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Goooood mooorning over there 
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Ok I'm awake now and I see the error of my ways and know what to do from now on;
Open eyes before sitting down in front of computer. 
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After much jiggery pokery with the video card settings, I eventually managed to get the Oculus Rift working consistently last night.
Today, Sasha, my youngest (6), had a go of the RiftCoaster demo......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c34VL0_9K-4&[^]
She was quite happy to go round and round, me on the other hand was really starting to get a little bit disorientated after a couple of runs. 
Even for the relatively low quality, you do get totally immersed in the content. 
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I love her reaction!
But my only problem with them is the same as all the other VR headsets that have tried and failed: you don't half look like a pillock wearing them...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: you don't half look like a pillock wearing them...
That is a downside of a lot of things, not just VR stuff. Take Hardhats, safety glasses/goggles or even cycling helmets!
Nothing can beat Crocs though!
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DaveAuld wrote: cycling helmets
Let's see.
Look like a pillock wearing a cycling helmet, or feel like one because my daughter has to feed her brain-injured father, change his diaper, and so on and so forth?
Decisions, decisions.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I never said it was an excuse not to wear them!
Although I'm sure there are many millions who do... 
modified 25-Jan-14 10:45am.
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Just came across this[^]!
Well fads they come and fads they go.
And God I love that rock and roll!
Well the point was fast but it was too blunt to miss.
Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!"
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...or are the generation that are coming though being taught not to think?
I'm increasingly noticing in QA that (not only is the standard of questions still dropping) but the thinking element of working with answers is getting less.
For example, a question asking how to remove the spaces between numbers without removing them at the start or end of the string. Understandably, String.Replace and String.Trim don't work. So I suggested a Regex, using his example as an input:
string input = " 2365 2365 ";
string output = Regex.Replace(input, @"(?<=\d+)\s+(?=\d+)", "");
What surprised me was getting a response saying that it didn't work because I had hard coded the string.
Now, you, I, everyone I know would look at the code above and see an example of the input to show where it goes in the regex - wouldn't you? I can't think that anyone who has got far enough to realise that Replace and Trim don't do what he wants, and use Google to find us here should have a problem with using the example to create exactly the code they need. OK, the Regex itself may be a little impenetrable - they do tend to be - but the code around it should be self explanatory, shouldn't it?
Now, I don't want anyone rushing off and downvoting or insulting the OP - hence no link to the question - but I can't help thinking that the next generation as a rule are just not thinking, even when given a solution that needs a tiny bit of input.
Is it just me? Am I getting too old for this? Or is anyone else noticing as well?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or is anyone else noticing as well?
Well yes, but years ago. It's not such a recent development.
It happened a couple of times, probably 8-9 years ago on an entirely different forum, that I would leave something named "input" or "n" or "array" or something undefined, and people would complain that it didn't compile. It happened quite regularly, actually.
But maybe it's more prevalent now?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Am I getting too old for this?
Yes of course!
The other parts of the message are irrelevant so don't bother on them... 
Seriously yes, you are right, I don't know if this is about a new generation or about any other thing, but in any case it is clear that each day people puts less effort on their jobs. 
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I once had a fellow apprentice trying to add the MySQL connector for Java to an Eclipse project.
He tried to add it in his code, has not realzed that the *.jar file must be added to Eclipse.After him complaining that "The Java connector is broken, not usable, bullsh**" and so on I fired up a quick Google search to show him how it is done.
His Effort: Two weeks, swearing and complaining to everybody around (while claiming that he is a far better Dev than the rest of us)
My Effort: One Google search, 2 Minutes Clicking around in Eclipse
Problem solved by: Me.
So yes, the younger guys may get more stupid, but that was something to expect. The industry needs more and more Developers, sucking in more morons than in the old days. The good ones may raise up to be contractors, Requirement Engineers or Software Architects, while the code monkeys stay where they are, occupying the Q&A section.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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No, it's most of us, and strangely ...
I was just thinking about a couple of questions I responded to this morning, and my conclusion was that both people showed a (seemingly) total inability to think for themselves. More and more questions are of the form:
OP: Please help me with X?
CP: You need to do Y, and maybe also Z
OP: How can I do that?
CP: Add some extra code at points A and B
OP: Please send me sample code?
...
OP: I have to create a project on X for my final year, I don't know where to start, please provide full details for me.
CP: ?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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It's you. The sole purpose of CP is to provide source code and all other related relevant documentation free of cost and within an hour of posting question.
Moreover, that is your sole purpose of existence in this World. Feeling enlightened? Now get back to work and provide codezz plzz.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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And our parents had the same opinion about us...
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I'm afraid, OG, that it might be "us," but, I find that idea intolerable, so I take refuge in conjuring a "them, exclusive of us" 
That poster's question, before he switcharooed to asking the same question about JavaScript, states: "i use trim method it remove the space but it remove the number before the space." So, the OP wasn't really asking how he could leave leading, and trailing space, in, while removing other space characters in the string.
Both you and I, in our first responses, failed to note that this indicates the OP didn't understand how to use, or is mis-using, the 'Trim method.
I know I am too old for this, but it's one of the few ways left I can pretend I have a life !
yr insignificant code-slave acolyte, bill
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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Tsk, tsk, my friend!
You have a life! You must...you live in a country with permanent sunshine (monsoon excepted) - I live in a country where it takes a monsoon to stop it raining!
You live in a country with some of the best food in the world - I live in a country where fried potatoes are considered the only element of your "five a day" fruit and vegetables!
You live in a country with some of the world's most beautiful ladies (OK, OK, and some boys who look like the worlds most beautiful ladies) - I live in country with this lot: Temperance[^] and these: Slightly overweight[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is it just me? Am I getting too old for this?
I am hopeful that as one gets older one does in fact manage to learn (and retain) more. For this to occur of course it does in fact mean that young people must in fact know less.
The specifics of what knowledge they lack of course is irrelevant to that.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...I can't help thinking that the next generation as a rule are just not thinking, even when given a solution that needs a tiny bit of input.
FWIW I heard much the same thing from my predecessors, and looking at some of the things my elders learned in school, I can't confirm it but really can't refute it either (which maybe implicitly confirms it  ).
I think what you are observing is that we are currently looking at the long tail.[^]
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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A penguin walks into a bar and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The bartender says no and the penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The irritated bartender says no, again, and the penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The bartender, angry now, says "Look, you've come in here three times asking if I've got any fish and I've told you no. If you come back in here one more time asking me, I'm going to nail your beak to the bar. Now get out! " The penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got a hammer?"
The bartender says no.
The penguin asks "Got any nails?"
The bartender says no.
The penguin asks "Got any fish?"
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I'm sure it was a duck[^] asking for bread the last time I heard it! 
"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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3.5 years is a good enough time for a duck to transform into a penguin
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Thursday, my web hosting service was DDoS - first to go was email, followed by everything else. About an hour of nothing working, then mostly fine, with sporadic minor problems.
Today, my email stops working - I can't get into the website - and I just had a server alert that there are problems which may mean a reboot. Exactly the same pattern as Thursday. Oh Joy. Pity we can't find out who starts these things: I have a streetlamp and some strong rope... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
modified 25-Jan-14 4:54am.
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