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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'anonQAguy' | ||
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Number of Comments: 214 |
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| Number of Words: 50,004 | ||
| First Comment: 23 Jul 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 17 Feb 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 5 |
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| First Topic: 27 Oct 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 15 Sep 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 17 Feb 2004 | Taking the easy way .... | ROTFL, Fred. good one. >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | VMWare and licenses | Licensed - I assume you mean for some sort of p.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Windows XP command l.... | I second the CygWin utilities. but, here are a .... >> |
| collecting Info over.... | This has been discussed before here several times..... >> | |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Blocking users from .... | Chi Lambda - Ted's hit the crux of the matter -.... >> |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Scientific Apps prog.... | Abbot - I echo the recommendations regarding th.... >> |
| 20-minute skill sess.... | A couple of tips I've found non-techies within my .... >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | Noise Levels in the .... | Has anybody tried the noise-cancelling headphones?.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2003 | Voice Recognition = .... | Hey entrepreneur, careful there... some of us dun .... >> |
| 29 Dec 2003 | Source Control | Well, Gywn, I 'feel your pain'. However, I've had .... >> |
| not to be rude, but there's been significant discu.... >> | ||
| Lovers at Work ... | philo's got a key point folks... fiancee is not th.... >> | |
| a very bad idea. do not do it. the number of scen.... >> | ||
| Things that make you | Matt -- shame on you! I'm pretty sure that's sp.... >> | |
| 14 Dec 2003 | State Machines | and don't forget that unless your state machine do.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Command line vs. Gui.... | Long time - I think you're right. In my case, I.... >> |
| rhubarb - not trying to contest with you on the.... >> | ||
| on windows boxen, I always load cygwin...the unix .... >> | ||
| Bill Gates: agnostic.... | sorry all, I may have missed it, but just exactly .... >> | |
| 03 Dec 2003 | Configuration Manage.... | well, one thing you can do is to download a copy o.... >> |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Turbo Pascal editor .... | Shawn et al - on a bit of a tangent...in case a.... >> |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Software project VS .... | you gotta be kidding. >> |
| 10 Nov 2003 | Sorting out job titl.... | ha. sorting out job titles -- good luck! This i.... >> |
| Who has clients that.... | Generally no, at least in my experience, which inc.... >> | |
| Writing a software s.... | As you get down to doing the 'real' plan, which wi.... >> | |
| what philo said. but with one addition -- docum.... >> | ||
| 06 Nov 2003 | How to automate test.... | Ooops, sorry - I reacted too quickly. I just went .... >> |
| What I'm going to say is hardly startling, but it .... >> | ||
| 28 Oct 2003 | Programming is no mo.... | well said, GenXer. Second that. >> |
| 15 Sep 2003 | errors--gone in a blink >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | errors--gone in a bl.... | Just Sir - yes, logging it is better than nothi.... >> |
| Software Configurati.... | ||
| 02 Sep 2003 | Recommend vendor for.... | I've bought my MSDN Universal licenses since 1999 .... >> |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Notepad, Can It Be R.... | Philo - regarding replacing 'view source' defau.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2003 | VB6 license | I strongly second the ebay approach. Worked very w.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2003 | Job Titles | In my experience, only in the military do 'job tit.... >> |
| 28 Jul 2003 | What do you do once .... | don't know -- see what microsoft does about their .... >> |
| What's happened to C.... | Interesting point, fancypants -- and I think yo.... >> | |
| Yep, had roughly similar problems with HP 'non-sup.... >> | ||
| 24 Jul 2003 | Satisfactory program.... | Corps Battle Simulation (CBS) -- US Army simulatio.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2003 | Does VMWare degrade .... | slightly off topic, but re XP performance, unless .... >> |
| 24 Jun 2003 | creating a bunch of .... | nOOb, you may want to think about these alternativ.... >> |
| nOOb - Yep, anyone familiar with *nix command l.... >> | ||
| 21 May 2003 | Favorite Quote | All models are wrong; Some are useful. (Motion .... >> |
| Movies and the Mind .... | in no particular order - Failsafe (actually not.... >> | |
| Matrix Reloaded - on.... | marktaw - 'And the hovercraft... Remember, anyo.... >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | What ever happened t.... | Just a comment, not an answer to your question, bu.... >> |
| Working for a non-so.... | Joe AA: 'I don't think I would agree that it is.... >> | |
| 18 May 2003 | My observations, based on experience, both as empl.... >> | |
| Matrix Reloaded - on.... | 'throwing an exception' -- nice way to put it, bu.... >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | RUP (Rational Unifie.... | With respect, Ethan, two points: 1) Beware damn.... >> |
| 15 May 2003 | Opera | to answer one poster's question, I often view this.... >> |
| 14 May 2003 | UI Mockups | Well, I've used powerpoint for this and it's worke.... >> |
| 12 May 2003 | The excel to access .... | Don't have my windows box handy, so couldn't look.... >> |
| comparing connection.... | An additional small point, possibly a bit esoteric.... >> | |
| 08 May 2003 | Phone Interview Ques.... | clarification: '...he was not an example of the m.... >> |
| I am not trying to jade you at all in saying this,.... >> | ||
| 02 May 2003 | Layoff Snafus | Sorry Brent - I was unclear. What I meant was that.... >> |
| jcm - '...I am usually rather allergic to milit.... >> | ||
| Hmm. Joe, just tried it from the forum page and it.... >> | ||
| 'Sheesh, anonQAguy...a little bitter?' Brent - .... >> | ||
| Heywood - what you wrote is consistent with the.... >> | ||
| marktaw - your example demonstrates basically w.... >> | ||
| Announcing a termina.... | Echo your last, Brent! Always easy to bitch about .... >> | |
| Brent - I agree -- that sounds like a decent, h.... >> | ||
| 01 May 2003 | Layoff Snafus | Ha! yep, I've seen this -- one previous employer d.... >> |
| Announcing a termina.... | The concerns about continuity are absolutely corre.... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2003 | The most amazing "bu.... | A neat subtle bug --I may have told this here befo.... >> |
| 13 Feb 2003 | Job Openings | Just checked out Alphatech's website. Alphatech.... >> |
| MSDN Universal 1 yr .... | Damn, Darren! just took a look at viosoftware. .... >> | |
| I've been buying MSDN Universal for my own use at .... >> | ||
| 12 Feb 2003 | Hiring coders versus.... | flamebait's got a good point -- and, I suspect mo.... >> |
| What language is Win.... | Chris - about that Vax, it may have been surpri.... >> | |
| Computing visionarie.... | Damn - flubbed that: '...Bill's significance deri.... >> | |
| Ged Byrne - Question -- Since you indicate you'.... >> | ||
| apw: ok, I concede your point. There was a peri.... >> | ||
| 'And BTW, 'salesman' and 'visionary' are not mutua.... >> | ||
| 10 Feb 2003 | Universities' Crusad.... | anon: >>anonQAguy also writes: 'since when i.... >> |
| 'and I seriously hope this thread doesn't degenera.... >> | ||
| Career Strategy | 'What is your current position/ title/ and where .... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2003 | Max # of Columns in .... | 'Is there a way to sort of 'merge' worksheets, so .... >> |
| Why don't colleges t.... | 'The problem is American universities don't care i.... >> | |
| Field Data Collectio.... | No sweat, Yaniv - I'll be here. Good luck. >> | |
| 05 Feb 2003 | How fast is your int.... | Jeff, from your post: 'DSL is dependent on the .... >> |
| Ghost vs. VMWare | Actually, I found this quote and pasted it directl.... >> | |
| Smokers | Hey - I agree smoking is unhealthful, likely in th.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2003 | Speaking of Source C.... | We use StarTeam. It's very expensive, and if we ha.... >> |
| Is CM meaningfully c.... | Matt H said: 'There are some good arguments there .... >> | |
| Software Build Guy - thanks for those links; I jus.... >> | ||
| Oh, and Dennis - I'd say that at it's most 'ana.... >> | ||
| Hmm. Interesting set of responses so far. fyi, .... >> | ||
| Ghost vs. VMWare | Oh - and yes Pete, you have it right. We have s.... >> | |
| Fair points, Pete - In our case, our office alr.... >> | ||
| Smokers | This happened a number of posts back from anon: .... >> | |
| 03 Feb 2003 | Is CM meaningfully covered in CS programs? >> | |
| 03 Feb 2003 | Ghost vs. VMWare | 5 min to lay down a new Ghost image? Seems like it.... >> |
| Smokers | Well, I'm not a smoker, personally, but grew up wi.... >> | |
| Scrolling in web bas.... | Couple of questions about your situation: Does th.... >> | |
| Space Shuttle Columb.... | We humans are certainly an oddball bunch of creatu.... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2003 | Passwords | Nope. Isn't. Windows 98 and SE weren't designed fo.... >> |
| Where is Workstation.... | 'IE, the workstation is nothing, the internet and .... >> | |
| VHS Better than Beta.... | More OT - Back in the 70's, Mercedes experiment.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Globals Suck | Well, Alberto, I guess the one good thing you can .... >> |
| Contract-to-hire | I have to second Curmugeon's basic take on CTH gig.... >> | |
| Field Data Collectio.... | Well, to respond to your comments, Yaniv - what.... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | Working For A Small .... | Things great about it: agility, fewer layers, fast.... >> |
| Contract-to-hire | oops. misread your statement about 'move'. Sorry, .... >> | |
| I've done contract to hire before. Basically, it's.... >> | ||
| Easy VS. Good, and t.... | OK- MySql it is. thanks for the clarification. sor.... >> | |
| Albert - I may be missing the boat here completely.... >> | ||
| Disaster Recovery | Hell, I know this is old, but the slickest I've se.... >> | |
| Dell server | Joel - have you ever checked out www.sagelec.com? .... >> | |
| Field Data Collectio.... | 'Regarding adding CF card to every field unit, kin.... >> | |
| Oh yes - and second also JWA's point about making .... >> | ||
| Yaniv - I've got to second JWA's points. We've .... >> | ||
| 23 Jan 2003 | Requirements Definit.... | happy: 'Now I have to convince him on some desi.... >> |
| Formatting the hard .... | For the bulk of our testing situations, VMWare and.... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2003 | VB or VC++ | Tony E -- perhaps Ubaid really meant VB.Net, not '.... >> |
| 20 Jan 2003 | Why didn't you tell .... | Jeeze, guys -- just gotta say 'ditto' to all that..... >> |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Pointers for dummies | Better than being unemployed - Good analogy. Re.... >> |
| 16 Jan 2003 | Curious - impression.... | Responses: 1) Adam -- regarding Infantry breaki.... >> |
| 15 Jan 2003 | Curious - impressions of military background >> | |
| 15 Jan 2003 | Free or Inexpensive .... | Stephen and John -- Sorry about that. Actually .... >> |
| Microsoft web developer accessories (not supported.... >> | ||
| Curious - impression.... | Thanks for the feedback, folks. Yes, Dave, 'de-.... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2003 | Perfectionist? | my previous post: s/bug perhaps/but perhaps/ .... >> |
| may seem painfully obvious, bug perhaps having wel.... >> | ||
| Math | A couple of general thoughts: 1) Danil - you wi.... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2003 | Customer Relationshi.... | HeyMacarena - Of course, you're right -- I had .... >> |
| Well, it's kind of the reverse of what you're talk.... >> | ||
| 12 Jan 2003 | recruiter e-mail | Looks like I'm out of the norm here, but I have ge.... >> |
| 04 Jan 2003 | Data Access code and.... | Oh - and from the perspective of testing, I genera.... >> |
| You gain a lot greater understanding of the proble.... >> | ||
| 31 Dec 2002 | Version control for .... | Mikayla - hmm. looks like I've been lucky to ha.... >> |
| Javier - My version control experience has been.... >> | ||
| 20 Dec 2002 | Marriage == Career D.... | I have no problem with the context of this questio.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2002 | Similarities between.... | Actually, SC, check out Wired Magazine, issue 10.0.... >> |
| ======================================= 'Sluts' w.... >> | ||
| Well, here's a way they're different - The pros.... >> | ||
| tapiwa - you forgot to mention 'pair programmin.... >> | ||
| 17 Dec 2002 | Coding != Software D.... | Nat - **I** certainly understand your pain... .... >> |
| 16 Dec 2002 | Designing a huge doc.... | Respectfully, and without any mean-spirit intended.... >> |
| 13 Dec 2002 | Degrees, Publishing,.... | been thinking about this latest instance of the en.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2002 | Joel on the Economy .... | Giampiero and following -- Respectfully, I beli.... >> |
| Recycle Bin + Networ.... | damn - s/for now it will/for now that will do/ >> | |
| DeepFried - yeah. for now it will, with some mo.... >> | ||
| Thanks, DeepFried - actually, I think when some.... >> | ||
| Hmm. I'm seeing folks say the safety net needs to .... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2002 | A New Take on Music .... | actually, the thing that irks me most about the is.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2002 | Designing a numberin.... | Another possibility to look into is an MD5 checksu.... >> |
| Bella. What's .... | Hey - some of you may have seen the stats on p.... >> | |
| Fundemental Laws of .... | David: '...It has been my experience, that top .... >> | |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Bella. What's .... | programmer - so, are you saying Bella's a 'cros.... >> |
| 08 Dec 2002 | Micro Pros WordStar .... | Crusty - the issue about the extensions is simp.... >> |
| Albert, Albert, Albert... Clearly both you and .... >> | ||
| Intelligence | Well gee whiz, Bella, guess it didn't do us much g.... >> | |
| 07 Dec 2002 | Leaky Abstractions | Regarding leaky abstrations - Two points: 1).... >> |
| 06 Dec 2002 | Intelligence | Alex - 'As for intelligence, my view of the sub.... >> |
| 05 Dec 2002 | Reverse Engineering .... | oops: s/reengineering/reverse engineering/ -damn.... >> |
| Frustrated -- though this doesn't help much for.... >> | ||
| Julian: 'I assume that you've told your manager th.... >> | ||
| 29 Nov 2002 | Angry manager | 'Remember this principle: Never try to teach a pig.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2002 | Bug Triage | Oh - forgot to mention...if the defect tracking sy.... >> |
| I recommend two ratings, but I like to keep them s.... >> | ||
| How to let managment.... | Many good points here already; I'd only add that i.... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2002 | Definitive software .... | seconded. also, guides on good software develop.... >> |
| Simple Question | 'I'm not sure if it applies to earlier versions of.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2002 | Good idea to bundle .... | Matt H. - Regarding STARS. Well, that's very in.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2002 | Must-see geek sites .... | may be a bit too far south for where you want to g.... >> |
| Mathematics Software.... | 'I suppose anonQAguy thinks you should beat the he.... >> | |
| 15 Nov 2002 | damn - s/SMy daughter's/My daughter's/ sorry. .... >> | |
| I concur with Igor - SMy daughter's a bit behin.... >> | ||
| Good idea to bundle .... | 'Then again, you could probably get an intern from.... >> | |
| Stick-shift or Auto-.... | I figured out some years ago my perfect 'car' for .... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2002 | Troy - Re the CVT's, I can recall when they wer.... >> | |
| 13 Nov 2002 | Role of testers | Sarain H. - Good thoughts, Sarain. To extend a .... >> |
| 12 Nov 2002 | Load Testing really .... | oops, I forgot to finish the sentence '... or why .... >> |
| And some more stuff (murphy's always waiting for y.... >> | ||
| 07 Nov 2002 | Visual Basic For Tes.... | Sarain - So you were at that interview also? I .... >> |
| Uh, duh - example of cranial-rectal fusion here. S.... >> | ||
| Matt - I think I'm missing some context in your.... >> | ||
| Test Web Page Downlo.... | I've had to do this sort of thing pretty often. .... >> | |
| 06 Nov 2002 | Data validation: bes.... | just a few tidbits - 1) if you're working with .... >> |
| Linux Commands | Stick with it, it'll come. Perl's great, but not a.... >> | |
| Learning Perl | Benji - I've been doing perl for a couple of ye.... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2002 | Functional Programme.... | Interesting topic/posts. Took a look at the Haskel.... >> |
| Version of ms-office.... | Previous and current places I've worked are at MS .... >> | |
| Writing Specs - Not .... | HA!!! Great one, Tony! Us QA and QC folks woul.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2002 | Most powerful notebo.... | Nathan J { LOL! Excellent point about disgruntl.... >> |
| I second the Dell Inspiron 8200 choice. recently g.... >> | ||
| 31 Oct 2002 | MAC Emulators for Wintel or Linux >> | |
| 31 Oct 2002 | MAC Emulators for Wi.... | Good points, folks - I may just have to break d.... >> |
| Providing Salary His.... | anon - yeah. And my concern is that in my exper.... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2002 | Thanks for the response, Eric. Yeah, I think th.... >> | |
| Eric - You've cited that a sourcegear candidate.... >> | ||
| 'If you're negotiating for a deal where you win an.... >> | ||
| 28 Oct 2002 | 'Has anyone actually DECLINED to give salary info?.... >> | |
| Thanks for the basis of comparison. Seems like my .... >> | ||
| 27 Oct 2002 | Providing Salary History Info? >> | |
| 27 Oct 2002 | Mockery of stupid mo.... | Yeah. They had them one place I worked once. the '.... >> |
| 24 Oct 2002 | Hiring superstars? | Personally, I never understood the fascination wit.... >> |
| Search Engine spider.... | This hit home. Wanted to respond earlier but was t.... >> | |
| 18 Oct 2002 | Concurrent changes t.... | Oh - one thing I forgot. We do have a fairly small.... >> |
| Generally, better to avoid it where practical. Sho.... >> | ||
| 17 Oct 2002 | Is faster hardware c.... | 'Mind boggling to me is the company that won't spe.... >> |
| The advertising empe.... | Max - And you've hit the bottom line regarding .... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2002 | Is faster hardware c.... | Steve makes a very good point. Recently, we shi.... >> |
| And don't forget some of the non-developers that m.... >> | ||
| Impact of DUI on Job.... | echidna - excellent point. Especially if, based.... >> | |
| Anon - Unless of course the guy in question hap.... >> | ||
| 14 Oct 2002 | The advertising empe.... | Yeah, Daniel - I agree that advertising works. At .... >> |
| Greg - Oh. ok. sorry for misunderstanding what .... >> | ||
| [I think advertising has been of one of the great .... >> | ||
| 11 Oct 2002 | Unit testing in C++ | Lucas - Your point about writing tests taking a.... >> |
| 08 Oct 2002 | How much time do you.... | Too much. ;-) actually, I guess it would averag.... >> |
| 20 Sep 2002 | software secrets exp.... | Gordon : 'Maybe people who gave away all their mon.... >> |
| 18 Sep 2002 | After $273 million, .... | In response to Albert's comment about the movie Sp.... >> |
| 24 Jul 2002 | What's the best comp.... | RE: Sammy - well said. just exactly what I was .... >> |
| 23 Jul 2002 | Well, whatever you do, avoid testing and quality a.... >> | |