The 50 year old programmer

[Fronttoback]

Thanks for your input, beach bum.
It's like you think anyone believes your Schtick.
Thought you'd gone back to Oz anyway

If you want input, I would suggest you concentrate on letting go of the ego. Then maybe you can move forward.

[NotAllThere]

The best programmers are orders of magnitiude more efficient than the average programmer.

IBM research from, IIRC, the 70s. A "good" programmer is 20x more efficient than an "average" programmer, and 50x better than a "bad" programmer. And 500x better than an offshore programmer (that bit is NAT research carried out over twenty years, 1997-2017).

Rubber ducking = Cardboard cut out. One of the few terms coined by ICL.

That was the company that turned me down during graduate interviews as having no aptitude for computing. 27 years later and several £million, I'm still here and ICL... well, it was known as "It Can't Last".

[northernladyuk]

You do know this is sas you are talking to here?

He could not be trusted to count his fingers and toes and get the same number twice.


And the nearest he gets to "interviewing" anyone is when he lifts the front gate barrier to let them into the facility.

Nice that you get visitors.

[sasguru]

If you want input, I would suggest you concentrate on letting go of the ego. Then maybe you can move forward.

I don't want input.
So why have you ended up in some backwater in the med then?
You must be a real misfit if you can't live a beach bum life in Oz.

[shaunbhoy]

You must be a real misfit if you can't live a beach bum life in Oz.

He quipped, from the depths of his eco-shed at the far end of the garden.

[xoggoth]

50 years old? A youngster!

[Fronttoback]

I don't want input.
So why have you ended up in some backwater in the med then?
You must be a real misfit if you can't live a beach bum life in Oz.

I'm not Australian. You are projecting your failure vibe again. You did not come first. Others have achieved more than you with less effort and more panache. Now jog on back to your ZX81 simulator and try to impress your fugly Mrs with your shallow grasp of clever stuff.

[northernladyuk]

Well that thread went well, I thought.

[vetran]

He quipped, from the depths of his spouse's eco-shed at the far end of the garden.

FTFY

[vetran]

50 years old? whippersnapper!

FTFY