Forgotten skills...
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
I think I've used most things I've learned with the exception of some weird stuff at University. Perhaps what is more interesting is what I used to use daily, but can't remember any more. Unix, C++, COM, VBXs, segmented memory on 16bit etc. Best forgotten for the most part.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
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tbf we were degrading rather than evangelising though. ;)
Well, when I was young, we weren't even allowed to use that kind of language in here. Times sure have changed.
Regards, Nish
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Well, when I was young, we weren't even allowed to use that kind of language in here. Times sure have changed.
Regards, Nish
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Yep, these days bad language is OK... as long as it's ironic ;P
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
I don't think I've knowingly used De Morgan's law[^] this decade.
Really? I use it all the time... I'd just forgotten what it was called until just now. (!x && !y) == !(x || y) Ahh, memories...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)I use quite a bit, I do hardware more than software. I still think it's odd to be honest. :confused:
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Triple Integrals. Remember spending hours learning and practicing those for tests in high school. Once I left high school, I've never ever had to use them.
Regards, Nish
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Lucky boy. :-D
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?! -- C++ FQA Lite
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
By choice,SQL, Novell. By not using, Pascal, MS Debug, BASIC, AS400 command line. (There are probably even more that I can't remember I even used. I don't use recursion by the reason that 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers have very limited memory so I just got comfortable with not having to use it.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
I think I was in, or close to, being in the position of being able to draw the logic gates for an extremely basic microprocessor. We were certainly examined on the logic-circuitry various parts of these during my degree . In the EE & Assembly exam I drew out the diagram of an instruction decoder - guaranteed marks if you were prepared to learn it and could follow the logic through enough sort out where you'd gone wrong and/or check it. Never used any of it again, pity as I found it interesting.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
Ada.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
Deriving the Bloch wave bands and Brillouin zones for silicon from the underlying lattice group.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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Deriving the Bloch wave bands and Brillouin zones for silicon from the underlying lattice group.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
You win. :)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
RPG
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
mark merrens wrote:
What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
Algebra... and dealing with sane women.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
mark merrens wrote:
What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
Algebra... and dealing with sane women.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
dealing with sane women
There are SANE women??? Who knew! :-) (Sorry wifey, that was a joke)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I've been doing this computing lark for quite a long time and still like to get my hands dirty crafting beautifully manicured code. What I don't do, nor do I recall ever having to do, is create a custom sort algorithm. I don't think I could without looking it up; oh, I know what many of them are called and recall, vaguely, the workings but I doubt I could articulate any of them without looking it up first. There are probably many other 'skills' I learnt in the dim and distant past but have now forgotten due to lack of use (like Visual Basic :-)). What did you learn and never get around to using or, in fact, ever need to use?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
dealing with sane women
There are SANE women??? Who knew! :-) (Sorry wifey, that was a joke)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
It's a skill that I learned in case I needed it, but have never had the opportunity to use.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
All of us (at least I hope so) as kids know how to forgive quickly. The world would be a very different place if we didn't lose that skill. :^)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Only a stupid person carries hatred. Mind you, like most men, I just forget: most things are just not that important that you need to expend emotional energy over.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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Only a stupid person carries hatred. Mind you, like most men, I just forget: most things are just not that important that you need to expend emotional energy over.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
mark merrens wrote:
Only a stupid person carries hatred.
That's a bit harsh. On one end of the spectrum, if some guy did unspeakable things to your daughter, you certainly would not be stupid to hold on to hate. Wrong yes, but stupid no.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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mark merrens wrote:
Only a stupid person carries hatred.
That's a bit harsh. On one end of the spectrum, if some guy did unspeakable things to your daughter, you certainly would not be stupid to hold on to hate. Wrong yes, but stupid no.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
That's a bit harsh.
Perhaps.
RyanDev wrote:
you certainly would not be stupid to hold on to hate. Wrong yes, but stupid no.
I disagree: what does hate get you? Revenge, on the other hand...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote:
Only a stupid person carries hatred.
That's a bit harsh. On one end of the spectrum, if some guy did unspeakable things to your daughter, you certainly would not be stupid to hold on to hate. Wrong yes, but stupid no.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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if some guy did unspeakable things to your daughter
I wouldn't hold on to hate. I also wouldn't hold on to him after I dangled him out of a 20-story building window. Let go the hate!
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