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I have a few thoughts, first the shameless plug:
Why Computers Haven't Replaced Programmers[^]
- I'm irritated by the sensational title the author puts on their article, then 4 paragraphs in he changes from robots replacing programmers to robots replacing other non-technical jobs for the remainder of the article.
- Otherwise, the point about Junior and chess is valid. But then again, chess is such a well defined game with a small set of rules that just happens to have a large problem space. This has made it difficult to beat humans up to this point.
Unleashing robots to write software for LOB applications. If the managers and customers can't specify the requirements clearly enough to humans the first time, what hope is there that a robot will be able to decipher what was meant/desired/intended/needed and provide the right solution.
I do plan on worrying about this for quite a while.
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Well, maybe they are already doing our jobs but we choose not to tell anyone.
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For a career that involves a lot of sitting, it’s strange that most developers peak at the same age as footballers. So what do older programmers have to look forward to if they’re not making a beeline for that management position? You can find out how old they are by counting the layers of cruft in their keyboard
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They fade away, bit by bit.
Kent Sharkey wrote: it’s strange that most developers peak at the same age as footballers.
I actually doubt I've hit my peak, and I'm going to be 53 this year.
Marc
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Good to hear that, young man 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Marc Clifton wrote: peak at ... footballers
I'd much rather peek at cheerleaders.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can find out how old they are by looking at the manufacture date of their
keyboard
FTFY
Which would you like to see, the DEC keyboard from 1986, or the IBM keyboard from 1997 ? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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The old IBM keyboard was unbeatable. A nice clacky, strong feedback set of keys, all in the proper places. If I could have obtained a USB version of the old one I used to use, I would still be using it. I wouldn't even need the "Windows key", I never use it or the "menu key" on the other side of the keyboard.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I wouldn't even need the "Windows key", I never use it or the "menu key" on the
other side of the keyboard.
That's part of why I bought this one. But, yeah, I wish there were new ones, with USB. Hard to find a good keyboard these days. 
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Plenty of good ones, just kind of expensive. Google "mechanical switch keyboard". I have the Das Keyboard silent version (which is not silent at all, but less loud then the non-silent one).
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With exactly 104 keys? 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: cruft in their keyboard
I am still using the HP keyboard that came with my first Windows system from around '98. I do take it apart and clean it every few years though, so no cruft! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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They get replaced by robots.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So what do older programmers have to look forward to
CodeProject Lounge and Q&A. 
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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You might remember that a couple of weeks ago Microsoft started offering a great deal on OneDrive storage – users could get 100GB free just by using Bing Rewards. Now that deal is available to everyone. "You're getting a car! And you're getting a car!"
Supposedly. It doesn't seem to be working for me yet.
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I use Bing at work (it is the only search engine not locked byt the Company Internet Policies) and I would like it... if it could find the broad side of a truck in a barren wasteland with only a truck in front of it.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Quote: Computer maker Lenovo has been forced to remove hidden adware that it was shipping on its laptops and PCs after users expressed anger.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31533028[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Assistant Chief Constable Wayne Mawson told the committee that a total of 20,086 records had been lost because a "computer programmer pressed the wrong button between May and July last year".
Waow!
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He'd obviously just been the victim of a stop and search
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All lies.
A programmer pushed the wrong button.
... right.
Try harder.
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I'm pretty sure we had a QA question: "Help. Deleted 20K stop and search records. Need Excuse. Urgntz"
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Harvard Magazine "Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?"
This is comforting:
"a study released in January by other investigators at HSPH found that drinking up to six cups of coffee a day showed no association with any increased risk of death (including from cancer or cardiovascular disease).
Another group of researchers at HSPH reported last year that coffee drinkers who increased their average consumption by more than one cup a day during a four-year period had an 11 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes in the following four years, compared with people who did not change their intake. The study also found that those who decreased their coffee consumption by more than a cup per day increased their type 2 diabetes risk by 17 percent.
A third recent HSPH-affiliated study that tracked 50,000 women for 10 years found that those who drank four or more cups of caffeinated coffee per day were 20 percent less likely to develop depression than nondrinkers." [^]
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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With the amounts of coffee I take in every day I can point straight to immortality 
And if my genes are telling me how much coffee to drink then I for sure have a Bialetti ancestor 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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"coffee drinkers who increased their average consumption by more than one cup a day during a four-year period"
Would be drinking more than 1460 cups a day?! 
I'm OK with one cup a day.
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