On the flipside: I'm a 43 year old coder, been at it since I was 8, professionally since my teens. I still get a kick every time something builds and runs the

On the flipside: I'm a 43 year old coder, been at it since I was 8, professionally since my teens. I still get a kick every time something builds and runs the first time. When I want to learn some new techn[ique,ology], its usually a quick read, setup&build, edit/hack/code/run/&etc. Repeat until competent. I've earned enough respect by my younger peers in the heat of the battle to deliver to the user, enough times over now, to where I'm not really discriminated against at all, in any capacity, but for the odd tab/space quarrel. I love learning new stuff, and I love seeing old stuff being re-learned, over and over a'new. Todays newcomer super-coder is tomorrows straggler, albeit for their mere desire to know whats up and who is using what. You don't have to get aged to get entrenched and "left behind" you just have to ignore, or be otherwised hindered from observing, that there isn't actually a technological border beyond the "now" and the "then" .. it is the desire to bridge the distance between understanding and not understanding, humbly, and with little baggage, which wins and delivers. Even the kids have baggage.