Re:Why the Tech Industry Needs to Deal With Its Ageism Problem
by melling on Monday October 07, 2013 @12:21PM
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Laugh out loud funny. My first job out of school was doing NeXTstep on real next hardware (early 90's). Fast forward many years, and I'm hanging out on my couch working on my iOS app (i.e. essentially doing the same stuff as my first job).
I don't have a plan other than to make something useful and hope it gains traction. I "release early, and release often", and I work on whatever I feel like doing on any given day.
I've never been paid to write Fortran, and I've only ever seen Cobol once when some cute girl in my college lab needed help, so I gave it a shot.:-)
Anyway, I'd say that you're wrong, but the one thing that I have learned over time, is that it would probably be a waste of time, my most precious resource, trying to convince you otherwise. Ok, back to work...
By the way, if any of you kids want to help out an old man, here's my app:
I don't have a plan other than to make something useful and hope it gains traction. I "release early, and release often", and I work on whatever I feel like doing on any given day.
I've never been paid to write Fortran, and I've only ever seen Cobol once when some cute girl in my college lab needed help, so I gave it a shot.:-)
Anyway, I'd say that you're wrong, but the one thing that I have learned over time, is that it would probably be a waste of time, my most precious resource, trying to convince you otherwise. Ok, back to work...
By the way, if any of you kids want to help out an old man, here's my app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...
I've got Russian, Chinese, French, German, and Italian versions too. Like Elon says, seek negative feedback...
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/elon-musk-pay-attention...