[dba-Tech] Older is wiser

Hi Hans

You are right.

However, I would be the last throwing a stone. Neither PHP nor JQuery is for
me to judge.
I just need to browse some of my old code - perhaps not for a big laugh but
at least for wondering "why on Earth did he do it that way".

/gustav


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sendt: 6. maj 2013 09:42
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Older is wiser

I'd like to amend that statement to be "good programmers become wiser
programmers as they get older."

Over the last 2 months, I've been reviewing code samples for candidates
applying for a senior web developer position and, in many instances, these
so called experienced senior developers who have been in this business for
10+ years have submitted some of the most horrendous code that left me so
completely stupefied that my only reaction is to push my chair back and
cover my face with both palms to protect my sanity from the evils that were
printed across my screen (if you don't believe me, I'm happy to post code
snippets).

In fact, of all the code samples I've so far reviewed (30+ at this point),
only 2 have been more than fairly decent. The rest were so laughably
atrocious that it made me question how it is that the Internet has not yet
collapsed in on itself at this point.

Experience, apparently, does not make all programmers better. Some people
really aren't cut out for this business. I'm not sure I'd even hire them as
juniors and yet they somehow manage to thrive.

- Hans


On 2013-05-05, at 2:57 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> This may come as a total shocker to many but older programmer are 
> wiser and therefore better that youngsters.
> 
> The following study discovered that people actually learn as they age. 
> A truly amazing revelations.
> 
> http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-murphyhill-age-2013/
> 
> Now try and convince some company to hire a programmer older than 
> thirty, forty max...but will the old guys work day and night for next to
nothing?
> 
> Jim