last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:06 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Sep 2004 | Aug 2004 | Jul 2004    Number Of Comments Coldfusion programmer wanted to work for assholes   140 a long, rambling, incomplete rant about   116 Americans need learn foreign language?   103 Coworkers who won't go away   97 pre employment background check/drug test   88 SQL Server - Up or Down?   83 The Olympics   80 The Python Paradox   76 Question about FogCreek   73 Super-Duper Incredible Person   69 Purchase this forum?   65 which language?   63 Sacrificing parts of your life to do great things.   63 Salary survey   62 Does your employer mandate your hours?   60 A question for our non-American friends   60 Your typical programmer's breakfast?   60 Why learn basic search and sort algorithms?   59 How to get focused and start working..   56 sick days   55 checked atoi() or strtol() for C/C++   54 Best Disasters   53 softwareCEO.com   53 CityDesk   51 Hidden URLs - How easy are they to find   51 Compulsory support role for departed programmer?   50 Why so much negativity toward "Corporation"?   50 Decline an offer - and it's taken personally?   50 why bother being a coder   49 Incentive Pay Considered Harmful - so instead. . ?   49 read/have article "Why Is Software So Bad" ?   49 Python: Whitespace and OO   49 Sink Battleship   48 Anti-anti-virus   48 Manual vs. Automatic Transmission   48 Who is your messiah?   48 Bargaining for more flexible flex time   47 Am I being greedy?   46 I'm scared.   45 New take on "practicality" of Comp/Eng degrees   45 Opinionated people   45 CNN: CS School Breaks with Tradition   45 Microsoft pays for insults through ignorance   44 Why are pointers used?   44 Automatic vs. manual transmission   43 How to decide on sw behaviour?   43 You too can run up $60K of student loan debt!   42 What motivates you to post online?   41 What makes a great programmer?   41 SORT   41 best days of your life?   41 How many of you know all of this?   40 contract penalties for below-par performance   40 Google Censoring sites based on content   39 Issue related to file formats in essay contest   39 Making Linux a player   39 Insourcing?   38 Progammer pay rates in the US   38 Profoundly screwed up Windows computers   38 How bad is goto, really?   38 Learning the basic algorithms   38 Rude = No Hire?   38 Marc Andreeson   37 Is there a term for this?   36 Next big thing?   36 This ain't about love just pay me.   36 Code Olympics - what events ?   35 How do you prepare and do perfomance appraisal?   35 Doing free work - a pitfall of freelancing   35 Weapons software   35 Salary for SysAdmin in SanDiego?   35 new management fad: charge workers for vacation   34 How good an employee are you? who's fault?   34 Do you play computer games?   34 lacking telecommuting   34 Building a Wiki   33 Friend's Idea / My Implementation   33 well yes, wasn't that the point?   33 Need America-born to criticize my soft-review   32 A form with lots of controls   32 Software Quality   32 More perils of outsourcing   31 "Rescue abandoned project" contract - opinions?   30 From idea to final product   30 Favorite Screen Savers   30 How do you destroy an ingrown fear?   30 Masters of Doom   30 Programming Difficult?   30 OT - Anyone jog with an iPod?   29 Union threatens James Hardie   29 Card shuffling routine   29 Would you ever get rid of your landline?   29 word processor with CONSERVATIVE 'save as HTML'?   29 How do you know when you can trust someone?   29 I want out writing web/database applications   28 Valuable contribution to project ?   28 Ever worked with a real Anoop?   28 Good Place to Move for a job?   28 Consultants who hold back the source code   28 Poll   28 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.