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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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No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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For many of us here the experience of temporality is a flux orbiting levity whose apogee approaches timelessness, and whose perigee is senility.
Of course, this is a fiction created by the four-billion years, or so, old practical joke of so-called "evolution," which formed the sorry bags of meat-over-bones in which we hallucinate, pretending what we are conscious of is ... reality.
Fortunately, we now have another eternal moment of ordinary miraculous in which to be new, forever ...
Happy New Year !
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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I remember (with great fondness) those heady times in the mid-70s when you'd laboriously "type" your code on a deck of punched-cards wrapped in a piece of paper and an elastic band and put them on a counter and wait for them-thar computer operators to run them through the card reader. Sometimes, you'd try and strike a rapport with the operators in the hope your deck of cards would make it to the top of the stack. It was all so analogue then.
I've been churning out shite code "professionally" since about 1978/79.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It's generally accepted that it's Henry Minute[^] who's coding career began with code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates, and executed using an array of uRaptor processors...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates
Was it a bug in his software that made them go extinct?
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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No, he doesn't write bugs. Possibly he uses so many of them they died out though...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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