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  • T thisraja

    I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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    Brij
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    ProgrammerToVP wrote:

    I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

    I also liked the Idea..

    ProgrammerToVP wrote:

    Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines

    This is really boring and sometimes I start hating myself :(( But getting paid for all this crap.. but also looking for something new

    Cheers!! Brij Check my latest Article :URL Routing with ASP.NET 4.0

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    • T thisraja

      I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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      Abhinav S
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      ProgrammerToVP wrote:

      I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

      From programmer to basket ball coach. Now that's what I call a real promotion...

      My signature "sucks" today

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        Nonsense! IDE's are too fancy as it is. Let's all program in assembly language and pass it off to a compiler using the command line! Productivity is WAY overrated.

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        Assembler? Pah! Keyboards are for wusses. I remember keying in bootstrappers on an octal switch bank. That was in the days when the in-joke about why computers came in big 19" racks was so that we could fit a bean counter inside each one. What? It's 4pm? Time for dinner and off to bed! Creak.... E:^)

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        • T thisraja

          I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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          J Dunlap
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          I think it's funny that people are taking your post seriously - given that this is your alternate account for posting as different characters from people's work places and other funny stuff. Good job on the humor! :) Just so it's not a manifestation of multiple personality disorder! :laugh:

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          • T thisraja

            I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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            Dario Solera
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            Are you the boss that is being talked about in the thread below? :-D

            If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Continuous Localization and My Startup

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            • T thisraja

              I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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              DaveAuld
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              Well i hope you enjoy the change..........everyone needs change now and again.

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              • T thisraja

                I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                CLI HLT

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                • T thisraja

                  I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  Sounds like everyone wins. Good choice.

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  • A AspDotNetDev

                    Nonsense! IDE's are too fancy as it is. Let's all program in assembly language and pass it off to a compiler using the command line! Productivity is WAY overrated.

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                    That's still way too comfortable. Let's hook up a hexadecimal keypad and enter machine codes directly into memory. Actually, I have done this just last weekend on my very first computer :-) But still I see a point here: Often the younger fellows have their heads up in frameworks and the cool things the IDE can do for them and fail miserably at keeping control over memory usage or performance. Those rookies should spend some time with a tiny 8 bit computer with no more than 8 k RAM and everything would be nice and well.

                    A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.

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                      START: 0000 7A REQ
                      LOOP: 0001 3F 00 BN4 START
                      0003 7B SEQ
                      0004 30 01 BR LOOP

                      Here you go. One complete little program. Now guess for what processor.

                      A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.

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                      • T thisraja

                        I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                        ProgrammerToVP wrote:

                        debugging by sprinkling code with printfs

                        Thats why productivity and quality was so low. Lets face it, technology has moved on and you cant cope.

                        Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

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                          Assembler? Pah! Keyboards are for wusses. I remember keying in bootstrappers on an octal switch bank. That was in the days when the in-joke about why computers came in big 19" racks was so that we could fit a bean counter inside each one. What? It's 4pm? Time for dinner and off to bed! Creak.... E:^)

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                          Mike Winiberg
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                          BTDTGTTS - Elliott 903...

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                          • D Dario Solera

                            Are you the boss that is being talked about in the thread below? :-D

                            If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Continuous Localization and My Startup

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                            Xiangyang Liu
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                            Not really, he is just being funny. :)

                            My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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                              This sounds like a good decision and probably a relieve for both you and your subordinates. The "drag and drop" technologies which exists from some 20 years and are intended to simplify the development of the UI and help programmers to focus on the business logic, have nothing to do with your rant...and vi and emacs?!? Are you serious? The dispute which one is more crappy died a decade ago with the conclusion that they are both a pile of crap. There are more humble and far more superior text editors around for both Windows and Linux.

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                              Deyan Georgiev wrote:

                              There are more humble and far more superior text editors around for both Windows and Linux.

                              Please name them, and tell me how YOU use them. I spend far more time waiting for the cursor to catch up to me in Visual Studio than I ever do in vi. VS also has me moving my hands off the main keyboard to either the mouse or the cursor keys, which again slows me down. It's as if I've poured tar all over my hands. Why would anybody want do that? - Owen -

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                              • T thisraja

                                I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                                tom1443
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                                Congrats! I'm counting the days when I can stop doing this for pay and start once again doing it for fun.

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                                • T thisraja

                                  I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                                  All these sissy windows and icons, I once had to write an entire database using nothing but ones and zeros --Dilbert

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                                    Nonsense! IDE's are too fancy as it is. Let's all program in assembly language and pass it off to a compiler using the command line! Productivity is WAY overrated.

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                                    aspdotnetdev wrote:

                                    Nonsense! IDE's are too fancy as it is. Let's all program in assembly language and pass it off to a compiler using the command line punch cards! Productivity is WAY overrated.

                                    FTFY

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                                      Not really, he is just being funny. :)

                                      My .NET Business Application Framework     My Younger Son & His "PET"

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                                      The question is who is he?

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                                      • T thisraja

                                        I have been with my current company for 35 years. For 35 years I have encouraged use of open technologies at my company. Unfortunately, the programmers these days do not enjoy to work in open technologies. They rather prefer drag and drop programming offered by tools such as Visual Studio 2010. Programmers are reduced to drag and drop, and cut and paste machines. I can't bear this any more. I so long the days of vi, emacs, debugging by sprinkling code with printfs. We have moved so far from those days that I have to give up now. It is sad! I am now moving to full time job of being a basketball coach of my kids basketball team.

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                                        grgran
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                                        I so long the days of vi, emacs ... EMACS! I heard that that was a great OS, but that the editor sucked ;-) Seriously, sounds like you are seriously burnt out. Take a break, kick back, coach some basketball. If you still miss all those vi, emacs, printf days, grab a copy of Linux (or BSD) and contribute to open source where many of those tools are still favored.

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                                        • A AspDotNetDev

                                          Nonsense! IDE's are too fancy as it is. Let's all program in assembly language and pass it off to a compiler using the command line! Productivity is WAY overrated.

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                                          ASSEMBLY? Wimp! We need to all go back to plugging in patch-cords and flipping switches to directly program the circuits. None of this wimpy machine abstraction! ;P

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