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Number of Comments: 303
Number of Words: 14,917
First Comment: 12 Jun 2003
Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 7
First Topic: 12 Jun 2003
Latest Topic: 26 Aug 2004
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03 Sep 2004   New Forum Critic   yeap, no web address icons (maybe the url beneath ....   >>  
01 Sep 2004   Commenting out   golly, I always thought that you could use as many....   >>  
31 Aug 2004   I'm scared.   Vladimir: OT, but Haiku isn't so popular everywher....   >>  
   More Windows servers....   Andrew Cherry, as a generalisation, would you expe....   >>  
      Depends how you read it. I might interpret it thu....   >>  
   How many of you know....   well, personally, most. That is what comes of mak....   >>  
30 Aug 2004   Best add-ons for Del....   Kalani, you seem unsure if you have made a 3D engi....   >>  
      Kalani, you tried making a 3D engine in Delphi? ....   >>  
27 Aug 2004   Cross Platform devel....   wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) actually has a pret....   >>  
   Is Java is security ....   if you think that is scary, just run this from the....   >>  
   Passing by value / r....   in C++, this is a fairly common optimisation: v....   >>  
26 Aug 2004   proving dates on emails   >>  
26 Aug 2004   proving dates on ema....   Mark, you are assuming everyone is keeping full an....   >>  
      people usually quote a message, or paste the messa....   >>  
   Correctly developed ....   Performance-wise, jEdit text area syntax highlight....   >>  
   Some Questions   linked lists and arrays can be combined to give a ....   >>  
25 Aug 2004   Most efficient file ....   .. and what kind of read times do you get on your ....   >>  
   What is "SUCCESS" !?   first post?   >>  
24 Aug 2004   patterns for file im....   I did an image library once. I think many many pe....   >>  
23 Aug 2004   Look familiar??   Yet they don't use fogbugz, they use bugzilla. ....   >>  
   Anti-anti-virus   NAT is a good first-defence. However, it is not....   >>  
20 Aug 2004   Web application usag....   standard webserver logs?  Especially if you a....   >>  
   How bad is goto, rea....   void TextBookExample_Transaction() { if(!do_ste....   >>  
      I have seen a few gotos, and used a few. Mostly f....   >>  
18 Aug 2004   Install SP2 or not?   Aside from the fact it breaks applications, what i....   >>  
   Interesting article ....   Will the next version of CityDesk include a networ....   >>  
   Algorithms   Euler.   >>  
16 Aug 2004   Poll   if it is a double linked list, why reverse it?&nbs....   >>  
      given my choice of language, my choice of library ....   >>  
13 Aug 2004   Java listeners...   Edward, any standard profiler ought to be able to ....   >>  
      Hmm, bit of a tangent but might be useful: I ha....   >>  
   develop cross-platfo....   Hmm, rethinking, I kind of agree with Mr. Jack. ....   >>  
      Does it work well with WINE? You might not have t....   >>  
   Purchase this forum?   Remember how Joel once published a little bit abou....   >>  
   Excutable bit always....   Executable as in launchable? Meaning click on a w....   >>  
11 Aug 2004   Decline an offer - a....   with hindsight, a quick line about lead developers....   >>  
   Search Engine Recomm....   Ogami Itto: goto www.joelonsoftware.com and use th....   >>  
      use google.  Joel does.   >>  
   GPRS documentation   Conventionally, most GPRS networks support 'client....   >>  
10 Aug 2004      GPRS is a bearer, not a protocol. The GPRS conver....   >>  
30 Jul 2004   Combating SPAM   argh, ignore markup?   >>  
   Array   People have difficulty visualising an array with m....   >>  
   "No Defense for Linu....   'He doesn't sound like an idiot at all.' Does h....   >>  
   Failure Plan   As well as making it possible for people to migrat....   >>  
29 Jul 2004      Approach this leader?   >>  
   Reflector, .NET and ....   binaries and 'source' are equivillents. It has al....   >>  
   great hackers   'He doesn't think it's possible to identify hacker....   >>  
28 Jul 2004   How Google has ruine....   is Yahoo a fair and balanced source for commenting....   >>  
   Why the need to stam....   please cross-post to the recent OSS threads ;-)   >>  
   Good Coding Related ....   PA1D4   >>  
27 Jul 2004   Getting Excel to wor....   14MB is pretty big! was it full of graphics? ....   >>  
   Programmatically rot....   Just a thought, but could a standard headphone soc....   >>  
   Fun with bits   nemesis: at last a usage of 'having' eh?    >>  
26 Jul 2004   Bzzzt!   Muppet, read those messages. Things like 'If you ....   >>  
   Web page size still ....   'You mean, unnecessary by not following standards?....   >>  
20 Jul 2004   Simple XML Compressi....   WBXML..?   >>  
   Rave: Modern operati....   Tanenbaum has a leaning towards Linux?  Anyon....   >>  
   My pointer stupidity   beware the dreaded buffer overflow..   >>  
   rant: HP iPAQ compar....   completely OT: considered a P900?   >>  
   Programmer Performan....   Measure bugs. Empower your customers to fill in b....   >>  
   Open Source is good   what part of commercial software licenses generall....   >>  
15 Jul 2004   Joel Topic Idea: Bon....   Well, the company had both internal teams and exte....   >>  
   Help Optimize this c....   'If height > width then draw lines vertically inst....   >>  
   Joel reviews "Progra....   Started with assembly language; even now, when I l....   >>  
14 Jul 2004   Mozilla Flaw Runs Ar....   I'm a bit confused Albert. I'd read the whole pro....   >>  
13 Jul 2004   Development Methodol....   I have a general background in diagramming, starti....   >>  
   outsourcing blog   I've been a bit worried about the time I spend on ....   >>  
   Have you tried Googl....   Can anyone spot an option to show posts in a fixed....   >>  
   RAII vs. Java   Ah, broaden the scope Chris! A good use of goto....   >>  
      sid6581, for what it is worth, I completely agree ....   >>  
12 Jul 2004   K&R. Great book,....   Dennis, a bit off topic but on ARM I think that th....   >>  
   Steve Ballmer's lett....   'In all sincerity, this is the first time I have *....   >>  
09 Jul 2004   The Myth of Technolo....   so Dan, how to stop your chip from giving your det....   >>  
01 Jul 2004   Best Freeware Bug Da....   I worked in quite a big company with lots of money....   >>  
30 Jun 2004   Business Names   'Blue Sky Technologies Ltd Software Design & Cons....   >>  
   Advice for quitting ....   absolutely never ever be a partnership. Limited i....   >>  
29 Jun 2004   C/C++ portability wi....   I don't generally do cross platform. But I do use....   >>  
03 Jun 2004   Components   Hmm, what are 'components'? Popular notions inclu....   >>  
      I've been loving components since the Delphi VCL d....   >>  
   Need a link   christopher, spot on. Although in Symbian progr....   >>  
   Windows based Email ....   Yeap, John C, very familiar annoyances. The bigge....   >>  
   Trade Shows   Required tradeshow prep reading: http://www.there....   >>  
   The rise of .NET   So Philo, does .NET run on big iron?   >>  
   which lint to pick?   Whilst it ain't lint, most compilers have selectiv....   >>  
   Reviewing your co-wo....   This thread is probably too stale for anyone to re....   >>  
02 Jun 2004   Planning to give my ....   Never burn bridges.  Just resigned myself, as....   >>  
   Knowledge Workers   Knowledge workers are easy to migrate to your new ....   >>  
   Reviewing your co-wo....   So Rufus, this has been going on a while? Please,....   >>  
   How do I turn pirate....   Put the CD (or CDs, if the songs are spread out ov....   >>  
01 Jun 2004   Self Defence   Don't wash. Don't cut your hair. Don't change yo....   >>  
   Developping a market....   Whilst 99% of biz-related threads on this forum ar....   >>  
   Very painful project....   The easiest way to help this manager save face is ....   >>  
   Effects of "Anti-GMa....   Funny, normally email filters take out adverts, no....   >>  
28 May 2004   The IDE Blues...   > I am so productive because of that, that I even ....   >>  
   Should I retire?   > What would you recommend? Rupees. Bound to g....   >>  
27 May 2004   NETFX 2.0 Anonymous ....   Does C# have functions within functions?   >>  
   Offshoring: Real or ....   'it's a well known fact that the UK economy has be....   >>  
26 May 2004   Proficiency in C   strange, I come at this from a different angle com....   >>  
21 May 2004   my gripes with Offic....   F-19 Steath Fighter rocked!  Didn't realise a....   >>  
   How long is too long....   37.5 hrs/w. 6 weeks holiday. Paid overtime. Swe....   >>  
   Another take on the ....   In Symbian they make careful separation. Status....   >>  
   FUD: it's not just f....   All except the cummings bit; who was he?   >>  
      Ah, Simon, now Pascal *is* a great language!   >>  
19 May 2004   Why Byte (the paper ....   And is the online version as 'hot' as the paper co....   >>  
   Why doesn't Opera ge....   Well, shall we compare the price?   >>  
   Pocket PC, Palm, som....   WiFi is fun; but the next step is over mobile netw....   >>  
   Ternary Operators an....   string = 'Freddy has ' + str(n) + (n == 1 ? ' boll....   >>  
18 May 2004   Leaked personal data....   This bank were providing a service and they failed....   >>  
17 May 2004   Programmed Death for....   most smartphones are dual core - telephony is done....   >>  
      As a European and as a programmer for Symbian smar....   >>  
11 May 2004   The simplest way to ....   Efficient as in quickest runtime or efficient as i....   >>  
10 May 2004   Delphi + CORBA vs. J....   So many companies I've seen are running old machin....   >>  
13 Apr 2004   Comments on function....   I don't break my long lines. If a line is long, t....   >>  
07 Apr 2004   Accessor Debate   Yeap, some languages let you change your mind late....   >>  
06 Apr 2004      did I say recompile?  I meant find/replace in....   >>  
      been doing oo quite a few years now. In Delphi....   >>  
05 Apr 2004   What Programming Lan....   You still haven't been so clear JJ about what kind....   >>  
      I once wrote a still-much-used piece of software f....   >>  
   Java—what's the poin....   Java is slow. Right. http://www.osnews.com/story....   >>  
04 Apr 2004   Simple vs. complicat....   'where the designers clearly had their heads up in....   >>  
01 Apr 2004   What is the value of....   I am often surprised at how, having faced a day of....   >>  
   Microsoft admits tha....   'I always thought it was mainly a humor site' e....   >>  
30 Mar 2004   How is a buffer over....   http://mixter.void.ru/exploit.txt    >>  
   rs!field   So Joel, how do you imagine a fully RDBMS-capable ....   >>  
29 Mar 2004   Out of memory--what ....   In Symbian apps, you (should) write your app to us....   >>  
28 Mar 2004   Not able to understa....   Excel can't handle very many columns at all.. try ....   >>  
25 Mar 2004   How to stop new wind....   Set up privoxy or some other local filtering proxy....   >>  
24 Mar 2004   Scary, Bad Code at N....   work, get paid, .....   >>  
   Which language for w....   'If someone is willing to shell out enough for a C....   >>  
      CF rules. Which language/platform would be quic....   >>  
23 Mar 2004   Focus?   Avoid discussion forums and other distractions..   >>  
   Communist Western Eu....   EU Schmemoo, you don't like Europe do you? What....   >>  
19 Mar 2004   Elegant error handli....   stack cleanup.. you mean heap tempories, right?   >>  
18 Mar 2004   (Real) Web Applicati....   Ah, public is difficult. My ISP's email web inter....   >>  
   Has anyone used SQLi....   ' I _still_ dont think that anyone will start u....   >>  
17 Mar 2004   databases are danger....   I've developed applications with a JET backend and....   >>  
   const vs Java final   I use final on classes that I provide to people th....   >>  
   What's wrong with St....   'But if you rolled your own minimalist framework, ....   >>  
16 Mar 2004   const--use it?   its like always putting an immutable on the LHS of....   >>  
   How to spot a 9-5 co....   Pinball et al? Maybe Joel wants people to live ....   >>  
15 Mar 2004   Outsourcing has been....   Tapiwa, spot on! For shrinkwrap software, anyway.....   >>  
12 Mar 2004   Securing W2000 on a ....   A linux box, so you can still use samba to play wi....   >>  
   How Should a novice ....   The C++ Annotations is an excellent online book: ....   >>  
   How to start Java pr....   Java apps on mobile phones are best written in a n....   >>  
11 Mar 2004   Why do people still ....   Most people use Microsoft Office, incl. Outlook, b....   >>  
   Getting around the t....   Recruiters seem ruder and ruder the less and less ....   >>  
08 Mar 2004   What's the deal with....   IIRC a fav interview question mentioned on JoS (al....   >>  
02 Mar 2004   Stammering my way th....   I know an extremely senior and influential enginee....   >>  
25 Feb 2004   tidying up arbitrary....   Have I not replied to this post enough already? ....   >>  
      Actually, on second pass I reckonise a situation I....   >>  
      HTML lets you mismatch tags. HTML with mismatched....   >>  
   Boolean expression U....   what about a flowchart control?   >>  
   Is there a name for ....   I often use getters and setters. I often find tha....   >>  
   HTML, CR,LFs vs LFs   So you want to save diskspace? For static pages....   >>  
24 Feb 2004      HTTP header lines need CRLF endings. HTML treat....   >>  
   Text editing & f....   Consider actually editing a DOM.   >>  
   If without else, bad....   whats with the if(xyz != NULL) { ... blah ......   >>  
23 Feb 2004   Layout reflow bug on....   that happens to me *occassionally*, both back in t....   >>  
   Best Free IDE for be....   Borland Delphi is free for non-commercial use, and....   >>  
21 Feb 2004   my bizarre firing si....   This story seems completely upside down. Usuall....   >>  
20 Feb 2004   Software for develop....   Although more difficult for humans to comprehend, ....   >>  
19 Feb 2004   Naming args in heade....   I name my parameters in the header file because it....   >>  
16 Feb 2004   Down with WYSIWYG?   Has anyone looked at the sourcecode of TeX? It ....   >>  
   Uses for a PDA   Smartphones - devices that combine the features of....   >>  
15 Feb 2004   Threads Supported on....   Ouch!  i like i was just caught in the 'can't....   >>  
      You are asking about threads in relation to networ....   >>  
   Lou Dobb   whats with the assumption we're all American?   >>  
13 Feb 2004   Why do we have # and....   'less-attentive'? I've always done it because I w....   >>  
12 Feb 2004   Dim statement As Ann....   char *s, t; /* I am always very careful with my sp....   >>  
   XML sorting   I stand corrected, at least on the products quoted....   >>  
      varchar is typically padded to maximum capacity, w....   >>  
10 Feb 2004   Two blank spaces aft....   you snuck a space between the applicants and the s....   >>  
09 Feb 2004   Intentionally Ineffi....   I'll show my ignorance by joining in. I always ....   >>  
   Is goto dead?   BOOL fancy_transaction() { if(!step1()) goto un....   >>  
05 Feb 2004   Why do we have so ba....   Java goes a long way to writing working code. Y....   >>  
   Proper typing techni....   so lets go devise a perfect programmers keyboard! ....   >>  
      (I should add, I've been known to avoid writing de....   >>  
      and for people with foreign keyboards?  I hav....   >>  
03 Feb 2004   CVS and Metadata   funnily enough, someone recently spotted (alledged....   >>  
   DVDs and customer ab....   CDs and DVDs aren't so durable.  They will de....   >>  
   Identifying users wi....   If you have a particular regional market, sms (or ....   >>  
   Idea for an app..wan....   Do it Eric! A flowchart editor for piped script....   >>  
02 Feb 2004   Table normalization   Slight tangent, what version of excel was that? ....   >>  
   Throwing the Baby Al....   Brad, I said 'periodically' because I periodically....   >>  
01 Feb 2004      Damn, plain-text authentication is perfectly accep....   >>  
30 Jan 2004   customer-set priorities   >>  
30 Jan 2004   P. Graham's "What yo....   well maybe he is someone who has said unfashionabl....   >>  
   customer-set priorit....   Thanks FredF, I've been tirelessly going into e....   >>  
29 Jan 2004   Clearing the air on ....   Technical dominance doesn't always translate into ....   >>  
   Linkers and servicin....   How about an intelligent statically-linked runtime....   >>  
28 Jan 2004   Delphi for ShrinkWra....   Align is the most beautiful thing in the world! ....   >>  
27 Jan 2004   Frustated by (Near) ....   and you've got a sample of the kind of data stream....   >>  
   Anyone else get hate....   Hey, what's wrong with not using professional emai....   >>  
   My take on the resum....   @ Brad Wilson (dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com) No ....   >>  
   Blade Servers Versus....   RLX anyone?   >>  
   Open source programm....   Obfuscation is fundementally impossible: http:/....   >>  
26 Jan 2004   Working for Google   I know of a particularly high up manager at some w....   >>  
   Getting your resume ....   I have had the misfortune to meet, in this industr....   >>  
25 Jan 2004   Blocking users from ....   Blocking by IP-address is common-enough, although ....   >>  
   Want eat book   just finished reading Jane Austin's Mansfield Park....   >>  
21 Jan 2004   Cleanroom SOftware E....   so simon, I wasn't going mad imagining that I had ....   >>  
      golly, 'cleanroom' for me brings up images of deve....   >>  
19 Jan 2004   Power brick rant   We can use bluetooth or whatnot for wireless comms....   >>  
   Packet Sniffing Soft....   Local firewalls are operationally challenged. Sur....   >>  
15 Jan 2004   Source Control - Is ....   bitkeeper   >>  
14 Jan 2004   Making Programming L....   find->replace in scripts.  Just hardcode i....   >>  
   Why FogBugz requires....   slight tangent Andrew, but how exactly will binary....   >>  
11 Jan 2004   What to make of "han....   golly, all we need now is to start attacking perfo....   >>  
07 Jan 2004   Writing a GUI in C++....   *ahem* wxWindows uses native widgets. It is ve....   >>  
      I use wxWindows. It is just simple, clean and wor....   >>  
   static class members   iirc, only int static members can be initialised i....   >>  
05 Jan 2004   Database versus flat....   Many many real games, e.g. the Command & Conqu....   >>  
   The problem with CSV....   The problem that all escape-based formats have is ....   >>  
04 Jan 2004   Cross UNIX Portabili....   the thing about writing raw structures to file got....   >>  
02 Jan 2004   Recommend a free RSS....   are there any choice rss readers which are ticker ....   >>  
20 Dec 2003   Bold topics.   Strange, but I really don't find the interests of ....   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Compression Algorith....   Just concatenate the jpgs into a single file? A....   >>  
   database storage   85GB. There is about 4 million nodes. As you c....   >>  
18 Dec 2003   database storage   >>  
18 Dec 2003   Are IP addresses rec....   'So probably the only way to do that is to use the....   >>  
   database storage   Hi Juha, that is exactly what I've been looking....   >>  
      85 gigabytes, with multiple clients accessing it. ....   >>  
   Voice Recognition - ....   'coresi' well yes, talking so quiet you can't h....   >>  
17 Dec 2003      Sorry, no link of that specific army system, have ....   >>  
      in the army, I saw throat mikes that didn't requir....   >>  
   OS dominance   so, those figures, are they page impressions or un....   >>  
14 Dec 2003   Secure file transfer....   So you have (had) OpenSSH running but /cygdrive su....   >>  
11 Dec 2003   Bill Gates: agnostic....   I'm an apathist   >>  
20 Nov 2003   C/C++ programming qu....   well it wasn't the fastest, but adding three state....   >>  
      Next time you are interviewed by Joel and he asks ....   >>  
18 Nov 2003   firewall and ssh   wouldn't a compromised firewall then allow them to....   >>  
17 Nov 2003   A good C++ editor fo....   CodeWarrior is cool! As is JEdit http://www.jed....   >>  
   Interesting Work   what a place to ask! .. all the people with the....   >>  
11 Nov 2003   PHP / ASP : Side by ....   when it comes to dynamic websites I always preferr....   >>  
05 Nov 2003   When is open source ....   > For us, the idea that we should develop for soft....   >>  
      > I know the theory. The whole point is the theory....   >>  
      Free as in freedom, not free as in beer eh? Stand....   >>  
   USB Pendrive as your....   Symbian apps can be installed on removable media; ....   >>  
   Social Networking si....   don't forget http://discuss.fogcreek.com/newyork/ ....   >>  
20 Oct 2003   So Who Here Has Sign....   It is very very tempting. But I am quite happy ....   >>  
17 Oct 2003   Transactions and Rol....   Brad, your vector of items to rollback is very ....   >>  
16 Oct 2003      int DoSpagetti(int a, int b) { if(!DoThing1(....   >>  
15 Oct 2003   An exceptional misun....   here here to symbian!   >>  
14 Oct 2003   new job, but the act....   And which of those options keeps you employed and ....   >>  
   Exception debate amo....   Would Java be fun if it supported both a catch and....   >>  
   UCS-2 means no Unico....   You ought to be banging on the door of the tools v....   >>  
   Exceptions good, jus....   Exceptions can represent serious (fatal almost?) f....   >>  
   Presenting the new c....   Damn, shouldn't keep changing my name!   >>  
   Why does Joel care a....   PHP is great. Unicode aside (and that _needs_ fix....   >>  
13 Oct 2003   Bulk data entry   >>  
13 Oct 2003   How does it matter?   Infact, I rather prefer AMD processors. Since I....   >>  
   Unicode resources   and on the advertising unicode text editors front,....   >>  
   Story about fun with....   Everyone switching to english would be fun. But....   >>  
09 Oct 2003   machine vs. human ch....   I think the human-computer chess contest is very i....   >>  
07 Oct 2003   "Worshipful Co. of I....   I was browsing the membership | court list, which ....   >>  
   SpreadSheets rows li....   (To explain how severe the column limit is, my dat....   >>  
      The column limit is even more severe. If anyone....   >>  
26 Sep 2003   UI framework design   A bit off target but a useful link anyway: http....   >>  
   I had an idea drivin....   And how many of those people you see 'in traffic' ....   >>  
   Is Postgres/MySQL re....   JM: not me. I am amazed it takes so many admins....   >>  
   Home-based Grid Comp....   It might be extremely tricky to write without acce....   >>  
25 Sep 2003      To clarify for Tom, OpenMosix turns n workstations....   >>  
      If you can use Linux, look at OpenMosix.  The....   >>  
24 Sep 2003   The Swen Virus, and ....   My free yahoo accounts are absolutely sunk under i....   >>  
   Tool for monitoring ....   Some network traffic analysers can sniff on a swit....   >>  
21 Sep 2003   Norton Personal Fire....   I brought a little cheap switch; being nat, it is ....   >>  
20 Sep 2003   Hidden costs of offs....   Quite a few people on this board, from the US poin....   >>  
19 Sep 2003   Export data to Excel....   and try using quotes around fields if they contain....   >>  
   C++ OO question   I agree with everyone about the the eclipse != cir....   >>  
   Cross Platform UI to....   You ask if people like wxWindows, and we all seem ....   >>  
18 Sep 2003   How to get info from....   I always found the single biggest, most important ....   >>  
   Oracle complaints?   Philo, would that kind of upgrade require two lice....   >>  
16 Sep 2003   Anyone else aghast g....   how do you do mvc without getters/setters?   >>  
15 Sep 2003   Static variables - g....   I use this for UIDs etc all the time. Sometimes e....   >>  
   Doctor Dobbs Journal   what happened to 'byte'? Ah, the days when I read....   >>  
09 Sep 2003   Another take on Amer....   maybe I was lucky, but in the uk I think I got a v....   >>  
   Code snippet of tedi....   I found delphi extremely transparent, and controls....   >>  
04 Sep 2003   the open source busi....   when I give a client the bespoke program they comm....   >>  
   Crystal Reports Depl....   It was a long time ago, back when I first got my h....   >>  
03 Sep 2003   Linux stabilization   all my contracts have been writing bespoke softwar....   >>  
      lol John K. who do you think most of us open so....   >>  
02 Sep 2003   home computers confi....   wow, JoS sure ought to form a SETI team or somethi....   >>  
01 Sep 2003   IM Licence to print ....   'MS may not be killing all competition, but in my ....   >>  
   Strewth   ain't that just 'hitting the frog'? 'apples' == 's....   >>  
   home computers confi....   100baset comes into my flat from the housing assoc....   >>  
   Sympathy for teekid?   I think it shows how much the public value the int....   >>  
30 Aug 2003   Syntax highlighter?   jedit ( http://www.jedit.org ) has a plugin that t....   >>  
29 Aug 2003   Citidesk v2.0 critiq....   the efforts to preserve whitespace might be a way ....   >>  
   Joel, Seek of Spam? ....   The bayesian filters I've seen have three levels o....   >>  
27 Aug 2003   grouping data   >>  
25 Aug 2003   Browser "User Agent"   it was because of an online bank; just haven't bot....   >>  
22 Aug 2003   Mozilla use rising?   I have my mozilla firebird user-agent set to IE; p....   >>  
   Code reviews and for....   command and control systems for large warships see....   >>  
   Python or Ruby?   'Yeah, how about some more questions like: Windows....   >>  
21 Aug 2003   Nuclear Power Plant ....   philo, this power station did have two systems.&nb....   >>  
19 Aug 2003   Should I buy a 64 bi....   the biggest benefit I expect my code to gain from ....   >>  
   Development Paltform....   for accessing various databases and presenting the....   >>  
14 Aug 2003   question on Joel tes....   some knuth?   >>  
13 Aug 2003   java preprocessor?   damn, no edit post nor preview :-/ I'd like to ....   >>  
      Last time I tried preprocessing with a c++ compile....   >>  
12 Aug 2003   java preprocessor?   >>  
12 Aug 2003   Bob Noxious -- the t....   so did he use your headphones, his own headphones ....   >>  
30 Jun 2003   Windows Server vs. L....   Linux stability: windows is closing, but I still n....   >>  
      I think the shining light that is linux will conti....   >>  
   PHP 5 beta 1   what people need to do in php is start using a dat....   >>  
13 Jun 2003   Folder compare utiti....   Now I've never taken it to these lengths, but code....   >>  
   With   Lol: I said it, I was wrong, Joel likes it, and su....   >>  
12 Jun 2003   With   >>  
12 Jun 2003   Smart/Funny/Stupid C....   'delete m_pObject will perform correctly with a nu....   >>  
   WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC....   I guess the only thing that is important is consis....   >>  



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