User: rtayek

Re:file transfer

On: Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem

yes, you can buy the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..., but be sure to get cables with both serial and parallel connectors and take a look at http://www.minuszerodegrees.ne... thanks

Yes, I did that in the late 60's

On: One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983

Worked at Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton. Sent punched cards off to an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... in Culver City and got the printout back the next day. Not exact;y doing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... back then.

mutilthread?

On: Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters?

depending on where your time is going, consider splitting the file up into pieces and run each piece in a different thread.

Re:New Important Design Patterns?

On: Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma

i believe that the consensus is that the 23 *design* patterns in the gof (plus or minus a few) are orthogonal and complete.

a few more flavours

On: Best Grad Program For a Computer Science Major?

there's a couple more flavours, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395763/is-a-software-engineer-a-computer-science-major/396348#396348

design principles

On: PhD Research On Software Design Principles?

you said design. look at cohesion and coupling from the structured programming era. also uncle bob's o-o design principles: http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/Principles_and_Patterns.pdf. in architecture, the dependency inversion principle and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Principle in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control frameworks like spring. you should expect to see o-o design patterns

xyzzy

On: What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

adventure, then empire on a dec pdp-10

Re:It is called FUBAR

On: Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You

....but there are times where nothing fits but "WTF?!?"

in polite company, i sometimes render the f as frog.

thanks

you may want to look at this

On: A Windows-Based Packaging Mechanism

http://ifcx.org/wiki/AntAnywhere.html - not quite what you are doing, but might be relevant.

thanks

Re:I code C# for a living

On: Java 1.5 vs C#

i code java for a living (and prefer it). but java does have some catching up to do). just comparing the langages: the generics are almost useless, no operator overloading, and how would you do custom attributes in java? like: http://www.mantrotech.com/technology/csharp/articl e_customattribute.asp

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sorta normal, been going on for *many* years

On: The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators

most programmers (and engineers) actually want to make something work (we *like* it). naict, most everyone else wants to build an empire or has some other agenda. so rhis result is not surprising.

xp was invented to combat this tendency at the development hierarchy level. maybe someone needs to invent xa?

no, beware the enginering metaphor!

On: Are Programmers Engineers?

read this excellent article at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=506218.506 237 or http://tayek.com/~ray/xptools/p27-wang.html

patterns

On: Complex GUI Architecture Discussion?

interesting topic. this variation on mvc might be useful: http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/mgm.htm also perhaps: http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/Downloads/ADA5_9pdf s/Hunt5_9.pdf, http://www.jaydeetechnology.co.uk/planetjava/tutor ials/swing/The-Visitor-Framework.PDF, http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/droberts/evolve.ht ml, http://www.rolemodelsoft.com/patterns/javaextend.h tm hth hth

Making the Case Against Software Patents?

On: Making the Case Against Software Patents?

throw this article entitles "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm" at http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF to the econ or legal types. thanks