alt Hacker News> Modern society totally devalues anything considered even slightly old.
Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast.
If I were looking for info on cooking, baking, knitting sure... but IT stuff, I opine many of us seek the latest info because of the breakneck speeds this profession is known for.
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> Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast.
Some areas do, some areas not so much.
I have a colleague that's incredibly strong with databases (we use a mix of MySQL and PostgreSQL) and he's living off the learning he did 20 years ago when he was a junior Oracle consultant.
I live off the learning I did in Linux now that I administer Kubernetes clusters for a living. Once you get past the "cloud native" abstractions (and other BS) it's penguins all the way down, and I get to reuse most of my core Linux competencies I learned 10+ years ago (eg: I do tcpdump in prod, and it's quicker and more effective than many of the modern shiny tools).
JS frameworks and chasing AI fads, perhaps. But fundamentals? Engineering principles? How CPUs work? Linux, networking, x86? Stuff that is decades old still applies.
Does it though? I mean I'm still teaching thread-safety and recursion to my interns... a solid foundation is a solid foundation.