
| Why does it have to be 'China' or 'US' or 'India'?.... >> | ||
| Technical College De.... | >>> , there is no recession. <<< This might be .... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2003 | >>> I mean only 6 people out of 35 in my class got.... >> | |
| freeware UML softwar.... | Aren't free software developers avoiding the GIF f.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | Job (and life) Advic.... | Professional organizations, (e.g., IEEE, ACM ) pro.... >> |
| >>> However, I'd strongly recommend targeting the .... >> | ||
| 14 Aug 2003 | I guess Fog Creek's .... | It was a "software failure", so it says on ABC new.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2003 | should I begin the p.... | Let's see here. This person is 'smart, quick, cap.... >> |
| What are your values.... | I like making things work, so might like any kind .... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Constants in C | >>> because it's easier to understand where it's d.... >> |
| Nice to know we're n.... | >>> If memory serves, there is also a Fork, OR. <<.... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Office space | An article that is very interesting, but may be di.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2003 | Economics Books | Todd Buchholz has written two good books on econom.... >> |
| Office space | Here are some URLs for some online references: .... >> | |
| There is not a lot of research on this. Peoplewar.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2003 | Age discrimination i.... | >>> I mean they have grey hair! <<< When did .... >> |
| Joel Test Number Eig.... | >>> The problem with most people I know, is they'.... >> | |
| When you can't find .... | Well, at least I got noticed. I sent my resume in.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Joel Test Number Eig.... | Based on my years of experience in a variety of wo.... >> |
| Companies with good office space are rare, but the.... >> | ||
| When you can't find .... | Now that I have been out of work for a month, it i.... >> | |
| 02 Aug 2003 | Philo and lawyers | Herbert, That was a very interesting posting. .... >> |
| Implementing Joel Te.... | Wow, that is quite an opportunity. Hopefully, you.... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2003 | Guns,Germs,and Steel.... | I would recommend reading some books on economics..... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Are these reasonable.... | It has been interesting to hear what might be impo.... >> |
| >>> I think unless your current employer buys int.... >> | ||
| This has been a rather interesting discussion. Ja.... >> | ||
| 30 Jul 2003 | Plenty of Software W.... | To get back to the original topic, I am trying to .... >> |
| I joined the vast army of unemployed software engi.... >> | ||
| Coots R US | >>> 65. First language: Fortran. <<< OK, ther.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | Correct Answers | >>> And what does BTDT stand for again? <<< Th.... >> |
| Is this a real problem? I've never had an in.... >> | ||
| 28 Jul 2003 | software developers .... | There seems to be some fuzzy reading going on here.... >> |
| Have you browsed around the fogcreek web site and .... >> | ||
| It is not quite clear what you expect to find. Wh.... >> | ||
| 25 Jul 2003 | Offshoring is the LE.... | I am kind of looking forward to those order taking.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2003 | TWO PERCENT of ALL U.... | Here's an interesting quote from the linked articl.... >> |
| New Position/Company.... | It sounds like you are trying to claim that your e.... >> | |
| The statements that you are a 'small company' and .... >> | ||
| cheap developers | >>> Microsoft is hiring 3,000 people. Go work for .... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2003 | a short break for al.... | That little cartoon has been around for decades.&n.... >> |
| 07 Jul 2003 | music -- what I did | This might not be the end of the problem. Since B.... >> |
| 06 Jul 2003 | How much tea in Chin.... | This link works better: http://abcnews.go.com/s.... >> |
| 03 Jul 2003 | music | >>> We are programmers and the department was reor.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2003 | It is management's responsibility to provide a pro.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2003 | Best interview quest.... | >>> 'Do you have any outside funding or VC?' <<< .... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | "Social skills" in t.... | The friend of necessarily anon who didn't like Peo.... >> |
| Time for comic relie.... | 'THIS IS MAD' -- The MAD compiler. As I recall .... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Here is one I found in someone's USENET sig. It's.... >> | |
| Thrill of the day... | Some code does get used for quite some time. My c.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2003 | What Exactly Is A Pe.... | Sure. Why not? >> |
| 23 Jun 2003 | interview questions .... | There is an assumption in some of these posts that.... >> |
| "plumbers make more .... | >>> Does he not have a right to get peeved that al.... >> | |
| Marc, I am willing t.... | But does the interviewer consider it a good thing .... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2003 | Finding People | old School, what kind of work is available in Bos.... >> |
| Marc, on first reading it is difficult for me to b.... >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2003 | Cover letters & .... | CW, something like that is probably the right idea.... >> |
| My employer had a recent RIF, so in a couple of we.... >> | ||
| Your Perfect Company | The bad companies to work for are the ones that ma.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2003 | Hiding my ignorance .... | >>> hopefully, a Win32 programmer will come along .... >> |
| It does look like a macro. Run it through th.... >> | ||
| 13 Jun 2003 | Not my problem... | Maybe this is related to the 'smart and gets thing.... >> |
| Smart/Funny/Stupid C.... | >>> 'The problem is that you don't capture the usu.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | I agree with the idea of making code readable and .... >> | |
| Frederick, you're right. The idea of boolean expr.... >> | ||
| Free soda? | It may be officially potable, but in some places t.... >> | |
| Joel, make that '_quiet_ private office'. If yo.... >> | ||
| 11 Jun 2003 | Cool title | I kind of like Software Engineer. In the pas.... >> |
| Free soda? | I get annoyed when I see a company announcing that.... >> | |
| Would you move? | >>> Stay in the stable and gray company or go to a.... >> | |
| Move. >> | ||
| Survey:: Personality.... | INTJ - but kind of border line between J/P. .... >> | |
| What do you listen t.... | You guys all use headphones when you're in the off.... >> | |
| stop deleting intere.... | My real name has some interesting characteristics..... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2003 | Procrastination = no.... | Even better, some problems just go away if you wai.... >> |
| For Stephen Jones &a.... | The writing of James Randi makes for some interest.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2003 | A comment on Joel's .... | My first exposure to modern physics was reading Ga.... >> |
| You didn't answer my questions. >> | ||
| rPC, for some reason I have been trying to follow.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2003 | Back to the VC world | My only real experience with VC is by being a vict.... >> |
| Enjoying your work | It is good to hear some some favorable comments he.... >> | |
| Doctors, Pair Progra.... | This try to time shift this argument and see what .... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Enjoying your work >> | |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Printing - anyone re.... | That does look useful. I currently use a2ps .... >> |
| I use everything: notepad and pencil, printouts of.... >> | ||
| A comment on Joel's .... | For those interested in the psychiatry debate, che.... >> | |
| It is kind of depressing isn't it. How often do w.... >> | ||
| >>>Are we seriously having a debate about whether .... >> | ||
| After reading through this thread I surfed off to .... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2003 | How is Fog Creek bei.... | The few people that I know that started their own .... >> |
| From Business Proble.... | Try again on that link: http://www.jhuapl.edu >> | |
| A lot of scientific research in done in government.... >> | ||
| 02 Jun 2003 | Pair painting | >>>Pair programming is the single biggest reason f.... >> |
| AnyMouse says: >>>Pair programming does not litera.... >> | ||
| 01 Jun 2003 | There's too much fea.... | BW: >>> Employees don't get paid to do whatever ma.... >> |
| 31 May 2003 | >>> Mackinac: I just meant that in other engineer.... >> | |
| I have never worked on a project using pair progra.... >> | ||
| BB, your penultimate paragraph is right on. I hav.... >> | ||
| 21 May 2003 | Favorite Quote | I used to keep a collection of quotes extracted fr.... >> |
| Movies and the Mind .... | What? Five posts and no one has even mentioned: .... >> | |
| Cheap tech booxs? | For technical books I check http://www.bookpool.co.... >> | |
| 15 May 2003 | Opera | I use Netscape 7.0 running on Windows NT and it cr.... >> |
| Does it crash as much as Mozilla/Netscape 7.0 ? .... >> | ||
| Music | The long term solution is to find another job at a.... >> | |
| 13 May 2003 | Do You Drive? | I think more people are afraid of the cold. Havin.... >> |
| 09 May 2003 | Dealing with crap co.... | The term 'crap code' is somewhat imprecise. Wha.... >> |
| 07 May 2003 | The generation gap | >>> We gen Xers will never have such luxury. We'.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | survival of the fitt.... | This process is sometimes referred to as 'ranking .... >> |
| 05 May 2003 | Programmers who are .... | >>> Recently we've moved beside a lake....turns o.... >> |
| 28 Apr 2003 | Ideal office | Here are some comments based on my experience doin.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2003 | SMTP Replacement... | I can remember when TV was free. Now days pe.... >> |
| 16 Apr 2003 | But I like all the p.... | |
| 14 Apr 2003 | No Telepones | It might work in certain environments. I fin.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | Sick of being stuck .... | There are times when I think I might like an outdo.... >> |
| 07 Apr 2003 | About 10 years ago my employer had a bit of a down.... >> | |
| 01 Apr 2003 | New Office : Office .... | As a software developer, I have found that about 1.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2003 | Pen-and-Paper coding.... | I like to have a pile of 11'x17' fan fold computer.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Orphans Preferred | You are right that there aren't a lot of over 60 d.... >> |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Brent, Since you made a comment about the age d.... >> | |
| 09 Mar 2003 | Parade Magazine - Wh.... | My general impression of life in resort areas is t.... >> |
| 08 Mar 2003 | The new offices | :1 s/out/our/ >> |
| In out computer room orange signified an isolated .... >> | ||
| 07 Mar 2003 | The new offices >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | New Office Wiring | It is hard to have too many outlets. I managed in.... >> |
| The personal voice. | My previous employer recognized the value of the p.... >> | |
| 'helping out' | Why do you believe that there is a market for worl.... >> | |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Oldest Computer Maga.... | The 'Computer Hobbyist', vol 1 number 1. No date .... >> |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Partnership Software.... | Software engineers working in big companies, and m.... >> |
| Good Job advertiseme.... | I'm using Netscape 7 and the page came up OK. .... >> | |
| What do you do with .... | Try donating them for book sales http://www.booksa.... >> | |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Mid career woes/hand.... | In what sense are your peers not capable of doing .... >> |
| A good desk | The first desk I bought for home use, many years a.... >> | |
| The best arrangement that any of my employers have.... >> | ||
| a third place | I don't recall ever hearing the term 'Third Place'.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2003 | "Less than expert" T.... | >>> I think the problem is too many people become .... >> |
| 01 Mar 2003 | a third place | >>> I think people are slowly turning back on to t.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2003 | Porches and Schools | >>> Crazy, offtopic, and out there, but I have thi.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2003 | Yahoo Stores rewritt.... | >>> (a) The reason they rewrote it was entirely th.... >> |
| 24 Feb 2003 | Multiple Exit Points | I think this concept was promoted as part of struc.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2003 | Finite State Machine.... | About 16 years ago on my first project using C, I .... >> |
| The finite state machine is a very useful concept .... >> | ||
| Calling all Nerds | Brent, thanks for some actual data points on home .... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2003 | Music | Like others in this thread, I need quiet while doi.... >> |
| Age discrimination i.... | Nobody is going to explicitly admit to age discrim.... >> | |
| Calling all Nerds | RocketJeff, thanks for providing some real observa.... >> | |
| >>> -is that not good? <<< I think so. I susp.... >> | ||
| >>> Home schooling will turn smart kids who think .... >> | ||
| 19 Feb 2003 | dumb Unix question | /usr/local sure isn't local to the machine I am us.... >> |
| You could call 'var' the variable stuff because it.... >> | ||
| Age discrimination i.... | >>> There is little doubt that many companies woul.... >> | |
| It is possible to get a software development job w.... >> | ||
| 18 Feb 2003 | Calling all Nerds | I have always thought of high school as something .... >> |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Job Openings | >>> The CS degree is optional. A BS ins something.... >> |
| >>> Bad link before - or just navigate down from t.... >> | ||
| >>> FYI, since we do a mostly government/defense w.... >> | ||
| 13 Feb 2003 | >>> My company Alphatech (www.alphatech.com), loca.... >> | |
| What were your first.... | First use of computer was college freshman program.... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2003 | actively hiring | GK >>> Hiring is not as trivial as it seems. <<< .... >> |
| 05 Feb 2003 | ClearCase Source Con.... | >>> That is, each check out/ check in requires a b.... >> |
| I am currently using it. The file system model is.... >> | ||
| actively hiring | >>> I've been looking for an average C/C++ develop.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2003 | In the DC area there are companies advertizing on .... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2003 | Cube or office...Wha.... | >>> Oh, I know, this thread is about 'cubicles vs .... >> |
| 30 Jan 2003 | One more comment: I think a private office is mor.... >> | |
| >>> As for not fostering 'teamwork' or some such,.... >> | ||
| I have been doing software development for a coupl.... >> | ||
| 28 Jan 2003 | Working For A Small .... | Reading some of these postings gives me a strange .... >> |
| 27 Jan 2003 | diplomacy | >>> This probably comes naturally to a few folks, .... >> |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Syntax | >>> What do you think? <<< This sounds like a p.... >> |
| The Zone and being d.... | Being in 'the Zone' is task specific. It is not m.... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2003 | Joel's Test and Prod.... | It is rather difficult to tell from what you've wr.... >> |
| 15 Jan 2003 | It would be helpful if you explained more about wh.... >> | |
| Years of experience | >>> I think you misread my post. <<< OK. >> | |
| >>> Like everyone else said, its going to be nearl.... >> | ||
| >>> Further, management also wishes programmers t.... >> | ||
| >>> My guess would be that the person isn't as en.... >> | ||
| 11 Jan 2003 | C++ question | You have an operator[] member function for the Arr.... >> |
| 09 Jan 2003 | Men | A few days ago I was in meeting with about 20 peop.... >> |
| Writing a programmer.... | Wyatt, Are you still reading this thread? In o.... >> | |
| 08 Jan 2003 | >>> Tell me what I am going to be doing on a dail.... >> | |
| Why would a 'smart & gets things done' developer w.... >> | ||
| 02 Jan 2003 | Office space specifi.... | Of course, there is the expense. I am no expe.... >> |
| >>> Also, do not even think about trying to quanti.... >> | ||
| >>> Well perhaps not exactly suicidal, but yes I'v.... >> | ||
| 01 Jan 2003 | >>> equally a very quiet environment can make you .... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2002 | >>> Today I've seen colleagues spend half or more .... >> | |
| 30 Dec 2002 | >>>Privacy important, but again an individual offi.... >> | |
| 28 Dec 2002 | Finding quiet quarters may be difficult, but that .... >> | |
| 27 Dec 2002 | Office space specifications. >> | |
| 22 Dec 2002 | CVS | From your description the system doesn't sound tha.... >> |
| 17 Dec 2002 | Career Path for Prog.... | a) 2+ decades b) Then: FORTRAN programming for .... >> |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Code Reviews - Does .... | >>> Yes, here we really do have to write C++ that.... >> |
| Code reviews can be useful if done right. When .... >> | ||
| 05 Dec 2002 | Microsoft College In.... | >>> Microsoft is not the only good company out the.... >> |
| 04 Dec 2002 | Handling the telepho.... | Sometimes the problems discussed on this board see.... >> |
| Hmmm, did I dereference the wrong pointer there? >> | ||
| >>>I'm surprised that nobody else finds the messag.... >> | ||
| 01 Dec 2002 | How to start oversea.... | >>> On the company intercom, the secretary has dif.... >> |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Yourdon seems to have changed his mind and later w.... >> | |
| Unemployment Woes | Things are bad all over. The stock market has bee.... >> | |
| What will you do aft.... | >>> Freelance cropdusting! <<< An interesting i.... >> | |
| I've been in software development about as long as.... >> | ||
| 26 Nov 2002 | Bringing Code Sample.... | >>> Personally, I would never accept a job at a co.... >> |
| 25 Nov 2002 | My previous employer asked prospective interviewee.... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2002 | How many gas station.... | Here is my solution to the problem: The primary.... >> |
| This has been a fascinating thread. Not, of cours.... >> | ||
| 21 Nov 2002 | bait and switch: wha.... | If you don't tell them that you would rather be wo.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2002 | Spam | On a slightly related issue: Does anyone have any .... >> |
| 19 Nov 2002 | Good questions to as.... | An interviewer should expect an interviewee to ask.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Spam | It varies quite a bit. About 6-10 per day is typi.... >> |
| 15 Nov 2002 | Career Disucussion B.... | Considering the number of news groups, maillists .... >> |
| 05 Nov 2002 | Voting Machine Usabi.... | My biggest complaint is the lack of privacy. Ball.... >> |
| 04 Nov 2002 | Functional Programme.... | Try again: http://www.haskell.org >> |
| Here is one example: http://www.haskell.org and a.... >> | ||
| 02 Nov 2002 | pay per use hardware.... | >>> Maybe process monitors should be changed to gi.... >> |
| 01 Nov 2002 | Whatever happened to.... | >>> Are there any other nerd news sites? <<< I'.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2002 | pay per use hardware.... | This is new? There is something familiar sou.... >> |
| Quality of Professor.... | This is an interesting topic to me since I have be.... >> | |
| Enjoyable experience.... | >>> the fact that they were small allowed people f.... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2002 | This is an interesting thread. Unfortunately, I c.... >> | |
| 28 Oct 2002 | Mockery of stupid mo.... | >>> The sad part is, we have people who actually b.... >> |
| Who's Joel Spolsky a.... | tk>>> Many of us share his goals: small company, g.... >> | |
| 25 Oct 2002 | Layoffs hit Ben &.... | >>> Somehow, this doesn't compute. A *year's sala.... >> |
| >>> The way the guys at fuckedcompany figure it, t.... >> | ||
| What would you do? | When times are bad the contractors and consultants.... >> | |
| On Guerrillas and Mi.... | >>> Now, I am good at one thing and that is SQL. I.... >> | |
| 18 Oct 2002 | Concurrent changes t.... | It can be done, but it's not the best approach to .... >> |
| How do you reward de.... | The problem with any of these little rewards if fi.... >> | |
| >>> Also, the idea of little toys as rewards used .... >> | ||
| Is faster hardware c.... | >>> My experience is that older developers often d.... >> | |
| 02 Oct 2002 | Not all the news is .... | Dell is only down 50% ? Now I wish I'd bought Dell.... >> |
| Programmer Interrupt.... | >>> What, do you think the company admitted it was.... >> | |
| 01 Oct 2002 | Visual problems - mo.... | The things floating in front of your eyes may be f.... >> |
| Programmer Interrupt.... | Gregg, So why did you take this job? (Of cou.... >> | |
| 20 Sep 2002 | Favorite Science/Mat.... | Bruce Hunt, 'The Maxwellians'. Paul Nahin, 'Oli.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2002 | Dealing w/ Ignorant .... | In the short term developers are justified in blam.... >> |
| Bella has the right idea. Changing your current ma.... >> | ||
| 26 Aug 2002 | MENSA and all it ent.... | >>> from the latin 'minsa' meaning table. <<< P.... >> |
| 22 Aug 2002 | I don't put ex-Mensa member on my resume. Nobody w.... >> | |
| I attended a few meetings. It was a nice group of .... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2002 | Other people's music.... | >>> But I'm wondering whether anyone who reads thi.... >> |
| 1990 - 1991 | I graduated well before 1990, but do recall that a.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2002 | National Domains | Use of the .us domain was recently opened up so an.... >> |
| How long before you .... | Shortest: 1.5 years Longest: 17 years Lesson l.... >> | |
| non-tech books you r.... | Buchholz, 'From Here to Economy'. A popular introd.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2002 | I like Books | At one time I thought that a company library was a.... >> |
| 08 Aug 2002 | Indian Vacations | >>> Around here, the H1b dudes from India typicall.... >> |
| 04 Aug 2002 | the best company to .... | >>> Something happens when a company grows beyond .... >> |
| 03 Aug 2002 | To more directly address (but not answer) the orig.... >> | |
| 02 Aug 2002 | >>> The compnay that gives you a paycheck is just .... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2002 | Are there still peop.... | For a little spam humor: http://www.siliconvall.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2002 | what kind of music d.... | For most of my tasks I prefer quiet to any backgro.... >> |
| 29 Jul 2002 | Are you working for .... | >>>Ever notice how the threads that require readin.... >> |
| The Cargo Cult is an interesting and amusing analo.... >> | ||
| 18 Jul 2002 | Stuck in high-tech h.... | >>>people spend too much time worrying about the 9.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2002 | >>>Well, Mackinac, if you can offer the world the .... >> | |
| Garbage. Worse than useless, could be harmful. .... >> | ||
| 11 Jul 2002 | What's the best text.... | >>>How come nobody has yet mentioned emacs<<< I.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2002 | YAH1BT | Why H1B rather than greencard (i.e., permanent) im.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2002 | What's the big deal? | >>>I'm only 23, and I am about go get a MS in HCI,.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2002 | Coding and Mathmatic.... | Nat>>> I completely agree. When hiring folks, we l.... >> |
| Companies to Work at | >>> However, the MI winters got to be too much for.... >> | |
| 20 Jun 2002 | Matt, thanks for providing this list. Unfortunatel.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2002 | Why Software Is So B.... | >>>how does one show the organization that doing t.... >> |
| >>>Which brings me to the state of today's softwar.... >> | ||
| 18 Jun 2002 | Here is the URL for an article on the shuttle soft.... >> | |
| About 2-3 decades ago the quality of American auto.... >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2002 | Strategy Letter V | >>>Interesting article, but *why* does everyone eq.... >> |
| >>>NB: You should have a look at 'Human Action'<<<.... >> | ||
| 14 Jun 2002 | Testers... Who needs.... | >>> What do your testers do? >>>. Do they test.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2002 | Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | Vincent>>> In fact, when its time to hire, Its pai.... >> |
| >>>But, some of the biggest names (MS, Sun, Intel).... >> | ||
| 09 Jun 2002 | Moshe Bar is giving .... | >>>Well it's just the way it is. Can't expect Mich.... >> |
| 23 May 2002 | Why managers cant al.... | At a past employer a few employees did telecommuti.... >> |
| 21 May 2002 | Code Reviews (Method.... | I live in a different space-time continuum from Ka.... >> |
| 19 May 2002 | exit strategies | >>>What is your exit strategy for leaving your car.... >> |
| 17 May 2002 | modelling tools | Stephan, Thanks for the link. I didn't try the Arg.... >> |
| 16 May 2002 | "PeopleWare" | >>>You mean 'Practice', not 'Principles' above, ri.... >> |
| >>>... Or is that too cynical?<<< Too cynical. .... >> | ||
| eXtreme, life-alteri.... | >>>From the experiences I've read of, the 'war roo.... >> | |
| 14 May 2002 | >>>Paraphrased, 'it's called pair programming, not.... >> | |
| 12 May 2002 | Ian, Tony, et al, Thanks for the postings. Thos.... >> | |
| 10 May 2002 | >>>Mackinac, I find it wierd that you take every c.... >> | |
| An interesting incident. Steele's final comment on.... >> | ||
| should I quit? | Writing software or any engineering type work is b.... >> | |
| XP is wearing no clo.... | And what kind of software were you developing? >> | |
| >>>That is not my experience. <<< Ilja, You .... >> | ||
| >>>Here's one blurb from an IEEE Software article<.... | ||