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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Jim Rankin' | ||
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Number of Comments: 487 |
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| Number of Words: 33,273 | ||
| First Comment: 04 Mar 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 31 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 13 |
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| First Topic: 03 Jul 2003 | ||
| Latest Topic: 31 Aug 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 31 Aug 2004 | More Windows servers than Unix going to Linux? >> | |
| 31 Aug 2004 | Bill Gates on "profe.... | 'Isn't Apple still the R&D branch of MS?' Well,.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2004 | Bill Gates on "professional engineers" >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Any good GUI builder.... | |
| 18 Aug 2004 | Next big thing? | Robots. >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Charles Simonyi hold.... | 'When you say PhD might not be a good fit for an I.... >> |
| The Olympics | 'As an American I suspect this stereotype applies .... >> | |
| '2) Global trade' Agreed on this one, and it's .... >> | ||
| More current example: My Indian coworkers were .... >> | ||
| '(a group will accept wallow in the mud as long as.... >> | ||
| word processor with .... | ||
| Favorite Screen Save.... | Random pictures of my wife and kids from my iPhoto.... >> | |
| Purchase this forum? | 'It's not me that elevates the 'muppet factor' of .... >> | |
| Issue related to fil.... | 'Yes, I have. I call it the Kerry campaign.' C.... >> | |
| 10 Aug 2004 | best way to move int.... | 'Start by capitalizing your I's.' Then dot your.... >> |
| 09 Aug 2004 | Eric Sink's Software.... | 'I sort of skimmed it, but it seemed like Pricing .... >> |
| 03 Aug 2004 | Your typical program.... | '...bubble&squeak, black pudding,...' Can someo.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2004 | Making Linux a playe.... | 'The whole Linux thing is like communism...sounds .... >> |
| 'If you work with Linux, quit worrying about being.... >> | ||
| a long, rambling, in.... | 'I believe many people, have, in fact, managed to .... >> | |
| 'I'm not saying that no position is worth more tha.... >> | ||
| Do you play computer.... | 'Just do what I did. Buy an old out-of-use arcade.... >> | |
| Computer games today are far too much work. You.... >> | ||
| How do you know when.... | 'When, exactly, did Bush go to war, again?' Sor.... >> | |
| 'The stakes got higher when his media goon squad w.... >> | ||
| 'Um, maybe that you're guaranteed that Kerry won't.... >> | ||
| Just curious. Is there an update to Godwin's la.... >> | ||
| best days of your li.... | 'You could (and many people do) say the same thing.... >> | |
| Something that I would like to experience, and may.... >> | ||
| 'I am going back for my second degree, and my husb.... >> | ||
| Joel and Eric on Pau.... | I think the reason why 'great hackers' don't write.... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Innovator's Solution.... | 'IE 7 is invariably going to come out with a lot o.... >> |
| 21 Jul 2004 | I want to start my o.... | 'Agreed, we all want something we can be proud of .... >> |
| OT: unbiased coverag.... | 'The Intellectual Activist seems a strange combina.... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Free program to wash.... | 'Why have cabinets? Just have three dish washers, .... >> |
| OT: unbiased coverag.... | Someone recommended the Christian Science Monitor,.... >> | |
| '...and the government doesn't can't its power to .... >> | ||
| And here is a fun look at bias. Seems Clinton's.... >> | ||
| 'One with the biggest tits [ ]' Would that be B.... >> | ||
| 'At one point it was possible to discus issues - e.... >> | ||
| 19 Jul 2004 | I think the Economist is pretty good. They lean t.... >> | |
| which that? that whi.... | Linguists have a whole different take on this. To.... >> | |
| Gates gives 100$ Mil.... | 'More close to reality, you can make a case for hi.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2004 | 'B. Investigate, do something to defend the countr.... >> | |
| For those of you who have seen or intend to see Mr.... >> | ||
| 'It showed that W did NOTHING when notified of the.... >> | ||
| 'The old US patriots never seemed to fear question.... >> | ||
| 'These values are of course beyond criticism. So w.... >> | ||
| 'I'm not sure you are as aware of Iraq's state bef.... >> | ||
| 'You realize that counts too. 60,000 Iraqis dead. .... >> | ||
| Better Windows Explo.... | Generalized file system explorers, browsers, etc. .... >> | |
| Spying | 'if your idea of parenting is spying on your kid, .... >> | |
| .NET Marketshare Pt .... | Well from Amazon's top 25 in 'Computers and Intern.... >> | |
| What do we teach our.... | If any of you are suggesting not believing in Sant.... >> | |
| 'Ok, Ok, we lie about Santa,...' What, exactly,.... >> | ||
| Why so much irony ab.... | 'The idea of having a picture of a room and clicki.... >> | |
| .Net devs that went .... | 'What I meant to say was, I love that .NET lets th.... >> | |
| IQ-ism | 'Next, EQ. The people who coined that term are de.... >> | |
| 'Watch any TV show for kids or otherwise, and the .... >> | ||
| 15 Jul 2004 | What do we teach our.... | 'Do I teach them to be nice, knowing full well the.... >> |
| I agree with Ged, too. The point is THE KIDS WE.... >> | ||
| .Net devs that went .... | 'But since my employer uses UNIX .NET really isn't.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Mozilla Flaw Runs Ar.... | 'The point to made here is that the “process” of d.... >> |
| 13 Jul 2004 | '* Security of open source “by design” is no bette.... >> | |
| The Coffee Test | An alternative to good coffee on the premises is a.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | This is why software.... | 'There are no universally accepted AND understood .... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Apple's iPod | 'Again, Apple's success here is due to their incre.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Why Web apps Won't r.... | Web apps already rule the world. Hotmail. Goog.... >> |
| Writing code is dead | A picture is not always worth a thousand words. .... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Firefox - First Go | 'Also, using an IE-based browser is good because y.... >> |
| How Microsoft Lost t.... | 'Other than bank access apps, account mgt, and OWA.... >> | |
| ''And certainly the bulk of the interesting home u.... >> | ||
| 'From what I recall, Avalon is designed to take ad.... >> | ||
| 16 Jun 2004 | Maybe It's Not That .... | Let me also say that I'm a proponent for outsourci.... >> |
| 'Then let's gid rid of the huge investment in poli.... >> | ||
| 11 Jun 2004 | Eric's Marketing Ide.... | 'Ummm, so what's the point again? Just hire the m.... >> |
| Has the role of .... | 'Bush is an idiot. The Americans are not. Usually,.... >> | |
| 'This middle east mess is caused by the Israel/Ara.... >> | ||
| 'Enjoy while you can, for its damned sure your gra.... >> | ||
| 10 Jun 2004 | Joining the French F.... | 'So, unless you are a serial child molester, who p.... >> |
| 'Yes, join the marines, then you can increase your.... >> | ||
| Good news | 'And, since I installed the latest version of Open.... >> | |
| I am fragile | 'You really need to put things in perspective. You.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Whats the deal with .... | 'Why don't they invest in locking their boxes down.... >> |
| Is the tide now goin.... | Back on topic, an open source strategy, or at leas.... >> | |
| 'Gaius, out of curiosity - do you believe that les.... >> | ||
| Software development.... | 'New Zealand doesn't even have its own air force a.... >> | |
| 'I grew up in Commonwealth countries where footbal.... >> | ||
| Google and IM | 'Anybody notice how any post anti-MS gets deleted?.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2004 | IT is a great indust.... | 'A large national insurer that I worked for briefl.... >> |
| If you were Microsof.... | 'Also, I believe MS is also in all of the busine.... >> | |
| '8. Teaching: Teaching software is still not t.... >> | ||
| Long-term prospects .... | Win32 will probably go away around the same time a.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | Best language for GU.... | Another option is to do the GUI for each platform .... >> |
| Daughter needs a lap.... | 'The biggest question is still whether she really .... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | C++ or Java ? | Just remember, there are millions of people in the.... >> |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Are you a less produ.... | ' Things could be made more difficult when I make .... >> |
| To Dubai or not to D.... | DL, In short, you seem to be saying that Israel.... >> | |
| 27 May 2004 | Tech work a "special.... | Some thoughts. 1. A lot of accounting and engin.... >> |
| 26 May 2004 | The Future Of Softwa.... | Robotics and voice interfaces will continue to slo.... >> |
| 25 May 2004 | Paul Graham's "Why N.... | 'I think much of what he says is more common in th.... >> |
| My high school was just too small to have cliques..... >> | ||
| 'Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing m.... >> | ||
| 24 May 2004 | my gripes with Offic.... | My question is, does the following... 'Yeah, th.... >> |
| 20 May 2004 | Tom Friedman: Global.... | 'Israel has had a definitive peace for the asking .... >> |
| 'I just think is sad that a country as great as th.... >> | ||
| Lots of free time, p.... | 'I think Stephen's got some yellow journalism and .... >> | |
| 19 May 2004 | And so it begins | 'When one looks at the kinds of functionality thes.... >> |
| 18 May 2004 | Ternary Operators an.... | So, combining Chris and Russell, we get: int mo.... >> |
| Indian economy | 'OH STOP IT, I'M A TROLL, YOU PEOPLE...' Well d.... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | '...and scores of layoffs and homelessness ensued..... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Dig thy own grave, d.... | 'Tell Asimov when he was writing Foundation that w.... >> |
| 11 May 2004 | 'There are programs now that generate source code .... >> | |
| 10 May 2004 | Coding is language! | 'If you think that human languages and computer la.... >> |
| 07 May 2004 | Friends (Spoilers) | What shocked me was the thing they did with the sa.... >> |
| Mono released/Used i.... | 'It makes Linux little more than a virtual CPU tha.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Google - Microsoft b.... | 'bottom line is that all googles got so far is sea.... >> |
| 'OSX/Apple gives me the ipod with a small amount o.... >> | ||
| Is the job market st.... | 'I mean real applications that I have on a website.... >> | |
| 27 Apr 2004 | Does $279 seem much .... | 'If I have a piece of software that I can retail i.... >> |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Regarding EU Microso.... | 'The people that only know of Dell and Gateway are.... >> |
| App. Development w/o.... | 'The approach isn't suitable for all problems (you.... >> | |
| Application Developm.... | Leaky Abstractions. http://www.joelonsoftware.c.... >> | |
| Computer/AI Hybrids | 'I mean, that has got to be groundbreaking, and I'.... >> | |
| The Computer World i.... | 'All software vendors should tremble at the though.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Integrating data acc.... | EOF! EOF! EOF! EOF! EOF! EOF! EOF! EOF! Apple'.... >> |
| So why _did_ they go.... | 'One counter argument would surely be that apple _.... >> | |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Becoming a C program.... | 'The product is a million lines of ANSI C and 100k.... >> |
| How Do You Use Your .... | 'In this vein, I used to work with a guy who opene.... >> | |
| Hungarian Notation C.... | So now can we have tips and pointers for studying .... >> | |
| EU "Competition" Com.... | 'The taxes of the rest become my safety net.' K.... >> | |
| 'It's Joe Schmoe down the street who quits MS to g.... >> | ||
| Pointers to learn Ja.... | 'Actually I found that if I walked up to a Japanes.... >> | |
| http://www.aaroninjapan.com/quotes.html I recom.... >> | ||
| As several people have already stated, it's ridicu.... >> | ||
| 26 Jan 2004 | Is New York the plac.... | 'Pud sells information.' Who's Pud? >> |
| Want eat book | Essential Spider-Man, Essential Fantastic Four. C.... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2004 | In Defence of Outsou.... | 'But how do you explain this stuff to a guy who's .... >> |
| SOFTWARE CANNOT BE G.... | 'I certainly don't want the government forcing me .... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | The source of `bad c.... | (And yes, Fernanda, I know you were actually advoc.... >> |
| 'You know, especially when you're just trying stuf.... >> | ||
| 20 Jan 2004 | For those of you defending crappy code, you seem t.... >> | |
| 18 Dec 2003 | New Project - offsho.... | 'Option 2 - Hire locals at cut rates. At least I .... >> |
| Voice Recognition - .... | Another thought experiment is to imagine a world w.... >> | |
| ''I'm up' turns on lights, starts the coffee, and .... >> | ||
| Joel on Software Mot.... | 'This thread is now silly.' So how about this f.... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Standards Schmandard.... | (...which seems to be the point of these articles).... >> |
| Radical thought: Some standards are useful, som.... >> | ||
| 16 Dec 2003 | Joel on Software Motto >> | |
| 11 Dec 2003 | Bill Gates: agnostic.... | 'The sky is blue, but I can't prove it. Just look.... >> |
| 09 Dec 2003 | open source | To anyone still reading... Apple is very good a.... >> |
| 08 Dec 2003 | Eric Raymond and Ric.... | 'Wait, isn't this the ESR who just proclaimed that.... >> |
| 'If someone started up a 'Closed Source Initiative.... >> | ||
| 02 Dec 2003 | Who to let go? | I agree it's good to let everyone know, even befor.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Book recommendation .... | The next books on my want-to-read list: The Art.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2003 | "warm-chair attritio.... | 'Maybe the 6% are incompetent.' A couple years .... >> |
| The Irony of Outsour.... | 'Frankly, it's rather rude of you to be critical -.... >> | |
| When Will the 'Sunse.... | 'It would be like Intel saying that x86 instructio.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Silly Question: How .... | 'Did you identify with Luke, Han Solo or maybe Obi.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Developing software .... | 'Apple did not include this notice, therefore thei.... >> |
| Loyalty? | 'That's true. But then, I personally know the mana.... >> | |
| XAML Revisited | 'Again, I think the right answer is a source-level.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | wawa | For another source of corporate names, or random v.... >> |
| Microsoft opens Offi.... | 'Joel covered that one, too (I think it was regard.... >> | |
| 'And let's face it - Netscape was in a coast mode .... >> | ||
| 'FWIW, the Microsoft Word binary format is officia.... >> | ||
| 'In fact, I believe that since the days when IE wa.... >> | ||
| A good C++ editor fo.... | Well, I use XCode or Emacs. I suppose BBEdit.... >> | |
| 'Editors on the PC are rather advanced compared to.... >> | ||
| Interesting Work | I work on B2B and ecommerce type stuff, which isn'.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Cycles in the econom.... | 'Rule of 72: 72/14 ~= 5. So salaries would double.... >> |
| 'Now that we've spent the better part of the last .... >> | ||
| Also, I posted earlier that salaries increased 14%.... >> | ||
| 'Now it seems we think that the sleightest provoca.... >> | ||
| 13 Nov 2003 | The Reality Distorti.... | 'This is the company that took about 15 years to p.... >> |
| 11 Nov 2003 | What's China got to .... | 'The open source crowd has always pushed the line .... >> |
| 'There are 30 million lines of code in Linux - you.... >> | ||
| Windows/Mac Developm.... | 'There is also supposed to be a version that compi.... >> | |
| All I want for Chris.... | 'and that '24' series looks good' This is the b.... >> | |
| 10 Nov 2003 | Coding while watchin.... | TV + broadcast/cable sucks. TV + DVD player + N.... >> |
| Kylix development ab.... | Looks like the solution will need to come from Gno.... >> | |
| iTunes and iPod | For what it's worth, I believe Jobs is trying to t.... >> | |
| Can MS sell the lock.... | 'Netcraft is a joke.' So when can we expect to .... >> | |
| 'Is something about that not clear?' Uh, that y.... >> | ||
| Matrix Revolutions | 'Monica Bellucci's somewhat leathery skin' Man,.... >> | |
| My other thought is that the humans in the Matrix .... >> | ||
| SLIGHT SPOILER -- AVERT YOUR EYES NOW -- THIS WILL.... >> | ||
| 06 Nov 2003 | 'The whole movie was 'what can we do with special .... >> | |
| 05 Nov 2003 | physics | ps If there were all the Democratic presidential d.... >> |
| 'Some people just like to stick with the old ideas.... >> | ||
| Well, iTunes may be .... | Philo, we don't have the exact quote, just Coursey.... >> | |
| God vs. Computing | 'I don't think human finiteness is an 'odd hole'.'.... >> | |
| I'll take God plus the spread. What's the over/.... >> | ||
| When is open source .... | 'I know the theory. The whole point is the theory .... >> | |
| Where Did You Go To .... | 'Study under Wilfried Sieg? That guy's Logic and .... >> | |
| End of Redhat Consum.... | 'I have an idea that the most successful consumer .... >> | |
| Why CEOs will never .... | 'There seems to be a notion abroad that secretaria.... >> | |
| The Ridiculous Influ.... | 'If you think this is a lot of hype, wait until Ap.... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | How to scare away yo.... | 'They're a small company and can do whatever the h.... >> |
| Small city, small pr.... | Surprised no one has brought up Mythical Man Month.... >> | |
| Where Did You Go To .... | Ok, stupid question. What's a JD? >> | |
| BS Logic and Computation Carnegie Mellon Universi.... >> | ||
| Microsoft moves to R.... | 'The ironic thing is that Apple has supposedly had.... >> | |
| I Still Don't "Get" .... | 'I would have thought most developers with a few y.... >> | |
| 03 Nov 2003 | Why CEOs will never .... | 'The number of applications that users are develop.... >> |
| The Ridiculous Influ.... | 'The thing with speech recognition is that people .... >> | |
| 31 Oct 2003 | The Hidden Costs of .... | 'check out the annual proxy statements for big com.... >> |
| 30 Oct 2003 | chitchat | 'I just don't know how much is considered ok by ma.... >> |
| At Least Microsoft P.... | 'The $99 price I quoted wasn't for a student editi.... >> | |
| 'It is possible to charge the Mac faithful more mo.... >> | ||
| The Hidden Costs of .... | 'It is all about the bucks, not saving it for the .... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2003 | D.O.D. CIO says "Uni.... | 'Let me know when I can run Photoshop, Quicken, Tu.... >> |
| Development has beco.... | My personal definition of intelligence is knowing .... >> | |
| What angered me the .... | 'How long till they leave you? Forever!' Or unt.... >> | |
| Life and Career | 'One solution is to move to Europe where they have.... >> | |
| To Guest or Not | 'Marvel Comic's Stan Lee' Stan, you are the man.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Highly recommended e.... | I like Mail.app, but you need Mac OS X to use it. >> |
| Skills to Complement.... | Check out the thread "Plenty of new jobs for tech .... >> | |
| Plenty of new jobs f.... | 'Low level codework is moving to india until legis.... >> | |
| Offshoring work | 'If things were spread equally, the Indians would .... >> | |
| Terrorist profiles m.... | 'I must have dozed off during htat part of the new.... >> | |
| Terror Profiles Don'.... | 'Smells like a butthead, walks like a butthead, al.... >> | |
| 'The point is that Arafat represents the moderate .... >> | ||
| 'Considering that Israel has given nothing for the.... >> | ||
| 'A viable peace settlement would mean the handing .... >> | ||
| 'I don't need to provide evidence that Arafat didn.... >> | ||
| ITunes: What rubbish.... | Walt Mossberg comes down in favor of iTunes (and t.... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Offshoring work | 'Spec it, spec it.. spec it. And I mean - detaile.... >> |
| Terrorist profiles m.... | 'Condoning racial comments by high ranking militar.... >> | |
| Terror Profiles Don'.... | If we want to talk about something practical. T.... >> | |
| ITunes: What rubbish.... | 'The only thing Itunes brings on board is the co-o.... >> | |
| ' The interface is much nicer than the iTunes poin.... >> | ||
| 21 Oct 2003 | The "zip code" is no.... | How about sorting your country list by the number .... >> |
| Ever thought of givi.... | Not more than twice a day. >> | |
| overuse of css consi.... | 'Hopefully HTML will be repleced soon.' With wh.... >> | |
| What goes down must .... | 'I know of some companies right now, that if your .... >> | |
| Encouraging news. A lot of people here are usin.... >> | ||
| 20 Oct 2003 | Microsoft to rule in.... | 'showing that they are very adept at competing in .... >> |
| Made Me Laugh... | Feature or a bug? The Finder always maximized t.... >> | |
| The great start up t.... | 'But I learned a lot, and today I work as a consul.... >> | |
| 'In the US 52% of all small businesses fail.' T.... >> | ||
| Alyosha | 'Instead of creating the world in seven days, God'.... >> | |
| 'Just look at the orifices you've got to stick it .... >> | ||
| 'Please write down your thesis against evolution a.... >> | ||
| Proof of the superna.... | See, it's not just superstition, but a good scient.... >> | |
| 'It's good to know that the ghosts who favor the Y.... >> | ||
| 'The biggest scientific experiment on prayer has f.... >> | ||
| AI again | 'punctuated equilibria' But punctuated equilibr.... >> | |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Proof of the supernatural >> | |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Proof of the superna.... | 'supernatural stupidity' Exactly! It's totally.... >> |
| 85 consecutive years of bad managing decisions? >> | ||
| XML Languages as pol.... | '> XML is great and I won't hear a bad word agains.... >> | |
| Do you have a refund.... | Does anyone try to fix the user's problem instead .... >> | |
| AI again | 'No, it doesn't. Jeez.' Right, because Darwinis.... >> | |
| 'But problems for Darwinists do not constitute evi.... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2003 | Say it ain't so Joel | 'He'll hire lots more top 10% engineers' I thou.... >> |
| AI again | For the record, here's a response from Behe to a l.... >> | |
| 'The reason why Behe would have a hard time publis.... >> | ||
| Also, it's quite funny they criticize Behe for not.... >> | ||
| This is a nice philosophical argument, but Behe pr.... >> | ||
| Don Knuth: 'I can't claim to understand much at.... >> | ||
| People, this is why I mentioned Intelligent Design.... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2003 | You might want to look at the Intelligent Design m.... >> | |
| 'd) Something else.' One something else would b.... >> | ||
| 'The word 'soul' isn't very helpful because of it'.... >> | ||
| 'There is no connection whatever between randomnes.... >> | ||
| 'Anyways.. this is all highly experimental and the.... >> | ||
| Don Knuth speculates on the idea that the randomne.... >> | ||
| What should programm.... | 'The big one is that almost all of the important p.... >> | |
| I would tell a beginning programmer today to get a.... >> | ||
| 13 Oct 2003 | ANDY GROVE (!!!) war.... | '...and the US dollar falls...' Except China, a.... >> |
| 'Do you want customers, or sugar daddies?' I wa.... >> | ||
| 10 Oct 2003 | ANDY GROVE (!!!) warns on dangers of offshoring >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | How can people excel.... | Seriously, though, it seems like the traits that g.... >> |
| Personally, I think all those achievements pale co.... >> | ||
| Are we all crappy co.... | Another point on crudiness. There was a study d.... >> | |
| Laziness is the programmer's greatest virtue. I.... >> | ||
| Only 65,000 H1Bs.&nb.... | 'A sensible and realistic option that is often dis.... >> | |
| '... these people are coming to the WEST, the decl.... >> | ||
| 08 Oct 2003 | Only 65,000 H1Bs. Any difference? >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | I meant to emphasize the 'more', not the 'ambitiou.... >> | |
| Meanwhile, the developing world has it's own Baby .... >> | ||
| The Chinese governme.... | Furthermore, re: racism. The criticisms have be.... >> | |
| 'The work paid off -- when the job fairs came arou.... >> | ||
| 07 Oct 2003 | Thomas Stanley - The.... | '(FYI: equities/stocks/bonds/CDs and the like are .... >> |
| career advice (again.... | What about starting your own firm? >> | |
| What source control .... | If you have a Mac, get CVL. http://sente.epfl.c.... >> | |
| Version Control for .... | Check the "What source control do you use" thread. >> | |
| Programming as relig.... | 'I don't know. I married a cheerleader, so I can't.... >> | |
| 'Yes. Noticed them, the bulldozer-pricks with cont.... >> | ||
| 02 Oct 2003 | XML Formatted Resume.... | Again, the killer app is to write a really spiffy .... >> |
| 'I thought DTD's were dead.' XSD's can be a per.... >> | ||
| A great implementation of this would combine the D.... >> | ||
| 30 Sep 2003 | What do you think of.... | The icons for your essays, etc. don't make sense t.... >> |
| 29 Sep 2003 | Using JBoss - Will I.... | 'If it's up to you to make the technology recommen.... >> |
| Uncommonly Awesome O.... | This runs counter to what everyone else is saying,.... >> | |
| The Soul of a Chef | 'One thing I really think the s/w biz could take a.... >> | |
| UI framework design | Check out http://developer.apple.com/documentat.... >> | |
| 26 Sep 2003 | I had an idea drivin.... | 'than any risk-free return you can get for your mo.... >> |
| 'There must be some reason people sit in 10 mph tr.... >> | ||
| How to make cleaning.... | 'If your nett hourly rate is higher than a cleaner.... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | 99.9 percentile | I think it's really funny to read so many people t.... >> |
| Tits up? | BionicOffice has some great ideas, I think, even i.... >> | |
| XML forms definition | I really really don't like the idea of letting the.... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Good News for Americ.... | 'H1B visas are issued to 'Specialty Occupations, D.... >> |
| 21 Sep 2003 | Perspective >> | |
| 21 Sep 2003 | Bill Gate - A Former.... | And as I mentioned in another thread, Bill Gates w.... >> |
| Hidden costs of offs.... | 'Turnover and burnout is high, which means they're.... >> | |
| Construction sorrows.... | A better comparison to software is writing a novel.... >> | |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Did Microsoft really.... | It has also been documented that Bill Gates wrote .... >> |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Understaffed | 'I've gotten to the point now were I cannot refact.... >> |
| The first question to always ask, of course, is 'A.... >> | ||
| Sun's Marketing Prob.... | 'It may have up to date content but have you tried.... >> | |
| Counterexample: http://www.apple.com/ Curren.... >> | ||
| 'OS/2 Warp' Right, and OS/2. Forgot about that.... >> | ||
| This is truly sad, but at least it's good to see S.... >> | ||
| Yea, because MicroSoft never copied everything fro.... >> | ||
| When did it end? | 'That said, you guys did give me some great ideas .... >> | |
| 'Does your chair, which expands your ability to do.... >> | ||
| 16 Sep 2003 | interviews but no jo.... | Find a way to talk to someone not in HR, who can u.... >> |
| Smart, get things do.... | From your description, I think the people you are .... >> | |
| When did it end? | 'By the way, I've always thought Microsoft underpr.... >> | |
| 'XP Pro costs $129. Office is about $400. That's p.... >> | ||
| Motor giant Ford to .... | 'I thought the Windows <--> Linux migration was su.... >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | Best OS For Home Use.... | 'Re: Mac. I don't think it's the screen. I've used.... >> |
| 'upgrading from a Pentium 66 to a P4-1.7GHz' Lo.... >> | ||
| Fails the money test, plainly, as it requires a ne.... >> | ||
| Outsorcing, CIO.com,.... | Also: 'Another productivity killer is high turn.... >> | |
| 'It's a difficult area for CIOs to manage. Work is.... >> | ||
| Doctor Dobbs Journal | 'Verity Stob is worth 4 pounds 50 of anyone's mone.... >> | |
| What's your latest p.... | http://homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html >> | |
| Another take on Amer.... | 'Godwin: clearly you are aware that Godwin's Law d.... >> | |
| 12 Sep 2003 | europe outsource to .... | 'The report, Offshore 2003 Romania, claims that no.... >> |
| ot: brain parsing of.... | 'although, the literacy rate in China is low by We.... >> | |
| 11 Sep 2003 | Am i choosing the la.... | Can't agree more that you don't want to distinguis.... >> |
| 10 Sep 2003 | Are Developers just .... | 'Things are done to make IT's life easier, even if.... >> |
| More features = more.... | 'I think they are useful if you have a complex dec.... >> | |
| 'Are wizards the answer?' If you need a wizard,.... >> | ||
| US Economy - Are the.... | 'The US lied to it's public about the 'vast Russia.... >> | |
| 'I could name a few things that are more certain.'.... >> | ||
| Another take on Amer.... | 'Nope. If we're relying on universities to teach q.... >> | |
| 'In my experience (personal, anecdotal, and readin.... >> | ||
| Sigh. Um, this guy is British, right? Of cours.... >> | ||
| Interesting: B.... | 'Notn that I would predict something (anything bey.... >> | |
| 08 Sep 2003 | A new company name | 'They tell me its a small firm that cant hire peop.... >> |
| California: Eating t.... | 'How'd you qualify Europe's economy?' Hey, I'M .... >> | |
| 'Chinese officials say that although both two comp.... >> | ||
| 'Disagree with the regulation is always bad spiel..... >> | ||
| 05 Sep 2003 | Do you know the worl.... | '...except of course for generally accepted commun.... >> |
| Why Johnny can't ree.... | '[Bush is] sitting in on a reading session in a sc.... >> | |
| As Harry is intent on pursuing a career in the Arm.... >> | ||
| 'I'm a self-made man. And everyone who is sufferin.... >> | ||
| 'BTW - maybe I was overly sensitive. Was the artic.... >> | ||
| 'If Chinese citizens and Americans of Chinese desc.... >> | ||
| 03 Sep 2003 | Rant on Linux on the.... | Re: usability I think the more interesting aspe.... >> |
| 'If there are any savings at all they can be had a.... >> | ||
| A Stupid Response | 'Geek Eye for the Straight Guy!' First rule: o.... >> | |
| 'Also, investigate carefully what Gateway is tryin.... >> | ||
| ' Obviously not the samourai since the scars prove.... >> | ||
| 02 Sep 2003 | Extreme Programming | Some things that Extreme Programming emphasizes: .... >> |
| Interesting... | Ok, Somebody, I think I understand now. We can't .... >> | |
| A Stupid Response | Or maybe Apple's niche will be 'secure computing'..... >> | |
| 'My sweet, come up to my lair of love where you wi.... >> | ||
| 01 Sep 2003 | IM Licence to print .... | 'Considering IM is voluntary, free, highly competi.... >> |
| Sympathy for teekid? | One more general note: the sum damage to the econ.... >> | |
| 'I'm sure a lot of you rebelled against the social.... >> | ||
| Interesting... | 'His recent article mentioning how a friend of his.... >> | |
| 'Wow, a link from Slashdot to a story by Cringely .... >> | ||
| A Stupid Response | The one argument Rick keeps ignoring is the fashio.... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2003 | Interesting... | This is one of those cases where their actions wer.... >> |
| A Kinder, Gentler Ti.... | ' I remember for many years in school a had a bit .... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2003 | A Stupid Response | 'Unfortunately for Apple, as their shrinking marke.... >> |
| 28 Aug 2003 | Developers in Suits .... | If you need help buying clothes, find someone Euro.... >> |
| A Stupid Response | Other notes on Apple. The mistake is thinking A.... >> | |
| The greatest softwar.... | What I've noticed about McDonald's is how eating t.... >> | |
| Job hopping in India.... | '... maybe some extra hardship allowance, but I've.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2003 | Job hopping in India? >> | |
| 27 Aug 2003 | My new job rocks | Congratulations. >> |
| XML Digital Signatur.... | How is InfoPath, anyway? Worth looking into?.... >> | |
| Lawyers, EULA, and C.... | Even the definition of 'bug' is hard to pin down. .... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Things really starti.... | Just saw this excerpt from 'The End of Work' on Am.... >> |
| 25 Aug 2003 | 'Over time, the loss of jobs overseas and the incr.... >> | |
| Safety in India | 'Ummm, during the active Provo campaign in the UK;.... >> | |
| Recent article in th.... | 'The linked article gets bizarre when the author r.... >> | |
| How Long Will Kids L.... | http://www.theonion.com/onion3102/deathrate.html >> | |
| 22 Aug 2003 | Peer 1 | 'All that matters to me is that the size remains l.... >> |
| The Coming Job Boom | Also, I've posted to the "Decline and Fall (Seriou.... >> | |
| ' While the world population grows, the population.... >> | ||
| US doesn't have an a.... | 'Easy solution: if China were to announce they pla.... >> | |
| Decline and Fall (se.... | Demographics. Latin America, the Arab and Musli.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | What'd you do with u.... | 'Given a whole bunch of money, I think it would be.... >> |
| 17 Aug 2003 | Oh, no! Monocu.... | I found this quote from the article interesting: .... >> |
| Oh yeah, one more question: is the lack of a.... >> | ||
| Just a couple things: How can anyone, even if y.... >> | ||
| 13 Aug 2003 | What are your values.... | What I want to know, is it better to be a cunning .... >> |
| 12 Aug 2003 | Is City Desk 2.0 wri.... | 'But, I am not a VB programmer - I use another RAD.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Japanese Companies | 'philo, this isn't america, it is japan!' Excel.... >> |
| 'Hey, maybe this is the reason Japan has never ris.... >> | ||
| Is EDI still a hot t.... | I will say, though, that XML is a Better Way to cr.... >> | |
| 'InvoiceInvoiceItemServicesServiceItemServiceCharg.... >> | ||
| 07 Aug 2003 | Do senior people hav.... | 'rubric (man, I've wanted to use that word for yea.... >> |
| "Jobs are moving off.... | 'I really don't understand why people don't emphas.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2003 | The Value of Unix's .... | Just keep in mind, we Mac users tell the same kind.... >> |
| Do firms even hire l.... | Re: Mirant Now there's a growth industry: bank.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | MS slowly boiling? >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | Reuters off-shores itself out of existence >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | MS slowly boiling? | 'sigh. i hope nothing bad happens to MS marketshar.... >> |
| 'Care to elaborate on that amazing statement...?' .... >> | ||
| Outsourcing and Stra.... | One more thing: how do we know that wages in Indi.... >> | |
| 'The percentages that I have seen regarding offsho.... >> | ||
| Joel on Outsourcing .... | Key quote from Krugman article: 'The idea that .... >> | |
| 'Really..I'd like to know..What is the difference .... >> | ||
| 'The government decides what I pay in taxes, what .... >> | ||
| 'Companies are outsourcing partly to 'enhance shar.... >> | ||
| Joel Test Number Eig.... | 'I can't fart without worrying about the next guy .... >> | |
| Do you remember when Les Nessman in WKRP, had, lik.... >> | ||
| Non-technical Manage.... | Yanwoo, Go ask the two programmers from your fi.... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2003 | You Just Can't Kill .... | 'I, for one, would have adopted a 'real' language .... >> |
| Time to pakc your ba.... | 'You can work in US for H1B, earn dollars, which t.... >> | |
| '- many sellers and public servants behave rude to.... >> | ||
| Offshoring is the LE.... | 'I am kind of looking forward to those order takin.... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Offshoring is the LEAST of our worries >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | A little more seriously, in response to what field.... >> | |
| Well, one thing I've decided after reading that ar.... >> | ||
| what is the future o.... | Maybe the question should be, what can we do to ac.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | TWO PERCENT of ALL U.S. jobs offshored by 2015 >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | And a cupholder too..... | Noticed this feature on the site: 'Absolutely i.... >> |
| TWO PERCENT of ALL U.... | Does Forrester Research count? Not sure if t.... >> | |
| 'This is not true. Look at diminishing marginal ut.... >> | ||
| Hmm, interesting, Seth, about the exchange rate. .... >> | ||
| 'What kind of development fits this model?' Mos.... >> | ||
| 'Look at the new patent numbers for the U.S. Sure,.... >> | ||
| 'What the media won't tell you, because they're la.... >> | ||
| 21 Jul 2003 | Apathy: the programm.... | 'What we need are college dorms or frat houses for.... >> |
| 'What was it you were doing in college that you're.... >> | ||
| Alternate jobs for p.... | To those looking to leave programming: what's the.... >> | |
| REALBasic opinions | Maybe slightly off-topic, but I just want to point.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2003 | I'm not defending Mi.... | Let's see, 17 responses so far (including this one.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2003 | Web UI vs Windows UI | 'Windows UI tend to be very utilitarian, with grey.... >> |
| 'Web apps exist in spite of their clear inferiorit.... >> | ||
| 03 Jul 2003 | What about the Americans? >> | |
| 03 Jul 2003 | What about the Ameri.... | 'A biologist that can program, an economist that c.... >> |
| 'I suggest you learn a field and use programming o.... >> | ||
| What language for a .... | ...for reasons, read anything by Paul Graham. >> | |
| Lisp :). >> | ||
| What will win and wh.... | 'Know this: People do not do markup.' Marked up.... >> | |
| MS shifting developm.... | In totally unrelated news, unemployment figures in.... >> | |
| Difference between F.... | ' You must be prepared to be out of work for 12 mo.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2003 | Time for comic relie.... &nb | |