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You seem to be consistently confusing Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers.

What I find more disturbing is the influx of Microsoft friendly commenters. Articles on various MS products are frequent and receive a lot of praise. Articles that point out how MS…

Why desperate? This is a valid way of advertising a product.

Didn't work for me (Ubuntu).

In fact it seems that it's impossible to install by clicking on the link "One moment, please, while the current Silverlight installation status is determined... Microsoft Silverlig…

Most of my peers in school used the same "compile, debug" approach as well. Most of them are still doing it and I can't see any serious software company ever hiring them (there is …

Heh, yeah, that approach sounds pretty terrible to deal with. What I do is extensive unit tests and useful logging. Unit tests catch most of the stupid stuff and plenty of the soph…

I'm glad the tools you use work well for you. I have coworkers who use Eclipse (for Java). It's a CPU hog; often it locks up entirely, crashes are infrequent but, happen. I've trie…

The debugger is a big one. I had a terrible habit of not thinking through the code but just running through the debugger until I got it working. Not thinking about how code looks (…

I'm sure this was meant as a joke, but, the downmods still make me sad. I used VS for some classes in school and at my first job and it made me a worse programmer. It took years to…

I remember attending a presentation by Elon Musk on SpaceX a few years back (late 2007, I believe). At that point, SpaceX's future was very uncertain with their two launches failin…