i think the survey result are amazing
more and more young people getting interested in tech oriented website.
more older people moving towards social networking
Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that's a silly statement to make. The average 40 year old will have nearly identical patterns, and I assure you that it's not limited to Facebook. While there are certainly more new 20 year old developers than new 60 year old developers, they absolutely do exist; I've met maybe a dozen over the last year or two. (Disclaimer: I'm 24)
I've met many too, but like I said, most are former developers, or have been developers for some time. They're the ones with war stories about having to load their apps in on paper tape and they're not exaggerating.
As a single data point, a colleague of mine is a 50+ developer, who was a nurse in the army until a little over a decade ago - and he learned for the sake of a career change, he didn't move into something that he was already doing on the side, or had done when young.
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#4323% female?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#44This honestly makes me pretty curious. I thought the 25-34 range would be larger, especially compared to other sites that seem to have a much less professional atmosphere(Reddit, etc). Hacker News certainly isn't some bastion of intelligent thought and discourse, but it's definitely above average in that, which makes me wonder if the 18-24 year olds are just keeping quiet in the comments, if they're really that smart…
If you don't go to college and can find a good job, there's plenty of professionals in that range. I'm 25 and been programming professionally for 5 years.
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#45Wow there's 13% girls on HN?
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#46Orkut statistics are quite interesting - most of the people are 24-34, then 35-44 group is relatively small and 45-54 is much bigger.
I wonder how accurate this data is.
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#47This honestly makes me pretty curious. I thought the 25-34 range would be larger, especially compared to other sites that seem to have a much less professional atmosphere(Reddit, etc). Hacker News certainly isn't some bastion of intelligent thought and discourse, but it's definitely above average in that, which makes me wonder if the 18-24 year olds are just keeping quiet in the comments, if they're really that smart…
20 year old here doing his part to bring the average post quality on HN down to rock bottom!
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#48Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
And they hate America and Jesus.
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#49Whats the accuracy of those numbers? In research, statistics are normally followed by a accuracy estimation.
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#50This honestly makes me pretty curious. I thought the 25-34 range would be larger, especially compared to other sites that seem to have a much less professional atmosphere(Reddit, etc). Hacker News certainly isn't some bastion of intelligent thought and discourse, but it's definitely above average in that, which makes me wonder if the 18-24 year olds are just keeping quiet in the comments, if they're really that smart…
I'm 23. I just avoid being as flagrant of an asshole here as I am on 4chan.
I'm 23 too. I'm not on 4chan, but it may be true that I'm a little bit more careful of what I say here than on reddit (depending on the subreddit of course).