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I would like to piggy back on this post to mention that I'm willing to work for Latte, especially if you also have a shower or food. I'm based in Sydney, Australia and you can find…

The VB6 IDE was Ok for 1998, but 1998 was a long time ago. I still use VB6/VBA to get shit done, but only because I have a bunch of code & tools I've already written in or for it. …

Most things labelled "Web 2.0" should have been a defacto "Web" idea.

Ahh, the people who wrote this code weren't morons, just "edgy" non-conformists.

The Mozilla team could learn from this.

Sim City could benefit from Undo.

I'm having this problem right now. Simulation/Entity type object model is working quite well for one app, but add another app and the cracks in the abstraction become obvious. Usin…

MVC

I laugh when I see positions advertised with "senior" in the title that are only asking for 3 years experience. Around here, that's normal. Does this happen in other industries?

I can feel for him. I often find buzzwords are used to describe things I've been doing for 10 years in a way that makes it seem like people who only just discovered that thing are …

Use Javascript to change the caption of the submit button from "OK" to "Confirm" the first time it is pressed and then submit the form on the second press. That way, the data doesn…

4) I think of the table name as describing the tuples it contains, not the table itself. SQL reads better that way.

Hey, let's regulate "e-mail marketing" while we're at it. Pfft. Whatever.

Trim half of your experience from your CV. No one wants to hire a know-it-all. If you don't have much experience, then go to several recruiters - they are all about finding bodies …

I'm hoping for a future where hacking your own device so that it does what you want it to isn't some kind of legal gray area (and isn't illegal either).

If sensors are providing conflicting speed measurements, is there a reason not to believe the fastest reading?

My ISP has a "Your account" page where I can view my current total bandwidth used for the month and the amount I have used each day. I have a much clearer idea of how much bandwidt…

I would rather credit Wikipedia as the source of a common "well-known" algorithm than leave the door open to claims from some third party.

I think the gender imbalance is a symptom of a larger problem that affects competent programmers of both genders: An industry that doesn't take competent women seriously, doesn't t…

You think "programmer" is bad. Try "Visual Basic Programmer" or "PHP Programmer". That kind of stigma can never be erased.

I agree with your conclusions but for different reasons. Defensive programming "done right" should be self documenting ("oh, I see this routine requires this parameter to be non-ze…

Sounds like it would be double plus good.

I was young and opinionated once. I´m old and opinionated now. The only difference is, now I'm right.

At the beginning of BTTF2 Marty travels to a possible future. One that would have become the actual future if he hadn't interacted with anybody and then gone straight back to 1985.…

A domain-specific compression algorithm will often outperform a general purpose compression algorithm, and sometimes a combination of both is even better. Besides, downloading a zi…