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Next up,
Water is wet.
Sky is blue.
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Except try to find a developer job when you are in the mid 40 or more. Try to justify to the hiring manager that you are worth 1.5-2 times the salary of the 20 y/o fresh college graduate. Try to convince him that you MFC/VB6 skills from mid 90-ies are still relevant.
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That's true, and I feel for your problems (and everyone else "a little older"). That's a big reason why I've stuck with my "main job elsewhere" for so long - fear I wouldn't be able to find anything else. Especially something that pays close.
In that case, it might be worth taking the manager job.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm 63. I can't help but feel like I'm on my last paying programmer job. On the other hand - damn - I forgot what I was gonna say... And now I have go to the bathroom...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If one has a single year's experience - 20 times over, then one has no additional value over that 20-year-old. The point is that at 40, one should have 20 years' experience.
There are many faster, sharper, programmers than I among the 20-year-old set. The difference between me and them is that I have the patience to analyze a problem properly, and the experience to know when a design is likely to run into problems. This makes me more than worth my keep.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Hitting it with a hammer: $1. Knowing where to hit: $500"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Insert your face into TV shows or movies with just a single photograph Ah yes, I remember when I starred in The Titanic
I still think the door was big enough for two.
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Are you talking about the ship, or John's ex?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Titanic could move on its own, without being tempted by food, so no, not my ex... this time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft updates its plans for Adobe Flash on the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. In lieu of flowers, send celebrations
It's almost like Flash support is part of some shared component...
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Quote: Colleen Williams, senior program manager for Microsoft Edge, said: We ain' a'gonna do nuthin'. If'n it don' done work in chrominum, it won' work in the browser we don' make neither.
She then added: Y'all.
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That, Sir, was a mortal insult to all illiterate-Americans! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Who 'dat?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Good, glad to see the back of it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yay! May it die the death of a billion cuts!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A new discovery could allow light and sound waves to be stored intact for an indefinite period of time and then direct it toward a desired location on demand. "Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."
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Obligatory Homer quote[^].
But it looks like they want to replace DVDs with sponges. It'll never catch on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It will if you consider your data to be sponge-worthy.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It’s hard to deny that Microsoft is letting its tablet mode die on the vine. It works fine as a tablet, as long as you also have a keyboard
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But their desktop UI will remain 87% tablet/phone UI, undoubtedly.
Or they could 'fess up fully, and get rid of all the baby blocks, ribbons, title-bar-less windows, button-less buttons, and other cr@p that they introduced solely and only to emulate the tablet/phone interfaces of other companies' tablets and phones -- and all of which have been shown, time and time again, to cause major productivity hits and a huge loss of focus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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here! here!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah, they will bring back the classical menu on Excel. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Why then, do we read of agile’s death? Three reasons: phony ads, misunderstanding ordinary movement of ideas through society, and looking at the wrong curves. Agile needs braaaaaaaaains
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Heart of agile?
Heart of dorkness, more like.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lock-in isn't a simple true-or-false matter: avoiding being locked into one aspect often locks you into another. Get locked and loaded
I'll get locked later.
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