last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:07 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Jan 2004 | Dec 2003 | Nov 2003    Number Of Comments Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman   108 ...ism at FogCreek?   100 open source   83 Bold topics.   72 American programmers at Indian wages   70 Why are 80% of programmers no good?   69 working hard or hardly working?   68 "Low Skill" Rhetoric   65 job advice for a new graduate   60 U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries   59 Are Debuggers Wasteful Timesinks? Martin thinks so   59 Biculturalism   57 "Low-skill jobs like coding" (NYT)   56 Hiring someone who *almost* has a degree?   53 Binary search in 5 lines of code? How?   53 Did linux just show up on the radar?   51 "IT shifting away from Microsoft"?   50 Bill Gates: agnostic/athiest or agnostic/theist?   50 Defining moment in computing   48 Outsourcing -But not the usual stuff   46 Doing Charity Sites   46 IRS Systems upgrade, $8 bil. and overbudget   45 Odd situation   45 Joel on installing Debian   44 OS dominance   44 Software Babe   44 Chest Pain ... Am I dying ?   43 The knife and the axe   43 sorting   42 "he or she" NOT politically correct!   42 Cultural Divide: It's the command-line not the OS   42 Our jobs... (again)   41 More Linux Developers than Windows ones?   39 Why The Flip Flop, Joel?   38 Joel on Software Motto   38 Help, my HTML Always Sucks!   38 Future of straight C dev on Win & Linux GUI   37 LISP - why?   37 Outsourcing and the law of unforeseen consequences   36 sql query question   36 Philo's disclaimer   36 Any Programmers Agree on Reasonable Interview Q's?   36 Auto-Hiding Menu Items and Usability   35 Garbage Collection in VB6   35 New Development PC   34 C# Help   34 productivity tip   34 Programmers creating user interfaces? No...   33 "Better" language vs. Big Software   33 kinds of sw development not likely 2 be outsourced   32 Mastering English as a Foreign Language...   32 Debug vs Release build   32 When will .NET achieve significant market   32 Lovers at Work ...   31 most software is quite poor   31 Requiring pre-interview homework   31 New Project - offshore help requested   30 Embedded Databases (ala MS Jet or Berkeley DB)   30 Programming for Programmers   30 Dual monitors ... at home?   30 Advice for S/W Entrepreneurs: Make More Mistakes   29 Voice Recognition - In corporate?   29 Has Joel even used KDE?   29 Am I a unique hybrid?   29 Israel Stops Buying Microsoft Software   28 Why are the best developers women ?   28 New Career?   28 A coherent Linux strategy for Microsoft?   27 Could it be that M$SFT is missing an opportunity   27 I have done something stupid   27 Latest on SCO/Linux thing   27 Windows for a Bank Teller machine?   27 Are IP addresses recorded?   27 Hogwarts School of Architecture and Software   27 If there are few decent jobs in programming...   27 Well, this is it   27 Working at Microsoft   26 Fav mp3 players   26 IBM sends more jobs overseas   26 IP address question   26 How "e" is the place you work?   26 Why does FogBugz need PHP?   25 Doom on Itanium   25 Why programmers should do their own support   25 music at work   25 Lisp and Productivity   25 HTML forms and back button in dynamic apps   25 Got asked to fly to a meeting on NEW YEARS EVE..??   24 Open source complexity issue   24 Highly programmable non-Emacs editor?   24 Replacement for PGPdisk?   24 Self Important Programmers   23 pseudo-RAID on a single drive?   23 Compression Algorithm Suggestion   23 Command line vs. Guis   23 Recruiting in remote locations   23 The real enemy of programmer productivity   23 All the screws lined up?   23 Future of Window API   22 Unix OS installs   22 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.