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That means there’s a strong possibility that much of what you know is already obsolete.
Much of what I have learned in the technical realm is certainly obsolete. I haven't coded in 6502, Z80, 8086, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, or C++ in ages.
But much of what I've learned about writing documentation, debugging, creating flexible architectures, smacking junior devs around, wishing I could smack managers, realizing I love working remotely, making accurate time estimates, designing good UI's, and getting skilled at teaching others, those are things that never become obsolete. Some sadly never.
Marc
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What he said.
The syntax is the easiest part of coding.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Priority management, clean code, design best practices, problems solved (aka a base of problems for which one can find similarities)... that is experience and it is worth decades of formal education.
Als it depends on the field, many programmers today simply patch things together by using big clunky frameworks and have no real problem to solve: when was the last time you developed an algorithm, instead of pulling a library with an algorithm and integrating it into some kind of monster?
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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: when was the last time you developed an algorithm,
in my previous job, every new project (automation)... now... I write a lot of emails But I see my family every afternoon
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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Something to be said about jumping onto any new bandwagon that comes across - like React mentioned in the article, or LightSwitch, or XAML or ...
Some things though never change - the guy down the hall writing bash scripts have been doing it for 20 years. The Oracle or SQL server DBA job didn't change much in the last 20 years either. The C/C++ I walked away from 15 years ago, I had to get back to with Mobile Games.
So “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - there is just not enough time in the day, need to use some discretion and prospective.
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To Jon Evans - You are utterly wrong...
Everything! I have learned is important (even I didn't used it for years, like 6502 Assembly or COBOL) as it is the solid base of everything new I will learn tomorrow...
This is the base that enables to me to write PHP for production on the very same day I saw it ever first!
Let see how would you write articles your brain wiped clean (on a second thought it probably will not change nothing - you write BS even with your brain intact)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design. So maybe you can't read it, but it's responsive!
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What did he expect? The web is fully commercialized, hence design is more important than content.
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Revenue from OS flat in Q3, but evaporation of phone business again drags More Personal Computing group under. When you're #1, there's only one direction to go
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A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion today for a large number of Web sites was launched with the help of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, such as CCTV video cameras and digital video recorders, new data suggests. Welcome to the Internet of Hacked Things
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CNBC on Friday that he tried to buy Facebook when it was "itsy-bitsy" for $24 billion. Too bad. They could have mismanaged it to an early grave
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I whish they had succeed... that way we would have less problems with facebook nowadays, as it would probably go through the toilette
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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Maybe then people would be using Google+
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CNN says $85 Billion. Where did you stash the $5 Billion.
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They gave it to Verizon to buy Yahoo.
Marc
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They donate too!
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I was wondering why they would want it at first, then rememberd that they also own Direct tv too.
There goes the entertainment industry too.
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Unicode said that if the emoji was approved, it would include a range of skin tones, a feature introduced last year after much campaigning. As much problems as Unicode may have solved, I'm going back to limiting textboxes to pure ASCII.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I always found the number of cat emoji unsatisfying. The cat is usually yellow, but I'm missing black, whites, grey's, calico... Not to mention the race of that cat. I'm guessing it's a European short hair, but what about persian, siamese, long haired, etc. etc.
I say stop this oppressing cat emoji regime! #animalrights #catsarepeopletoo
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[edit] What the heck is that thing the woman is holding? It looks like a mutant pig without legs held up to a woman with (possibly) one breast.[/edit]
Marc
modified 22-Oct-16 19:42pm.
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Well that'll help keep them away from the pesky business of actually adding support for additional languages in unicode[^].
As a side note, I'll add that you know something's really turned into a dumpster fire when it's so bad that Buzzfeed is producing long form journalism instead of click bait full of nothing but dank memes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The problem being that Unicode is largely descriptive, while the emoji part is proscriptive--they are trying to invent a new language and using Unicode to do it.
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The government is preparing to charge the suspect under the Espionage Act. No one noticed him walking out with a suitcase full of DVDs?
Or maybe a semi full of floppies?
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