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I'm just over 50. Here's ultimately what I think about aging and programming:

Programming is fun. I enjoy it now, more than I ever have. Three times I've created software that has built a business and livelihood for others. That is super satisfying, and at the same time, usually the source of things that are not as fun as programming (taxes, accounting, lawyers, nasty people).

When I run across other programmers my age, I see a lot of unhappy people, and that is kind of sad. A lot of the unhappiness comes from one of three places:

* Not leaning new things and discovering that the isn't demand for what you did in the 90s and 00s. Career prospects are dim, and bitterness sets in. It's easily solved by picking up something new - but be careful, new doesn't mean things 15-20 years old. So many people jump out of one old tech into another one that is about to be old.

* A lack of interest in leading, and being hypercritical of leaders. Here's the deal: if you leading the team, you pick what you want to work on, and you pick how you build. If you are just on the team, you'll always be on the wrong side of decisions. It's easy to lead a small team, and experience is really the backbone of really, really great small "l" leadership.

* Pathological drive to be correct at all times. You know, they person that can't let the smallest mistake go un-punished, every bad decision second-guessed and being willing to die on the hill of correctness over the smallest mistake. This drive makes you good a programming, but it makes relationships with others terrible, and leads to being isolated, alone, passed over and unhappy. It's really hard, but learning to pick your battles and understand that battles can be won and jobs lost really goes a long way.

That said, there's an awful lot of aging, talented, experienced developers out there that are doing great things, and having fun doing it. Find a way to keep it fun.
I don't get why you'd be too senior to code if you like it. And I was very surprised to see the article author calling himself an aging programmer already at 40. I'm fast approaching that age and I feel I'm more productive than ever.

At some point reading articles like this I was mildly worried about being employable as a programmer later in life. But not any longer. The amount of work seems to be ever increasing, and open positions get filled with middling talent at the face of persistent lack of skilled programmers. Seems like anyone with even a sprinkling of motivation and passion will not go without work for long.
Finally a benefit to large phones. So big you leave it at home and get your life back.
Please explain how this food (a staple for millions, for centuries) is poisonous?
But it's not the old way, at least not for for MacOS (and last time I checked, Linux, which you use?).

Granted, the MacOS version upgrades are indeed _a thing_, and pretty annoying, but that problem still exists even with the incremental upgrades Windows does. There's just no way around certain types of upgrade that touch core components.
I’m also in my 50s. My last job search got me 6 offers, from startups to FAANG. I’ve only accelerated my career as I’ve grown older.
I did, multiple times for extended periods, and it was insane, yeah. Games and movies. I prefer to not do that anymore, so in that sense I’m doing less work as I age and choose to avoid insane overtime in favor of maxing out at mild overtime. I think I’m coding better now though, more productive, partly by being more choosy, partly from more experience, partly from making more rational decisions when not low on sleep and exhausted from overwork and missing friends and family. It is sometimes a problem in the industry that you can’t tell how productive someone is by how much time they spend typing code.
This doesn't account for the carbon cost of fixing nitrogen for fertilizer to grow corn in monocultures

Or the unused manure, nitrogen runoff, methane from cows
Definitely fraud. I have multiple clients, products and take risks etc; everything associated with a business (a small business but business nonetheless): nothing has been ever faked. Being an employee but trying to disguise it to gain benefits is simply seen as fraud but usually not enough to get caught; many do it.

It has been popular, at least in NL for decades now: people invoicing eachother and moving money around just to make the threshold.
I have used Bitcoin sporadically in that very niche. I'm probably an exception, and I'm in the nerd crowd already, obviously. Some of my friends and family have indeed played around a bit with cryptocurrency, enough to be comfortable receiving some Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the easiest way to send money to some of them, practically speaking.

I'm in Canada. They're in the United States. They don't have PayPal. Bitcoin is actually one of the few options available. Sending just $40 of funds internationally, when either or both parties don't have a US dollar account, or even a bank account, and definitely no PayPal account, is potentially quite difficult. Money transfer? Except Western Union is also difficult to work with sometimes. Last time I called for identity verification, they seemed not to comprehend I was not in the United States, and I couldn't get it sent. Fees are brutal, too, at easily 20% for a small amount. So, potentially difficult enough, that even the headache of cryptocurrency starts to look attractive.
Where I live in the inner suburbs of New York City, my frustration is that all the neighborhoods are so chopped up by highways and railroads that it's difficult to wander. Most areas only have a couple ways in or out. A lot of the main roads are pedestrian-hostile, with incomplete sidewalks.
I have no idea why people do this for imaginary internet points.

An increasing number of people have trouble telling the difference between the real world and the internet. It has all the hallmarks of mental illness, including compulsion and addiction.

As far as I'm concerned "internet famous" === not famous.
These claims have been coming under scrutiny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32724569
Elon Musk greenlit to activate Starlink internet for Iranians
Nothing really, pretty much the same as WIN32 api. May be added event bus is somehow faster than simple few-line-invent-at-home implementation.
Kind of an analogy: A number of years ago, my city banned smoking in bars. There was a lot of discussion about the economic impact. The city was betting on non smokers coming out to replace the smokers, maybe even in greater numbers. As a musician who worked in those places, I was optimistic.

Instead, the bars just cleared out, and many went out of business. What had happened was that non-smokers had already adjusted their lifestyles as if bars didn't exist, and those lifestyles didn't change. Bar business eventually came back, but it took several years, and the bars themselves reconfigured in terms of things like food offerings and even location.

The same thing seems likely to happen with meat. The vegetarians have by and large adjusted their diets to not involve meat. Many of them (some of my family members) actually don't like the taste, and have no interest in trying a meat substitute.

My hunch is that market size is not just a function of counting numbers of people, but also, predicting the time scale of how long it will take for people to change ingrained food preferences, recipes, shopping habits, and so forth. And like non-smokers and bars, a lot of vegetarians have largely given up on restaurants.
That was my first thought.

Every 10 years we seem to forget how little weight these things can actually carry and start dreaming again of cruise ships in the sky.
I graduated six months ago at 31 and am not starting my career as a junior at 32.
Something to remember is that "critics" generally just means "random people replying on twitter sampled by the article writing to create a narrative".

It's not even a good sampling of what "many non-programmers" think - especially since the single linked critic claims to be a Software Engineer.
>more willing to do the boring work that the older devs don't want to do

No body wants to do the boring work. I think more experienced devs realize that a boring assignment isn't personal, its just business.
> the recruiter reached out to me about an SWE position (that I wasn’t interested in)

Then it's your preference not to be a programmer. My point was that it's also possible to be a SWE for those who still dig programming at our age. But you have to play by the rules. That being said, I don't think I'll last in such a position until retirement.
A beautifully composed photo with the caption “Having an argument with my S.O., but relationships are worth it. #communication”
I don't think people realize how low emissions are for poultry. Also, adding supplements like seaweed to cow diets reduces their emissions substantially.

Ultimately, we have to do direct air carbon capture anyway at this point (the climate is already unacceptably screwed up), and doing that will be far more economical and scalable than eliminating long tail carbon emissions.

After all, meat production is only a bit over 5% of global emissions. Carbon capture will dwarf that: we're committed to capturing > 100% of current emissions for many years, whether we like it or not. Estimates say carbon capture will cost about a dollar per gallon of gasoline-equivalent emissions.

Would people rather give up beef, or pay $0.10-0.05 more per gallon of gasoline?
Same here. For whatever reason I prefer an Impossible patty over a beef burger in my regular eating. My brain knows it’s not beef but is equally satisfied with it. I don’t expect everyone to love it like I do. But I started doing it for health and now really like the taste of meat alternatives.

A beef burger then becomes a treat, rather than a diet staple.
Meat isn't particularly cheap, especially now.

Plant-based meat substitutes are very expensive, and simply cannot take market share to make a dent in meat production, at current prices.
And a really nice person to work with
I don’t hate crypto but I find the people over hyping it disgusting. I still have yet meet a use case other than transferring value, which is something I also haven’t found a need for myself. That’s your crypto progress for those saying “we are still early”.
Well, to be fair, I'm not saying that certifying software developers is reasonable. As a practical matter, the industry moves too fast anyway. A PE license is for life. Even if there were a software engineering license, I wouldn't necessarily trust someone who was licensed back in the COBOL days to know anything about modern web development. I'm just saying that if there's enough LEGAL pressure, this is almost inevitable. A Fortune 1000 company is not going to just absorb the costs of failed products (like self-driving cars killing people), and do nothing about it to cover their asses.
Was there really the need for AI here? Geo locate the photo shoot, timestamp it and search for a camera that matches? And then it looks like some simple object classifier boxes from open cv to jazz up the images?

I think the bigger issue, one that is valuable is the discussion about privacy in public space. Or a better way to put it, you have no privacy at all in public spaces.
Cross-compiling for AIX+IA64+COFF is going to be tricky.

I rather doubt binutils supports that particular combination of items
I am not sure what are you asking. Do you think NIH are some stoners who know less about diseases and medicines than you? It might surprise you but those people [1] actually have education and experience, unlike yourself.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health
My favourite is ctrl+shift+l to clear the console as ctrl+l focused the URL bar. Damn it, guys. I only use chromium for work, though. The tools are somewhat easier to use
I think that can be inferred by the use of the word "last," meaning "previous" and "no longer" his girlfriend.
> basket-of-currencies approach

Return of the Special Drawing Right!
A heat pump is 3x more efficient at heating than a resistive electric heater, making it just about a wash with a gas furnace in most markets in terms of sustained cost. The hardware is more expensive, but not THAT much more expensive. When you include installation costs and amortize over a 20 year system life, the overhead is non-zero but quite low (10% or so). If you guess that gas is going to be more expensive in the coming decades where electricity is futureproof, it seems like a good bet to me. Ask me in 20 years.
Usually these models have 16-32GB. Enough for hundreds of episodes.
The tuber isn't poisonous unless it suffers prolonged exposure to sunlight (this is why you should not eat green potatoes). The green foliage and tomato-like fruits of the potato plant are poisonous, so should not be eaten.
I am the exact same way and yeah took me till my early 30's and a couple bad calls before I started fully trusting it (in my 40s now). It's weird how it doesn't translate to video chat though, but you are right that it totally doesn't work. Maybe it's because people are able to adjust aspects of their presentation that masks part of their personality. Or maybe something biochemical e.g. pheromones!
Which media outlet do you recommend for accurate reporting?
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The leaves and stems of the potato plant are toxic for humans. We eat the tuber.
I have learned that someone who excessively stands between an interesting subject and a camera rather than stands behind the camera should not be a part of my life. This includes my ex wife.

Instagram is also full of that. One of the cesspools of humanity.

However this appears to be roughly the usual “modern clipart” image selection for the headline image for the article.
I shop at a couple of co-ops, and they're excellent.

Ideally I'd like to chat with a lawyer knowledgeable about co-op formation to create an open template for a version designed to leverage a long term lease from a nonprofit land trust. The structure could be mixed use to include housing; resident owned, appreciation moderated, with support from the trust for affordability.

I've seen a few organizations that might help in a generic way, but lawyers haven't been interested in the 'open' aspect.
It's a commonly accepted view that backend developers know databases. Until it is fixed, there are two major realms now due to Google (Angular) and Microsoft (TypeScript), backend and frontend. I was once a full stack developer but refuse to touch Angular gargabe or TypeShit.
Sad reading. Meanwhile anyone with a title above of the middle manager is collecting big moneys and asking for an 'update'. I would take a management role any second, no need to explain how bad it could be.
From the second paragraph: ‘I have no vision for seeing this implemented in the real world and do not pretend that it is feasible given the current landscape of incentives. Again, this is fantasy; approach it as a creative “world-building” exercise for a speculative civilization, rather than as a serious policy proposal.’

> [Engineers] … design things like: cellular antennas, CPUs, rocket engines, spacecraft, EV charging stations, etc without these heavyweight certification structures.

Correct, this is the current reality, which I agree is very distinct from what I describe in this fantasy worldbuilding exercise.
> My father-in-law used to like to come into the City to take pictures of people’s faces. He doesn’t come in much any more. Everyone is looking down at their phones.

>This raises a critical point: the loss of random encounters that are the basis of being what the French call a flâneur.

Maybe this is just the Seattle resident in me, but if a bunch of random people are trying to talk to me on my walk I would become annoyed very fast. I am trying to walk here, I am thinking!

I love walking aimlessly to no specific destination, I do it often. But don't "randomly encounter" me if I appear to be thinking.
We need to group-build a mapping of (language -> most appropriate mainstream TV show) because every english as a second-language person I've met and discussed learning English with has told me this about Friends. But what should I watch to further my learning of German|French|Latin|Ancient Greek|...?
I was thinking a codec designed for human voice transmission is bugging out.
> Many of these critics encouraged the artist never to make the A.I. he developed public.

We'll have to wait until OpenAI ethically releases an alternative to "geolocate criminals", as usual. :-)
This is really the goal of Impossible Foods. It’s to transition to a sustainable future by winning over consumers who prefer meat, and can only be persuaded by taste.

I hope they manage to get the price down, then it will be competitive in the long run.
"My last girlfriend" suggests not a current girlfriend. Sounds like that's how it worked out.
> The very notion of "back-end" is a fallacy: it implies that one can produce a useful, working system, without ever having to talk to end-users.

This is a small part of the rant, but he is fundamentally mistaken about what backends are. The real life equivalents are not bridges, but kitchens or back-offices: a place where you make the sausage so that the customer can have a delightful experience without the gory business part in sight.

It’s not disconnected from end-users, quite he opposite, as it’s suppose to realize the core value of the product.

I don’t agree with a lot of other parts of the rant either, but the global message of “react needs to evolve in a different direction” is I think interesting.
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It's not OSS libraries they'd be worried about, as competitors, but OSS applications, I d think.
Blocking traffic isn’t something I’d like to see when I or someone else needs emergency vehicles to get to them. It is also unnecessary if the companies have a safety driver who can take over, or more robust teleoperation for a human to remotely assist
I completely understand; I came from Mexico and it took me 20 years to stop seeing the government as always corrupt.

Private ownership opens it to all sorts of exploitation of workers or customers, plus if you subsidize it, you just move the politicking to the subsidy contract, and the bad decision making to the owner.
These meat substitutes have allowed my vegan family to eat at places like Denny's, which basically have nothing else on the menu that we can eat. Even with the tides supposedly rolling back, I expect many non-veg restaurants will continue to carry these burgers as an option, and that's still a huge market.
> This is something missing from the SQLite ecosystem (before mvSQLite)

This is also something missing from self hosted, open source, SQL rdbms.

As far as I'm aware, this is the closest thing to Aurora and AlloyDB that I can run myself.

Also, by leveraging FoundationDBs ability to have multi-writer deployments, it gives us the potential to scale writes far beyond what Aurora and AlloyDB can handle. I'd love to see an extreme benchmark comparing a single 24xlarge Aurora writer vs a few dozen nodes in FoundationDB. The Aurora writer is likely more efficient per CPU but ultimately can't scale past 96 cpus.
>Could they... love both?

I have yet to meet this unicorn.
Isn't unique to programming either. Loads of famous people produced something well known today in their later years. Many of which didn't start picking up the required skills before their late 20s, 30s, etc. Many works which in many ways, were far more difficult than programming is today.

It's primarily navigating social environments which makes software production so obscenely difficult. There's nothing inherently complex about most popular web apps once you have access to the frameworks used to make the tough parts easier. No amount of frameworks or technical knowledge is going to solve stakeholders with conflicting interests, or coworkers heavily in favor of slowing things down through unnecessary red tape.
Whois: Fragile, Unparseable, Obsolete
> used to like to come into the City to take pictures of people’s faces

Also kind of creepy and even illegal in some parts of the world.

It’s ok to leave your phone at home and wonder around… be it an iPhone, an Android or a “dump phone” they are just tools that facilitate certain activities.
Yes, or at least nothing wholly accurate! There are timeline differences and DST difference in some tribal areas too…
It's pretty much just "capitalism and private land ownership are bad"
TikTok Is Bleeding U.S. Execs Because China Is Still Calling the Shots
> Bad luck if you want tight government control on who I can send money to, it isn't technically feasible any more. You'll have to physically stop me.

As I've said previously, this ends when the second plane hits the tower: once it becomes useful enough for terrorists and sanction busters, it also becomes radioactively dangerous to interact with.
100% Disagree with the opinions of OP. I live in NYC and walk 6 miles a day (the joys of having a Jack Russell terrier).

Every walk we take is random; the phone allows me to stay connect if I need to but doesn't control my path. My Apple Watch keeps track of my distance/time walking (I get an alert at 35 mins if I'm on an hour long walk => 25 mins to walk home). The AirPods are always in Transparency mode where I can fully hear what's going on in the city with some music I like playing as well.

If you want to wander; you will wander.
Philadelphia police mapping data say some crimes occurred at Disney World
Interesting that what's likely a light attempt at comedy by a developer is treated with the uptmost seriousness by a major city local paper.
The Jetsons, Now 60 Years Old, Is Iconic. That’s a Problem
Think like a child. They don't stick to sidewalks, and will wander anywhere their fancy takes them. Underpasses, large drainage pipes, seemingly empty patches of woodland...

As an adult, this must be tempered with adult notions of private property, but sometimes the now-faded childhood thrill of exploration can be supplemented with the notion of committing a class 4 misdemeanor.
Blocking useless content makes finding useful content much more easier.

No one has enough time in the world to block all the infinite amount of useless content. We already do that perpetually by what we personally value the most and what we choose to ignore.
My experience with software developers is that libertarian-adjacents are overrepresented among us as compared to the general population.
And who is criminally liable when there is loss of life or limb, caused by one of these cars? This looks like a way of load-balancing culpability so that no one human is actually on the hook.
And yet, the woods are teeming with hikers and campers, at least in California.

I often wonder whether the opportunity to stage your “life” in a beautiful place for social media is a part of why so many more people head into the woods than did ten or 20 years ago. I mean, the woods were there the whole time, and arguably the weather was better.
That's because something like the kernel is ready to be upgraded, and this is something Windows will also need a rebooted for.

Also, _weekly?_ That sounds off.
I worry that this won’t have the effect you want. Some of the worst software I’ve ever used met all aspects of its specification because “be pleasant to use” could not be meaningfully captured in a formal spec.

I’m not sure what the solution to bad software is, but I don’t think it’s making the spec higher stakes.
> What stops a family from raising their own hamburgers?

Mostly that they take a lot of space or a lot of feed or both. I borrowed two cows (or loaned a pasture) for a couple of weeks once, and they cleaned it out real fast. A lot of people in single family homes could keep chickens or maybe even goats, but cows are right out.