{"id":1036,"date":"2016-04-23T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:59:33","slug":"podcast-episode-43-older-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/23\/podcast-episode-43-older-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 43 &#8211; Older Programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peteonsoftware.com\/images\/201604\/OldMan.jpg\" alt=\"Old Man\" title=\"Old Man\" style=\"float:left;margin:.5em;\">Why is the average age of a developer so much less than the average age of a professional worker in the United States? Is it because the industry as a whole is striving to keep people out? Are companies replacing people as soon as their salary starts to get higher with people who make half as much and will work twice as many hours for the same salary? Check out what I think about it in this week&#8217;s episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links Mentioned in this Show:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/software-developers-fear-age-30-2014-3\">Developers Fear Age 30<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/article\/2710015\/it-management\/older-programmers-are-more-knowledgeable--but-harder-to-find.html\">Older Workers are More Knowledgeable, but Harder to Find<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/2617093\/it-careers\/it-careers-where-do-all-the-old-programmers-go.html\">Where do all the Old Programmers Go?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/08\/28\/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-dark-secret-it%E2%80%99s-all-about-age\/\">Silicon Valley&#8217;s Dark Secret<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/playground.tensorflow.org\/\">Neural Network in the Browser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also subscribe to the podcast at any of these places:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-pete-on-software-podcast\/id789451013?mt=2&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/Podcast\/iTunes.png\" style=\"border:none;\" alt=\"iTunes Link\" title=\"iTunes Link\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/pospfiles\/posp.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/Podcast\/Rss.png\" style=\"border:none;\" alt=\"RSS Feed\" title=\"RSS Feed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the people who listen, and a special thanks to those who have rated me.  I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The episodes have been archived.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/podcast\">Here<\/a> to see the archive page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the average age of a developer so much less than the average age of a professional worker in the United States? Is it because the industry as a whole is striving to keep &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,30],"tags":[110,98],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-software","category-podcasts","tag-business-of-software","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}