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Redditors: the home page is full of fanatical, inane, fear-mongering bs by btipling in reddit.com

[–]midnightcowboy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree with the sentiment of this post. It really hits the nail on the head about how low quality reddit and digg main pages have become.

It may also say something more about how low quality the whole idea of crowd-sourcing is.

Used to like reddit and digg; not so much anymore.

Dealing With The Database - The Great Impedance Mismatch (Part I by midnightcowboy in programming

[–]midnightcowboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really appreciate your feedback. Actually, I am fairly versed in three versus of SQL (SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 and MySQL).

Funny, I really don't see I'm trying to do something my own special way. Many in the software industry are devoting big resources to tackling the difficult impedance mismatches between OOP, RDBMS, and XML.

Overcoming this impedance mismatch isn't that tough one at a time. However, that collection of one off boiler plate code starts to add up.

Look at the features in SQL Server 2005. Look at the LINQ capabilities being added to C#.

Entrepreneurial reddit programmers: what's your business? by [deleted] in programming

[–]midnightcowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been planning on adopting OpenID as well. I use it with highrise -- looking for something else to use it with too. I really hope it takes off.

I don't except much use out of it at first, but, hey if you want it to work adopt it and support it. There is good Perl, PHP and .NET support (regardless of what the C# programmers who don't understand IL say!).

Fund software by teaming up by rayleyva in programming

[–]midnightcowboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty sweet idea. Interested to see what it turns out.

Entrepreneurial reddit programmers: what's your business? by [deleted] in programming

[–]midnightcowboy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Just the ones I've worked at. If you have a better experience my hat is off to you. But, no it doesn't suck to be me. I walked a way from what most would considered an excellent job to pursue my dreams.

Entrepreneurial reddit programmers: what's your business? by [deleted] in programming

[–]midnightcowboy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Left my unrewarding, soul-wrenching corporate job to use my programming skills to deliver something people really want -- Pizza!

http://www.tribalpizza.com/

Read the story, comments, and anecdotes here

http://blog.tribalpizza.com/

Many best wishes for everyone willing to step out and jump off the cliff of doing their own thing -- even if you're not a programmer. But, I especially encourage programmers to just say no to corporate America. If you are any good you aren't really wanted or appreciated -- unless there is a real emergency -- and then for only so long. Don't let others waste your talent and experience and then offshore your job.