Re:Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Fac...
by noir_lord on Saturday March 25, 2017 @09:01PM
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I'm 37, I've been programming since I was 7.
I get more done in a day than I did in two days at 27 and a week or two at 17.
I'm no smarter or dumber than I was at 27 or 17 but I have a much more intuitive grasp of what will and won't work and I don't paint myself into corners with elaborate what-if's, I solve solutions in the simplest way that will work with some head room if I need to change it later, I religiously document my code as it goes to production because I know if history is any guide the idiot refactoring it in 6 months will be me and I've learnt that good code that works for a year and can be done in a day beats perfect code that will work for two years when both will be changed in 6 months when the current requirements go out the window.
As for the maximum complexity of mental model thing I'm not sure that is true either but it's hard to say I don't write code in a way that I'm constantly butting the limit of what the maximum complexity I can put into my head is anymore.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan
I get more done in a day than I did in two days at 27 and a week or two at 17.
I'm no smarter or dumber than I was at 27 or 17 but I have a much more intuitive grasp of what will and won't work and I don't paint myself into corners with elaborate what-if's, I solve solutions in the simplest way that will work with some head room if I need to change it later, I religiously document my code as it goes to production because I know if history is any guide the idiot refactoring it in 6 months will be me and I've learnt that good code that works for a year and can be done in a day beats perfect code that will work for two years when both will be changed in 6 months when the current requirements go out the window.
As for the maximum complexity of mental model thing I'm not sure that is true either but it's hard to say I don't write code in a way that I'm constantly butting the limit of what the maximum complexity I can put into my head is anymore.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan