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Re:My Next Mac Mini by CoolGuySteve on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:26PM (#13507535)
My beard's not quite as grey but about a month ago I was asked in an interview to "design a garbage collector".

Motherfucker. I BROKE Objective-C 2.0 and its GC in order to meet the soft real-time constraints of video rendering, I made all video related objects reference counted.

Now there's ARC, but back then I took so much flack just to make video work appropriately.

Anyways the guy 10 years my junior didn't know anything other than the Java GC so explaining myself was futile.

Moral of the story: Don't work for Hudson River Trading.

Corollary: Don't be old.

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Re:My Next Mac Mini by deeth_starr_v on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:42PM (#13510801)
Age discrimination is hardcore in tech! Especially programming. I get it, when I was 23 and people told me they were 40 I was like, "damn that's my mom's age. This guy is old." I was really stupid.
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Re:My Next Mac Mini by oroup on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:28PM (#13507879)
Awesome
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