kzadot - Slashdot User

Comment: How about writing code for about 20% of the day? (Score 1) 352

by kzadot on Saturday January 03 2009, @02:44AM (#26309807) Attached to: Interesting Computer Science Jobs?

I am a software developer, with a CS degree and I only spend about 20-40% of the day writing code. The rest is sitting around in front of the white-board with the team actually developing the software, talking with customers about requirements, a few meetings, attending conferences, giving and attending presentations, preparing reports, researching.

I did have one employer once who thought that software developers just sat at the computer typing in code all day. I didn't stay there very long.

A software developer spends about as much time typing into a pc as the typical office worker, and about as much time with people as your typical office worker too.

Pthreads vs Win32 threads

Submitted by on Monday February 26 2007, @06:20AM

An anonymous reader writes "It's interesting when different people have different opinions. While I was searching for something on Intel's website, I came across an article on why Windows threads are better than Posix threads. Curiously, I also came across this article on why Posix Pthreads are better that Win32 threads. The thing is, both of these articles are written by the same author!

So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written?"

free video and audio lectures on science

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on Monday February 26 2007, @05:38AM

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