Poll: Which Generation Are You? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which Generation Are You?

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Post by timr » Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 11:37 AM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #58

timr wrote: post #22

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Dear Sir: As the primary account-holder of the future which your generation has mortgaged, I would kindly request that you address all future payments to us, directly. Additionally, it has come to our attention that your account is more than 90 days past due, and we must inform you that if you do not begin making payments immediately, we will be forced to turn over your debt to collections. If you do not respond, you…

which your generation has mortgaged Lumping me in with bandits in the same age group makes as much sense as blaming you for the shitty code I have to clean up because you happen to be a programmer. Witty comment based on no logic whatsoever. Fail.

It was a joke, man.

Re: Poll: Which Generation Are You?

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Post by netcan » Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 11:41 AM UTC

tomsaffell wrote: post #39

YuriNiyazov wrote: post #5

Annoying - I keep on seeing different standards for X and Y, and never know which one I belong to, because I was born at the end of 1981. I am XY I guess.

'79 - feel more like a Y than an X. But isn't the idea that we can draw hard-lines around generations the very problem here? It's these hard-line definitions that enable articles like the WSJ one to exist in the first place. Change happens gradually and continually, but if you sample it at a frequency of ~20 years then you see all sorts of artifacts.

A lot of times what makes these lines be drawn is generation gaps. They supposedly make lines possible. Bob Dylan's generations' message to the preceding . The Clash to Dylan's. I don't think us Ys have a clear line with the previous generation. Maybe we'll find it at some point, but the pattern hasn't changed so much.

I imagine a lot of that is written as history is written, not based entirely in reality.

Anyway, I get this feeling that these 'generations' that can be characterised are not inevitable & constant. There were just a few that were.

Re: Poll: Which Generation Are You?

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Post by edw519 » Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 1:21 PM UTC

timr wrote: post #71

edw519 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which your generation has mortgaged Lumping me in with bandits in the same age group makes as much sense as blaming you for the shitty code I have to clean up because you happen to be a programmer. Witty comment based on no logic whatsoever. Fail.

It was a joke, man.

Sometimes it's hard to tell in writing.

Or maybe you struck a nerve.

Re: Poll: Which Generation Are You?

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Post by run4yourlives » Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 9:17 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #59

run4yourlives wrote: post #34

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Dear Sir: As always, Fuck You and thanks for the $700 Billion. We'll also be interested in changing more laws to make sure we don't retire and that you can't get promoted into the executive level jobs that you have waited for. We got them first, nyah nyah. Any attempt to disagree with the way we run things we be met with our votes, which will always outnumber yours. Oh yeah, make sure you pay our kids right. Even if…

Hmmm. Another comment whose wit is overshadowed only by its mean-spiritedness. I guess I'll stick to threads about boring stuff like data base structures, algorithms, scaling, or adoption rates. It's getting a little too hot in this one.

We're just joking around. Most of my colleagues are boomers. Try not to be so sensitive.

We all have our faults, but if you can't laugh at them, you're lost.