Or as a friend says, "I didn't leave programming, it left me".

The goal of most commercial development efforts is, or should be, to solve a business problem in the most permanent and cost effective way. Cost effective is a combination of the initial effort, ongoing maintenance and the cost of hardware required to run the solution.

I haven't seen many shiny *new* tools that do that any better than the *old* tools did. When you have been in this business long enough and you see the same wonderful *new* ideas come around for the third time you get a bit jaded. You realize just how pointless this wonderful new thing is. You will solve the same problem but using MUCH slower development tools and environments and in the end the product itself will be slower.

If this new skill you are hoping they will adopt is as indispensable as you seem to think it is, then lead by example! Show them how quickly you can solve the problem and how easy the new code base will be to maintain. If you can do that and they are still not interested then they are simply in the wrong business. On the other hand don't be surprised if you find out they can do the same but much quicker with their own tools and possibly produce code that runs as much as 1000 times faster. Will you be able to swallow your pride and acknowledge that you are full of BS? I doubt it.

Writing for concurrency is far from a new concept and not being able to do that is not indicative of a faded skill set. That is an essential skill set which was never acquired. Revision control systems have been around for a long time. Most systems can be learned well enough to use properly in just a few hours and they are essential to effective team work. Again not what I would call a faded skill. This is a fundamental lack. As to code reviews those cut both ways. Their pride will recover quite nicely when they review YOUR code.

Are you REALLY interested in how to make this person productive? Team your one of your "old" guys with one of the "young" guys. They will BOTH learn a lot.

screw you!

I don't know why this seems to elude so many. We already HAVE a high density hydrogen delivery vehicle.

Anymore than it is illegal to write in a book you bought which contains copyrighted content. This is not about copyright, it is about private property rights and the Library of Congress has no authority in that realm.

Or is that just the last few seconds of massage day?

It must have been the best investment in history. I learned to write code on that machine (including assembly). It led to a still continuing history of nearly seamless gainful employment.

Thank you Tandy!

I still have it, In the garage, in a box.

Not JUST the price.

It is worth as much surgery and death as it takes to maintain our freedom, that's how much!

Disgusted.... Just disgusted.

So I start using a Google facility and then they kill it? I was happy to switch away from my.yahoo (got tired of yahoo constantly trying to add crapware to my machine) once I got iGoogle all set up. I guess I will search for a non-google replacement.

it wastes your time and it annoys the pig

5 years ago Directv shut off my newly acquired HD receiver after I had been with them for 7 years. Was it because I hadn't paid my bill? NO! It was because my phone line was not connected to the receiver so that they could charge me for pay-per-view which I NEVER used. When I called in and asked "What the hell?" and was told that the agreement required me to keep the phone line connected I told them that was fine, disconnect me permanently.

I have no regrets.

My Roku works great and I pay for what I actually want to watch, and if it is worthwhile I will gladly get yet another box to hook to my projector in the form of an Apple TV but I will NEVER go back to satellite or cable for TV.

This is brilliant! China should absolutely pursue this line of thinking in all area. I am projecting a strong recovery in the US labor market....

Find a well visited web site where you can discuss the details of your laptop's disappearance. This will not only enlist the aid of anyone who regularly follows that site but there is also very little risk because the Canadians are well known scofflaws and laptops disappear by the hundreds in Vancouver on a daily basis. There is no way that any Canadian could ever connect their shiny new laptop with your Slashdot post... I mean the odds must be less than like one in something...

And secondly...
      Just admit that that Sharks sticker on your Mac was there to goad any Canucks fan who walked by and that the loss of your laptop is a small price to pay for having escaped Vancouver with your life.

I agree that there are problems with this idea, however one of those problems is not that "the world is running short of fresh water". Firstly this idea would not,in and of itself, consume any fresh water. This idea only works where fresh water is meeting the sea. Secondly fresh water is extremely abundant.... It just isn't always necessarily where we want it to be.