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I agree - programming ( and a lot of other things ) has become a cut and paste job , I do use the web to research something new to me but never use anything I don't understand - I admire your ( and others ) patience on Q & A - I couldn't do that - you must have a library of stock answers for a lot of them
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Same here, mostly, except I had the obligatory book case full of manuals in binders. And, if you couldn't find it in the manuals, and you were super desperate, you were forced to track down that one person, either in the office or by phone (at the vendor), who "knew the answer" and beg for their time.
Or, more likely, you weren't quite that desperate and simply found a workaround for the issue by yourself.
Fun stuff...don't miss those days 
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Sometimes I think the speed of information availability is eroding the ability to think and reason about a problem
It is: when information is slow, trying to figure out the solution is the shortest path. If information is faster, why bother? Productivity goes down.
For many programmer jobs, thinking isn't required or encouraged. Who does algorithms anymore? A tiny fraction of the developer work force. All the others simply glue together stuff which is already glued together from other cannibalized stuff - it's like a post apocaliptic world, it could be a Fallout title.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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"When I started, you had to physically go to the library, wait until it opened at 09:00, trifle through the card catalog, spend a few hours finding the right book..."
OriginalGriff wrote: Sometimes I think the speed of information availability is eroding the ability to think and reason about a problem. 
Truer words have never been spoken typed. Students today are taught programming languages rather than how to actually solve the problem. When the language changes, they are suddenly "up a creek without a paddle."
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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David Crow wrote: trifle through the card catalog
If you get trifle on the card index, the librarians will be most annoyed and will whisper at you most aggressively.
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OriginalGriff wrote: When I started, you had to physically go to the library, wait until it opened at 09:00, spend a few hours finding the right book, and then read it. All of it. Because there was no "text search" in a paper based book in those days.
http://www.lmgtfy.com[^]
Software Zen: delete this;
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I remember them - and that they were about as useful as page 47 of Google ... 
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I was an employee of our local library from 1975 through 1979. I was a 'page', one of the teenage grunts hired to shelve returned books, maintain the shelves (patrons put books back in the wrong places, a lot), and so on.
Back then I had to constantly show people how to use the card catalog, just like you have to teach people how to Google today.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Twelve plus one made no difference(6,4,3)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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ELEVEN PLUS TWO?
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Good man - have you seen this before ?
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You mean it's right?
Oh ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) !
I just saw the anagram and thought it was a joke answer... 
If I'd known it was the solution, I'd have left it some time so the others had a chance.
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You laughing at my clue !!!
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ah, yes! I see it now.
I'd kind of ignored Griff's answer, thinking it was just a convenient match for the number of letters.
Nice clue!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Stephen Hawking's words will be beamed into space - BBC News[^]
Today, at midday.
A fitting last resting place, and a fitting tribute to one of the finest minds of a generation.
Requiescat in pace. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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modified 15-Jun-18 1:37am.
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RIP Stephen; the overall IQ of the planet dropped significantly when we lost you.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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R.I.S.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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No wonder Aliens haven't visited us....all we do is bombard them with naff mix-tapes and unsolicited nudes.[^]
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AssemblyBindings are a cruel joke.
Just spent 4hrs trying to undo and fix up a Nuget-based update that killed the code. Nuget was happy with it. The compiler was happy with it. Even publishing the website showed no problems. Everyone was happy.
Except that it wouldn't actually run because it kept trying to load the wrong version of a System DLL, even though I'd set an AssemblyBinding.
They need to make it easier to trace where DLLs come from. This is insanity. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Now-U-Get it 
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Good old assembly binding!  
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Welcome to good old DLL hell.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The first rule of NuGet - never update a NuGet package
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If you can't trust code you wrote, how can you trust code you didn't write?
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