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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @09:08
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>> But the big question is of course, what does he look like? ;-)
> See http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?newsfile=wilwheaton
I know I'm a funny guy, but looks aren't everything. Ironically I have an interview with Tink coming up and she has pictures of me included with it. So I won't steal her thunder. I'll just send this picture from behind which I hope clears up who has the longest ponytail in KDE. I thought I was the oldest but Kurt Pfeifle snatched that from my grasp by a year. ;-) |
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Re: Yes yes...
by Jan on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @09:31
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I am not opposed to coders above 47. Perhaps they could help us with cobol bindings...
:-)
47 does not sound like old guy.
In software development via internet nobody cares about your age, race, gender.
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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @10:44
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> I am not opposed to coders above 47. Perhaps they could help us with cobol bindings...
> :-)
Try fortran, if I could remember back that far. ;-)
> In software development via internet nobody cares about your age, race, gender.
...except you when you see your picture and say "I look like that?!? I'm going to the gym now!" ;-)
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Re: Yes yes...
by Erik Pedersen on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @11:18
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I am not a coder, but I have translated for KDE to Danish since 98.
And I am 58
Erik
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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @11:28
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> I am not a coder, but I have translated for KDE to Danish since 98. And I am 58
When Andras told me he was like an old man at age 27 among KDE developers I thought I might be the oldest. Now I'm just old for the KDE crowd. I think counting translators is only fair. Now I'm not as old on the bell curve thanks to Erik. I submit to your years and salute you for obviously thinking young.
BTW I have confirmed users in their late 60s. One is a retired professor who loves Quanta (and Kitty Hooch).
Now about the ponytail... ;-)
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Re: Yes yes...
by David Johnson on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @12:01
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Hey, I resemble that remark! My first formal language was Fortran IV. I still have my "Fortran Coloring Book"...
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Re: Yes yes...
by Roberto Alsina on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @13:04
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Ha! I did Fortran III+ on a PDP11.
Using a paper terminal (ok, one of those and two glass ttys)
And that was my third language (basic and 6510 asm were the first two)
Sometimes living in a poor(ish) country gives you strange bragging rights :-)
BTW: before someone gets a wrong idea, I am only semi-old, being 32
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Re: Yes yes...
by Richard Dale on Wednesday 10/Mar/2004, @03:35
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"I am not opposed to coders above 47. Perhaps they could help us with cobol bindings..."
Thanks, no problem - that sounds someone just like me.. I wonder if I'm the only KDE Cobol expert? I used to work on tools to convert one dialect of COBOL into another. Coding sheets/punched cards/flowchart templates - it was all as crap as it sounds!
The best COBOL in my opinion was Burroughs '68 - it had some nifty message passing features - great on an early sixties B5500. It well downhill with the '74 version, and got 'too standard'.
-- Richard, aged 47 and a half.
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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 10/Mar/2004, @10:53
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> -- Richard, aged 47 and a half.
Wow! I am so not alone now. You guys are making me feel less odd and more like one of the crowd. ;-)
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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @10:10
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Oops! Just woke up and pushed the wrong button... I thought preview was taking a long time. Anyway, the pictures with Wil were prior to a very serious several month regimen of excercise and diet where I went from (if the digital skin fold caliper is to be believed) 26.9% body fat to 8% body fat. In short I don't look quite the same, and I'm picking up where I left off with even better scientifically supported research in these areas. Over the next several months I will be approaching contest level body composition (at age 47). This is my act of defiance against aging which I will not go gently into.
Anyway, as promised, me from behind... vying for "longest ponytail" and "best lat spread" both. I'll let Tink present pictures of me from the front. ;-)
Ericfromback.jpg
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Re: Yes yes...
by Andras Mantia on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @12:41
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"Anyway, as promised, me from behind... vying for "longest ponytail" and "best lat spread" both. "
Hm, we are close in the longest ponytail contest, but Eric may win soon. But I may win in the (very) long run. ;-)
Andras
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Re: Yes yes...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 09/Mar/2004, @13:06
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Mea culpa! I failed to mention Andras and I are tied at 28 inches (71 cm) for the longest strand of hair. However he beat me in 2002 by a lot so mine grows faster. He will beat me in the long run when I get tired of the work of caring for it. Not before we get to hang out together though.
Anyway we've raised the bar for Quanta developers. We need to get a sign made... "your hair must be at least this long to go on this ride..." ;-)
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