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Poll: How old are you?

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Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by brechin »

mherdeg wrote: post #6
tptacek wrote: post #5

We had one of these just three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734

And there was a great discussion about whether or not it was a good idea to let people vote twice.

And plenty of discussion on how we can't trust their results any more

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537023

  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.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by zachlatta »

I'd love it if some of the teenagers here could send me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'm looking to put together some sort of group so we can meet some other young people like ourselves.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by ThomPete »

jjindev wrote: post #108
ThomPete wrote: post #104

A friend of my parents is nearing 70. In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to. He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always amazed me because he would always produce some crazy hardware for his many pas…

My step-grandfather was a Danish watchmaker who moved to California. My dad was a prototype machinist at Lockheed. I program. I've always thought of that as a progression. [51-55 age bucket]

Yeah but imagine you could do all three things as this guys can :)

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by trollShame »

Legion wrote: post #84
CodeMage wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just out of morbid curiosity, if you knew he was "well respected around here", what in the world were you hoping to accomplish by insulting him in your comment?

Just ignore him. I'm a little sad to see the comment get so many replies, instead of simply being downvoted into oblivion. I'd love if we as a community could endeavor to give troll responses like that as little attention as possible.

DONT FEED THE TROLLS OM NOM NOM

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by devonbarrett »

Enquiry wrote: post #43

People aged 1-20: How did you find HN? HN isn't easily found on search engines (except for the exact keywords "hacker" and "news"). I can't imagine how a 15 year old is stumbling upon Hacker News, other than a mentor or parent referring them.

<20 here: I first found HN when I was about 15 through a link posted in an IRC channel I was in.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by beat »

YZF wrote: post #57
beat wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm 48, and I haven't encountered ageism yet. I haven't seen it, among good technical people. The hard part is that by the time you're in your late 40s, you've probably peaked out on advancement. Even if you go into management (which isn't really "advancement"), you're just going to ceiling out there instead.

I've seen a lot of people around that age strike out on their own and start new businesses. I think that would be the "advancement" path for those who are interested in that.

That's exactly where I'm at. Building a startup from 20 years of accumulated experience in enterprise. I see a massive pain point and no tool that really addresses it - just a bunch of hacks and workarounds that everyone uses.

I like a lot of things about enterprise development, but I dislike a bunch of things, too. If this all works, I get to create a startup environment and total control (much more pleasant working conditions) and the potential for more substantial reward, but I can keep working on problems I like to work on.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by beat »

kfcm wrote: post #52
narrator wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once you reach a certain salary as an engineer the only way to make more money is to go in as an owner either as an early hire in a startup or as a founder. You can also get stock options and wait for your company to get bought. Other than that it's pretty much all down hill.

Or use the route I went: start your own consulting business.

That's the route of a lot of good people. I know so many great consultants in their 40s-50s, with superb skills and rich backgrounds.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by lesterbuck »

jpdoctor wrote: post #11

God these types of polls make me feel like a geezer. Just in case any of you whippersnappers are wondering what it feels like to start hacking in your teens and continue (in one form or another) to be hacking into your late 40s: It is pretty much the same after the first cup of coffee in the morning. Where it differs is the lull in the afternoon makes me want to nap. (So I do.) The drag is that until I look in the mi…

It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by yumraj »

I've always wondered what is the objective of the poster behind these poles.

Are you trying to figure out if you are too young for something, if yes, then the answer is No you're not too young.

Are you trying to figure out if you are too old for something, then the answer is No, you're not too old.

If you're trying to figure out if you should fund someone, hire someone, have any sort of relationship with someone (regardless of the type of relationship, personal or business) based on some data, than I feel sad for you.

Did I miss anything?

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