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Robert Hutchings

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Oct 21, 2014, 10:42:08 AM10/21/14
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When someone cannot accept something (like news or new information) they
just put you in their kill file? That's hilarious! And cowardly to boot!

Robert Hutchings

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Oct 21, 2014, 11:14:24 AM10/21/14
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On 10/21/2014 9:41 AM, Robert Hutchings wrote:
> When someone cannot accept something (like news or new information) they
> just put you in their kill file? That's hilarious! And cowardly to boot!
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/04/04/06/2137233/train-your-own-replacement

Scott Lurndal

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Oct 21, 2014, 12:18:28 PM10/21/14
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Robert Hutchings <rm.hut...@gmail.com> writes:
>When someone cannot accept something (like news or new information) they
>just put you in their kill file? That's hilarious! And cowardly to boot!

(1) this is a C++ group, not a political group
(2) What does climate change (regardless of what I think of it) have to
do with the C++ or training replacment C++ programmers?
(3) I noted that my experience was anecdotal. Did you miss that?
(4) I don't use kill files.

Robert Hutchings

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Oct 21, 2014, 12:27:13 PM10/21/14
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OK, so you still don't believe that programmers were forced to train
their replacements? Or do you believe that it DID, in fact, happen?

Scott Lurndal

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Oct 21, 2014, 1:59:48 PM10/21/14
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I've never seen it happen. I've never spoken personally to anyone
in this business to which it happened. You've posted various
internet articles, of unknown veracity, that it has happened. I don't
put much stock into news reports, as the reporters tend to exaggerate
such events and extrapolate them beyond reality.

So I don't know that it DID happen, I don't know that it didn't
happen. I don't believe it is widespread, or I would have spoken with
someone in the last 35 years to whom it happened (having visited hundreds
of DP shops over the last 30 years in several roles, as well as working
for employers with over 100,000 employees and co-founding a server
company which employed about 100 engineers).

Robert Hutchings

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Oct 21, 2014, 2:27:26 PM10/21/14
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You are not worth the bother. I could post 200 more articles, and you
still would not be convinced. So, believe what you like, it no longer
matters to me.

Juha Nieminen

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Oct 22, 2014, 4:00:22 AM10/22/14
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Robert Hutchings <rm.hut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are not worth the bother. I could post 200 more articles, and you
> still would not be convinced. So, believe what you like, it no longer
> matters to me.

Why do you seem so obsessed?

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Robert Hutchings

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Oct 22, 2014, 11:14:21 AM10/22/14
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I am tenacious. Most Software Developers are tenacious, because we have to solve problems that are often very difficult. Obsessed? Maybe a bit, but I defend myself when someone questions my statements/observations.
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