usawco

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   by usawco 8y ago

   +1
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   by usawco 8y ago

   Sorry, I forgot to say I'm 54.
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   by usawco 8y ago

   To the folks posting comments suggesting they are 50+ and still going strong or started coding when they were children: kudos to you. However, I think you represent the minority. Development shouldn't be a 'King of the Mountain&
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   by usawco 8y ago

   I also believe smart people will do dumb things from time to time - especially under the pressure of deadlines. It's always good to assume they were having a bad day. I know what does not work - printing out a "team-mate"&#x
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   by usawco 8y ago

   Maybe Russ wasn't sneaky - especially since he said it was early in his career? Maybe he fixed it thinking everyone would 'high-five' him for the win. Unfortunately, he didn't understand the political ramification at t
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   by usawco 8y ago

   I had a similar experience and similar results. Someone wrote code to perform 1000 queries to pull back 1000 rows in a specific order rather than issue one query and let the Java collection order the results. Amazingly, another person wr