Re:Not Just Any Old Geek
by pc86 on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:21AM
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> If you were having cardiac surgery, would you prefer your surgeon to be a year out of med school having done the operation oh 3 or 4 times, or the proverbial graybeard who has done it a thousand times?
I can make ridiculous scenarios too. If the cardiac surgery is using the latest technology, which the younger surgeon had used all 4 times successfully, and the older surgeon had used once and killed the patient?
This idea that being around since COBOL = smarter/better/"we GTD while they sit around doing nothing for 16 hours" is idiotic and not at all based in reality.
I can make ridiculous scenarios too. If the cardiac surgery is using the latest technology, which the younger surgeon had used all 4 times successfully, and the older surgeon had used once and killed the patient?
This idea that being around since COBOL = smarter/better/"we GTD while they sit around doing nothing for 16 hours" is idiotic and not at all based in reality.