...e em Portugal? António Pinto shared with you: Why aren't there a lot of old programmers at software companies? quora.com - When you're older, your thinking becomes more rigorous and thorough, but slower. The slowing isn't perceptible, and it pretty much doesn't matter. We're talking about a 10 percent drop in computation speed at the absolute worst. For an analogy, most people whose computers are "too slow" have CPUs that are just fine; it's software problems (e.g. spyware, poor multitasking) that are the issue. Where that slight slowing does interfere is in certain social interactions, usually under stress and after an inhuman work schedule. If you've all been working 12-hour days for two weeks, the older person is going to be less adept at quickly and confidently selling his work to the 27-year-old "product owner" in the daily Scrum. (The work will be of higher quality, but not as well sold.) Older programmers, in general, are better at building robust systems, have a better knowledge of prior art, and generally have better interpersonal skills. Younger programmers are better at the marketing aspect of the job. As you age, you have less patience for the "same shit, new stink" faddish aspects of any industry. Fundamental changes in technology aren't actually that difficult to adapt to, because older people are usually better at picking out the high-value prospects and tend to learn those just fine. It's the new by-laws that have little to do with technology itself but affect someone's social...
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