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iOS app? An OS kernel? Anything real-time?
> iOS app? I'm sure you understand that iOS's problem is not technical but business constrains. > An OS kernel? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(operating_system) > Anything real-time? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_Java
I'm 75. You will pull the keyboard out of my cold, dead hands. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" Ditto being aged ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_... Most of the technologies I play with - HTML5, webGL, Three.js etc - did not exist ten years ago. So it's a level playing field. There's more open source stuff on GitHub that needs help and mentoring than you can shake a keyboard,…
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I'm 75. You will pull the keyboard out of my cold, dead hands. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" Ditto being aged ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_... Most of the technologies I play with - HTML5, webGL, Three.js etc - did not exist ten years ago. So it's a level playing field. There's more open source stuff on GitHub that needs help and mentoring than you can shake a keyboard,…
I wish I’ll have your passion at such age. Kudos to you, old man.
It depends what you compare it against. Software development changes all the time, developers constantly have to upskill. Trends drive demand and NIH runs strong in the industry. There is nothing we're doing today that couldn't be done with Java for example. Design on the other hand is interfacing with humans. Humans are meat sacks who hardly evolve or change, in fact, you might argue, they regress. For this reason,…
They will be rounded up and killed as part of the "not economically viable" class when Dalle-10 comes out.
Unfortunately the same will happen to us when Copilot 15 hits the market.
>What happens to ageing / older designers? They will be rounded up and killed as part of the "not economically viable" class when Dalle-10 comes out. Unfortunately the same will happen to us when Copilot 15 hits the market.
I feel everyone had an opinion on this thread, but i’d be more interested in hearing a first hand experience with being older and a designer.
What “design” are you referencing?
>What happens to ageing / older designers? What is their path if not for an inevitable pivot to management / product management? They are brought to the farm. The slow country life lets them recover from the burnout/stress. In all seriousness, discrimination isn't universal. If someone doesn't hire you because of your skin colour or age, someone else will. Their loss, not your loss.
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> an older designer should have a rolladex full of people who they worked below, beside, and above over the course of their career As a non-traditional professional in a lot of ways, I've found these kinds of assumptions at the core of a lot of discrimination (age and otherwise). A person should be judged based on their skills/value, not based on where someone thinks they "should" be in their life based on stereotype…
You should always be networking over your career, regardless of who you are…
Then there are all those people that transition between technology stacks. I did that few times so far (Linux to Windows, then Windows to Linux, vmware to aws). Your past clients will most likely want you for the stuff you worked on in the past. Also some people relocate internationally, perhaps to different time zones. Among people I came to know over the years many did that.
So I find this idea of "constant networking" work in a very narrow set of circumstances.