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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Sgt. Sausage' | ||
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Number of Comments: 191 |
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| Number of Words: 36,579 | ||
| First Comment: 12 Jun 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 01 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 1 |
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| First Topic: 16 Jun 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 16 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Gradudate School | Ron, I see a lot of that too! >> |
| Gradual School: 'Oh! Well, Gradual School is w.... >> | ||
| CEOs being paid to o.... | ==>No one is saying that a CEO should say 'no, not.... >> | |
| ==>You need to negotiate for your pay, wheras most.... >> | ||
| ==>CxOs living and working in the United States ar.... >> | ||
| Version Control : Op.... | ==>It's easier to versionize pictures using the sa.... >> | |
| ==>Binary diffs are possible. Subversion does them.... >> | ||
| 31 Aug 2004 | Growing your busines.... | ==>Anyone have any experiences to share about goin.... >> |
| So Bored, | ==>Fulltime 'staff' implying more than one? Just .... >> | |
| ==>What I've found with both of these deals is tha.... >> | ||
| 27 Aug 2004 | Valuable contributio.... | ==>Greed is never a good thing. Period. I di.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2004 | Passing by value / r.... | ==>Passing a reference type by reference means tha.... >> |
| The Pseudo Masochist got it right. Passing a r.... >> | ||
| mutliple access to s.... | ==> It is possible that the admin deletes the coll.... >> | |
| Ever worked with a r.... | ==>But have any of you come across real Anoop, i.e.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Style of working | ==>To answer 'yes, I understand' when you don't, i.... >> |
| ==If you think that you can have one single meetin.... >> | ||
| Most individuals will interpret confusion as a sig.... >> | ||
| Most efficient file .... | ==>If you're really worried about performance, tho.... >> | |
| Need a text editor t.... | I've used two editors in the past that have capabi.... >> | |
| When do you update R.... | ==>ctl3d.dll Ditto -- I had no end of 'dll hel.... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2004 | Gopher | Yes -- back in the 'university years' (1990-19.... >> |
| 19 Aug 2004 | Production/Testing D.... | ==>Script all of your changes to the development d.... >> |
| Bargaining for more .... | ==>You're going to lay yourself open to a couple o.... >> | |
| How do you want to w.... | oops -- *compressed* Forget it. It's not funny .... >> | |
| Yeah, but that's a *compress* byte. Unzip it a few.... >> | ||
| 18 Aug 2004 | dooooooom!!! | ==>I would prefer to stay with 98SE, since its not.... >> |
| Are bigger systems a.... | ==>I said almost always. Have you got hard data t.... >> | |
| ==>SQL Server, while simpler, doesn't scale that w.... >> | ||
| 17 Aug 2004 | Consultants who hold.... | ==>I always viewed this as irresponsible and arrog.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2004 | sick days | Personally, I've never taken one. Keep in mind.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Your Thought on IP (.... | Why all the negativity? It appears to me to be qui.... >> |
| How to market if nob.... | ==>Then how to begin if I do not want to be kicked.... >> | |
| how does norton ghos.... | I don't use ghost, but I use a similar tool : Driv.... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2004 | what to do | ==>The reality is the job is debugging spaghetti c.... >> |
| Poll: Database size/.... | ==>Sgt. Sausage's may be bigger, but I outrank him.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2004 | FYI, this info is for current clients. I've worked.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2004 | what cars do geeks d.... | Anything that's more than 6 years old. Currently, .... >> |
| Home or professional.... | I'd have to agree with most everybody else. $300 t.... >> | |
| How do pople get thi.... | ==>I raised my right hand, said 'I, [state your na.... >> | |
| C.S. degree, 1994 (has it really been that long?),.... >> | ||
| 29 Jul 2004 | How far can an MCSE .... | ==> 'Scalability becomes a problem down the road.'.... >> |
| 28 Jul 2004 | How do you use sourc.... | ==> I have never used source code control and was .... >> |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Business Owenership:.... | ==> Of course, you have to have a nest egg to cons.... >> |
| 21 Jul 2004 | mcsd | I'm an MCSD -- old school. Haven't caught up with .... >> |
| I want to start my o.... | ==>The one good reason I saw was 'So I can develop.... >> | |
| I've been 'independent' -- doing my own thing, sin.... >> | ||
| 20 Jul 2004 | Purchasing a softwar.... | Part of the problem, as I see it, is this: It will.... >> |
| Handwritten Document.... | ==>I actuall 'forgot' how to write cursive many ye.... >> | |
| I don't save email f.... | ==>I'm wondering how long people save their emails.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | More IQ-ism | ==>> What often happens with high IQ is the lazy g.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Disgruntled techies .... | ==>Filthy rich? In what country? Here in the U..... >> |
| 09 Jul 2004 | Myserious billboard | ==> I was in some seriously advanced honors level .... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Experiences with XP .... | ==>Honestly? Automated unit testing has changed my.... >> |
| Advice on Source Con.... | We've been VSS for about 6 years but are in the mi.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Lookup tables vs. ex.... | ==> Sgt Sausage appears to be suffering under a de.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | ==>I'd modify your design to only use a single loo.... >> | |
| Philo (and others indicating a problem with 'norma.... >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2004 | The misnomer "thin c.... | For whatever it's worth, we (rightly or wrongly) c.... >> |
| How much time you sp.... | 'bout an hour a day. Not all at once. I have more .... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | Racing car aficionados ... >> | |
| 09 Jun 2004 | too close for comfor.... | ==>In such a small company, how can you separate y.... >> |
| 21 May 2004 | How long is too long.... | ==> 37.5 hrs/w. 6 weeks holiday. Paid overtime. .... >> |
| ==>People who work extended hours are, basically, .... >> | ||
| 20 May 2004 | MSSQL Transaction Qu.... | With MS SQL, you *have* to check it after each sta.... >> |
| The last time you us.... | I usese recrusion all the time. Usually, it involv.... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | Quality of WOrk Vs R.... | While it doesn't affect the quality -- I always tr.... >> |
| 10 May 2004 | A few random ideas | ==> what is the meaning of measuring the change in.... >> |
| 07 May 2004 | Avoiding "chaining" .... | ==>I know intuitively that this makes for spaghett.... >> |
| 06 May 2004 | Job Title for future.... | We hired a guy a few years ago that handed us a bu.... >> |
| Snooping On Competit.... | If they aren't a publicly funded company, I imagin.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Who handles writing .... | In our shop it's : 'He who writes the spec, writes.... >> |
| Why does "salt" make.... | Peter -- I stand corrected. It makes sense. Oo.... >> | |
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| 28 Apr 2004 | Why the use of vitua.... | ==>'The future has arrived.' Boy, you're new t.... >> |
| 27 Apr 2004 | Managing Up | Whenever asked to give an estimate with respect to.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | General Public Licen.... | I agree completely. It's 'quick to lead to Chapter.... >> |
| google in trouble? | Nobody 'owns' them. You're quite free to collect t.... >> | |
| Error handling - why.... | BTW: Have you come to understand yet, after rea.... >> | |
| ==>Sgt. you sure like nailing a nailed nail. .... >> | ||
| ==>For situations when one employs exceptions and/.... >> | ||
| ==> I am not complaining about having to handle er.... >> | ||
| ==>IsDBOpened() =>That would be the case right .... >> | ||
| OK, In my world (databases) it's quite common to n.... >> | ||
| 22 Apr 2004 | Popup Blockers | I use the Proxomitron. It's old (last version was .... >> |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Audit log design pat.... | I'd suggest the trigger route, but with a caveat. .... >> |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Generic .NET Test Ha.... | Not point-and-click/intellisense type stuff like y.... >> |
| Should source contro.... | We store *everything* in source control. The so.... >> | |
| 14 Apr 2004 | First internet usage | My online history: 1981-1985: Local PCs only. N.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Pricing for a produc.... | ==>Excel costs $100. An add-on for excel that accu.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2004 | Personal computer se.... | It has come to my attention that there is an issue.... >> |
| Funny you should mention this. A couple of months .... >> | ||
| 27 Mar 2004 | Time Zones | ==>It's all very confusing Only because you're.... >> |
| Explaining source co.... | OOPS! Just re-read the OP and it appears that I'm .... >> | |
| ==> Sgt Sausage, maybe the answer is in the fact t.... >> | ||
| 26 Mar 2004 | ==> ... the source code is valuable and you can't .... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | capitalism is beauti.... | ==>It's truly a beautiful thing when the market sc.... >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | What is wrong with S.... | On top of all the others, a big pet peeve of mine .... >> |
| your sleep pattern | Me too -- late sleeper. I have a 5 hour sleep cycl.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2004 | Picking up math for .... | I second the motion for: 'Computer Graphics: Princ.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | VB6 - Using ADODB.RE.... | My grandpappy always told me 'the right tool for t.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Date Querying | based on what you've got, it appears you're workin.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Computer Science to .... | Medicine is a good field, with a huge potential ma.... >> |
| BPO/outsourcing at t.... | Just out of curiosity, where exactly in 'a suburba.... >> | |
| 03 Feb 2004 | The future of HTML | ==>Sometimes, when I lay in my bed at night, just .... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Define bloat: by exa.... | I don't define 'bloat' in terms of either disk spa.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Starting a company: .... | I lean heavily towards the Service side of the arg.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | ODBC for Access over.... | I've used UNC style references to linked .mdb file.... >> |
| Dealing with Madness | ==>That depends quite heavily on the school you go.... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | A Random Walk Down W.... | As for investing in the market: So far so good. I'.... >> |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Define "Code Complet.... | For us, 'Code Complete' means one of two things. .... >> |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Joel Ripoff? | ==> |
| Ever have guilt over.... | ==>Be thankful, too. At least in the US, most peop.... >> | |
| Anyone here Working .... | We've been doing it for close to 7 years now. I'm .... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | I am so lucky I have.... | ==>In many cases you are only exchanging a knuckle.... >> |
| Interview Technique | Kobayashi Maru. If it's good enough for the Uni.... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Economy:Signs on the.... | (a) IRA, 401K, and other investments: Aggregate: U.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Statement of Work | ==> 1) How do you use SOW's in your consulting ent.... >> |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Where to study Compu.... | You'd better think about it as full-time. Most BSC.... >> |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Rules-based decision.... | I can't say anything about production systems, but.... >> |
| fundamental question.... | ==>No. This is a 'fly-by-night' strategy so-to-sp.... >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Question about contr.... | Our last 6 years of accounting data indicates that.... >> |
| 06 Jan 2004 | K | ==>Anybody remember PHIGS? I loved it! If I .... >> |
| 31 Dec 2003 | Un-Hosing Windows Up.... | As funny as it may sound, check your current date .... >> |
| 30 Dec 2003 | sorting | ==>The king thought for a moment and then had Sgt..... >> |
| ==>Sgt, don't tell me - you are only able to think.... >> | ||
| 29 Dec 2003 | Not enough information. Do you want to optimize.... >> | |
| Internal Rates | ==>While there may indeed be some ulterior motive .... >> | |
| 22 Dec 2003 | Visualizing | I hate to state the obvious abstract visualization.... >> |
| 19 Dec 2003 | Bold topics. | The elves appear to be deleting too <grin> -.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Software Engineers: .... | I've often thought of this over the years. Althoug.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2003 | As cunning as a.... .... | ==> Shitty code by shitty coders. My thoughts e.... >> |
| I don't work in the .NET world, but I've simulated.... >> | ||
| 04 Dec 2003 | The knife and the ax.... | My vote goes for the OS. Imagine if you had to bui.... >> |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Requiring pre-interv.... | ==>It's pretty unlikely that the company is going .... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | ==>Why should he pay for the guys? If they want to.... >> | |
| Are you going to compensate the candidate for the:.... >> | ||
| Graduate degrees - w.... | Before anyone can answer this vague question in a .... >> | |
| 27 Nov 2003 | A bit far-fetched | Access get's a bad rap. Why, I don't know. I'v.... >> |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Going solo. How? | Actually, one of our best 'customer generators' of.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Stopping Spyware | ==>And in the meantime, what are people's favorite.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | On stored procedures.... | Everything comes at a cost. Everything is a trade-.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | how much your salary.... | I'm the (part) owner of my business, so it's not r.... >> |
| 10 Nov 2003 | IPc | I haven't heard anyone mention message queueing ye.... >> |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Thomas Stanley - The.... | Bella, I stand corrected. That sounds a lot be.... >> |
| Bella, ==>The only reason your plan have had a.... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2003 | ==>You can't talk about real estate in general and.... >> | |
| 15 Oct 2003 | ==> What you're now admitting is that your return .... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | ACM membership usefu.... | I belong to the ACM and SIGMOD ( Special Interest .... >> |
| Thomas Stanley - The.... | ==>I understood that some RI investors will go cas.... >> | |
| ==> In the 1980's in the UK.... >> | ||
| 12 Oct 2003 | [Continued from my previous post] Since most pe.... >> | |
| ==>Sausage isn't full of shit, I think he's just a.... >> | ||
| 09 Oct 2003 | How can people excel.... | >>What does he have, and we ordinary fellows don't.... >> |
| Thomas Stanley - The.... | ==>Sgt. Sausage: if you are losing cash each month.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | Guys -- sorry, I'm gonna feed the troll: ==>Why.... >> | |
| ==>Just curious, what does your name imply? P.... >> | ||
| To: Explain please thx ==> Doesn't add up. Wha.... >> | ||
| To answer some questions that were directed my way.... >> | ||
| 07 Oct 2003 | NOTE: I haven't read 'The Millionaire Next Door', .... >> | |
| watching what sql se.... | In reference to the ODBC logging: Be advised: (.... >> | |
| MSDE? | Some of the previous posts do a good job on the li.... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Passwords | I've got literally hundreds of 'em -- passwords th.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2003 | Remote database repl.... | I can't speak for Oracle, but SQL Server supports .... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | 99.9 percentile | ==>and people who think most programmers are deadw.... >> |
| ==>it also makes wonder if this is how the United .... >> | ||
| 23 Sep 2003 | MS Access Indexes | ==> ... Not sure why Access would take so long wit.... >> |
| Good News for Americ.... | Does anybody think that lowering the visa quotas w.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | Contract Negotiation.... | Peter: ==>I agree with this, but I also think th.... >> |
| I've never used recruiters/brokers/middlemen to ob.... >> | ||
| 03 Sep 2003 | Best self-defence wh.... | So, umm... I hate to beg the unasked question but .... >> |
| 29 Aug 2003 | 80$ per/hr access pr.... | Our "access guys" are currently billing at just th.... >> |
| A Kinder, Gentler Ti.... | ==>When I was in school in the mid/late 80's it wa.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2003 | Product Liability an.... | ==> More recently the saga of Ford Explorer tyres .... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | transport mechanism | We go the FTP route. If they're sending you data f.... >> |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Buggy Oracle | ==> I think you are confusing sql server with the .... >> |
| In my experience -- they're all buggy (SQL Server,.... >> | ||
| How would you deal w.... | Step back, take a deep breath, calm down, and ... .... >> | |
| 17 Aug 2003 | Eureka Moments | As for the 'should I bill it' question -- yes, you.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2003 | The Value of Unix's .... | |
| Where to store the D.... | ==>Putting it all in code is a maintainability nig.... >> | |
| Is This Code style/S.... | ==>He's wrong. You're right. Reformat it. I kn.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | S-Q-L or SeQueL? | We actually call it SQueaL Swerver |
| 22 Jul 2003 | ranking of wright st.... | I'd agree -- UC is a far better school. I graduate.... >> |
| 18 Jul 2003 | Is this salary decen.... | 55K to 65K is pretty OK (not great) for my area (c.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2003 | Do you folks use col.... | As a rule, we ship our apps 'out of the box' with .... >> |
| 17 Jun 2003 | What can a SQL Serve.... | You're pretty much limited only by how much ($$$) .... >> |
| Loading class hierar.... | In our shop, we have a custom n-tier architecture .... >> | |
| Doing database trans.... | I'm not sure I want to even begin to try to unders.... >> | |
| Advertisement | NIH! We are the knights who say NIH! (I'm .... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | For those who have b.... | For MarkTAW: It's called 'at will' employment, .... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | The Mythic Microsoft.... | To the original poster: Amen brother! I couldn'.... >> |