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Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274

Posted by Soulskill on from the think-of-it-as-365-vacation-days-a-year dept.

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."

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  1. 29 years old by A+Huge+Loud+Fart · · Score: 5, Funny

    29 years old is young now?

    1. Re:29 years old by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 5, Funny

      At 55, it sure *looks* that way.

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      Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
    2. Re: 29 years old by jasenj1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      So both have telephone support then?

    3. Re: 29 years old by interval1066 · · Score: 4, Funny

      He may not be a native speaker.

      Or one of those young workers.

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      Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
    4. Re: 29 years old by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    5. Re:29 years old by Anonymous Coward · · 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

    6. Re: 29 years old by Anonymous Coward · · 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?

  2. Obligatory Primer Quote: by lobiusmoop · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? They take them out and shoot them."

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    1. Re:Obligatory Primer Quote: by MrBandersnatch · · Score: 4, Funny

      As a 41 year old (software) engineer...I sort of wish that were true.

  3. Re: This has drawbacks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't expect a dinosaur to use a normal font do you?

  4. Re:Ok, lets talk about what Silicon Valley REALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now please tell us what you think about PERL. I'd really like to know.