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Japan’s ’golden coder’ making games apps aged 82 [video]
- Grustaf 9y agoAbsolutely amazing, well done! But shouldn't it be "silver coder"?
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- Cursuviam 9y agoBoth rare metals are good for this case. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golden%20years https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golden%20years
- wst_ 9y agoI thought so far that silver is chosen because of a hair changing color with age.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoI'm of the understanding that you hit silver first, then you are golden. It is the same for anniversaries, isn't it? 25 years of marriage is silver and 50 is gold?
- Grustaf 9y agoI don't think there is any connection with silver and golden anniversaries. Referring to old people with "silver" probably refers to the hair, "golden years" I guess is because of relaxing in retirement and the wisdom of old age.
- jkw 9y agocan someone list the games she's made? would love to try them out!
- kawera 9y agohttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hinadan/id1199778491?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hinadan/id1199778491?mt=8
- droidist2 9y agoHer website is interesting looking. It reminds me of the sites I used to make when I first learned to code HTML from scratch. http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp
- kawera 9y agoGreat find! Some of her Word and Excel games in english: http://marchan.my.coocan.jp/pc_playroom/index.htm http://marchan.my.coocan.jp/pc_playroom/index.htm
- aikinai 9y agoThat probably has more to do with her nationality than her age. Many Japanese websites still look like this, in particular for small businesses.
- cyanexttuesday 9y agoWow, I hope I'm still productive at that age.
- copperx 9y agoThough luck. In Americans, coding powers disappear at 40. It's a known fact.
- pottersbasilisk 9y agoHopefully the age discrimination lawsuit against google will change that.
- brooklyn_ashey 9y agolink: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/01/google-age-discrimination-lawsuit-class-action.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/01/google-a...
- chj 9y agoKnuth is still writing code this year and he's now 79. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html
- droidist2 9y agoTrue! I think parent was being sarcastic though.
- fenomas 9y agoI don't know if the video goes into this, but she also gave a talk at a TedX event some years ago, on digital stuff for seniors and making art in Excel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjXiYtOC7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjXiYtOC7Y
- Scarbutt 9y agonice coding setup ;) Interesting how she seats, my legs would hurt.
- Jach 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza
- spraak 9y agoThis is actually how I've been sitting for the past few months. I didn't recall it was a thing of Japanese culture, though, it just happened out of circumstance/need for me
- yodsanklai 9y agoInteresting indeed. We talk a lot alternatives to sitting, but I don't recall reading anything about this position. Maybe worth trying.
- rangibaby 9y agoMy baby did it without being taught, so maybe it is a natural thing.
- nihonde 9y agoI'm painfully aware of my limit in sitting seiza from enduring formal events in Japan.
- ksec 9y agoI notice the mouse, I really hope Apple do acknowledge they make crappy mouse. Another thing I am wondering, what makes a company not hiring programmer at old age when their brain are still functioning properly?
- elldoubleyew 9y agoWith more age usually comes more experience, and with that higher wages. That's the canned answer. But in this case I see your point. Many of these young CEOs just don't want older people in their offices. They have youth as part of "their culture". They also generally assume that older workers will be slower to adapt and less welcoming of a more volatile work environment; both frequent traits of many tech companies.
- jansho 9y agoIt's a damn shame. "Slower to adapt" is a weak excuse, youth is definitely a large part of startup culture. But imagine all that wealth of experience and wisdom that you potentially miss!
- tonyedgecombe 9y ago>>With more age usually comes more experience, and with that higher wages. I'm not sure that is true, if you can't get a job because you are old then your wage is zero.
- Danieru 9y agoIn Japan the last company to have employed someone is on the hook for some retirement benefits. Thus one often sees hiring cut offs entering the fifties.
- wyager 9y agoJapanese hiring and benefits laws are extremely aggressive, which makes hiring someone of any age a very risky proposition. There was a good article posted here maybe a couple years back that had a great overview of the legal incentives leading to Japan's unfortunate soul-crushing sarariman system; I wish I could remember the title...
- sergiotapia 9y agoShe's so inspiring! I wonder if actually programming regularly kept her sharp mentally.
- zerr 9y agoI wonder what happened to the generations of 70s/80s/90s arcade/NES/SNES/etc... game developers. Where are they now..
- sdrothrock 9y agoA surprising number of NES/SNES developers are still employed, if not at their original companies, at other game companies. I bet for every Shigeru Miyamoto you hear about, there are hundreds of other 50-something programmers who are still plugging away at games... and from what I hear, a lot of them have refused to adapt to modern languages/approaches/IDEs, which would explain why those particular people are not doing so well.
- icebraining 9y agoa lot of them have refused to adapt to modern languages/approaches/IDEs, which would explain why those particular people are not doing so well. Seems a bit shortsighted from the management's part. Retro and casual gaming is pretty hot right now, especially on mobile. I would license a good emulator, and then gather a good old-school team and let them make a few games their own way. Has anything like this been tried?
- pjmlp 9y agoIt is hot on the news, but as most Gamasutra and GDC postmortems show, not hot enough to make a living out of it. All the most well known 80 and 90 game hits already have mobile remakes, not all of them commercial successes.
- icebraining 9y agoI'm not saying remaking old games, but doing new games with the same tools. Like VVVVVV or Super Crate Box, but actually done with old tools, not just in an old style.
- dandellion 9y agoI'm pretty sure that most modern retro games are not written in assembly, which is what they used in the 80s for consoles. Most modern games are written using modern tools, most old developers that are still making games successfully are those that have adapted to modern tools, the others struggle. I think parent is referring to that.