Hate to say it, you're an old geezer. Don't feel bad, I'm only 34 and realize the same.

If tech work is being "commoditized" by "young punks" and you feel like you're losing control, take control and start herding the cats. You might actually get a raise for it.

So spend a few minutes a day training them to do your remedial work and work on greasing the wheels to get things done better or more efficiently. Those young punks can't change things in your company, but if you're an old geezer you probably can, and in the process delegate the run-of-the-mill shit to them.

Maybe a metaphorical fugue?

Glad mine's an '05!

I'd rate this more as 'cosmetic dentistry' than 'plastic surgery' though.

Unless they wanted to debug Ruby, in which case probably knowing the lower-level language might be useful.

So QA teams are called 'Red Teams' now? So sexy.

Couldn't find anything mentioned in this thread about how it was the _simulator_ he was demoing, not an actual device... Big difference.

Apparently, I signed up to be notified if they ever released them for retail sale and got no updates, except for a "we're first offering them for sale (for a limited time) to employees" email. Nothing since.

Oops, shows up in the comments list now. Odd caching. Please disregard, nothing to see here, move along.

#winning

I posted this earlier on my mobile as an AC and it was deleted, presumably by some mod.

Just visited London not too long ago. The availability of basic, open wifi reeked of circa 2006 in the States, only got a usable signal in a McDonalds of all places. A free half a MB/s would have been pleasant.

> It's about 10 hours of coursework,

I'm sorry, I understand why you didn't want to be snarky but if you think that 10 hours of coursework is anywhere equivalent to a _course_ related to high school level intro to CS you're brain dead.

Rationale like this is why home schooling should be considered suspect at best.

- C

Sorry, I misedited... an inner-city Catholic grade school (k-12)

I went to an inner-city grade school (k-12) in the mid 80s and was taught programming in Logo on C64s. If we're teaching _typing_ to middle school kids in 2011 we're doing something really wrong.

Really.