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Your ability as a developer doens't depend on how well you are at a given technology - but rather how you approach the discipline itself.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Thomas Freudenberg wrote:
While IMHO I am above average in GUI development (programming ),
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My guess:
Just about all of us are "way above average" because we know the virtues of Code Project and frequent it often 
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Paul Watt wrote:
the virtues of Code Project and frequent it often
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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I am "way above average" here, but probably just average in the whole industry.
I assumed the poll was refering to general development skills (problem solving etc.) and not specific technologies. But even "general development skills" is a complex issue which I am sure has many variables of which I am better in some than others.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Roger Wright wrote:
Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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I'm above average in terms of the people I work with. Industry-wide, I'd say I'm way above average, considering some of the code I see and deal with from third party partners.
Unlike you, however, I'm a piss-poor driver, considering I just wrecked my Miata a week ago  . I haven't heard from the insurance adjuster yet, but it's probably totalled  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
Unlike you, however, I'm a piss-poor driver, considering I just wrecked my Miata a week ago . I haven't heard from the insurance adjuster yet, but it's probably totalled
Damn, I hope not. Be pushy with the guys who tell you it is a write off ok? I pranged my car awhile back and the insurance guy wanted to write it off. I had a look and laughed, it was not that bad, it just would have been cheaper for insurance to pay me off and ditch the car (car parts for cheap cars are expensive in relation to the price of the vehicle.) So I forced them to fix the car and it is still going strong.
And what makes you a bad driver?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Roger Wright wrote:
Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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I spun the car out on essentially dry pavement and smacked the nose on a bridge abutment. There may have been some 'black ice'. If I were a better driver, it's the kind of situation I could have probably steered out of, or at least minimized the damage. The one reassuring thing was that the police officer who wrote up the accident didn't cite me.
If I end up repairing the car (it's iffy at the moment), I'm thinking about looking for one of those driver training courses where they teach emergency responses. I've seen some that teach defensive driving skills similar to what the cops use. I can't help but think that, even though I remained calm throughout the incident, I made mistakes in how I handled the car .
Software Zen: delete this;
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But Paul, all South Africans are damned good drivers!
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"All things I needed for Programming I learnt on Codeproject" 
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[edit]Sorry to everyone, I was simply locked in a different context. Bad timing for a slippery mind. [/edit]
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peterchen wrote:
never put all your project managers into one shuttle.
Man, that is way inappropriate.
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Don't you like you PM's?
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My project managers are just as bad as anyone else's. I just didn't like your line about the shuttle.
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:ouch:
I'm very sorry, I didn't think of that the very moment.
(I thought of an old "Everything I know I learnt at Star Trek" poster..)
I'll delete the post. Bad timing for a slippery mind.
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peterchen- It's OK. It's a Monday.
If I had a dollar for every time I put my foot in my mouth, I would be rich (and would need every penny for the dental work to repair the damage, because I've got big feet!).
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
If I had a dollar for every time I put my foot in my mouth, I would be rich
No, you'd have wet feet...
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sorry - please see edited post...
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Paul Watt wrote:
way above average
...on a copy/paster scale I guess. 
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Not me... I suck at programming. I haven't always, but it's been a long, long time since I had a job that let me do it. Thanks to CP, though, I'm on the mend.
Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003
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Ability to utilize The Lounge does not count as a programming skill. 
... you keep forgetting that sheep shagging is not a crime in Australia ...Paul Watson, The Lounge
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Ability to utilize The Lounge does not count as a programming skill
It's not 
Maybe I will have to remove that from my resume 
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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