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One thing I have been curious about is: where are all the old programmers? I want to learn from them but very few put out material, and so you gotta get lucky t
by bmitc 4y ago
One thing I have been curious about is: where are all the old programmers? I want to learn from them but very few put out material, and so you gotta get lucky that you work with one.
Most of the material out there on YouTube, books, and blogs seems mostly dominated by younger people (30s and below). I'd love to see people who really know what they're doing put out some material.
- CrLf 4y agoPerhaps they get used to nobody listening and just stop talking.
- wink 4y agoLosing the enthusiasm to blog and create videos. Also I guess a certain lack of not giving a damn if you actually produce something valuable. For example 10-15 years ago I was very eager to write down every little thing I learned, but after a certain time you either notice that you don't know a lot, in the grand scheme of things, and your bar for "will I publish this" can go up a lot, or you're suddenly working on highly specialized or super secret (offficialy) tech where you can't really publish anything... or you actually notice that you become proficient in stuff you find generally uninteresting. Best example is.. enjoying your work but not feeling in the mood to spend your free time on explaining some weird quirks to the general public. Also writing books is something you need to enjoy or at least feel driven to do. For most people it's not worth it in a monetary sense either.