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I've seen people with much more experience (read: more years in the industry) than me fail miserably because they didn't read a book once in a while.
Experience is no substitute for knowledge. Experience is about knowing how to apply knowledge correctly.
And why would I have to make the same mistakes as everybody else when someone points them out for me in a book?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Experience is about knowing how to apply knowledge correctly.
Nicely stated
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Experience without introducing new ideas is just repeating the same mistakes. If you put bad code in a loop, does it get better over time?
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I think experience has the distinct downside of re-enforcing bad beliefs and behaviors.
Education/Books, on the other hand have the opportunity to change those things.
I have a friend who still makes everyone feel stupid, and can't get buy in!!! Wonder why?
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I would strongly agree with you and the others above replying to my post. There is a large difference between the experience one 40 year old might have had from another person of 40. Many people I know, of all ages, simply repeat the years without improving or expanding their lives or knowledge: that is not experience, it is repetition. I should have been far more precise knowing how incredibly pedantic and nuance-averse we are here at CP.
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Also get Il Principe, a team of programmers isn't a state but some of the same principles apply.
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I actually have it on my bookshelf... Tried to read it about 5-6 years ago (boy, time flies!), but I couldn't get past the second chapter... I believe it was about what a king should and shouldn't do, or whatever. Maybe I'll try again now I'm older and wiser 
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The only thing they call a "soft skill" that's actually valuable is empathy -- but empathy's hard, so most books/courses/morons working in the field don't touch it.
Just imagine you're the guy you're talking to, and work out how you'd feel if some wanker were talking to you the way you're talking to him.
Easy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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up vote. Yes, Hard though.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard! Man, you're stupid...
Seriously though, that was about my reaction to a coworker a few years ago when he asked me a programming question. He complained to management (who complained to me) and he hasn't asked me anything after that. The worst part was that I wasn't even aware of it at the time. Later, when I calmed down a bit and he dared to ask me questions again, I've helped him out quite a bit 
Now I want to go from 'helping', to 'empowering' (yes, I've been reading Dilbert )
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You see it all the time, if you walk through the halls of software houses.
Another problem is that people who work really, really well together talk to each other that way, too, but the differences are so subtle that an outsider wouldn't recognise them -- so if anyone's thinking about making rules about such behaviour: forget it; you can only make the workplace worse by doing so.
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I didn't read Soft Skills, but to sell ideas to coworkers, I think that Driving Technical Change is a good read.
Quote: You’ll learn all about peoples’ “resistance patterns. [...] From there you’ll discover battle-tested techniques for overcoming users’ objections
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Thanks, looks interesting! 
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An Indian bride has married a guest at her wedding after her groom-to-be had a seizure and collapsed.
Reports said the groom, Jugal Kishore, was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride, Indira, and her family.
What a scumbag!
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JMK-NI wrote: What a scumbag!
Which one?
I suppose the jilted groom could sue....but he'd have a shaky case.
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Quote: Which one?
The groom obviously, he should have waited
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That is just terrible! +5!
"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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I think he should seize the moment!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Few people realise that the bride at an English wedding can choose to marry the best man, rather than the groom ("best man" is short for "second-best man", which idiots with inferiority complexes some people saw as insulting) -- so if you're asked to be best man at a wedding, make sure that the request comes solely and exclusively from the groom.
... Unless she's a babe, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think the bride can marry whoever she wants in England, can't she?
I thought it was one of those free and gender equal countries?
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Oh no no no no.
It's all arranged by Prince Philip.
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does he exercise his right to "jus primae noctis" as well?! 
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Only if he's also the local Lord of the Manor 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There's a bann on marrying anyone on the spot, but the best man's not banned from the list.
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oh.... interesting! 
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