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Hold still, Daniel. We're going to have to hurt you now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And if one were to cross a dog with one's brother, one would get a broccoli, would one not?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A Shih Tzucchini?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Thought you were going to post the answer to the CCC
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: post the answer to the CCC
I think he's moved on and working on the KKK perhaps? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I do, I promise. And I know all the 9 others too!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sorry - I was busy and couldn't get away!
It's done now, so you don't need to do it tomorrow.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I reckon that a very significant percentage of what I have learnt in my life is now dead knowledge - i.e. it will never be needed in my life again.
Old programming languages, command line parameters for no longer extant applications, the maze layouts of games I no longer have, libraries and patterns that have been consigned to history.
Thank goodness my memory has a Guinness powered garbage collection function 
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I totally disagree on your point of view. Developing software isnt not only the knowledge about some program language and some platform, but also the experience to discuss and work with co-workers and costumers, and professional skills like using the "best practice" like a healthy working discipline, responsibility awareness, writing clean code and a sound software architecture.
As I are becoming 50 and working with some junior developers (25+) I see that my experiences are often more helpful and precious than their "brand new knowledge" but doing beginner errors.
(which I done some 20 years ago).
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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For the last 100 years we drive our economy with dead dinosaur knowledge aka oil. Nothing wrong with knowledge that you never will use again. What is much more valuable is the experience you gained, and that is never dead.
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I share some of his point of view: back in '96, I was developing a C application utilizing Presentation Manager on OS/2. I'm sure something I learned back then has influenced the rest of my life in positive ways, but most of it is just scrap!
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Learning what is scrap is valuable learning.
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If you make an error at least learn to avoid it in the future (as you say below)
Sometimes to learn how NOT to do something is easier and stays longer in your mind than learning it the right way.
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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It may be dead, but it is the foundation of all the living... If you remove it to hastily all the building may collapse...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Old programming languages, command line parameters for no longer extant applications, the maze layouts of games I no longer have, libraries and patterns that have been consigned to history.
Just unwrap those fancy UIs and IDEs. All of this may well be lurking around underneath.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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True that you will not need most of that knowledge but as we gain more knowledge, even if it is "useless" knowledge, we grow in our ability to reason and to see things differently and can become more wise. However, for some people, the more they learn the more narrow-minded they become. I find that very strange and fascinating at the same time.
Useless or not, it is always a good thing to keep on learning.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't remember who told it but...
a specialist is someone who everyday learns more about less, until one day he knows everything about nothing.
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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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That just reminded me of one of my favorite sayings
"We the unwilling
Lead by the unknowing
Have done so much
With so little
For so long
That we are now qualified
To do anything with nothing."
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Today, I was wearing a T-shirt (of my own design), which says
Experience
The ability to recognize a mistake
when you repeat it
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Good one too 
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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Old dead knowledge falls down to the ocean floor to provide the foundation and nutrients for new knowledge which ultimately will also go that way in the cycle of life.
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Don't be a fewl! We learned proper and can adapt. It's the kids I feel sorry for who only know how to build a site in node.js [or whatever Kool Aid they're on] and will be redundacised come the next Best ThingTM
veni bibi saltavi
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+; learning real 'C' has an influence on good housekeeping that lingers. And learning that was influenced from VAX Macro Assembler (which I've not used in decades) - but all that stuff is busily at work guiding the other stuff that needs to be done.
Maybe it's just the habit of being a bit more careful? Maybe it's knowing, with my limited subset of knowledge of the languages I use, how they work their magic under the thrall of the compiler. Or just guidance with orderly thinking.
They're never gone.
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knowledge is different than experience.
I'd rather be phishing!
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