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Friday Joke 0 48 (7/23/2004 9:36:55 PM) comp.programming We've heard talk about Code Monkeys before.... A tourist walks into a pet shop in Silicon Valley, and is browsing round the cages on display. While he's there, another customer walks in and says to the sho... Programmer

Indexing Strings 6 39 (7/20/2004 3:15:41 PM) comp.programming Here's a Question. How do you synchronize Strings and their indexes? ==========snip and return above portion with reply========== Here's the problem I'm taking a break from to ask this question. I have a se... Programmer

Ta Ta For Now? 1 46 (5/14/2004 9:10:11 PM) comp.programming Y'all- Some of you might remember I mentioned a while back that they closed my department, and that I was looking for work elsewhere in the corp. That's now a done deal. Found an interesting and exciting gro... Chris

StrikeOut 0 58 (4/7/2004 7:57:04 PM) comp.programming This is quite amusing: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/strikeout/ -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |________________... Programmer

Flame Bait! Windows vs: The Unices II 68 38 (1/15/2004 9:03:30 PM) comp.programming Here's another one. Happened just this week. Again, my *impression* is this would have been much more painful--if even doable--in the Unices. Got a new task providing a label-printing solution for a plant. C... Programmer

BigNum -- BigFrac 73 49 (12/23/2003 5:13:06 PM) comp.programming Okay, I'm convinced! I started playing around with BigFracs last night, and (probably, re-)discovered some fascinating things. First, checking, do I understand the "basic" or "usual" way this is done: BigInts... Programmer

Urak-Hai Haiku 0 55 (12/23/2003 3:43:07 PM) comp.programming Trolling *can* be fun But some Trolls are just too much Call *that* Troll an Orc -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NUL... Programmer

Never Wrestle With Pigs 9 42 (12/22/2003 10:37:39 PM) comp.programming You get filty. And the pig loves it. -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |__________________________________________... Programmer

BigNum -- Floating Point 65 37 (12/15/2003 9:31:15 PM) comp.programming Been moving my BigInt package into a BigNum package (that is, giving it "floating point"), and I'm considering implementations. I'm looking for some discussion from previous implementors and some pointers to g... Programmer

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Amateur (working) Programmer, looking for advice 12 42 (10/14/2005 3:09:12 PM) comp.programming I'm currently employed as the lone programmer at a small business that is doing ok, but not great. I'm young (21), and I have no computer science degree, but I've been employed here for two years and have been... TheWeeg (10)

Future in computer science/programming? / About me... 32 32 (10/17/2005 1:29:19 AM) comp.programming First of all, I am 15 years old. I got my first computer in 2001; it was a Windows ME with fairly good specs for the time. I had already used other peoples computers and knew how to use one. Soon, though, af... flaran (20)

Java or C++? 321 148 (10/17/2005 8:39:44 PM) comp.programming I have a question just for the hell of it... If you had to choose between Java and C++, which would you choose? Why and why not? ... flaran (20)

Where to get (buy?) smilies for my application. 7 57 (10/29/2005 9:25:42 PM) comp.programming Hi, Since some while now I'm developing my own chat application. It works great by now and I'm thinking about making it publicly available as freeware or something. The trouble is that it uses smilies that I s... M.Husseini (3)

Programming: Not stressful? Yeah, right... 46 42 (10/30/2005 4:32:31 AM) comp.programming Whoever said programming is a low stress hobby/career has obviously never attempted to programm in ASM. For months I was debating whether or not I should learn ASM, and for some stupid reason, I decided to b... Dave

What languages have huge standard libraries? 22 35 (11/16/2005 4:24:08 AM) comp.programming Common Lisp has ~1000 functions in its standard library. I recall that Python was said to have a huge standard library though probably not as huge as clisp. What languages have huge standard libraries, which ... casioculture (506)

Write to unused memory-mapped IO address (0xfffffffc) 4 76 (11/27/2005 5:16:42 PM) comp.programming In some assembly code I am writing I decrement the frame_pointer with 4 after executing a store word instruction in a loop: sw $2, 0($30) addi $30, $0, -4 # fp point to next element in a. When the program... asdad (44)

Exponential complexity of combinatorial algorithms 25 42 (12/4/2005 5:45:17 AM) comp.programming Here's a somewhat dumb question. Why do combinatorial algorithms have an exponential time complexity? The formula for n-combination-r (aka enn-cee-arr) is (n!) /((r!)*((n-r!))). What is the relationship betw... masood.iqbal (34)

JPMorgan Chase to strengthen offshoring to India 121 78 (12/6/2005 1:58:11 PM) comp.programming JPMorgan Chase to strengthen offshoring to India http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=181952&n_date=20051205&cat=World In yet another instance of international businesses moving operations to I... NOR (1)

3 questions for you programmers out there, about programming careers 41 38 (12/14/2005 11:05:38 AM) comp.programming I have today 3 questions about programming, germane to comp.programming, which, *pace* Heathfield, is about general issues about programming and programmers. I received a recruitment email which said "US Citiz... spinoza1111 (3250)