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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by ojbyrne on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:39AM (#7428876)
I've been working at a large dotcom lately and one thing I've noticed is how much enterprise Java code starts to resemble Cobol after enough time. "Separation of Concerns" starts to look like Cobol's "Divisions," excessive amounts of boilerplate, etc.
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Re:What Happens to Older Developers? by ballard on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @11:55AM (#7429507)
Comments that add no value while the hard stuff isn't documented: knowledge hoarding.

Over-engineered, massive codebases: job security.

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