Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:24:29 -0800 From: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeling old Message-ID: <3704C50D.D865460B@uswest.net> References: <199904020849.AAA01314@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > > >For as long as I've been involved with computers, I've been told (in > >essence) that only the young folks fresh out of college are capable of > >writing great software. As if technological senility sets in by the > >time you're 25. Then I see pictures of the core team and other well- > >known members of the FreeBSD community and get confused. Then I see > >all the young faces of the various groups in my area and begin to feel > >old and even more confused. Does anyone really know the average age > >of the core team and said peripheral contributors? I know the age > >thing has been hashed endlessly, but each time the question has never > >really been answered IMO. > > I'm 31. Jordan is a few years older. About 90% of the core team is in the > 30-45 range. I think John Polstra is the oldest, but I don't know his exact > age (somewhere in the mid 40s). I'd guess the average age of contributors is > around 25-30 due to a large number of college aged people skewing the average > downward a bit. > I don't recall ever feeling technologically senile. :-) Oh good, I don't feel so old anymore. I do have one more question, though: Is there some rule stating that one must sport face-fur? I don't think I've ever seen such a concentration of human whiskers in my life. :-) -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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