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> I mean I'm considered old here, in my mid 30's sigh

by AceJohnny2 10mo ago

jjgreen 10mo ago
I got a coat older than that (and in decent nick).
- LgWoodenBadger 10mo ago
  I used to tell the “kids” that I worked with that I have a bowling ball older than them.
  - wombatpm 10mo ago
    I was greeted with blank stares by the kids on my team when they wanted to rewrite an existing program from scratch, and I said that will work for as well as it did with Netscape. Dang whippersnappers
  - anthk 10mo ago
    I own 90's comic books and video games older than most Gen-Z users in HN.
bojo 10mo ago
I feel like a grandpa after reading that comment now.
- psychoslave 10mo ago
  This year my in-your-face-old-fart-moment was realising I was contributing to Wikimedia projects for longer than some fellow wikimedians existed. XD
godelski 10mo ago
But am I wrong? I am joking, but good jokes have an element of truth...
- omnicognate 10mo ago
  Depends what you mean by "old". If you mean elderly then obviously you're not. If you mean "past it" then it might reassure you to know the average expecting mother is in her 30s now (in the UK). Even if you just mean "grown up", recent research [1] on brain development identifies adolescence as typically extending into the early thirties, with (brain) adulthood running from there to the mid sixties before even then only entering the "early aging" stage. For my part, I'm a lot older than you and don't consider myself old. Indeed, I think prematurely thinking of yourself as old can be a pretty bad mistake, health-wise. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8
  - godelski 10mo ago
    FWIW I doubt I'd consider you old were I to know your actual age. I still think I'm quite young
    - AceJohnny2 10mo ago
      "inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened."
- AceJohnny2 10mo ago
  It'd be interesting the know the median age of HN commenters. I guess the median age of YCombinator cohorts is <30 ?
- xupybd 10mo ago
  I assume you're on the younger end
  - godelski 10mo ago
    No need to assume, I already told everyone my age
    - 10mo ago

> I mean I'm considered old here, in my mid 30's sigh

jjgreen 10mo ago

I got a coat older than that (and in decent nick).

LgWoodenBadger 10mo ago
I used to tell the “kids” that I worked with that I have a bowling ball older than them.
- wombatpm 10mo ago
  I was greeted with blank stares by the kids on my team when they wanted to rewrite an existing program from scratch, and I said that will work for as well as it did with Netscape. Dang whippersnappers
- anthk 10mo ago
  I own 90's comic books and video games older than most Gen-Z users in HN.

bojo 10mo ago

I feel like a grandpa after reading that comment now.

psychoslave 10mo ago
This year my in-your-face-old-fart-moment was realising I was contributing to Wikimedia projects for longer than some fellow wikimedians existed. XD

godelski 10mo ago

But am I wrong? I am joking, but good jokes have an element of truth...

omnicognate 10mo ago
Depends what you mean by "old". If you mean elderly then obviously you're not. If you mean "past it" then it might reassure you to know the average expecting mother is in her 30s now (in the UK). Even if you just mean "grown up", recent research [1] on brain development identifies adolescence as typically extending into the early thirties, with (brain) adulthood running from there to the mid sixties before even then only entering the "early aging" stage. For my part, I'm a lot older than you and don't consider myself old. Indeed, I think prematurely thinking of yourself as old can be a pretty bad mistake, health-wise. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8
- godelski 10mo ago
  FWIW I doubt I'd consider you old were I to know your actual age. I still think I'm quite young
  - AceJohnny2 10mo ago
    "inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened."
AceJohnny2 10mo ago
It'd be interesting the know the median age of HN commenters. I guess the median age of YCombinator cohorts is <30 ?
xupybd 10mo ago
I assume you're on the younger end
- godelski 10mo ago
  No need to assume, I already told everyone my age
  - 10mo ago