Comment Re:By Accident (Score 1) 968
Programming.
The convention in C/C++ programming is to put preprocessor symbols in all caps.
#define THIS_IS_A_PREPROCESSOR_SYMBOL 42
Comment Re:Good stuff (Score 1) 131
What he said! I love numpy+scipy+matplotlib. Makes my life soooo much easier.
Comment Re:We are staying on XP (Score 1) 1213
> Heard the same arguments with the W2K-to-XP process
The only reason I upgraded my work machine(s) from Win2k to WinXP was WinXP rebooted faster.
Vista, Win7 don't run my tools any faster, don't reboot any faster. So I really don't have any reason to upgrade.
I upgraded Win2k -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win7 at home for games. But here at work, WinXP works the same as Win7.
Comment Re:It should have been phased out... (Score 1) 460
USB is an astonishing pain in the @$$ compared to the simple TX/RX/GND of US232.
You have control interface, bulk in/out, a complete PHY with all its weirdness (DMA IO maybe?) and required code.
New boards with flaky USB have crashed my systems more time than I can count. I have to reboot USB hubs on a regular basis.
RS232 I've never had any trouble.
Comment Re:520 people, that's a big ship (Score 1) 356
Obviously you're reading this from the perspective of a project manager.
"If it takes 520 days for 6 people to get to Mars, we'll get 520 people and make it in 6 days!"
I'm now logging off the internet, forever.
I will never EVER again read anything simultaneously so true, so sad, and so funny.
Comment Re:Focuses on Interfaces to Ease the Pain (Score 1) 297
ThreadX forever!
News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites 453
suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."
Comment Re:It should flourish. (Score 1) 275
I'm still employed and hope to be continually employed.
But in my spare time, I'm furiously hacking away on my own GPL'd application to:
1) perhaps sell it (in the MySQL model)
2) add new skills
3) add something additional to my resume
Scary economy has effect of making me work harder.
Comment Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut (Score 1) 1127
Yeah! says the iguana.
Comment Scott Kurtz won (Score 1) 460
Comment Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score 1) 772
Pshaw. You and your antiquated 5.25" 360k disks are so behind the times.
I have it on three 3.5" 720k disks.
Windows 1.01 forever!
I actually bought it. Was the last version of Windows I paid for until Win2000.
Journal Journal: 40 hours a week of productive programming?
I've been reading Joel Sposky's new book,
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky and the article from ea_spouse. Let's talk about the 40-hour programmer work week. The shelves are replete with software engineering books which also claim programmers' productivity drops past a certain point. Thus smart managers are encouraged to limit their programmers' time in the office to 40 hours a week.
