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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Joe AA.' | ||
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Number of Comments: 405 |
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| Number of Words: 33,112 | ||
| First Comment: 02 May 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 27 Jan 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 3 |
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| First Topic: 20 May 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 17 Jul 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 27 Jan 2004 | being a good followe.... | If you must follow, don't do it so closely. Oth.... >> |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Lightbulbs | 38 that will argue for certification for light b.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Making really Zero-D.... | Nuclear reactors in the USA are not controlled b.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2003 | teamate becomming te.... | One of the worst mistakes I have seen with new m.... >> |
| physics | 'Now if they could discover the 'address' of a str.... >> | |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Exceptions | Hmm... did I just hear someone say that exceptio.... >> |
| Leave your language .... | '(2), (3b) is caused by the fact that if you push .... >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Is "business logic" .... | 'Business logic' is not necessarily procedural. .... >> |
| What if you forget t.... | Of course all action doesn't have to be based on.... >> | |
| Legacy Systems Quest.... | I'm sure you mean EBCDIC - for extended binary c.... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Are we all crappy co.... | There is only one difference between a crappy an.... >> |
| 04 Oct 2003 | IT Department Pet Pe.... | I hadn't given this much thought... maybe it is .... >> |
| 09 Sep 2003 | It's about results. | 'But perhaps I'm confused by my silly notion of wa.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Interview Questions .... | After reading down to here, I seem to have the i.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | CMM and XP | 'His point is that the conditions for XP to be suc.... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | Best screen locking .... | You mean the blue screen? >> |
| US doesn't have an a.... | 'Is global domination not ambitious enough?' .... >> | |
| Deadlines | It might have something to do with 3am. We just.... >> | |
| Managers get fired t.... | Manager spends another $5 to put Employee A in a q.... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Data Structure Algor.... | I always thought 'algorithm' and 'data structure.... >> |
| Managers get fired t.... | Increasing revenue is generally the stated goal..... >> | |
| I've mainly worked in large companies. I have n.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2003 | Hierarchical or flat.... | A leader is needed to have any team be productiv.... >> |
| Intelligent Idiots | Maybe Bella, but only if someone actually does s.... >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Buggy Oracle | 'Where did you get such a bogus idea?' Well... .... >> |
| Anybody know for sure... I heard that MS SQL Ser.... >> | ||
| 17 Aug 2003 | Markets or uses for .... | That's funny. The other day I was sitting aroun.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2003 | C++ Test - Questions.... | 'Would you hire a surgeon that knew a 'subset' of .... >> |
| 12 Aug 2003 | The Career Programme.... | Well... as a contractor that works for some fair.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2003 | "Bob" the Useless Te.... | You can't 'empower' someone. They have to empow.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2003 | High hourly rate guy.... | Aw man... ya mean I can't earn megabucks by just.... >> |
| 01 Aug 2003 | Managing your manage.... | Agreed... honesty by far is the best policy. >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Too much churn to fi.... | Of course... working on bugs is only part of the.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2003 | Outsourcing Honesty .... | 'I assure you that none of these at home companies.... >> |
| Too much churn to fi.... | 'Um, if a system is unable to fulfill a core, fund.... >> | |
| '2. I can't reproduce it. - Whoever entered the b.... >> | ||
| 1000$ a month in San.... | 'With its unique rules based client/patient manage.... >> | |
| What do you do once .... | How can you ever run out of possible features? .... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2003 | Stupidity Embodied | One place I worked... we had a Barbie award. Yo.... >> |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Mailinator | So... a couple of edit checks in the email addre.... >> |
| Great UI at Mailinat.... | Miss Parker from the Pretender. Great legs. >> | |
| Stupidity Embodied | And it's even more demeaning when certain people.... >> | |
| 23 Jul 2003 | UI: Daylight Saving .... | I take it your application is for internal use a.... >> |
| TWO PERCENT of ALL U.... | 'I do recall a decade or so ago when people though.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | New Position/Company.... | 'balances talent and skill'? How does one do th.... >> |
| 18 Jul 2003 | I hate table definit.... | Maybe the spec is being evaluated based on weigh.... >> |
| Requirements vs Goal.... | Definitely... a lot of things have changed over .... >> | |
| (pre)interview quest.... | Did I understand it correctly... that this compa.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2003 | Requirements vs Goals >> | |
| 17 Jul 2003 | part-time boss? | I think the problem here is moonlighting during .... >> |
| (pre)interview quest.... | I wouldn't mind a five hour test as part of an e.... >> | |
| 'What would you be trying to prove? that even tho.... >> | ||
| 16 Jul 2003 | Job-hopping | I guess I never considered core hours that unusu.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2003 | Software development.... | Well... if you default an estimate to mean the s.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2003 | what does "hard time.... | 1 year of experience five times... wouldn't that.... >> |
| Wanting to be unprof.... | I think I agree with WMI... I don't believe i.... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2003 | game programmers | Regardless of background, you need to be able to.... >> |
| Medical | There is a lot of applications that can be terme.... >> | |
| Defect rates for cli.... | I have a pet theory... defect rate is probably c.... >> | |
| 03 Jul 2003 | What will win and wh.... | As a side question... why are 'complex web sites.... >> |
| How do I get a job a.... | If we start up a certification process for idiot.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2003 | Private Communicatio.... | I always thought communication was to convey inf.... >> |
| Desk Decoration | One rather useless person used to have another r.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Trickery | Actually I think he said that hacking wasn't sof.... >> |
| I really love the ones that offer an interesting.... >> | ||
| I don't understand what would be illegal. This .... >> | ||
| Being funny in specs | Most specs read like 'and then a miracle occurs'.... >> | |
| The importance of su.... | 'What is the probability that 10,000 desktops will.... >> | |
| Dealing with 21'st c.... | 'Whilst this advice is all good, I suspect it's a .... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | Suggestions/Pointers.... | If you are on an Intranet... what is the purpose.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | Use of the word Engi.... | Texas may have a bunch of weird laws, but this a.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Pair programming | He should be entitled to a private office... als.... >> |
| Top 10 Indicators yo.... | You take out a loan to keep your apartment. You.... >> | |
| 30 May 2003 | Rude/Arrogant Manage.... | A friend of mine works at a company with an Indi.... >> |
| 28 May 2003 | Good task management.... | I don't really like task management - it tends t.... >> |
| Another reason UIs g.... | The 'U' is only a problem with programmers that .... >> | |
| 23 May 2003 | Evolving code layout.... | Adding up the weight of an advantage means nothi.... >> |
| I don't like 4... the commas at the beginning do.... >> | ||
| 22 May 2003 | Favorite Quote | Don't know who to attribute this to: 'An unpl.... >> |
| Hack Hack Hack | If the hack works, can you really consider it a .... >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Evil and truly evil | Truly evil would be the cobol ALTER statement - .... >> |
| 20 May 2003 | Working for a non-so.... | anonQAguy... there was some other comment in the.... >> |
| 19 May 2003 | where did all the so.... | Why would a technical test be given with errors .... >> |
| Working for a non-so.... | 'Do your 8 and skate'. It's really a pitiful at.... >> | |
| How should I arrange.... | I am currently living in a 15 x 25 foot studio. .... >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | Missing C feature? | I saw something like this once... but that's bee.... >> |
| 15 May 2003 | DOUBLE STANDARDS | 'In short, I have no problems with fair competitio.... >> |
| Prince2 Tools | Oh wonderful... yet another template based brain.... >> | |
| Design docs for exis.... | Or take the classical approach... start reading .... >> | |
| The most elegant of .... | You mean technical implementation 'tools' ain't .... >> | |
| 14 May 2003 | Design docs for exis.... | Yes, and in many ways, it's the only way to do i.... >> |
| 12 May 2003 | Bad interviews | It's called a 'given' >> |
| 10 May 2003 | Monkeys at the keybo.... | Wow.... maybe we could 'insource' again!!! >> |
| Dealing with crap co.... | Quality is not consistent... if it were it would.... >> | |
| Return of Cringely o.... | I saw something like this in a program the other.... >> | |
| e-commerce : How to .... | 'ummm writing a decent billing system isn't tri.... >> | |
| 08 May 2003 | How does productivit.... | My experience has been just the opposite... the .... >> |
| e-commerce : How to .... | Billing systems are much easier to write procedu.... >> | |
| Code that writes cod.... | Code generation programs are really braindead. .... >> | |
| survival of the fitt.... | 'It isn't usually good evolutionary practice for a.... >> | |
| 07 May 2003 | How to manage a doom.... | Most of the advice here is good... with one exce.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | Unique file ids for .... | How about an 'RBA' - relative byte address... th.... >> |
| Why would I move Mou.... | You wouldn't hire a guy that responded with the .... >> | |
| 05 May 2003 | Is Software a dead i.... | 'Through the technology slump, established compani.... >> |
| Layoff Snafus | anonQAguy... Thanks for the new link... that wo.... >> | |
| 02 May 2003 | Did Cringely just pu.... | 'Refactoring involves transforming code is a sys.... >> |
| Layoff Snafus | anonQAguy... I can't get your link to work. >> | |
| 01 May 2003 | An article some migh.... | Thank you, it was interesting. Having been .... >> |
| Job Advice | Sargent Sausage might have come on a little stro.... >> | |
| 30 Apr 2003 | Is free software is .... | 'For many greed would stop them from sharing their.... >> |
| Good programmers are.... | Talent and drive start to mean more, once you ge.... >> | |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Layoffs | Just two things... Anyone that performs a lay.... >> |
| Good Commercials | One line of thought says that advertising is onl.... >> | |
| 18 Apr 2003 | Trivial English Lang.... | An apostrophe? I bet you mean a single quote .... >> |
| But I like all the p.... | 50 percent of any group of people are below averag.... >> | |
| What to do about sle.... | Hmmm... I think I would expect that anyone who c.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2003 | In-House Customers H.... | There can be good reasons, such as business comp.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2003 | Good Article | I agree... the only difference between maintenan.... >> |
| "Incentive Pay Consi.... | 'It’s the lies, greed and general blackheartedne.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2003 | Rule Number Four: Gr.... | Most people... not just the great ones, seem to .... >> |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Do employers ever sa.... | When I use the term Politically Correct, I am no.... >> |
| 19 Mar 2003 | Things have changed over the last ten years or s.... >> | |
| Going from on-line c.... | Oh cool... a web based dating service... I'm .... >> | |
| 15 Mar 2003 | Design and implement.... | Sure... the larger the group and the more the gr.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2002 | old dog, new trick? | 'This kind of decision needs to be driven down by .... >> |
| Managing bugs in oth.... | 'Code ownership'... where you have to wait for som.... >> | |
| Motivational Speaker.... | Only if you believe they mean something. Incomp.... >> | |
| 10 Nov 2002 | "Murphy had other pl.... | After reading it I have the impression it was ra.... >> |
| 12 Oct 2002 | Designing, can it be.... | Don't listen to 'artists'... 'free your mind from .... >> |
| 05 Oct 2002 | the new fogbugz setu.... | Yeah... I really think install programs should be .... >> |
| help on staffware | Maybe he meant "shaft ware"? >> | |
| 15 Sep 2002 | Should Consulting be.... | Well Karl, I think I tend to agree with you. A.... >> |
| Daily Build Consider.... | The larger the working group, the higher the possi.... >> | |
| Job Interviews | Tim sez... 'Now, which response is more profession.... >> | |
| 12 Sep 2002 | On FogBUGZ And Custo.... | One of the persuits that is generally futile is .... >> |
| 08 Sep 2002 | Interview Question | Sure, having good people is always good... but nee.... >> |
| Job Interviews | Bella... come on. Not telling someone 'NO' when .... >> | |
| 07 Sep 2002 | Interview Question | What exactly would you consider an 'Enterprise sol.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2002 | Windows free for dev.... | Borland provides a free command line compiler that.... >> |
| Can someone please e.... | Oh, Sammy, you don't have to go through any troubl.... >> | |
| ''Don't do things twice' is a strong imperative to.... >> | ||
| 31 Aug 2002 | When A Bad Design Is.... | My point was, rather poorly stated I grant you, is.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2002 | Excuse me? I think you are mixing definitions... .... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2002 | Doubts on Web Servic.... | Thanks for the link Chris... I have never heard of.... >> |
| What am I missing..? | Maybe if you had to write the parser, you wouldn't.... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2002 | MENSA and all it ent.... | Makes me wanna go out and find a "MENSA for Dummie.... >> |
| 23 Aug 2002 | What am I missing..? | XML is in itself a wonderful format for a self-def.... >> |
| SAP, Oracle, PeopleS.... | I believe companies implement ERP type systems bec.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2002 | Serious question abo.... | Cobol supports typed data, not necessarily the sam.... >> |
| Sure... the problem was 'real'. Most of the exp.... >> | ||
| 12 Aug 2002 | Art | Maybe you define art as something useless and with.... >> |
| I am stuck..how to g.... | I don't understand why you are stuck. Objective.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2002 | Developing Software .... | I think XJ is having one of his delusions again. H.... >> |
| KJScott... 'Nice to know it's that simple. You thi.... >> | ||
| Books on Office Poli.... | I would divide 'politics' into two different aspec.... >> | |
| Being Better Organis.... | Well, sf-fish... let me get the negative out of th.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2002 | Buy One Get 3 - Is t.... | Borland has always had superior development tools..... >> |
| What if smart people.... | Katia... I did not mean to imply that people don't.... >> | |
| the best programmer .... | Ok... then if you want that kind of programmer (sm.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2002 | Estimating Softare D.... | Yes, it probably is engineering... assuming that e.... >> |
| What if smart people.... | You're right of course Sarah... there is no such t.... >> | |
| development manager | Rich... IMNSOH... I think you missed the point. .... >> | |
| what do you guys dev.... | nathan... CSF, or Custom Statement Formatter is a .... >> | |
| Windows Application .... | Well Guy... your question is not one that can be a.... >> | |
| the best programmer .... | 'All Bill Gates is responsible for is DOS and Basi.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2002 | are rich client uis .... | Definitely Albert... BRAVO!! Our industry goes .... >> |
| Software Certificati.... | Cluetrain... you are clueless. Hugh has his exp.... >> | |
| The yellow brick road will always lead to Oz. If y.... >> | ||
| the best company to .... | There was a website for a company... 'Statewave' I.... >> | |
| IDE's--Are they a cr.... | 'you might be better off switching languages, to C.... >> | |
| what do you guys dev.... | The next generation of legacy systems... Hey na.... >> | |
| Another way to reduc.... | Well... don't you think that someone should develo.... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2002 | Software Certificati.... | There is some strong desire on the part of many pe.... >> |
| Where to get ideas? | Thanks Steve... I knew there was a study that foun.... >> | |
| Beyond coding? | No Nat... I am not against the term 'architect' (l.... >> | |
| Best programmer | Dunno Wair: If you think I am an asshole, it wo.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2002 | What's going on? | Well Sam... I did just get a new job, after search.... >> |
| Best programmer | Can I be Joe AA? Thanks Bella. >> | |
| Sherlock said 'I do, however, find it funny that y.... >> | ||
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | Just me... unlike yourself, I have no need to seek.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2002 | Best programmer | Thank you for the insult Sherlock... considering u.... >> |
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | Come on Bella... Of all people I thought you would.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2002 | Turn $6000 into $16 .... | This is getting real depressing... can someone do .... >> |
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | anon... know you do good work based on your defini.... >> | |
| He's correct Bella... only the ones that are maver.... >> | ||
| Mac fanatics | Maybe it was slow. At the time I was running Win95.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2002 | the best programmer .... | 'me'... will you get out of here... in no way can .... >> |
| 'A program is not a black box -- it has inputs and.... >> | ||
| Only a coward would post something using someone e.... >> | ||
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | Daniel Shchyokin... sorry for your disappointment .... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2002 | the best programmer .... | Bella >> |
| 23 Jul 2002 | Knowledge work this! | 'a knowledge worker is someone who has interesting.... >> |
| Mac fanatics | "quick reboots are better than no reboots at all"? >> | |
| 'with the stability of XP and so forth' I use W.... >> | ||
| 22 Jul 2002 | Lindows (Best of bot.... | I hadn't heard of Lindows... since I really don't .... >> |
| Listen.com no Panace.... | I would think that most users wouldn't care in the.... >> | |
| re: Listen.com.. | I don't know tim... People have always thrown away.... >> | |
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | I'm starting to like being called Bella... at leas.... >> | |
| 21 Jul 2002 | Pager duty for devel.... | Sarain... do you dispute 'you get what you reward'.... >> |
| Measurement and The .... | Sammy... Of course Jack Welch wasn't advocating.... >> | |
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | I don't think Bella is limiting rational self inte.... >> | |
| Fixing bugs rather t.... | What about just having the developers count the bu.... >> | |
| Stuck in high-tech h.... | Beg for forgiveness, never ask permission. Well.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2002 | Pager duty for devel.... | Compensation for callout support needs to be handl.... >> |
| Back in the old days... ah, before pagers, it was .... >> | ||
| re: Listen.com.. | Ian... I think I can understand that... at least f.... >> | |
| Maybe it's a personal problem or even an age thing.... >> | ||
| Measurement and The .... | Sammy - I don't know... I can't see how something .... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2002 | Knowledge work this! | Knowledge worker... do you mean the people that sp.... >> |
| Measurement and The .... | Yes Actually... you are correct. I don't keep c.... >> | |
| Well 'actually', I did actually read the article. .... >> | ||
| Hugh... Who/what is McKinsey? And what is the book.... >> | ||
| When are you guys going to wise up to the great SI.... >> | ||
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | Well... I really don't buy clothes strictly by bra.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2002 | Another way to reduc.... | Anyone that counts on software to solve people pro.... >> |
| Anybody use the Wyde.... | I think you can always assume that any company/pro.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2002 | Fixing bugs rather t.... | 'may have something to do with not getting credit .... >> |
| A lot of people like to believe it takes 'extra ti.... >> | ||
| Stuck in high-tech h.... | There are basically two kinds of people in this wo.... >> | |
| Meeting Time | Unfortunately there are some places... well, maybe.... >> | |
| What's the alternati.... | I have no problem with merit based pay... since by.... >> | |
| Measurement | I have to disagree with the span of control that a.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2002 | Age old Comp. Sci. l.... | "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2002 | What's the best text.... | ISPF option 2. >> |
| From Applications to.... | Sounds like you only want to put down your corpora.... >> | |
| The key to working 4.... | Matt... I've never considered capitalism to be .... >> | |
| Mozilla might be com.... | 'The essence of Microsoft strategy consists blocki.... >> | |
| 10 Jul 2002 | YAH1BT | Well... somebody has to do the work, and what bett.... >> |
| Origin of "All progr.... | Is this the one you want? http://www.bleading-e.... >> | |
| Views on UML? | Personally I still prefer the old standby - the co.... >> | |
| Unit Testing Databas.... | Nordic... and no way to validate the correctness o.... >> | |
| The key to working 4.... | Matt... if you have a point to make, make it. If y.... >> | |
| Clinton is a religous man, a Baptist if I remember.... >> | ||
| moral adj 1: relating to principles of right an.... >> | ||
| Why would morality be a religious issue and depend.... >> | ||
| 09 Jul 2002 | Outsourcing work fro.... | But we have to sit in these all day committee meet.... >> |
| US developer wrote 'may contain complex business r.... >> | ||
| Wrapping time. Maybe catch up time. A lot of n.... >> | ||
| The key to working 4.... | No Matt... I don't read fiction. So I can't respon.... >> | |
| How not to make a me.... | Andrzej... the thought for the week seems appropri.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2002 | Enough bitching and .... | Hey... if you insist on calling me Bella, someone .... >> |
| Come on Ryan... don't hold back... say what you re.... >> | ||
| Outsourcing work fro.... | Think a little? Wow!! What I wouldn't give to get .... >> | |
| I second. >> | ||
| The key to working 4.... | Sorry to disappoint you. Bella seems to have th.... >> | |
| Philanthropy... when the gift is a voluntary choic.... >> | ||
| 'The meaning'. I have not advocated an immoral cor.... >> | ||
| You're really funny Dustin... more socially accept.... >> | ||
| 'It's akin to saying that a society with a code of.... >> | ||
| 'asset'... couldn't agree with you more. I used to.... >> | ||
| Hmm... someone else thought I was Bella. I thank y.... >> | ||
| Dustin... you can believe your lofty statements al.... >> | ||
| Mozilla might be com.... | Customers are free to choose, which is why it is e.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2002 | The key to working 4.... | Morality is not an "intangible". It is not immoral.... >> |
| painless software ma.... | And if they succeed, they will then be happy. Will.... >> | |
| It's not bashing but.... | In almost all of the posts on this board, there is.... >> | |
| How not to make a me.... | So you are calling the measurable... performance? .... >> | |
| Mozilla might be com.... | I really don't understand what you consider to be .... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2002 | painless software ma.... | People are happy because they are productive. "Mak.... >> |
| Yet another proposal.... | Artists create art for themselves, for their sake,.... >> | |
| 05 Jul 2002 | The key to working 4.... | If you are an hourly employee, then you are correc.... >> |
| The best cure to anyone that doesn't like working .... >> | ||
| Cost of Linux, one b.... | Lines of code counters are about as useful as any .... >> | |
| painless software ma.... | Attacking a 'morale problem' directly is always a .... >> | |
| Am I supposed to wor.... | "interchangeable labor unit" - Hey, I like that....... >> | |
| How not to make a me.... | Andrzej Kocon - You can classify complexity any wa.... >> | |
| Yet another proposal.... | Art has never been produced for it's own sake. Wel.... >> | |
| Mozilla might be com.... | 'Moderation' is censorship. Why post if you are on.... >> | |
| 03 Jul 2002 | PCWEEK Article | 'However why do you think governments[specifically.... >> |
| Deflation results in a false economy? Does that im.... >> | ||
| By... I did read the article. The last entry is.... >> | ||
| What's your point? Now that we have more voters.... >> | ||
| VIM | I prefer the VIGOR emails myself. >> | |
| How not to make a me.... | cheeto - you never had to defend what you accompli.... >> | |
| cheeto - 20% attrition? That's 50 people a year. I.... >> | ||
| You can lead a horse to water... but have you ever.... >> | ||
| Claus... let me take the liberty of revising some .... >> | ||
| More posting, less n.... | Come on Mick... you got simplified Chinese also!! .... >> | |
| Java Book | It's a funny thing about Herbert Schildt books... .... >> | |
| Mozilla might be com.... | How was your response to him any different? >> | |
| H1B Storm Clouds | Anyone on a slow link, be warned that budget.pdf l.... >> | |
| 02 Jul 2002 | How not to make a me.... | I love Dijkstra's work. He rejects the term 'softw.... >> |
| More posting, less n.... | Ok, so who is this fool and who forgot to send him.... >> | |
| Teaching the wife ho.... | Big deal... my wife can beat up me. >> | |
| Whats a little requi.... | Hmm... another offhanded thought I had... is what .... >> | |
| Sorry, I kinda got into a 'fault with requirements.... >> | ||
| Yet another proposal.... | Yes Ged, and I am tearing out the wall in one of t.... >> | |
| Flash as a serious e.... | I'm not a flash user either. Haven't given it much.... >> | |
| IT Degrees (Again) | Reading the papers is proof of something, and I do.... >> | |
| New Virtual Machine .... | No... a more technical sounding name. Try 'H1B'.... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2002 | Yet another proposal for defect free... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2002 | Yet another proposal.... | No problem, I can take it. I was really interes.... >> |
| I didn't claim to discover any bright idea. I s.... >> | ||
| Flash as a serious e.... | Oh I agree! >> | |
| 'Standard argument formation includes citing sourc.... >> | ||
| H1B Storm Clouds | I don't know about Larry Vervynckt... my first tho.... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2002 | I don't remember any laws preventing a "scab" to w.... >> | |
| typedef is evil, and.... | Ged... I found the quote buried in the middle of t.... >> | |
| Performance Appraisa.... | Nat... I believe that salary management should be .... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2002 | typedef is evil, and.... | I have an anon quote I like: 'We see the writin.... >> |
| Software Engineers a.... | My two cents... it's about caring about the wrong .... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2002 | Microsoft Palladium | “I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs,” .... >> |
| Performance Appraisa.... | Again I assert that performance appraisals are for.... >> | |
| Technical Writing | You might ask why would a techie be unable to comm.... >> | |
| New Virtual Machine .... | I guess I can say a definite maybe to that Steve. .... >> | |
| Now I am really confused. Virtual machines are for.... >> | ||
| 25 Jun 2002 | Technical Writing | Firing is probably a good solution. If the tech.... >> |
| IT Degrees (Again) | Tests upon test upon test. Sure, if third-party te.... >> | |
| Degrees are symbols. Symbols are used to signify s.... >> | ||
| Criticallly Missing .... | Of all the wonderful word features, missing or con.... >> | |
| Joel is wrong about .... | Deming is not as 'popular' as the snakeoil salesme.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2002 | IT Degrees (Again) | No, I ain't no troll. I am not surprise that someo.... >> |
| Matt... if you are going to tell a story, you real.... >> | ||
| '... and 'Generalize it up' to the next level - at.... >> | ||
| Common UI design/met.... | I would rather see the UNDO option. A confirmation.... >> | |
| Strategy Letter V vs.... | 'and being a consulting company is a great way for.... >> | |
| Joel is wrong about .... | No, no links. Tom DeMarco (in places besides P.... >> | |
| MattH... why would I want to argue with you about .... >> | ||
| A company that understands that it has to constant.... >> | ||
| I wish he had posted some sort of Joel article ref.... >> | ||
| Usability of the Joe.... | I open topics and reply with "new window". That wa.... >> | |
| Coding and Mathmatic.... | I certainly have to agree that programming require.... >> | |
| Salary Issue | You mean that people aren't just entitled to a rai.... >> | |
| age discrimination-&.... | OzzieGT... your bad paradigms are showing, obvious.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2002 | The Pragmatic Progra.... | True. Any idiot can make it complex. >> |
| How do web sites go .... | 'you never want to see full table scans, almost ev.... >> | |
| Salary Issue | private, just because someone may have a vested in.... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2002 | Writing technical do.... | I agree with Humbug. Make it minimal, make it conc.... >> |
| Strategy Letter V: S.... | Well, one thing I can think of - before you commit.... >> | |
| Globalization, What .... | Especially subsidies to farmers when they don't gr.... >> | |
| Coding and Mathmatic.... | Good point mackinac... the ability to adapt is oft.... >> | |
| Salary Issue | Of course I am naive - simple in nature. I don't c.... >> | |
| Place yourself in the position of 'private's' mana.... >> | ||
| private... if you do find something better, take i.... >> | ||
| Why Software Is So B.... | Hmm... drugs in the watercooler... now that could .... >> | |
| 'I just think that a lot of litiguous attitudes by.... >> | ||
| Software Engineers a.... | <giggle> >> | |
| 20 Jun 2002 | Usability of the Joe.... | Joel has already expressed his opinion about this .... >> |
| Salary Issue | 'Its nothing fishy here just plain business tactic.... >> | |
| Proposal for defect-.... | Users demanding defect-free software will not make.... >> | |
| Why Software Is So B.... | I might have know it had something to do with laws.... >> | |
| Software Engineers a.... | Does anyone happen to know if professional prostit.... >> | |
| Variant languages ve.... | Sorry Albert, but I have seen too many VB runtime .... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2002 | Proposal for defect-.... | Jon S... The user is to blame for problems with so.... >> |
| Justme... his proposal is to certify the user. How.... >> | ||
| age discrimination-&.... | One of my ex-bosses told me he prefers people with.... >> | |
| Bella doesn't have to do any research... it will a.... >> | ||
| Why Software Is So B.... | How and why did it ever become politically incorre.... >> | |
| Hey!!! Good rant! WYSIWYGS. Yep, I call them po.... >> | ||
| 18 Jun 2002 | I think the 'mythical man month' was written by Ke.... >> | |
| Construction Mgt | Contracts in internal IT shops tend to be either A.... >> | |
| Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | 'Application of a perjorative such as 'paranoid' t.... >> | |
| I couldn't get your link to work. I have no proble.... >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2002 | It's about time | I don't know about ignorant... but I can't think o.... >> |
| Strategy Letter V | Social status is a higher level need. I'll try to .... >> | |
| Interesting article. I liked the point about IBM t.... >> | ||
| Variant languages ve.... | VB also leaves a lot of errors to be detected at r.... >> | |
| Testers... Joel need.... | Wow... am I ever disappointed. (smile) I've hea.... >> | |
| Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | 'It sounds as though his statement equates free tr.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2002 | Testers... Who needs.... | One place I worked with testers didn't turn out to.... >> |
| sites on UI design | I haven't seen it mentioned... you might check out.... >> | |
| Re-using code | cum grano salas One of the few things I remembe.... >> | |
| Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | Sure Hugh... I realize there is no truly free capi.... >> | |
| 'How can I be a capitalist and still want to keep .... >> | ||
| 13 Jun 2002 | Re-using code | I agree looking... hope you don't mind me using yo.... >> |
| Despite popular folk wisdom, the wheel has been re.... >> | ||
| REALbasic article qu.... | Of course... we all know assembler is the basis fo.... >> | |
| 'A little extra work could have made REALBasic VB .... >> | ||
| Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | 'politics should not define human interaction. ' .... >> | |
| 'I am so frickin' sick and tired of the attitude t.... >> | ||
| Open Source and Comm.... | 'The real issue is that software is expected to gi.... >> | |
| This chef has no clo.... | 'That's why they call us 'analysts,' right?' I'.... >> | |
| New Machine anyone ? | All depends on what para-nickle you want to suppor.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2002 | REALbasic article qu.... | This is also mentioned in the current Dr. Dobbs....... >> |
| Open Letter:H1B's WT.... | I can't live on 9K either... but right now it is z.... >> | |
| Open Source and Comm.... | I would think that you would also have to consider.... >> | |
| Programmer psycholog.... | Well, personally I dislike the assumption that a l.... >> | |
| This chef has no clo.... | 'An engineer, in my mind, would employ processes k.... >> | |
| New Machine anyone ? | Forth is stack based... no tendency about it. >> | |
| 11 Jun 2002 | This chef has no clo.... | I don't believe the Naked Chef way is totally rand.... >> |
| Proving *somekind* of statistic about software and.... >> | ||
| Going about publishi.... | I agree with Scared... the world has enough wimps .... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2002 | Extreme Programming .... | 'Apparently programmers are easy believers when it.... >> |
| 30 May 2002 | Writing skills | Anonymous Coward... The best answer is to eliminat.... >> |
| 24 May 2002 | Conflicting advice -.... | Personally I think your answer is in your faq link.... >> |
| Software Metrics and.... | Sometimes Hugh? How about a story when they weren'.... >> | |
| MS EULA: JAVA TECHNO.... | Charles... we will be much more productive if we d.... >> | |
| 23 May 2002 | Software Metrics and.... | Even altruistic organizations won't exist long wit.... >> |
| 22 May 2002 | 'If all the programmers in a group 'aren't product.... >> | |
| MS EULA: JAVA TECHNO.... | The UK is much more advanced than the US when it c.... >> | |
| Aircraft falling fro.... | I agree with Hugh and Katie on some of their point.... >> | |
| What on earth does a.... | Mark... if I remember my reading of XP correctly, .... >> | |
| too critical of MS? | AND... version of this with the same intent are is.... >> | |
| 21 May 2002 | How often do you del.... | Commenting out and not deleting unused code is the.... >> |
| The Importance of Ed.... | I don't know about emacs Alex.... and maybe it is .... >> | |
| Outsourcing Developm.... | 'I've never been able to get a straight answer out.... >> | |
| 20 May 2002 | reply to "updated topics first" >> | |
| 20 May 2002 | The Importance of Ed.... | In my opinion... I must admit I like using the .... >> |
| reply to "updated to.... | Well ok then.... just take your board and go home .... >> | |
| How to plan a web ap.... | People frequently confuse planning with scheduling.... >> | |
| Code Reviews (Method.... | I agree with Matt... multiple people formal code r.... >> | |
| 17 May 2002 | MS Too Big | I'm not an economist, and so I tend to get lost wi.... >> |
| Outsourcing Developm.... | 'What I'm dying to see are consultancies that offe.... >> | |
| 15 May 2002 | updated topics first | Doesn't seem to me like new replies forces a topic.... >> |
| another missed world | 'The stuff written for the man often needs to be o.... >> | |
| enough already Joel. | I think I buy at least the 'long term' study resul.... >> | |
| 06 May 2002 | Good software engine.... | 'Wouldn't it be interesting to establish a forum w.... >> |
| 02 May 2002 | private office | In reading through these posts, I get the impressi.... >> |