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>(still must admit that 37 doesn't feel old to me) Same; I find it a bit terrifying that 35+ is considered 'old' in our industry...

• skrebbel 10y ago
  It's not, but he has to call himself old to give his business idea credibility. (which I think is fair, by the way)
  • superJimmy64 10y ago
    I dont think its as much a business-motivated thought, as it is an observation about there being a very distorted age spectrum associated with working in tech-related industries.
  • grobbles 10y ago
    The average tech company age is 29, and that includes management, middle management, the executive, and so on. 35 is absolutely "old" in the valley, without question. Many expect to have "retired" by then, or to have elevated to some senior level of decrepitude by then. Outside of the valley it's much more common, but even outside in many shops you're viewed as a failure if you're still doing anything hands on or technical at that age.
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• mlvljr 10y ago
  White beard is old. And a hat. (some cool YT sessiosn on C++ and Java are from that exact type, somehow :))
• dvirsky 10y ago
  I'm 41 and I still don't feel old even though I work with a few people who are 10-15 younger than me. We tend to think of old programmers as these ancient neckbeards who write COBOL and FORTRAN and grew up on usenet programming PDP machines; but the reality is that 40+ year old programmers today were kids in the 90s, were in their 20s when languages like JS, Python and PHP became popular, and played quake 3 in their early twenties. BTW I'm not doing straight-up programmer work, more of senior architect type roles in the past years, so it might be more "acceptable" in the industry to still be spending time with an IDE at my age in this context.