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[email protected] · January 12th 17, 08:32 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:30:07 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:15:41 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, d 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.

I'm not sure how that would apply to something like Blockchain. No wheel
to re-invent, there.

Since no one has any idea who invented blockchain and bitcoin there's no way
of knowing if they're a young genius or an ageing professor.

Er, it's people deploying solutions based on blockchain I was referring
to.

Deploying software has even less requirement for "fresh minds" than writing it.

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Spud