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As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by ilaksh »

Joeboy wrote: post #7

As I get older, I realize that learning new stuff all the time is a mugs game. 90% of shiny new things will be irrelevant in a few years. So I'm fairly cautious about what I bother to learn. I'll grudgingly learn new stuff if my work requires it, but mostly I coast on my decision to learn python 15 years ago.

Right but even staying within Python there is plenty to learn and lots of evolution and new stuff coming up over time.

I think that you just realize eventually that you have to be more selective with your attention. And it's often not hard to use up plenty of time keeping up with whatever domain you are already in.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by cushychicken »

Feel this, as someone running a modest solo side business.

FPGAjobs.com runs on a single Django app, with some Bootstrap-flavored templates on the frontend. Very little JS, ideally none at all.

It was a learning curve to implement Django at first (I’m not a SWE by training), but now that I know it, it’s fast and easy to add new features. You don’t get that kind of iterative speed when you’re constantly in the early stages of a technology learning curve. I’ll never give up Django. I’d rather sell the business to someone who knows how to scale it than switch tech stacks. That’s just not what I want to do.

It’s easier to get that dopamine hit of “ship thing, watch it get used” when you know your tools well enough to be able to ship and iterate quickly.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

#13

Post by politelemon »

Dalewyn wrote: post #5

When you're a kid, everything is magical and the world is paradise. When you're an adult, everything is set in stone and the world is out of touch. When you're an elder, nothing is as it was anymore and what world is this?

And it'll happen to you...

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by a6 »

cushychicken wrote: post #12

Feel this, as someone running a modest solo side business. FPGAjobs.com runs on a single Django app, with some Bootstrap-flavored templates on the frontend. Very little JS, ideally none at all. It was a learning curve to implement Django at first (I’m not a SWE by training), but now that I know it, it’s fast and easy to add new features. You don’t get that kind of iterative speed when you’re constantly in the early s…

Just wanted to say I like your website and have used it in the past :)

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by lordfrito »

Dalewyn wrote: post #5

When you're a kid, everything is magical and the world is paradise. When you're an adult, everything is set in stone and the world is out of touch. When you're an elder, nothing is as it was anymore and what world is this?

Correlary: Technology that existed when you were a child is considered normal. Technology introduced when you are a teen or 20 something is exciting. New technology after 40 is scary.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by cushychicken »

ilaksh wrote: post #11
Joeboy wrote: post #7

As I get older, I realize that learning new stuff all the time is a mugs game. 90% of shiny new things will be irrelevant in a few years. So I'm fairly cautious about what I bother to learn. I'll grudgingly learn new stuff if my work requires it, but mostly I coast on my decision to learn python 15 years ago.

Right but even staying within Python there is plenty to learn and lots of evolution and new stuff coming up over time. I think that you just realize eventually that you have to be more selective with your attention. And it's often not hard to use up plenty of time keeping up with whatever domain you are already in.

Right but even staying within Python there is plenty to learn and lots of evolution and new stuff coming up over time.

By the time that’s a problem, there’s a good chance OP will be managing people or in a different field.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by cushychicken »

a6 wrote: post #14
cushychicken wrote: post #12

Feel this, as someone running a modest solo side business. FPGAjobs.com runs on a single Django app, with some Bootstrap-flavored templates on the frontend. Very little JS, ideally none at all. It was a learning curve to implement Django at first (I’m not a SWE by training), but now that I know it, it’s fast and easy to add new features. You don’t get that kind of iterative speed when you’re constantly in the early s…

Just wanted to say I like your website and have used it in the past :)

Thanks very much. Please don’t hesitate to shoot us an email at fpga.RTL.jobs@gmail.com if you have any suggestions for improvement, or success stories from your job hunt, or anything we can do to help you find a new gig.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by lordnacho »

There's fundamental learning and there's superficial learning.

After a while you know the fundamentals. Data structures and algorithms, common architectures, known solutions to old problems.

But job adverts tend to go for superficial things. The js framework du jour, some language that anyone adjacent can learn in a month, some new face on the same data structures.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

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Post by pitaj »

ilaksh wrote: post #3

Title is misleading. Not getting excited about a new Next.js version doesn't mean you don't care about new technology. Maybe it just means that you don't feel like reorganizing your code or something. Relatively speaking it's still an incremental upgrade to your approach overall. I am 45 and stopped caring much about new web frameworks many years ago. It's not that I don't find them interesting or even advantageous i…

Hell, I stopped carrying about new web frameworks when I was 25.

Re: As I get older, I just don't care about new technology

#20

Post by unforeseen9991 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #9

The truth is, producing new stuff follows the law of diminishing returns in every category. After the point where the diminishing returns is really noticeable, new inventions and research actually becomes harmful and pathological. That includes many academic research fields and most technology today. In fact, if you add up all the breakthroughs we've accomplished, most of it is just helping us use resources more effi…

You've put into words perfectly my thoughts on it all too. Sustainability, self awareness, equilibrium - these are foundations of strength and resiliency over the long term.

Technology went from empowerment to entrapment

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