Average age of TDWTF'ers
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@Welbog said:
I am still 24.
For how many years now?
I've been 24 for almost 4 years now. It's great.
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@dhromed said:
@Welbog said:
I have been 24 for seven months and will continue to be 24 for five more months, at which point I will be 25.I am still 24.
For how many years now?I've been 24 for almost 4 years now. It's great.
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@Welbog said:
I have been 24 for seven months and will continue to be 24 for five more months, at which point I will be 25.
+1 informative.
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@morbiuswilters said:
I figured this was sort of an "open" thread that people can respond to continuously.
Similar to my old picture thread, which sadly died as it lived: with everyone watching.
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@Welbog said:
@dhromed said:
@Welbog said:
I have been 24 for seven months and will continue to be 24 for five more months, at which point I will be 25.I am still 24.
For how many years now?I've been 24 for almost 4 years now. It's great.
You're only 6 months younger than me? I thought you were a lot younger than me! Have you always been 6 months younger than me?
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@morbiuswilters said:
You're only 6 months younger than me? I thought you were a lot younger than me! Have you always been 6 months younger than me?
I age at the linear rate of one year per year. Assuming you do as well, given that our ages are 6 months apart at this point it follows that our ages have always been 6 months apart.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@sabbott64 said:
A bit late in responding, but the past few weeks are a blur with the arrival of a new spawn last month.
I figured this was sort of an "open" thread that people can respond to continuously.
I was hoping so, but after being scolded on other forums for "resurrecting" old threads by responding to them even a few days after the last post I was a bit gun shy. (Although the fact that if they didn't want responses to a thread after a certain time then why didn't they just lock them seemed to be to unique a concept.)
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Most unique request I ever got from someone begging for money:"Can you spare a dollar so I can get these staples in my head removed?"
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@Welbog said:
I age at the linear rate of one year per year.
That seems more circular than linear. How/where are you measuring these years?
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@sabbott64 said:
I was hoping so, but after being scolded on other forums for "resurrecting" old threads by responding to them even a few days after the last post I was a bit gun shy. (Although the fact that if they didn't want responses to a thread after a certain time then why didn't they just lock them seemed to be to unique a concept.)
Just be sensible, I'd say. Nobody is going to mind "social" threads like this one getting bumped. If nobody has replied to a thread for 2 weeks and the conversation in it has died off, posting "I agree" or the equivalent is going to piss people off. Personally, I don't mind if ancient threads are resurrected if the post contains extremely useful information, but most resurrections suck. If you do have a useful follow-up (even if it's a thread you started), you should probably just create a new thread and link to the old one. That way you don't confuse people and end up with new posts debating/flaming comments that were made 17 years ago by a guy who has since gone on to live a full life and die in a Bangkok hotel room of autoerotic asphyxiation.
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@Welbog said:
Not before you were born, they weren't.@morbiuswilters said:
You're only 6 months younger than me? I thought you were a lot younger than me! Have you always been 6 months younger than me?
I age at the linear rate of one year per year. Assuming you do as well, given that our ages are 6 months apart at this point it follows that our ages have always been 6 months apart.
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@bstorer said:
Not before you were born, they weren't.
Ah, but then our ages were null, so the difference could be anything, including 6 months!
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I'm 0x37, which makes me the patriarch around here (so far...). Jetcitywoman and AMerrickanGirl: whippersnappers.
My first programming was on a 16K TRS-80 Color Computer in 1981. By 1990 I'd decided I wanted it for a career and started college at age 37 (decimal this time). Been doing this professionally since 1995, and still loving it.
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29 for another month. Learned Basic at 15, C++ at 17. Been using C - like lanugages since.
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23.
First started on a Commodore 64, then Win 3.1. Didn't actually start programming until the late 90's, and started with PHP in 2001; now my day job.
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24 here, started with a Commodore 64, then a 128. Eventually my parents bought a Win95 computer oh so many years ago, and I quickly became branded the family IT guy.
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38 in a coupla weeks. Can I be 24 again plz?
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Jesus, I suddenly feel old. I'll be 34 in about a week. I started mucking about with BASIC on my Vic 20, then went on to Amiga BASIC and then I stopped for a long while doing some artsy fartsy classes at uni (however, always being the designated nerd who skated). Then at the ripe age of 25 I changed direction and headed into some serious IT land again.
Sidenote: I bet I'm also the one with one of the highest latitudes here. I'm currently living at 70.70 degrees :)
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@scandoman said:
Sidenote: I bet I'm also the one with one of the highest latitudes here. I'm currently living at 70.70 degrees :)
Celsius or Fahrenheit? It's fucking cold here right now, so either way you have me beat.
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Hehe, over here in Europe we're metric so I'm going for Celsius, even though I wouldn't exactly mind having 70.70 degrees Fahrenheit either. It's frickin cold out here too (about 32 F). Well, the sidenote was actually a concealed complaint that I did the clever choice of moving to the (allegedly) northermost town in the world a couple of months back.
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@scandoman said:
Hehe, over here in Europe we're metric so I'm going for Celsius, even though I wouldn't exactly mind having 70.70 degrees Fahrenheit either. It's frickin cold out here too (about 32 F).
Since 'Europe' covers a lot of lattitudes, it might be helpful to describe which one you're at that has an air temperature similar to that of water at freezing point. At +1 UTC (according to your profile) that could cover Norway (not technically Europe for Duty Free) and Italy.
p.s. not all of 'europe' is totally metric.
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@PJH said:
@scandoman said:
Hehe, over here in Europe we're metric so I'm going for Celsius, even though I wouldn't exactly mind having 70.70 degrees Fahrenheit either. It's frickin cold out here too (about 32 F).
Since 'Europe' covers a lot of lattitudes, it might be helpful to describe which one you're at that has an air temperature similar to that of water at freezing point. At +1 UTC (according to your profile) that could cover Norway (not technically Europe for Duty Free) and Italy.
p.s. not all of 'europe' is totally metric.
I know that is technically true but since the UK insist on being insular and "special" with regards to the metric system (*ducking here*), my broad generalization still stands. Yes, Norway it is and we do get duty free. it's the rest of europe that doesn't get that :) (tho I voted yes in the referendum in '94 and wish we were part of the rest of europe and didn't insist on being so "special"). oh, I digress. it's late here now.
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31 here. First programmed on an assortment of Apple 2s (2e for the most part, I think) at day camp around 6 or 7. They had a BASIC interpreter burned into the ROM.
Unfortunately I really didn't keep up with it from around high school until I went to college, so I lose a bit of geek-cred there.
@belgariontheking said:
@DOA said:
FWIW, mps was the one with the "Get off my lawn you punks" tags. Also, he's 26 and started programming in BASIC on a TRS-80 at the age of 6@dhromed said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Tell me about it. I thought he was 50 with two failed marriages, alimony payments and a tendency to yell at kids to get off his lawn.24.706849315
If this is the actual figure, that's about 20 years younger than I had in mind. You're too young to be grumpy, boy.MPS always comes off more "arrogant punk" than "grumpy old man." So not surprising. Morbius maybe not so much -- I was thinking older than me at least.
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I am 25.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Welbog said:
Yeah but you suck at it.I am 25.
Me too!
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@Welbog said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I've been 28 for the past (erm) 68 years. Do I count?@Welbog said:
Yeah but you suck at it.I am 25.
Me too!
No. Thought not.
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17.9808 here. Yes, I count in decimals, and yes it sucks to be my age. However, thanks to incrementation of infinitely small values at an infinite rate, that value should go up soon.
First language was SiMPLE (Simple Media Programming Language Environment or some such bullshite), then I moved to C++, promptly forgot it, learned a little C, python and LabView, now am certified in LabView, learned Python and C# on spare time.
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@morbiuswilters said:
About 1337.@Indrora said:
17.9808 here.
What's that in fox years?
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14. Know how to use basic (ashamed face) I'm fairly good at C++ (for my age). At least I'm not like 90% of the people I know at school whose only care are football and chicks (which I gave up on years ago).
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@whatthefrak said:
...chicks...
The preferred nomenclature is "ladies", "dames" or "hos".
@whatthefrak said:
14.
@whatthefrak said:
(which I gave up on years ago).
Since "years" always means "at least 5 years", you gave up on dames at the age of 9? Man, that is bitter. Bravo, son.
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Oh come on, there is nothing wrong with being a gay programmer
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@stratos said:
Oh come on, there is nothing wrong with being a gay programmer
Good point, good point.
And all the more praise for coming out on such an early age and having the wisdom to be cool about it.
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Being cool with it is not being afraid to dress in tutus :)
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I'm 23 and started with VB, which lead to .NET rather naturally. I also did some horrible PHP applications, some work in JS, Python and XSLT and now somehow ended up mostly in Java.
Yup, I never (so far) did anything with C or C++, which is why I'm not actually a programmer.
@morbiuswilters said:
Actually, I believe it's more something around 8 years.Since "years" always means "at least 5 years"
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@dhromed said:
@whatthefrak said:
[I am] 14. I gave up on chicks years ago
Oh, the folly of youth.
Ok, I'm not gay, and that wasn't exactly years ago. It was as soon as I realized that no chicks would go out with me since I wasted all my time writing C++ to do my algebra II and watching Star Trek.
UPDATE: Yes, I know full well that "What the Frak?" is B.S.G.
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@whatthefrak said:
<snipped for great justice>
Just admit it, golf balls and garden hoses are a common hobby for you.
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@Indrora said:
@whatthefrak said:
Just admit it, golf balls and garden hoses are a common hobby for you.<snipped for great justice>
Well, It officially looks like I ruined my nigh nonexistant online reputation with 2 posts and a hyperbole.
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Hey! Don't even think about Failblog.
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@whatthefrak said:
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Hey! Don't even think about Failblog.
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You're new here arent you?
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@Indrora said:
@whatthefrak said:
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Hey! Don't even think about Failblog.
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You're new here arent you?
That would be an HTML+CSS WTF, and while I'm in the process of admitting stuff, that wasn't even php. And yes, direct your biological light receptors to the left column in this post please.
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@whatthefrak said:
direct your biological light receptors to the left column in this post please.
Uh oh, we have someone who can read TeoA with a straight face. Someone find this child a straight jacket.
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@Indrora said:
@whatthefrak said:
direct your biological light receptors to the left column in this post please.
Uh oh, we have someone who can read TeoA with a straight face. Someone find this child a straight jacket.
I find this somehow ironic, coming from Indrora.
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@Indrora said:
@whatthefrak said:
direct your biological light receptors to the left column in this post please.
Uh oh, we have someone who can read TeoA with a straight face. Someone find this child a straight jacket.
Ummm... OK, I believe you win this particular comment war.
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@whatthefrak said:
I'm not that screwed up. Sounds like a crappy book. Leave me to my Manga and my Poul Anderson.
qfi
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I'm going to jump in my roflcopter and fly to a different thread.
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@Indrora said:
Especially not my kind. <furry paw>
Oh yeah, right, and you're calling me gay?!? WTF!! You're a furry. Needed my own qfi on you after my 'copter exploded and rained molten shards of metal on your thatched roof house.
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Damn.
