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
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.
I feel like a grandpa after reading that comment now.
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
I got a coat older than that (and in decent nick).
I used to tell the “kids” that I worked with that I have a bowling ball older than them.
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
I own 90's comic books and video games older than most Gen-Z users in HN.
But am I wrong? I am joking, but good jokes have an element of truth...
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
FWIW I doubt I'd consider you old were I to know your actual age. I still think I'm quite young
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I assume you're on the younger end
No need to assume, I already told everyone my age
It'd be interesting the know the median age of HN commenters.
I guess the median age of YCombinator cohorts is <30 ?