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I honestly wasn’t trying to be condescending to you. I even said, right at the very beginning of my comment, that you’re right about many of your observations.
by irq11 7y ago
I honestly wasn’t trying to be condescending to you. I even said, right at the very beginning of my comment, that you’re right about many of your observations. My word choice may have been poor in some places, but overall I defend the content.
You’re (self-admittedly) missing some of the life and business experience that comes with being an older programmer, and then expressing skepticism about direct advice communicated by older programmers. This is also so common as to be a meme:
Person A: “I experienced $something_rare at work”
Person B: “I have never experienced such things. I am skeptical of your claims.”
So sure, you can call it whatever you like - skepticsm, disagreement or debate - but when people tell you about their experiences, and then you reject those experiences because you don’t have “evidence”...well, eventually you’re just confirming your own biases.
Again, it’s not that you’re wrong - I actually agree with your perceptions of older devs. I just think you’re missing critical life experiences that connect your observations with the arguments being made in the article.
- C4stor 7y agoWell, what you wrote was : > It’s practically a trope that every time this subject comes up, the top-rated comment is a skeptical response...from a junior developer. I looked at the top rated comment for the other times this exact same article was posted on hacker news. For none of those, the top rated comment "is a skeptical response...from a junior developer". Actually, it's more often (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934500, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580) from a self declared senior developer. And none of those top comments really collaborate the article. Talk about confirming one's biases... But taking into account all the anecdote from senior devs available just on hackernews, there's no consensus emerging whether the article makes sense or not. So, at this point, I don't really feel the need for a plan B, even if being 40 years old is not really this far away for me. And it seems from the shared stories that whether this is needed or not is really based on personal experience, and is not a generally needed advice. I certainly hope to be in a path where I'm honing my skills well enough to be able to continue beind paid to engineer software after I'm 40.
- irq11 7y agoWell, sure: you disagree, and you’re seeking out arguments that confirm your existing beliefs. In any case, I’ve said what I have to say on the subject. I can’t make you listen to my direct experience, but I’m not going to spend time arguing with you about it.