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OriginalGriff wrote: code punched into Stegosaurus fin plates
Was it a bug in his software that made them go extinct? 
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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No, he doesn't write bugs. Possibly he uses so many of them they died out though...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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-Amit Gajjar
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thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Who is top of the list?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Top person not mean the oldest guy ... he is contributing more.. my question is different.
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-Amit Gajjar
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@AmitGajjar wrote: my question is different.
Your original question was "Who is most senior programmer here.... ?". In my opinion Griff gets that title by virtue of his contribution to the site. You are free to nominate anyone you think has done more.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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@AmitGajjar wrote: say in programming from last 30 years or more...
I started programming in 7th grade, so that would have been when I was 12 or so. In August, that'll be 40 years.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: programming in 7th grade
But were you employed to do so?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: But were you employed to do so?
Well, in 8th grade I was taught how to program in the boot code for the PDP-11, which would crash frequently when the mag drive drew too much power. So, you could say I was "employed" for a very important task. 
Marc
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Does this[^] bring back memories?
For me, the earliest I remember was the DG Nova 3[^] - I think I started the PDP 8[^] at university quite a few times when learning it's assembler, but I've managed to forget all about that.
Them was the days! When the accumulator value was permanently shown - and changing - in LEDs on the front of the box! None of this wussy "rotating circles" to show it was busy, oh, no...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: Them was the days!
Indeed they were. Having been 15 right when computers became affordable to regular people, that was quite amazing. When I was 18, my gf's father was one of the folks who was figuring out what transistors were good for, back when he was in his early 20's. Crazy stuff.
Marc
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Not me; my first programming job began in 1989 -- VAX BASIC on a MicroVAX 3600.
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I started in 1965, almost 50 years ago, my how time flies when you are having fun.
Dave.
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Woow....
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I don't think you've gotten very many good answers. I started programming in 1969, and I consider myself one of the young guys.
...I first got paid for programming about 1971 (not sure of the exact date, but I remember the occasion).
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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You start programming when i was not born...
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I've been programming professionally for 30 years but I'm far from being the most senior, skilled or smart programmer you seem to be seeking out.
/ravi
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I've been programming since 1979...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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35 years of journey.... really great to meet you here. And your contribution is really great.
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-Amit Gajjar
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The "journey" has turned into slogging through the mire of work environments where managers would rather pay off-shore "talent" to do my job. Add to that the ever-rising cost of tools and frameworks necessary to stay relevant in the diminishing job market, and the "advancement" of technology that makes your skill-set obsolete a week or two after you've become proficient in the last version of the latest "best practice", and I think you can understand when I say I'm ready to change professions to something where the tech has remained fairly constant for the last 50 years or so - like waste retrieval and disposal...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I am running Windows 7, and I figure that I will continue to run it until it is no longer supported - and as long as I continue to use my notebook system. Perhaps if Windows 8.x or 9 becomes something decent, I will continue on running Windows.
But I have read that a lot of organizations are running Ubuntu now, so I figure that it should have reached a high level of user & installation ease. My idea of an easy system to install is to be able to download the installation package, and then be able to install into a newly formatted disk with no issues - like I was able to do when I very recently did a complete system rebuild (of my Windows 7) from downloading (of course, I had to supply the product key.) Is Ubuntu up to this level yet? I can remember in the mid 90's when I had read that Linux was easy, blah, blah, blah, but in actuality it was pain in the a@@. The one thing that Micro$oft has done quite effectively is create an easily installable package, and with the proper support for any issues.
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Download Oracle VirtualBox, fire up a VM, and try it out. All the fun without any of the damage.
But to answer your question, yes, installing Ubuntu is about as easy as installing Windows, its a LOT more user friendly than it was in the 90's and even more than it was in the mid 2000's.
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Ron Beyer wrote: Download Oracle VirtualBox, fire up a VM, and try it out. All the fun without any of the damage.
I think I will try that. I suppose that I would be able to do an install from a stick drive that would mimic having a newly reformatted hard drive.
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