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Aging Gracefully?

Heretic said:
Come on guys, stop the retirement home talk. You're scaring the kids! (I.e. me)
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Just be glad they haven't started abkut the things that were better in the old days yet. :haha:

And guys don't worry about it, I am still young and I am just as forgetfull sometimes.
 
Hangar32 said:
The true indicator of forgetfulness is when you run a search query on the FSDeveloper forums for some issue you cannot figure out…and the query returns a post you previously made asking the same question. I have had that happen more times than I care to remember.
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Oh, it's worse than that my friend! How about running a search for something and discovering that you had authored a definitive and comprehensive answer to that very question six years ago... :yikes: :rotfl:
 
hgschnell said:
Hi Bjoern, wait a little and you will be glad to read this thread knowing you are not alone...
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Ha! Aging is a mental thing and if you steadfastly refuse to consider yourself as "old", you'll never *be* old.

(Besides, men don't get mentally older than 12 anyway.)


arno said:
I wish to think I'm still quite young, but of course I also sometimes forget things. And in that case my 5 year old son likes to tell me "dad, you're getting old".
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That's what I tell my dad as well, sometimes adding a "time for the retirement home, I guess" (with a cheeky grin).


Hangar32 said:
The true indicator of forgetfulness is when you run a search query on the FSDeveloper forums for some issue you cannot figure out…and the query returns a post you previously made asking the same question. I have had that happen more times than I care to remember.
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n4gix said:
Oh, it's worse than that my friend! How about running a search for something and discovering that you had authored a definitive and comprehensive answer to that very question six years ago... :yikes::rotfl:
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I fail to see how this is a bad thing. The issue has already been discussed and was answered. Most of the time, I specifically look for threads created by me or commented on by me because I know an answer is in there.



F747fly said:
Just be glad they haven't started abkut the things that were better in the old days yet. :haha:
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Fortunately, only my mother (company economist) does this. My father just gets with the time (engineer).
 
n4gix said:
Oh, it's worse than that my friend! How about running a search for something and discovering that you had authored a definitive and comprehensive answer to that very question six years ago... :yikes::rotfl:
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Yes! Sometimes I read something and think 'hey, this poster thinks like me', only to find that it was me....
Not to mention, today I read my own manual to find out how to reset one of my installers... although it redirected me to my own website for the answer.
 
From time to time someone will ask a support question for one of the products I last worked on six or seven years ago and I'll have to scratch my head wondering what the correct answer is. Often times, I'll wind up having to research it myself before giving any embarrassing answers.
 
From time to time someone will ask a support question for one of the products I last worked on six or seven years ago
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The most frustrating thing is to answer the question "what the heck the author had in mind when he wrote that code". It gets really annoying when the author is yourself, the code was written on Friday, and today is Monday morning ...
 
hgschnell said:
Wasn't it "fake News"? I cannot remember...
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I said economist not liar lol!
Recall that economists are precise beings at heart (or they like precise numbers at best) and the man you are refereing to mentioned insanly high unemployment figures in an insanely inaccurate range within just one sentence!
 
Hangar32 said:
The true indicator of forgetfulness is when you run a search query on the FSDeveloper forums for some issue you cannot figure out…and the query returns a post you previously made asking the same question. I have had that happen more times than I care to remember.
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I've had that happen to me too!
 
WebSimConnect said:
The most frustrating thing is to answer the question "what the heck the author had in mind when he wrote that code". It gets really annoying when the author is yourself, the code was written on Friday, and today is Monday morning ...
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More along the lines of maturing gracefully but when I look at code I wrote 5 or even 3 years ago I am sorely ashamed to call it mine considering what I know now. Chances are I will think the same about today’s code tomorrow figuratively speaking.
 
I sometimes look back at older code, and I'm amazed I did that... and not sure if I still understand what I did. Ha!
 
Guess I'm still on the good side of the curve, I usually think that old code could be made more efficient when I look at it.
 
arno said:
Guess I'm still on the good side of the curve, I usually think that old code could be made more efficient when I look at it.
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Oh yes!

I'm rewriting an older gauge at the moment and despite increased flexibility and usability, I've saved 500 lines, or 33% of the original code.
 
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