Hey don't be the white person complaining about racism or the man complaining about sexism. If young people weren't getting a shot in the tech industry because of discrimination then I'd be a tad more sensitive to your protestations. But as it is, you're irrationally sticking your head in the sand. If you don't think that learn things and come to new insights that take years to develop then there's nothing I can say to convince you. But if you stick with it for a while, come back to me in 10 years and let's do a code review on what you wrote today and then we'll discuss if you still think I'm ageist for saying there are particular lessons learned through experience.
Hey, don't take it too bad. If you say anything negative about certain topics you will get downvotes. It's mostly because people not in love with certain topics have learned to just leave them alone and it's left a big echo chamber where anything positive will be upvoted and anything negative will be downvoted.
You'll notice this by seeing that in non-Haskell threads, critical remarks about Haskell are upvoted, while in 'Haskell threads' such as this one where an echo chamber forms, anything critical about Haskell will be downvoted. It's an interesting behavior, but it says a lot more about certain cliques than it does about HN.
Don't worry about it too much and get on with actually using practical tools to solve real problems and leave the echo chamber in their own peaceful world. Everyone is much better off.
Wow, that's smug. My comment had nothing to do with Haskell. He said I was being ageist when I said there are some things that only become apparent with experience.
