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Re:How to not waste time on a side project when trying to ge... by Pokepokalypse on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:38AM (#15967757)
Same. 25 years experience. (especially now that I have about a dozen obsolete languages under my belt). This is fine in daily practice, and does not interfere with productivity. But getting through that hiring filter; devastating.
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Re:How to not waste time on a side project when trying to ge... by ashark on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:11PM (#15972731)
I hope that this is because I have, over the years, become like Liezi's good judge of horses[1], but fear it's just that I have a bad memory for programming language details. Probably it's a bit of both.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/taoism/comments/38h66v/liezi_book_8...

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