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I don't know about that domain name - too much like bulimia.

Even better - fftdc.com is still available. Quick! Register it!

>Those people are forced to use Outlook.

Or even better, Lotus Notes. Ick! What will save us from that hell?

That's too bad. (I'm male, btw.) Where I work, on an Agile team, we have lots of social interaction. We try to pair with a different developer every day. Each story card (requrement) we implement involves much back-and-forth conversaction between us (the developers) and the users (or more often, but not always, their "representatives" - the Business Analysts).

Aside from that, I don't think D & D has come up once the whole time I've been on that team (3+ years). Between being busy with the work we're doing, and the rest of the world's events to discuss, there's no time for games. Politics. The stock market. Parenthood. (Non-parenthood for the single guys and girls too.) Professional sports. Dumb jokes. Etc.

It's not so bad...plus, you can always do what a Real Man (tm) would do - imlement all the missing shell commands as Perl scripts.

I just took an informal survey amongst my teammates (including Arabic in the list), and "three out of four" developers said: Mandarin.

The interesting thing is that on my team, two are from Russia, one from China, one from Lebanon, one from the UK, and one from India. The other two are Americans.

Cool...still, I couldn't help but think that having to cut a large hole in the foundation to get it out showed something of a lack of planning and foresight. :-(

Not necessarily; ever put together one of those Saga electric guitar kits? I've spent maybe 5-10% (out of maybe 15-20 total build time) tweaking and adjusting, finding they didn't drill all the holes in the right places, etc.

Working Effectively With Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers

Well, plenty of people playing in bands sound like crap anyway.

"In rejecting an organized religion, why make a leap to rejecting the entire inquiry?"

They spoiled it for us.

But if you're serious^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrational in your inquiry, you'll come to discover that, like Santa Claus, God does not exist, at which point you will also reject the inquiry. All of it.

Try CodeIgniter (PHP framework) then.

I can't decide if I should laugh or cry.

Why practice (music) anymore? But think of the possibilities...

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Wow! Just wow! I see myself in all of that (i.e., I'm getting older) and it just hits the mark.

(I think/hope you meant looking for the "blue plane", unless the reason for looking for the pink one is to see what it is we're trying to transcend.)

I'm curious; who are these people? What are they working on? Can I help?

Does it seem to anybody else that we've actually stagnated instead of moved the field of computing forward during the last 10 years? Sure, machines are faster, we've got more bandwitdth, etc., but we're still "automating" stuff, rather than transcending the "pink plane".

Or, is it just that I've spent too much time at the dayjob, hacking Java together to make the customer happy?