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> If anything, I think the youngsters will learn faster from their mistakes because they already have good mentor for the easy stuff and will get grinded on the
by apercu 1y ago
> If anything, I think the youngsters will learn faster from their mistakes because they already have good mentor for the easy stuff and will get grinded on the hard stuff sooner.
Maybe? Back when I had to troubleshoot coaxial network terminations uphill both ways in the snow, we had to learn how things actually work (e.g., what's in a tcp header, how to read an RFC) and that made debugging things a little more straightforward.
I'm pretty insulated from young developers these days, but my limited experience is that they might know the application, presentation and maybe session layers (if using the old OSI model) but everything below that is black magic.
- lmz 1y agoOn the other hand, understanding coax termination is much easier than figuring out what 5G or Wifi6 is doing with radio waves.
- apercu 1y agoSure? But I think the point stands. And why would anyone think that a terminator would go bad until you’ve tried everything else and finally you swap them out and all of a sudden the network chatter stops and things go back to normal? It’s an experience thing and I worry that most of us are too abstracted from the underlying systems these days to properly understand them. It’s pretty common in my other world (info sec policy).
- lmz 1y agoJust saying that the abstraction tower has grown a lot higher since your days and the most common tech in use today is surprisingly complicated.