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care to share anything here? I think many would be interested. Maybe just a link to something?

I feel your pain. I was lucky enough to be around to enjoy the days when the ONLY place online where people were discussing serious topics (and non-serious ones!) was USENET (and m…

yeah agree, plus not sure I believe that poverty reduces ambition

Are you saying that people on disability get a housing allowance in addition to the $908 a month and food stamps? That's news to me.

Thanks, this was exactly the kind of finding i was asking for. So, at least at this stage of life, sounds like majority of your cohort is still employed. I wonder if that will hold…

Thanks for the insights, but what I'm really curious about is what happened to the older devs that DIDN'T go into management? Given that you say "whats left" doesn't include anyone…

Would he be "over it" if he hadn't saved for retirement? Why did they let him go? Was he not contributing at the same level as before?

These are well-established companies founded decades ago. if they were startups, I'd understand...

not sure I follow...

Thanks for this story - always great to hear about a real experience. This is very disturbing. What the heck does "fresh face" mean? Did he have any idea what they meant, or were t…

I assume I'll still be working, but when I look around and see how few people at these large, established companies are in their 50s/60s, I get a little nervous to be honest...

Good point, but I'm seeing this phenomena in ALL jobs at these companies - and both have been around for over 30 years. There just aren't alot of older people around - where did th…

These aren't SF startups (see above). I see plenty of 30's and quite a few 40's, but where are all the 50's and 60's? These days I don't think many are passing away at that age, ri…

Interesting - maybe it varies by industry. What industry are you in? These two companies are in telecom and software. I don't think many people in the US are retiring at 50 though …

Thanks for your comments guys, but if this is true, why don't I see more workers in their 40s, 50s, and 60s around? (and I'm not specifically speaking of devs, although the effect …

I really enjoyed the recent Ask HR post on this topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372997) but since it is locked and I can't comment, I decided to start this one to ask …

Just checked out Mitchell's site. Looks like he's been working on a 2nd ed for awhile. he should just open-source the first one since it's so old. But I found he just released all …

Have to agree. And it's very inexpensive because Yaser refused to give-in to academic publishers, who would've charged the typical $70-80, and self-published so he could offer it f…

Thanks, @gtani, great resource. Yeah didn't mean to imply that ML techniques are free of ANY assumptions, just that several of the popular ones like logistic regression don't have …

Great suggestion. I've been amazed to find out that many coders and amateur "data scientists" don't realize that testing the assumptions is an important part of conducting statisti…

Great effort, and I certainly hope more coders will get into statistics (most I know are only interested in machine learning). However, I think your definition of 1.3 "Confidence I…