finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:05 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'T. Norman' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 922 Number of Words: 91,180 First Comment: 29 Nov 2002 Final Comment: 22 Aug 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 26 First Topic: 22 Dec 2002 Latest Topic: 01 Sep 2004 When Item Comment 01 Sep 2004   CEOs being paid to outsource   >>   22 Aug 2004   Asperger's or just I....   People are too different for one 4-letter combinat....   >>      Does your employer m....   'I find it no coincidence that the people who have....   >>   17 Aug 2004   Why learn basic sear....   Herbert, Learning the common searching and sort....   >>      sick days   I have a PTO system and think it's great. The sic....   >>   16 Aug 2004   Why learn basic sear....   The benefit of learning search and sort algorithms....   >>   13 Aug 2004   The Olympics   In the ancient Greek Olympics, wars would be suspe....   >>      what to do   'All code is spaghetti code except to the man who ....   >>      Python: Whitespace a....   Too late. They left the company a year ago. Pyt....   >>   12 Aug 2004   Windows XP Lite   >>   12 Aug 2004      What are the good Python IDEs or Python-aware edit....   >>   11 Aug 2004   Decline an offer - a....   You also have to count the time spent interviewing....   >>         Got paid on Friday so you're even ... unless you'r....   >>      Rude = No Hire?   The OP didn't start a job and then quit in a month....   >>      T-SQL Stored Procedu....   With a package variable, the compiler will catch a....   >>   09 Aug 2004   Rude = No Hire?   The OP handled this all wrong. Don't postpone i....   >>   08 Aug 2004   Why are pointers use....   All right, if you want to stretch things you can s....   >>   07 Aug 2004      SQL foreign keys and XML nodes are not pointers, b....   >>         For the most part, pointers are used because the l....   >>      Employment contracts....   If companies could make money killing people's gra....   >>   04 Aug 2004   Contrarian insight #....   Many software packages sell for over $100K per sit....   >>      Telecommuting   'Well if someone can telecommute then we can just ....   >>   02 Aug 2004   Do you play computer....   'It's like saying playing basket ball is great for....   >>   01 Aug 2004   How do people get th....   How do you get your last job?  You retire.&nb....   >>   31 Jul 2004   What does google do?   In addition to the ad revenue, they also sell sear....   >>   30 Jul 2004   Failure Plan   'Wow, that's a sales presentation I would NEVER go....   >>   28 Jul 2004   Shareware authors   I don't think this forum accepts html tags. Just ....   >>   27 Jul 2004   $75K-$100K/year to M....   But you will have to go there to apply in person a....   >>         The stupid thing about not hiring an 'overqualifie....   >>      Open Source = no rig....   Having property rights includes the right to give ....   >>   25 Jul 2004   Why seek compliance ....   If you code to IE you're still coding to standards....   >>   23 Jul 2004   Non compete prior to....   They really expect that agreement to hold up in co....   >>   21 Jul 2004   Rewriting from Scrat....   And about rewriting from scratch ... Netscape 4.x....   >>         >'There are still tons of people that proxy out go....   >>      Indentation   'Programmers fighting over indentation should defi....   >>         Use a code reformatter and fuggedaboutit. Forma....   >>   20 Jul 2004   The Plague of Minimu....   You can't actually use a dozen programs at the sam....   >>         Tell the boss to add up the minimum/recommended me....   >>      Light Bulb: How many....   As the number of programmers increases, the produc....   >>      MORE IQ   Those studies that show blacks as being worse than....   >>   18 Jul 2004   One Page Resume's Wo....   'Why would you send your resume to an HR Drone? Wh....   >>         The trouble is that getting past the HR drones and....   >>      Offshore economics   'Most of the business software used in countries s....   >>         Good point Mr. Analogy. When you're that far away....   >>         Those who offshored software 5-10 years ago went a....   >>      More IQ-ism   'We were talking about this very subject of IQ bei....   >>   16 Jul 2004   Gates gives 100$ Mil....   >'The figure for 'reconstructing' Iraq was round a....   >>      .Net devs that went ....   'saveHeight = Thing.Height vs. saveHeight ....   >>   13 Jul 2004   Commercial Software:....   'My question is this: why don't we see commerciall....   >>   11 Jul 2004   Video games dont cra....   I would also add that most game programmers are si....   >>         In discussing why games don't crash, it is still u....   >>         'Nope, wrong. I work in the game industry, and I ....   >>      Steve Ballmer's lett....   'This theory, if true, would fail to explain why t....   >>   10 Jul 2004   Video games dont cra....   Games rarely crash (in particular console games) b....   >>      Subscription-based L....   I don't think it's a big company vs. small ISV thi....   >>      Steve Ballmer's lett....   'Norman you've never run a successful business hav....   >>         Extrapolating from WordPerfect to MS Office on Lin....   >>         'Corel released WordPerfect for Linux last year an....   >>         Microsoft is suffering because they haven't create....   >>      Run, Run as fast as ....   That 'don't fix their problem unless asked to' is ....   >>   08 Jul 2004   Cross-platform .NET: What's in it for Microsoft?   >>   08 Jul 2004   Cross-platform .NET:....   'But basically, why should they care if .NET gets ....   >>   06 Jul 2004   software patents and....   'You know, the US economy is the biggest and most ....   >>   04 Jul 2004   How does credit rati....   One year of using a credit card or paying a car lo....   >>   03 Jul 2004   Commoditisation   'WalMart's process IS the product of their IT depa....   >>      software patents and....   >'Or rather, 'on an information processing device,....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Language-aware diff ....   I don't need something that incredibly intelligent....   >>   23 Jun 2004   Language-aware diff tools?   >>   20 Jun 2004   Non-halting regular ....   Ori Berger, in the words of Donald Trump ... Yo....   >>   19 Jun 2004   Non-halting regular expressions?   >>   19 Jun 2004      In this case the Pattern and Matcher were built su....   >>         'I've seen many people try to use a regular expres....   >>      Shocker: Pay rates f....   Just to add ... US wages have been stealthily cut ....   >>         That's because employment wages are very resistant....   >>      Why does the "bloat"....   The clutter bothers me more than the size. I woul....   >>   17 Jun 2004   a case for non-manag....   'Well you'll lose that bet, because the majority o....   >>   15 Jun 2004   WEB applications   '.. with web applications you have 0 loss due to p....   >>      Detecting duplicate ....   The latest issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal (July 2004) ....   >>      About outsourcing   'Yet a *substantially* more backward and rural/agr....   >>   13 Jun 2004   "X years of experien....   There was a job shortage back then.  The econ....   >>      POLL : Do you enjoy ....   I enjoy everything from high-level design and arch....   >>      Where can I find jus....   Where can I just find models to date?   >>   12 Jun 2004   "X years of experience in Y"   >>   12 Jun 2004   Reality check on pro....   A full day interview is an actual interview. When....   >>         There are good and bad employed programmers, and t....   >>         Does passing this test guarantee an interview?&nbs....   >>      Where are all the ne....   'My projects are hardcore VB 6.0, C++, Win32 apps.....   >>   11 Jun 2004   new grads   The management made a mistake by directly throwing....   >>   10 Jun 2004   Software development....   Oops, the last sentence of the second paragraph sh....   >>         Indeed, Indian programmers aren't that cheap at al....   >>   08 Jun 2004   Good alternative to ....   'Except for the little fact that employment in Del....   >>   07 Jun 2004   Software development....   As a black man in America I already am not welcome....   >>         If I'm going to leave the US, I want to deliberate....   >>         'Be prepared for it to take 2-3 months to find wor....   >>         News flash: If I'm in New Zealand nobody would kno....   >>   06 Jun 2004   Software development in New Zealand?   >>   06 Jun 2004      'If your goal is the experience then give Bangalor....   >>         Even if New Zealand is more of a 'backwater' than ....   >>         'A recent survey in Australia reported 18 percent ....   >>         Yes ... either I'd spend about 3-4 years there, wi....   >>         'But, I do have a cousin who went, migrated to NZ ....   >>         The tech jobs in Bangalore may be plentiful. But f....   >>      Microsoft Granted Pa....   The trouble with using the courts as the 'check an....   >>   05 Jun 2004   Piracy can be good?   'I would think that SOME money is better than NONE....   >>      Men are from foo, wo....   William Hung has competition.   >>         Except the Indians who are from America.   >>      Microsoft Granted Pa....   The USPTO approves 95% of patent applications (alt....   >>   04 Jun 2004   The rise of .NET   'Double checking everything against the J2EE spec ....   >>   03 Jun 2004      With J2EE, changing operating systems is usually t....   >>   02 Jun 2004   Why does Windows nee....   'if you have to reboot for a patch and the system ....   >>   01 Jun 2004   C++ or Java ?   'Why are financial firms demanding C++? Just curio....   >>      Why does Windows nee....   It's not even just OS patches that require rebooti....   >>      If business is so ......   'If business is so rewarding then why isn't everyo....   >>   28 May 2004   Should I retire?   Take about 2-3 million of it and buy an immediate ....   >>      Value of degrees &am....   Even if you never implemented a linked list or sta....   >>   27 May 2004   Offshoring: Real or ....   It is both real and overrated. Corporations are....   >>      Tech work a "special....   'On the subject of minority groups getting prefere....   >>   26 May 2004   Programmers not peop....   It's not programmers who aren't people savvy. It'....   >>      interview situation   Some companies do have a policy about only intervi....   >>   24 May 2004   hiring someone who h....   So what?  Almost any move will be to a direct....   >>      OO: Lists, Collectio....   Use a plain-old List, unless you really have a nee....   >>      On Math   Most community colleges will teach remedial math. ....   >>      The real problem wit....   'The ultimate goal of .NET should have been to bec....   >>   22 May 2004   Another take on the ....   Good point Mark. That is one reason why I prefe....   >>   20 May 2004   IEEE: Japanese best,....   'For years we've seen this figure of 13.5 LOC/day ....   >>   19 May 2004   Moral conundrum   Presumably you aren't working in the US, since alm....   >>   18 May 2004   Tired of getting rip....   Get a friend in the US to buy it, then have them s....   >>   15 May 2004   Why bonuses are NOT ....   It is also common for bigCorps to outsource their ....   >>   13 May 2004   Outsource workers wh....   A brain surgeon should not be asking 'what is the ....   >>   12 May 2004   Women in IT   A real one.   >>         'Hey, I am saying that anyone can get laid very ea....   >>         Care to share your experience of working in a pred....   >>      Outsource workers wh....   I never did ask stupid questions to get my job don....   >>         'My question is - why the hell would you *NOT* wan....   >>   09 May 2004   Rising Oil Prices. W....   Rising fuel prices won't do much to affect commute....   >>   06 May 2004   How many LOC per day....   LOC is mainly a measure of cost and effort, not of....   >>   03 May 2004   developer versus cod....   'Code Monkey is more of a state of mind that a job....   >>   02 May 2004   Rate - Part 2   Are the $40 and $80 referring to the rate paid by ....   >>      Is it unprofessional....   Yes, it would make more sense. But the powers tha....   >>         Not only will the gross rate the client pays affec....   >>   01 May 2004   MBA: What did you really learn?   >>   01 May 2004   MBA: What did you re....   And if I am unrealistic in thinking that I can acc....   >>         Yes, it is deliberately on the low side. For $5,00....   >>      Who has been keeping....   'J2EE is uneccesarily complex for your needs. So ....   >>   30 Apr 2004   Why not Canada?   Everybody is flocking to India because the hype sa....   >>      Is the job market st....   The job market is still tight, just not as bad as ....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Lack of social skill....   Indeed, the million-people-in-a-few-square-miles t....   >>   28 Apr 2004   teaching programming....   It's not the language per se that takes 10 years t....   >>   27 Apr 2004   Why programmers so d....   Don't knock the Tower of Hanoi. It is a useful les....   >>   26 Apr 2004      >'Most developers, including the 'self-trained', h....   >>      Cost of living   Doesn't matter if he could find ways to share an a....   >>   25 Apr 2004      Bella, A $45K salary can't buy anything bigger ....   >>   24 Apr 2004   perfectionism vs. go....   It's more of a difference between "good enough for....   >>         'In most business processes, when you're striving ....   >>      Application developm....   If what Doc Jason wanted existed, there wouldn't b....   >>      What would you do?   Part of running a healthy software business is kno....   >>      Diversity initiative....   'In the first case, I can go and spend my money ac....   >>   20 Apr 2004   Software Patents   Google has done very innovative things with their ....   >>         Software patents are useless because there isn't a....   >>   17 Apr 2004   Should source contro....   Keeping production releases of EXEs and other comp....   >>      "The Apprentice" (sp....   Apparently Kwame quit his job at Goldman Sachs to ....   >>   15 Apr 2004   Another take on loyalty   >>   15 Apr 2004      Whoever got stuck with Omarosa would have had prob....   >>      The Apprentice Final....   The editors may have been hiding Kwame's abilities....   >>      What unemployment?   Hire a really smart Java programmer without J2EE e....   >>   14 Apr 2004      The trouble right now with finding talent is that ....   >>   11 Apr 2004   master's degree + em....   But Philo ... someone without significant experien....   >>         MSCS only helps if at least one of the following a....   >>      "The Apprentice" (sp....   If I was responsible for hiring programmers, I wou....   >>   10 Apr 2004   Is Perl the only scr....   'The main argument I hear is that Perl is ugly. W....   >>      Loyalty   I think the loyalty Trump was referring to was mor....   >>      "The Apprentice" (sp....   Amy starred when it comes to 'getting things done.....   >>   09 Apr 2004      Kwame's problem is that he's apparently only dealt....   >>         Seems like she came back for no other reason but t....   >>   05 Apr 2004   2 offers, which one ....   States are now using data mining to find tax evade....   >>   04 Apr 2004      Alas, but you do need to read the 84 pages because....   >>         To the last paragraph I should add: ... or you ....   >>         Whether or not a specific individual will have to ....   >>         'And was your acquaitance *directly paid* from fir....   >>   03 Apr 2004      >'Finally, if you're not married and the comment '....   >>         HR isn't necessarily going to tell you anything. T....   >>         My current job is the result of being hired by a c....   >>         Just a couple more points: Job security, or lac....   >>         Business travel can be quite costly to you as an e....   >>      Java—what's the poin....   Most organizations, especially large non-software ....   >>      Why can't we be frie....   Java.NET or .NET2EE?   >>      keeping the toothpas....   Chances are some other people already had the same....   >>   02 Apr 2004   Illegal behavior by ....   I should have said "can *readily* be given jail ti....   >>         This is like those companies that continued to sel....   >>   01 Apr 2004   "The Apprentice" (sp....   15 weeks *unpaid* leave from Goldman Sachs, yes. ....   >>         Trump is always there week after week, so why can'....   >>         I heard somebody make a comment that 'the lease wo....   >>   31 Mar 2004   Transferring XP home....   Disclaimer: IANAL. You didn't sign a contract w....   >>   29 Mar 2004   Xbox 2 compatibility....   They (MS) are probably going to try the same thing....   >>   28 Mar 2004   binary xml - just sa....   Looks like the MS Office XP XML format ...   >>      Are there really sof....   I think the original poster was referring to buyin....   >>      Old technical books ....   About what % of the books that you put on eBay act....   >>   27 Mar 2004   Old technical books - usable as firewood?   >>   27 Mar 2004      I still haven't found anything about whether they'....   >>         For reference, nowadays the Internet is indeed a b....   >>         I thought about eBay too, but with the shipping co....   >>   26 Mar 2004   "The Apprentice" (sp....   'I'm foggy on why Trumpster put so much credit int....   >>   25 Mar 2004   One more thing about....   It might know that a semi-colon is missing, but th....   >>      Is grokking pointers....   I think those who have trouble with pointers are i....   >>      Good Code / Bad Code....   Good code and bad doesn't exist? So there is no d....   >>   17 Mar 2004   What's wrong with St....   'The primary benefit of using struts, is you can ....   >>   16 Mar 2004   Hiring specific skil....   'When it's an employers market, they can afford to....   >>      Immigration and comp....   [> The government certainly should be doing someth....   >>   15 Mar 2004   Hiring specific skills - self fulfilling prophecy?   >>   15 Mar 2004   seeking career advic....   The interviewer is an idiot for thinking that some....   >>      An example of how to....   What sort of tool are you talking about?  Was....   >>   12 Mar 2004   CMM Level 5 - does it mean anything anymore?   >>   12 Mar 2004   CMM Level 5 - does i....   I worked for a company that had a single division ....   >>   11 Mar 2004   Why do people still use MS Outlook?   >>   09 Mar 2004   Tactical Disclosure ....   >'It is my experience that the best employers will....   >>      salary on current jo....   If your salary is extremely low, that in itself mi....   >>   06 Mar 2004   "The Apprentice" (Sp....   And which NYC hospital was that?  Of course s....   >>   04 Mar 2004   Open source... rat r....   If they don't file criminal charges against the CE....   >>      A win-win approach t....   As shareholders and customers we do have the right....   >>         It's not about Americans being better at 'intuitiv....   >>   26 Feb 2004   I'm DOne.  I Do....   It took you all these years to come to that conclu....   >>   25 Feb 2004   Why are .NET strings....   The main reason for immutable Strings: you can't t....   >>   24 Feb 2004   The Evils of Super-l....   A very telling quote: 'Comanche gave the Army a....   >>   22 Feb 2004   Strawman terminology....   A real 'expert' wouldn't accept $35-40 per hour.   >>   20 Feb 2004   The Apprentice (spoi....   Given the extreme time constraints, I was surprise....   >>   18 Feb 2004   How do I break the p....   Object oriented languages are multipliers of the d....   >>      Being recruited away   I was in a similar situation. A client hired me aw....   >>   17 Feb 2004   Pitfalls of oursourc....   'Then, the manufacture of the code can be doen any....   >>      Starting all over ag....   'And of course, there are _plenty_ of people who f....   >>   16 Feb 2004   Let Java Go.   >'On the other hand you have Perl and Python. Bot....   >>   15 Feb 2004      The divergence of vendor-specific extensions and v....   >>   13 Feb 2004   The Apprentice (spoi....   I was surprised to learn that Tammy is 36 years ol....   >>   09 Feb 2004   "Our main focus is t....   No, the biggest problem is that it sounds obvious ....   >>      Books on structuring....   Eric, Are you actually designing things before ....   >>   08 Feb 2004   Microsoft: Delphi fa....   Borland should have hired Microsoft's marketers.   >>      Trusting Book Review....   I ignore generic comments expressing like or disli....   >>      Programmed Death Of ....   It isn't fearmongering to say we are competing aga....   >>      "Our main focus is t....   >>In other words, updating an old idea to use mode....   >>         Or they leave the United States, rather than putti....   >>      most productive fire....   Exactly. Corporate decisions are taken in the bes....   >>   07 Feb 2004   External Modem bette....   P.S. I was referring to external modems that conne....   >>         No difference in performance. The only thing be....   >>      IANAL - Software Pat....   If the purpose of obtaining this patent to prevent....   >>      Economy looking up   And I think the high salaries for computer-related....   >>         Unemployment going down is largely being driven by....   >>   06 Feb 2004   Programmer Productiv....   Programming is like sports, as others above have m....   >>   05 Feb 2004   Does bad code lead t....   Quit now before you get blamed and fired for the m....   >>   04 Feb 2004   Advice needed: print....   Is this web app going to be run in-house?  If....   >>   01 Feb 2004   Mike Rowe Soft The F....   He may not be able to collect from the high bidder....   >>   31 Jan 2004   Another critique of ....   The cost of bugs is prone to underestimation, beca....   >>      Submitting Job Appli....   HR doesn't usually make the hiring decisions per s....   >>         Security would be better served by NOT accepting .....   >>         Very often you don't have an HR contact who you ca....   >>         If you have already included one format in your em....   >>      Review of Joel's lec....   Elephant, if you always value your time with frien....   >>         Great points, OB. The economic value of time ex....   >>      My Adventures with o....   NathanJ: A common tactic is to tell someone the....   >>   30 Jan 2004   The internet has mad....   Call them and have them explain the charge.  ....   >>      More Apprentice   True dat.  Being pretty doesn't help much whe....   >>      Resources for learni....   OPO: I am not trying to become a COBOL expert. B....   >>      ISP taking liberties....   'If you aren't happy with them hijacking all outbo....   >>   29 Jan 2004   Resources for learning COBOL?   >>   29 Jan 2004   "The Apprentice" (Sp....   Trump reprimanded them because they are winning wi....   >>      ISP taking liberties....   'They've been doing that for years, we used to be ....   >>      Clearing the air on ....   A tool can be the best in its class from a technic....   >>      MikeRoweSoft - the e....   'Greedy guy. Microsoft already compensated him a l....   >>   28 Jan 2004   Is Eiffel a contende....   'Is the cost to high? It can be downloaded for fr....   >>   27 Jan 2004   Frustated by (Near) ....   Compression is something that people study for dec....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Cover letters and di....   Indeed the standards there are dropping.  Som....   >>   25 Jan 2004   Technical Ladder -- ....   A person with a technical experience who is a CxO ....   >>      "The Apprentice" (sp....   'At this point I'm impressed at how unimpressive t....   >>         Oops, that first sentence should read "big ad for ....   >>         The show is run by Trump's production company. It....   >>         Whoever gets this won't be worthy of the position ....   >>   24 Jan 2004   Bizarre interview ti....   How do you know he didn't read any books? He coul....   >>      Robot Scientist Crea....   Grad students are much, much cheaper than any robo....   >>   22 Jan 2004   Encryption of Passwo....   And you don't even have to ask for the username, s....   >>         The username can be changed without having to sepa....   >>         Using the username as the "salt" is also quite eff....   >>      plain text passwords....   If the passwords are for something fairly inconseq....   >>      Creating a "restore ....   Ease of use is a main requirement ... they must be....   >>   21 Jan 2004   Creating a "restore CD"   >>   14 Jan 2004   Protecting IP   Another thing:  Since you have developed much....   >>      Sticking your head i....   Usually when a deadline looks almost doable, it st....   >>   12 Jan 2004   The real reason we n....   'Personally I think the common reasoning, that peo....   >>   11 Jan 2004   rule of engagement, ....   Sometimes the non-technical client tries to dictat....   >>   10 Jan 2004   fundamental question....   The MPAA and especially RIAA are cartels, which is....   >>   09 Jan 2004   US:More degrees in “....   'Not only do some countries hold poorer students b....   >>   08 Jan 2004   Java Static Methods   Static methods can't be polymorphic. So even for ....   >>   06 Jan 2004   Will patents stop Li....   'Also, so what if IBM has the biggest law firm in ....   >>      H1B: I am facing doo....   Indeed the L1s are being abused. L1s are supposed....   >>   05 Jan 2004      OTOH, if they stay in the US after graduation, peo....   >>      Silly question about....   I also should mention ... if you have a single fun....   >>         As long as the language doesn't support nested com....   >>      Personal DVD Backups   'Indeed even Blockbuster rentals seldom have any q....   >>   04 Jan 2004   Need techie advice o....   100 clients? In a year? Do you really think you ....   >>         This doesn't sound like mass-market software that ....   >>      CD-Burning Question ....   Talk to us again in 2006 after you've finally fini....   >>      Code generation vers....   Indeed, one of the biggest problems with code gene....   >>      Open Source OCR Soft....   Or employed in a big bureaucratic corporation that....   >>      Money saved by using....   1. Strawman arguments will get you nowhere. Addre....   >>         Open source software was around long before Turbo ....   >>         Suppose the reverse happened -- open source softwa....   >>   03 Jan 2004   CD-Burning Question ....   Get an external hard drive(s), or one of those rem....   >>      Consulting?   'Consulting' is generally used to describe the bus....   >>   01 Jan 2004   Finally a good idea:....   >'by the time a solid and viable examination can ....   >>      Whoops! It doesn't w....   This isn't surprising. I see what goes on in offs....   >>   31 Dec 2003   Wrong industry   Stephen Jones works in the Eastern Hemisphere, so ....   >>   30 Dec 2003   sorting   Clay's method theoretically runs in O(n^2). How....   >>      Lovers at Work ...   It is a far different thing to make a good busines....   >>      Got asked to fly to ....   I once had to fly to New York to present a demo of....   >>      Dilbert Relocation C....   A few years ago the company I was with at the time....   >>   29 Dec 2003   Could it be that M$S....   Microsoft has too much of a conflict of interest t....   >>      sorting   Oh, you said Java? Then just make use of what i....   >>         When sorting, bear in mind the distribution of the....   >>      Java: Long.TYPE vs L....   Aha! So you're dealing with a transparent persist....   >>         Methinks the problem lies with a design that depen....   >>      I have done somethin....   Others have tried to create and sell alternative O....   >>         It is not stupid that you gave it away for free. ....   >>      Internal Rates   'Plus any profit margin' doesn't have relevance wh....   >>         1. Make your internal developers look more expensi....   >>      Lovers at Work ...   This doesn't violate company policy?  Many co....   >>      pseudo-RAID on a sin....   Wouldn't using a single drive defeat much of the p....   >>   28 Dec 2003   Open source complexi....   There is a big difference between a company whose ....   >>      More Linux Developer....   The combined cost of a set of proprietary software....   >>   27 Dec 2003      >'If companies and individuals use commercial soft....   >>         The increased spread of Linux and of-the-shelf sof....   >>      Statistics - reading....   Still, in extreme cases the top developers probabl....   >>      Outsourcing and the ....   Except that the 20% comes with added risk and long....   >>         >'Soon, all you extra special people with extra sp....   >>         From Tony Chang's link: 'Three years later, Sil....   >>      Future of Window API   .NET on Linux: http://www.go-mono.com/    >>      Working at Microsoft   The situation with the woman in that article seems....   >>      Q for Independent Co....   Text and code editors are tools of the trade, whic....   >>   26 Dec 2003   Statistics - reading....   40 lines for 'top producers'? I guess you mean ....   >>         Those numbers are also net of rewrites and deletio....   >>         The 10 lines per day is an average for production-....   >>      Outsourcing and the ....   >'My concern is basically selfish. If outsourcing....   >>         Oddly enough, the number of CxOs who say the compa....   >>      IEEE reports highest....   Isn't the raw number of employed engineers still h....   >>      job advice for a new....   'First of all most coding jobs don't require heavy....   >>   24 Dec 2003   Latest on SCO/Linux ....   Every time SCO and Darth McBride (or Darl Vader, i....   >>   23 Dec 2003   Why The Flip Flop, J....   It isn't a 'compiler', it's more of a translator b....   >>      MFC   ' MFC works great for developing Windows applicati....   >>      Borland is no more.   The new "sales paradigm" was probably made necessa....   >>         As usual, Borland demonstrates their incompetence ....   >>   22 Dec 2003   How Much Do Offshore....   'Management also said they could hire Polish devel....   >>         The more reputable offshore firms in India bill at....   >>      kinds of sw developm....   It isn't that hard to compete against the outsourc....   >>         '... then why not replace them with incompotents* ....   >>         Remember we're talking about software development ....   >>         'If a US worker loses their job because someone in....   >>         'EA have a development office in Australia.' I ....   >>      Forced Subscriptions   Tivo's problem is that they don't make money on th....   >>   21 Dec 2003   kinds of sw developm....   Among the 'least likely to be offshored' I would s....   >>         A better question might be "what are the kinds of ....   >>         All software can be outsourced. However, probably ....   >>      Outsourcing - making....   And when he doesn't refuse, tragedies like Aaliyah....   >>         Based on that geographic distribution, and the rea....   >>      Outsourcing -But not....   'Maybe I should subcontract 4 indian programmers t....   >>      Forced Subscriptions   The Series1->Series2 subscription transfer was a t....   >>      Did linux just show ....   To overcome the barriers that are present because ....   >>   19 Dec 2003   Compression Algorith....   Unless you are willing to have a loss of image qua....   >>      Are IP addresses rec....   Wow, I never realized just how much information is....   >>         Most web servers log your IP address merely when y....   >>   18 Dec 2003   New Project - offsho....   MSHack: If you outsource, would it be to an extern....   >>      Lisp company IPOs   'You might even to go so far as to say they were a....   >>         expedia ho: The search results from Orbitz and ....   >>   17 Dec 2003   Oracle - SQL 'insert....   Actually it won't be locking errors that you'll ge....   >>         Do you mind if there are gaps in the 1..N? Using ....   >>      OS dominance   Don't forget that it is easy to fake your browser ....   >>   14 Dec 2003   Dual monitors ... at....   ATI does two *independent* monitors out of the box....   >>      Hiring someone who *....   Sorry John, but it will sound worse if you tell an....   >>      Software Engineers: ....   I have to agree with Philo.  Having a well-in....   >>   13 Dec 2003   Dual monitors ... at home?   >>   13 Dec 2003   Dual monitors ... at....   'Go back to 640 x 480 and then back to your full n....   >>         I have an nVidia Geforce3 Ti200. It has Twinview w....   >>         The OS bundles the multiple display feature ... do....   >>      Hiring someone who *....   Non-sequitir.  It will be easier for me to co....   >>         So many people complete bachelor's or master's deg....   >>         >'But if he is gainfully employed doing the work h....   >>         >'Doing job but didn't get degree = smart enough t....   >>         Finish the darn degree.  Coming that close an....   >>   12 Dec 2003   U.S. Programmers at ....   Nobody here said that we in general deserve six fi....   >>         Stephen, that assumes you earn enough to actually ....   >>   10 Dec 2003      XYZ - why did you move?   >>         Why do so many non-Americans call Americans 'USAns....   >>         >I don't understand why people don't equate $45,00....   >>      Software will eat it....   'Backing the right performers has always been diff....   >>      Our jobs... (again)   Most good programmers enjoy what they do for a liv....   >>   09 Dec 2003   Binary search in 5 l....   Of course, this begs the question, what is a "line....   >>         Here's a non-recursive 5-liner in Java, if you don....   >>      Why are 80% of progr....   I seldom take my work home. But the majority of....   >>   07 Dec 2003   "Low Skill" Rhetoric   People with 10 years experience in Java aren't com....   >>         There is also the constant rhetoric that 'IT is a ....   >>      "Low-skill jobs like....   Dennis, that is exactly what I've been thinking. ....   >>         'You're not saying that the 1 month guys actually ....   >>         It all boils down to the fact that someone with no....   >>      If there are few dec....   >'Medicine is secure, as far as I know, but applic....   >>   06 Dec 2003   Are Debuggers Wastef....   So I take it you would prefer your doctor to send ....   >>         'Doctors shouldn't use MRIs or xrays either. Just ....   >>         Yes, when there is a problem a debugger probably d....   >>         Some people use the debugger to fix code without r....   >>         'fix a problem properly...' *Properly* is the r....   >>         'I fail to see how printf's can be quicker or more....   >>         I the article's point is more that heavy reliance ....   >>         The problem is not with the debugger itself, it is....   >>      Why are 80% of progr....   By '10-page procedure' above, I didn't mean a proc....   >>         'I've never bought the 10x productivity differenti....   >>   05 Dec 2003   "Secret Question" Pa....   'I hate those sites that let you receiving your pa....   >>      American programmers....   >'I'm at a very small company in the midwest and m....   >>         The Indian programmer would have beem billed at $4....   >>   04 Dec 2003      $40-$45K will attract programmers, but only unempl....   >>      Why are 80% of progr....   And when a truly stellar programmer is recognized ....   >>      HTML forms and back ....   >'Saving and later submitting the pages will not w....   >>         'I've built some non-trivial web-applications and ....   >>   03 Dec 2003      I hate webapps that don't handle the Back button g....   >>   02 Dec 2003   All the screws lined....   It is more likely that the 1% feature will be some....   >>      Software patents   'Software algorithms are _not_ invented, they are ....   >>      Requiring pre-interv....   If a company is willing to fly you in for an inter....   >>   30 Nov 2003   POLL : Do you play v....   Having a job, a life, and playing video games are ....   >>         '...and the antidote for inert TV watching.' Ex....   >>         Up until the late 90's I used to play games fairly....   >>         >'Games are for children.' Nowadays, many games....   >>      I need a pay rise   There is also the perception that unemployed peopl....   >>   29 Nov 2003   How did Amazon becom....   They neglect to realize that word of mouth still e....   >>   28 Nov 2003   Hiring through inter....   Companies that use trial periods do pay the people....   >>   27 Nov 2003      If hiring employees is like marriage, consulting m....   >>   26 Nov 2003   The relentless march....   >'I can't see them lowering the price of Windows.'....   >>   24 Nov 2003   "warm-chair attritio....   5% is not an arbitrary number.  It is the poi....   >>   22 Nov 2003   World Class Programm....   Famous != world class. I deliberately didn't incl....   >>   21 Nov 2003   An outsourcing/offsh....   Full protectionism is often better than the one-si....   >>         Most American farm subsidies don't make food cheap....   >>      World Class Programm....   World class programmers: John Carmack Richard ....   >>   19 Nov 2003   future of programmin....   Ultimately, the same thing that enabled first-worl....   >>         Manufacturing is very different from programming, ....   >>   18 Nov 2003   The real problem wit....   The 'replace half of the IT department' is an exag....   >>      Need a reasonable da....   If they want to put more restrictive conditions on....   >>         The MySQL position is a ridiculous one. That's li....   >>   17 Nov 2003   Microsoft opens Offi....   Microsoft Word XML format: LSIDF JH....   >>      The real problem wit....   There is a difference between offshore outsourcing....   >>      Need a reasonable da....   Just distribute MySQL and your app on separate CDs....   >>   15 Nov 2003   Offshoring Opportuni....   'Outsourcing to India is working, and will work IN....   >>         >'Why _would_ any indian company send a developer ....   >>   14 Nov 2003      Some bad Indian developers do find positions in th....   >>         The bestest of the best would probably stay in Ind....   >>         While India does produce many good developers, mos....   >>      Open Source Software....   >'From what I have observed a reduction in the har....   >>         'Think about it: if you buy a cheaper car do you u....   >>      Linux hack attempt   >'My background, and my comments, relate to high q....   >>   12 Nov 2003   I hate "smart" softw....   I ran into one of that 'trying-to-be-smart' softwa....   >>      What's China got to ....   >'No-one thinks the neighbourhood first-aider is b....   >>   11 Nov 2003   Usability: Fixed Len....   This is more of a security problem than a usabilit....   >>   05 Nov 2003   I wasn't a CS / EE m....   To answer the original question: Go to the web ....   >>         Game programming also involves a lot of state mach....   >>   04 Nov 2003   Benefits of a degree   'You have GOT to tell me at which university a BSC....   >>         >'Honestly, how many programmers, degreed or not, ....   >>   03 Nov 2003   End of Redhat Consum....   They're still going to produce a consumer distro, ....   >>      Benefits of a degree   One thing about the good programmers who are *vers....   >>      Offshoring and illus....   The writer of the letter is probably something lik....   >>   02 Nov 2003   Offshoring and illusions of savings   >>   02 Nov 2003   Benefits of a degree   'A degree is a really expensive piece of paper. N....   >>         The "college team" analogy is a good one.  So....   >>      Joel on Sun's strate....   Large companies will rarely use OSS without a supp....   >>      Why CEOs will never ....   'It is worth also bearing in mind that until about....   >>         'Without widgets, you could have the best IT, sale....   >>         'Cost center' vs. 'Profit center' is an arbitrary ....   >>   01 Nov 2003   XAML... what's it go....   And of course, an important "side effect" is that ....   >>         I think the idea is that XAML will be used to depl....   >>   31 Oct 2003   "Programmer Folkways....   Programmers will first shout that they are so good....   >>      Capability Maturity ....   The real problem with CMM is that most companies d....   >>      The Hidden Costs of ....   Actually, it is the shareholders who are a big par....   >>   29 Oct 2003   Life and Career   That's just how life is. In most jobs where you c....   >>   24 Oct 2003   Plenty of new jobs f....   >'We're financially 'retarded' as an occupation.......   >>   23 Oct 2003   Examples of Interfac....   m, from what you described, it seems like the inte....   >>   22 Oct 2003   Offshoring work   >'A spec written to this level of detail is most o....   >>   20 Oct 2003   Development overhead....   Overhead also includes real estate, software licen....   >>      What coders can lear....   The NBA players have a union, and the highest paid....   >>         In addition, your specific language not being on t....   >>         It's the board that would need to be proactively s....   >>         Also, it would be important to include a code of c....   >>         >'How would we decide who gets the license? It wou....   >>         That article's main point falls flat on its face, ....   >>   19 Oct 2003   Development overhead....   >'If those firms were honest, they would pay their....   >>         There is still a spectrum of various levels of inf....   >>         Mark TAW, that is no longer true for the bulk of t....   >>         Commercial real estate there is also more expensiv....   >>      The great start up t....   Part of Y2K was rewriting legacy systems for moder....   >>      What coders can lear....   I've heard similar horror stories with the non-uni....   >>         >'It is always amusing listening to programmers sa....   >>         >'Even where software developers are developing so....   >>         The biggest problem preventing software licensing ....   >>         'Let me give you a better answer for the above quo....   >>   18 Oct 2003      If you want to put it like that, accountants shoul....   >>   15 Oct 2003   Has Joel ever really....   You can have a finally block without having to act....   >>         'Yes, the problem _should_ be fixed, but in the me....   >>         The proper manner of handling RuntimeExceptions is....   >>      Beginner to exceptio....   Exceptions and return codes are both messy. In a ....   >>      What should programm....   'I can drive yet do not have a firm grasp of the m....   >>         'A bad start must not be crucial, anyway. Most of ....   >>         For theory, programmers should learn not just set ....   >>      Exceptions, Threads ....   Why should exceptions hurt provability?  Part....   >>   14 Oct 2003   ANDY GROVE (!!!) war....   >'Except China, at least, has their currency pegge....   >>   13 Oct 2003   Funny thing about GO....   JMP is allowable in assembly because there aren't ....   >>      finally, exceptions ....   Joel's site must have been hacked.  Either th....   >>      Minimum Technical Kn....   Now there are secret technical classes available f....   >>   12 Oct 2003   ANDY GROVE (!!!) war....   The ultimate question is, who benefits from offsho....   >>      machine vs. human ch....   I find it more impressive that the best human play....   >>   11 Oct 2003   ANDY GROVE (!!!) war....   >'There is no upside to the employer to allow tele....   >>      Only 65,000 H1Bs.&nb....   Instant green cards, or let the H1Bs work as a tim....   >>   10 Oct 2003   leave company => ....   >'A typical person is going to place family and se....   >>      Is "business logic" ....   Actually, business logic is more declarative than ....   >>      How can people excel....   Time management is definitely the biggest part of ....   >>      Are we all crappy co....   Most of us aren't allowed to choose the language w....   >>      More on the Half Lif....   'To steal 'Real Property', ie land, you just have....   >>   09 Oct 2003   Thomas Stanley - The....   >'[3] - Luxuries. Eating out, vacations, nice clo....   >>   08 Oct 2003   More on the Half Lif....   The code won't do them any good as far as piracy i....   >>      IT staffing: permane....   In addition to how long you expect to keep them ar....   >>   07 Oct 2003   Java Synchronization   The real question is, whatever you are trying to a....   >>   06 Oct 2003   Where do all the cra....   Crappy coders will appear more numerous than they ....   >>   05 Oct 2003   is this industry int....   Triple-dot, you need to start your own company.&nb....   >>   03 Oct 2003   What's Happened to J....   Employers who gear their hiring practices to the a....   >>   30 Sep 2003   Multi-threading reso....   The first rule about mulit-threaded applications: ....   >>      Using JBoss - Will I....   Breaking the J2EE spec? Could you post evidence o....   >>      Why doesn't Java hav....   Oops, I meant UnsupportedOperationException.   >>         1) The compiler won't object to unchecked exceptio....   >>   29 Sep 2003   Storing files in dat....   And if you're storing them in a text column, use B....   >>         Zip the files before storing them.  Files lik....   >>      Why doesn't Java hav....   Looks like I'm going to have to write my own class....   >>         Subclassing could be done, but it presents a probl....   >>   28 Sep 2003      We could agree not to mutate any Date instances, b....   >>         Joe, excellent link. Thanks. Aloysha, here is ....   >>   27 Sep 2003   Why doesn't Java have an immutable Date class?   >>   26 Sep 2003   Example of Optimizin....   True, not all metrics lead to this kind of behavio....   >>      I had an idea drivin....   >'Ain't no such thing. It's called arbitrage, and....   >>      Private offices, jus....   'Why exactly would a control freak want cube farms....   >>   24 Sep 2003   Who pays for unemplo....   'It also creates an incentive not to hire people w....   >>   23 Sep 2003      Making employers foot all or most of the burden fo....   >>      Good News for Americ....   The lowering of the H1B cap isn't going to make a ....   >>      Off-shoring question   India is going through a tech job boom like what w....   >>   22 Sep 2003   Hidden costs of offs....   I was also assuming that most of the in-house prog....   >>         Let me reply to your responses: 1. Managing an ....   >>   21 Sep 2003      'America may move away from India when this starts....   >>         'When you go to a vendor they give you a quote and....   >>         Whatever the precise savings are, nobody knows.&nb....   >>         Whatever the real net savings are, probably nobody....   >>   20 Sep 2003      Corporations exist to create profits, so that's OK....   >>   19 Sep 2003      True, the few companies that are seeing *real* sav....   >>   16 Sep 2003   Smart, get things do....   >'Some people have unbelievable linguistics, but t....   >>      When did it end?   'Microsoft means paid for software. Paid for softw....   >>   14 Sep 2003   Adjusting requested ....   m is right. They haven't made an offer, and you h....   >>   12 Sep 2003   Why outsourcing ofte....   >'My guess is that in many instances, the person w....   >>         By accepting low-balled projects and delivering cr....   >>      Interesting:  B....   The most common usage today is to refer to 1st/2nd....   >>         India is definitely a Third World country, not Sec....   >>   11 Sep 2003   Can credit bring an ....   'If your corp gets sued, you may lose those assets....   >>   04 Sep 2003   How much do Technica....   A guy at work wrote a book in collaboration with s....   >>      the open source busi....   TV shows are copyrighted, just like software.   >>   03 Sep 2003   My imperfect world   When using a company email account, assume it is b....   >>   30 Aug 2003   Customer Reviews at ....   Looks like a bug in their system. I remember this....   >>   28 Aug 2003   agreement to not wor....   >'If a lawyer can see it from the employer's point....   >>   25 Aug 2003   How Long Will Kids L....   'Now, for that to happen, solving the problems of ....   >>      Code reviews and for....   Certain activities like code reviews only assume t....   >>   24 Aug 2003   How Long Will Kids L....   >'People haven't got fatter by following the recom....   >>         >'As you guys are such experts on diets, may I ask....   >>   23 Aug 2003   Individual JOs Stati....   >'I really wonder how some of you folk get work do....   >>      Contracting, Permame....   What? $1500 for a one bedroom isn't *that* high?   >>         Bear in mind that 'the average web developer in Se....   >>      Technical College De....   The bar has been raised for programmers. You are c....   >>   22 Aug 2003   Code reviews and for....   >'I'm also not so convinced that good programmers ....   >>         I never said that formal processes are ever unnece....   >>         The first sentence of the second paragraph should ....   >>         The better your programmers are, the less need the....   >>      The Coming Job Boom   In addition to the stagnant or shrinking populatio....   >>   21 Aug 2003   Outsourcing to India....   The funny thing about it is that the worse a failu....   >>      Decline and Fall (se....   I've been thinking along the same lines, Philo .......   >>      Job (and life) Advic....   What mackinac said.  Find a catastrophic heal....   >>      Anybody here make a ....   Great articles. But perhaps I should rephrase t....   >>   19 Aug 2003   Installers which wil....   Some of them use web installers to try to stop peo....   >>      Agile/XP programming....   'Offshoring, in my mind, requires either a vertica....   >>   18 Aug 2003   Does "vendor lock-in....   >'T. Norman, I would like to see a situation where....   >>   17 Aug 2003   Anybody here make a living selling shareware?   >>   17 Aug 2003      >'Maybe I'm mistaken, but I've always thought 'ven....   >>         'If the mainframe is purchased, that's a sunk cost....   >>   16 Aug 2003      >'To build a solution where any of the components ....   >>         >'T, you've *described* the standard 'vendor lock-....   >>         If you (or your company) are ever in a situation w....   >>   15 Aug 2003   Question on code mai....   'what benefits would that give me over just using ....   >>   14 Aug 2003      Use the static methods only for the creation of si....   >>      Half of Windows cras....   Half the crashes are not Microsoft's fault.  ....   >>   13 Aug 2003   Web Worm Hits Window....   I can prove it, but I won't respond to F'ing comme....   >>         'If it's a monopoly, then of course virus writers ....   >>   12 Aug 2003   How do I patent soft....   How to patent software: Just think of any rando....   >>      Microsoft loses $521....   A small company winning against a big company is a....   >>   11 Aug 2003   Microsoft loses $521 million patent lawsuit   >>   08 Aug 2003   Offshore -- Cringely....   Yes, offshore has been going on for 10-15 years. ....   >>      "Jobs are moving off....   When they decide to outsource to a foreign firm th....   >>   07 Aug 2003   Offshore -- Cringely....   Many of the older workers who are approaching reti....   >>      Do senior people hav....   >'Even a bad manager is definitionally more produc....   >>      "Jobs are moving off....   >'I distrust such reasoning (that outsourcing=bad)....   >>         >'Doesn't increasing global wealth and technical l....   >>         There are savings to be made, but not for the majo....   >>         Outsourcing has become such a hyped-up management ....   >>   06 Aug 2003   HR Interview - How t....   >'I dare say that if a developer is unable to hold....   >>         If you already have a job or you have other offers....   >>      Outsourcing and Stra....   There will be exclusion one way or another. There....   >>   05 Aug 2003      That's because programming isn't actually a profes....   >>      Joel on Outsourcing ....   >'Eventually, Indian programmers will earn 30-40k/....   >>      When you can't find ....   >'The core language isn't so bad that you need to ....   >>   03 Aug 2003      It all boils down to the fact that in most compani....   >>      They Just Fired the ....   Yes, it is best to have programmers testing a prod....   >>   02 Aug 2003   Top Ten Software com....   I disagree about the decision to rewrite Netscape.....   >>      Joel: "you can't hav....   Monopolies that started off with government backin....   >>         >'Examples?' Many local phone companies and cab....   >>      "...no software comp....   Other professions have their governing bodies that....   >>      They Just Fired the ....   >'And when we do grow and hire QA specialists, I w....   >>         Good QA testers also have some programming ability....   >>      Question about free ....   >'If they using marketing power or tack on new fea....   >>      how to ditch bad, sm....   One who connects to a potato server. :)   >>   01 Aug 2003   Joel: "you can't hav....   You can't become a monopoly with junk, but you can....   >>         Becoming a monopoly and staying a monopoly are oft....   >>      Question about free ....   >'I've read very little of Stallman's own words, b....   >>         'In my opinion if you want to make some thing free....   >>   31 Jul 2003   Outsourcing Honesty ....   Sure, better requirements can be a good thing, esp....   >>         >'So say, for arguments sake, that outsourcing *do....   >>         While the outsourcing firms' markups on labor cost....   >>   30 Jul 2003      >'I do this, not because I feel the issue is overh....   >>   29 Jul 2003   Is Knuth overrated?   Remember that Knuth's major works were done some 3....   >>      What are they teachi....   >'It's disappointing to me that many schools are o....   >>      what's good about ha....   I said: 'You just have to run the compiler agains....   >>         I was comparing VMs to a cross-platform compiler w....   >>      company car   There is no indication that the employee was doing....   >>   28 Jul 2003   Higher Primates Can ....   Man, those newtechusa.com people really have exces....   >>      Purpose of a pointer....   Pointers are definite offshoots from the memory ad....   >>      software developers ....   >'Our compensation is top drawer, compared with ot....   >>      what's good about ha....   The direct benefit of VMs goes to the user, not th....   >>   27 Jul 2003   Should I become a pr....   >'I believe the IT glut has been PARTLY exaggerate....   >>         Salaries may be high in certain cities, but throug....   >>         >'And, as I was referring to the real world, and n....   >>      Technical Self-Emplo....   >'What is the reason then to do uninteresting work....   >>      company car   If a friend damages your car while borrowing it, t....   >>      Avoiding hiring mist....   I think the poster was referring to bitwise boolea....   >>      Winamp 3- another re....   It's definitely not a rule.  I said "often", ....   >>         >'Can't you accomodate new features in existing co....   >>   26 Jul 2003   what's good about ha....   >'distribution: to be platform independent, you do....   >>      Should I become a pr....   Biotech research requires a LOT more than just "ba....   >>         Do you have a job and live on your own now? If ....   >>      Avoiding hiring mist....   >'If they are experienced and competant programmer....   >>   25 Jul 2003   Time to pakc your ba....   >'What's the point of 'living like a king' if your....   >>   23 Jul 2003   TWO PERCENT of ALL U....   >'T. Norman, I suspect your claims would be bolste....   >>         There is a silver lining to this (silver hair, tha....   >>         Third paragraph, second sentence should read "But ....   >>         That does not compute, marktaw. If you are figuri....   >>         >'Back during the internet craziness, we wanted to....   >>         Regarding the interchangability of programmers .......   >>         >'The issue of losing my job to outsourcing is not....   >>         'Also, the problem with waiting for wages to stabi....   >>   22 Jul 2003      >'Set some goals. Be in the top 20% of your field....   >>      removing delimters l....   One word: Regular expressions. Ok, 'regexp' to ....   >>   21 Jul 2003   Beginning Programmer....   To the original poster: Probably the biggest th....   >>   19 Jul 2003   Bad job requirements....   *Professional* technical recruiters are SUPPOSED t....   >>   11 Jul 2003   Andy Grove: "US may ....   >'He also got is money (for the most part) through....   >>   10 Jul 2003      >'Already I've heard that, with all costs, an Indi....   >>   01 Jul 2003   Difference between F....   Indeed the 'job security' aspect of being a FTE ha....   >>      Does Java Suck?   That business of selling technology to the nontech....   >>   30 Jun 2003   best programmers??   C and C++ are not that bad to program with; what m....   >>      Does Java Suck?   Unlike client-side java, server-side java generall....   >>   27 Jun 2003   How do I get a job a....   >'Most of my coworkers treated programming as just....   >>         The idiots got hired during the boom when they wer....   >>      Court: MSFT not requ....   >'You still need to license Java source from Sun t....   >>         I would classify Java as a semi-proprietary langua....   >>      Dealing with 21'st c....   Speaking of slave labor, with new legislation 8 mi....   >>   26 Jun 2003   Court: MSFT not requ....   >'If Sun can't stand on it's own 2 feet why should....   >>      How would you find a....   Do you already have a system built on MFC?  O....   >>      The importance of su....   What is the probability that 10,000 desktops will ....   >>   25 Jun 2003   The importance of support   >>   25 Jun 2003      I can maybe understand it when it comes to servers....   >>      Dealing with 21'st c....   'I wish .. our hours are 8:30-5:30 (8 hrs work + f....   >>   24 Jun 2003   interview questions ....   Note that the development problem was given *pre-i....   >>   23 Jun 2003      You forget this is a corporation, albeit a small o....   >>   21 Jun 2003   Move to India to get....   Consider the Caribbean. In the more prosperous co....   >>   20 Jun 2003   Programming as an un....   >However, the search for the 'next big thing' is s....   >>      Setting a Price, The....   >'A highly elastic demand means that people will k....   >>   18 Jun 2003   Offshore development....   I have heard good things about the quality of Russ....   >>         >'The facts are that the cost is about 12% of a US....   >>   17 Jun 2003   Switching Jobs   Employers actually *prefer* hiring people who are ....   >>      Outsourcing   '_TimeZone_ Mentioned often, and for good reason,....   >>   14 Jun 2003   The Mythic Microsoft....   Standards have a better chance of surviving if the....   >>   13 Jun 2003   For those who have b....   The trouble is that while an employer provides 100....   >>   12 Jun 2003   The Mythic Microsoft....   'This is EXTREMELY common in business. Anyone who ....   >>      Microsoft buys Linux....   It's not that antivirus software makes an operatin....   >>         There are very few Linux antivirus products out th....   >>   11 Jun 2003   Would you move?   Job stability is a thing of the past, unless you'r....   >>      Database and OO: des....   Problems with tying OO and the RDMBS together can ....   >>   10 Jun 2003   Procrastination = no....   Procrastination is also good sometimes when it com....   >>      Is the majority of d....   >'T. Norman - having worked @ a bank on a client f....   >>   09 Jun 2003      Don't forget that whatever you see on the web is u....   >>   06 Jun 2003   Why no really destru....   The trouble with Outlook is that you don't even ha....   >>         Why do people continue to use Outlook, especially ....   >>      Analyst reports on S....   Finding duplication is not enough.  SCO could....   >>      Measures of Code Qua....   Jim S. - I agree that the real measure of code qua....   >>   31 May 2003   Probation Periods   Where the FLSA is concerned, corporate bigwigs hav....   >>   29 May 2003   Programmers Attack! ....   Backstabbing goes on in all professions, but one d....   >>   28 May 2003   E-bay pays $35millio....   And of course, we can bet that there was not one s....   >>         Normal patents protect the process and the final p....   >>      j2ee installer   It probably doesn't exist because the servers are ....   >>   27 May 2003      J2EE code that does not use vendor-specific APIs i....   >>   26 May 2003   Programmers Attack! ....   'To summarize, there are some of us over 40 who ar....   >>   25 May 2003      ' It is a tradeoff, a meritocracy or union.' It....   >>         >'News flash: some of us like to earn what we get ....   >>         Programmers' propensity to put down each other is ....   >>      finding educated wor....   In related news, protesters in Florida are fightin....   >>   24 May 2003   .Net Forms   What I find especially stupid is the nVidia won't ....   >>   22 May 2003   finding educated wor....   'Do we base pay on test scores? Then teachers wil....   >>         'Teachers in the US deserve to get paid what they ....   >>   21 May 2003   MS to buy Unix from ....   Don't forget that even WITHOUT the GPL, copyright ....   >>   20 May 2003   where did all the so....   You expect graduates to have just some kind of wor....   >>         What I meant was to give the test to your existing....   >>         That's a whole lotta stuff to expect them to find ....   >>         'I don't think programming ability is significantl....   >>      waiting for distribu....   'They don't realise that if a problem is sufficien....   >>   18 May 2003   DOUBLE STANDARDS   Tapiwa: It wasn't me who said that part about "you....   >>         'It is one of the ironies that people claim that a....   >>         What Stephen was pointing out is that Americans pa....   >>   17 May 2003   ICQ in one week?   They just want somebody to do something for them f....   >>      DOUBLE STANDARDS   Suppose we dismantle government and revoke all law....   >>   15 May 2003   Better system - home....   Right now it is practically the same. P4, same MH....   >>      DOUBLE STANDARDS   If only the US opened its borders and did it sudde....   >>         'What motivation would I have in charging the same....   >>         A localized difference in the cost of living or th....   >>         'There is no restriction on the movement of progra....   >>         'Environment, training and resources' are big ingr....   >>         If they're gonna globalize the goods, they should ....   >>      What's wrong with SM....   Ok, go ahead and leave your doors and windows open....   >>         Naturally, such a system would require additional ....   >>   14 May 2003   DOUBLE STANDARDS   One really has to wonder how sustainable the outso....   >>      UI Mockups   If you use the same actual tool to produce the scr....   >>      What's wrong with SM....   Verification of origin would get rid of 95% of spa....   >>   13 May 2003   Do You Drive?   Do you at least have a driver's license? If not, g....   >>      How do I sell an app....   If you can't find a buyer, you could open source i....   >>   09 May 2003   Can you learn and ma....   In a college course involving both C and C++, they....   >>      Java 1.5 – a huge ph....   Except maybe for the generics and the <> syntax, I....   >>         Finally! What took them so long. One of my big....   >>      Need a new job, and ....   It might be more accurate to say that there are to....   >>         Obviously, it would be better to hire somebody who....   >>      keep it in the hemis....   'I am sure they could do software if they wanted t....   >>      How does productivit....   Lines of code are useful only for measuring cost a....   >>   08 May 2003   Why isn't Delphi more popular?   >>   07 May 2003   Code that writes cod....   Not a lack of intelligence - it is intelligent laz....   >>      Visual Basic on the ....   VB got its reputation for crappy code and crappy d....   >>      survival of the fitt....   Unless the next batch of new hires is consistently....   >>         It's one thing if the company has a policy that wh....   >>   05 May 2003   Programmers who are ....   >For example, not everyone knows the difference be....   >>         'POP3 - so that comes after POP2? I've seen the PO....   >>   04 May 2003   Programmers who are ignorant of common technology   >>   04 May 2003      I'm sure your biochemist hackers would know what P....   >>         Again, it's not about knowing anything specific ab....   >>         'Now having said this, there are others who have s....   >>         On a similar note, there are some programmers who ....   >>         It's not that she specifically didn't know how to ....   >>      Compensation   As far as developers and compensation is concerned....   >>   03 May 2003      I think most of us here are referring to CEOs and ....   >>         Risks? What risks? What risks are the CEOs taki....   >>         According to this http://biz.yahoo.com/p/o/orcl.ht....   >>         CEO screwups often move on to another company with....   >>         Corporations no longer exist primarily to make mon....   >>      How should I comment....   'Make some basic assumptions: 1. The person readi....   >>   02 May 2003   Announcing a termina....   'Better to be a little mean than have it come back....   >>         It also depends on the size. Large corporations....   >>   28 Apr 2003   Sooner or later domi....   Subscription only works when you have your custome....   >>   27 Apr 2003   rigerous tech interv....   'Bonehead hired 0.' Ok, you hired no boneheads,....   >>   26 Apr 2003   On replacing our mai....   Having a widely accepted protocol for authenticati....   >>   24 Apr 2003   Layoffs   Seemed like your company has incompetent senior ma....   >>      What is to fuel the ....   If Microsoft falters, they wouldn't be the first m....   >>      Software Engineering....   It is really strange that the accountants who work....   >>   23 Apr 2003   What is to fuel the ....   The next IT boom? Y10K!    >>      Experience   'Question: if the two 'old programmers' you mentio....   >>      Software Engineering....   It doesn't really matter if you're an employee of ....   >>         Very good point Mark. Software managers can push ....   >>   22 Apr 2003   SMTP Replacement...   Micropayments are not the answer, verification of ....   >>      Rent/Subscription Ba....   Aha! Microsoft's Licensing 6.0.  They were su....   >>   21 Apr 2003   (mis)use of the term....   A Learning Curve plots time spent on the horizonta....   >>      OpenOffice   'The windows api has been published for years and ....   >>      Does contributing co....   Microsoft and other commercial software companies ....   >>   19 Apr 2003   Opinions On Code Rev....   I should add this -- code review meetings are usua....   >>         In addition, code reviews help to catch bugs earli....   >>         Code reviews are very valuable, if they are actual....   >>      Does contributing co....   The point is not to sell 'open source', but to tal....   >>   18 Apr 2003   Kinds of bad manager....   'I find non-technical ones to be frustrating too. ....   >>      Possible to get perk....   'I love the fact that as a career software develop....   >>      Is it Really that ha....   There is usually a lot of work involved in acquiri....   >>   17 Apr 2003   Does contributing co....   99% of managers in corporations don't even know wh....   >>         The benefit of working on open source is that you ....   >>      Possible to get perk....   Market forces don't have as much effect on senior ....   >>      Is it a joke ? IBM O....   If they base the GUI on SWT, it should be pretty f....   >>      Is it Really that ha....   There are surprisingly many people making over $20....   >>         The problem with those people who make $200K+ is t....   >>         The CEOs get multimillion dollar severance package....   >>   15 Apr 2003   What to do about sle....   Get enough sleep at night.  If you don't usua....   >>      UML and design patte....   'Design patterns' were first popularized by the 'G....   >>   14 Apr 2003   Does "Versioning" In....   It's called "Price Discrimination".  Economic....   >>      Professionals .... b....   There will always be some amount of ambiguity and ....   >>   13 Apr 2003      Rather than being a 'closed shop' I think law is d....   >>      startup company offe....   'I would accept this job if you are unemployed. (....   >>   12 Apr 2003   Outrageous Suggestio....   Oops, wrong thread ... I thought I was responding ....   >>         You can build a successful company by having yours....   >>         'I thought Apple, HP and Microsoft were founded by....   >>      Professionals .... b....   And: 7. People would become very, very afraid t....   >>         'I disagree that all high-paying professions becom....   >>         As I just explained, all high-paying professions e....   >>         >'Accreditation in law and medicine is just an exc....   >>   11 Apr 2003      'Would eliminating the requirement of accreditatio....   >>         'If someone hits me with a nuisance lawsuit, I wan....   >>      startup company offe....   And speaking of minimum wage, not only may that sa....   >>         My local supermarket is paying $7/hr for people to....   >>   05 Apr 2003   If you were not a de....   I see some people saying fantasy-type things like ....   >>         White collar: Engineer, accountant, or actuary. ....   >>      How often should one....   'One of my most frequest tasks is editing large (5....   >>   04 Apr 2003   How come?   You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Check out Tom Kyte's ....   >>      In-House Customers H....   'I wouldn't want to work that way, and SCC certain....   >>      what % of population....   I agree, it's pretty much all the same old stuff i....   >>   03 Apr 2003      Those high schoolers doing programming classes sho....   >>      employment agreement   Layoffs also can hurt the enforcability of those c....   >>      Sex   Hello?  Anybody remember what this thread was....   >>   02 Apr 2003   employment agreement   The problem with these damn non-compete clauses is....   >>   01 Apr 2003   Sex   I think the aversion to technology starts as early....   >>   30 Mar 2003   programming and the ....   LSAT scores are just one small part of an applicat....   >>      William Whyte's rule   'Yes Ernie, I agree, however, we will go to jail, ....   >>         This is so funny because the previous company I wo....   >>      Import tariffs and o....   ' ...We have found that worldwide inequality has b....   >>      Relooking at Decline....   'All I want to know is how come managers are so wi....   >>   29 Mar 2003   Import tariffs and o....   Anyway, tariffs on software is an unworkable idea.....   >>         If labor could move back and forth between differe....   >>      Salary Increase Nego....   And I'd add that while experience does count for m....   >>         Do the MCSD because it is an investment in yoursel....   >>   26 Mar 2003   Personal Firewalls?   Hardware firewalls are good for blocking unwanted ....   >>      anybody seeing an en....   'I'd say complaining about slow growth is a wee bi....   >>      Pen-and-Paper coding....   I use pen and paper for working out a design, but ....   >>      Greed and Total Cost....   tapiwa: I am not saying that the minimum wage s....   >>         >>And believe it or not, there are some business o....   >>         The minimum wage has been an important factor in t....   >>   25 Mar 2003   Keeping Your Job   First, news flash: there are doctors here already ....   >>         So I suppose you would be willing to have your sur....   >>   24 Mar 2003      Less than 5% of companies are at Level 4 or higher....   >>   20 Mar 2003   Do employers ever sa....   It's not merely about 'Thank You', but about havin....   >>   19 Mar 2003   API vs .NET   Forget MFC and the Win32 API for user interface wo....   >>      Pretenders for senio....   Resume inflation is a widespread problem in IT.&nb....   >>   18 Mar 2003   Do employers ever sa....   If a company interviews you, but doesn't have the ....   >>   17 Mar 2003   EJB Performance   I'd expect poorer performance, but I don't think t....   >>         EJBs are notable for hurting performance.  Es....   >>      writing coding tests....   'From that I'm extrapolating ANYONE can write code....   >>      Boomerang of offshor....   'Rents: Where I am I pay Rs. 12 per sq. ft - that'....   >>   16 Mar 2003   writing coding tests....   That probably wasn't the most well-designed test, ....   >>      Boomerang of offshor....   'Maybe the question to ask is, Why should ANY jobs....   >>         There are still surprisingly many companies using ....   >>         'Does anyone know of a product(s) in wide use -- g....   >>         'A VB/Oracle programmer with 3 years experience ge....   >>   15 Mar 2003   Boomerang of offshore outsourcing?   >>   15 Mar 2003      I meant to add to the point about the increased ov....   >>         'Maybe the question to ask is, Why should ANY jobs....   >>         I don't personally have a problem with the offshor....   >>         By "communication gap", I meant the gaps in time a....   >>   14 Mar 2003   job prospects   'However, in the current market, employeers are ab....   >>   13 Mar 2003   What does a 'world c....   'Now I have no doubt that these guys are excellent....   >>         World class programmers, which means they are at a....   >>      Reluctance to Learn   Migrating from VB to C is not likely, but it's not....   >>   12 Mar 2003   How to be a Programm....   All stresses are not the same. The stress of taki....   >>      Reluctance to Learn   The important question here is whether the organiz....   >>   11 Mar 2003   Parade Magazine - Wh....   I do believe Mikayla is real about the 'no kids' t....   >>   10 Mar 2003      Just to clarify ... the 4 points I put in the orig....   >>   09 Mar 2003   Parade Magazine - What People Earn   >>   09 Mar 2003      Pigs, Again - it is not about the quality of l....   >>         $50K is a good living almost anywhere in America, ....   >>      Specialization of de....   I agree that specialization is generally not good ....   >>         Nat: Did you mean 'CAN'T expend the time and en....   >>   08 Mar 2003      Remember, we're talking about *good* specialists a....   >>         big bob: When I mentioned a specialist for the ....   >>   07 Mar 2003      You need both specialists and generalists, with th....   >>   06 Mar 2003   Utility functions an....   Beware of Aspect-Oriented programming. It is pate....   >>   19 Feb 2003   Why did FoxPro Fail ....   Two reason for FoxPro's failure: 1. Microsoft b....   >>   17 Feb 2003   Worst interviewer ev....   Employers are legally allowed to ask about marital....   >>         Married people's lifestyles and time management ar....   >>      How soon would you f....   Bored Bystander: I agree, the incompetence of t....   >>         In many cases, incompetence can be easily detected....   >>         'Further, the allegedly incompetent must have reas....   >>         How soon? Yesterday. As long as the incompetence....   >>      Computer Programmer'....   A programmers union does not need to have the same....   >>         Continue to complain about H-1B, while entire proj....   >>   11 Feb 2003   Mental Health Issues....   'They are always talking about what would happen i....   >>   08 Feb 2003   The Database Databas....   >'It's worth beraing in mind that most databases u....   >>   07 Feb 2003   Do only geniuses get....   And there is also no point thinking you are techni....   >>         Americans also find that they have to send out ove....   >>   06 Feb 2003   The importance of re....   Rest -- both in terms of sleep, and time away from....   >>      IT Outsourcing Overs....   Large companies that employ H-1Bs where the vast m....   >>   05 Feb 2003   Why don't colleges t....   The jobs out there are too diverse for them to foc....   >>   01 Feb 2003   Fear...   'Why don't the presidential candidates who actuall....   >>         'One possibility is that our nation will actually ....   >>   31 Jan 2003   volunteerinng   'Why not just HIRE one of the thousands of out of ....   >>      Licenses   Comparing GPL to communism is way off base. With ....   >>      Contract-to-hire   If you want to be hired full time as a result of a....   >>   24 Jan 2003   will Linux be mainst....   Yes, third world governments now are taking stride....   >>         'If they can afford the hardware ... how much is a....   >>   23 Jan 2003   A little something f....   'Soooo... If competition is so damned effective, h....   >>   14 Jan 2003   Math   For programming in general, developing a mathemati....   >>   09 Jan 2003   Design patterns   Design Patterns are *discovered*, not created. De....   >>   08 Jan 2003   Shelf-Life Of A Prog....   Yes, I meant that even if you are among the unfort....   >>         'Keeping your skills current is often not your cho....   >>         I won't talk too much about the field I'm pursuing....   >>   07 Jan 2003      32 and been programming professionally since 23, a....   >>   05 Jan 2003   Number of Jobs by Pr....   To be a guru, you generally do need a few years wo....   >>      Java. Good for clien....   I found out more about the SWT.  It turns out....   >>   04 Jan 2003   Data Access code and....   I find that it is a good approach if you have the ....   >>      Making it on your ow....   Feature creep is a problem only if your management....   >>      Does the college mat....   Joe Grossberg wrote: >And when I've interviewed f....   >>         'Is what college you attend and your academic perf....   >>      Java. Good for clien....   I read the docs on the eclipse.org site and it was....   >>   03 Jan 2003   Does the college mat....   Note that the point of the article linked by the o....   >>      Java. Good for clien....   I am intrigued by the SWT for Java.  But it s....   >>   02 Jan 2003   Does the college mat....   Also bear in mind that this and other similar stud....   >>         I think the writer of that article misstated what ....   >>   23 Dec 2002   The real benefits of....   Well, at least for now the J2EE/.Net debate is not....   >>         What I am really trying to get it is not merely wh....   >>   22 Dec 2002   The real benefits of EJB?   >>   20 Dec 2002   Marriage == Career D....   JustaThought - I brought my points up because it w....   >>         I'll add that marriage can be career death, or a c....   >>         I wouldn't make moving in be the first step, I'd e....   >>      Overseas Outsourcing....   Yes, Slava, you and I are aware of the reality tha....   >>      Leaky Abstractions a....   Newtonian mechanics also proved to be quite leaky,....   >>      "Lord Palmerston..."....   Do learn an assembly language. Not because you'll....   >>   19 Dec 2002   Overseas Outsourcing....   Managers (and people in general, for that matter) ....   >>   14 Dec 2002   Joel on the Economy ....   If it were up to us on this board, we would take H....   >>   13 Dec 2002   Degrees, Publishing,....   As far as programming is concerned, people without....   >>         A good Computer Science program does not focus on ....   >>   10 Dec 2002   Code Reviews - Does ....   I used to work for a company that was SEI-CMM Leve....   >>   04 Dec 2002   Hiring   My company has noticed the same thing regarding hi....   >>         2 weeks working with you does not mean 2 weeks of ....   >>         A professional programmer who works for a one-man ....   >>         You said he decided he had surpassed you in knowle....   >>      Bringing Code Sample....   If you apply for a job as a chef, you're going to ....   >>   03 Dec 2002   Why some programmers....   100,000:1 is an exaggeration, but 1000:1 may not b....   >>         In the studies I read about, they gave hundreds of....   >>   02 Dec 2002   When are web-based a....   Don't write them as web apps unless they stand to ....   >>      Unemployment Woes   If you want to be a programmer, or are a programme....   >>   01 Dec 2002   Why some programmers....   It all comes down to training and talent. Other e....   >>      Unemployment Woes   The purpose and benefit of the 'wider knowledge' i....   >>         >'Not only does the requirement for lengthy traini....   >>         The fact that there are no rigorous qualification ....   >>   29 Nov 2002   To refactor, or not ....   Rewrite the stinking thing if your boss will let y....   >>

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