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Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. Now, you know that there have been hundreds

Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. Now, you know that there have been hundreds of flashes in the pan (or things that should have been flashes in the pan), and it's usually much easier to keep a high-level overview of a field and only dive into it when you need it, which usually takes a matter of days because you have worked with similar things anyway. But they don't know that you know that.

ericb 14y ago
Maybe that's the stereotype, but I'm more interested in what technology came out in the last 2 weeks than the last 2 years. Have fun in the slow lane, sonny!
jmj42 14y ago
>Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. Then the young founder is wrong. I'm also 38, and not only am I familiar with (intimately in many cases) with 2 year old technology, in many cases I'm in the process of _creating_ the future of technology (in my particular slice of computer science). You may be on to something with fads, though. My experience (purely anecdotal) is that more experienced developers are better able to pick out the fads vs. new tech that's likely to stick. That makes a difference. I'm not going to spend much of my valuable time on something that I don't believe is going to last, and after 20 years, I'm pretty good at picking those things out. I have a very long list of things I want to have a deeper look at, but I'm not going to waste my time on technology that won't last. Oh, I'll have a look at those things (the high level that you mention), but that's as far as it'll go. There's far to much on my plate. On occasion, I do get it wrong. That thing I thought would be a fad, ends up becoming important technology, and I have to play catch-up, but that doesn't actually happen much these days. I guess my point is, it may appear that we, older developers, lag behind, but really, our experience allows us to make better decisions about what technology to spend our time on.
corresation 14y ago
>Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. This would be a really silly assumption. There seems to be little correlation between age and acclimation to new technologies.
16s 14y ago
And the young ones don't know the math behind why iterating over a list is slower than doing a lookup in a map. I don't care what new-fangled, whiz-bang language/framework is cool. If you don't grok data structures and when to use what, you're screwed when you try to scale.

ericb 14y ago

Maybe that's the stereotype, but I'm more interested in what technology came out in the last 2 weeks than the last 2 years. Have fun in the slow lane, sonny!

jmj42 14y ago

>Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. Then the young founder is wrong. I'm also 38, and not only am I familiar with (intimately in many cases) with 2 year old technology, in many cases I'm in the process of _creating_ the future of technology (in my particular slice of computer science). You may be on to something with fads, though. My experience (purely anecdotal) is that more experienced developers are better able to pick out the fads vs. new tech that's likely to stick. That makes a difference. I'm not going to spend much of my valuable time on something that I don't believe is going to last, and after 20 years, I'm pretty good at picking those things out. I have a very long list of things I want to have a deeper look at, but I'm not going to waste my time on technology that won't last. Oh, I'll have a look at those things (the high level that you mention), but that's as far as it'll go. There's far to much on my plate. On occasion, I do get it wrong. That thing I thought would be a fad, ends up becoming important technology, and I have to play catch-up, but that doesn't actually happen much these days. I guess my point is, it may appear that we, older developers, lag behind, but really, our experience allows us to make better decisions about what technology to spend our time on.

corresation 14y ago

>Young founders don't trust you because you don't know the latest technology that has come out in the past 2 years. This would be a really silly assumption. There seems to be little correlation between age and acclimation to new technologies.

16s 14y ago

And the young ones don't know the math behind why iterating over a list is slower than doing a lookup in a map. I don't care what new-fangled, whiz-bang language/framework is cool. If you don't grok data structures and when to use what, you're screwed when you try to scale.