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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by marcosdumay on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:25PM (#15982455)
Nope, hiring fewer more experienced programmers is also better for cashflow.

My bet is that it's about easy and hard to measure costs, and how our modern big government world insulates large companies from competition.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by notyourday on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:18PM (#15982855)
Nope. I can hire out of school programmers for $70k/year. I can hire grey beards for $200k/year. Not a single grey beard is worth 3 of those out of school programmers.

This is also why grey beards suck for P&L so they better want to work long hours.

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