throwawayoldman

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   by throwawayoldman 5y ago

   Congratulations, looks like you made it. Let's say you are not CTO but developer, and your CTO is 32yr old. Would you be as happy?
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   by throwawayoldman 5y ago

   > "The difficulty is to remember arbitrary decisions based on temporal situations." That is the difference today. As you said lot of things you learned decades ago is still applicable knowledge. The AWS ad-hoc stuff we learn to
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   by throwawayoldman 5y ago

   > "I don't know if you lose much learning power or if you just lose interest." Both. - As we accumulate knowledge while aging it becomes more and more difficult to learn new things. We are smarter and smarter though. (Most
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   by throwawayoldman 5y ago

   You will still need to re-learn infra frameworks in every 3-5 yrs. Also, after 10-15 years, you will be increasingly frustrated to be managed by 32 yr olds.
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   by throwawayoldman 5y ago

   Those 28-33yr old teamleaders/managers are immediataley alarmed by two things: - "How am I going to manage this person 15-20 years my senior?" Also this "will want to be manager soon." - "This old man must be s