In my company, we can get "Senior Developer" title after 3 to 4 year experience. What your current title?
Senior^19 Developer.
Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
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#122Dam - I thought my 40 years was pushing ... Thanks for the inspiration!
Right? I'm at 22 years professionally and I feel like a dinosaur out here.
The really amazing part, is last time I looked - most software developers _leave tech_ after 10 years. This guy has managed to keep the passion over 5x that long!
Hope I'll be able to say the same someday :-)
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#123!!please get in to anti-cheat engineering for multi-player networked games. the battle between game developers and funded cheat orgs is cold war-esque
Why that field in particular?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right? I'm at 22 years professionally and I feel like a dinosaur out here.
Same. I recently got into scheme/lisp and got a newfound inspiration. Seems like older folks were on a better path which got as time passed by more and more corrupted.
I really have to really give lisp a chance sometime. Right now, next on my language list are zig and nim. Crystal could be interesting too!
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#125Probably close. The first software program ran 21 June 1948 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer ) and not many people who start working at 16 keep programming until 74.
Maurice Wilkes programmed from 1949 (if we're counting from when the program ran on a stored-program computer) until his death in 2010, so OP has at least 4 years to go to make the record.
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#126In my company, we can get "Senior Developer" title after 3 to 4 year experience. What your current title?
In our industry traditional titles are exhausted so early so here's localized quantification [0] (on a lighter note, no disrespect to OP or anyone). I'm in KSD title range.
0: Kilo senior developor (min 10 years) mega senior developer (min 20 years) giga senior developer (min 30 years) tera senior developer (min 40 years) peta senior developer (min 50 years) exa senior developer (min 60 years) zeta senior developer (min 70 years)
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#127Just to lyk, those fraud detection systems don't work so get back to work
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#128My grandpa is ~75, started programming professionally in his early 20s, and currently works as an engineer for the University of Utah, so my hunch is that there’s more people with 50+ years of software engineering experience than you might at first suspect. Either that or I just doxxed myself ;)
details. what technologies is your grandpa using? what's his opinion on javascript? any epic kids these days stories?
I don’t know many details, but he’s been using Java for 10 years or so, and he’s not particularly interested in the new hotness. 10ish years ago I asked him how to learn to code and I know he in turn asked his brother, who’s a tad younger and I think is a CS professor somewhere in the Midwest. He ended up giving me Learn to Program Ruby by Chris Pine.
Edit: One more thing is that he’s the most intellectually well-rounded person I’ve ever met, a characteristic which I wouldn’t be surprised if it was common in programmers with more than a couple dozen years of experience.
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#129I'm not sure if he is still programming now (he was a few years ago at least) but Jeff Whittle started programming in 1962 on a Ferranti Sirius[0]. He was awarded an AO (Order of Australia) for his services to the Mining Industry a few years ago due to his mining optimisation software.
[0]https://whittleconsulting.com.au/livebook/downloads/3.5-Stor...
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#130respect