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Ha, I see your 26, sir and raise you 29. However, I don't feel a day over 12.
I raise you 41. I am way past the peak, though I still enjoying programming as much as I always did. I just use guile and experience, rather than brute force. I'm working on iPhone apps now, and trying to rely on taste and thoughtfulness to separate myself from the crowd (barely working).
Wow!
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The key issue is being good at statistics, not math. The data can't be relied on to make such an inference because they are not from a random sample of the relevant population. VOLUNTARY RESPONSE POLLS One professor of statistics, who is a co-author of a highly regarded AP statistics textbook, has tried to popularize the phrase that "voluntary response data are worthless" to go along with the phrase "correlation does…
Surely it's incorrect to make a blanket statement that voluntary response data is worthless. Worthless means there is zero information in the data, which would only be true in extreme cases.
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And the Microsoft Professional certificates, the iPhone apps, etc. I'm also 16. But I don't think these are very important things to know, then again, I like CS more than programming.
Heh, yeah. I'm more of a business guy. To each their own.
32 here. There have been a few other discussions around this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63294
33 1st time entrepreneur. I use to feel old as when I started at 31 YC seemed to only fund the 22 to 27 yr old age group. Though I graduated college late too @ 26, which I thought then too I was way old. Now as I get older I don't care so much, but understand this mind sets comes from society saying college 18 to 24 and 25 to early 30s married w/kids. If you don't follow you feel like an oddball or that people view y…
Yup same :-)
Straw polls are interesting, but full of bias. For example, older users are more likely to be in a relationship and/or have children, making participation on a weekend less likely.