Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
by _random_ on Monday March 10, 2014 @02:28PM
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It's funny: I was betting on WPF at the time but it seems dead now, with only some XAML knowledge transferable. Still have to do JS, but at least Angular doesn't suck too much.
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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
by nawitus on Monday March 10, 2014 @05:41PM
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Here's a tip: never bet on something proprietary.
Here's my 20+ years of experience working as a contract in Australia.
In all that time I've only ever worked with proprietary tools and have never had trouble getting high paying contract work.
I would say I've done very well betting on something proprietary.
Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
by hkarthik on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:09PM
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Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.
Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
by nextw33k on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:36AM
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Sliverlight would be a great example of that.
LOL. I know guys who have worked the last 20 years on Oracle, and they'll have no trouble finding work for 20 more. The same for Visual C++. Or a whole host of other things. The world isn't as simple as GNU ideology would have you believe.