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  1. Get into co-op/internship on Are Student Loans Burying Graduates? · · Score: 2

    Try to participate in a co-op/internship if you can. I finished my undergrad degree with only $3k of student loans and 24 months of work experience. It takes an additional year to finish the degree but it is WELL worth it.

  2. Pair check-in on Stop Breaking the Build · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a rule for check-ins when my team is trying to stablize code; that is have another developer go through your changes in case you did something silly. It also serves as a mini code review. This includes making sure the code builds. :)

  3. Re:real-world client side java apps on Is Client-Side Java Dead? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not the mention the popular Java IDE Eclipse. Now that Microsoft has to ship the Java VM, you'll probably see more of Java Web Start.

  4. Modifiers Cars on Cars for Tinkerers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can't afford to modify a real car, you can always play with these.

  5. Re:Illegal? on Hiding Your Choices And Saying You Made Them · · Score: 0

    Use sales@real.com when installing the RealPlayer.

  6. Re:"I'm in a Computer Science degree program"????? on Has Software Development Improved? · · Score: 0

    It's not that bad. Just stay in school (for your Masters or even PhD) until things are better.

  7. Re:afaik... on When is Database Muscle Too Much? · · Score: 0

    Most projects that I have been involved with stored the path to the images (the images on the filesystem) in the database.

  8. Re:GTA 3 on Gamers Drive High-End PC Market · · Score: 0

    ... and about 1Gb of RAM. The number of coffee breaks I get depends on how many times it garbage collects. :)

  9. Re:Is it also theft to just NOT WATCH the ads? on Turner CEO: "PVR Users Are Thieves" · · Score: 0

    ... and the fast-forward button :)

  10. Re:secrets and PGP on Can GnuPG Deliver? · · Score: 0

    Would you not just pick up the phone, confirm they asked for the money and that the bank account information is correct?

  11. Re:Excellent summary (from an expat) on The Price Of Doing Business · · Score: 0

    From the software people I know in Ottawa, they make ~ $60k-$80k Canadian

  12. Re:Wonder if this has anything to do with .. on The Price Of Doing Business · · Score: 0

    Actually, Canadians will use a TN Visa under the NAFTA agreement. These can be renewed on a yearly basis.

  13. CSS version 2? on Copy-Protected Digital VHS · · Score: 0, Interesting

    This smells like an admission of defeat for CSS.

  14. Re:The site is slashdotted ... on Universal Music Prepares for Copy-Protection Complaints · · Score: 0
    Why have you copy-protected the CD?

    UMG is incorporating copy protection into their CDs to assess its viability in protecting the rights of our artists and copyright holders by preventing CD copying and illegal Internet distribution.

    Funny... this is from the people who are ripping off the artists in the first place.

  15. Fallout [1,2,Tactics] on Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future? · · Score: 0

    This reminds me of Power Armor from the Fallout video game series.

  16. Re:Chinese Keyboards on The Internet Shifts East · · Score: 0

    There are tablets like this one where you draw the character and an appropriate double-byte character appears at the cursor.

  17. Re:that, and he needs to put the crack pipe down on The Internet Shifts East · · Score: 0

    That's not quite true. There's tradition and simplified characters. Knowing how to read tradition characters does not mean you know how to read simplified characters.

  18. Re:Thanksgiving on id Games for Linux PDAs · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  19. Re:Licenses Required? on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge · · Score: 1

    The software they use on the Space Shuttle? I recall on a Discovery Channel show about the rigorous testing that code goes through.

  20. Re:Huh? I don't get the fears.... on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Don't you have to have a accredited Engineering degree to even be able to write the P. Eng. exam? I have a Computer Science degree (B.Math) and if my assertion is correct, I couldn't be a P. Eng. if I wanted to be one.

  21. Re:PNG's on PNG Group Unconcerned About Apple's Patent · · Score: 1

    We used them in a project. It supports 24bit color and lossless compression.

  22. Re:Java enums - Why doesn't sun use them. on C# From a Java Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1
    Quote from page 114 from Effective Java
    "The only reason that typesafe enums are not used more heavily in the Java platform APIs is that the typesafe enum pattern was unknown when many of those APIs were written."
  23. Re:Some more information on C# From a Java Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    According to Joshua Bloch's 'Effective Java' on page 104, enumerations should be written as a 'typesafe enum' pattern.

    So the above code should be written as:

    public class Direction {
    private final String name;

    private Direction(String newName) {
    name = newName;
    }

    public String toString() { return name; }

    public static final Direction NORTH = new Direction("north");
    public static final Direction EAST = new Direction("east");
    public static final Direction WEST = new Direction("west");
    public static final Direction SOUTH = new Direction("south");

    }

    Usage:

    Direction wall = Direction.NORTH;

    Now you are comparing real Java classes (pointers to static classes) rather than integers.