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Maybe doing some time-consuming jobs in C?

"This kind of thing happens all the time" Perhaps this is why he is standing up against this?, perhaps he thinks that someone's got a put an end to all this and that he must take m…

If you feel remorseful about self-posting, you can do what jacquesm did in his post about his experience dealing with VC's (great post by the way). He just put the whole thing here…

I normally try to schedule blocks greater than 4 hours for programming and i do everything else on the remaining block of time. This normally requires a little bit of planning the …

Just out of curiosity, did you see that Yahoo! Store (previously Viaweb) is part of the small business division?

Maybe you're right, but upper management knows what are the critical applications and those who deliver fixes and improvements to those apps, will shine. This happens at big compan…

I strongly disagree with his "developers need to brag" section...in my experience, those developers that brag the most are those whose code is a negative contribution (pardon the o…

It's such a relief for those of us who share that fear. I stumbled upon this letter yesterday, it's a complaint that a 98 year old lady wrote to her bank's CEO. ( http://www.bellao…

Contrived?,yes, useful?, yes (at least in my experience), do i plan to use that formula in every interaction?, i don't think so, it wouldn't be natural. Thank you for sharing the e…

This was shared by a co-worker due to a problem i had at work, the business and engineers speak a very different language...anyway, the article has proven useful many, many times f…

I read your blog, and i found the idea behind biz teen interesting, but i think you're targeting a rather small market (the world doesn't have as many young entrepreneurs as it nee…

Well you are an architect in a way, you may not be building things out of trees, but you should be building things out of thoughts. Thoughts may not clean our air, but well directe…

My advice is that you leave the information, any serious buyer will search "cherrypeel" and eventually stumble upon this thread, if you change your mind and take it off, it will ma…

Stanford's CS Ed library (particularly Nick Parlante's linked list and binary tree problem sets) is a fantastic resource for understanding the C language, it is the way i learned i…

There's a quote, i don't remember who came up with it but it goes something like this: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they're any good, you'll have to push it un…

In my opinion, convention means nothing. Do what makes sense according to the problem you're solving.

Works well, i did like it, however i have two comments: -Please be able to get http://www.mywebsite.com , www.mywebsite.com , mywebsite.com , http://mywebsite.com and lastly the go…

This is an excellent article on the subject, hope you enjoy it: http://mags.acm.org/communications/200810/?pg=38

Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i …

I think it's about time...If they decorate their stores half as well as they decorate their offices, they will be neat.

No one method works all the time, this depends on the paradigm of the target language. At least i can't use one method. One thing that makes it much easier (at least for me) is try…

I don't know how many of you will read this, but i thought of posting this new finding that has helped me. I read Joel's functional spec article some time ago and decided to give i…

The playing field is much more leveled, but few schools actually recognize what subjects are valuable to teach (so many go with the latest hype), Joel put it better in his article:…

I normally do the classic pro/con list (sometimes only to ignore the result and do whatever pleases me the most) but i would like to know the approach(es) other people take.