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To keep the world in balance, actually to help my karma, I try to give back as much as I take, although in the last 2 years, I given more.
But you have to keep teaching the young ones, in order to create new programmers to take our place in the future, and to fix whatever mistakes we made in the past.
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If you stop learning, you have effectively died. The world changes all the time - sometimes in small ways, sometimes in massive shifts. If you don't learn, then you don't deal with anything new, and you really are missing out.
Teaching is difficult - it's a lot harder than learning, because you have to forget what you know and try to understand it from the level of the student. And it surprises me every time how much you can learn from teaching about the subject you already know pretty well. That is probably what keeps me going, answering QA questions - sometimes you get a gem, that makes you think "Ah!  ". And sometimes you get to see that lightbulb light up over someones head (very slowly these days, it's energy saving) and that makes the last 20 rude arrogant idiots who want you to do their homework for them all worthwhile...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you stop learning, you have effectively died.
/ravi
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I agree completely, and what I'd like to learn is how to say it as eloquently as you did here. Nicely done!
Oh yeah +5 too.
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Harvey
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As I learns things I try to learn several ways to do the same thing or from different views.
When it comes time toeach others then those other views help you teach, because not everyone learns the same way.
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But everyone is taught the same thing: Unix and C/Java! 
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Not me I have to learn everything the hard way 
And Unix was not one of those things.
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OriginalGriff wrote: very slowly these days, it's energy saving
+5
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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What is new?
Different syntax to express the same thing.
Snake oil in the form of frameworks.
Scripting language du jour.
Universities becoming the equivalent of ITT trade schools and churning out code monkeys who are bigots for the language and OS they learnt.
Have I missed anything? 
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Strongly AGREE!
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