Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Poll: How old are you?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 157 posts

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#121

Post by kang »

TimothyBurgess wrote: post #31
agentultra wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

22 and a career? Wow. Programming was still a hobby for me at that point. Still is. Sometimes wish I didn't spoil it by making it a career. ;) I feel old now. I started a record label at 22 and wanted to do nothing but music and party. Didn't get a "career" until a couple of years later when my record label burnt out and the parties stopped... Just remember to live a little. ;)

We seem to have a bit in common! I'm 23 now, and up until last July I was a professional touring musician (drummer!)... During college my band signed to Victory Records. We all decided to finish up college and began touring immediately after we graduated. (Computer Engineer here...) I had quite a few people tell me I was making a big mistake continuing with the band and not pursuing a career with my degree... but I h…

Its a great idea ! http://www.rela.cc I am a novice but it looks like those rounded corner blocks are patches pasted on top of a background, which I expect kinda to reveal itself. Maybe its because of the contrast color choice, I don't know. But Mainly, the descriptions are too verbose and some of them needed me to read them twice (I am in a band myself). The video tutorial part is too unnoticeable.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#122

Post by lukeschlather »

Alex3917 wrote: post #109
obfuscate wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, they can assign reported history of drug use correctly. Do they do anything similar to correct for lying, or just label their data as "self-reports of drug use"?

"Do they do anything similar to correct for lying" There is an entire literature on the validity of self-reported drug use that they take into account. For example, there is a phenomenon called recanting, where someone will admit to using a drug one year and then deny it in future years. They correct for this by ignoring when someone recants if they have already admitted to using the drug on at least two previous sur…

I really don't think you can adjust away the teenage propensity to lie on these sorts of things. If there's one thing students in the US are taught effectively, it's how to game multiple choice tests. Throwing in trick questions isn't going to do much, especially for your AP-track students.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#124

Post by X-Istence »

I'm 22, almost 23, and as such I am one of the young guys here. I've already done a lot at 22 years of age, but reading the posts here and seeing what some of the older people have accomplished is just simply amazing. It is always fantastic to read someone else's take on various different ideas especially those who are older than me.

I currently work at a small startup with people who have been in the game for a long time (I along with 1 other programmer are in our 20's the rest of the team is 40's or more) and it is an absolute blast learning new things at an extremely rapid pace.

It was after only 3 months at this small startup, in the middle of things (I'd done my own startup but this was when the ah ha moment happened) I realised that my passion was to be a part of a small team that changed the world, and not be stuck in a big corporation somewhere chugging away with no real way to differentiate myself from everyone else there.

That is why I am really happy to be a part of the HN community where I can learn more information, and hopefully someday soon in the near future I too will have a successful small business with millions of dollars in revenue.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#126

Post by timinman »

I haven't tried, because I don't want to throw off the results, but it looks like you can vote more than once (only the arrow for your selection disappears). If that is the case, consider this a bug report.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#130

Post by Deestan »

thingie wrote: post #129

I'm 23 and it seems to me that this poll is missing 21-25 group. Or I'm indeed blind, that's also possible.

It's there, but it's hidden for some weird reason. It's marked as [dead].

Edit: Go to your profile and enable "showdead", and you will be able to see and vote on it.

Post reply on HN