Politics

How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!
-William Butler Yeats

Do All Software Companies Suck?

Is there a software company that doesn't...

- ship software before it's ready because they'd rather book the revenue than have happy, returning customers?

- sell software that hasn't been written even though the customer is led to believe the software is written and stable?

- underestimate the time necessary to write stable software and overestimate the demand for said software?

- treat customers as expendable?

- treat employees as expendable?

- ignore the input of its architects/developers?

- put quantity before quality?

C# Singleton

class Singleton
{
    private static volatile Singleton _instance;
    private static object _lock = new object();

    private Singleton() { }

    public static Singleton Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                // Locking makes Singleton thread-safe
                lock (_lock)
                {
                    if (_instance == null)
                    {
                        _instance = new Singleton();
                    }
                }
            }
            return _instance;
        }
    }
}