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Focus on cultural and racial diversity in my experience tend ignore age as part of diversity. Lets not pretend 'they' would actually give a fuck about older developers.

Here is a "diversity team" http://diversify.github.io/images/diversify-group.jpg

Beware of hypocrites abusing "diversity" for PR reasons.

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I was a bit shocked by that photo until I went to the page itself at http://diversify.github.io/ and read:

> Diversify was a weekend event at Spotify in Stockholm, where 40 tech students of diverse backgrounds came together and designed, wrote code, and found new friends.

Maybe having students to this is in part pointless, but that picture is not of a group of Spotify employees working on diversity issues.

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