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Eric[_3_] · January 11th 17, 05:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2017-01-11, d wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:31:59 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:31:59 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, tim... remarked:
An industry that can "afford" to "throw way" people who are less than
50% through their useful career cannot be short of suitable workers.

I agree that there's ageism, but some of that is justified if you want
fresh minds to address new problems.

That works in a small percentage of cases. However what usually happens is
the "fresh minds" make the same old mistakes of previous generations and just
end up re-inventing the wheel. Often poorly.

Aaaaaargh! That's the second time today I've agreed with you!

And, to pick on something actually lower down in the thread, just
because it's a new platform or new tools doesn't mean that they don't
make the same category of mistakes, and re-invent wheels at the logical
level before they try to code them.

Eric
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