Why make it easy? When I was in middle school, we had WiFi at home before we got off dialup. I spent some days trying to figure out how to bridge the two before we got cable broadband. We also got our first cell phones as a family a year later, a couple of Sprint flip-phones with extendable antennas.
Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
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#5250s. When everyone else was getting Atari's I got a Commodore Vic20 and how to write software games book (My parents were both in software startups starting in the late 70s). Did software, burnt out, moved to IT management, ended up blowing my life up, now I'm completely f'd. 50/50 poor work/life balance combined with poor homelife, both feeding the other. It's interesting to have seen American life from the struggling 80s middle class that made genX latch key, to the top and now to the bottom.
Re: Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
#5328.
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#54Mid 30s, started writing code 20 years ago, totally hooked since day one.
It's an interesting coincidence both of us learned right around when ycombinator started.
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#5571. So far, the oldest to respond. Only a tiny minority of readers are likely to respond, though. And all you will learn from the responses is the age disribition of that tiny minority! Who knows how well that correlates with the totality of HN users?
Yeah i was thinking that, but at least I have some idea that the age is different than I thought here, most responses are 40 and above apparently which I never would have guessed. I also would never have thought people in their 70's would be here !!!!
Re: Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
#5665
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#57Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or asm, switched to turbo Pascal in 88-89, then Delphi and MATLAB. Currently mainly work in VsCode using markdown codeblocks in a way a bit like Jupyter (see VsCode extension Hover-Exec) for a range of stuff including art installations.
Re: Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
#58Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or asm, switched to turbo Pascal in 88-89, then Delphi and MATLAB. Currently mainly work in VsCode using markdown codeblocks in a way a bit like Jupyter (see VsCode extension Hover-Exec) for a range of stuff including art installations.
I didn't understand 70% of the stuff you said, but wow! One question, how did you update yourself and keep up throughout all these years?
Re: Ask HN: To anyone who cares to read this. How old are you roughly?
#59Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or asm, switched to turbo Pascal in 88-89, then Delphi and MATLAB. Currently mainly work in VsCode using markdown codeblocks in a way a bit like Jupyter (see VsCode extension Hover-Exec) for a range of stuff including art installations.
I didn't understand 70% of the stuff you said, but wow! One question, how did you update yourself and keep up throughout all these years?
Through scientific collaboration mostly - HN now!