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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B by gaius on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:01AM (#650849)
It depends. You could be out of Unix or C or Oracle for 2 years and come back. It's only "front-end" technologies like Flash, Rails, PHP, AJAX that suffer from the rapid churn and the latest thing when you come back didn't even exist when you left.
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Re:Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B by netsp on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:17AM (#650870)
I wouldn't really know personally, but my reasoning was that not only technology moves, you forget or lose the feel.
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