It's also unfortunate that everyone defaults to measuring the years that have elapsed since someone's first line of code, instead of hours invested. "N years e

It's also unfortunate that everyone defaults to measuring the years that have elapsed since someone's first line of code, instead of hours invested. "N years experience" loses value as a measuring stick when there are probably 2 orders of magnitude separating how much code the most passionate and least passionate developers wrote in that time frame.