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by ryeights 5y ago
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- fxtentacle 5y agoOld people who manage legacy systems, like that one guy duct-taping a bank's online operations.
- _dain_ 5y agoAre they really the "best" developers? It just sounds like a different skillset and mindset, not necessarily better or worse.
- ygjb 5y agoI am willing to wager in a broad sense, that the best COBOL, Fortran, and RPG, that "Old people who manage legacy systems" is probably a fair estimate, and there is probably narrow overlap between developers for those languages and git experience. There are lots of younger folks who fall into supporting these platforms through experience, but I would also wager that the number of fresh, doe eyed engineers graduating from uni/college thinking "I am going to be the best COBOL programmer!" can probably be counted on one hand :P
- Spooky23 5y agoI encountered such a person. Her parents were both mainframe nerds and she was a true believer. I think the shock of working as a 23 year old in a group of geezers that had been fighting each other since 1975 was traumatic. We stole her and she was a pretty awesome DBA last I knew.
- sharken 5y agoNearly all DBAs i have worked with have been great. Not sure why that is, but it's been very consistent.
- jaaron 5y agoGame industry would be one source. At least for many teams and projects, Git isn't very useful (horrible for large binary files common in AAA games). So many companies still use Perforce or sometimes you'll see SVN still. That means a whole bunch of really qualified engineers who have never or rarely used git. I'm sure there are other industries for which that is true too. It's a good reminder how small a section of the tech industry comments on Hacker News.
- skeaker 5y agoI've encountered this myself as someone who maintains small open source games. Engineers with vastly more experience than I do have approached me with contributions, but needed me to walk them through installing and using git. You could tell they were good engineers because they were so eager and happy to learn it. I can't speak for how big of a demographic these types of engineers are but they certainly exist.
- reidrac 5y ago> as someone who maintains small open source games Are those public? Very intriguing, would you mind sharing a link?
- smm11 5y agoUh, git is how old? "Engineers with vastly more experience" might be how old? Hate to tell you, but these engineers probably wrote code pre-Google, or pre-WWW, and actually got stuff done. Amazing, that.
- worik 5y agoHeaps of us. A stack of manuals several feet thick...
- Spooky23 5y agoI started at the end of this era, working on a monitoring team that supported mainframes, network and data center systems. My second week on the job, my delivery of books arrived. About 30 linear feet of documentation. Iirc, it was part of our ELA. I kept a couple of the references that I spent a lot of time in, along with my Perl books. Good times.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoNot in GitHub, that's for sure.
- quickthrower2 5y agoSourceForge of course