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Member 11683251 wrote: Terrorbites
I am scared! 
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If spinning drive capacity increased at the same pace at SSD's, we'd all have 64TB drives by now. At least.
Hard drive manufacturers really need to get their act together.
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Yeah, but think of the requirements:
In order to maintain 2.5 inch sizing, you would need platters as thin as parchment; a breakthrough in magnetic domain management/read/write; a really fast head assembly, etc.
SSDs are the coming thing, and I have a box of 2 - 4 TB 2.5 and 5.25 inch mechanical hard drives I may be able to move at $30 each 
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stoneyowl2 wrote: In order to maintain 2.5 inch sizing
Most desktop hard drives are still 3.5", you're thinking laptop hard drives or SSDs. I'm not suggesting spinning drives must match the physical dimensions of SSDs.
Besides, most drive bays are still 5.25" wide. I'm all for bringing back the old drive format if this is what's needed to increase capacity. Or use two hard drive bays, just like some video cards can occupy 2 PCI slots.
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OK. I'll bite. Pay me $30 each and I will take them off your hands! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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She'll be dead within a couple of years, so why worry?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't you know she is immortal.
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Where have you been? That was announced yonks ago!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I know. I couldn't resist it.
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What I want to know is how she is going to get all that hair inside the helmet?
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She might need to shorten or even to be bold. 
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Stephen Gonzalez wrote: She might need to shorten or even to be bold.
I thin you mint bold. 
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Quote: I thin you mint bold
No. You missing the point again. "Shaved"
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 Results[^]
I don't care if this is a Leslie, so save your breath. With that said, I love this statistical research stuff, and I found the results this year to be interesting. Javascript is most popular programming language, stuff like that...
The chart on Star Wars vs. Star Trek was hilarious, but predictable. Old farts love Star Trek more than Star Wars, but we all knew that already.
Enjoy, or not.
Stack Overflow Research[^]
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It's been while since I saw it. Indeed that a good statistics.
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Be careful, though. Take VIII. Desktop Operating System for example. If you tab through the past few years, the migration looks striking: "Mac OS X is taking over the world!"
But if you add up the total Windows OS bars in each year, you get a different picture: There has been virtually no shifts in 4 years between the big three (Win ~ 50% / OSX ~ 20-25% / Lin ~ 20% // 2013-2016). The visual design of this particular graph is remarkably deceiving.
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These stats are ridiculous.
Most developers are between 25-29 and yet the second most years of experience are 11+ years. OK, I get that 14 year old's are doing stuff, but I wouldn't count that as "professional" experience.
This isn’t necessarily professional experience
Hah.
Then, 28% (the largest group) consider themselves full-stack web developers, but in the Programmers, Engineers, and Developers chart, "Full-Stack Developer" ranks 5th. How does that correlate???
Maybe I'm just annoyed because I rank in the 3% age group. 
Marc
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0.8% 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Marc Clifton wrote: Maybe I'm just annoyed because I rank in the 3% age group.
I found that stat rather depressing (I'm currently knocking rather hard on that particular door).
Bearing in mind that there must have been a point when I worked with people who were older than myself, I find myself wondering where they've all gone. I suspect they fall into the following groups:
1) People who bothered to save some money and actually got to retire (curse them for their foresight and diligence!)
2) People who optimised one query too many and now live in the happy house.
3) People who decided to abandon their practical skills and became project managers or something even less useful.
4) People who realised that they'd always wanted to be a lion tamer or some such thing and went off and did it after a bad day on the Javascript.
5) People who died prematurely from a combination of eye-strain and a primarily pizza-based diet.
Most of these outcomes seem a tad sub-optimal to me, yet still I meet youngsters who want to be developers. The world gets crazier by the day!
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PeejayAdams wrote: Bearing in mind that there must have been a point when I worked with people who were older than myself, I find myself wondering where they've all gone.
When I was 24, one of "older" people died of lung cancer from smoking Camel cigs. He was 35 
But in general, I've always worked with older people, particularly hardware engineers, and quite enjoyed it and learned a lot, even about software development, particularly testing. I've also almost always been the sole development "team", whether as an employee or a consultant.
Now I find myself with three of 20 - 24 year olds, and I wonder, where is the respect? Where is the interest? And I wonder, was I like that, disrespectful, uninterested, eager to prove my abilities?
The last point yes, the first two, I would say no, but you'd have to ask the older folks for their version.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now I find myself with three of 20 - 24 year olds, and I wonder, where is the respect? Where is the interest? And I wonder, was I like that, disrespectful, uninterested, eager to prove my abilities?
I think that very much depends on individuals, I've worked with some great youngsters and a few who were, well, let's just say, not so great.
There may be a difference in that people these days leave school much later. By the time I started as a developer at around 24, I'd had four or five other jobs over 8 years so was a bit more used to dealing with older folks. I'd also (quite literally) shoveled s*** for a living so didn't have the arrogance that comes with a shiny new degree in Computer Science. That said, I still had that bit of an egotistical streak that said "I can be better at this than you old-timers."
To a certain extent, that's a natural and indeed, positive trait in younger people and it needs to be there. The question is more one of how it manifests itself - "I can learn from you and go on to become better" is a perfectly healthy attitude whereas "Leave it out, Granddad! You can't teach me anything" is not quite so constructive. We can probably guess which ones will still be around to get called Granddad ...
Rather amusingly, my sister - a primary school teacher - was recently asked in all innocence by one of her 10 year-old charges "Miss? Did they have technology when you were young?"
As I remember it, we did have the wheel but were still struggling with perpetual motion so things can't have changed all that much
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6) One flew over the cuckoo's nest
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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0.8% 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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