Oh god, I'm in the same category as the 45 year olds. Kill me now.
Poll: How Old Are You?
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#62Is it sad that I had to think how old I am?
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#6336-45 is just as big as the 26-35 group, I must say I'm surpised! I'm close to 42 and I've been here for 15 years now (as a reader more than as a contributor); when I joined I certainly didn't expect to be here for that long. Testament to the quality of discussion, although it has gotten a bit partisan of late. I was on Slashdot prior to that for about 10 years. What was most appealing about HN was the information de…
I'm 40 myself. I also came here from Slahdot. What attracted me to HN was that /. culture at the time (during 2000s) was VERY pro open source. In my youth I was a fierce OS advocate, including founding a LUG and whatnot.
Reading HN comments and stories at that time felt fresh: There were startups making money with software, there was people that valued different things and could have a good discussion. I think it was me naturally maturing from my 'communist' youth to 'capitalist' adulthood.
Funnily as time passes it seems theres more pro-open source feeling in here. Even some of the Destop Linux discussions that happen here remind me of old /. discussions. And it's hilarious that I'm often on the opposite side of the argument from when I blindly defended Linux 20 years ago.
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#64What’s the point of this ? And will there be a follow up poll “which month were you born on” ?
I don't know what was the intention of the one who posted this poll, but for us in computing, it's relevant to know what we have experienced. For instance, if you were born last century, there's a good chance that you've personally experienced MS-DOS, Windows 95, and floppy disks; someone born this century might have started their computing life without having to worry about CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, high memory, and other 16-bit arcana. Someone born last century could have experienced the world before the Internet (and the dial-up world of BBS), while someone born this century most likely already had good Internet access as a child (in the developed world at least). And so on.
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#6536-45 is just as big as the 26-35 group, I must say I'm surpised! I'm close to 42 and I've been here for 15 years now (as a reader more than as a contributor); when I joined I certainly didn't expect to be here for that long. Testament to the quality of discussion, although it has gotten a bit partisan of late. I was on Slashdot prior to that for about 10 years. What was most appealing about HN was the information de…
> Having said that, the fact that the 16-20 and 21-25 is so under-represented doesn't bode well for the future of the website.
I don't think it necessarily says all that much; at that age many are probably busy doing a lot of other things: going out, dating, studying, getting your career off the ground, whatnot. Things like children that you may have later in life also take up a lot of time, but the patterns of that are different (e.g. more "quiet evenings" at home).
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could understand smaller age ranges for younger folks because they’re developing at a more rapid pace. For example 30-40 age range would group together people with relatively similar life experiences, but a 10-20 age range would not.
Sure, but this is a forum for entrepreneurs and software engineers, it does not target the world demographic. To be honest, I don't understand what "they develop faster" means either. One year of age is objectively the same length whether you're 10 or 90. What has growth speed and brain development got to do with anything?
> this is a forum for entrepreneurs and software engineers
While the demographics certainly skew in that direction, one of the nice things about HN is that it's not just software people. While I certainly comment more on software-related matters because that's where my expertise is, the largest value I get out of HN is from non-software/IT stories and the comments on those.
So I would strongly disagree with "this is a forum for entrepreneurs and software engineers". I'd probably stop coming here if that was the case.
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#6736-45 is just as big as the 26-35 group, I must say I'm surpised! I'm close to 42 and I've been here for 15 years now (as a reader more than as a contributor); when I joined I certainly didn't expect to be here for that long. Testament to the quality of discussion, although it has gotten a bit partisan of late. I was on Slashdot prior to that for about 10 years. What was most appealing about HN was the information de…
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Re: Poll: How Old Are You?
#6836-45 is just as big as the 26-35 group, I must say I'm surpised! I'm close to 42 and I've been here for 15 years now (as a reader more than as a contributor); when I joined I certainly didn't expect to be here for that long. Testament to the quality of discussion, although it has gotten a bit partisan of late. I was on Slashdot prior to that for about 10 years. What was most appealing about HN was the information de…
I'm 40 myself. I also came here from Slahdot. What attracted me to HN was that /. culture at the time (during 2000s) was VERY pro open source. In my youth I was a fierce OS advocate, including founding a LUG and whatnot. Reading HN comments and stories at that time felt fresh: There were startups making money with software, there was people that valued different things and could have a good discussion. I think it was…
Thats interesting - what do you feel changed in your view of open source?
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#69Re: Poll: How Old Are You?
#70What’s the point of this ? And will there be a follow up poll “which month were you born on” ?
And then another follow up what was the name of your first pet
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