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Post #105,116 by tseliot 6/6/03 11:41:36 AM Reply	This is the only reason I'm still a programmer able to juggle a huge amount of "state" in your mind. And it all can be wiped away and restarted fresh when a new way of doing it pops up, again, and again. Dropping old mental frameworks (and integrating new ones) is what I do best. :) Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #105,120 by drewk 6/6/03 11:47:39 AM Reply	So you're good at forgetting things How do you word that on your resume? ;) === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #105,137 by jb4 6/6/03 1:39:03 PM Reply	Oh stop yerself! Actually, its really quite simple: So you're good at forgetting things How do you word that on your resume? ;) You simply say you're over 50! ;-) jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #105,205 by ben_tilly 6/7/03 1:22:15 AM Reply	That's easy Just say that you are good at focussing on the task at hand. :-) Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]

Kill the Methodologists - (tuberculosis) - (69) - June 3, 2003, 02:07:46 PM EDT

Skill: the anti-Manager - (jb4) - (1) - June 3, 2003, 07:08:55 PM EDT

Re: Skill: the anti-Manager - (orion) - June 3, 2003, 08:06:30 PM EDT

Re: Kill the Methodologists - (systems) - (61) - June 3, 2003, 09:08:51 PM EDT

Thanks for joining in, comments - (boxley) - June 4, 2003, 09:06:24 AM EDT

OT: Text formatting - (pwhysall) - June 4, 2003, 10:52:18 AM EDT

Most Methodologies have their basis in fantasy - (tuberculosis) - (6) - June 4, 2003, 01:37:44 PM EDT

Let's see if I can summarize - (drewk) - (4) - June 4, 2003, 01:46:47 PM EDT

Basically, yeah - (tuberculosis) - (3) - June 4, 2003, 02:44:00 PM EDT

Which brings us to the essential tension in SW today: - (tseliot) - June 4, 2003, 07:38:28 PM EDT

Re: Basically, yeah - (deSitter) - (1) - June 4, 2003, 09:58:48 PM EDT

Ummm... - (ben_tilly) - June 4, 2003, 11:29:17 PM EDT

There's nothing wrong with Methodology... - (Simon_Jester) - June 5, 2003, 06:07:42 PM EDT

Ahh, a PHB in training. - (broomberg) - (6) - June 4, 2003, 11:36:22 PM EDT

Programming is more art than science. - (static) - (1) - June 6, 2003, 08:25:26 AM EDT

I know every time I want some programming done - (boxley) - June 6, 2003, 08:42:10 AM EDT

This is the *only* reason I'm still a programmer - (tseliot) - (3) - June 6, 2003, 11:41:36 AM EDT

So you're good at forgetting things - (drewk) - (2) - June 6, 2003, 11:47:39 AM EDT

Oh stop yerself! - (jb4) - June 6, 2003, 01:39:03 PM EDT

That's easy - (ben_tilly) - June 7, 2003, 01:22:15 AM EDT

Sorry, you're misinformed. - (admin) - (44) - June 5, 2003, 10:15:58 AM EDT

"You can't coach height" - (drewk) - (7) - June 5, 2003, 11:27:17 AM EDT

Exactly. And while we're on the subject... - (admin) - (6) - June 5, 2003, 11:29:53 AM EDT

No kidding - (drewk) - (3) - June 5, 2003, 11:38:25 AM EDT

heck, i got one dumber than a rock but gifted - (boxley) - (2) - June 5, 2003, 12:15:15 PM EDT

Not the same. - (admin) - (1) - June 5, 2003, 12:17:19 PM EDT

It is also used in the common tongue - (boxley) - June 5, 2003, 12:22:10 PM EDT

Doubt mine qualify as gifted... - (ChrisR) - June 5, 2003, 12:28:57 PM EDT

I got one of each - (broomberg) - June 5, 2003, 12:56:19 PM EDT

The problem with discussing elite programmers... - (ChrisR) - (5) - June 5, 2003, 12:47:25 PM EDT

Possible - (broomberg) - (4) - June 5, 2003, 01:14:45 PM EDT

I think I've reached that point - (drewk) - (2) - June 5, 2003, 01:31:18 PM EDT

The first thing I do now... - (admin) - June 5, 2003, 01:36:48 PM EDT

I worked with many real 10%ers - (boxley) - June 5, 2003, 04:23:59 PM EDT

Its situational to some extent - (tuberculosis) - June 5, 2003, 04:03:56 PM EDT

Actually, lazy is better - (broomberg) - (2) - June 5, 2003, 12:49:31 PM EDT

That's "responsibly lazy". - (admin) - June 5, 2003, 01:02:49 PM EDT

Wall in the Camel book: - (tseliot) - June 5, 2003, 05:56:12 PM EDT

Re: Sorry, you're misinformed. - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 6, 2003, 02:46:48 AM EDT

Undoubtedly. - (admin) - (1) - June 6, 2003, 08:48:59 AM EDT

Hmm. "curious", eh? - (static) - June 6, 2003, 08:54:08 AM EDT

Double post. -NT - (pwhysall) - June 6, 2003, 02:52:16 AM EDT

Talent how measured? - (tablizer) - (22) - June 10, 2003, 06:32:54 PM EDT

Point == missed. - (admin) - (21) - June 10, 2003, 06:34:29 PM EDT

Software development is like driving - (tablizer) - (20) - June 10, 2003, 10:02:50 PM EDT

Uhhh... - (Yendor) - (18) - June 10, 2003, 10:45:49 PM EDT

ANYONE is a little too strong a requirement! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - June 11, 2003, 01:15:52 AM EDT

Well, OK... - (Yendor) - June 11, 2003, 01:33:26 AM EDT

Audience - (tablizer) - (15) - June 11, 2003, 02:26:38 PM EDT

Two words... - (Yendor) - (7) - June 11, 2003, 04:14:10 PM EDT

Another Two Words. - (folkert) - June 11, 2003, 04:26:47 PM EDT

Megadittos - (tjsinclair) - June 11, 2003, 06:07:02 PM EDT

Most places i've been don't have unit tests - (tablizer) - (4) - June 12, 2003, 02:31:04 AM EDT

The point being... - (folkert) - (3) - June 12, 2003, 08:26:44 AM EDT

OT - new LRPDism? (new thread) - (CRConrad) - June 12, 2003, 03:24:24 PM EDT

regarding unit testing - (tablizer) - (1) - June 12, 2003, 03:30:57 PM EDT

Re: regarding unit testing - (admin) - June 12, 2003, 03:35:56 PM EDT

Don' you be talkin' about 'abstraction'... - (jb4) - (6) - June 11, 2003, 06:18:08 PM EDT

Bull. Relational is more abstract than OO - (tablizer) - (5) - June 12, 2003, 02:32:03 AM EDT

And tables are nothing but... - (jb4) - (4) - June 12, 2003, 06:09:32 PM EDT

Relational does not dictate underlying implementation - (tablizer) - (3) - June 13, 2003, 02:08:29 AM EDT

Bryce, what ARE you talking about - (jb4) - (2) - June 16, 2003, 04:28:23 PM EDT

You misunderstood me - (tablizer) - (1) - June 17, 2003, 02:25:34 AM EDT

And *why* do you think that happens all the time...? (new thread) - (CRConrad) - June 17, 2003, 03:27:56 AM EDT

Most software developers are wrong... -NT - (admin) - June 10, 2003, 10:52:37 PM EDT

Nice -NT - (deSitter) - June 3, 2003, 09:50:36 PM EDT

Robert C Martin concurs - (tuberculosis) - (2) - June 3, 2003, 10:34:56 PM EDT

*snort* My PFY tells me that evey day - (tseliot) - (1) - June 4, 2003, 12:59:08 AM EDT

*Lots* of people have told me that - (drewk) - June 4, 2003, 08:10:29 AM EDT

HOLEEECHIT! - (folkert) - June 4, 2003, 08:35:58 PM EDT

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