I have always been in the most crowded bucket, so I guess we're aging together HN :)
Poll: How old are you?
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you encountered any agism in your line of work? Do you work with "trendy" languages and technologies or do you stick with tried-and-true, enterprisey type of stuff? Have you considered moving into management or have you always just preferred getting down on your hands and knees so to speak and hacking things together?
Another "old person" chiming in... Have you encountered any agism in your line of work? Not really, and not in a negative sense. I did have an experience once where my boss sent me out to help one of our younger consultants on an engagement because, as he put it, the client "wants to see somebody with some grey in their beard". IOW, my presence was largely not needed in the technical sense, but I was there to contrib…
> "I was there to...comfort[ ]the client."
:( it's sad that this is sometimes required. Agism works both ways, I guess.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least quote me less misleadingly: "I don't remember edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did." - and it looks like you had to dig pretty deep to find something to make your counterpoint, too. And the post itself? Even if we're retroactively judging someone for voicing a less than flattering opinion about a person who is by now dead, it's not nearly as low as this ad hominem attack above. Is that the worst…
>after putting in the energy to research that guy's content a year back? this statement and your whole post is just brain fart - i.e. outlandish conclusion made without knowing any facts or even basic understanding of context. The HN community response to Aaron's cry for help was spearheaded by the above mentioned top-voted comment and was basically a prudish guilty verdict from a jury of his peers. It has prominent…
Dial down the bile, Vlad. You're right, I didn't know the context of that post. Still, that doesn't neutralize my argument - we all have skeletons in the closet. Just because someone made a wrong call some time ago doesn't make it OK to engage in unqualified personal attacks, especially not if they've been a good community member otherwise.
I know, it's not fashionable to acknowledge the importance of civility, but I for one do believe it's a key factor in keeping a community productive and worthwhile. It's hard to believe that rjh29 would have engaged in that level of vitriol face to face, just as it is hard to imagine you dismissing my entire line of reasoning by selectively declaring one argument a brain fart if we had just met at the pub for a beer.
It's sometimes easy to forget there are real people on the other side of that screen and we didn't all come here just to have anonymous fights.
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#204At what age would you say you were smartest, if you have noticed any fluctuation? I hear you mental power peaks at about 22 and begins to decline after 26, but that's pretty depressing, and I don't want to believe it, so if you have experience to counter or confirm this, please share. If you have noticed any decline in "fluid intelligence," is it negligible? Does your wisdom and experience outweigh any mental decline…
I did some research after asking this, and the studies' results seem to contradict each other. Apparently, our brains are largest at the age of 14, and we're smartest at about 15, especially in terms of new concept absorption. While that may be true, I once read that a fatty substance called myelin, which apparently facilitates rapid and efficient processing, is most ubiquitous in the brain in your early twenties, an…
it would be really cool to see some of the sources you found in your research... :)
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#205Waiting for the 'where in the world' poll, that might be interesting :-)
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#206I'm scared that I had to go down through the answers so much in order to find my age bracket. Getting old!
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#20758, writing more code, having more fun, reaching more people, & making more $ than ever, all of which still seem limitless: edw519's Hacker Quality of Life | ?? | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ** | ***** ------------------------------- 10 20 30 40 50 60
And how do you keep yourself energetic at this age? :) Impressive!
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#209Whats the use of this polling? Is this applicable any how in real life?
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
A coupla years ago I told 'em they could use one candle if they striped it blue, red, black, gold. They didn't get it.
Hacker News has a low tolerance for this kind of humor. You just couldn't resist , could you?
Well, I was hoping for a cake that was ohm-made...