switch_bro

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   by switch_bro 11y ago

   Keep in mind that Knuth is not a software engineer - he makes his living as a tenured professor at Stanford (these days professor emeritus).
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   by switch_bro 11y ago

   A few points come to mind. Are the 50 yo people really computer programmers, or are they managers / architects / scientists / etc? The point is not that there is nothing to learn, but that after 8 - 10 years, additional learn
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   by switch_bro 11y ago

   The point is not that there is nothing to learn after 8-10 years. There is enough to learn for multiple lifetimes. The point is that after 8-10 years additional learning/experience will not give you a competitive advantage compared t
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   by switch_bro 11y ago

   My reading is that he wasn't laughing at her plan intentionally. Her plan was so bad that he thought she was joking, and he tried to be polite by laughing at the VP's joke. There's nothing wrong with him. As I wrote above, as
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   by switch_bro 11y ago

   The article focuses on the fact that as programmers age past 30 their salaries grow but they have roughly the same skills. But that is not the main dynamic here. The main dynamic is that as a person's brain ages, it improves in some wa