yeah so where exactly do I have to apply? :)

In my opinion the day consists of 3 thirds. 8 hours sleep 8 hours work 8 hours freetime It does not matter at all what you do for your free time as long as it's something you like. Be it online games, be it sports, be it going out with friends in a pub. The only important thing in life is that you are happy, cause you only got 1 life. So if you can find a job that's interesting for you (as is software design for me) and if you get a good mattress so that your sleep is nice as well then you should definately also get yourself a hobby that you find good. I'm also playing online games, and during time at university I played probably too much. But as soon as you get to real work, you will find the proper balance. Although I have to say that working as a programmer AND playing online games means you are more than 8 hours on the computer every workday.. that is kind of bad. Find some balance between computer games and other social activity :)

That is definately an absolute horror. I hate it when people think they are smart because they write such code. It is totally unmaintainable and unreadable to anyone (including the author of it a couple of weeks after he wrote it!)

Smells like teen spirit!! :cool:

Found this in my colleagues' code today. We had a good laugh on that :)

\\ some code

var item = values.TryGet(3);

var dt = (DateTime)values[0];
var tomorrow = new DateTime(2012, 4, 26); // DateTime.Today.AddDays(1);

if(item != null)
\\ some more code

we really seem to complain on a very high level if computer-game hackers get into jail for developing an aimbot for Counter Strike. ;)

I do not think this has anything to do with age. This is rather a question of discipline. I've seen "old" programmers who do not write comments at all as well as some which write a lot of comments. The same goes for young programmers. I think this has also something to do with skill, because programmers who comment a lot (and do this the right way) know how important it will be for future development.

phannon86 wrote:

Another thing though, it's taken iOS 4 years to get to where it's at, to get pretty close, it's taken WP7 10 months.

Hm, I haven't seen it from that point yet. So far I was only thinking that I should have rather bought a different phone. But Maybe you're right and Mango is really a huge improvement.

modified on Friday, August 5, 2011 8:28 AM

Of course Android will always be more configurable. But that is not the problem. I'm talking about very basic configuration issues and bugs in WP7. For instance: The marketplace search is extremely poor. They already improved it in some update, but it is still so poor that you cannot sort apps by rating or other very simple stuff. In WP7 you cannot configure which apps shall have access to GPS, Internet and other ressources. Instead you can just disallow GPS for all apps. This is really annoying: I want my maps app to know my GPS location, but I do not want Angry Birds to know it. Also images and videos come only with extremely few features: you cannot see the properties of an image, for instance its format. Also you cannot place pictures into folders, they are all just there.. in an unordered way. Another bug: If you get a phone call in the middle of writing a text messagt, that message will be lost no matter if you accept the phone call or cancel. And the list goes on and on.. there is still so much to do until WP7 becomes as good as iOS/Android. I have to say that I have not yet read the entire Mango update list, so maybe some of my complaints have already been sorted out. :)

What exactly makes it so much better than the previous version? I don't really see the absolute killer feature. There is still so much you simply cannot configure under WP7, whereas with iOS and Android you can configure almost anything.

You know what happened to me? I had this nice flat screen monitor, however the fonts were quite blurry because it was a very cheap monitor. In my last project I needed to code something to do with validation. Basically a textbox should be highlighted in yellow when the input is not valid. Somehow, the textbox did not turn yellow and I tried to debug my program for 1 hour, then I realized that the monitor was not able to display a certain kind of yellow. Finally got a new one (after debating with the IT support service for 3 months) and now I can see yellow as well as any other colour. :)

I particularly like the part "Perks: Vending Machines". Wow. Just an amazing perk. That must indeed be "one of the best employers in the world" :laugh:

Actually, I have heard of a guy who has this problem every day! In fact his job IS this problem! Read this: http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/tickets1.htm[^]

modified on Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:42 AM