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I understand where your friend's coming from. I've had bad experiences hiring contractors older than me - any disagreement resulted in the attitude (whether ma
by endtime 16y ago
I understand where your friend's coming from. I've had bad experiences hiring contractors older than me - any disagreement resulted in the attitude (whether made explicit or not) that I obviously don't know what I'm talking about because I'm 24.
- jarin 16y agoThis is why, aside from programming ability, I judge programmers not by their age but by the conversations we have over beers. And yes, I do have a slight bias against programmers who don't drink (unless they're recovering alcoholics or can't produce alcohol dehydrogenase or something like that).
- endtime 16y agoI don't drink - I'm not draconian about it, but I won't have a beer unless not doing so would be antisocial, and I don't enjoy it. I'd tell you it doesn't make a difference, but maybe I'm just too terrible programmer to realize how terrible I am...