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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by jussij on Monday March 10, 2014 @09:02PM (#7376783)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by hkarthik on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:09PM (#7377014)
Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.
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Re:Ask HN: What happens to older developers? by nextw33k on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @05:36AM (#7378221)
Sliverlight would be a great example of that.
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