Re:Not Just Any Old Geek
by ryandrake on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:09AM
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> The stuff you did in software 20 years ago has absolutely nothing to do with the stuff that's being done today.
The longer I'm in software the more and more I find this not to be true. The stuff that has changed is all surface level. The underlying principles are the same. The skills needed are the same. The attention to detail and other attributes needed to get the job done is the same. The problems are basically recycled or scaled up versions of the problems we had years ago.
Re:Not Just Any Old Geek
by Animats on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:50PM
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There's new stuff that's a significant advance (machine learning that really works), there's stuff that's just different (like most of the web backend technologies), and there's stuff that's worse (security).
The longer I'm in software the more and more I find this not to be true. The stuff that has changed is all surface level. The underlying principles are the same. The skills needed are the same. The attention to detail and other attributes needed to get the job done is the same. The problems are basically recycled or scaled up versions of the problems we had years ago.