Chances based on my experience? 50:50 Old engineers will say things that are hard learned lessons …

Chances based on my experience? 50:50 Old engineers will say things that are hard learned lessons like "don't reinvent the wheel, when your thing is running on a system that comes with wheels". So, good solid advice that rookies will ignore, because of course they do. But sometimes old engineers will say things that are more of the quality of: "30 years ago went deep into this topic, discovered the truth and haven't updated my judgement since, despite the world having changed a lot". The problem is that unless you really know things inside out or know the hard held opinions of your older collegue well, it can be hard to tell the two apart. In that case it only helps to talk about it in more detail and try to get to the root of where the judgement comes from. Then it could come to light that the warning to use PHP comes from a bad experience with PHP version <1.0 or that there is a number of bad experienced that are really useful for deciding the direction of a project. In the end many decisions are about taste. And nothing is as good as a way to keep arguing than matters of taste. …