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It's been a ride watching all this abstraction and design patterns make everything more complex

Is that interventionist policy any different to the Fed and ECB propping up of the US and European stock markets since the depths of the crash with QE? If not then when is the long term viability of that solution going to be called into play?

I rarely post now on StackOverFlow and each time I do I wonder if it's my last time as I'm told I'm in danger of being barred because of my inability to post a question correctly. Also some serious trolling happens if one asks anything deemed obvious - just insecure bullies.

I was commenting on the article's posts which had expanded into interviews for such firms as Apple, Google etc. Apologies if that is not allowed.

If software development was not a creative process then such algorithmic/IQ test interviews would be very relevant. Unfortunately for those wasting their time with such interviews it is a creative process. A recent Nobel prize in economics was given to Daniel Kahneman for his work proving such gut instinct interviews are a failure. When I first left college and was bad at software development I passed those tests, got into software firms and got my experience. Now even though I write software everyday for my clients I wouldn't pass any of those interviews. Zuckerberg is right - younger people are smarter (at passing those tests).

SQL is not hard and certainly no harder then something like the entity framework

My pal has great tech experience and domain knowledge (major global gambling firm based in Dublin) built up over the years. He's contracting and on 800 euro a day at least - naturally I didn't ask him exactly what he's earning.

Where is he located? If it's the USA, especially Silicon Valley, then it's too late as he's too old. From what I read and comments from likes of Mark Zuckerberg the illegal practice of age discrimination is rampant. If he's willing to learn .NET and move to Ireland then all is well as once he gets good experience older developers with technical ability are in big demand. As a 43 yr old .NET programmer said to me the other day (as we watched Ireland beat France in the Rugby) "We are the most employable people in this pub and I've never been in more demand in my life".

Colluding to keep down wages, which would attract more people into programming, and then always complaining that there are not enough software developers while, also illegally, discriminating against expensive older programmers. Shows money is the main factor with respect to programmers ability.