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58, writing more code, having more fun, reaching more people, & making more $ than ever, all of which still seem limitless: edw519's Hacker Quality of Life
by edw519 13y ago
58, writing more code, having more fun, reaching more people, & making more $ than ever, all of which still seem limitless:
edw519's Hacker Quality of Life
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- rjh29 13y agoI know you are well respected around here, but your ability to sound like a douche seems limitless too.
- aaronblohowiak 13y agoAs someone who fears ageism and my role as a hacker in light of the aging process, I am taking his post to be a beacon of light and hope, not anything resembling a 'douche'.
- zallarak 13y agoTrust me, anyone who perpetuates ageism is somewhat misled. A diversity in the ages of employees is probably the ideal situation, because I can think of advantages/disadvantages the presence of a certain each age group brings to a team. On the other hand, if you find yourself losing energy/physical fitness and your abilities, its your prerogative to remedy that.
- davidcuddeback 13y agoI'm a younger (~30) engineer who's enjoyed working with a few older engineers. I'd be interested in hearing more about what you perceive to be the relative advantages/disadvantages of each age group.
- sillysaurus 13y agoFrom direct experience: you can't group by age. Some older engineers are douchebags. Some are the nicest people you've ever met. Some are incredibly talented. Some aren't.
- podperson 13y agoWhere's the bump for "kids go to college"?
- mahyarm 13y agoThat is really parent dependent. My mother took it really hard when I eventually moved out of the house and when I moved out of the same city.
- podperson 13y agoThere's going to be some kind of bump though...
- throwit1979 13y agoI don't think Ed has kids, which is partially why his quality of life is so high.
- pestaa 13y agoYou can't just make that many assumptions in one short sentence. Granted, I don't have kids, either. ;)
- D9u 13y agoPerhaps his children, like mine, are now adults with children of their own?
- fluidcruft 13y agoPerhaps he had kids at 25.
- gbog 13y agoI don't think you are right, I think you are misled by some anti kid cliche.
- klibertp 13y ago
- pvnick 13y agoI thought it was a well-humored, insightful post and that your personal attack was completely uncalled for.
- Udo 13y agoCould you elaborate on what you mean by "ability to sound like a douche" or is that just a random personal attack? When I think about high-karma HN users with douchy tendencies edw519 is not someone who comes to mind. I mean, in any account exceeding a couple of hundred posts it's probably easy to find some less than stellar content, but I don't remember edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did.
- DigitalJack 13y agoCrap, sorry about the down vote. I fat fingered my phone.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- VladRussian2 13y ago>edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529609
- Udo 13y agoAt least quote me less misleadingly: "I don't remember edw519 ever making a post as low as you just did." - and it looks like you had to dig pretty deep to find something to make your counterpoint, too. And the post itself? Even if we're retroactively judging someone for voicing a less than flattering opinion about a person who is by now dead, it's not nearly as low as this ad hominem attack above. Is that the worst you could find after putting in the energy to research that guy's content a year back? I probably said worse things this month, and most likely so did you. I already speculated how we all made some comments that we're probably not proud of, so I'm really not getting what your point is.
- VladRussian2 13y ago>after putting in the energy to research that guy's content a year back? this statement and your whole post is just brain fart - i.e. outlandish conclusion made without knowing any facts or even basic understanding of context. The HN community response to Aaron's cry for help was spearheaded by the above mentioned top-voted comment and was basically a prudish guilty verdict from a jury of his peers. It has prominent place in the history and is known outside of this echo-chamber, so no need for the "research".
- CodeMage 13y agoJust out of morbid curiosity, if you knew he was "well respected around here", what in the world were you hoping to accomplish by insulting him in your comment?
- Legion 13y agoJust ignore him. I'm a little sad to see the comment get so many replies, instead of simply being downvoted into oblivion. I'd love if we as a community could endeavor to give troll responses like that as little attention as possible.
- sillysaurus 13y agoI was thinking mods should have the ability to kill individual threads of discussion in the comments.
- trollShame 13y agoDONT FEED THE TROLLS OM NOM NOM
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- jackmaney 13y agoRemind me, how many points of karma does it take to unlock the ability to downvote?
- peterhi 13y agoPretty much the same here. Been coding since I left school in 1979. Comfortable but not really seen much money but its a great life. However I have finally started to move into management. Meetings, be nice to clients, billing and invoicing. Bit of a pain but I can still code and finally get to try and NOT be the sort of manager I used to complain about :)
- bjhoops1 13y agoI was really hoping "making more" would be followed with "love". Money's great too, though. :)
- pestaa 13y agoAfter a certain age, "making more" can't be followed with "love". Or so I've heard. If I am aware of the correct meaning, that is. (Not native.)
- peterwwillis 13y agoBob Dole might have a bone to pick with you.
- mingmecca 13y ago40 here, still going strong. 18-22 times a month according to my wife's daily tracker. Exercise, exercise, exercise.
- bjhoops1 13y agoWait, your wife has a sex tracking app? Of course if all couples are as prolific as my wife and I, I can only imagine what kind of scaling problems you'd run into tracking such vast oceans of data...
- garethadams 13y agoSince this is Hacker News I think you can treat `$` as a placeholder variable for any word you want
- terryjsmith 13y agoWhat changed when you were 25(ish) if I may ask?
- edw519 13y agoI got a job. With real customers who needed real solutions. That opened my world.
- zura 13y agoAny advice how to stay healthy and be productive at this age? Maybe some specific treatments to lower the chance of heart attack and stroke?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- pknerd 13y agoAnd how do you keep yourself energetic at this age? :) Impressive!
- mathattack 13y agoI'm with you on the upwards trend. I would just toss in some non-linear jumps up as the family grows, and some setbacks as older family members become ill.