I see so many people driving cars with just themselves in it, burning fuel to haul empty seats with them. Why not build 2 stage detachable cars? A 2 seater for commuting to work that can be snapped to a back seat module for shopping, kids etc?
The real question isn't if you are too old to learn a new programming language, but are you to "set in your ways" ( programmers of all ages have this problem ) to learn to think in a new way?
Anyone can learn new terms and new APIs, but many refuse -or- miss learning to think in new ways.
I've met plenty of people older than you who got a book or went to a "cram until your drop" corporate training course to pick up Java.
They learned APIs, but they didn't learn how to think in OO or even in terms of modularization.
The results is a lot crappy code where you get JSPs with a solid wall of code or functions that go on for pages.
If you learn an OO language, make sure you learn AND APPLY the OO philosophy.
Good luck, IMHO experience counts in programming and as an older person you have a lot more to offer than some young dude without experience, sloppy habits and is inexperienced enough to think s/he is hot shit on a stick.
The most loved sci-fi shows Star Trek, Dr. Who were famous for not so great special effects. Special effects do not good sci-fi make unless great stories, good acting and good scripts are there too.
Read the book. It is fantastic. Though the story in the original movie is very different, it holds true to the spirit of the book. Both excellent.
Watch the original moves, they hold up very well even after 30 years.
Interesting, there have been 2 types of replies ( at least at level 3 and above ).
1. "This is how you do it...."
2. "Dude! *Why* would you want to do this. I did it/I run an email server for work, it is a PITA and Google is free.
Well, the "Why" is that people want more privacy and control of their information.
# 2 is a good illustration of a trash island in the pacific ocean of open source thinking. "If you don't like it, roll your own". Well, many people who have rolled their own have written in to say that such an endeavor, instead of serving your needs make you serve it.
That is cool is you are an enthusiast, but if you just want a job done that sucks.
Since "how can FOSS make money" is a perennial and interesting question I would suggest that the FOSS community makes a certification board for "safe" ( private, they don't read or use your email/information) email.
Such an organization can charge a fee for conducting an investigation that leads to a certification and periodic re-certifications.
Other FOSS types can make money by setting up alternative web based email/PIM/cloud app systems.
If you are using your wet RAM thinking about about lawn care you can possibly take it as a sign that your youth and the more interesting times of your life are over.
I've heard a few stories of people talking to cops who told them people would have survived accidents if it wasn't an SUV, minivan or pickup truck crashing into them.
This has been one of the reasons why I have stayed away from cars that have better mileage as the result of being smaller and having lighter materials.
I drive safely most of the time ( everyone gets distracted ), but other people do not. There are plenty of times I have close calls with people driving SUVs and minivans while talking on their mobile phones.
Some people need these large vehicles for their jobs, but most people are using them as their cars. Maybe it is time for that to to end.
A lot of Americans will not go to vote for President Obama on election day because they are disappointed in his performance and that he has not lived up to 100% of their hopes.
Please don't be like that. Please remember this and go out to vote.
As we have seen the Republicans and the TEA Party are working hard to take things away from you.
This credit downgrade will make you lose money in your 401K and increase the costs of credit........whether buying a home if you are one of the shrinking middle class that can still hope to do that.....or starting a business.
Govenor Scott Walker cut people's jobs so he could give a tax cut to the reach and the TEA Party showed up to counterprotest the Americans who were fighting for their jobs.
Republicans at the state level fought to redefine rape away and to deny coverage for abortions to women as a result of rape.
That is what these people are about. Trying to take things away from you either by conscious design or ignorance. They are turning the US into a 3rd world country.
Please go out and vote to keep them out in 2012 elections.
I've read that this credit rating downgrade will result in at least a 10% loss in most American's 401Ks. This was the result of the Republicans and TEA party playing chicken with the U.S. Economy during the debt ceiling negotiations.....which they did so they could cut money from medicare.
If their conscious, stated goal was to make Americans poor and miserable when they are old, then this "serendipitous" result would be called synergy.
Michele Bachman and other TEA/Republican party members got on the television last week and told the American people flat out that the U.S. government defaulting on its debts wouldn't hurt anything.
Now we have this new economic burden as a result of only solving that argument too late.
I don't expect anyone who is a Republican or a TEA party member to admit that they were wrong about that. People who supported playing chicken with the U.S. economy last week just don't have the character and integrity.
I hope OTHER people now see what these people are about. They are angry, ignorant and DANGEROUS denialists just like the people who will not vaccinate their children and who believe global warming is a hoax.
That is totally not true. There are some features that I and others have been asking for from GNOME for years. Others I have heard about. In both sets of cases the attitude of the GNOME project has been "We know what is better for you, have it our way, hack around it or write your own". Which, given the time consuming nature of those options is "vote with your feet"
That Facebook executive said she thinks the internet would be better off without anonymity. Facebook's revenues depend on less anonymity. The motivation behind her quote is profit driven, not out of any drive for a better world.
Yep and after a lot of hype the project fizzled out. What do you want? Being a college student is the last time in your life when you can flake out without damage. Oh well. Great idea.
Thanks for the best answer to my question. I can't think of one time in my career where I ever got to choose my version control system. Both CVS and VSS were thrust upon me and in the place where I used VSS we didn't use Visual Studio so it was not a problem. VSS was also refreshing after CVS.
I will burn "SVN" into my brain in case I can influence a future job someday.
Which party is threatening to wreck th U.S. economy, again, and which party has been working for months to cut off help to the old and poor just so the richest people in the country can keep paying the lowest taxes since the Truman administration ?
The Republicans are out to service the rich and powerful, by making them more of each at the expense of all other Americans.
If you think otherwise you are either stupid, simply ignorant of what is going on or you have an emotional loyalty to the GOP blinding your otherwise good faculties ( i.e. being born into a GOP family ).
Highschool girls evaluate themselves and manipulate others by how "cool" they area, for example, if the pretty girls wear a particular label of clothing.
Comments like yours are the the IT equivalent of adolescent girls.
I'm not a nerd, I'm a professional programmer and I like programming. I'm a grownup who thinks for myself, even if the cool girls don't like it.
I like VSS because it does the job and it is easy to use. More, of substance, doesn't need to be said unless you actually have an answer to my open minded question ( a quality you will benefit professionally and personally by cultivating )
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I see so many people driving cars with just themselves in it, burning fuel to haul empty seats with them. Why not build 2 stage detachable cars? A 2 seater for commuting to work that can be snapped to a back seat module for shopping, kids etc?
The real question isn't if you are too old to learn a new programming language, but are you to "set in your ways" ( programmers of all ages have this problem ) to learn to think in a new way?
Anyone can learn new terms and new APIs, but many refuse -or- miss learning to think in new ways.
I've met plenty of people older than you who got a book or went to a "cram until your drop" corporate training course to pick up Java.
They learned APIs, but they didn't learn how to think in OO or even in terms of modularization.
The results is a lot crappy code where you get JSPs with a solid wall of code or functions that go on for pages.
If you learn an OO language, make sure you learn AND APPLY the OO philosophy.
Good luck, IMHO experience counts in programming and as an older person you have a lot more to offer than some young dude without experience, sloppy habits and is inexperienced enough to think s/he is hot shit on a stick.
"Quick, painless...."
totalitarian and completely creepy
Geeze, viking costumes? Imagine what they would do to him if they found a picture of him having a beer or wearing a skirt at a Halloween party.
Very interesting comment, seriously!
What is to stop them from selling future PCs with a few features locked down, then more and then charge you to enable them?
I think Mark Zuckerberg is more worried about Google+ and rightly so.
Thanks, I was about to say the same thing.
The most loved sci-fi shows Star Trek, Dr. Who were famous for not so great special effects. Special effects do not good sci-fi make unless great stories, good acting and good scripts are there too.
Read the book. It is fantastic. Though the story in the original movie is very different, it holds true to the spirit of the book. Both excellent.
Watch the original moves, they hold up very well even after 30 years.
Interesting, there have been 2 types of replies ( at least at level 3 and above ).
1. "This is how you do it...."
2. "Dude! *Why* would you want to do this. I did it/I run an email server for work, it is a PITA and Google is free.
Well, the "Why" is that people want more privacy and control of their information.
# 2 is a good illustration of a trash island in the pacific ocean of open source thinking. "If you don't like it, roll your own". Well, many people who have rolled their own have written in to say that such an endeavor, instead of serving your needs make you serve it.
That is cool is you are an enthusiast, but if you just want a job done that sucks.
Since "how can FOSS make money" is a perennial and interesting question I would suggest that the FOSS community makes a certification board for "safe" ( private, they don't read or use your email/information) email.
Such an organization can charge a fee for conducting an investigation that leads to a certification and periodic re-certifications.
Other FOSS types can make money by setting up alternative web based email/PIM/cloud app systems.
Ha ha. Good reply. I wish I could mod it up.
If you are using your wet RAM thinking about about lawn care you can possibly take it as a sign that your youth and the more interesting times of your life are over.
I've heard a few stories of people talking to cops who told them people would have survived accidents if it wasn't an SUV, minivan or pickup truck crashing into them.
This has been one of the reasons why I have stayed away from cars that have better mileage as the result of being smaller and having lighter materials.
I drive safely most of the time ( everyone gets distracted ), but other people do not. There are plenty of times I have close calls with people driving SUVs and minivans while talking on their mobile phones.
Some people need these large vehicles for their jobs, but most people are using them as their cars. Maybe it is time for that to to end.
A lot of Americans will not go to vote for President Obama on election day because they are disappointed in his performance and that he has not lived up to 100% of their hopes.
Please don't be like that. Please remember this and go out to vote.
As we have seen the Republicans and the TEA Party are working hard to take things away from you.
This credit downgrade will make you lose money in your 401K and increase the costs of credit........whether buying a home if you are one of the shrinking middle class that can still hope to do that.....or starting a business.
Govenor Scott Walker cut people's jobs so he could give a tax cut to the reach and the TEA Party showed up to counterprotest the Americans who were fighting for their jobs.
Republicans at the state level fought to redefine rape away and to deny coverage for abortions to women as a result of rape.
That is what these people are about. Trying to take things away from you either by conscious design or ignorance. They are turning the US into a 3rd world country.
Please go out and vote to keep them out in 2012 elections.
I've read that this credit rating downgrade will result in at least a 10% loss in most American's 401Ks. This was the result of the Republicans and TEA party playing chicken with the U.S. Economy during the debt ceiling negotiations.....which they did so they could cut money from medicare.
If their conscious, stated goal was to make Americans poor and miserable when they are old, then this "serendipitous" result would be called synergy.
Michele Bachman and other TEA/Republican party members got on the television last week and told the American people flat out that the U.S. government defaulting on its debts wouldn't hurt anything.
Now we have this new economic burden as a result of only solving that argument too late.
I don't expect anyone who is a Republican or a TEA party member to admit that they were wrong about that. People who supported playing chicken with the U.S. economy last week just don't have the character and integrity.
I hope OTHER people now see what these people are about. They are angry, ignorant and DANGEROUS denialists just like the people who will not vaccinate their children and who believe global warming is a hoax.
I'd like to thank the TEA Party and the Republicans for this 10% tax on my ( and everyone else's ) 401K.
That is totally not true. There are some features that I and others have been asking for from GNOME for years. Others I have heard about. In both sets of cases the attitude of the GNOME project has been "We know what is better for you, have it our way, hack around it or write your own". Which, given the time consuming nature of those options is "vote with your feet"
That Facebook executive said she thinks the internet would be better off without anonymity. Facebook's revenues depend on less anonymity. The motivation behind her quote is profit driven, not out of any drive for a better world.
Yep and after a lot of hype the project fizzled out. What do you want? Being a college student is the last time in your life when you can flake out without damage. Oh well. Great idea.
Thanks for the best answer to my question. I can't think of one time in my career where I ever got to choose my version control system. Both CVS and VSS were thrust upon me and in the place where I used VSS we didn't use Visual Studio so it was not a problem. VSS was also refreshing after CVS.
I will burn "SVN" into my brain in case I can influence a future job someday.
Which party is threatening to wreck th U.S. economy, again, and which party has been working for months to cut off help to the old and poor just so the richest people in the country can keep paying the lowest taxes since the Truman administration ?
Go read the news and be honest with yourself.
"We have made a very bad mistake. Anyone redistributing those versions is violating the GPL, through no fault of his own."
Ever read RMS' site/blog. More PC you could not get and he writes in a way that forgets several billion people.
Many people will keep buying gas guzzlers, hurting others, even if the price of gas does go up enough to hurt.
The Republicans are out to service the rich and powerful, by making them more of each at the expense of all other Americans.
If you think otherwise you are either stupid, simply ignorant of what is going on or you have an emotional loyalty to the GOP blinding your otherwise good faculties ( i.e. being born into a GOP family ).
Highschool girls evaluate themselves and manipulate others by how "cool" they area, for example, if the pretty girls wear a particular label of clothing.
Comments like yours are the the IT equivalent of adolescent girls.
I'm not a nerd, I'm a professional programmer and I like programming. I'm a grownup who thinks for myself, even if the cool girls don't like it.
I like VSS because it does the job and it is easy to use. More, of substance, doesn't need to be said unless you actually have an answer to my open minded question ( a quality you will benefit professionally and personally by cultivating )