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Decided to change my career from structural engineering to software when I was in the last year in my study. It wasn't too late. But I wish I've made this decision earlier. 
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If I could travel back to 1980 with the knowledge I have now I believe I would be retired by now. I mean I would make a killing selling amazon and rambus short in 2000. How about enron? And then in the early 80s Intel and Microsoft were pretty cheap, although the problem is then I was 8. How about buying eBay just after the ipo? Or QQQ in 1996? What about sports betting, before the season began? I do remember the outcome of some years.
John
modified on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:04 PM
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Yes, and also what salaries and inflation will do.
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So you voted No and would become a stock swindler trader? 
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I voted yes definitely. But there really did not have a choice that fit exactly what I was thinking.
Paul Watson wrote: would become a stock swindler trader?
Either path I would take given the ability to take my knowledge back 25+ years I still see myself programming. Possibly not as my profession but as a hobby like what it started as in the early 1980s when I was a kid.
John
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In investment banking, IT always works for the traders, they are the white knights, developers the humble butler.
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Back in college, I should have taken classes like modern dance.
Not that I'm particularly interested in modern dance, but:
1) The class will be almost entirely female
2) They'd be dressed ever so nicely.*
3) We'd often be in close contact, creating a comfort level
4) We'd appear to have a common interests
5) And I could help them with their homework
n) Etc. Etc. &Etc.
Accusations of being a 'sexist pig' are welcome.
I acknowledge my animal nature; embrace my libido.
I am free. I am free. Free.
. . . . sorry - I didn't want to let that out.
* I was in school when bra's were completely out of fashion - and it was a glorious time.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Only if I understood women 20 years ago as I do now. Instead of going years without a date (and shedding a lot of tears over it) I would have always had at least 1 girl, probably a half dozen. But that is life. 
John
modified on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:08 AM
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As a software developer working for a well-dressed female manager you're pretty much in the same boat. Except that the comfort level comes from you adhering to her deadlines, no matter how unrealistic 
And yes, you'd be helping with her homework too - evaluating vendors, components etc 
On the plus side, there would be many late nights together... well you and her requirements spec. 
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I think I hit upon a course of action for you to explore.
Reading your bio, I noted you referred to yourself in the third person.
Could this be symbolic of a lack of confidence?
Change the bio - to first person - maybe even first person plural.
Then get out their and live that first-person plurality where your manager can take notice.
(also, a rolled up sock in . . . ).
(Let me know how this works out)
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Should work out great for us.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Balboos wrote: classes like modern dance
One lost hour each week. More than 40 lost hours every year. You would have been bored, stressed out by loud stupid music, always wishing to get home to you electronic paradise soon.
The class will be almost entirely female
A whole class of superficial girls who backbite you in the locker room and make up rumors about "the strange guy taking lady subjects".
We'd often be in close contact, creating a comfort level
They'd get more than enough contact at school, so they wouldn't want any more contact at home.
Balboos wrote: We'd appear to have a common interests
...until you start talking bout your real interests.
And I could help them with their homework
...and repair their things, clean their computers from viruses, and so on.
Be prepared for rumors like "he doesn't like girls" for the case you stop repairing their tings.
This statement is false.
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Not a good attitude, at all.
The hour? Only a small portion of girl-watching allocation - and guaranteed to have highly visually rewarding experience.
Superficial Girls? That simply translates to no committments. At that point in my life, the idea is rather promising.
Strange Guy taking lady subjects ? Nah. Hot guy with beautiful smile and nice ass and legs.
More than enough contact? Maybe - but here they're lining up for voluntary groping. I'd just have to force myself.
My interests are quite diverse - even a discussion of entropy can be couched in a philosophical vale - and then there's music, food, politics, and lots of other things (You just may need to shut down your PC for a while)
Actually, I learned some time ago - the way to a woman's heart (&etc!) is through her stomach. Better than going out? I learned to cook (side effect of so many years of chemistry and physics). Fine conversation while the magic takes place in the pots and pans. Then food, wine, and a handy place to relax together in private.
It's all a matter of preparation and attitude.
(And, if all else fails, I can simply show them how I can lick my eye-brows.)
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Balboos wrote: I learned to cook (side effect of so many years of chemistry and physics)
 What kind of food is it?
Greetings - Gajatko
Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
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gajatko wrote: What kind of food is it?
Most of my friends were Chinese - and add to that being a vegetarian - I learned to cook chinese style.
The real thing, which means: use local resources, not imported exotics. An equivalent basis set can always be found. (in other words, screw the recipe books).
My results can't be too bad - I've seen many a carnivore take seconds if/when anything was left.
Basically - foods and spices have properties - as did my lovely super-size chemistry set (back in real life). Then we've the equipment (pots, pans, stovetops, microwaves). Noting to it.
Of necessity, I even worked out a solution to cooking without salt: careful use of garlic and hot pepper will very successfully emulate the perceptions supplied by salt (simultaneously sharp and mellow). The amount of either doesn't have to be obvious to the taster - that depends upon the dish.
High in importance: One-pot (wok) cooking: clean-up sucks. And efficiency - Start-to finish in 30 minutes (including making rice).
Italian food is good, too. I'd like to get a handle on Indian cooking, but no practical experience sources have come my way (astonishing for a programmer). Let us not forget just random cooking of whatever's available - which amounts to local cooking wherever one lives.
Fong-Pee !!
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Corinna John wrote: A whole class of superficial girls who backbite you in the locker room and make up rumors about "the strange guy taking lady subjects".
Wow, talk about stereotyping.
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Balboos wrote: Accusations of being a 'sexist pig' are welcome.
I wouldn't say that, but I would call you desperate if you did something you don't like just for that.
Women tip #4512. The best women don't like desperate guys. First tip is free. I charge for the rest.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I wouldn't say that, but I would call you desperate if you did something you don't like just for that.
I never said whether I'd like it or not, but here's some tippage which I read somewhere and will pass on for your further consideration:
"Good Fortune is when Preparation Meets Opportunity"
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Balboos wrote:
"Good Fortune is when Preparation Meets Opportunity"
Touché!
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Develop DOS, start a small company called Microsoft and become the richest man on earth and never work again.
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Hehe, good idea
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i got your point, but i think they didn't develop DOS, just refactored some CP/M clone or something like that
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They bought an refactored QDOS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS[^]
86-DOS was an operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products for its Intel 8086-based computer kit. [...] The system was purchased by Microsoft and developed further as PC-DOS and MS-DOS.
This statement is false.
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Not very original, some guy Bill has done this before.
It is however a proven concept
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What is the point of travelling back in time and be original and run the risk of failure. You take a proven concept with you and implement it before the original guy comes up with the idea, so that you may reap the benefits. You sound like the type of person, that will travel back in time to play the lottery without taking the winning numbers with you and then wonder why you didn't win, sounds pretty daft to me.
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