More mature programmer?
Before you can get to that point you have to lose the attitude that a programmer who hasn't cashed out by 30 can't be any good.
Many IT departments are hostile if not outright discriminatory environments for more mature programmers.
Watch who you call lame brain, cretin.
Anyone who feels the need to post messages saying "who cares about that" is, in fact advocating the abandonment of knowledge about that item. If you don't care about something, all you need do is not reply.
I disagree. "Unlearning" the foundation stones of today's technology does have the drawback of leaving you vulnerable when the underpinnings of the new technology go awry. You get things like kids who can't tell an off-by-several-orders-of-magnitude answer spit out by a calculator from a correct one.
Instead of laughing at the Ptolemaic view of the Solar System, just try to imagine figuring it out yourself from watching the skies night after night. Though wrong, it was a work of genius. Then think what you'll have to do if the power grid goes down for a week.
Hey coward, why don't you tell us how the merger of GE and Honeywell would have benefitted you as an American? Not one frigging bit unless you happened to own their stock.
I say thank God for Europe - somebody has to prevent the coalescence of the entire world into a single monopoly.
The US has completely rolled over to corporate power.
Spot on. And the reason so many geeks can't stand them is because they assume that anyone not working for them must be an idiot. Every Microsoft tool is dumbed down to the point of unusability for serious work.
That's why I don't use them anymore.
And you might thank Borland Internataional for bringing the first low-cost development tools to the industry, back in the days when Microsoft wanted an arm and a leg.
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More mature programmer? Before you can get to that point you have to lose the attitude that a programmer who hasn't cashed out by 30 can't be any good. Many IT departments are hostile if not outright discriminatory environments for more mature programmers.
Watch who you call lame brain, cretin. Anyone who feels the need to post messages saying "who cares about that" is, in fact advocating the abandonment of knowledge about that item. If you don't care about something, all you need do is not reply.
Instead of laughing at the Ptolemaic view of the Solar System, just try to imagine figuring it out yourself from watching the skies night after night. Though wrong, it was a work of genius. Then think what you'll have to do if the power grid goes down for a week.
Hey coward, why don't you tell us how the merger of GE and Honeywell would have benefitted you as an American? Not one frigging bit unless you happened to own their stock. I say thank God for Europe - somebody has to prevent the coalescence of the entire world into a single monopoly. The US has completely rolled over to corporate power.
Spot on. And the reason so many geeks can't stand them is because they assume that anyone not working for them must be an idiot. Every Microsoft tool is dumbed down to the point of unusability for serious work. That's why I don't use them anymore.
And you might thank Borland Internataional for bringing the first low-cost development tools to the industry, back in the days when Microsoft wanted an arm and a leg.