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Re:Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley by Dewie on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:34PM (#8168972)
You're right that you shouldn't be a code monkey at 30. You should have graduated to programmer by then.
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Re:Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley by LyndsySimon on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:26PM (#8169643)
I'm 30, and largely self-taught.

+1. I graduated "code monkey" at 25 or so, "programmer" at around 28, and feel I'm nearing the top of "software developer" now.

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