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>> Resume? No thanks. Show me your code and then let's have a beverage and chat.

What is this hipster hiring? Give it 10 or 20 years bud you'll be singing a different tune or afraid to try to get hired as a coder and just pulling manager duty 3 or 4 levels up in the middle quietly re-assuring yourself that you could code and get a job in that new language eebbityfribitz ... if you really wanted to.

So you assert a couple pieces of paper that contain a view of someone's career from 30,000 ft (assuming it's even accurate) is some how preferable to being able to download, run, debug and in general interact with a potential hire's code? If you say so.

2nd assertion, that at some point in the next 10 to 20 years I'm going to run into some unspecified difficulties with the hiring process, resulting in me shifting career tracks to management? Would you mind unpacking the thought process behind all of this?

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