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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Nat Ersoz' | ||
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Number of Comments: 673 |
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| Number of Words: 57,419 | ||
| First Comment: 01 May 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 10 Nov 2003 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 22 |
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| First Topic: 12 May 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 07 Nov 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 10 Nov 2003 | All I want for Chris.... | Peace on earth and some really groovy war toys. .... >> |
| 09 Nov 2003 | Where are all the ne.... | Form over substance, abstraction for its own sake..... >> |
| Developing a Replace.... | BoredB, X both sucketh, and yet it doesn't. I'.... >> | |
| Coding while watchin.... | 'There is a lot of really great TV out there to be.... >> | |
| Is Linux more Secure.... | Stephen, Even though a device driver may not ac.... >> | |
| 'Gotta call bullshit here. A user-mode process un.... >> | ||
| 07 Nov 2003 | Can Windows ever be secure? >> | |
| 07 Nov 2003 | Can MS sell the lock.... | OK, I stand corrected - umm, more lke irrelevant. .... >> |
| 'A lot of people would rather pay for Windows Serv.... >> | ||
| Is Linux more Secure.... | Port State Service 22/tcp open .... >> | |
| My experience is that Linux is more securable than.... >> | ||
| 06 Nov 2003 | What's on your quick.... | http://galculator.sourceforge.net/ Ya gotta hav.... >> |
| . gnome-terminal . mozilla . xmms . ethereal ..... >> | ||
| physics | Anyone can create a lexicon of bullshit, combine i.... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | Where Did You Go To .... | Oh yeah, BSEE, Rose-Hulman Inst., 1983 >> |
| > BSEE > US Naval Academy, 1989 Way to go Phil.... >> | ||
| 03 Nov 2003 | Survey:: WiFi anyone.... | Just curious Tapiwa, are the hot spots free or do .... >> |
| 02 Nov 2003 | SW Mgmt Part 2 - Des.... | Wow, best rant I ever read... >> |
| 01 Nov 2003 | The Ridiculous Influ.... | Same old, same old. I try not to even comment any .... >> |
| Microsoft to buy Goo.... | 'Microsoft's search capabilities suck. etcetera....... >> | |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Investing Money In C.... | www.realmoney.com You gotta pay for it, but mos.... >> |
| "Programmer Folkways.... | BoredB, In no way contrue my comments to be ta.... >> | |
| Bicycling. That's all you really need to know. .... >> | ||
| 29 Oct 2003 | Development has beco.... | Bet let me get on with some moaning... Holy cra.... >> |
| 28 Oct 2003 | Academics vs. Engine.... | xyzzy, Agreed, for errors which should not or c.... >> |
| Except for the 'gracefully handling' part of the a.... >> | ||
| 23 Oct 2003 | Even though I don't .... | Ummm, how'd you get the "Senior" tacked onto your .... >> |
| I had an HP41C back in the day. I tell ya, t.... >> | ||
| Poor Man's Double Bl.... | And then there's just whining for its own sake... >> | |
| I'd like to know what music you're using. I .... >> | ||
| Terror Profiles Don'.... | If Arafat were interested in peace, he would have .... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Curse of the 4.0 | '4' is cursed: MPEG-1: successful MPEG-2: wild.... >> |
| WinXP boot problems..... | Actually, you should be set up perfectly. Put t.... >> | |
| Microsoft Versus Lin.... | "Linux Zealots", probably aren't worried about mar.... >> | |
| Ballmer is smart not to address the competition, a.... >> | ||
| Security protocols, .... | 'Because you aren't guranteeing security on the ma.... >> | |
| 'Secondly, and thusly, this clears the way to de- .... >> | ||
| 17 Oct 2003 | When was the last ti.... | We specifically test our application against low-m.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Exceptions, Threads .... | Ori, 1. Provability: If I'm writing soemthing .... >> |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Leave your language .... | Moral Decadance (sp?) -- yes! That's the term I w.... >> |
| Driving a manual shift (aka stick) makes you a bet.... >> | ||
| 11 Oct 2003 | Microsoft's Got It's.... | Great picture. If you don't smile in a photo, the.... >> |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Borland supporting M.... | Herb Sutter is a frigging genius (guru really).&nb.... >> |
| Microsoft gets perio.... | (PMT == Premenstrual Trauma)? >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | musicmatch problem | If you own the CD's, t shouldn't be too much troub.... >> |
| Beep | Gratuitous Complexity: When you spend more time.... >> | |
| ASCII value 7 is the vaule for the system bell.&nb.... >> | ||
| 02 Oct 2003 | What's Happened to J.... | Oh, and alchohol may not be consumed during a pero.... >> |
| Dave, Correct me if I'm wrong... But you do re.... >> | ||
| Personally, if I were looking I'd appreciate it if.... >> | ||
| 30 Sep 2003 | which language to le.... | sed... >> |
| Personal firewall | Very interesting. And, very useful... >> | |
| That's fine, but how does it know packets x are co.... >> | ||
| So, how does ZoneAlarm work? I went to their web .... >> | ||
| How to beat lethargy.... | Read the motication posters above. 'They didn't.... >> | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | Dell a competitor of.... | No doubt it has been done. The question is h.... >> |
| Bizzaro. PPT slideshow presentations on your TV? .... >> | ||
| 28 Sep 2003 | Wireless Internet Co.... | I think the authentication reference is with respe.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2003 | Why am I regularly k.... | I have also experience problems with Win XP WEP en.... >> |
| 25 Sep 2003 | Securing the Wireles.... | And yes, you can snoop the user's mac address. >> |
| Filtering by MAC has no effect: ifconfig eth1 h.... >> | ||
| WEP is resonably secure for hiome use. It takes w.... >> | ||
| 23 Sep 2003 | Open Source is the n.... | You're so vain, you probably think this thread is .... >> |
| Linux Profitability | OK, take out prominent, and replace that with anyo.... >> | |
| 22 Sep 2003 | Standardizing a Deve.... | As for the MSFT IDE... one of the few possitive th.... >> |
| You don't make it a habit of driving someone else'.... >> | ||
| Why would I ever use someone else's IDE? >> | ||
| It would be a complete waste of time. Concentra.... >> | ||
| Linux Profitability | 'Many Linux advocates who are appalled by this 'mo.... >> | |
| >> The open source world STILL does.not.get.it. .... >> | ||
| 19 Sep 2003 | Question on Dell's W.... | Has anyone actually exercised the CompleteCare war.... >> |
| Wireless LAN questio.... | For $20 the cantenna looks like an excellent idea. >> | |
| 18 Sep 2003 | sshd for win32? >> | |
| 18 Sep 2003 | If you're on a budget, you can make high gain ante.... >> | |
| sshd for win32? | Thanks, they all look very promising. >> | |
| 16 Sep 2003 | Static variables - g.... | Sorry, my over-reaction... a pet peeve... >> |
| 15 Sep 2003 | Gads, the more I think about it, the more abhorent.... >> | |
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| The reason its hard is that along the way you add .... >> | ||
| 03 Sep 2003 | Rant on Linux on the.... | Marlene, My wife was once looking over my shoul.... >> |
| One mroe thing... about that keyboard driver.... >> | ||
| Marlene, You are used to one thing, now you mus.... >> | ||
| 26 Jun 2003 | Court: MSFT not required to carry Sun's Java >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | How Much Tuition is .... | Shabob, You're clearly an anit-MSFT biggot. Ge.... >> |
| 20 Jun 2003 | PowerPoint is the Sy.... | Yeah, that's it... Drag the entire team into a .... >> |
| Hohmy... I absolutely love it. * Bul.... >> | ||
| Dealing with burnout | Bicycling - or the moral equivalent thereof (for s.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2003 | How do I make a radi.... | That is an excellent point. You can run the .... >> |
| 18 Jun 2003 | Chain link fence, gutter, any old wire. Any of .... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2003 | WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC.... | Philo! Thanks man, myAnything is just so dam.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2003 | More Performance App.... | What you're saying is that working as a full time .... >> |
| So... You just toss a few hundred thousand b.... >> | ||
| I've never understood Joel's and others (Deming, e.... >> | ||
| 07 Jun 2003 | Self-evaluation | Philo, 12 months is way too long. 6 months is .... >> |
| Take all those status reports you've been emailing.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2003 | Back to the VC world | I thought Joel's article was very interesting. Ho.... >> |
| Analyst reports on S.... | 'The month of June is show-and-tell time,' McBride.... >> | |
| Code Quality From An.... | I think Nitin just described the MSFT Windows API..... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Stripped Windows? | You mean without a browser? NOT POSSIBLE! >> |
| Ouch, I'm Windows 95.... | Very cool. OS/2 Warp. Feelings of aban.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Practices for remove.... | I'm always amazed at the number of people posting .... >> |
| 02 Jun 2003 | How much a programme.... | That's pretty amusing... Once you've hacked .... >> |
| What do you tell the.... | 'If the project is being run correctly, then code .... >> | |
| Top 10 Indicators yo.... | Dishonrable mention: You blame H1B's for everythin.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2003 | A new web broswer | As a bonus, I've been using the Mozilla email clie.... >> |
| Top 10 Indicators yo.... | I like it... Honorable mention, you file a Goog.... >> | |
| There's too much fea.... | 'The type of sharing involved in pair programming .... >> | |
| Pairing | I never woulda believed it, but there is more than.... >> | |
| 30 May 2003 | Keep an open mind. Unless you get paired wit.... >> | |
| DNS Propagation - an.... | Sometimes best effort means no effort. >> | |
| 29 May 2003 | Any theories on this.... | What is so weird, is that if SCO doesn't own copyr.... >> |
| Surprised this news .... | I definitely made a broad swipe there, sorry. It .... >> | |
| I seriously doubt that Munich has any intention of.... >> | ||
| 28 May 2003 | E-bay pays $35millio.... | S. Tanna - I agree with you, precisely. Here is.... >> |
| 'It used to be that to patent software it had to b.... >> | ||
| 1. Our patent system seems to be completely out of.... >> | ||
| My website could be .... | 2nd the opion, that Mark Taw's site is quite aweso.... >> | |
| 27 May 2003 | Image Processing Boo.... | Good idea - go for the Gimp source. >> |
| This is probably not what you want, but... The .... >> | ||
| SDLC - Feasibility | I've been on several projects which had ROI calcul.... >> | |
| 26 May 2003 | Any reason to consid.... | Linux d00d, straight C, GUI in motif and protocols.... >> |
| Programmers Attack! .... | 'Programmers' propensity to put down each other is.... >> | |
| 25 May 2003 | CYA = Cover Your Ass. I think it was the first .... >> | |
| 23 May 2003 | Spamm 'o Ramma - from JoS >> | |
| 23 May 2003 | Evolving code layout.... | Commas in front: you can add params without chang.... >> |
| They're all fine - the compiler won't generate a w.... >> | ||
| How did you get here.... | Worked in an automated test group in the early 198.... >> | |
| What makes a develop.... | So... are you 1 of 2, or 1 or 8? >> | |
| 22 May 2003 | finding educated wor.... | Mmmmm. Edumacation. >> |
| Resolution conflict .... | There ya go... :) >> | |
| Based on what I've read, this is a much more usefu.... >> | ||
| Viewpoint shifts dur.... | I'd also say that... If you didn't encounter a .... >> | |
| No matter how interesting the project, how excelle.... >> | ||
| 21 May 2003 | Recent Threads | ...communication, not ego-boosting... Actually,.... >> |
| Evil and truly evil | 'He went through this area of legacy code and stri.... >> | |
| Matrix Reloaded - on.... | 'There is a theme here about the relationship betw.... >> | |
| 20 May 2003 | What would a sane pe.... | RealPC, Hey, we once had a guy claiming that so.... >> |
| Software Development.... | Ummmm..... FogBugz? >> | |
| Self modifying code | Sorry, I was wrong - it did not halt. >> | |
| Windows would halt during the load. >> | ||
| MS to buy Unix from .... | Yet another excellent read: http://news.com.com/2.... >> | |
| music 2 | Start clipping your toe-nails, and make sure some .... >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | Self modifying code | That's laughable. Win 3.1 self-modifying code w.... >> |
| I didn't write it, but someone on our project did:.... >> | ||
| MS to buy Unix from .... | http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html A mos.... >> | |
| Please explain "unenforceable". Why is it un.... >> | ||
| While MSFT might publicly be licensing a Unix port.... >> | ||
| 17 May 2003 | Matrix Reloaded - only read after you see it >> | |
| 17 May 2003 | Missing C feature? | This is one of the more interesting topics generat.... >> |
| 16 May 2003 | music 2 | Passive/Aggressive - what the psicko's call it, ri.... >> |
| Missing C feature? | OK, you're right... still trying... >> | |
| So, yes - it can be done in an ANSI portable manne.... >> | ||
| Here is a good example of va_ macro usage. Its si.... >> | ||
| I see what you mean now. You need to use va_.... >> | ||
| The reason you cannot perform simialr operations w.... >> | ||
| I propose 3b is already implemented widely as the .... >> | ||
| First to Market | Who remembers Xerox PARC? Almost noone. >> | |
| Apollo 1. Lessons of rushing to be first to .... >> | ||
| ear plugs | You have a staff meeting in 1 hour. Ask Derr.... >> | |
| 15 May 2003 | Most satisifying sof.... | Duke Nuken, 3D. By far my favorite game of a.... >> |
| 3rd - Brief editor, DOS The first real editor f.... >> | ||
| Better system - home.... | Home mahcines always rule - because they have to p.... >> | |
| Opera | Side note: I just started using Mozilla as my wor.... >> | |
| Music | Bob Noxious, aka Rob Try.. RealPC, drop me an e.... >> | |
| Its Trybinski, isn't it? Spelling is off, bu.... >> | ||
| Homygosh. You work with Bob (Rob) Noxious??&.... >> | ||
| Actually, the speaker wires - fray them slightly a.... >> | ||
| Second the motion. >> | ||
| How To Ask Questions | The introduction of the referenced URL is self ser.... >> | |
| 13 May 2003 | Java programmers ove.... | I'm a mere Java "hack". But I'm 41, and I kn.... >> |
| C++ objects, optimiz.... | There is something very curious about a compiler t.... >> | |
| 12 May 2003 | CS degree from home | One other thing, its expensive. The pricing .... >> |
| You might take a look at 'National Technological U.... >> | ||
| Global Variable Subt.... | Nice example. I can add a few more 'why's' the th.... >> | |
| What are some .... | Reputation: Potential FTC fines of $2.2 trillion f.... >> | |
| 11 May 2003 | Linus on Open Source.... | '...the Linus Meister just went down about twenty .... >> |
| Monkeys at the keybo.... | I think they landed a new grant to record the soun.... >> | |
| 09 May 2003 | Hillarious! >> | |
| Dealing with crap co.... | Start brushing up on talkin' schmack. >> | |
| Need a new job, and .... | Sorry, my reply was to M.K. >> | |
| http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmers.... >> | ||
| Demonic Longhorn | Sorry Rob, that was not a stab at the locals. .... >> | |
| I think this is it. http://www.longhornsaloon.c.... >> | ||
| 08 May 2003 | What are some .... | Why are you writing bugs? You're supposed to be wr.... >> |
| .Net develops advant.... | Fluff. The article in 50 words or less: 1. Con.... >> | |
| How does productivit.... | Similar as App Specialist: Every 6 months we crea.... >> | |
| OOP Paradigm Shift:&.... | Using Borlands OWL (Object Windows Library) beat t.... >> | |
| 07 May 2003 | OOP paradigm shift | If you're programming devices (you mention microco.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | Procomm or custom? | How 'bout Kermit? Source is available - which m.... >> |
| 05 May 2003 | Soyuz software glitch >> | |
| 05 May 2003 | Is Software a dead i.... | First, silicon valley isn't called Si because soft.... >> |
| Why would I move Mou.... | new math... >> | |
| How long does your s.... | 'Our W2K boxes have never been rebooted unless it .... >> | |
| 04 May 2003 | Programmers who are .... | Hell, just last week, one of my best friends from .... >> |
| How long does your s.... | So, why is it that Windows reboot when things like.... >> | |
| 03 May 2003 | How should I comment.... | OK, sorry... don't do that. Make some basic as.... >> |
| Big headers for every function, commenting the par.... >> | ||
| 01 May 2003 | Is free software is .... | Greedy, yes. And I like it too. What I take is.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2003 | More Knuth | Rocky Horror. >> |
| Is free software is .... | Better/Beater... I detect hostility toward open.... >> | |
| What internet did MS.... | Outlook. I kid you not, it is the killer bus.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2003 | John Carmack Program.... | Because he can. >> |
| 27 Apr 2003 | Sooner or later domi.... | Tides change, IMO, due to some truly disruptive te.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Linux != future | 'It was even funny at first, all these IT defrosti.... >> |
| Development for Hand.... | 'We have been using Embedded C++ v3.0 (also workin.... >> | |
| Nice to see a unified coherent strategery is being.... >> | ||
| OOP in C | Yes, please don't violate the language with bad ca.... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2003 | Your Additions to th.... | Answer: yes. >> |
| The best of the Joel tests are those which you can.... >> | ||
| IBM ads | Their ads are truly funny. >> | |
| 22 Apr 2003 | Joel's 12 point Test.... | I like the warm feeling of security that comes fro.... >> |
| Even if you're the one and only one developer, a g.... >> | ||
| dependancy checking .... | Very nice link. Thanks. >> | |
| I use makedepends, although there are other ways. .... >> | ||
| Internet cache | Mozilla >> | |
| Software Engineering.... | The fact that software engineers are discussing li.... >> | |
| SMTP Replacement... | Ian is right: The simplest strategery is to whi.... >> | |
| OpenOffice | O, BTW. Regardless of load speed, WYGIWYG ed.... >> | |
| Open Office (ooffice.bin), once loaded with nothin.... >> | ||
| 21 Apr 2003 | Directory Viewer... | du -h --max-depth=3 very nice. >> |
| software dev. on Lin.... | Thanks for the responses. What I find frustrating.... >> | |
| Mike, I'm curious (truly). How come you like au.... >> | ||
| 18 Apr 2003 | Kinds of bad manager.... | 'The process pundit.' Amen to that. I worked for .... >> |
| 16 Apr 2003 | But I like all the p.... | Pretty pictures?? Sounds like a 'Windows Instal.... >> |
| Software development.... | Brad, I'm quite the Cockburn & Fowler fan. But.... >> | |
| I laugh with you. >> | ||
| What to do about sle.... | Take the phone book off the shelf and place it on .... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2003 | No Telepones >> | |
| 13 Apr 2003 | No Telepones | One note: I (try to) take personal call on m.... >> |
| "80/20" Rule | I think Google has figured out something simple: .... >> | |
| 10 Apr 2003 | The Joy of Linux >> | |
| 10 Apr 2003 | The Joy of Linux | Need MSFT fonts? http://sourceforge.net/project.... >> |
| Encouraging Testable.... | Whoops, no spite intended in my last post. A.... >> | |
| Realist, same here. Only I do it out of nece.... >> | ||
| 09 Apr 2003 | Meta Build Tools | How about merely writing some scripts and cron job.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | Microsoft Cerificati.... | So, why doesn't MSFT require certification when th.... >> |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Why read the forum w.... | I'm not here for Joel. >> |
| Linux IDE for C++ de.... | Free: DDD http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ GDB.... >> | |
| best programmers in .... | Wazzat Saddam's Horse??!! Woohoo! >> | |
| How often should one.... | You *should* be using labels for this. Each time .... >> | |
| 06 Apr 2003 | best programmers in .... | From the description of the event it sounded like .... >> |
| If you were not a de.... | Ski patrol. Bicycle tour guide. It could happe.... >> | |
| What the #$*()& .... | This is like therapy... I'm glad I'm not the.... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Self Imposed Pressur.... | Bored... I've never been an IC, but have though.... >> |
| employment agreement | Writing open source is, most of the time, not empl.... >> | |
| 01 Apr 2003 | Trading | O, BTW. All buys/sells are set at home days .... >> |
| MSFT. My one and only trading stock. Latest trad.... >> | ||
| 31 Mar 2003 | Bug tracking / "issu.... | No, we've never used FogBugz. I think it loo.... >> |
| With an earlier suggestion here on JoS, we're swit.... >> | ||
| "Incentive Pay Consi.... | Rd: Estimates. Well, that was an interesting th.... >> | |
| I have seen this sort of thing work well in the pa.... >> | ||
| 30 Mar 2003 | William Whyte's rule | Nice to know that even with all the wacky schenani.... >> |
| Cost. First CEO (fired along with minions fo.... >> | ||
| 29 Mar 2003 | William Whyte's rule >> | |
| 29 Mar 2003 | Import tariffs and o.... | Itarian, I thought your analysis was very good,.... >> |
| Discuss: Win9x/MacOS.... | Wow, interesting thread, if not long... Anyhow, I.... >> | |
| Inappropriate Termin.... | You can expect anything with the word 'technology'.... >> | |
| 27 Mar 2003 | Coding: Means or End.... | little john, That's the greatest thing I've rea.... >> |
| anybody seeing an en.... | One of the key responsibilities of a manager is to.... >> | |
| Rule Number Four: Gr.... | Steven, sorry. Just taking random pot shots..... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Personal Firewalls? | Yaniv, This is an interesting topic. I've thou.... >> |
| Pen-and-Paper coding.... | There is something about sitting at a keyboard tha.... >> | |
| Rule Number Four: Gr.... | Most of us clean our own houses. >> | |
| WinCE beats VxWorks .... | Hey, at least the bugs get fixed. Do you thi.... >> | |
| Sure. We use embedded Linux, exclusively. And, i.... >> | ||
| 25 Mar 2003 | Legacy Visual Basic .... | Never mind. As the previous thread mentioned.... >> |
| Albert, Some of us don't have VB to benchmark a.... >> | ||
| Memory/Concentration.... | http://joel.spolsky.com/biketrip/index.htm In c.... >> | |
| Yea! another cyclist! >> | ||
| Botox. >> | ||
| Try chemo. The French press claimed it helpe.... >> | ||
| Rule Number Four: Gr.... | Our software development group (10 engineers) is c.... >> | |
| If you don't hear ba.... | I heard at this morning's mil briefing that Tommy .... >> | |
| BoredB., always a pleasure. :) >> | ||
| WinCE beats VxWorks .... | Sorry, I forgot. Linux doesn't run VB6. .... >> | |
| How is it that embedded Linux is a POS, other than.... >> | ||
| 24 Mar 2003 | Lunch At Cubile or A.... | if( day == Thursday ) eat_thai_with_group(); .... >> |
| If you don't hear ba.... | Hack their web site. >> | |
| 23 Mar 2003 | WinCE beats VxWorks in revenue >> | |
| 22 Mar 2003 | Bella's Pet Peeve #5.... | Sad but true... 1. Grab free pizza slice. 2. C.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Hungarian Notation | Basically, if you make good design choices, like s.... >> |
| Geeze, its as bad as 'comment maturbation'. (.... >> | ||
| 99% of the Linux kernel is written in straight C (.... >> | ||
| politics | Listening to Runsfeldd... 'Goal is to destroy w.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Allowing developers .... | Ownership is a very good idea. The differenc.... >> |
| What allows GNU/Linu.... | Damn - that's nice. Is there a man page for tha.... >> | |
| 19 Mar 2003 | Commenting Code | I only comment parts of code which are not intuiti.... >> |
| // drunk now, fix later. >> | ||
| Allowing developers .... | That's par for the course in very heirarchical org.... >> | |
| How to get computer .... | Put Redhat 8.0 in CD drawer. Reboot. >> | |
| What allows GNU/Linu.... | Sorry, my bad. Haven't had good concentratio.... >> | |
| whoops 'exit' should be 'edit' >> | ||
| BuildGuy, So, explain to me how root != adminis.... >> | ||
| Just for the record, stuff I really like: KDE: .... >> | ||
| Tom puts it nicely. pb, what exactly do you not.... >> | ||
| 18 Mar 2003 | politics | tapiwa, Regardless of how you fill in the blank.... >> |
| CAMEL: The morning m.... | Of course. That is exactly what we do, and h.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2003 | looking for a team m.... | Project is exactly what you do not want to use. P.... >> |
| How to be the best t.... | The best testers break things. They understand th.... >> | |
| politics | I was not making a value judgment, just an observa.... >> | |
| Here's my little prediction for you all. Whe.... >> | ||
| 16 Mar 2003 | Chuck was being sarcastic. >> | |
| 15 Mar 2003 | Terms | Tactical strateegery synergisticly complements the.... >> |
| 14 Mar 2003 | Design and implement.... | Well, yes, I used some exageration - it was to mak.... >> |
| Adobe UI - really ba.... | I've abandonned all GUI documentation tools, inclu.... >> | |
| CAMEL: The morning m.... | (let's face it - *everyone* on the project wants t.... >> | |
| Unit testing in n-ti.... | Thanks! That is very encouraging. I love the f.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | What does a 'world c.... | I can't define what a good software engineer is, b.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Warchalking | I wasn't advocating anything. I was merely sugges.... >> |
| Except for the 'chalking' part - that is you are d.... >> | ||
| Unit testing in n-ti.... | Steven, This is interesting to me. Has your au.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | I was thinking about something in similar terms - .... >> | |
| Project Management C.... | I've never met a program nor project mamager w/cer.... >> | |
| The Tyranny of Email | The worst thing I've ever encountered is the PA sy.... >> | |
| Specialization of de.... | Having had a little time to contemplate my navel o.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | what's your title | Member Technical Staff (MTS) >> |
| All foreigners rise .... | I thought that was just a Seattle thing - somethin.... >> | |
| Money, taxes, and wh.... | Gads, kill this thread. SUBMARINES! SUBMARIN.... >> | |
| All I have to say is... 'submarines'. Geez, .... >> | ||
| 09 Mar 2003 | followup | It really stinks. Our HR department has delayed a.... >> |
| Specialization of de.... | Wow, I really like this. Bored is on a roll - tih.... >> | |
| BoredB. I like what you wrote there. I also te.... >> | ||
| 07 Mar 2003 | Nathan sez: 'Never have a specialist who isn't mat.... >> | |
| Pair Programming Exp.... | My ass is so wide, I take up 2 chairs. All I.... >> | |
| New Office Wiring | Sounds like a helluva lotta fun - designing your n.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Good Job advertiseme.... | How 'bout The Linux version: 1. Your level of 'sm.... >> |
| Critique of joel's ".... | How about this be the last commentary the discussi.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | ldd in windows? >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | Selling non existent.... | Back in ... hmm, I think it was around 1993. The .... >> |
| ldd in windows? | Thank you guys very much! >> | |
| Speaking of spyware, this is disgusting. The.... >> | ||
| 03 Mar 2003 | Writing Perfect Code.... | No, that wasn't targeted at you. That was targete.... >> |
| Woe to the ignorant soul who does not test their c.... >> | ||
| 28 Feb 2003 | Utility functions? | Well, I was thinking of something along similar li.... >> |
| MS to open source fo.... | CAll me "Mazola Boy". Mmmmmm. Butter. >> | |
| When someone from MSFT utters the words "open the .... >> | ||
| 27 Feb 2003 | If not files & directories, then what? >> | |
| 27 Feb 2003 | If not files & d.... | MSFT has considerably poisoned the files/directori.... >> |
| check it out: find / -type f -exec grep -lH xyz.... >> | ||
| OK, simple example. I'm a programmer (common gr.... >> | ||
| SourceForge like ser.... | We're getting a SourceForge demo in here next week.... >> | |
| 26 Feb 2003 | MSDN fonts... | Perhaps you might find them here: http://source.... >> |
| Hiring A New Manager | It basically sucks. Why didn't they promote .... >> | |
| Bothersome holdovers.... | I really don't know why anyone would have a proble.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2003 | Big Macs, Naked Chef.... | Albert is right: it is the most interesting busine.... >> |
| 'There's a theory that the humble games console wi.... >> | ||
| 24 Feb 2003 | If you ask me (and I realize no one did), MSFT mad.... >> | |
| 23 Feb 2003 | "SQL Server Develope.... | Exactly. Something/somebody ran off ni the w.... >> |
| 22 Feb 2003 | I seriously doubt it. A large company like MSFT h.... >> | |
| software to dsp work | I suggest R.W. Hamming's 'Digital Filters'. A ver.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2003 | Music >> | |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Discrimination: Lear.... | Anytime someone starts claiming to be 'the voice o.... >> |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Joel's Snoozers | Latest quarters results have Dell's profit up 32% .... >> |
| How to ask for a rai.... | Send in a status report every Friday whether your .... >> | |
| Work hours/week? | 'Coding in 12 hour days is like playing guitar whi.... >> | |
| I rarely see a need to work over 40 hours per week.... >> | ||
| OpenGL vs. Direct3D | Interesting thread. I'd like to hear what y'.... >> | |
| Job Openings | The CS degree is optional. A BS ins something is .... >> | |
| 13 Feb 2003 | http://www.myrio.com/company/employment/list.cfm .... >> | |
| Dang, I wanna work at alphatech - cool work the.... >> | ||
| More jobs: see http://www.myrio.com/company/emp.... >> | ||
| Can anybody recommen.... | The filtering is based on tcpdump syntax - and yes.... >> | |
| 12 Feb 2003 | What were your first.... | PDP-8 in high school, All BASIC all the time PDP-.... >> |
| Hiring coders versus.... | Tom, Unless you're one of the following: 1. A .... >> | |
| Can anybody recommen.... | Ethereal and tcpdump - GUI or command line, tke yo.... >> | |
| Out of work? Don't t.... | I'd go with the MBA if that is what you really wan.... >> | |
| Universities' Crusad.... | Its one thing to use sentence fragments to convey .... >> | |
| 11 Feb 2003 | The reason C will endure forever (and I think that.... >> | |
| >> I can't think of any other science or engineeri.... >> | ||
| 10 Feb 2003 | Perceptive, perhaps... But lazy ass... >> | |
| That's what a senior project is for. You want to .... >> | ||
| 09 Feb 2003 | Career Strategy | >> This would be something like PM roles if I take.... >> |
| 07 Feb 2003 | Mental Health Issues.... | Mental Health in Software Development? Sounds l.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2003 | Steps leading to sof.... | Nice description Mark... >> |
| handle connections -.... | http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/perf-tuning..... >> | |
| It truly depends on what you're trying to accompli.... >> | ||
| 05 Feb 2003 | ClearCase Source Con.... | Correct me if I'm wrong (I've used CC only once be.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2003 | how difficult is ker.... | I've found the Linux kernel source to be some of t.... >> |
| CVS: Joel not taking.... | Perforce is clearly much better than CVS. Its abi.... >> | |
| 01 Feb 2003 | Space Shuttle Columb.... | All: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-S.... >> |
| 30 Jan 2003 | Good developers don'.... | This is like that question in 'Office Space', righ.... >> |
| Cube or office...Wha.... | I've worked on both offices, cubes and 'team space.... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2003 | Question about XP an.... | XP doesn't discourage design - it minimizes it to .... >> |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Globals Suck >> | |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Globals Suck | ACCKK! Long live Bill the Cat. >> |
| Murphy's struck me t.... | I second Albert's suggestion that one of a laptop'.... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | MPEG-4, my rant >> | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | Working For A Small .... | I'm a developer for a company of 44 people. It .... >> |
| Competance and Chica.... | So true, so true... "work the magic". .... >> | |
| Syntax, Idioms, and .... | I think that the use of the time function, well, s.... >> | |
| Another lesson... | Under all circumstances, user sever based version .... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2003 | C++ == Crap | 'We're not wusses, we're just lazy and lazyness is.... >> |
| Pointers for dummies | I think that Benji correctly identified the stumbl.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2003 | Code Question~ | Sorry, ssize_t is defined in POSIX and the typedef.... >> |
| Hey, y'know, on second thought... to code pr.... >> | ||
| 1. I don't see anything that would be classified a.... >> | ||
| C++ == Crap | Sounds like our little Ada programmer is having a .... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2003 | Another day, another.... | Mighty interesting article! I particularly love.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | What do you guys mak.... | Somewhere, I think it wast TIME magazine (owned, o.... >> |
| Best Computer Scienc.... | Best school: University of Illinois, that's .... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2003 | Clay Shirky: last mi.... | Shirky's article was right on: 1. The barriers .... >> |
| 19 Dec 2002 | Documentation | Bob, Unfortunately, your senior design guy is o.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2002 | Automated testing... | 3) Device drivers: This can be automated, and i.... >> |
| Coding != Software D.... | Bill C., Basically, this is a rant thread - it .... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2002 | Career Path for Prog.... | 1). 19 years as an Electrical Engineer. 2). Proje.... >> |
| Coding != Software D.... | No. When the buttocks stay in the chair and the f.... >> | |
| Other rants _against_ developers (schitzo, yes?) .... >> | ||
| While I agree with so much of what is said, let me.... >> | ||
| 16 Dec 2002 | Memory caching and s.... | >> if (--mThreadCount == 0) mThreadId = 0; Was.... >> |
| Raider's from Within | Although out company doesn't compete against MSFT .... >> | |
| time management book.... | 1. Stay away from Slashdot. 2. Stay away from JoS.... >> | |
| 14 Dec 2002 | Mr. Moneybags | No correlation? That may be over-reaching. On.... >> |
| 13 Dec 2002 | Degrees, Publishing,.... | Well, BS hasn't got a clue either. But that'.... >> |
| I disagree with the notion that people without deg.... >> | ||
| Its actually very easy to publish an article in a .... >> | ||
| Recruitment is just .... | You'll go blind doing that... >> | |
| Very interesting and entertaining post. So g.... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2002 | What is zlib? >> | |
| 11 Dec 2002 | What is zlib? | And.... Patrick will do nicely as poster boy fo.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2002 | Which language will .... | I wouldn't hold my breath. >> |
| Just so no one misunderstands... I was being.... >> | ||
| 09 Dec 2002 | Visual Basic, of course. >> | |
| 06 Dec 2002 | Microsoft College In.... | If the interviewer used the word 'probability' in .... >> |
| 05 Dec 2002 | Assembly Language | Guess we don't got none of them high paying jobs d.... >> |
| In my 20 year career, I have met fewer than 5 peop.... >> | ||
| Assembler is less necessary than it used to be eve.... >> | ||
| 04 Dec 2002 | I second the PowerPC assembler recommendation. I .... >> | |
| 01 Dec 2002 | Working remotely wit.... | The reason that cell phones can elevate skin tempe.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2002 | Angry manager | Get him a girl friend and then video tape _them_. .... >> |
| Time to break out the whoopie cushion... >> | ||
| 25 Nov 2002 | Follow up procedures | speaking of lame: wrong topic... >> |
| I work at least 7 hours out of an 8 hour work day..... >> | ||
| Bringing Code Sample.... | For my first job I had to submit a stool sample. .... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2002 | speaking of leaky.. | Should we even bother? Yes and no. Try to recove.... >> |
| 22 Nov 2002 | How many gas station.... | Ed, mah man... my mouth ran away from me on that .... >> |
| Well, OK. Alberto's very accurate estimation.... >> | ||
| Cool post Marc, Now just for the record, MTV is.... >> | ||
| That type of question is BS, pure and simple. I'v.... >> | ||
| Similar websites as .... | Yourdon sucks. >> | |
| CVS vs Visual Source.... | Marc, Sorry, I woke up feeling really cranky, s.... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2002 | bait and switch: wha.... | There is always tomorrow... Today its the same .... >> |
| MultiThreading | That 'story' on kur5hin.org is one of the biggest .... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2002 | Debugging and head-b.... | The hard part of schedule estimates is bounding th.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2002 | Project Management S.... | Personally, I find Project - and likely all Gant c.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Spam | 2 Nigerian spam scams per day. I suscribe to.... >> |
| Expected out of coll.... | 'Expected out of college experience?' There are.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2002 | Dead wood II | 'But actually, you only have to be half as smart, .... >> |
| We recently had one of our HR people leave because.... >> | ||
| 16 Nov 2002 | Personally, I would just make the corrections myse.... >> | |
| Must-see geek sites .... | Humbug! I took my 18 year old cousin up the .... >> | |
| Forget the geek attractions: boring. Visit the .... >> | ||
| 15 Nov 2002 | The Law of Leaky Abs.... | ... replace open() with socket() ... now I feel.... >> |
| For the record: 'By comparison, there is anothe.... | ||