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I get why the old timers say they prefer proven technology now. When i had less then 4 years of experience every new framework was worth checking out no maater

I get why the old timers say they prefer proven technology now. When i had less then 4 years of experience every new framework was worth checking out no maater how unproven it even was.

majewsky 5y ago
My first job out of college was maintaining and refactoring a 10+ year old Perl CGI application. After a bit of adjusting, I found it quite rewarding to refactor overgrown messes into nice and readable OOP patterns, and more significantly, it was character-forming because it really hammered home the point that one person's quick fix will always become someone else's maintenance burden down the road. It's definitely been a positive influence for me to experience the other side of the stick early on in my career.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  One of my first jobs was as a maintenance programmer for about 100KLoC of 1970s-era FORTRAN IV. Not one comment to be found, short, inscrutable variable names, no indenting, and having been stepped on by dozens of junior devs before me. It was "Voodoo bug fixing." I had to close my eyes, and throw a dart, hoping I got it. It taught me, very early on, to write good code.
  - rdevsrex 5y ago
    That sounds like the stuff of legends or a horror novel.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
      Imagine me, with a flashlight under my chin, as I recount the story... It was an email system; before what's-his-name-The-Nanny's-husband "invented" it.
jcadam 5y ago
Same. I'm in my early forties now. Most new technologies are just recycled ideas from older tech.
- Weebs 5y ago
  This has been hitting me hard lately in my late 20s. I'm realizing all of the cool "new" concepts I'm learning have been around since the 60s It's made me rethink the supposed "skill reset" that happens in software which leads to software developers leaving for other roles more often than other engineering disciplines.

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I get why the old timers say they prefer proven technology now. When i had less then 4 years of experience every new framework was worth checking out no maater

by dragonelite 5y ago

I get why the old timers say they prefer proven technology now. When i had less then 4 years of experience every new framework was worth checking out no maater how unproven it even was.

majewsky 5y ago
My first job out of college was maintaining and refactoring a 10+ year old Perl CGI application. After a bit of adjusting, I found it quite rewarding to refactor overgrown messes into nice and readable OOP patterns, and more significantly, it was character-forming because it really hammered home the point that one person's quick fix will always become someone else's maintenance burden down the road. It's definitely been a positive influence for me to experience the other side of the stick early on in my career.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  One of my first jobs was as a maintenance programmer for about 100KLoC of 1970s-era FORTRAN IV. Not one comment to be found, short, inscrutable variable names, no indenting, and having been stepped on by dozens of junior devs before me. It was "Voodoo bug fixing." I had to close my eyes, and throw a dart, hoping I got it. It taught me, very early on, to write good code.
  - rdevsrex 5y ago
    That sounds like the stuff of legends or a horror novel.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
      Imagine me, with a flashlight under my chin, as I recount the story... It was an email system; before what's-his-name-The-Nanny's-husband "invented" it.
jcadam 5y ago
Same. I'm in my early forties now. Most new technologies are just recycled ideas from older tech.
- Weebs 5y ago
  This has been hitting me hard lately in my late 20s. I'm realizing all of the cool "new" concepts I'm learning have been around since the 60s It's made me rethink the supposed "skill reset" that happens in software which leads to software developers leaving for other roles more often than other engineering disciplines.