Not Just Any Old Geek

Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by JustSomeNobody on Thursday September 29, 2016 @07:46AM (#12604532)

> A 23 year old in their first job will (generally) just plug away at whatever's given them. Older folks generally won't deal as well with bullshit work.

On the contrary, I've seen far too many 20 somethings that will refuse to do anything that isn't new development.

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Re:Not Just Any Old Geek by mgkimsal on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:09AM (#12604918)

I've seen a bit of that too, but perhaps not as much as you.

I've seen loads of folks that don't know how to work with older code (and have been guilty of that myself).

Worked on a project recently where some bit of PHP was causing trouble. The answer pushed was "just build it in node!". This was pushed by people who don't know PHP, and don't know what problem was actually occurring, but hey - "move to node!" can't ever have a downside, can it? "I'm not sure what problem I'm solving, but it'll be in nodejs, so everything will be great" seems to be a common trend over the last couple of years (at least in some of the circles I travel in).

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