Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
About 110 people came to the beautiful Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta, and asked great questions. Some of the people I talked to in person had come from as far away as Tennessee, Florida, and Alabama. Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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This Thursday, in Austin, at 5:30 Central Time, Jim and Ossie from NewTek are working on getting a live stream going so you can watch the demo as it happens. A couple of days later I'll get the flash version up if you have any problems with the stream or want to watch it later. Not loving your job?
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I remember in college trying to call the catalog companies to get them to stop sending me mountains of paper catalogs. Catalog Choice (it's a.org ) contacts catalog merchants on your behalf and gets them to stop sending you catalogs.
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The FogBugz World Tour continues. This afternoon, Ben and I got a tour of the awesome offices at Pixar: The afternoon demo was in Emeryville, right across the bay from San Francisco, because Berkeley doesn't have hotels. Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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But really it's just a desperate desire to be like Apple, without even a smidgen of understanding of the culture code that makes Designed by Apple in California work.
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I'm sure there's plenty of code to test display formatting, but with a bug like this that only happens on 12 out of 18446744073709551616 possible floating point binary numbers, it's unlikely that any set of black-box tests would cover this case. A: I'm not sure exactly, since I don't have the code.
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But, as I learned, something traumatic happens to paper on its way through a printer. They will be publishing each column on their website, and I'll link to it as soon as they do so, but you may also want to subscribe to the print magazine ; it's less than $10 a year and well worth it.
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I?ve been getting a little bit behind on my world tour trip reports, but things have been going so smoothly thanks to Liz?s heroic organization efforts that there?s not much to report! These are not HERE until your TAXI DRIVER has heard of them, because I assure you he?s heard of Microsoft Windows.
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