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Imagine if we took all technology advice from 80-year olds.
by bberrry 13y ago
Imagine if we took all technology advice from 80-year olds.
- gdubs 13y agoTo be fair, he's far from your run-of-the-mill 80 year old.
- dannypgh 13y agoAlan Turing would be 101 and Claude Shannon 97 if they were alive today. Our field has an ageist reputation in no small part due to comments such as yours, that think that age alone is somehow an indicator of competence.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoIt's not a field it's a pop-culture just as Kay said (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvmTSpJU-Xc).
- SirensOfTitan 13y agoHe's old, so he must be out of touch. Way to make sweeping generalizations. He's saying the same thing that Benjamin Graham would have said: Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's a speculation like art. Sure, you could make some money on it (and some have for sure), but don't delude yourself into thinking you're making a sound investment.
- 3am 13y agoWell, first it's financial advice, not technological advice. As other commenters have noted, BC is both a technology and a currency. Buffett is addressing the second. Second, he runs a $300B USD financial and industrial conglomerate that he's assembled in a singular way in the span of his own lifetime. Maybe he has insights that are worth something. Third, Kernighan is over 70. Ritchie would be, too. Knuth is 76. I mean, I have no illusions about changing your mind, nor do I care. I just don't want anyone who is reading your comment see it go unchallenged.
- tzs 13y agoThat wasn't technology advice.