Unfortunately, solving the small problems well will never be as sexy as futzing around on the big ones.

I's happening. I'm not so old, I'd say maybe 10 years of programming, and in this time things changed a lot. Maybe I just progressed from making my own buttons in pascal to using libraries, but now I look at what a beginner programmer can do with the right tools and it's way beyond what I could. Part of it is the internet. I'm sure there was always a barcode library around, but now it's only a matter of googling "barcode library". Also widespread garbage collection, web interfaces, open source... The craft of programming is getting better by the year.

Damn it, now I really want to eat Turkish delight. Haven't had those things in years (for reasons I shall rediscover after the first one).

Luckily I am living in the ethnic enclave of Copenhagen.

Thanks to this article I finally looked up Turkish Delight in Wikipedia. Turns out it's not sliced beef as I had assumed.

You learn something new every day.

Turkish delights are awesome. I like them with nuts, almonds especially (pistachio delights are good too). Back home they are traditionally given to people if you are visiting, for weddings, deaths, etc.

But as with every desert, don't eat too much of them.

That's what you get from companies that don't understand the value of experience.