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