[jeltz]

I am the same age as you, but I do not think this is about age, at least not mainly about age. My father who is almost 70 has no issue understanding what git and github are and I have worked with people under 25 who have not had an issues with this distinction either. And there are plenty of open source developers I have met who are pushing 70 who keep up with technology just fine.

Sure, I notice that younger developers do not know some things, like they never experienced the Java EE hype, so they can fall into some traps which are well known among older engineers.

[ryandrake]

Yea this seems like more of a competence-related problem than age-rated. I never even considered that I might have to ask candidates if they knew the difference between git and github but now I wonder....