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Poll: How old are you?
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#13251-55 Better than dead. Much.
It's funny how when you get here (I'm 47) you realize what a bunch of BS all the age complaints are. You appreciate life so much more, and -- speaking for myself -- are as full of energy and ideas as ever.
Based on what I have seen of old people, people tend to become more of what they are so if you are generally a happy person, you should be more so as you get older.
Which means I will be terrible in my old age...
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#13321-25's death is poisoning results :)
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#134I'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.
I was wondering where my group was. Thanks for the hint!
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#135Funny 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.
I feel the same way. I'm 25, and if I thought I knew it all, I wouldn't be here. I consider all of you my peers, and feel like I'm missing out on the HN experience by not engaging you all. I plan to rectify this in 2011.
I feel like I learn a lot from the experiences of the 'older' crowd, as they seem to have enough stabilityto take more risks with their ideas, but I also learn a lot from the younger crowd who jump in regardless.
Although I don't think there were any surprises in the poll, I wouldn write it off as a useless post, because like eveything else that hits the stream, it kicks off some great conversation. Thanks for your thoughts, everyone.
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#136I'd have thought that more appropriate ranges might have been:
8-15
16-31
32-63
8-15
16-23
24-31
32-47
48-63
64-95
96-127
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#137All I know is that this post just made me feel a lot older. Good God, I'm a 'seasoned vet' at 40.
My first impulse upon seeing the distribution was to say "Get off my lawn!"*
(I'm 45.)
* And that is before seeing the age group that is showing as 'dead'.
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#138It just hit me that from last month I am in 26-30. And its scary.
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#139Bar chart of the results:
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're just kissing up to us 39-year olds so that we'll upvote your comment. Well done. Upvote. ;-)
I'm 36, but in internet years, you're two generations ahead of me, so go back to your retirement home, grandpa, and leave this technology stuff to us young'uns.
That meme deserves an XKCD