sv_muppets_ | 10 years ago | on: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010)
Let's see - you can get these experienced engineers, who will build a proper platform, a robust architecture, a decent code base, and given the fact they have delivered before, a solution that will provide what the customers want.
Or
You can have these wet behind the ears fuckers straight from college who will just download a metric shit ton of code via gem install and npm, and then rebuild several wheels in JS, whilst spending all their time on the company engineering blog wanking about how great they are?
And the vcs choose youth over experience every time.