Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 432
theodp writes "The 1976 science fiction film Logan's Run depicts a dystopian future society where life must end at the age of 30. So, it's a world that kind of resembles today's Silicon Valley, where the NY Times reports that the median age of workers is 29 years old at Google and 28 years old at Facebook. The report that technology workers are young — really young — comes on the heels of other presumably-unrelated stories that Silicon Valley execs can't find enough skilled workers and no one would fund Doug Engelbart in the last four decades of his life. On the bright side, at least old techies don't die in Silicon Valley — they just can't get hired."
29 years old (Score:5, Funny)
Re:29 years old (Score:5, Funny)
At 55, it sure *looks* that way.
Obligatory Primer Quote: (Score:5, Funny)
"You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out and shoot them."
Re: 29 years old (Score:5, Funny)
So both have telephone support then?
Re: This has drawbacks. (Score:2, Funny)
You don't expect a dinosaur to use a normal font do you?
Re:Obligatory Primer Quote: (Score:5, Funny)
As a 41 year old (software) engineer...I sort of wish that were true.
Re: 29 years old (Score:5, Funny)
He may not be a native speaker.
Or one of those young workers.
Re:Ok, lets talk about what Silicon Valley REALLY (Score:2, Funny)
Now please tell us what you think about PERL. I'd really like to know.
Re: 29 years old (Score:5, Funny)
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
I didn't feel like typing it, so I grabbed it from here [upenn.edu].
Re:29 years old (Score:3, Funny)
"C# is a software language, while SQL is a database technology"
Last I checked, SQL was Structured Query Language .
> SELECT * FROM article_writers WHERE clue >0
0 rows returned
Re: 29 years old (Score:3, Funny)
Now that you work at Apple R&D and you're old enough to remember when batteries used to be user-replaceable, can you try to do the planet a favour?