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A comment on How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2013). Parent comment

Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by Terr_ on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:42PM (#11333189)
> all the best software engineers I know are over 50

Survivorship bias? Perhaps all the bad 50-year-old programmers transitioned out or became "incompetent dinosaurs" in low-challenge areas where you can't easily see them.

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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by mcbrown on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:18PM (#11338648)
If so, it's the cohort I see (the "survivors") that are routinely underestimated by tech bros. Which suggests the problem is even worse: if it visibly affects the best of the best, how bad is it for the average?
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