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Does life end after 35?

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Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by faizdev »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #94
selleck wrote: post #34

Great reminder. I am turning 32 early next year and started teaching myself programming this year. Sometimes doubt creeps up on me and makes me feel like I am wasting my time, but stuff like this helps. Onward!

Yes, just keep going! I started programming relatively late (at age 26), after becoming unemployed during the recession, for a govt agency in a small town in Florida. But now, at my current age of 30, I have a very lucrative job working for a major movie studio in LA as a software engineer. I have a lot of ambition at 30 than I ever did at 20 and that has been motivated by my failures. I might of missed my "startup y…

Nice! I'm just starting out as a softie too, also due to the economy, did you start out with the web too? What language, how long until you found the job that kickstarted your career?

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by aianus »

MDS100 wrote: post #190
aianus wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which Ensure is formulated to replace food entirely? As far as I can tell, if I drank enough ensure to get 2400 calories, the other nutrients would be out of wack. As in, a given portion does not have the same DV% of each nutrient. I'd never heard of Fortisip but from what I can tell it and ensure are both considerably more expensive than regular food, and actually more expensive than eating out.

They are not marketed this way, because the producers are not insane and/or incompetent. Soylent is more expensive than eating food.

Not if you take into account the time and effort of cooking/cleaning/shopping.

Soylent is prepared food. It's a substitute for cheap restaurants like Taco Bell or Subway, not cooking rice and beans at home.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by dragonwriter »

aianus wrote: post #188
DanBC wrote: post #184

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I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to give you potentially dangerous advice for you to fuck about with while experimenting on your nutritional intake. Recommended daily calories are 2000 for adults. One week of soylent is $65. 48 bottles of Ensure Plus is about $80. 6 bottles of Ensure Plus would be 2100 calories.

To be fair, $65 is the pre-order price and includes a shaker bottle (worth $10) and free shipping. Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%. I don't think Ensure Plus is a substitute good for Soylent. It's a suppl…

> Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%

Most nutrients with recommended amounts are healthy at higher than recommended amounts within fairly wide bounds, but the usually-listed recommended amount for Sodium is much higher than is minimally necessary, and is actually the upper limit recommended for about half the US population. So, actually, I'm not surprised that something intended as a broadly-usable food replacement would go over on most nutrients and under on Sodium.

http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/

Nutrition isn't one-size-fits-all.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by eruditely »

typicalrunt wrote: post #98
elmuchoprez wrote: post #63

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"Never trust anyone over 30" is a bit of a rallying cry among musicians. It's often attributed Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Rubin and a few others during the 1960's, but I'm not sure anyone really knows who said it first. I would guess that people are actually referencing that whole movement when they put it in the Craigslist ads rather than setting a hard and fast restriction. Or maybe it's a bunch of 22-year-olds…

I wonder what kind of rationalization Bob Dylan, The Beatles, et al went through once they reached 30 years of age. Do they move the goal posts to not trusting anyone over 40? Or do they admit that they were youthful and wrong and state that untrustworthy people, at any age, are the only people that shouldn't be trusted.

They probably didn't hold the narrow beliefs you are pretending they did so 30 came pretty easy.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by DanBC »

aianus wrote: post #188
DanBC wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to give you potentially dangerous advice for you to fuck about with while experimenting on your nutritional intake. Recommended daily calories are 2000 for adults. One week of soylent is $65. 48 bottles of Ensure Plus is about $80. 6 bottles of Ensure Plus would be 2100 calories.

To be fair, $65 is the pre-order price and includes a shaker bottle (worth $10) and free shipping. Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%. I don't think Ensure Plus is a substitute good for Soylent. It's a suppl…

> It's a supplement not a food replacement

You are wrong.

(http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai...)

> For interim sole-source nutrition.

edit: removed unnecessarily grumpy sentence.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by bitserf »

jdhendrickson wrote: post #109
coffeeaddicted wrote: post #25

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Getting 40 made me just feel old. I no longer have as much energy, keeping my weight got harder and let's not forget the annoying loss of hair. Additional experience is somewhat nice, but doesn't make up for it. Then again I spend most of my 30's getting out of debt because of a failed startup. Which might have given me a more negative view on life (last time I could afford traveling around was ~10 years ago).

Just some unwarranted advice, the energy thing can be changed with proper diet and exercise, I'm 35 and it's amazing what a difference eating paleo and exercising 3+ times a week has made.

I agree entirely. It's amazing how tone deaf one can get to this advice, people kept giving it to me.

I'm 33 (soon to be 34), and fitter than I ever was in my 20s, with more energy.

Difference? Eating differently (low carbs, high protein), and exercising 3 times a week.

I also stopped smoking a year ago.

Quality of sleep is also way up there now.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by photex »

greenlander wrote: post #49

I worked as a manager at a major semiconductor company in Silicon Valley for many years. I interviewed thousands of candidates, many of who were older than me. I noticed that older engineers seemed to bifurcate into two groups: the ones who were curious about everything, and the ones who stayed in their box. The ones who were curious about everything remained great engineers. They tinkered with new technologies, read…

This gives me hope for the future. :)

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by aianus »

DanBC wrote: post #195
aianus wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, $65 is the pre-order price and includes a shaker bottle (worth $10) and free shipping. Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%. I don't think Ensure Plus is a substitute good for Soylent. It's a suppl…

> It's a supplement not a food replacement You are wrong. ( http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai... ) > For interim sole-source nutrition. edit: removed unnecessarily grumpy sentence.

Interim means provisional or temporary. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I have no idea whether Soylent is actually safe as a permanent sole-source nutrition solution but that's what they're marketing themselves as, and Ensure is not.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by codex »

codezero wrote: post #186
webhat wrote: post #155

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A cursory glance tells me none. Jimmy Wales already had money from his investment banker career, he build wikipedia to solve a problem with his 'real' startup. LinkedIn was Reid Hoffman 3rd or 4th social startup. Marc Benioff started his first company in high school.

Not surprising. A common theme at Startup School this year (and probably a common theme in general) was that those who succeeded tried and failed many times over. There is no single skyrocket to success, OK there probably is, but the norm, if you can call it that is one of trial and error, and making intentional changes and improvements until you succeed.

Or it's simply luck. If the odds of succeeding are random, say 1%, then the more you try, the greater the odds you will eventually win the lottery. It would make sense that most of the winners had tried multiple times. I'm not sure it follows that the winners are necessarily more talented than the losers.

Re: Does life end after 35?

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Post by thisrod »

6ren wrote: post #160
elmuchoprez wrote: post #55

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"A college kid would never have come up with what I'm building, because they wouldn't realize the problem I'm trying to solve actually exists." This is such a key point. Sometimes it takes years, if not decades, of experience to even know that the problem exists. Put another way, if the problem can be solved by a 22-year-old with no experience in the field, there's a good chance they've misunderstood the problem.

Yes, coming up with the problem is often the hard bit. But it happens the other way too, in that many young inventors tackle problems because "they didn't realize they were 'impossible'". More knowledgeable folk can do this too, but it requires a certain... disrespect for authority. Like Einstein's flexibility with time and space (though he was young then; he didn't make breakthroughs in later life, possibly because…

There's an obvious reason for Einstein to have gotten stuck: the subject of his later research, a quantum theory of gravity, really was too hard. The problem remains open today.
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