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You're making a lot of anecdotal generalizations here that contribute to the problem rather than help address it. What kind of music somebody likes or the cloth

You're making a lot of anecdotal generalizations here that contribute to the problem rather than help address it. What kind of music somebody likes or the clothing they're comfortable with shouldn't be part of the conversation at all, and for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron, I've met an anecdotal old-guy who's sharp as a tack and pushing the envelope with the latest tech.

781 8y ago
But the phenomenon I'm talking about is well established in psychology: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/201410/why-are-older-people-more-conservative https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/20141...
- gerbilly 8y ago
  The older I get, the more 'liberal' I get. I think it comes from having more and more empathy. The more I live, the less I feel I can judge people and their choices. Even if it is to prefer Mongo over Postgres :-)
  - yxhuvud 8y ago
    Mongo support acid transactions nowadays, so the reason for vitriol has lessened a lot. I like my explicit db schema though.
resource0x 8y ago
The chances that YOU, when you reach same age, will be interested in pushing the envelope with the latest tech, are very low. The chances that you will find "latest tech" absurd and would rather be starving than pushing said envelope, are very high. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine the future with Spring framework, Hibernate, Angular, AWS configuration etc. The profession is dead for me, and has been dead for quite some time. This is my own anecdotal evidence, sorry.
- potta_coffee 8y ago
  Your bad attitude doesn't have anything to do with me.
  - resource0x 8y ago
    You can't know what your future attitude will be like. Bookmark this post and review it 20 years later :)
otabdeveloper2 8y ago
> for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron Any sane person with half a brain hates Electron. (Not that there are any good alternatives, but still...)

781 8y ago

But the phenomenon I'm talking about is well established in psychology: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/201410/why-are-older-people-more-conservative https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/mr-personality/20141...

gerbilly 8y ago
The older I get, the more 'liberal' I get. I think it comes from having more and more empathy. The more I live, the less I feel I can judge people and their choices. Even if it is to prefer Mongo over Postgres :-)
- yxhuvud 8y ago
  Mongo support acid transactions nowadays, so the reason for vitriol has lessened a lot. I like my explicit db schema though.

resource0x 8y ago

The chances that YOU, when you reach same age, will be interested in pushing the envelope with the latest tech, are very low. The chances that you will find "latest tech" absurd and would rather be starving than pushing said envelope, are very high. When I was young, I couldn't even imagine the future with Spring framework, Hibernate, Angular, AWS configuration etc. The profession is dead for me, and has been dead for quite some time. This is my own anecdotal evidence, sorry.

potta_coffee 8y ago
Your bad attitude doesn't have anything to do with me.
- resource0x 8y ago
  You can't know what your future attitude will be like. Bookmark this post and review it 20 years later :)

otabdeveloper2 8y ago

> for every anecdotal old-guy that hates Electron Any sane person with half a brain hates Electron. (Not that there are any good alternatives, but still...)