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Re: OT: getting older/wiser

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On 2/27/2014 7:04 AM, bill wrote:
> On 2/26/2014 1:52 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> If it does, log an error.  Be sure to comment your code well so
>> if you get the error 2 years from now you know what it means
>> (it's amazing how short our memories can be! :) ).
>
> that's because: "(I've probably been in the industry longer than you've
> been alive ;)"
>

Not at all.  Even young people forget what they did a couple of years 
ago.  Even six months can be difficult to remember the details.

> Recent research indicates that the reason older folk think "slower" is
> that they have more memories to go through to find what they are looking
> for (tested with word finding).
> It is reasonable to conclude that older = wiser, not slower.
>

Yes, but that research is controversial and has not been validated by 
peer review yet.  Possibly in the future it will be, but until it is, it 
is only a theory.  Remember cold fusion?

> OTOH, I wonder if all the brain space I used for comics and science
> fiction (that I still remember) was a good brain space investment ?
>
> bill

Of course it is!  Entertainment is an important part of life.


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        OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 07:04 -0500
          Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 08:22 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 11:02 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-27 09:11 -0800
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-27 18:52 +0100
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 16:20 -0500
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2014-02-27 23:56 +0000
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-28 19:08 -0800
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                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-03-02 12:51 -0800
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-27 18:01 +0000

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