Experience is not valued for coders and analysts. Moreover age is a handicap in the eyes of those who hire.

So he was actually lucky that he did not get fired.

I just got out of there and I'm now a writer as age is not a handicap for writing.

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I can almost hear the cretinists and similar science-haters rubbing their hand in glee...

Read PZ's take on it in Pharyngula to clear up the FUD.

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And English is surely the most extended second language no matter how numerous native Chinese-speaking people are.

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Also known as the United States of America...

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Because I do and I definitively prefer this.

And if you don't, stop whining about the Big Bad Wolf and offer something new.

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Well actually Muslims *do* have a history where sanity prevailed. The problem is precisely that it is now only history...

Because, during the dark Christian Middle Age, Muslim Al Andaluz was an oasis of tolerance, reason and learning compared to the barbaric Christian nations of the rest of Europe. Then dogma and religious bickering took precedence and began a downfall that has not stopped yet. And they did not had an Enlightnment to begin the age of reason and put an end to the age of religion as we had.

You're completely right and the problem are precisely the managers and the people, that is, the suits, who do the hiring who believe that only youngsters know how to code and that programming is the only area where experience is not worth a shit.

That's a problem for older people who program well but do not know a shit about management and so on. For my part, I still program because, coming from control systems programming in general, I specialized later in home automation which is an area where there are very few programmers and very few that know the proprietary crap from a bunch of brands like Lutron, Crestron, AMX, Alcorn McBride and so on.

As always it's the dummies in the suits that fuck everything up...

But that surprises me of Google. I thought its suits were smarter than what's usual...

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It's no use to try to promote the Kindle when its main problem lies with the publishers.

First e-books more expensive than their dead-tree version: stupid, unecological and greedy. Then the @#$%& "region" problem: depending on where you live, especially outside the Empire, lots of books may not be available to buy so the only option is, as usual, "piracy".

It seems that the books publisher want to make all the mistakes that the music and film publishers made before them.

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I wanted to buy it but they did not want to sell it to me because I don't reside inside the frontiers of the Empire.

I understand that dummies like the content mafias bosses, music, books and film publishers, and other ignoramuses want and try to put doors and frontiers to the Internet. But I never thought Google would do the same dumb thing.

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That's what I found more convenient after more than 40 years of biker/geek life:

No key chain. I only have 2 chains, one chain for my wallet and one for my watch. Chains hinder keys and Swiss Army knife use (but not wallet or watch use).

Each key bundle (bike, house, work) is on its own key ring. All keys ring go on a carabiner. The carabiner is attached to my belt, on the opposed side of the chains. That way the keys are bundled but can be separated by function and the carabiner is easy to get on and off.

My Victorinox Swiss Army knife (Cybertool) goes either in a special Swiss Army knife pocket of my Dainese jacket or in the lighter pocket of my Perfecto jacket. Or in my Levis jean small pockett when it gets too hot to wear leather.

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And the only thing I miss from a LCD is the aspect ratio. I hope it lasts...

But for movies, I have my Kuro downstairs... Discontinued too... A trend maybe? ;-)

I'm sure lots of countries will accept with gusto Google relocation from the US to their own and guarantee that Google competitors and fleas could not use their laws the way this so-called "Consumer Watchdog" is doing with USAmerican laws.

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a) Don't buy the game.
b) Pirate it.

Yet another boost to "piracy" from clueless top-executives...

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