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What you want as a young coder is a mentor who will help you grow into your own coder with your own style (still following style guidelines of course) rather than simply "experienced people".
Now before you ask me "isn't experience people the same as a mentor" I can absolutely assure you that it's not. A mentor will help you go from A to B, providing tips and pointers along the way, but letting you follow your own journey. "Experienced People" as you are putting it will already know the way from A to B, and it'll become "my way or the highway", and when you are doing that all you learn is how to follow procedures, not how to work out how to get from B to C by yourself.
Also get used to researching things. A good coder is someone who is constantly growing, learning new methods and ways to add to their toolkit and that means constant research, just don't be suckered in by the latest and greatest fad. Make sure what you pick are things which will add value to you as a developer in the eye's of your clients (be it your employer, be it the client which you're outsourced to), forget about obtaining "geek credentials", at the end of the day, they are not worth a thing.
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Thanks.It was an informative One.A mentor should have a lots of experience and mind to teach.As a already if I had a experienced person in our team,I can surely approach as we know each we can communicate easily and solve problems and can give great tips and tricks.As we don't have contact with even a experience person where can i mentor who can help me build my programming skills providing effective and effiecient ways.
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A good mentor does not have to be working in the same team, or even the same company. When I first started in the industry, my mentor was actually in another team, he probably had about +10 years on me, however before you get too hung up on the years thing, number of years is a relatively unimportant concept.
Don't feel that just because a person is double your age that they actually have anything they can teach.
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Thanks.harvyk0 wrote: Don't feel that just because a person is double your age that they actually have anything they can teach. I don't feel that way age is not a measure of our experience.As somebody start coding High School,College,after trying another jobs,some part time.So age does not matters with the experience we gain.But we can get experience with age only.As we all know we don't get 15 years experience in 14.But the mettle of experience matters.
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I'm reliably informed that "Protectionist" won
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I'm assuming this was an athletic cup?
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Hay now, don't be a neigh-sayer. Put a reign on that negativity! He just wants to pony up and get in the race. His question is only to harness some creativity you know. But I'd rather bail on this conversation and get running out of the gates.
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I canter gree with you
Hoof hearted?
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Yeeeeeeahhhahahhahhahahahahahaaha I am a winner!!!!!
in the company sweep. 3rd place. doubled my money
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hmmm, flogging a dead horse comes to mind (it just didn't know it was dead until 5 minutes after the race)
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This time it was with my wife's hard drive, and included business and personal files that I didn't have backed up.
After the first time, I could attribute it to a fluke, but twice seems to be a little bit more solid than superstition. Of course, I have a ton of random hard drives without any worthwhile data on them, and those will spin up without a problem after sitting around for years.
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Quote: putting a hard drive in the freezer has saved my bacon.
Why you keep bacon in the freezer?
ON a more serious note - really?! I have a couple of hard drives sitting at home that are rubbish but have data on - if I only had a bloody computer to put 'em in I might try the freezer thing - any tips? Id you put it in a bag or something?
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No, just put it in the freezer for a couple of hours and it spun up. I was able to get a bunch of files off of it, but not a full image.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I have a couple of hard drives sitting at home that are rubbish but have data on
- if I only had a bloody computer to put 'em in I might try the freezer thing -
any tips?
MFM or RLE?
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You put your wife in the freezer? Did it fix her?
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She's given him the cold shoulder ever since
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Shoulder of bacon?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Australia seems like such a fun place to live.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Australia seems like such a fun place to live.
It does...The last wild wild west (south of Alaska)
One of the few countries I wouldn't mind visiting...
Ken
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You had better make it quick before the nanny state completely standardises the place. And you you get redneck/bogan everywhere!
Don't forget Oz has only 4 major cities and a few minor ones in an area bigger than the US. The UK can fit 3 times into NSW. There is one hell of a lot of EMPTY in the country.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The reality is that Australia more normal and civilised then some of the things you see in the paper. These are just some outback rednecks you get anywhere...
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RossMW wrote: The reality is that Australia more normal and civilised then some of the things you see in the paper.
Well, hopefully that can be said of the US as well. However, to some extent, Australia just seems more "relaxed" about things.
Marc
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