[dba-Tech] Older is wiser

Hi Hans:

The truth is that you really have to love programming to ever become any
good at it. Real Programming is a true art-form. To many in the business, it
is just a job. 

Another truism, is that good code can not be built fast, which means that
good code can not be built cheap. Now a days, too many want the best fast
and cheap and then you end up with programmers that only know how to produce
that ugly code you witnessed.

Jim 

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Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:42 AM
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Subject: 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
> 
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