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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code.
What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first.
There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic Smile |  ).
What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Rise and shine, campers, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's COLD out there today!
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COBOL, FORTRAN, VAX MACRO 11 (Assembler), how to pick up a woman in a diner.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Keith Barrow wrote: What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
Well, I didn't think I'd ever need those tire changing skills again, or catching falling children until I needed them near the end of next week...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: catching falling children
Just please, no touchdown celebration this time.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Keith Barrow wrote: What did you learn and never get around to using or
Did we not just..?
confused 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's Groundhog Day, just go with it...again.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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He did the same thing tomorrow.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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See thread below...
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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You plainly haven't forgotten how to steal...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Keith Barrow wrote: What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
First Aid.
It's a good thing to learn and never need.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Keith Barrow wrote: What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
That question just begs for a certain answer, but I'm only 51 so it doesn't apply to me yet (or hopefully ever!)
Other answers:
making fire
killing a chicken
Marc
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Not a lot really. I stick to solving almost everything with C++ and try hard to avoid having to immerse myself too much in anything else that isn't the job in hand. I have seen many things come and go and I am very relaxed about not having bothered to learn them. Why think that you have to be master of everything? That is megalomania. You might think it looks good on your CV but to me, any profficiency list with more than three items looks like a list of superficial dabblings.
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My clock radio's alarm came on with the local radio station's morning duo. Just like yesterday.
The traffic on my commute to work is backed up. Just like yesterday (well, every day).
I have to go to work and try to figure out why the embedded browser control is behaving the way it is in our application. Just like yesterday.
Someone is going on and on about the non-existence of a future version of an operating system. Just like yesterday.
I think I am going to snap a pencil in two, put it next to my bed and jump off a cliff.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Hmm, cases of De-Ja-Vu are common when the Matrix alters to allow agents...
APOD, CCC and the above?
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Groundhog day is a theoretical absurdity, and can be disproved by induction!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Recursion is a bitch ain't it? 
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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You can say that again. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Recursion is a bitch ain't it? Wink |
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Wait! There is something new. Rain? We haven't had any of that for a couple of months. Ah, but there is still sunshine in the Lounge. 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Was there ever a moment in history when ground-hog-day and pay-day coincided?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Unfortunately Groundhog Day is hardcoded to fall on the day before pay-day. 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Cosmic Crab Nebula [^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Wow, like a cyclone fallen over, wow!
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Very nice
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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