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How exactly are you contradicting that sentence you're quoting? In fact, it seems to me you're confirming it. He didn't say that everything a programmer knows w
by glandium 10y ago
How exactly are you contradicting that sentence you're quoting? In fact, it seems to me you're confirming it. He didn't say that everything a programmer knows will be useless in 10 years, but that half will. You're only enumerating the half that won't.
- micahbright 10y agoThis doesn't directly to the statement you're refuting, but he explicitly mentioned half-life. The author does basically ignore the core knowledge aspects of a programmers career, and he bases his entire argument on the half-life of usefulness of detailed knowledge about specific technologies.
- combatentropy 10y agoI agree with the grandparent, that the writer overstated how much in ten years will be useless. It was almost 20 years ago that I first learned HTML, and since then neither it nor hardly anything else I have learned has decayed: CSS, native JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, PostgreSQL, Apache, and Bash. But I guess it depends on what you try learning.
- tobltobs 10y agoThings you have learned, but decayed: IE6 CSS fixes, Apache1 configuration file syntaxes, PostgreSQl getOrCreate surrogates, Jquery, ...
- combatentropy 10y ago> IE6 CSS fixes I didn't really ever learn these. I stuck to simple layouts or used tables, which is fine (https://www.combatentropy.com/coming_back_to_the_table https://www.combatentropy.com/coming_back_to_the_table). > Apache1 configuration file syntaxes I didn't learn Apache until version 2. > PostgreSQl getOrCreate surrogates I never learned these. I don't know what they are. > Jquery This hasn't decayed.