Not Just Any Old Geek

Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by coldtea on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:28AM (#12597873)

>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?

If you were hiring, you would want the starry eyed, finger in the pulse of latest fads, young programmer you can pay less, overwork, boss around, and screw over, or the senior engineer, who values sane hours and time with family, doesn't blindly adopt any BS fad technology you want them to use, and demands salary that matches their experience?

Especially if the first can still get out something that "kinda works" and you could not give a rats arse about technical debt and bad decisions behind the UI facade?

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by Roboprog on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:55AM (#12598703)

Soooo.... Tomato pickers it is! :-)

Good counterpoint, liked both this and the grandparent comment. Ouch.

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:06PM (#12598810)

If that's what the hiring person is like, though, I'm fine with not getting that job...

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by coldtea on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:00PM (#12599801)

As long as there are enough other good programming gigs available though...

As in, most McDonalds workers also hate both the hiring person AND the job, but they do it anyway.

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by clifanatic on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:44PM (#12600174)

- until that's _all_ there is.

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