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Christian Graus

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Only kidding - I know several talented Indian programmers, as well as several not so talented ones. Equally, for every talented English programmer I know, I know 5 or 6 morons of the highest order. All generalisations are counter productive.

Yeah, it's self evident that people like Nish and Rama are as good as any Western dev, and probably better than most. It's also clear that the ones using the Quick Questions are, by definition, the subset that can't figure out how to do their own work. Starting in the CP forums, is not the same as running a job ad in Bangalore and seeing who shows up.

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AspDotNetDev · modified on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 5:14 PM

With how the threads are lined up, it looks like you are talking to yourself. Not only that, but you are giving yourself a compliment and are claiming you are a teen. Or, am I going bonkers? Perhaps it's my old age (25).

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Pete OHanlon

A mantra that I hear from several people of my own age, "why don't they do something productive? When I was their age, I didn't hang around on street corners. Why, I was actively involved in sports and the local church and rescuing kittens from trees and helping little old ladies to cross the street whether they wanted to or not." What you never hear is "why, when I was a teenager I spent most of my time trying to chat up girls and being too scared to speak to them if they looked at me, and hanging around at the park until late because we were bored and had nothing to do."

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Pete OHanlon

How bizarre. I was replying to this[^] post.

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Pete OHanlon

Well said, and it will be interesting for you to reread this thread when you're no longer a teenager just to remind yourself how lucky you were to be a rational thinking teen.

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AspDotNetDev

Even teens like yourself make mistakes every once in a while.

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Tom Delany

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

I read the Telegraph myself.

You know Morse code? ;) ;P

WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

0x3c0

Thanks. Topics like these tend to really annoy me, to the extent I sometimes have to calm down and think about what I'm writing. The problem I have with viewpoints like the original poster's is that a lot of teenagers who I've met think that most adults hold them. At best, that's breeding resentment between generations; at worst, it's reader-sanctioned ageism. If any newspaper published a steady stream of articles about how the elderly were acting as parasites on the NHS, there'd be an uproar - and rightly so. It would appear though, that it's quite all right for similarly derogatory articles to be published regarding teenagers.

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Pete OHanlon

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Pete OHanlon

0x3c0 wrote:

If any newspaper published a steady stream of articles about how the elderly were acting as parasites on the NHS

That's because most of the readership aim to achieve this target.

0x3c0 wrote:

It would appear though, that it's quite all right for similarly derogatory articles to be published regarding teenagers.

That's because most of the readership are already past this target.

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Pete OHanlon

The odd thing. When I modified the post, it linked back to the post I thought I'd replied against. I suspect forum links shenanigans.

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Tom Delany

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WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

Pete OHanlon

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AspDotNetDev

Interesting. Sounds like bug report time!

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Pete OHanlon

Reported.

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MidwestLimey

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

hanging around at the park until late because we were bored and had nothing to do

I would never have done such a thing as a teenager! I went to the pub to be bored ...

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Chris C B

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

All generalisations are counter productive.

Really? Are you sure? I thought that one... Oh, never mind. :laugh: :laugh:

Mark_Wallace

Well said, and better written than the Mail article.

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Mark_Wallace

Funny how it's always the right wing that finds sectors of society to blame for everything, isn't it? During the Thatcher years, the great evils in society were the monsters who dared to be members of trade unions, and single parents. Making pariahs of the former has left the UK without any industry worth speaking of (but those who only shuffle money around are richer than ever), and the children of the latter are now of voting age, but obviously have no memories of how they were treated by the right wing. The trouble is that if you speak out against the way entire sectors of society are mistreated/misrepresented, you're immediately classified as socialist or communist -- and they're the biggest pariahs of all.

Keep the proles occupied with invective, and scoop up as much of their money as you can

Mark_Wallace

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

All generalisations are counter productive.

Especially that one.

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