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You have my sympathy mate. 
My wife has a small boutique where she sells women's clothing and accessories. You would not believe the places I get dragged along to when she needs new inventory.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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:shudder:
I was drafted into shoe-shopping with one young lady.
Every single shoe shop in town (and this at a time when Guildford was approaching the Shoe Event Horizon[^]1) so it took all damn afternoon. Result? We went back to the first shop she tried, and she bought the first pair she tried on... 
The second time she tried this, I waited until she tried on the first pair, then pointed out the nearest pub and told here that was where I would be until she bought them... 
1: it's about two thirds of the way down, search the page for "Shoe Event" and you will be there.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I have experienced something similar too 
OriginalGriff wrote: The second time she tried this, I waited until she tried on the first pair, then
pointed out the nearest pub and told here that was where I would be until she
bought them...
So, you put your foot down... 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Then I put the other one in front of it, and repeated... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Well Griff, since you have to tag along, get her to buy quality stuff - If it can't be washed at least twice, it's rubbish.
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Suck it up, you knew this day would come.
Take a flask and a good book and find a comfortable out of the way place to pitch camp! Good luck!
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And get a new keyboard. Your enter button seems to be broken. 
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Predictions for the 21st Century[^]
But what made me laugh?
The heading...
"The deadline for guaranteed Christmas shipping has passed, but if you order something from the xkcd store, we'll get it to you as fast as possible!"
So...no time machine yet then Randall?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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They can't get sober since than, so no one to fix it...
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I think Mrs John Lane would have been either appalled or vindicated (or both) had she realised that a quick trip to some of the, ahem, novelty stores in this era would have shown her last prediction was the more inaccurate.
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...that's also going to depend on what she types into Google 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I feel good reading note #2
Could not agree more!
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Who is most senior programmer here.... ? say in programming from last 30 years or more...
Although i have just started my career 6 years back as professional programming.
[Edit]Here no question on skills measurement.[/Edit]
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-Amit Gajjar
modified 1-Jan-14 1:11am.
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Who cares?
Years of experience does not directly translate into skill...
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Yes exactly... seniority is not directly related with skills but it is related with experience... there is no device or method to measure skills perfectly
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-Amit Gajjar
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Ron Beyer wrote: Years of experience does not directly translate into skill
True, but then real software development, like many other walks of life, requires experience - as it's the only practical way to actually acquire the skills needed by the profession.
So, while it's true that you can work in this profession and not really acquire more than a basic set of development skills - you cannot acquire a larger set of technological skills without getting your feet wet.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years[^]
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Who cares? Besides, you haven't defined "senior" yet. The number of years doesn't matter if all you've done in that time is write COBOL and hide in your cube the entire time.
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Yes i agree with you. Just want to know who is still there from 80's or may be more older...
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-Amit Gajjar
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: years doesn't matter if all you've done in that time is write COBOL
I used to agree with that until I read a COBOL program that did bit manipulation.
Then I realized that it doesn't matter what language you are using. It matters how creative you are.
BTW I hate COBOL programming, I only read it because I (programmed in Assembler) was in TECH Support for a COBOL shop.
I realized that talented people could adapt to any environment. I had a new respect for professional programmers after that.
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Yeah, I did the COBOL thing back in the mid-80's. Those who bitch about VB being verbose have never written anything in COBOL.
Yeah, it's fun to get creative in languages like that. I actually did some of the bit manipulation you're talking about in COBOL, just for fun.
I was refering to the people who don't do anything creative and never move on from their high-level language of choice.
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Bob.
But did you intend to mean the oldest programmer here? as in years of existence on planet earth?
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Yeh.. "oldest programmer existence on planet earth" is perfect Title for this discussion.
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-Amit Gajjar
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my answer still stands. Its simply Bob
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Thanks
-Amit Gajjar
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Who is Bob ?
Nothing is Impossible for Willing Heart.
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