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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Robin Debreuil' | ||
| View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment | ||
Number of Comments: 213 |
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| Number of Words: 35,537 | ||
| First Comment: 09 Aug 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 28 Jan 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 3 |
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| First Topic: 09 Aug 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 09 Sep 2002 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 28 Jan 2004 | A linker for .NET? | The whole argument here is this won't work without.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | New FC office | Ow, those colors make me cross-eyed just on the pi.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2003 | Ripped from Slashdot.... | I think xml at its heart is just a form of seriali.... >> |
| Applets making a com.... | The flash plugin is actually over 1mb now, the mai.... >> | |
| I haven't noticed more, but like everyone else I h.... >> | ||
| Preferences vs. adva.... | Maybe as a more specific example I have about 6 ap.... >> | |
| Right, but in Java, isn't there a (third party) os.... >> | ||
| I'm thinking more like hotkeys, maybe text/code fo.... >> | ||
| Is there any attempt being made at standardizing t.... >> | ||
| Are you sure you find that irritating? Yes .... >> | ||
| I think its a great idea... As far as the slas.... >> | ||
| politics | Hmm, Turkey isn't in the middle east? I don't know.... >> | |
| I don't disagree that threats are manufactured to .... >> | ||
| 17 Mar 2003 | Preferences vs. adva.... | Good point - thanks for the tip... When it was rea.... >> |
| Locking in or not is an upfront business decision,.... >> | ||
| Most grahpics apps allow you to save your preferre.... >> | ||
| Another reason for preferences is people move from.... >> | ||
| politics | The math doesn't add up though, even at high oil p.... >> | |
| ..250,000 soldiers. Is that a manufactured threat?.... >> | ||
| Completely democratic? I don't remember voting for.... >> | ||
| Its probably a teensy bit easier to 'drag people a.... >> | ||
| You don't think Cuba would like/needs trade with t.... >> | ||
| So the US will ask you which rebel group or gov't .... >> | ||
| Boomerang of offshor.... | For a comparison with the competition India may co.... >> | |
| 16 Mar 2003 | politics | Hey Stephen, Sorry to cause you such huffing an.... >> |
| The US bombed Afghanistan with little success? Cou.... >> | ||
| Boomerang of offshor.... | Does anyone know a major product that wasn't at le.... >> | |
| Adobe UI - really ba.... | Macs do not have native support for MDI last I che.... >> | |
| 15 Mar 2003 | politics | I think in a large part the generalizations come f.... >> |
| Boomerang of offshor.... | I'm curious if you view outsourcing to a domestic .... >> | |
| Contrary to what you might think, the software ind.... >> | ||
| 14 Mar 2003 | Adobe UI - really ba.... | Have you looked at the price of those products? Pr.... >> |
| Don't tell that to macormedia, they got sued (and .... >> | ||
| The Real Problem | One opposite point - most software indeed is a kin.... >> | |
| Real World Metaphore | ...or how about having her explain why she would s.... >> | |
| I once programmed a Survivor paradoy tournament. T.... >> | ||
| Is Inheritance a Pil.... | If I would see a shape class, in an actual program.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Social aspects of "w.... | I agree I post/read most when I'm learning somethi.... >> |
| Is Inheritance a Pil.... | I always thought the square/rectangle was one of t.... >> | |
| Reluctance to Learn | You know about ten times a day I have to blur an i.... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Another "interruptio.... | Uhh, close your email? >> |
| Is Inheritance a Pil.... | I think teaching how to subclass and why that is u.... >> | |
| 'If we discover that a class must be sealed, or a .... >> | ||
| That's how C# works - all methods are non-virtual .... >> | ||
| I think big pictures are best described with small.... >> | ||
| I think those books say 'favor' composition over i.... >> | ||
| How to be a Programm.... | 'Its very challenging to come up with a clean, ele.... >> | |
| Pair Programming Met.... | I don't think anyone doubts working in pairs is be.... >> | |
| Reluctance to Learn | Lol! I don't doubt it. With a vocabulary of a thou.... >> | |
| Ten vals? Ya musta mist oat a few. >> | ||
| All foreigners rise .... | One advantage I find with being separate is that i.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | Reluctance to Learn | Don't underestimate the secondary skills people wi.... >> |
| All foreigners rise .... | Only if they are speaking english! >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | Product focus with t.... | I would guess change is good, testers must get jad.... >> |
| All foreigners rise .... | We've done 'outsourced' work for years, and the me.... >> | |
| Automated Unit Testi.... | I don't work a lot with databases so this probably.... >> | |
| Pair Programming Exp.... | Well, lots of things are hard to prove, but they h.... >> | |
| 09 Mar 2003 | Did anyone notice on that link[1] that the opening.... >> | |
| If you are talking to me, I didn't say it 'can't w.... >> | ||
| Personally when I work, I don't like to be bugged..... >> | ||
| 08 Mar 2003 | Sounds like a problem, but don't confuse two peopl.... >> | |
| Pair programming works great, as long as each pers.... >> | ||
| Runtime software evo.... | .Net has great support for this with app domains. .... >> | |
| Dave Frets over Goog.... | I didn't realize there were blogs that talked abou.... >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | Software Development.... | Analogies are most useful when you use them to see.... >> |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Well I think analogies are very useful. I've done .... >> | |
| When did booleans bu.... | Two of the things I like most about C# are t/f is .... >> | |
| 03 Mar 2003 | A good desk | You should take a look at City Desk - it only abou.... >> |
| Joel's email article.... | Nice article for sure, but I think there is a bit .... >> | |
| 12 Dec 2002 | advanced degrees out.... | If you want to travel, travel. I travelled for ten.... >> |
| Code Reviews - Does .... | >> but what if a function returns -1? Imo, that.... >> | |
| 18 Oct 2002 | Impact of DUI on Job.... | lol! >> |
| 17 Oct 2002 | George Bush would have a hard time getting a job a.... >> | |
| Joel & C++ | Hey quick, Maybe I missed the point too... What.... >> | |
| Why is it that one takes sample code that includes.... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2002 | How should I learn ..... | Imo it is much better to learn with just textpad a.... >> |
| Joel on Software har.... | Often people go to great lengths to not put their .... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2002 | The advertising empe.... | 'And people who listen to the crap and don't apply.... >> |
| So when you are designing your application, you us.... >> | ||
| In the animation world, there is always a huge pre.... >> | ||
| Evolt Article: Macro.... | I thinki it becomes a hinderance when you can't tu.... >> | |
| 13 Oct 2002 | Designing, can it be.... | Er... are you saying you don't think its possible .... >> |
| Evolt Article: Macro.... | I never get these arguments - so someone didn't kn.... >> | |
| 12 Oct 2002 | Designing, can it be.... | I totally agree Joe : ) The one thing I think .... >> |
| I think it is in your interest to at least become .... >> | ||
| 11 Oct 2002 | Evolt Article: Macro.... | I use and am (intimately!) familiar with most of t.... >> |
| Nobel Prize-winner h.... | Ok, I'll bite - I don't think the contradictions a.... >> | |
| Has to be said, in Japan, getting in to the right .... >> | ||
| 05 Oct 2002 | Forum Design - Good .... | Is the question 'should forum software offer these.... >> |
| 04 Oct 2002 | Article translations | Hey Nathan, I think that argument holds more we.... >> |
| ...what I do find confusing with other languages i.... >> | ||
| Except he was talking about reading, no, enjoying .... >> | ||
| I believe that anyone envolved in conv.... >> | ||
| 03 Oct 2002 | Ubiquitous Connectiv.... | Not only do more users need to get high bandwidth,.... >> |
| 30 Sep 2002 | Groove Platform | 'but at $99 per client, it doesn't scale in the wa.... >> |
| Forum Design - Good .... | 'What people are calling 'flaws' here are actually.... >> | |
| 'Haven't you yet discovered that you can have more.... >> | ||
| 29 Sep 2002 | I have to disagree - I don't really like this foru.... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2002 | learning to program | If you are going to learn JScript, I once wrote a .... >> |
| Calculation of Resul.... | 'does this problem go away if you update instead o.... >> | |
| I really think calculating is a good idea, I'm sur.... >> | ||
| One thing you have to be wary of with some types o.... >> | ||
| 22 Sep 2002 | After $273 million, .... | I remeber when I first started using Java there wa.... >> |
| 20 Sep 2002 | Favorite Science/Mat.... | How the Mind Works - Stephen Pinker The Selfish G.... >> |
| 18 Sep 2002 | After $273 million, .... | 'Just how much complexity can you fit in 64K of ra.... >> |
| 14 Sep 2002 | Advertising | There have always been people that say ads don't w.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2002 | Advertising vs. word.... | Dot coms were such a new paradigm that they didn't.... >> |
| New Articles | ..."not" part of your argument I mean - dang minim.... >> | |
| Though part of your argument, you have convinced m.... >> | ||
| Memoriam | 'And then, nothing changed. My life just went on a.... >> | |
| 'Besides, we're not really hearing from those rura.... >> | ||
| 25 times as many Mac.... | The biggest reason to go with Mac development, is .... >> | |
| Thinking About Part-.... | So are you suffering then? >> | |
| 12 Sep 2002 | Memoriam | 'Like the Great Genghis Khan, we have been attacke.... >> |
| 'The innocent dead, on all sides, can _not_ be hon.... >> | ||
| Yeah, I've only heard nice things about it - just .... >> | ||
| If the towers would have fell due to a structural .... >> | ||
| 11 Sep 2002 | Groove nuspeak | Well i thought it was good... >> |
| Is technology simpli.... | simplification doesn't mean simplify though. Compl.... >> | |
| How do "platforms" m.... | Here is an interesting article on how Adobe might .... >> | |
| Outsourcing limits i.... | But then isn't that an example of how going to an .... >> | |
| I think another misconception is that there is a l.... >> | ||
| Google hijacked? | ..and cached pages are gone, har! I wonder if that.... >> | |
| Yeahaay! Google's back!!! You don't know who your .... >> | ||
| 10 Sep 2002 | A-ha! interview ques.... | 'hey we've got 100 people to interview and we're b.... >> |
| Outsourcing limits i.... | I will say though, if they have someone like you o.... >> | |
| 'The competition for such outsourcing is never abo.... >> | ||
| Sure, but I read the proof to be 'they have a rigi.... >> | ||
| I could honestly think that advising someone not t.... >> | ||
| 09 Sep 2002 | Google hijacked? >> | |
| 09 Sep 2002 | A-ha! interview ques.... | How much dirt is in a 1X2X3 meter hole, measured i.... >> |
| Outsourcing limits i.... | Whatever it is your company does, why do your cust.... >> | |
| Google hijacked? | Hey Simon, Yeah, you can use proxy's etc, but e.... >> | |
| Yeah I suspect that is it, but then if google.com .... >> | ||
| .NET vs. Web Standar.... | 'Note I'm assuming that you're discussing the exam.... >> | |
| 08 Sep 2002 | Triangle Problem | 'but I don't think this type of question tells you.... >> |
| .NET vs. Web Standar.... | Well I agree with both of your setiments, that it .... >> | |
| Joel's attitude prob.... | You make great points Robert, and a good read : ) .... >> | |
| 07 Sep 2002 | .NET vs. Web Standar.... | Hey Andrew, I'm not trying to knock you, but I'.... >> |
| 06 Sep 2002 | Why Napster failed t.... | 'For some reason Silicon Valley companies think it.... >> |
| Marketplace Research.... | Well then I guess the conclusion might be watch ou.... >> | |
| .....except the 'average' Chinese wage earner is a.... >> | ||
| 05 Sep 2002 | Dealing w/ Ignorant .... | Well thats true that the manager should get the bl.... >> |
| If something goes right, the developers takes cred.... >> | ||
| 'TONS of good ideas backed up by scientific resear.... >> | ||
| Marketplace Research.... | These studies don't just pull numbers out of thier.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2002 | web services - ever .... | I have developed them, though I'm not using them m.... >> |
| 03 Sep 2002 | THE Platform | hey Scott, That is a great point, and leads to .... >> |
| new/unique software .... | Well one new option with web services is never giv.... >> | |
| Star-Calc VS Excel (.... | Do they need to send their work to other businesse.... >> | |
| Joel Assumes Incorre.... | you are totally right - I used to work around the .... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2002 | What's the point of .... | 'I believe most security problems found lately tha.... >> |
| Can someone please e.... | Well I thought it was a cheap shot, open source ha.... >> | |
| There are only issues if you have issues : ). .... >> | ||
| 01 Sep 2002 | Joel Assumes Incorre.... | 'The cost of the dev tools for a game console, whi.... >> |
| This is from another thread, but here are slightly.... >> | ||
| What's the point of .... | Well you know computers, another layer always has .... >> | |
| Can someone please e.... | The free software movement is about 1000's of peop.... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2002 | Platform Business mo.... | This is a very very excellent topic. It is ofte.... >> |
| Apple Development Su.... | the .net sdk is free. It includes the compilers, d.... >> | |
| 'Any real programmer either codes it by his own la.... >> | ||
| 30 Aug 2002 | Can someone please e.... | Like or dislike the 'mandatory' open source ideas,.... >> |
| Joel on Mozilla | 'That after all that, how 'open source' interfaces.... >> | |
| I hate it when people get up in the middle of bowi.... >> | ||
| 'A chap designed a better keyboard, that provided .... >> | ||
| 'Check it out, Unix: 1. su 2. mount -t vfat /dev.... >> | ||
| If you are into user interface, and even right dow.... >> | ||
| Rebranding using Web.... | Not that I know of, but she must be pretty with a .... >> | |
| MENSA and all it ent.... | 'If that's true, then why did I need 135 credit ho.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2002 | Will Habeus Work? | Lets get this straight - they hacked my machine, u.... >> |
| Rebranding using Web.... | If you hear of any user apps that have 99.9% uptim.... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2002 | MENSA and all it ent.... | Well I'm sure each one measures something, they ar.... >> |
| 27 Aug 2002 | Doubts on Web Servic.... | Maybe it goes like, if you lay of three people who.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2002 | >> (unless my SINGLE provider integrates everythin.... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2002 | What am I missing..? | Well, I've looked around, and I hate to say it, bu.... >> |
| 23 Aug 2002 | right, but that involves setting the mime type on .... >> | |
| as for ascii, I think if you follow the idea that .... >> | ||
| But you use mime types or encoding, right? Mime ty.... >> | ||
| the point is, bella donna, that you can't easily s.... >> | ||
| < 0100. 0101101 0101 0110 1010 10 101. 1010011 .... >> | ||
| extra plus of xml - you can send it over http. .... >> | ||
| MENSA and all it ent.... | I come from a small town too, but if you are unabl.... >> | |
| 22 Aug 2002 | Is there something missing in your life that you f.... >> | |
| Hiring Project Manag.... | The coach is a good analogy - though I would argue.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2002 | CityDesk flash demo:.... | I disagree, it is quite well done, it just needs t.... >> |
| Changing font size.. | Bet you wouldn't say that about a porn site ; ). .... >> | |
| Well, I weigh in with Luke on every point - except.... >> | ||
| 20 Aug 2002 | CityDesk flash demo:.... | Certainly ads can work when the CEO makes the pitc.... >> |
| Hey Joel, Looks great! I've actually spent the .... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2002 | HyperCard: Programmi.... | The school our kids went to used to teach it, but .... >> |
| 18 Aug 2002 | Hiring Project Manag.... | Actually we haven't advertised a job since the bub.... >> |
| 'I'm going to repeat myself for you.' Fair enou.... >> | ||
| 'I didn't make the rules, I just play the game.' .... >> | ||
| 17 Aug 2002 | 'Eliminate those w/o PMP certification. Eliminate.... >> | |
| National Domains | We were in Canada, doing business internationally,.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2002 | non-tech books you r.... | How the Mind Works - Stephen Pinker (or anything e.... >> |
| What's on your plate.... | Writing test/parse/generate routines tag by tag fo.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2002 | WinAmp, another soft.... | But I just noticed - if it is selected, no matter .... >> |
| 'So why have skins at all then? And all those othe.... >> | ||
| Maybe that is the reason, you don't actually use W.... >> | ||
| Err, except he never seems to say bad things about.... >> | ||
| 14 Aug 2002 | C# vs VB.Net | I don't do much VB, so probably there are easy wor.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2002 | Art | No, personally I think it should be in there more,.... >> |
| When two people have a converstation, there is a l.... >> | ||
| 'You must have known that by 'useless' I meant som.... >> | ||
| 12 Aug 2002 | Sex, Drugs, and Sheet Music >> | |
| 12 Aug 2002 | I am stuck..how to g.... | from art: When you are stuck unable to draw, try m.... >> |
| C# vs VB.Net | I think the big difference is C# works better with.... >> | |
| Sex, Drugs, and Shee.... | The whole art/craft thing mostly comes down to how.... >> | |
| Yeah, the ultimate goal of art is usually some sor.... >> | ||
| CityDesk and swf | Not me, wrong gender in fact... She was from a.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2002 | Hey Sammy, I had looked at them only with the i.... >> | |
| 10 Aug 2002 | Developing Software .... | Yes exactly - and rocket science is hard too. And .... >> |
| 09 Aug 2002 | CityDesk and swf >> | |
| 09 Aug 2002 | Peter Coffee on Apol.... | The lunar module (and 747 for that matter) was dev.... >> |
| are rich client uis .... | That is an amazing app - I work a lot with flash u.... >> | |