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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by jackhack on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:40AM (#12254767)
H) Age

It is a common belief (especially among startups) is that developers have a "shelf life."

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by willismichael on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:30AM (#12255257)
Is a belief in "shelf life" really the problem? Maybe this is really just startups being unwilling to pay for decades of experience, or people with decades of experience not being attracted to the startup culture of long hours, some other confounding factor, or a combination thereof.
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