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I prefer the one:
A bird in danger to die frozen on the floor in a very cold winter. A cow went by and left her sh*t fall on the bird. The bird, being warmed by the sh*t and seeing the danger of freezing gone started to sing because he was happy. A cat heard him, found him and eat him.
Conclusion: Not everyone who puts you on sh*t is your enemy and not everyone taking you out of it is your friend 
M.D.V. 
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Go to be with itchy butt, wake up with smelly finger.
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb.
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Slacker007 wrote: Go to be
Go to be what?
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Man who goes to bed with sex problem, wakes up with solution in hand.
-- Another Ancient Chinese Proverd.
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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"Pidgeons! Pidgeons! Like the kind of English you speak!" -- Basil Fawlty
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Is that an African or European pigeon? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is that an African or European pigeon?
Ehh.. I don't know...
aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh [being thrown down of the bridge]
M.D.V. 
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kindly ignore any rumors you might hear about my availability.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is that really how brits spell "aging"? 
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No - it's how we spell "ageing". I've never seen this "aging" word you're talking about. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Can we agree on "toboganning" then?
(A sledge is pulled by draft animals or dogs.)
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Looks like a perfect fit for old-ish-coder.
Marc
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Looks like a perfect fit for old-ish-codger.
(As we are dealing with spelling  )
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Quote: As well as moving the DWP away from old tech, the CTO would need to introduce "next generation web, social, mobile, cloud, big data and deep learning technologies" to the mix.
This will not end well. On the other hand I can't mock as the Irish social welfare system fell over last year when the number of registered unemployed passed 65535 
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Some American cities have more than that...
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Just wanted to let everyone know I'm tired. I'm tired of IT. I'm tired of coding (since 1992). I'm tired of long nights trying to meet unrealistic deadlines. I'm tired of managers who motivate by complimenting you into accepting this as the norm. I'm tired of managers with type A personalities. I'm tired of managers with clean desks (I know they are hiding something). I'm tired of looking up coding solutions on Google (who remembers what we searched before Google? Nobody? That means I'm old. It was Deja News or DejaVue, btw).
On that topic, as I approach 50, I know two things: I'm not going to be the 50+ year old programmer, grey haired, sitting in the cube maze with the 20-somethings, fixing crappy code written 15-20 years ago. Nor do I want to be the IT manager, who spends long hours in meetings trying to forward this never-ending agenda of BS. This sounds like I'm angry and bitter, but I'm not. I'm actually thankful I didn't leave college become a musician like I told my Mom one night while hopped up on Vicodin during a bout of strep. But I'm also sad that I didn't. We are defined by the choices we make.
So I shall go forth for the next few years and suck up as long as necessary. I'll do my job well as I always have but there are other coders out there who know more than me and can not only take up the slack, but improve on it. I respect all of you, those that contribute to the knowledge bases and the "Internet of Things" and answer the stupid questions from the legions of noobs and moderate the forums and provide the "step-by-steps". Cheers to you and please remember that coding can consume you so much it runs your life. So step out occasionally without the phone, tablet or Oculus Rift and go somewhere interesting and meet real people. That's my plan at least. Maybe I'll turn it into a career.
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Sounds like a plan!
Good luck - from one Oldie (on the wrong side of 50) to a not-quite-so-oldie.
And remember, you may be older, but at least you learnt to think about what you were doing instead of just grabbing something from Google: the latest generation seems to do nothing else... 
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modified 9-Jan-15 11:19am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: instead of just grabbing something from Google: the latest generation seems to do nothing else...
No, that's the previous generation. The current generation post the Google search query into QA and expect us to do the legwork for them.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I really wish I didn't stand corrected. But I do...
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Hmm, I think you guys are being a bit silly "things were better before" kind of way. I'm sure that people copied things from books before (I still do ), and before that we copied from our parents or other people. Just face it, a lot of human activity consist of copying things
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I'd agree - I will use code from articles and so forth - but I think about the code I'm using and will modify my code to work with it, or it to work with my code.
But there seems to be a trend (in QA at least) of "find some code that says it does the job" and expect it to work without any changes. Even if your app is written in C++ and the code you found is PHP...
I don't understand that, not at all: even if I buy a part for my car, I don't necessarily expect it to fit - I check, and compare old and new, and make sure before I try to "stuff it in there". Don't you?
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