Poll: How old are you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by alnayyir » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

jaxn wrote: post #47

alnayyir wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If you're happy doing what you're doing now Immeasurably. >Like me. For over 20 years. Fair chance I'd be retired by then unless I had a nasty divorce or something. But who knows?

ah the idealism of youth... Possibly. The odds are pretty bad for retirement at 40 though. Seems to be those who are successful / lucky enough to exit (making an assumption about your retirement plan), are also the kind of people that tend to just start another company or be an involved smart-money investor. I used to think I would retire. I have enough mostly-passive income to live on, but here I am doing another st…

Not really idealism. When you get an engineer's salary and sock away ~60-70% of it, your options are pretty rosy.

The entrepreneurial bug and divorce are the only things I foresee really jeopardizing that. That or being seriously fertile.

Hard tellin'. I'll be happy either way, and regardless of whether or not I'm getting paid, I'll code 'til I die.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by leif » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

Missing option: "I am eternal."

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by tjic » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

jbrennan wrote: post #50

c2 wrote: post #44

Funny pattern in responses. People on the younger side ( 30) seem to be humble and self-deprecating, but still with that unmistakable hacker spirit. I'm 28 myself, seems like 25-30 are the 'inbetweeners'.

I'm 22 and I read HN purely to learn from the "older" ones. I've got brains, but they've got brains+experience. That's what I find so fascinating about HN, it's like one collective hacker who's seen it all.

You're just kissing up to us 39-year olds so that we'll upvote your comment.

Well done.

Upvote.

;-)

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by madeself » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 7:55 PM UTC

Glad to see I'm in the majority. Sometimes I feel on the old side of the industry at 26.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by kunjaan » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:00 PM UTC

Turned 26 yesterday! Started work last week. In a whole new category now!

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by cambriar » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:02 PM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #15

51Cards wrote: post #5

All I know is that this post just made me feel a lot older. Good God, I'm a 'seasoned vet' at 40.

22 and 4-5 years into my career. I can only hazard a guess at what I'll be doing in 20 years.

You're the man. I'm also 22 and 1 year away from a BS.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by Nemisis7654 » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:07 PM UTC

I'm 21 and will graduate with a degree in CS at the end of the year. I'm fairly new to the HN community (127 days to be exact!) and just wish I had found this a little earlier on in my college career.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by anonymoushn » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:09 PM UTC

I'm 20. I acquired a 4-year degree using black magic and work somewhere in Palo Alto.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by jbrennan » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

tjic wrote: post #53

jbrennan wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm 22 and I read HN purely to learn from the "older" ones. I've got brains, but they've got brains+experience. That's what I find so fascinating about HN, it's like one collective hacker who's seen it all.

You're just kissing up to us 39-year olds so that we'll upvote your comment. Well done. Upvote. ;-)

Haha. I think the smartest thing I've learned so far in my "career" is to know I'm capable of learning just about anything, so long as I actually pay attention enough to those who already know.

It's working well.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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