be a novelist
<drunkcoder> programming skills are valuable
<catfella> alephnaut, the Europeans brought a lot of diseases that the
native population had no resistance to.
<cosimo> FSTV, knowing some programming is like knowing how to work on
your own car. Some things you do, some you don't.
<Heretic`> not really, drunk
<alephnaut> fstv: agreed, there are a lot of programmers who don't
realize how important other skills are. It's easy to get drunk off
your own creativity.
<drunkcoder> they involve mental formulation rather than just ideas
<cosimo> FSTV, but doing it for a living sucks.
<Heretic`> if you don't have to be in front of your work to do it
chances are it's going overseas
<sevenless> Heretic`, I've always considered there are five ways to
understand something... getting deeper and deeper understanding... you
can read about it... you can have it taught to you... you can do it...
you can teach it... but to really understand something, you have to be
able to program a computer to do it :-)
<drunkcoder> f*ck that
<drunkcoder> programmers should have there own language
<poncho_> There was a tribe in Texas that had traditions an awful like
old Japan. Same religious artifacts ect
<binda123> the cherokee indian tribe chief supports the war on
terrorism and the tribe has members in the military in Iraq and
Afghanstan
<Magicrs13> programming is useful, akin to drawing blueprints, that an
engineer designs..
<puckerbrush> white people are so intent on staying white that they
have to believe north america was populated by europeans 50K yrs ago
....
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<alephnaut> fstv: it's a pretty narrow field, the standard figure is
that fewer than 5% who program for a living will be doing it 20 years
later.
<SpaceRat> drunkcoder.. i thought programmers had LOTS of languages
<imagi> ``The riots are spreading across France, bringing about huge
adverse effects on the euro,'' said Michiyoshi Kato, a vice president
of foreign exchange sales in Tokyo at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., a
unit of Japan's second-biggest lender by assets. ``Acts of violence
will surely continue to weigh on the euro.''
<FSTV> cosimo, 99% of windows users will never have to do programming
on their computer, no?
<drunkcoder> i agree alephnaut
<cosimo> poncho_, the Japanese discoverd America first?
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<imagi> Against the dollar, the euro traded at $1.1795 as of 8:42 a.m.
in Tokyo, from $1.1805 late yesterday in New York, according to
electronic foreign-exchange dealing system EBS. The euro was at 138.66
yen, from 138.92. The euro may fall to $1.1760 against the dollar
today, Kato said.
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