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Re:Show HN: Hire an Oldster by beachstartup on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:59PM (#13195743)
the boom in "old geek" job boards is the market correcting itself. smaller companies have known about it for a LONG time, because we don't have access to the genius-level kids that churn out code 80 hours a week. tough luck for us, too bad, so sad.

our team is exclusively 35-60. i wouldn't hire a non-genius 25 year old to run anything critical. nope, no way. sorry, kids.

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Re:Show HN: Hire an Oldster by Shanea93 on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:59PM (#13198931)
That's just another form of age discrimination and is just as bad as the people who refuse to hire old people.
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Re:Show HN: Hire an Oldster by beachstartup on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:58PM (#13199299)
yeah, i guess it is.
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Re:Show HN: Hire an Oldster by sudosteph on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:40PM (#13198850)
I hope you don't use AWS then. Just because you don't see 25 year-olds as competent adults doesn't mean that plenty of other places aren't using them in critical roles to great effect.

Though maybe you have a really loose definition of genius?

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Re:Show HN: Hire an Oldster by beachstartup on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:58PM (#13199301)
> I hope you don't use AWS then

wait, how'd you know??

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