[yAak]

Sorta random, but I really appreciate this kind of post on HN. People have tons of domain expertise and hard-earned lessons that get shared like this, and it broadens my awareness without requiring any time investment on my part.

Thank you, thank you (and others like you) for taking the time to type this up!

[gabereiser]

I’m shocked actually that you don’t get this kind of mentorship where you work. What’s your Director doing? Not that we’ll be building spring apps but knowing where we, as an industry, have came from and tried things, we’ll avoid them in the future. My heart sinks when a good idea on paper, but bad IRL, get reimplemented 10 years later because someone didn’t bother to read history. That said, sometimes time is all you need for tech to catch up. Rarely that’s the case though.

So yeah, you’re welcome, thanks for coming to my grey beard tech talk. Ask your managers for more brown bag/lunch & learns from the older folks at your company - they have stories.

[guilherme-puida]

> I’m shocked actually that you don’t get this kind of mentorship where you work. What’s your Director doing?

Bold of you to assume that every company has a technically competent director (or that higher-ups even care about mentorship).