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I know someone who does, and my only wisdom for him is: don't
He got kind of stuck in his old Clipper days and doesn't seem to understand OOP.
Like just enough OOP to make it complicated, but not nearly enough to make it work nice and easy.
I'm now maintaining his code and getting paid so I guess I shouldn't complain too much
I guess the advice would be, keep learning, don't get stuck in old habits.
Come to think of it, I have similar stories for 20-somethings, 30-somethings, 40-somethings and 50-somethings.
I guess age isn't really an issue
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Sander Rossel wrote: Come to think of it, I have similar stories for 20-somethings, 30-somethings, 40-somethings and 50-somethings.
I guess age isn't really an issue
There are plenty of people out there who have 1 year's experience - 25 times over.
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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Nicely said
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Nearly but not quite there yet. But I'm intrigued as to why you're asking about a specific age? Is it because you're there yourself, or because you perceive 65 to be some sort of milestone? Does your employer treat you differently after 65? Your co-workers? (Why would your co-workers even know your age anyway...?). If they ask, just write down "41". Let 'em assume decimal, if they're that narrow minded. They'll cut you some slack too; if you're 41 and look like that, you deserve it!
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I adjust the base so my age is always 42.
(Where does it say that the base has to be integral?)
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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67 and still enjoy it
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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MSBassSinger wrote: ...
Any bits of wisdom you want to share about being a developer over 65, or you younger folks having to work with us older developers? 🙂
Don't tell anyone you know COBOL.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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This could have been a rant, but it's a question that I am serious about getting an answer for rather than multiple downvotes from Stackoverflowers who have too much free time and way too much bile:
I love noir fiction for the use of similes (and metaphors, but they lack useful key phrases for this exercise). I want to create a script of some kind to scan through a text corpus and pull out the words in a sentence which follow the word "like" to the end of the sentence. Or "as if". I haven't used grep, sed and awk for many years now but memory tells me that's the fast way to write this little script.
Am I totally on the wrong track?
It's a newbie's question for sure, which is why I won't take it to SO.
Raised by wolves in the stacks of the public library
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You can use my StringParser[^] to do exactly this.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using RavSoft;
namespace StringParserExample
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string corpus = @"
I'm crafty like a fox. But it's not as if anyone cares.
Covered as an examine so regular of. Ye astonished friendship
remarkably like a potentiometer. Windows admire matter praise
you as if they really care. Delivered ye sportsmen zealously
like an elephant who never forgets. Nay any article enabled
musical shyness yet sixteen yet blushes.";
List<string> similies = new List<string>();
string phrase = null;
StringParser sp = new StringParser(corpus);
while (sp.skipToEndOf(" like a ")) {
if (sp.extractTo(".", ref phrase)) {
similies.Add(phrase);
}
}
sp.resetPosition();
while (sp.skipToEndOf(" as if ")) {
if (sp.extractTo(".", ref phrase)) {
similies.Add(phrase);
}
}
foreach(string similie in similies.OrderBy(p => p)) {
Console.WriteLine(similie);
}
}
}
} /ravi
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Thank you! I will give this a try tonight!
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Holy sh!t
What would your comment have been if it had been a new member?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'm guessing the same.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yessir.
/ravi
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nice ! - I don't recall seeing that .. it's a pity the image links in your docco are messed up
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Yes, they've been 404 for years. Will fix - thanks.
/ravi
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Nice work. Hadn't seen that before. An easy 5 from me!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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I wouldn't ask a question there either as the one time I did I got told it was a stupid idea, yet here we are doing both of those things all the time. It was how to upload files to a web-site before frameworks handled this.
I also don't answer questions there because someone will always come along and downvote it, even if it answers the question perfectly.
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Next time please use the Quick Answers[^] or the specific forum from the Discussion Boards[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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For those who've been blessed with having to use Git, what's your preferred UI (if any)?
/ravi
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Visual Studio.
It works fine for me.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Visual Studio is not the best UI, but it is the one that best integrates code editing with Git version control.
Sorry for my bad English
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It does the job, and it stays out of the way. What more do I want?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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