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I mean, I'd say we are a bit like locusts when we descend on a city and gentrify it.
But any group with disposable income will do that. Developers aren't unique to that. If anything what's unique about us is the *companies* that spring into existence and create economic bubbles around them.
It's not really the developers, but due to the dynamics of say, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, we expand and descend in swarms along with them.
If anything it's the tech companies, not the workers that cause the problems NYT is complaining about.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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They need to be kept out!
Walls work!
Who ya gotta call call to build one?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Developers, Developers, Developers!
They need our lord and saviour Steve Ballmer to come to their rescue! 
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Hi All,
I have next week off to catch up with all those jobs I can't find the time (or reason to do!), I have two robot vacuum cleaners to fix, a P-Bass that needs a new nut, a Robot I am building that needs some coding doing for it... Sleep, watching random stuff I have downloaded / recorded catching up on reading (I am on a bit of a William Gibson kick at the moment) 
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Enjoy! Just make sure your desk will still be there when you get back... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They 've just boxed my desk in around the floor as it was requested, the guy next to me complained that the sun light was causing his snacks to melt? 
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Gibson, known for his books about guitars ?
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Nope!, known for misjudging communications technology, they still use public/pay phones  what are they but haunts for graffiti these days.
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Teach the robot to play the P-Bass. Smoke on the water first, Floyd's Money next.
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Nahh, I like my gig don't want competion for it!
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... for when you reply to a text just after it was needed?
It used to be known as "telephone tennis", but I'd guess there is a new version for SMS.
If not, can I suggest "Tennitext"?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought telephone tennis is where you keep missing each others calls?
Not sure how you can miss a text message unless you have an app that deletes unread messages after X minutes.
I have a very strict work policy about responding to questions/problems... never respond... too often people ask for help when they don't really need it, rather they just can't be bothered to solve it themselves. With my policy, eventually people stop asking, and surprisingly the job still gets done 
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musefan wrote: I thought telephone tennis is where you keep missing each others calls?
Phone Tag.
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Yes, "Mosterd na de maaltijd" 
(mustard after the meal)
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Made me think of "a ship arriving too late to save a sinking witch".
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Drowning
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Sudden Hyperspace Temporal Misalignment of Response Relevance
SHTMORR
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Partly in response to a recent post by Walt Fair.
I ask myself if my inability to know if I am functioning at a high level is a result of plain-old-ignorance, or:
a senility
b dementia
c false modesty
d true modesty
e fear of being revealed as incompetent
f lack of awareness
g repressed memories of trauma when my self-confidence was revealed as
1 unwarranted
2 vanity
3 a defense mechanism used to mask insecurity
h a general aversion to "pride" resulting from somewhat Calvinist upbringing
i awareness of too many possible factors to meaningfully figure out which factors are operationalRight now, I'd say "i" 
However, this self-evaluation could be explained as a form of denial: to say there is a simple reason is, a fortiori, to suggest an intolerable reality where I am not as sophisticated as I am ? Ergo, as Walt Whitman said:
"Do I contradict myself ?
I am large,
I contain multitudes."
I must disagree with Kierkegaard's statement: "The most common form of despair is not being who you are." I think despair is experiencing yourself as who you have manipulated other people to think you are.
A thorny problem of recursive self-consciousness here: to what degree would high level functioning involve awareness of the fact of high level functioning ? If you are seriously interested, I refer you to the work of Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "peak experience," and "flow" [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I'd like to add:
j All of the above.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 29-Jul-19 9:54am.
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raddevus wrote: I'm not sure how any of us know that we know anythig
That's OK - as I learned more and more over the years I really learned that I know nothing, and never have ... but it's fun trying!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: as I learned more and more over the years I really learned that I know nothing, and never have ... but it's fun trying!
That's exactly how I feel.
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upvoted for truth. amen.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Many people have said I am trying... very trying.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hah ! I was editing the post to include "i" when you posted this.
My reaction to this serendipitous I-Thou wire-crossing in hyperspace was to feel good because: anytime I can imagine I am functioning like OriginalGriff, I imagine that may be a sign I am not totally hopeless; likewise:
Anytime I think/feel/guess I am anywhere near to functioning like MacArthur, Deeming, Clifton, O'Hanlon, Raddevus, and others, I briefly imagine the previous 75 years have not been totally wasted.
And, that, Friends, is the end of the introduction to: "False Modesty 101."
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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