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I am not so old, and I don't work on a cube maze. But I somehow simpatize with your thoughts.
I am more PLC, Robot and all-road industry developer/programmer more than a high-level developer/coder. But in my "young" 10 years experience have had what you decribe enough times.
Somehow I feel lucky though. I am changing job to a fully new area in the development of test devices for cars in production. Working in a office, not having to travel so much as I am used to and being better paid. For sure there are going to be stressy times, but it is not going to be even close to actual level.
Got married some days ago and the reforms of my own house (in a new city) are almost complete, in two weeks I will sleep everyday in my bed.
All combined is going to give me a fresh amount of spare time. I would like to invest it in fitness (not only because of health, I hope to meet new people there), going out with my wife in our new bikes, going to learn Tango or other similar dances, trying to get good relationships with my new neighbours (some of them are very nice so far) and of course have kids in not so far future.
I have enjoyed the years working on this company and I am going to miss a lot some friends, to be honest I will somehow miss the challenges I have been facing through the years too. But I won't miss at all the continouos being far from home, the jerks I have faced in some projects trying (thank good) unsuccessfully to beat me down and the stress of the very close deadlines. That's the damm of being good, you are always called when it is almost too late to save the day.
Life is too short to be always working, my luck... I discovered it soon enough.
Old-ish-coder wrote: Maybe I'll turn it into a career.
I whish you luck and success on it 
M.D.V. 
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modified 9-Jan-15 11:58am.
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I can one-up you both in terms of age and years coding (although being paid for it has been a little less!) I really do get it. Programming is creative, .... BUT at some point in your career each new problem looks a lot like a problem you've solved before. The process continues until it's no different to delivering milk (same old every day!) It took me longer to get to this point programming than any of my earlier careers (I've had a few!)
Grinding code is something I now hate, even though I can still remember the wonder at writing code and getting the computer doing something neat. A new technique or technology comes along or a problem proves so thorny that you really do have to think and crack the knuckles. When you've conquered it there's a feeling of elation (maybe a bit of smugness), but things quickly subside to ennui again.
I have 12 weeks to go before I'll be the wrong side of 60 and OUT OF IT. Sure I'll probably end up doing some consulting, but code grinding will be behind me. In a couple of years I'll probably be bored about attacking the invasive species that there are on my country property, but maybe not as I don't have to do it. I might even find time to pop back to the UK and jam on guitar with POH.
I wouldn't say I'm envious of people who have been at it a long time and still love it, nor would I say that boredom is inevitable, but I do say good on 'em. I've been lucky and I've had a lot of fun getting here, but now it's time. What a long strange trip it's been.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Thank you for sharing this. I just turned 48 and while I haven't been coding as long as you, (10 years in another field) I can relate to this dreadful 'old and tired' feeling.
It's impossible to not to get burned out or downright pissed off if you are being pushed too hard or the environment is hostile. Have you thought about changing employers?
Old-ish-coder wrote: who remembers what we searched before Google?
When I was learning it was either the locally installed MSDN or one of the dozens of programming books I still have! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I just switched jobs. Improved hours worked and benefits, but BS is BS, regardless of where it falls.
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Fight da power dude! 
I'm 53 btw.
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I preferred altavista. Maybe you just didn't find a good place to have fun with coding?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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LOL...wait, you are serious. A good place and fun with coding are usually mutually exclusive concepts. If you find both, you've found happiness. Good for you!
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New Thread as I had to get around the redirect. FireFox 34.0.5
Notes: First link to CP was normal - was reading the Weird... thread and apparently was redirected while I was doing so (behind the scenes). Page went, more or less, dead w.r.t. refresh.
Click same link I did a few minutes earlier and I was sent to domain.com.
I got around it by entering www.codeproject.com/sdsd.ph -> which safely got me to the CP error page. From there, I could get to Lounge by the community-dropdown link but HOME was redirected.
Attempting to Reply to top of original thread was another redirect attempt.
New thread, however, was obviously not.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's becoming a serious pain.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Had the redirect take me to cloudherb.com. Lot's of Asia-Font and English on page.
Work-around still seems to be stuff like www.codeproject.com/lkskisd.php type links in the address-bar followed by using drop-downs to navigate.
Another user (here, USA) didn't even get in to CP the first time -> A longish delay and then the domain changed in the address bar. He was using Chrome.
Question: Are we being redirected and then hit with Malware, as well?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The discussions dropdown is still waiting forever and than sending me to domain.com when I try to navigate to bugs and sugs...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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On my laptop and desktops, I've been able to connect to CP without redirects only a few times, today, and then only for a few minutes at a time.
I'm now connected (using the same browser) with my tab, and everything seems normal, but my laptop (right in front of me, using the same external IP) is being redirected to domain.com, which is giving me error 101.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Between your experience and the ones we were all facing earlier (and maybe currently) it seems some snot nosed hackers decided to do a little DoS attack. Obviously, I could be wrong.
Hey Chris, has Code Project been compromised? Has the army of Bob been mobilized for battle?
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I did warn Chris not to call Kim jong-un a VB programmer.
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I get the same when I try to come here via Google (Domain.com)
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ditto.
"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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Interestingly, I get it about 50% of the time, regardless of how I get here.
It was reliable on my tablet, but now that goes to domain dot com as well... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No domain.com anymore, but impossibile to "refresh" the pages. Had to manually enter www.codeproject.com into address bar, then select the lounge...
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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Attempting to get here from US, redirects to domain.com.
Does that mean it thinks codeproject.com is down? Maybe.
Just letting you know.
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After posting my first message in the previous thread I got it the first time. Then I edited the message once and got through, afterwards... full day gettin one hit in CP and every further try to navigate the site landed in the other site.
Now I landed in the lounge another time by going to moderator's forum through favorites in IE and then going to the lounge through "community"
I am opening new tabs when I want to navigate, some are ok some not. No chance to edit previous message. But replying for the first time here got to the editor (I hope it gets posted)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm now back at home since nearly an hour and have no problems.
All served pages are from the Web04 server (shown on the bottom of each page). At work I had connections with the 02, 03 and 04 servers. So it may be just the 01 server which is redirecting.
[EDIT]
I now have also a connection with the 01 server.
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Me too - seems to be server based. 
/ravi
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Wow, I was really bummed for about 30 minutes until I tried a link in the Daily News! The morning ritual was broken...coffee, e-cig, but no CP/Lounge!  First time I've done any real work between 8 and 9 in a while! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: First time I've done any real work between 8 and 9 in a while!
Don't let your boss to read that 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Last night just before bed my www.codeproject.com was also redirected to domain.com
Not anything I did to fix it would except a system restore back to the day before (windows xp)
I had no proxy, plugin, hosts etc. Not a combofix scan or tdsskiller would fix it.
Now were baaaaak!
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