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Nelek wrote: those are the ones who will "rule the world", when we are not there anymore
Sure, and I am happy not to be around any more. I don't like what the world has turned into today, and after twenty or thirty more years of this "progress" I don't think I will be able to cope with it at all. I'd be happy to go.
I guess my father had the same feelings about how we ruined his world. Probably my grandfathers were thinking along similar lines. They did not turn into grumpy old men complaining about the young people nowadays. They let us make the world the way we found right. So I am saying the same to the young people of today: Do it your way. Just don't expect me to praise it, because it is certainly not my way. You do it your way, and take all the responsibility and the blame.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Do it your way. Just don't expect me to praise it, because it is certainly not my way. You do it your way, and take all the responsibility and the blame.
exactly 
M.D.V. 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Purely based on the posts the majority is over 40... Which is interesting for an area with reputation of 'for young only'...
The age average in my company is really high.
It USED to be a young peoples area when computers where new. But the people that were young when computers were young are getting older as well.
In the future, I think that we will see all ages in the business... I doubt it's going to go back to young people only.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: the value of experience and the development of learning abilities with age
The value of experience cannot be denied. Looking at myself, I see a huge gap between me from 5 years ago and me now. Although I am of the thought that learning more depends on the learners attitude rather than age.
As a famous Chinese proverb goes :
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
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Proverb or not, but only a fool can ask more questions than 100 wise men can answer. Look at Q&A. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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For sure age does not assure nothing - except to be old...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Experience: Recognizing a mistake the second time you make it.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: Experience: Recognizing a mistake the second time you make it.
And avoiding it at the nth if you are lucky enough 
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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
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Too much experience and you start having trouble recognizing anything. 
Jokes aside, thanks for sharing your wisdom.
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One of my t-shirts says so (in a slightly modified wording: Experience - the ability to recognize a mistake when you repeat it). No other t-shirt text has gained more recognizing nods from my friends an colleagues.
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Call that, and raise you one.
I have T shirt: "Honest Lawyer Pub"
I was told that it exists... by a lawyer who gave it to me many years ago.
I used to wear it to my grand daughter's softball games. Many times, lawyers asked where they could get one.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Ok, so now we can proceed with finding out who is the tallest, the shortest, hairiest, heaviest, lightest, slowest, fastest...
As the last discipline we should reserve the IQ tests. I would expect the reversal of the usual pyramid, with the one complete idiot I know here lonely at the bottom tip.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Ok, so now we can proceed with finding out who is the tallest, the shortest, hairiest, heaviest, lightest, slowest, fastest...
Some of us have a life outside Code Project.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Those people are not to be trusted.
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Come on - we know where you live... You call that a life?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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CodeWraith wrote: As the last discipline we should reserve the IQ tests. I would expect the reversal of the usual pyramid, with the one complete idiot I know here lonely at the bottom tip.
If we're gonna go in that direction, what I wanna know is who's going to make the claim for "stable genius".
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Not me. Chaotic evil is much more fun.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I am not the youngest i see! 
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Purely based on the posts the majority is over 40... Which is interesting for an area with reputation of 'for young only'...
Pure speculation from my part: CP started off as the one-stop shop for Windows development (or at least that's how it turned out to be, whether by accident or not). Since Windows, as a platform, is becoming less and less relevant[*], you won't find as many of those just getting started on this site.
[*] My point being, how many are still doing traditional "desktop" development?
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In my experience it is no in line with QA... Lots of web related 'questions'...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'd hypothesize a distinct demographic for QA posters compared to frequent users of other forums/lounge, etc.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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At age 76, biologically, I think I'm up there ... where "up" does not refer to programming experience ... for me. that started past age 40 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 6-Nov-19 4:18am.
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RickZeeland wrote: Don't hear much complaints about it on CodeProject
We sure have a lot of people here that would do it if they could...
Used to be a big problem some years ago - at least until downvoting was disabled in certain forums 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Various people have complained about it in the past. My response is to point out that firstly, you will always get trolls on an open forum, and secondly, votes do not really matter since you cannot convert them to cash.
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