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[SupremeSpod]

Artistically gifted on an IT forum? You'd be lucky

Old hack is an old queen, surely he can waft a paint brush or two.

[d000hg]

Artistically gifted on an IT forum? You'd be lucky

[SupremeSpod]

I thought the pc would land on the laughing smiley

That would be a classic smiley!

Can one of you artistically gifted people make it so?

[d000hg]

Sooooooooooo tempted to put that into my presentation. But I think it might undermine the message if they thought I was taking the piss.

You must be able to work it in, I dare you!

[rd409]

I thought the pc would land on the laughing smiley

[mudskipper]

Sooooooooooo tempted to put that into my presentation. But I think it might undermine the message if they thought I was taking the piss.

You definitely need a bit of humour in there - go for it.

[NotAllThere]

Sooooooooooo tempted to put that into my presentation. But I think it might undermine the message if they thought I was taking the piss.

[mudskipper]

One of my favourite programming stats:

[SupremeSpod]

Shame Microsoft doesn't seem to employ any of them

“If you think you're a really good programmer… read (Knuth's) Art of Computer Programming… You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing."

[OwlHoot]

I like this quote from old Billy Gates:

“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” –Bill Gates

Shame Microsoft doesn't seem to employ any of them

[teclo]

I like this quote from old Billy Gates:

“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.” –Bill Gates

[d000hg]

Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month", if I remember correctly from my software engineering days - don't know what the productivity ratio was he mentioned.

A great book.

Joel Spolsky definitely talks about this too but I can't find which article.

edit: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
Not the one I was thinking of but related.

[NotAllThere]

A quote I read from Steve Jobs, he quoted a 25x increase in productivity in A programmers vs lesser mortals.

Darn. I negged you a while back, and now I can't + rep you....

[NotAllThere]

Perfect. You are a flippin' genius.

[LatteLiberal]

A quote I read from Steve Jobs, he quoted a 25x increase in productivity in A programmers vs lesser mortals.