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  1. Re:Older workers require that old zest for the new on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. I started programming commercially somewhere around 15. I am no longer current (in a commercial way at least) on these new fangled tools and will never be. I worked in the industry for decades and saw it turn into a place not full of brilliance but full of trained monkeys(egotistical young ones). Driving the tractor on my property gives me a much bigger buzz than I would get from being in an industry that is now filled with the lowest common denominator.

  2. Re:Young people thinking they know everything? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It does when your a young upcoming whippersnapper

  3. Re:Young people thinking they know everything? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for letting this old guy know that C (and its variants) is obsolete. I would bow down and worship at your feet but my knees just aren't what they used to be.

  4. Re:Young people thinking they know everything? on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    I've seen ones that couldn't make change from a dollar let alone change a lightbulb

  5. Re:The solution to all this ... on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that alternate methods will start to show themselves over the next decade or so.

  6. Re:That'll teach him.... on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I'd feel sorry for you if I had a heart.

  7. Re:Extrapolation on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Why did you blank out the 'Romney ate his kidneys.' bit? Your biases are showing.

  8. Re:You first on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Or maybe too effective.

  9. Re:Accelerated Evolution on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Stop making sense. For God's sake don't mention that the big diseases that vaccine's supposedly 'fixed' where in serious decline at the time vaccination was introduced(they will put you on the /. anti-science stake).

  10. Re:Accelerated Evolution on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I've never had the flu. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

  11. Re:Accelerated Evolution on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I read a study somewhere or other many years ago that argued that the flu played a beneficial role and was a necessary part of remaining healthy long term

  12. Re:When will this be available? on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    don;t you mean insightful?

  13. Re:Boobies on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    I can certainly see where your going from - FTFY

  14. Re: education vs. learning on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    That's sort of funny in a bad way.

  15. Re:Serial Numbers on Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever · · Score: 2

    I once bought a $50 car and it wasn't stolen.

  16. Re:I should not have to pay $35 on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    I poke my tongue out at you and chant nanana

  17. Re:I should not have to pay $35 on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    And what kind of scientist, geek, or technology person would I be if I didn't get excited by new, shiny things? :)

    A dead one?

  18. Re:I should not have to pay $35 on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    In my country every time you buy blank media a part of the purchase price goes to the corporations to offset their losses from copyright infringement. I take this to mean that they have been paid already.

  19. Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    Once again /. is filled with early morning treasures

  20. Re: education vs. learning on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    I hate to explain it but I was referencing the number of fingers that guy had

  21. Re:zimmerman is innocent on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    I guess you have never experience someone asking you what your fucking problem is and following it up with an immediate right hook. get out of your mum's basement.

  22. Re: education vs. learning on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    He couldn't add 8+7 except on his fingers.

    Growing up in Chernobyl is hard enough without being an unrecognised genius as well.

  23. Re:Begs the question... SIGH on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Real geniuses don't care if they appear to be maroons on the internet

  24. Re:Steve Jobs said.... on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    So are the rehabs

  25. Re:How do I spot a genius? on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    "Whom" isn't a word you can just use whenever you want to sound smart.

    With most people it can be.