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Saturday, August 02, 2003
McDonald's is testing new gear that eliminates human burger-flippers for robotic fridge-to-grill systems. via Link
[Boing Boing Blog]
Okay, if even burger flippers are going to be joining the unemployment roles due to productivity gains, what's so unthinkable about European-style work hours and vacations?
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Bad software. It’s everywhere. I know a guy who stinks as a programmer. He makes about 60k a year, and at least ¼ of his time is spent maintaining a particular pile of crap program that he birthed into this world 5 years ago. He’s constantly welding more junk on to get it to do the latest thing that his company “needs”. The thing is a complete monstrosity. How it hasn’t collapsed under its own weight is a miracle. And if the guy ever leaves, it will probably take a new developer a good 3 months of doing nothing else, just to figure out the basics of this (shudder) application. There’s no documentation, no source control, hell, where there are comments they’re really just disinformation at this point.
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Chris Coulter proclaims August 19th to be The International Tablet PC Meetup Day. Pick a meeting place in your area and spread the word....
[Incremental Blogger]
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AT&T GSM(TM)/GPRS General Discussion: NEW BIG GSM National Coverage Map
[Brian Jepson's Weblog ]
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Recent code:
Recent writing:
Review of Borland's C# Builder 1.0
Recommended .NET Programming Books
Programming Sabre with Java, C#, and XML
Best Practices for .NET Architecture
Windows Server 2003 as an Application Server
Toolroll:
Motion Computing M1200 Tablet PC
Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect
Rational Rose Enterprise Edition 7
T Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition
