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A senior developer is one who, when he needs to search the web, automatically starts to type altavista.com
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I started with that search engine! 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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It's a fair bet that a lot of us did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And we watched Ninja Turtles.
Jeremy Falcon
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Watched?
The kiddies watched.
We'd read the comics.
We sneered at the kiddies who watched.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Didn't have time to read... I had video games to play.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pretty sure that was his point. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Me too. Sorry, shouldn't that be "AOL" 
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Altavista was awesome. Do you remember how it returned ftp results? I guess now that that's considered the "dark net."
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webcrawler!! Don't forget the cool logo for webcrawler!
Jeremy Falcon
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But they couldn't get it down to 32x32, so they were doomed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Jeremy Falcon
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Search the web? We know how to read a manual. Heck in most cases we wrote the bally thing!
veni bibi saltavi
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A ploy by HR. When there's a senior there are also mediors and juniors, people you can pay less.
Ultimately, it's just a stupid label people get when they're old, have worked in the industry for a while or have worked for the company for a while.
You'd expect them to have deep knowledge of software and/or hardware engineering, but judging from the "seniors" I know it isn't really a prerequisite 
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Sander Rossel wrote: but judging from the "seniors" I know it isn't really a prerequisite
Most people don't take their education as seriously as others. Welcome to life.
Jeremy Falcon
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a 40+ developer who knows how to get rid off all bugs and fergot to get team leader or manager 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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At the very least, a minimum of seven [paid] years in a single discipline.
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One that seyz: "I've seen ur code, and it stinks."
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If you don't see him(her) in diaper, then he(she) is a senior.
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I think it's relative to the number of years one has been practicing the craft, typically at least 7 years imho. It implies that one has enough knowledge to solve problems at most levels without handholding which apparently is not always true. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: is not always true
Unfortunately, there is so much hand holding going on it almost looks like one of the old "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercials.
I find it somewhat ironic that people lose their jobs to outsourcing only to end up teaching the people that got the outsourced jobs how to perform the jobs they lost.... for free.
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As a senior developer you know when to use what and you know why something should be used. Domain knowledge helps but even if you don't have specific domain knowledge that you can acquire over the course of time. As a senior developer you know that you don't know everything and there are people better than you. You learn from your mistakes and you try to improve yourself. Keep on learning and improving your skill is very important in this industry. I have seen people with 15 years experience but you feel that they have done the same thing in all those 15 years. As technology progress new becomes old and old becomes legacy that no one should touch but as a senior developer you still poke around those legacy code. I have done few development work were all they had was a legacy code ( systems that are written in Basic and FoxPro ) and no documentation and my task was to uplift it in new technology looking at the code. You should not be afraid to understand how old technology works even though you will never write something in it. And I am still an Analyst Programmer. Should I consider myself senor developer ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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A Developer that uses a cane?
One that can take is teeth off?
Paulo Gomes
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
—Bill Gates
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One that takes the blame for the team.
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