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You don't have to be insane to be a progammer...

Excellent cautionary tale with very  useful pointers.
If you code professionally I reccomend this post.



Common Programmer Health Problems

I find many programmers seem to ignore their body's physical state when they're coding, most likely due to the intense concentration required. I'm hoping other people could benefit by simply understanding a few health related problems programming has almost caused me or caused many other people I know, and how I avoided them.

What I do want to cover are a set of particular problems programmers have from their daily profession. These are just simple really obvious things that for some reason programmers don't realize aren't supposed to be happening:

 

• Pain in your wrists from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
• Problems with your eyes from staring at moving print for extended periods.
• Back problems from poor posture, especially in the lower back and upper shoulders.
• Bowel and urinary issues from not crapping and pissing when you should.
• Dehydration from drinking too much caffeine and not enough water.
• Problems with hemorrhoids and the prostate for guys from sitting too much. Yep, I'm gonna go there.
• Vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunshine.
• Sleeping disorders from staying up late and drinking too much coffee.
• General stiffness and soreness from a lack of stretching in general.

SQL injection fun

Barcode Attacks

Why not try it at you favorite supermarket today.

This could be good or catastrophic

(Emphasis Mine)
Microsoft patents anatomically correct avatars: "Accurate avatars will facilitate online honesty"

"The new systems include provisions for sensing physical data (via pedometers, cameras, or health information repositories like Microsoft HealthVault) psychological characteristics (including levels of alertness or mood changes) and even demographic information like "education level, geographic location, age, sex, intelligence quotient, socioeconomic class, occupation, marital/relationship status, religious belief, political affiliation, etc."

"Physical data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication," reads the summary. "Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise."

I think I am scared by the implications of this - only time will tell.
I can see evil lurking. Can You?

What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?

What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?

I Speak Geek

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - FizzBin - The Technical Support Secret Handshake:

A support headache cured.

Computerworld > Microsoft discontinues Windows... 3.x

As of November 1, 2008 Microsoft has stopped issuing licences for Windows 3.x, which debuted in May 1990.

What To Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista

What To Do If You Find Out Your Parents Are Using Vista

What kind of join am I? (example SQL code)

Create Table Fred
( TheID INTEGER
, TheName VARCHAR(20)
)

Create Table Jobs
( TheID INTEGER
, TheJob VARCHAR(20)
)

INSERT INTO Fred VALUES (1, 'Fred')
INSERT INTO Fred VALUES (2, 'Freddy')
INSERT INTO Fred VALUES (3, 'Fredrick')

INSERT INTO Jobs VALUES (1, 'Boss')
INSERT INTO Jobs VALUES (4, 'Slave')

SELECT F.TheID, F.TheName, J.TheID, J.TheJob
FROM Fred F
INNER JOIN Jobs J On J.TheID = F.TheID

SELECT F.TheID, F.TheName, J.TheID, J.TheJob
FROM Fred F
RIGHT JOIN Jobs J On J.TheID = F.TheID

SELECT F.TheID, F.TheName, J.TheID, J.TheJob
FROM Fred F
LEFT JOIN Jobs J On J.TheID = F.TheID

Fashion Slave

ThinkGeek: "Wi-Fi Detector Shirt"

IT truths

Computerworld:

Seven years later, IT truths still hold Frank Hayes' 2000 column still relevant today

Real-time Web Monitor

Real-time Web Monitor: "Akamai monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data we identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density)."

Desktop Icon Util

::: DIManager X :::

a small, practical tool to quickly save and restore the position of desktop icons.

Byte Volume

Measuring Data Transfer Rate in US Teaspoons per Second

MrDee buys Google

MrDeeoogle

80's geek humour

ThinkGeek :: Kitt is a Cylon

Others are afraid to say it but we know the truth. If it's got a sweeping red eye, it's not to be trusted.

Cloning Ron Jacobs

ARCast NZ #1

"How to convince management that letting a Developer become an Architect is a good idea".

great to hear a kiwi accent on a global issue.

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List of fictitious company names used by Microsoft

1,000,000,000,000 is a big number

Chip can do a trillion calculations a second

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, has created a test processor capable of performing a trillion calculations a second, billing the thumbnail-sized chip as the first of its kind.

Ten years ago, the same task would have required 10,000 processors in a 186 sq m computer room, said Intel chief technical officer Justin Rattner.

The device, which isn't for sale, would help Intel test new technologies destined for its mainstream processors in the next five years, Rattner said.

The new chip featured 20 times the processors built into current production models, the type of leap needed to speed technological improvements.

The chip might help Intel play a part in developing products such as cars that know when there's a pedestrian in the road and stop automatically, Rattner said. The test chip has 80 cores.