I spent a summer regularly exercising with a group of friends who were all in the 50-80 age range (and they kicked my butt). One day there was a conversation like this:

"You know who I saw the other day? Nancy!"

"How's she doing?"

"Well, she's OLD"

"Yeah, that happens"

"How does that happen anyway? One day they're your friend, the next they're old and only complain about their health"

"It's because they stop hanging out with young people".

I think people were let go because they weren't good at their jobs, not because they were old. People who have been fired because they weren't good enough are going to have a harder time finding a new job.

Our education system is teaching more advanced topics at younger and younger ages. Hence younger people may be more "up to date".

An older person will experience ageism, but they can combat this by always learning new things throughout their life. I'll take a 50 year old javascript developer who's proactive about testing and CI over a less experienced younger developer.

But I'm going to choose an inexperienced javascript developer over an 50 year old experienced COBOL deverloper if I'm building websites.

Thank you for the 'mansplaining' and for reinforcing stereotypes that older people 'must not have been good at their jobs' and by showing your ageism proudly. You are doing us all proud TinyTim. You go boy!

I had an interview that involved two tryout days. I got paid $500 in amazon prime credit. Worked for me and the company, we got to really see what it would be like working together. I got to see the codebase, they got to see my code.

Did they continue to pay your salary in Amazon Prime credits?

Why the pay in scrip?

Paperwork and accounting -- it's way easier to just allocate a general slush fund of Amazon GCs or pre-loaded VISA cards than it is to get everyone to fill 1099s, pay accountants and what not just to pay people a few hundred dollars.

Tax avoidance.

Always a red flag.

Doesnt Amazon Prime credit have to be reported as cash for tax purposes?

That is if you get over $600(the IRS rule was $600 in late 90s not sure now) in Prime credit it has to be reported.

Exactly, I'm looking forward to what students will spend their time on instead. Hopefully much more productive activities.

This plus github's Atom editor, and I can spend all day working only on Node.js with an html UI.

As soon as Node OS is done, I'm set ^.^

There is already ChromiumOS/ChromeOS. Though native linux application support is (still) missing (not the "NativeClient" Chrome API).

Next step: kernel programming in Javascript.

Next step: cpus supporting asm.js instruction set directly.

Light Table is a great project, but it's all in closurescript -.- This is a big obstacle to people wanting to edit/customize/write their own plugins

It's really sad that learning a new language is considered "a big obstacle." An average programmer should be able to pick up nearly any new computing language quite easily.

Depends, is not like some who have code in a Imperative, OOP paradigm, is gonna learn a functional language in no time.

The language itself is actually very simple and writing plugins for lighttable is the opposite of complex, there are amazing tutorials floating around the web. The whole process is simply just manipulating sets of data, it's all about adding and removing triggers.

This said, you can also write lighttable plugins in javascript.

And this one is all in Coffeescript... so there is still a niche for an editor in Javascript!

I once talked to someone who woke up one day and all their gmail data was gone.

They called customer service and were informed that Google has no obligation to be dependable since it's a free service.

They called customer service? I thought that was available for paid subscriptions. You should ask that someone what phone number he/she used.

SF (SOMA)

dfm down for me

Same in downtown SF -_-