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Eh? What? Is that for real?

While it is true that GREAT developers can also be young, they are not magically getting dumber when they age. Also it may be easier to be disruptive if you're young (meaning you are naïve enough to think you can change stuff, most of the times you'll be wrong, though) but smarter? Really?

I find this a quite stupid statement, to be honest...

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I was there. It's for real. He's wrong about chess masters, too, Magnus Carlsen notwithstanding. (Chess players typically peak in their mid-30s or early 40s.)

Sounds like pandering to the target crowd which is under 25 at the university and hoping some of them would come work for FB at that point of time.

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