last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:08 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Aug 2003 | Jul 2003 | Jun 2003    Number Of Comments Open source is _not_ evil   102 Linux in Munich... Discuss here!   96 Are these reasonable C++ questions?   72 TWO PERCENT of ALL U.S. jobs offshored by 2015   70 No realy, it is NOT the Open Source that is evil   57 music   57 Software development not NP complete?   55 damn crackers :-(   52 Don't overlook the ideological aspects of GPL.   51 Offshoring is the LEAST of our worries   51 company car   50 Should I become a programmer?   45 Dangerous Competitors   44 Andy Grove: "US may lose tech superiority"  Why?    43 You Just Can't Kill Visual Basic (article)   42 Question about free software philosophy   41 What language for a new project?   40 What % of developers work with threads?   39 Purpose of a pointer?   39 cheap developers   38 So much misunderstanding of the GPL...   37 CFMX flouts Joel's "single worst strat. mistake"?   37 Web UI vs Windows UI   37 Mouse Alternatives?   36 Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waitin   35 Time to pakc your bags for India   35 I'm not defending Microsoft   35 game programmers   35 software developers needed   34 (pre)interview questions versus usable work PART 2   34 What we should teach programmers   34 Stupidity Embodied   33 Picking a DIFFERENT prog. language to play with   33 I finally found one!   33 Software condoms?   32 This is what's wrong with open source ...   32 Outsourcing Honesty (New View=No View)   32 what is the future of C++ programmers for windows   32 music once more   32 Do you folks use color in your applications?   32 CEO.   31 C and C++ - are these languages dying?   30 Design by Database   30 Sharecropping   30 Any *specific* downsides to VB 6?   30 98.72% of all blogs are boring   30 Is Govt use going to kickstart Linux?   29 What's a "Troll"?   29 how to ditch bad, small potato clients?   28 What are they teaching kids these days??   28 What color is the sky in Redmond?   28 Starting Up?   27 Evaluating Programmer Talent - Is It This Easy?   27 What do you do once you run out of possible featur   26 Web-based software demos   26 Apathy: the programmer's enemy   26 Alternate jobs for programmers   26 part-time boss?   26 music -- what I did   26 Too much churn to fix bugs   25 "IT contractors cram hard to stay ahead"   25 Coots R US   25 How to get taken seriously in a suite?   25 Is QA a dead end career move for a new grad?   25 Beginning Programmer - What Should I Learn?   25 what's good about having a virtual machine?   24 Can a bad speller be a good coder?   24 James Levin kinda looks like Joel :-)   23 1000$ a month in San Diego?   23 Is Knuth overrated?   23 Computers on either side of the Atlantic   23 MS shifting development to India   23 Camouflaging an OS?   23 Messageboxes are evil!   22 Winamp 3- another rewrite from scratch mistake?   22 Speaking of Religious Debate...   22 How popular is VB .NET versus C#?   21 Case sensitive environments   21 how relevant is optimization?   21 Why do programmers do this?   21 Is Mailinator a scam or for real?   21 How do you store cables?   21 Restrictions on # of files in a Windows Directory?   21 AMD or Intel for laptops?   21 Interviewing   21 OK Cancel Apply   21 extensive memory allocation causing run-time delay   21 Unused Office Space (what to do with it)   20 Plenty of Software Work to Go Around!   20 great UI design is done by taking away, not adding   20 And a cupholder too...   20 Lingo, Trademarks and Macromedia   20 To jump or not...   20 what does "hard time" mean?   20 Cool Stuff   20 What about the Americans?   20 Bad Analogy of the Day   20 Difference between FTE and contracting   20 Web Services - is this all vapour?   19 Prevayler   19 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.