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In Germany, we have a law that forbids discrimination due age on the job market. That is why in job postings they never explicitly look for younger developers, even if they in fact do. I had to find 3 new jobs in a row at the age of 44 to 46, so I had a lot of interviews. And in about one third of the cases they did not want to have me without telling me any conrete reasons, even when my profile was an almost perfect fit. So I think it was due to my age. In the other two thirds of the cases, age didn't matter at all. So I still had a quite a fair bunch of jobs to choose from. Might be different if you're 50+.
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Thanks. 
I will keep an eye out for the little green men (or women).
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Don't you go inflicting your binary gender / heteronormative assumptions on Martians! 
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I'll have you know that they are NOT assumptions. I have been there.
Old people know these things from experience. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Success!
Keep Calm and Carry On
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modified 27-Mar-21 21:01pm.
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There's also a flying drone and a microphone on board: "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I didn't have time to do a proper clue so have an easy one
One charging a flat rate ? (8)
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He or she?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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LANDLORD or LANDLADY
Either fits ...
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you are up tomorrow - I still can't get AOMEI to work on my Surface 
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All I know is it worked on my Surface 3 Pro (to my external drives), and it works on my Go 2 (to the SD card).
And I got to order a cable. 
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Do you have Bitlocker enabled on the Surface ?
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No.
It's probably a plot to get you to buy a Surface Duo. I just got an email suggesting I did - starting at £1,300!
Good grief: you can buy a low end iPhone for that!
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Yes I got an email today about that
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@petepjksolutionscom
Where's the CCC?
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624 files, 52 folders, and 170mb of disk space - what a piece of crap.
The very same code written against .Net framework is only 3 files, and under 100k.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah,
I can say the same thing about modern operating systems. I'm only using about 20% of the features in my operating system and have no use for most of the rest. Seems like every year the operating system gets bigger. Some of the features should be made modular for easy removal.
I can say the same thing about the C++ language... I have no use for many of the recent additions. Seems to be human–nature that we keep building larger.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: Seems to be human–nature that we keep building larger.
Or at least the nature of Complex Adaptive Systems[^]
They tend to crop up when enough agents (like human hands, but not limited to human activity) enter a system to make it "take on a life of its own" - be it governments, economies, ecosystems, large software projects, etc.
They are adaptive which means they tend to "defend themselves" in a manner of speaking, and that tends to lead to growth, inasmuch as they are successful at thwarting attempts to curtail them. In that way they are much like any living thing.
All of this happens through these agents, but the individual behavior of the agents themselves doesn't determine the behavior of the system as a whole. A CAS is a kind of non-linear dynamical system so its inputs don't directly correlate with its outputs.
Fascinating stuff, really. Or maybe I'm just a nerd. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: the individual behavior of the agents themselves doesn't determine the behavior of the system as a whole.
Yep, this applies to the system you described.
honey the codewitch wrote: Fascinating stuff, really. Or maybe I'm just a nerd.
The Pareto principle[^] is absolutely real. I've seen the data myself when applied to > 120,000 global employees. I've also seen it applied to millions of customers and it was interesting to see that 20% of the customers were generating 80% of the support calls.
The WG21 committee is a small group of people steering the C++ language. Likewise there are only about ~200 or so program managers generating operating system features.
Anyway I get your point. 
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Quote: The WG21 committee is a small group of people steering the C++ language. Likewise there are only about ~200 or so program managers generating operating system features.
Both of those statements explain a lot.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Randor wrote: Seems like every year the operating system gets bigger. Some of the features should be made modular for easy removal.
The irony is that MS has spent a lot of time and effort refactoring Windows and making it more modular, and according to them, it's now as modular as it's ever been.
Of course, that doesn't translate into us end users being able to remove the crap we don't need...
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I recall talk many years ago about modularizing Windows, and allowing users to add and remove components. Now, with the Windows store, MS is in a position to be able to do exactly that, but I don't get the impression they even remember those old ideas! (Or maybe I remember incorrectly! That is a possibility, too!)
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