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Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve... by magduf on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:40AM (#17515660)
I'm not claiming that it's age-related, but that it's generational. The people who are going into programming these days are not the same type of people who went into it a generation ago. In the 80s, these people would have gone into a different career field.
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Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve... by ghaff on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:54AM (#17515797)
And I'm not sure I agree with that in general. If I look back at the engineers of the computer company I worked for in the late 80s, I would say there were more women and it was whiter. Certainly, more were from traditional EE disciplines given how relatively new CS was.

But I'm not sure that new engineers at that company were fundamentally different from new engineers joining, say, Facebook today.

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