Surviving as an ‘Old’ in the Tech World
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#2"young people are just smarter"
Mark Zuckerberg
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#3wow, I'm not sure how good the article is, but my browser threw a hairball trying to load that page. Rarely do I see a page fail as hard as this one did. Has Wired just collapsed under the weight of ad trafic nonsense?
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#4"young people are just smarter" Mark Zuckerberg
I've often wondered how Zuck is going to feel about that quote in the long run.
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#5"young people are just smarter" Mark Zuckerberg
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#6Good article. It’s kind of scary to me that “old” in tech means 40.
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#7"young people are just smarter" Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah but that was from when he was young and not as smart.
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#9It's not complicated: the costs of software development are almost entirely in labor. As long as that remains true, older people will be at a severe disadvantage simply because they cost 2-5 times as much as a new hire. Once Moore's Law slows down (or whatever we want to call the current golden age we're seemingly still in), this will change, but until then you're just fighting against exponential growth.
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#10Good article. It’s kind of scary to me that “old” in tech means 40.
Only because as people get experience they end up in the “Engineering Manager” role & such.
Plus there’s a GLUT of fresh grads joining each year.