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>The old guy hasn't kept up with the times, and is stuck in ancient (and outdated) ways of doing things That dovetails nicely with "culture fit", and both poin
by pervycreeper 11y ago
>The old guy hasn't kept up with the times, and is stuck in ancient (and outdated) ways of doing things
That dovetails nicely with "culture fit", and both points are also unfair and possibly untrue stereotypes. So I wouldn't count them as counterexamples to the above maxim.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoThis claim might be right or wrong (I've seen cases where it's true and cases where situation (1) is portrayed as (2)), but the point is it's not analogous to non-Asian minorities or women. People complain that old guys program like they never left the 90's. No one complains that an ethnically Mexican person never left Mexico, or that someone "programs like a girl". The only code related ethnic stereotype I've ever heard is about Russians/Ukrainians/other slavs; a lone wolf writing efficient, high quality, extremely monolithic code, usually in a non-trendy language (PHP, C, C++, sometimes Erlang or old school Lisp).