[clockwerx]

Stuff that hasnt changed markedly: geometry math, statistics. SQL - 1970s. SOLID - parts of that are late 1980. C still looks like C. Unix like environments. Awk/sed/etc.

Go read about the history of the web or XML; you get a very strong sense that these things have been thought about for a long time - data interchange has varied formats, but there is still a lot of tedious ETL type work. The importance of naming things well hasnt changed. Identifiers for data being a hard thing hasnt changed. Schema/vocabularies and more are still important problems.

If you cant see some of these things underpinning much of the work we do, you might be missing the forest for the trees

[bshimmin]

One thing I've found that's significantly changed since I began my career, before my beard went grey, is that projects are now in general run much better. People never make a total mess of estimating timings, and the Agile methodology (and Kanban boards, and Trello, and JIRA, and of course Slack) really fix all organisational and prioritisation problems such that projects never end in disaster; gone are the days of frantic last minute firefighting and all-nighters, as we desperately work out which features are critical to getting the project live before everything explodes. Clearly the experience of older, wiser heads in moments of crisis is now basically never required because projects run so smoothly.

Haha, sorry, I'm only kidding.

[ryandrake]

Love it--Thanks for the last line there. I'm glad I didn't have any food in my mouth while reading this because it'd be all over the screen right now.

[rcurry]

This made my day. I only wish I could have read it around 3:00 this morning when I was still up writing code.