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Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by jonahx »

pg wrote: post #67
SCdF wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

Wow. Exactly what kind of pleasure does a person derive from giving false answers to the question "What's your age?" on an anonymous internet poll? I am not asking that facetiously -- I really am curious to know. Is this some people's of idea of "being bad"? "being funny"?

Something like trolling, getting a rise out of people, etc -- I don't like it or agree with it, but I can comprehend it. In this case, no one is even going to see or know what you did. Is there some pleasure taken in knowing that people think the results are valid while you secretly know they aren't? Or was there an awareness that the moderators would see the bad results, be annoyed by them, and post about it?

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by davidroberts »

pg wrote: post #67
SCdF wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. That's a lot of <10 year olds...

I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.

How about lots of cat photos on the front page? I've heard that's very popular with the under 10 group.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

wilfra wrote: post #60
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #54

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Why do you assume they lied?

Look at the old polls. Low single digit %'s of people were under 15 or over 60 and now nearly 10% of people are under 10 or over 90? Riiiight. I realize it's possible demographics changed in that time. Maybe HN is all the rage in nursing homes and kindergartens these days. Doesn't pass the sniff test though. One demographic does appear to be distinctly on the rise though: trolls.

Nearly 10%? Nowhere near that.

  66/(66+23+358+1340+1465+813+378+168+86+34+22+16+15+17+18+19+21+82)
  0.013357619914996965
=> 1.3%

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by lahabana »

clicks wrote: post #130
pg wrote: post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

> When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80. I'm in my mid-20s, I did not vote dishonestly in this poll, but I wish you'll make the change for me anyway. The small font on a 1080p screen (13" screen) is practically unreadable for me. I have to zoom in about 150% to make out anything.

If you just want to increase font size for a website/short time. Almost every browser can do so by doing ctrl(cmd)+ or -.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by [deleted] »

pg wrote: post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

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Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by gurkendoktor »

Houshalter wrote: post #140
radarsat1 wrote: post #137

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Some browsers have a handy feature called "minimum font size." Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/m2doXpX.png Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/minimum-font/pofdg...

The images and everything else would still be unusually small though.

I've used a minimum font size of 16 for years in Safari, and boy does it break most layouts, mostly because of the size mismatch with images.

Hardly anything remains usable - I had to install this extension to go along with it: http://www.cerimorgan.com/products/zoombysite/

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by ameen »

I'm 24, and come to think of it. I haven't really achieved much that I hoped to achieve by now when I was younger.

I wish I could turn back the clock to the last 7 years and get right to what I really could do instead of wasting my time at College[1] and chasing useless dreams.

All the best youngsters and to those that made it cheers. And for others like me, stay at it. We'll never know when lady luck will smile upon us.

[1] Went to an Engineering college in India. While the syllabus was pretty good for a CS student, the teachers sadly were the worst. This is one of the biggest reasons why I believe innovation in Education is long due.

By contrast, the US Higher Education system is pretty decent compared to what I experienced in India (vicariously, i.e.,).

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

D9u wrote: post #143
incompatible wrote: post #105

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Strange that there are so few here who are older than Paul Graham, who is about 49.

I was also disappointed by the amount of responses in my age group. (49)

I'm not that surprised , this is still a relatively new industry. Ask this question again in 20 years and I expect you will see a much higher mean/median. (48)
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