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jussij on March 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What happens to older developers?

Here's my 20+ years of experience working as a contract in Australia.

In all that time I've only ever worked with proprietary tools and have never had trouble getting high paying contract work.

I would say I've done very well betting on something proprietary.

hkarthik on March 11, 2014 [–]

Parent comment had to be qualified a bit: Never bet on anything proprietary which doesn't offer significant advantages over non-proprietary competitors.

nextw33k on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Sliverlight would be a great example of that.

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