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		freyr on April 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ S... These factors hold in any industry, though, so they're not sufficient to explain the preference for youth in the software industry.

hkmurakami on April 29, 2013 [–]

Similarly, in any industry, older employees are more difficult to fire (you tend to open yourself up to discrimination suits)

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