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EigenCoder: Programming Stereotypes
- carsongross 11y agoHey, man, you'd be sad too if you lived to see what modern man would do to programming languages: http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/_media/img/fellows/2004_niklaus_wirth.jpg http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/_media/img/fello... http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Why-Dijkstra-didnt-like-Lisp/McCarthy.jpg http://kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents/Why-Dijkstra-didnt-like... The old guys wrote the best stuff: https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
- twic 11y agoCompleting the holy trinity of bearded computer pioneers looking appalled at the modern age: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/images/dijkstra-quick-n-dirty.jpg https://www.netmeister.org/blog/images/dijkstra-quick-n-dirt...
- Mikeb85 11y agoR does give me a smile more often than most other languages (everything is just so easy), though I also have a big beard. Interesting article.
- Scarbutt 11y agoDo software engineers stop programming at 35?
- Mikeb85 11y agoI think there's just enough young programmers in the sample that that's the highest mean age...
- rzzzt 11y agoHopefully not :) Check the "Density" tab to see eg. 53 year old programmers recorded for C# and Python.
- jrapdx3 11y agoEven better, looks like there are a few programmers (CPP and HTML) >60 years old, though the graph shows n=0 for those data points, so do those guys actually exist? If so, the oldest programmer is 86.4, now that's impressive.
- rzzzt 11y agoI was also wondering about that. Y-axis values are rounded to integers, even in the data source contained in a script node on the page.
- simmons 11y agoNot at all. That's just the median age, and I think the profession tends to have a lot of young people due to the size of the field at the time people chose their careers.
- Retra 11y agoOlder programmers are probably less likely to use Github.
- greydius 11y agoThis site crashed my browser 3 out of 3 attempts. Firefox 44.0.2 on Android 5.1.1
- trestletech 11y agoYeah there's a preposterous amount of JavaScript that gets loaded because I'm too lazy to rewrite the interactive graphics. Sorry :(
- Buge 11y agoHappened to me on Firefox 45.0 on Windows. But when I restarted it gave a popup saying there was an unresponsive script and asking if I wanted to stop it. Script: data:application/x-javascript;…B9XX0se30sWzMxMV0pKDMxMSl9KTs=:40
- Gratsby 11y agoThere's only one conclusion to draw from the age data: Somewhere between 50 and 60, software developers realize that their skill can be better put to work managing the retirement fund.
- Gratsby 11y agoThere's only one conclusion to draw from the age data: Somewhere between 50 and 60, software developers realize that their skill can be better put to work managing the retirement fund.
- imadeajoke 11y agoI felt I should point out that cpp is probably on the bottom end of the facial hair graph as a result of being on top of the age graph...
- imh 11y agoIn addition to the caveats they list, there may be systematic biases as to who includes a profile pic and who doesn't. Even an enormous sample and perfect inferences from the face API can't surmount a bad dataset (bad depending on what you are trying to learn from it)
- antsar 11y agoTo be fair, they did address that: Lang FacesDetected ruby 71 r 38 javascript 60 java 47 html 59 go 53 cpp 34 c 24 python 49 php 66 perl 45 swift 49 csharp 61
- imh 11y agoNot quite. That relates to sample sizes and, as far as interpretation goes, it's dealt with as if the rest were missing at random. In reality, they are probably missing not at random, but in relation to other characteristics, changing the interpretation.
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- staticautomatic 11y agoI chuckled when I saw that java programmers smile the least.