<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Some good points there. It's funny how, as a profession, we don't consider experience to be very important. Seems like something around "5 years" is the best amount of experience to have, and after that it becomes a burden. As if programming in VB6 can't teach you important lessons for writing Scala code. As if it's all about writing the code, not thinking up solutions.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Oct 2017, at 4:33, Philip Durbin <<a href="mailto:philipdurbin@gmail.com" class="">philipdurbin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Good food for thought:<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/over-qualification-wut/1671791376187053/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/over-qualification-wut/1671791376187053/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"My father spent from 57 to 83 on his five acres on a hilltop. He puttered in his ham shack. He ran for county planning commissioner and lost. He cared for my aging mother. He never wrote another line of code."<br class=""></div></div>
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