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Ask HN: Where are all of the mature developers?

4 pointsby kleigenfreudeover 8 years ago
Getting kind of sick of HN because of all of the young, inexperienced developers. Where are the more mature developers hanging out online these days?

5 comments

quintesover 8 years ago
I&#x27;d consider myself mature. What are you wanting to get out of a community?<p>Sometimes my stories may interest or bore younger devs but man I like listening to them, sometimes they show me something new or Shiny, and sometimes I may even pass on some knowledge they can chew on and perhaps even use. I enjoy coaching and mentoring and value those interactions.<p>I think the mixture of people, skills and experiences are why we take part in any community really.<p>Edits: poor keyboard usage.
DrScumpover 8 years ago
&quot;Maturity&quot; can be defined many ways (including age, temperament, or depth of skillset).<p>I doubt that there&#x27;s any magical hiding place that differs from other developer hangouts. It&#x27;s not like we are all out there despondently pining for new comp.lang.c articles while chasing those damn neighbor kids off our lawns.<p>Perhaps specifying a more specific metric (languages, environments, databases, etc.) could facilitate your search?
bdcravensover 8 years ago
I&#x27;ve been developing professionally since 1999, and while I&#x27;m pretty active, I think in general &quot;more mature&quot; developers are less likely to &quot;hang out online&quot;. This is a product of being more mature, which loosely correlates with age, which loosely correlates to family and property ownership and all the time-suck that goes with. Personally I just take what I find valuable from this community and try (not always successfully) to filter out the noise.
iniminoover 8 years ago
1. In management.<p>2. On HN, but development is a popular career path now and there are just a lot more younger developers than there used to be.
dalyover 8 years ago
If by &#x27;mature&#x27; you mean &#x27;gray&#x27;... unemployed.
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