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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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Quote: Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course, and I forgot how to drive?
"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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xyzzy
iddqd
Marc
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idkfa
idclip
idfa
Some things just won't go away.
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: idclip
I dunno, you kiddies...
That wasn't until DooM ][ -- it was idspispopd in DooM.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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While you oldies had powerful computers ath the time of Doom I had only Wolfenstein 3D and a PC so slow that the whole screen flickered when enemies approached the player. It was only in 1996 that I could play Doom and at the time there was Doom II in the stores.
I don't even know if the original Doom was released in Italy...
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Excuses, excuses...
AIRI, I first played Wolfenstein on a 286 (a DOS-based PS/2). There was a modified version going around that was supposed to work on an 8086, but there were nothing but complaints about it on the bulletin boards.
By the time I got around to DooM, I had massively upgraded to a 386!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Plugh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Cheater!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: Thank goodness my memory has a Guinness powered garbage collection function
I have a three-neurons circular buffer. 
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If you go deep into the I7 processor and peel back layer after layer, there is a reptile brain deep in the center.
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Or an 8086
(Same thing, no?)
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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When hard drives needed to be "low-level formatted" (this will most definitely be lost on the youngsters out there) :
debug g=c800:5
I also used to know how to use cobol to page-feed an entire ream of paper in a matter of a few seconds through a series of band printers connected to an IBM 360 mainframe. Drove the computer operators nuts. The computer room would be filled with paper.
We also like to completely unspool mag tape as a prank, or remove one card from a deck of punched cards.
Fun was had by all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - 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
modified 14-Sep-16 9:57am.
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Ah, the good old days.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Would a modern drive even respond to a low-level format request nowadays?
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