Are we too old?

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

1. Desktop 2. Mobile (-46) 3. Mainframe (-14) Does it mean we are an old community, or that all the hype over mobile not real?

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[Slacker007]

Mobile is real. If you are over 35, you are too old for this industry. Try having fun instead of killing yourself, "trying" to keep up with those that are younger, smarter, and require less sleep then you do. Yes, we are wise, but that really doesn't mean shit, now does it?

[Sascha Lefevre]

Mobile users don't see the poll on the homepage ;)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

That was cheerful, really... :-D

Slacker007 wrote:

require less sleep then you do

Less then 4 hours a day? I have coworkers of ~25 that cant' get in before 10...

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[CPallini]

We (me and you) are too old. :-D

[Lost User]

You don't know what old is. I learned to program my first computer in 1966, pure machine code keyed in instruction by instruction on the front panel.

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I was carrying after my grandmother these: [^] but knew nothing of programming then...

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[Slacker007]

You asked a question, and I answered it. How would you have liked me to answer it? No, we are not too old. Yes, we are too old. Perhaps, we are too old.

[Lost User]

The first system I worked on (LEO III/6: Leo Computers Society. Leo 3 photos[^] ) had magnetic tape but no random access storage. Main memory of 16K and a processor that played sounds so you could hear when certain regular programs were nearing the end of processing.

[Lost User]

I would never have guessed you were that old. :-D

[CPallini]

Sir, that does not count: you aged very well, and I know you are interested in mobile development. ;)

[Abhinav S]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

hype over mobile not real?

Mobile statistics are surprising indeed. It does appear strange to me though, mobile developers would surely have coded for desktops too, right?

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[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I'm not sure - I have a kid here, who started with Angular...

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[Lost User]

The mobile hype is real, but it's mostly a cash-grab centered on getting people addicted to gacha games, and not a lot of people are needed to run that scam.

[PIEBALDconsult]

I'm beginning to feel too old.

[Lost User]

But at my age I'm not very mobile. :((

[Lost User]

You don't need a developer to create a "mobile app".

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

[RickZeeland]

Old but not beaten yet, or to cite our local motto "Luctor et Emergo" :-\

[Ron Anders]

Yes we are but as for me, I can't help it. I never coded against a mainframe but checked it because there wasn't a choice for mini computers. LSI-11/23, Microvax etc which I did code against.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

1. A self-selected survey is not scientifically accurate. 2. There is a great need for programmers for all types of machines, from mainframes to microcontrollers. 3. Mobile programmers have their place, but it is not nearly as important as the Press would have you believe.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill