Originally posted by zeitghost
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYeah, just about any technology more than a couple of years old.Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostThis is the downside (one of them!) of working in IT: after you've been in it a while, most of your experience is totally worthless.Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostI wasted a few hundred quid on the Borland C++ development kit and never used it.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
Also, I've been at many clients over the years but hardly ever needed to use Unix. But I suppose that just makes me a lightweight contractor.
No its doesnt - Ive used Unix as well - in fact IBMs AIX flavour - if youve worked with one OS youve worked with them all - Unix reminds me of the command style OS interface of the IBM 370 days - so big deal.
I think there are still one or two on here using such antiquated systems .Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostThis is the downside (one of them!) of working in IT: after you've been in it a while, most of your experience is totally worthless.
That is why IT is not exactly a 'profession' - contrast this with a lawyer where your expenence enhances your career - I have already seen a couple of technolgy waves come and go and a lot of people 'beached' by those industry changes.Comment
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Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View PostThat is why IT is not exactly a 'profession' - contrast this with a lawyer where your expenence enhances your career - I have already seen a couple of technolgy waves come and go and a lot of people 'beached' by those industry changes.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post"Beached" is one up from "benched"?
Or less poetically - on the technologcal scrap-heap.Comment
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostI wasted a few hundred quid on the PSION Organiser developer kit about 12 years ago. The whole thing was a piece of shyte.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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