Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors

Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by nirvana on Monday April 23, 2012 @09:46AM (#3878740)

> Yoru comment shows why older people have difficult getting jobs.

You make several assumptions about him that don't seem supported, but worse why make this personal?

> It took you a day to understand how a listview work while a good young programmer who understand technologies should be able to pick up any technology and understand it in a few weeks.

So, older people don't get jobs because it takes them a day to pick up what a young programmer can understand in a "few weeks"? Really?

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Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by jiggy2011 on Monday April 23, 2012 @10:42AM (#3879023)

I think he meant it only takes them a "few weeks" to understand a whole technology (e.g the entire Android API rather than the listview).

I think part of the reason you can feel like you are learning faster when you are younger is because you look at everything enthusiastically and hammer through your education seeking out the juicy good bits of a technology and kind of glossing over everything else.

As I get older I find myself evaluating things much more slowly and cynically, checking under every rock for things that can bite me in the ass.

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