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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders by GordonS on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:26PM (#19340456)
I don't know; anecdotally, these days it seems things are not quite like that anymore.

I'm pushing 40, and like reggae, acid jazz, electronic. I keep up to date (as far as one can) with tech, programming, cloud and the like.

It's not just me - it feels like a lot of older people around me don't match the old stereotypes. Older colleagues are learning Typescript, my grandmother reads erotica...

Youth culture is of course always changing, but older people are perhaps more liberal than they used to be, and don't feel like they need to behave a certain way any more more.

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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders by potta_coffee on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:36PM (#19341362)
It's not just you. The youngsters in tech are blatantly ageist. They'll be singing a different tune when they're 40 and the generation behind is already chiseling out their headstones.
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Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders by JustSomeNobody on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:01PM (#19340915)
> ...my grandmother reads erotica...

I'm proud of your grandmother, but TMI, man. TMI.

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