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Number of Comments: 349
Number of Words: 14,647
First Comment: 17 Dec 2002
Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 42
First Topic: 27 Nov 2002
Latest Topic: 31 Aug 2004
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02 Sep 2004   Eric's sense of humo....   Speaking of funny, Joel's new book is titled brill....   >>  
   The Curious Incident....   Bah, there are two kinds of people, those who cate....   >>  
   Windows File Manager....   We're using FAR at work, a Norton Commander knock-....   >>  
   New discussion board....   Plus I don't like it. How long before a 'male/fema....   >>  
31 Aug 2004   Fear the power of Shell_NotifyIcon   >>  
31 Aug 2004   why bother   That too is fun, but really fun is when safeguards....   >>  
   Commenting out   Christopher, you post doesn't show! :)   >>  
   why bother being a c....   >> The best ideas get nowhere without a savvy mark....   >>  
   Hacker need such a t....   I dare you to watch the demo video.   >>  
      That's just gross (I mean the screenshot).   >>  
   What motivates you t....   And your opinion, Sathyaish?   >>  
   Name that executable   IDA - the Interactive Disassembler - can mostly te....   >>  
27 Aug 2004   General question abo....   64-bit seems reasonably comfortable for a long tim....   >>  
   How much do icon des....   Really sharp knives.   >>  
   Google AdWords is us....   Every click is costing the advertiser, and I'm not....   >>  
      I avoid clicking the google ads. If I'm really int....   >>  
   Getting the value of....   I would like to push my glasses up my nose and poi....   >>  
   Debug   Anyone who answers programming questions to someon....   >>  
   Cracking The Three L....   >> Much like the human relationship to god. ver....   >>  
   Marc Andreeson   >> Clearly we're all going to have to start X509 s....   >>  
26 Aug 2004   Super-Duper Incredib....   Quite simple, really. Write a LISP compiler in ass....   >>  
25 Aug 2004   Style of working   I just have to comment... What is this 'do anyt....   >>  
   Sink Battleship   >> Getting that sinking feeling? According to E....   >>  
   Psychology in the wo....   My apologies for chipping in -- but there is 0 nee....   >>  
   2 Strings..   Has anyone used this website? It comes recommended....   >>  
24 Aug 2004      I mean it's a Pascal string.   >>  
      No, the other string says, 54, "You'll have to exc....   >>  
23 Aug 2004   An opportunity?   IMHO, they would only 'love it' after it's crashed....   >>  
   Profoundly screwed u....   Executable files should not be writable. ESPECIALL....   >>  
   Anti-anti-virus   I don't either. Something about it hogging the CPU....   >>  
   How the Internet is ....   Ah yes, thanks.   >>  
      There was a flash somewhere on the net about a cod....   >>  
21 Aug 2004      great stuff!   >>  
   Is there a term for ....   The tooltip does take ~1 sec to pop up, and some p....   >>  
20 Aug 2004      Disable the button, but when you hover over it, po....   >>  
   How bad is goto, rea....   I don't see the temptation for misuse -- it looks ....   >>  
19 Aug 2004   GOOG off to the race....   I would have preferred GGLE.   >>  
   Device driver develo....   The kind folks who answer these requests seriously....   >>  
      muppet, you offline?   >>  
18 Aug 2004   Install SP2 or not?   >>  
18 Aug 2004   read/have article "W....   Just a quick note... why can't the program 'evolve....   >>  
      What does he mean about the 'stream' of messages. ....   >>  
   Uses for the C keywo....   you could try "auto static x".   >>  
   Install SP2 or not?   If it ain't broken, don't fix it. I had SP2 on my ....   >>  
   obsession   I'm saving this thread.   >>  
17 Aug 2004   Algorithms   Is this for contract?   >>  
   Morons and Assholes ....   There are two kinds of people: those who divide pe....   >>  
16 Aug 2004   Coworkers who won't ....   Yeah, Sassy, really. You expect one to learn 'h....   >>  
   Poll   OP, you're not alone. If you mean C, singly linked....   >>  
   Working as a SW Deve....   Muppet, thats exactly what I meant, the personalit....   >>  
      muppet, I've come to see you as a generic entity o....   >>  
   Coldfusion programme....   'This is management' -- that's a line from Peoplew....   >>  
15 Aug 2004   Working as a SW Deve....   haha, it's the apostrophe in the URL that confuses....   >>  
      This forum is apparently for expats living in Japa....   >>  
   Coldfusion programme....   To those who support this Envisioneer, understand ....   >>  
14 Aug 2004      Really funny how she scares away the valuable ones....   >>  
13 Aug 2004   Charles Simonyi hold....   The title of this thread *so* reads like a spam su....   >>  
12 Aug 2004   Opinionated people   Yes, these Loud Opinion People tend to over-analyz....   >>  
07 Aug 2004   WinAmp = memory HOG.....   An unrelated problem: when the resolution is chang....   >>  
06 Aug 2004   Programming books in....   Absolutely, what's the point of trying to figure o....   >>  
   Logo design costs   Ironic that some of us may have read that '$50-200....   >>  
   Preincrement vs. pos....   Also from that article: [Rule] Follow the singl....   >>  
      I had this worry myself :) For native types like i....   >>  
   Great Hacker != Grea....   >> 3. joel-sink buddy party I feel I am a force....   >>  
05 Aug 2004   Who is your messiah?   Good! You spelled it right.   >>  
   C, T or I?   CMyAppView? This class should be called View.    >>  
      None. The fact that it begins with a capital lette....   >>  
   Computability   Devil's advocate, what you are saying is: A num....   >>  
      >> the closer it gets to being able to run Windows....   >>  
04 Aug 2004   SORT   >> if (x < 3) { break; } Really appalling is th....   >>  
      Sorry, Dennis, I just swooped right down and repli....   >>  
      JOE, just a quick idea. Split the file into N f....   >>  
   softwareCEO.com   You should look at Rentacoder...   >>  
   A question for our n....   They probably exchange the same 'insults' when the....   >>  
   On WinMain and it's ....   >> OS X makes things a little clearer But a lit....   >>  
   Searching for <ot....   Google doesn't pay attention to punctuation and wh....   >>  
      Mr. Analogy, put "other programs" between quotes. ....   >>  
02 Aug 2004   The appeal of the PC   >>  
02 Aug 2004   ** how to get feel o....   P.S. That last part was a joke.   >>  
   best days of your li....   >> 'I hope so.' Maybe she meant 'It doesn't see....   >>  
31 Jul 2004   What does google do?   >> They consolidate the eyeball monetizing infrast....   >>  
29 Jul 2004   great hackers   >> They generally feel that they're stupid and laz....   >>  
27 Jul 2004   Percentage of Develo....   >> I was forbidden from ever turning in a MS appli....   >>  
26 Jul 2004   Third, er, sixth, er....   'REVENGE' of the Sith? What a rare word.    >>  
24 Jul 2004   Why is there an extr....   Scrollbars are sometimes not implemented as distin....   >>  
21 Jul 2004   New mouse, part thre....   Menage a threux. Sounds painful.    >>  
16 Jul 2004   Refunds   JT, I think he bought the software on a whim, then....   >>  
15 Jul 2004   Joel reviews "Progra....   There is a free download at http://savannah.nongnu....   >>  
      Yes, Geert, you have to learn assembly to realize ....   >>  
14 Jul 2004   Myserious billboard   The best thing about two-step approach is that the....   >>  
13 Jul 2004   Old farts lack respe....   Remember young muppet, you will be a Fart one day.   >>  
   Obscure DOS question   TSRs usually intercepted (and therefore changed) s....   >>  
12 Jul 2004   The price, idiot, what's the price???   >>  
12 Jul 2004   Joel on Software "Fo....   You could devote a week to scanning the forum arch....   >>  
   Weird hardware probl....   My old K6 did that *every* time. Solution was simp....   >>  
09 Jul 2004   Mozzila / Firefox / ....   I wonder, will they make a "download manager" plug....   >>  
   What's your fave Thu....   Send/Get for all accounts. (The equivalent of the ....   >>  
   Myserious billboard   > Finally, if we had a square picture of Andrew Ja....   >>  
08 Jul 2004   Cross-platform .NET:....   Consider this -- while HTML was threatening to bec....   >>  
07 Jul 2004   Crazy ass question   I had the S&M inclinations to look at the codegen ....   >>  
   Local, single-user b....   Mr Fancypants, thanks for the suggestion, I had no....   >>  
05 Jul 2004   Local, single-user bug tracking?   >>  
05 Jul 2004   Beer isn't free   ... 'free' is just a convenient contraction from '....   >>  
      In other languages, there is the word 'free' as in....   >>  
   Wikis and IMDB   If this were the case, the "Film" section on Wikip....   >>  
04 Jul 2004   Windows Degrading #n....   Not to mention the annoying Firefox "feature": clo....   >>  
      mb, after rereading your post, I have the same beh....   >>  
03 Jul 2004      I think XP has a more restrictive 'bring to foregr....   >>  
   software patents and....   >> circuits controlled by a plurality of electroni....   >>  
      >> take elements of everyday life and add the phra....   >>  
02 Jul 2004   Men of Cloth in Soft....   Bill, that is so neat! (I'm honestly amazed :)   >>  
01 Jul 2004   your most absurd IT ....   I was the star employee in my department and they ....   >>  
   What will the web be....   So Joe, Is that Java or C#? >:)    >>  
      'So what's your point, Alex?' 'Oh, nothing.'    >>  
      Philo, there are dreamy predictions and there are ....   >>  
   Subversion-Tortoise ....   How come you can't use "regular text" for CVS tags....   >>  
30 Jun 2004   man man   Maybe you should try "mount man"?   >>  
   One way to teach C++   Indeed, Ged :) Perhaps the best way to cure fear o....   >>  
29 Jun 2004   C/C++ portability wi....   Another cross platform C++ toolkit that's availabl....   >>  
28 Jun 2004   One way to teach C++   >>  
28 Jun 2004   Microsoft office ran....   Everytime I use Word I'm amazed about how much fig....   >>  
   One way to teach C++   Allan, of course it's a joke. A couple of indirect....   >>  
   Windows Update Rant   >> I don't understand this problem. Are your mach....   >>  
25 Jun 2004   Optimize this:   Still far worse than what hand-rolled code would b....   >>  
      I don't understand either. Whether it's aligned or....   >>  
24 Jun 2004   Download manager   In actual fact... I saw a complaint somewhere, ....   >>  
   Don Box replies to "....   What do you guys have against COM? I don't know....   >>  
22 Jun 2004      Don Box = The foremost COM expert   >>  
   What is Joel up to ?   Just a remark, someone said forewords are billed 1....   >>  
      So I'm going to stand up and deliver my speeches, ....   >>  
   Ultimate Forum/Forum....   You know, the idea is good in theory. But it w....   >>  
21 Jun 2004   HELP! Overcoming pro....   Duh.   >>  
20 Jun 2004   Programming Meade Te....   A fine example of how Russians don't use articles!....   >>  
   Microsoft is ruining....   Funny thing... There is a link in the article to '....   >>  
19 Jun 2004   Killer App(s) for De....   In truth, 3 GHz isn't much power. Voice recogni....   >>  
   Why does Windows slo....   Thanks all for the answers. I did deactivate a boa....   >>  
      You know, Myron, you might be on to something. ....   >>  
18 Jun 2004   Why does Windows slow down over time?   >>  
18 Jun 2004      Ok, but the question was pragmatic. What *is* Wind....   >>  
   strings in C++   >> but how many *APIs* actually use these? I'm ....   >>  
17 Jun 2004   Memmory management   Actually there is no performance hit with the stac....   >>  
      As a programmer, you have to understand what you'r....   >>  
   The real reason for ....   The 'remove redirects' is just what the masses nee....   >>  
   Firefox - First Go   Ahh, when will it all be over (i.e. 'reach maturit....   >>  
      0.8 has this bug -- when you close a tab, sometime....   >>  
16 Jun 2004   I think I spotted Jo....   Sathyaish, stop posting as Fred!   >>  
15 Jun 2004   Ethics of running an....   >> Eight days ago I had emergency appendix surgery....   >>  
   Windows CVS Clients   For the record, I'm embarrassed I asked that quest....   >>  
      Someone has to ask the stupid questions. I once....   >>  
14 Jun 2004   announcement   Tough weekend?   >>  
13 Jun 2004   C++ and accessors--w....   >> the CTO is doing a pretty good imitation of Min....   >>  
12 Jun 2004   POLL : Do you enjoy ....   It's wonderful. You create worlds sitting on your ....   >>  
   WAS: Becoming a C _d....   I just realized you can do it in 'almost' C. If....   >>  
11 Jun 2004   C++ and accessors--w....   >> In my window abstraction library My gosh, Ka....   >>  
      >> C++ doesn't support C#-like 'properties' I w....   >>  
   My custom JOS Reader....   Right, didn't think about that. Although someon....   >>  
      A blacklist feature based on what? There is no ide....   >>  
      I was just thinking how many dozens of pages of C+....   >>  
   WAS: Becoming a C _d....   I think the poster who asked (sarcastically), 'wri....   >>  
      Seems like a perfect job for templates and functio....   >>  
10 Jun 2004   DataStructure for Th....   Associations. Look at it this way: Everything i....   >>  
   Confused by K&R ....   You should be proud that you didn't know octal. It....   >>  
09 Jun 2004   IT Salaries in Europ....   42, man. The answer is 42.   >>  
   Google: the search s....   You mean, "then you get the people of the appropri....   >>  
08 Jun 2004   You guys must love m....   noob, paste your code here: rafb.net/paste a....   >>  
07 Jun 2004   What shareware model....   :) True, I don't even notice the nag on Winrar. ....   >>  
05 Jun 2004   What shareware model works today?   >>  
05 Jun 2004   Men are from foo, wo....   Get a load of 'Dream Lover'! Man this is ROTFL ....   >>  
      Is this chick for real? I fell off my chair listen....   >>  
   Where's Joel?   I thought bank interest in the US was around 4-5% ....   >>  
04 Jun 2004   Evolution of a progr....   Guru Hacker % cat Hello, world. ^^D ------....   >>  
   Virtual PC or Drive ....   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000003....   >>  
   Disk shredder / hard....   'Disintegrate, incinerate, pulverize, shred, or me....   >>  
   Where's Joel?   I'm just not the 'inborn revolutionary' type. (....   >>  
03 Jun 2004      He once invited us cordially into his house, and w....   >>  
02 Jun 2004   Simple task but on a....   Interesting. I still regret that old post about "n....   >>  
   How can I prevent ge....   >> pleading with spambots is useless.   >>  
   C++ or Java ?   >> so much for don't worry about speed, Moore's la....   >>  
   Becoming a C _develo....   Who said code generation in C is impossible? :)   >>  
      >> If the problem were restated to say that the co....   >>  
30 May 2004   Center a PropertyShe....   Thank you, Somorn. It's a big planet, someone must....   >>  
29 May 2004   Center a PropertySheet dialog in Win32 API?   >>  
28 May 2004   Printing Source Code....   Cut and paste the code into Word, that preserves e....   >>  
26 May 2004   Programmers not peop....   >> Show interest in people. Ah, but you can't f....   >>  
25 May 2004   Math library questio....   Of course I'm missing the point but for what it's ....   >>  
24 May 2004      Phile, override the damn Sin function.   >>  
   Why Google will not ....   >> all go googling for brittny spears every once i....   >>  
22 May 2004   Recommend a few appl....   Thank you, Roose, that's a good point.   >>  
21 May 2004   Recommend a few applications for my portfolio?   >>  
21 May 2004      Cruel, I want to be like you.   >>  
      Not at all. In fact, the farther from it, the bett....   >>  
   My tech crystall bal....   What I don't understand is that many people instin....   >>  
   my gripes with Offic....   Spend 10 minutes in 'Options' to disable the autoc....   >>  
20 May 2004   Making sense of WTL,....   Has anyone here written commercial software in nak....   >>  
   Bored and want to pr....   Joe, email me, I have a lot of time on my hands to....   >>  
   Computers... Spawn o....   In the old days programming *was* working around t....   >>  
   Help me come up with....   I liked Joel's Dewey, Scruem and Howe, but that's ....   >>  
19 May 2004   Why doesn't Opera ge....   >> Price. Mozilla is free. Yes. And because....   >>  
   Ternary Operators an....   >> Code must be written to be read, not by the com....   >>  
17 May 2004   FidoNet -- why nothi....   Ori - indeed, there were several hundred people in....   >>  
   C++: conversion from....   Of course. My observation was that, although 's....   >>  
16 May 2004   FidoNet -- why nothing of the kind now?   >>  
16 May 2004   FidoNet -- why nothi....   Thunderbird works like you wouldn't believe it. ....   >>  
      Thank YOU Ori for pointing out Thunderbird! YUM....   >>  
      Thanks Ori for the link! I know about Usenet. I....   >>  
   What another awsome ....   Some idiot is posting with Philo's name. 'bowl ....   >>  
   C++: conversion from....   Curiously, I defined it so: void Base(const Der....   >>  
      Christopher: >> Base temp(d); An implicit 'c....   >>  
15 May 2004   C++: conversion from derived to base   >>  
15 May 2004      >> the compiler makes a copy of just the base part....   >>  
   What to download?   Tough life... :)   >>  
12 May 2004   Learning Assembly--o....   Do it! Yes! No MIXAL, no Z-80; do 80x86 assembl....   >>  
   Self-reproducing cod....   Yeah well printing out the source file is out of t....   >>  
   Dig thy own grave, d....   Spinning tapes in the Star Trek "computer room."   >>  
      By now I can spell Sathyaish Charkravarty without ....   >>  
   kibibytes, methodolo....   >> how long will it take to read a gigabyte of mem....   >>  
10 May 2004      > in the case of Gb and Gibibytes the difference i....   >>  
      I honestly promise to give up programming the day ....   >>  
   Coding is Math?   .... Alligators.   >>  
09 May 2004   pragmatic innovation....   The scroll wheel. Media player/program shortcut....   >>  
08 May 2004   Laugh at me, but enl....   The Wikipedia is indeed an easier place to look up....   >>  
   Mono released/Used i....   >> ... and then having to upgrade them to correctl....   >>  
07 May 2004   Hiring the Best   Horoscope matching?   >>  
06 May 2004   Mono released/Used i....   lumberjack -- I do have the same feeling. Artic....   >>  
23 Apr 2004   Text Smileys to emot....   Thanks for all your comments! Dan G: I know tha....   >>  
22 Apr 2004   Text Smileys to emoticons   >>  
10 Mar 2004   Hackers too?   >>  
09 Mar 2004   Software contracting   >>  
09 Mar 2004   Software contracting   And to further qualify what it is, its a developme....   >>  
      Ah-hah, good point. I'm on the side of the proj....   >>  
10 Feb 2004   HLP to CHM Help conv....   For a one-time conversion, try to decompile it wit....   >>  
04 Feb 2004   Firebird 0.8 might d....   Would someone please tell me why people KEEP writi....   >>  
03 Feb 2004   Zip API for .NET?   http://www.xceedsoft.com/ They've got a downloa....   >>  
28 Jan 2004   Is Eiffel a contende....   I know humor when I see it, right?   >>  
      Covariance violates Liskov's substitutability prin....   >>  
15 Jan 2004   The myth of th....   '2. 'Most manufacturers attempting to use Linux in....   >>  
07 Jan 2004   Hiring for short term contract job Qs...   >>  
28 Dec 2003   Serving ads in software   >>  
27 Dec 2003   Increaseing Speed of....   Hey MX, How in the world did you configure your....   >>  
      Indeed, why not use 'sleep' instead of shutdown. ....   >>  
   Advice for S/W Entre....   That's why I think the best business reading is th....   >>  
23 Dec 2003   What did you learn, ....   A translator's viewpoint... You only understand....   >>  
   Why The Flip Flop, J....   So the rise of Linux and other free software is ac....   >>  
      I'd agree. With IT involved having a unix/linux so....   >>  
22 Dec 2003   "he or she" NOT politically correct!   >>  
22 Dec 2003   Visualizing   Me, I see memory as a long unidimensional string. ....   >>  
   Why are the best dev....   >> proving the importance of the new Bold Links pr....   >>  
   "he or she" NOT poli....   Come on people, it was meant as a joke. Or is i....   >>  
   Hacking .NET and Lon....   I think having the OS in machine-independent code ....   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Earlier printf question   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Bold topics.   flames should be in red imo :)   >>  
13 Dec 2003   Linux 101   >>  
13 Dec 2003   Linux 101   wow! thanks a lot. actually I can fire up the c....   >>  
      I.... don't know. Where do I look?   >>  
10 Dec 2003   U.S. Programmers at ....   >> Indian -> Indians >> Canada -> Canadians >> I....   >>  
   Software Babe   Please realize that Stevie Case and John Romero br....   >>  
09 Dec 2003   Mozilla Firebird can't save as mht...   >>  
09 Dec 2003   Mozilla Firebird can....   Before you tell me to RTFM, I still don't get how ....   >>  
   What to do whan I do....   Let them do it as they know best. Read Joel.   >>  
   Binary search in 5 l....   In C.... It's just not natural any more, looking a....   >>  
      John, I was certainly not looking for an apolog....   >>  
      Thanks Tony! Actually, to dispel this great mys....   >>  
08 Dec 2003   Binary search in 5 lines of code? How?   >>  
08 Dec 2003      Okay, so I got this all wrong? Binary search actua....   >>  
      Is this it? This just doesn't look like a 2-liner ....   >>  
      Maybe I don't understand the problem. Is it "searc....   >>  
      >> I can write that code in >2< lines of code. :-P....   >>  
      >> hi = (hi << shift) | (lo >> (32 - shift)); >>....   >>  
      >> here's your one free hint: recursion could ....   >>  
   How To Get Rich Prog....   I can't find it with google, a link please?   >>  
   Eric Raymond and Ric....   'Then it was legal and good business practice for ....   >>  
      As I understand it the FSF's point is that it is u....   >>  
07 Dec 2003   Building Different F....   Also, don't write them by hand. You could either w....   >>  
05 Dec 2003   Maximized Internet E....   >> best you can do is resize the opened window to ....   >>  
04 Dec 2003   Maximized Internet Explorer?   >>  
04 Dec 2003   ...ism at FogCreek?   Enough already! Get along.    >>  
      To the original poster: I don't get it. If I ha....   >>  
02 Dec 2003   Machine identificati....   A long article on grc.com shows how spyware unique....   >>  
01 Dec 2003   Why only 2 GB?   >>  
01 Dec 2003   Dynamic formatting   how about if (condition) sprintf ( buffer, '%5d....   >>  
30 Nov 2003   how good a software ....   Of course not. If I were Google, I'd definitely no....   >>  
      Robert, if you have everything else Google has, yo....   >>  
28 Nov 2003   Spammers are stupid   In Romania companies are very uneducated about the....   >>  
26 Nov 2003   Master and Slave   It's a good thing workers don't look closely at 38....   >>  
   Teaching him a lesso....   Tell him 'you're not the boss' repeatedly until he....   >>  
   Call me a tinkerer   >> Remove the ++ bit (or, on this compiler, compil....   >>  
25 Nov 2003   Call me a tinkerer   >>  
25 Nov 2003      >> You may write const x=100; // to avoid allocat....   >>  
      >> How, exactly, did you check? I took a point....   >>  
   Spammers now thwarti....   >> No matter how sophisticated the message is, if ....   >>  
23 Nov 2003   An end to blog spam   I pretty much agree. Maintaining a clean blog shou....   >>  
22 Nov 2003   GUI design (Linux)   As has been said many many times before, the netwo....   >>  
      'The best place to start designing a GUI for Linux....   >>  
   C/C++ programming qu....   Actually *p++ is better coding than *p; p++ becaus....   >>  
21 Nov 2003   Interesting take on airline marketing   >>  
21 Nov 2003   An end to blog spam   >>  
21 Nov 2003   Obscure acronyms   Too Late for Anything :))   >>  
      TLAs are good if you know what they mean ;)   >>  
   An end to blog spam   To Aussie Chick... When you post an interesting....   >>  
      Why would anyone in a real world scenario not want....   >>  
   XP question (delete ....   Okay, of course I switched on the fucken built-in ....   >>  
20 Nov 2003      It's not updates. I specifically checked off Au....   >>  
      Yep, it is happening. ZoneAlarm Pro Alert: The ....   >>  
19 Nov 2003   XP question (delete by all means if inappropriate)   >>  
19 Nov 2003      The CD I installed from had Service Pack 1 to star....   >>  
      A 'Grandma' question to stop this nonsense... I....   >>  
      Also what I don't understand is how can I be uploa....   >>  
      I'm sitting home alone, no extra computers to spar....   >>  
      C:\DOCUME~1\ALEXAN~1>netstat -a Active Connecti....   >>  
   What's your document....   Joel's writing style is excellent, not only inform....   >>  
   Silly Question: How ....   Though no-one will read this... Join the club m....   >>  
15 Nov 2003   How to get started in embedded programming?   >>  
14 Nov 2003   Open Source Software....   I use open source every day. My program is clos....   >>  
   New note taking soft....   The same thing for mac osx. http://flyingmeat.com/....   >>  
13 Nov 2003   Joel, a critique of FIDO forums?   >>  
13 Nov 2003   Lightbulbs   34 people to point out that taking old lists that ....   >>  
   Why username and pas....   I think it's a great idea! Log in straight away wi....   >>  
11 Nov 2003   A small rant about L....   Slashdotters don't actually do anything but bitch.....   >>  
   What's China got to ....   Well shit, if contribtions to Linux are such a pro....   >>  
07 Nov 2003   The best font for pr....   I'll now be sticking with ProggyClean, thanks for ....   >>  
   Amazon Sucks Now   they should have made a separate field for 'search....   >>  
   Incredibly Stupid Qu....   Beer isn't free, but you can sometimes *get* it fo....   >>  
   Matrix Revolutions   The first Matrix I think was better. The break-in ....   >>  
05 Nov 2003   Recommend an ergonom....   IBM Model M - The only way to type. Heavy, excelle....   >>  
   A method of coding   1. Devise the scheme of classes. 2. Write the cod....   >>  
04 Nov 2003   Linux and Independen....   So Zombie-Coder, you've used IDEA and you're compl....   >>  
02 Nov 2003   Beating comment spam and email harvesters   >>  
20 Oct 2003   I finally got it abo....   'for Windows applications, the .NET Framework comp....   >>  
15 Oct 2003   Policy on exceptions....   I agree. Trying to cast a discussion about excepti....   >>  
13 Oct 2003   finally, exceptions ....   I also read Joel's post with disblief. How anyone ....   >>  
12 Oct 2003   PHP, Unicode .. othe....   Frankly, I'm not starting any new work using anyth....   >>  
03 Oct 2003   Source code for Half....   I know many people have seperate boxes so that the....   >>  
      I'm curious to know how many developers here have ....   >>  
30 Sep 2003   which language to le....   If you don't know lisp or scheme I'd recommend one....   >>  
29 Sep 2003   Storing files in dat....   Problem with the files in the file system approach....   >>  
27 Sep 2003   Unzipping and Zippin....   I use xceedsoft's zip/unzip component.  Never....   >>  
22 Sep 2003   Unit testing a database app   >>  
22 Sep 2003   Linux Profitability   I think the answer to the above is that here is wh....   >>  
19 Sep 2003   Hidden costs of offshoring   >>  
15 Sep 2003   When did it end?   >>  
15 Sep 2003   When did it end?   One of the reasons Lou Gerstner gave for IBM's tur....   >>  
10 Sep 2003   Friendster.com's algorithm   >>  
10 Sep 2003   Friendster.com's alg....   Joel. Thanks for your suggestion.    >>  
09 Sep 2003   Outsourcing encourages theft?   >>  
09 Sep 2003   Detecting Memory Lea....   Well I think you would get better help on the valg....   >>  
05 Sep 2003   Design Advice Needed....   GNUPLOT is what all the *nix weenies use for that ....   >>  
29 Aug 2003   Wrapping an existing....   I think your main problem will be in making any da....   >>  
   how to make photo al....   I usually whip up a perl script and use ImageMagic....   >>  
26 Aug 2003   Linking Visual Studi....   Ahoy Mr Nahr... FWIW, I did manage to get a Vis....   >>  
25 Aug 2003   How are Usenet newsg....   Another serious problem with USENET is the complet....   >>  
      Most NNTP server still work the way they always ha....   >>  
   Licensing schemes fo....   As someone working on an embedded Linux solution, ....   >>  
07 Aug 2003   Do senior people hav....   It happens to both sides, you know.  My broth....   >>  
04 Aug 2003   Netscape had it's pr....   I don't know about large market trends. *I* swi....   >>  
29 Jul 2003   How to get taken ser....   Well, honestly, if you think that selling is like ....   >>  
   asp -> php compil....   But PHP is open source! >>  
   why n why   > For example, many people criticize Windows 1.x -....   >>  
25 Jul 2003   Language Stereotypes   C - only Unix weenies still use this   >>  
   Winamp 3- another re....   I don't think it was the rewrite that was the prob....   >>  
20 Jul 2003   Linux in Munich... D....   Microsoft likes to deal direct with governement an....   >>  
18 Jul 2003   Netscape Dead?   Because companies like Opera want to own the entir....   >>  
16 Jul 2003   European Software De....   I appreciate all the comments. Thankfully, I se....   >>  
15 Jul 2003   European Software Development   >>  
15 Jul 2003      The slightly sad part is that this company that bo....   >>  
   Choosing a bugtracki....   Thanks everyone for their great input! Squishli....   >>  
14 Jul 2003      Thanks to Andrew and Philo for their comments. ....   >>  
13 Jul 2003   Choosing a bugtracking package over another   >>  
03 Jul 2003   98.72% of all blogs ....   Hi. I created this site for myself and a few fr....   >>  
26 Jun 2003   Dart vs. IP*Works?   Speaking of Indy, IP*Works and Delphi - try Clever....   >>  
13 Jun 2003   For those who have b....   It might be nice to have a friend 'check your refe....   >>  
18 May 2003   Preventing illegal u....   Dongle are probably the "best." That being said, I....   >>  
08 May 2003   Head-to-Head: PHP vs....   I'm not a big user of symbolic debuggers. Sure a s....   >>  
04 May 2003   Did Cringely just pu....   He did imply that it was code that was being used.....   >>  
04 Apr 2003   SCM, Teams & Third-Party Libraries   >>  
14 Mar 2003   Supply Chain Managem....   http://www.sap.com/solutions/scm/    >>  
11 Mar 2003   The Tyranny of Email   I've been working in a virtual team for the last 1....   >>  
   what's your title   Very ludricous and menacing 'ICT Exploitation Cons....   >>  
06 Mar 2003   Oracle or Sql Server....   Nice, in my opinion it is not so much about commod....   >>  
      SAP open-sourced their RDBMS, not their ERP packa....   >>  
04 Feb 2003   convert BMP to JPG   >>  
04 Feb 2003   convert BMP to JPG   Thank you very much, I've made it   >>  
27 Jan 2003   MySQL Adds Subselect....   Albert, check out PostgreSQL. It has always had Su....   >>  
26 Jan 2003   a few thoughts on RA....   Yeah, the only really bad thing about software rai....   >>  
   Recommendations soug....   Since everyone else has, I'll chip in with my opin....   >>  
   Bad code - My proble....   Leonardo, to do that, you need some sort of execut....   >>  
07 Jan 2003   Entity Classes:How about Joint Table   >>  
22 Dec 2002   Protecting shareware   It has been ages, but back when I was a kid, the a....   >>  
   CVS   Perhaps the point could be brought out and discuss....   >>  
18 Dec 2002   Overseas Outsourcing....   Outsourcing overseas doesn't make sense for small ....   >>  
17 Dec 2002   AVL Trees vs. Red-Bl....   RB-Trees are, as well as AVL trees, self-balancing....   >>  
27 Nov 2002   I need fast image converter   >>  



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