"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:12:45 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.

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

and how many "engineering" IT project use that

You don't think building an e-commerce platform is IT?

I didn't say that

you are responding to the thread where I said that "there isn't a shortage
of IT people in engineering"

and you said

"yes there are"

and we fell into a discussion on ageism and someone else said that by always
employing young people you waste time by their "reinventing the wheel".

and in order to counter that you came up with some example that was not
applicable to *engineering"

And that is what I picked you up on - nothing more!

Uber would be disappointed (they call themselves a tech firm).

but they ain't an engineering firm, they are an internet(ish) firm

I have never even heard of it

I bet myself you'd say that.

Well it's hardly difficult to guess. It's not used in the industry sector
with which I am experienced. You know, the one that you somehow claim to
have superior knowledge of current trends despite not working in it for 15
years.

tim