It's subtly different this time because Rollins said that the AMD chips are cheaper and better. Ouch. It's hard to say that and then say, "No, we decided to keep Intel only." That's like saying, "No, we want worse, more expensive chips for our customers."
... historically I've been bitten on almost every investment decision based on the techniclal merits of the product.
The beauty of this situation is that AMD made the "icky business" decision to extend x86, instead of making the technically elegant decision of starting with a new architecture incorporating some new ideology or clean slate mentality.
x86 was the crappy 16-bit instruction set that Intel extended to 32-bit processors. Many other companies tried new designs back then, and very few are around today. The designs that are around don't even touch the x86 sales. The only way to chalk up this success for x86 is that backwards compatability (or marketing) was more important than technical merit.
That is why this situation is so ironic! How could Intel not have noticed this? So much for the theory that Intel was loaded with smart marketing. Apparently they got blind, dumb lucky.
Holy Crap! I must say that I looked toward the comments in this thread with a cringe. I've been a big fan of Perl 6 and Parrot, if for no other reason than that I'm interested in great (and proven) people trying to solve hard, polemical problems.
However, usually there is so much negativity about these projects on Slashdot, that I tend to lose faith in people's curiosity and gumption. (I believe the usual reply is, ".Net/Java are better.")
Will miracles never end? Congratultions to the Parrot team for picking up steam and converting the unwashed, gnashers of teeth! (-:
I agree with the author of this review that this kind of book can be very useful and refreshing.
Giving props where due, this review reminds me of another book: "Learning Perl" by Larry Wall. Or actually maybe it's "Programming Perl" by Schwartz and Phoenix, but I'd guess Larry Wall to write the different kind of book. I know Python lovers will never, ever admit to any Perl roots, but the Perl book was very similar to "Diving into Python" in that it taught you by examples full of diverse concepts. Maybe this is where the author of the Diving book gots the idea?
(Also I followed the link in this review to regular expressions, and thought that Python-lovers should really love Perl since it makes this topic similar but even easier. Nyah nyah.)
P.S. Also the book "Programming Windows With MFC" by Prosise had a similar holistic approach. The Perl and MFC books are a couple of my favorites for that reason.
P.P.S. After Perl 4, though, it got so complicated that I never did use Perl 5. I did, however, learn a lot about objects by the way Perl 5 implemented them in a twisted new way. And that I didn't really need everything to be an object (another Python slam? You young kids should learn something from the old school now and then) I also learned that a "scripting" language can be as expressive as a complete language, which ruined all the fun.
Reducing the number of shares in a dutch auction seems unfair.
Imagine there are 2 shares and you have a buyer for $100 but all other buyers are more reasonable at $20. The buyers would then get a price of $20 (the max price that covers all shares). The seller makes $40 for the two shares. The buyer who would pay $100 gets in for $20.
Now imagine you reduce the shares, in the middle of the auction to one. The single buyer pays $100, and the seller gets $100 (instead of $40 total) for only gives up half the shares!
Sounds fishy.
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I believe he's referring to the Myers-Briggs personality scale. (Also the Jung personality scale because he created it and Myers-Briggs updated it and added a component.) I think.
Maybe I'm missing some explicit connection between the NYT and Slashdot, but doesn't it seem odd that these "registration required" stories at the NYT have come up almost every day for a long time now?
Since most of Slashdot feels that information should be free, I'm surprised other newspapers and sources haven't been sought out for these stories with more of a non-techie point of view. Surely there are other papers with (good) articles on spam!
How about instead of passing a law that says no exporting jobs overseas, we pass a law that says executive compensation cannot exceed X times the lowest paid employee's salary.
But then wouldn't they out source the minimum wage jobs so that their salary would be based on middle-tier workers? This gets us back where we were because we out source janitorial services to a few U S companies and we outsource manufacturing/textiles to... foreign countries!
Unfortunately, my mp3 player, a Panasonic SV-SD50 uses RealOne as a base for moving mp3 files! Panasonic does not warn of this, and even re-brands it the "Panasonic Media Manager."
However, as soon as you install, Real One icons are literally everywhere, the desktop, the quick launch bar, the start menu, the program menu, a Real One folder, AND accessories/multimedia. Unbelievable!
Oh and it take over all your media associations, such as.mp3 of course.
As an ex-PhD student (booted out!) I certainly know what you mean.
First, I'd like to say, many of the suggestions I've read here are required to get work done. But I "conquered" several of the habits for effective working and that wasn't enough. I learned to break a problem down. I learned to prioritize. I learned not to think of the whole day ahead of me (or else I could convince myself that I could start later).
It took awhile to admit to myself, but I finaly found the missing element for me. That element is not only elusive but admitting "you have a problem" doesn't sound disciplined. The answer?
I was usually lonely.
Sound odd? I thought so. Like I said, it didn't sound very, er, macho. But I figured I could sacrifice relationships for 4 years or so to finish my education. But everytime I sat down to work, I wanted to be somewhere else. That was the feeling I learned, and that's how I could describe the problem, and feel it coming on. I could avoid work for weeks, literally.
When I did start to date someone I felt completely "focused" for the first time in over a year. It was very unusual. I could sit down and just work. Work. Work. Sure enough, about a month after the relation was over, I was back to procastinating and that feeling that I should be somewhere else.
If you don't have a significant other, I think the mind tries to make you feel out of place so you will get up and go where people are. That is the best chance you have at finding someone. The feeling can keep lingering indefinitely. Also, like the poster pointed out, a party (or a study group) would help for a few hours afterwards, but then the feeling came back.
I was surprised it was that simple.
P.S. Long projects (as in 4 years long) will simply drain you no matter what. P.P.S I would bet that the ideal grad student is 30 or older and married.
I first read the LSB hoping for an understanding of some of the esoteric Unix paths, and there were some reasonings. However, the LSB was mostly an excuse to keep things the way they were with no explanation.
The *real* reason Unix is so messy is because various groups have been slopping things around for 30 years. It's time for a refactoring!
Having said that, I have 2 suggestions:
1. keep path names lower-case for easier typing
2. don't change something that serves a reasonable purpose just because you don't like the name. e.g. don't change/home to/users.
I'm glad to see some "orthogonality" in library design for a change!
Is CORBA a wonderful network transparency layer? I don't really know, but I'd still rather use it and keep the issue "under" the graphics system. Same for a security layer, etc. Too many people have to roll their own out of naivety only to find out that the issues are complex.
Good job! I remember liking Berlin a couple of years ago for the cleanliness and sincerity of the on-line information. Keep up the great work!
I wonder if you guys are mostly interested in making big money fast?
You might be interested to read how another independent did it the hard way -- over ten years and 12 albums -- and now has fans everywhere (and is probably a millionaire, but not overnight).
Does it make you wonder when IExplorer asks "some portions of this page are insecure. load anyway?"
Take that to the grand scale. Since MS owns the browser it can make your brand of server look as bad as it wants to the average public. It can even make a nerd question security. Take the example above. Well, what *parts* are insecure?
So problem engineering destroyed these companies according to Joel, the engineer? That's odd because marketing was the problem from a marketer's point of view.
Every geek should probably read "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore, the marketer. All of the same companies appear in his books. Overall, "Crossing the Chasm" and "Inside the Tornado" make insightful reads.
I read the Linux file system standard with some hope about a year ago and came away disappointed. It wasn't a thought-out organizational model. It was a justification for every single directory that has ever been created on any system! This is not what I had hoped for with the concept of "standard," i.e. design by years of committee.
I'd love to see a new, orderly, and well-reasoned standard. It would start with the competing interests of the system itself (such as read-only areas and binary areas and what not), cut to the core of necessity, then come up with a suitable hierarchy, leaving most of the play space in users's homes.
I hate to say it, but the Windows file standard is better, sadly.
For gamers, which I assume provide most of the interest in 3D cards:
Games do not need a GeForce 3 of any race in my experience. I have a GeForce 2 MX (the cheapo one) and an Athlon 850 and have had no slow-downs at all.
First, almost all on-line 3D gaming is Half-Life mods such as Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike (and the under-rated GlobalWarFare) as most of you probably know. I get a solid 60 frames per second, no matter how many explosions or close-up models. (I use OpenGL. There seems to be a quirk with close-up models and DirectX.)
I cannot speak for on-line RPG gamers, but I assume they are sitting pretty as well.
The most detail rich, awe-inspring, gorgeous game I have played in over a year was Serious Sam (which only costs $20 and don't let the cheap price fool you. It is great!) This game has pool reflections on the walls around the pool and in the pool, glowing monsters, lens flares, dusty light rays and a portal showing another world with waving flags all at once! I have had in excess of 50 monsters on screen chasing me down. (Yahooooo!) My set-up plays it flawlessly. (Also, I tried it on a P3 600 Mhz with a GeForce (1) and it stuttered.)
If I haven't made my counter-point, it's that these new cards are fine, but not the next level that may be needed once a new generation of games come out (if ever). Having worked in 3D graphics, my feeling is that most of the tricks from research have finally been used up and it will take a new generation of crack programmers to get much farther, like the good ol' days. So, until then, have fun with a GeForce 2 (or equivalent) and an Athlon 850 (or equivalent)!
My take on Webvan was simply that they used the Amazon model a little too late. Webvan started a year later than Amazon. At the time, Amazon "proved" you could throw profitability out the window and just go for growth, and investors would still climb on. Then that changed. The change was late enough so Amazon could adjust, but Webvan was still to far from reigning in their over-extended reach.
Otherwise, Webvan seemed great. Their warehouse system, IMO, would be the correct long-term solution. They had a plan similar to Amazon except the started with groceries instead of books. Imagine once they owned the "last mile" of delivery and then would drop off a book, etc!
I live in Atlanta, and while I never got around to using them, all of my, admittedly techie, friends used them regularly and religiously.
Man, this Duke Nukem dude is dead! It's hard to be "cool" when you haven't been seen since the days of DOOM.
On the other hand, if you want to try your pen at cool quips, maybe you should do it for Serious Sam instead. He's more international (since he's from Croatia) and cooler because his engine rocks and has features id hasn't even done. After all, Croteam DID invent this contest, which I guess will become one more thing Duke rips off. (http://www.croteam.com/quotes)
Good thinking! It should be possible to build "transparent" PGP into mail clients. If this were done for Linux mail clients, and if there were Kparts interfaces, etc, this might be a good killer app for Linux -- supporting a movement from Win to Linux!
In short, a "transparent" PGP mail client would automatically go to the keyserver for a public key you don't have (via a secure connection), then cache is until it expires.
Maybe the servers are the ones we have now, or maybe we could push a key-serving protocol and get it on more servers. (A version on every linux box would probably be too spoofable.)
It would also need to work out other meta-issues with PGP, such as what to do about mailing lists, and wether a signed message should be stored in the senders "sent" mailbox with or without the encryption (because keys get lost sometimes).
Anybody looking to contribute to a (L)GPL 3D engine might want to look at Crystal Space. I've been following it for a year or so and it seems to have slowed down a bit. But overall it appears to be a feature-rich, highly organized engine (plug-ins, all known 3D effects, scripting (in many language), cross-platform, CVS tree, etc).
It could probably use a few 3D artists to get a few awesome levels and so forth.
As a hard-core gamer of many years, I suggest other adrenaline gamers do not miss Serious Sam! It's like a cross between Doom and Robotron. Dozens of enemies attacking at once for only twenty bucks! (-:
With K7-850 ($100) and GeForce2MX ($100) it runs smooth and is full of gorgeous effects.
A few years ago, right when Origin was selling to EA, I visited a game company created by ex-Origin staff who were running away. Their claim was that Origin was beefing up the staff with random people to bolster the sale price to EA!
So is EA really the culprit? Some people who owned Origin (hint, hint) got lots of extra money this way.
According to "Lord British," they didn't have the management bandwidth to pull it off. Who's fault is that and why did they do it?
It would be interesting to know how long "Lord British" had to stay after being bought out. Did the time just so happen to expire recently? (-: Maybe he's taking a page from Peter Molyneux, who sold Bullfrog to EA for outrageous fortunes, waited for his three years (?) to pass, then scrammed.
I have noticed from my professional and personal experiences that there is no such thing as a meritocracy, or a situation where actual mental performance will be respected/promoted. All of my thoughtful friends have expressed the same experience.
Sure, if you play basketball the best, you will be noticed. But I have never seen this in mental athletics. I've never had a boss who noticed that my code was bug-free and on-time. But I have had a boss who remembered my code was late when it wasn't! He also remembered his friend's code was on time when it wasn't. Hence, the beginning of a nespotism as it always was and always will be. (And this boss was my age.)
I am now 33 years old and have also worked for people younger than me. I recieved the same treatment so it wasn't about being older. My conclusion is that older people "are respected more" because they tend to find ways to the top outside of merit, then reap the reward of being at the top. It's a shallow respect but get used to it. A younger person who gets there faster is no more inclinded to respect you because of his young age. It has nothing to do with age directly. Eventually you will gain promotions by changing companies or lucking out. Then you too can have false respect. (-:
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It's subtly different this time because Rollins said that the AMD chips are cheaper and better. Ouch. It's hard to say that and then say, "No, we decided to keep Intel only." That's like saying, "No, we want worse, more expensive chips for our customers."
The beauty of this situation is that AMD made the "icky business" decision to extend x86, instead of making the technically elegant decision of starting with a new architecture incorporating some new ideology or clean slate mentality.
x86 was the crappy 16-bit instruction set that Intel extended to 32-bit processors. Many other companies tried new designs back then, and very few are around today. The designs that are around don't even touch the x86 sales. The only way to chalk up this success for x86 is that backwards compatability (or marketing) was more important than technical merit.
That is why this situation is so ironic! How could Intel not have noticed this? So much for the theory that Intel was loaded with smart marketing. Apparently they got blind, dumb lucky.
Holy Crap! I must say that I looked toward the comments in this thread with a cringe. I've been a big fan of Perl 6 and Parrot, if for no other reason than that I'm interested in great (and proven) people trying to solve hard, polemical problems.
However, usually there is so much negativity about these projects on Slashdot, that I tend to lose faith in people's curiosity and gumption. (I believe the usual reply is, ".Net/Java are better.")
Will miracles never end? Congratultions to the Parrot team for picking up steam and converting the unwashed, gnashers of teeth! (-:
I agree with the author of this review that this kind of book can be very useful and refreshing.
Giving props where due, this review reminds me of another book: "Learning Perl" by Larry Wall. Or actually maybe it's "Programming Perl" by Schwartz and Phoenix, but I'd guess Larry Wall to write the different kind of book. I know Python lovers will never, ever admit to any Perl roots, but the Perl book was very similar to "Diving into Python" in that it taught you by examples full of diverse concepts. Maybe this is where the author of the Diving book gots the idea?
(Also I followed the link in this review to regular expressions, and thought that Python-lovers should really love Perl since it makes this topic similar but even easier. Nyah nyah.)
P.S. Also the book "Programming Windows With MFC" by Prosise had a similar holistic approach. The Perl and MFC books are a couple of my favorites for that reason.
P.P.S. After Perl 4, though, it got so complicated that I never did use Perl 5. I did, however, learn a lot about objects by the way Perl 5 implemented them in a twisted new way. And that I didn't really need everything to be an object (another Python slam? You young kids should learn something from the old school now and then) I also learned that a "scripting" language can be as expressive as a complete language, which ruined all the fun.
Reducing the number of shares in a dutch auction seems unfair.
Imagine there are 2 shares and you have a buyer for $100 but all other buyers are more reasonable at $20. The buyers would then get a price of $20 (the max price that covers all shares). The seller makes $40 for the two shares. The buyer who would pay $100 gets in for $20.
Now imagine you reduce the shares, in the middle of the auction to one. The single buyer pays $100, and the seller gets $100 (instead of $40 total) for only gives up half the shares!
Sounds fishy.
I believe he's referring to the Myers-Briggs personality scale. (Also the Jung personality scale because he created it and Myers-Briggs updated it and added a component.) I think.
Maybe I'm missing some explicit connection between the NYT and Slashdot, but doesn't it seem odd that these "registration required" stories at the NYT have come up almost every day for a long time now?
Since most of Slashdot feels that information should be free, I'm surprised other newspapers and sources haven't been sought out for these stories with more of a non-techie point of view. Surely there are other papers with (good) articles on spam!
But then wouldn't they out source the minimum wage jobs so that their salary would be based on middle-tier workers? This gets us back where we were because we out source janitorial services to a few U S companies and we outsource manufacturing/textiles to... foreign countries!
Unfortunately, my mp3 player, a Panasonic SV-SD50 uses RealOne as a base for moving mp3 files! Panasonic does not warn of this, and even re-brands it the "Panasonic Media Manager."
.mp3 of course.
However, as soon as you install, Real One icons are literally everywhere, the desktop, the quick launch bar, the start menu, the program menu, a Real One folder, AND accessories/multimedia. Unbelievable!
Oh and it take over all your media associations, such as
As an ex-PhD student (booted out!) I certainly know what you mean.
First, I'd like to say, many of the suggestions I've read here are required to get work done. But I "conquered" several of the habits for effective working and that wasn't enough. I learned to break a problem down. I learned to prioritize. I learned not to think of the whole day ahead of me (or else I could convince myself that I could start later).
It took awhile to admit to myself, but I finaly found the missing element for me. That element is not only elusive but admitting "you have a problem" doesn't sound disciplined. The answer?
I was usually lonely.
Sound odd? I thought so. Like I said, it didn't sound very, er, macho. But I figured I could sacrifice relationships for 4 years or so to finish my education. But everytime I sat down to work, I wanted to be somewhere else. That was the feeling I learned, and that's how I could describe the problem, and feel it coming on. I could avoid work for weeks, literally.
When I did start to date someone I felt completely "focused" for the first time in over a year. It was very unusual. I could sit down and just work. Work. Work. Sure enough, about a month after the relation was over, I was back to procastinating and that feeling that I should be somewhere else.
If you don't have a significant other, I think the mind tries to make you feel out of place so you will get up and go where people are. That is the best chance you have at finding someone. The feeling can keep lingering indefinitely. Also, like the poster pointed out, a party (or a study group) would help for a few hours afterwards, but then the feeling came back.
I was surprised it was that simple.
P.S. Long projects (as in 4 years long) will simply drain you no matter what.
P.P.S I would bet that the ideal grad student is 30 or older and married.
Congratulations on your plan, Gobo!
/home to /users.
I first read the LSB hoping for an understanding of some of the esoteric Unix paths, and there were some reasonings. However, the LSB was mostly an excuse to keep things the way they were with no explanation.
The *real* reason Unix is so messy is because various groups have been slopping things around for 30 years. It's time for a refactoring!
Having said that, I have 2 suggestions:
1. keep path names lower-case for easier typing
2. don't change something that serves a reasonable purpose just because you don't like the name. e.g. don't change
Great job!
I'm glad to see some "orthogonality" in library design for a change!
Is CORBA a wonderful network transparency layer? I don't really know, but I'd still rather use it and keep the issue "under" the graphics system. Same for a security layer, etc. Too many people have to roll their own out of naivety only to find out that the issues are complex.
Good job! I remember liking Berlin a couple of years ago for the cleanliness and sincerity of the on-line information. Keep up the great work!
You might be interested to read how another independent did it the hard way -- over ten years and 12 albums -- and now has fans everywhere (and is probably a millionaire, but not overnight).
Does it make you wonder when IExplorer asks "some portions of this page are insecure. load anyway?"
Take that to the grand scale. Since MS owns the browser it can make your brand of server look as bad as it wants to the average public. It can even make a nerd question security. Take the example above. Well, what *parts* are insecure?
So problem engineering destroyed these companies according to Joel, the engineer? That's odd because marketing was the problem from a marketer's point of view.
Every geek should probably read "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore, the marketer. All of the same companies appear in his books. Overall, "Crossing the Chasm" and "Inside the Tornado" make insightful reads.
I read the Linux file system standard with some hope about a year ago and came away disappointed. It wasn't a thought-out organizational model. It was a justification for every single directory that has ever been created on any system! This is not what I had hoped for with the concept of "standard," i.e. design by years of committee.
I'd love to see a new, orderly, and well-reasoned standard. It would start with the competing interests of the system itself (such as read-only areas and binary areas and what not), cut to the core of necessity, then come up with a suitable hierarchy, leaving most of the play space in users's homes.
I hate to say it, but the Windows file standard is better, sadly.
Well, I would say to go to linuxcentral.com and get the CDs for $5 each + shipping.
Unfortunately I just checked and neither Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2 is there, even though 7.1 was there last week!?
You can still get most other distros for $5/CD. I hope nothing fishy is up at Red Hat on this.
P.S. Has anyone noticed shipping has doubled this year!?
Games do not need a GeForce 3 of any race in my experience. I have a GeForce 2 MX (the cheapo one) and an Athlon 850 and have had no slow-downs at all.
First, almost all on-line 3D gaming is Half-Life mods such as Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike (and the under-rated GlobalWarFare) as most of you probably know. I get a solid 60 frames per second, no matter how many explosions or close-up models. (I use OpenGL. There seems to be a quirk with close-up models and DirectX.)
I cannot speak for on-line RPG gamers, but I assume they are sitting pretty as well.
The most detail rich, awe-inspring, gorgeous game I have played in over a year was Serious Sam (which only costs $20 and don't let the cheap price fool you. It is great!) This game has pool reflections on the walls around the pool and in the pool, glowing monsters, lens flares, dusty light rays and a portal showing another world with waving flags all at once! I have had in excess of 50 monsters on screen chasing me down. (Yahooooo!) My set-up plays it flawlessly. (Also, I tried it on a P3 600 Mhz with a GeForce (1) and it stuttered.)
If I haven't made my counter-point, it's that these new cards are fine, but not the next level that may be needed once a new generation of games come out (if ever). Having worked in 3D graphics, my feeling is that most of the tricks from research have finally been used up and it will take a new generation of crack programmers to get much farther, like the good ol' days. So, until then, have fun with a GeForce 2 (or equivalent) and an Athlon 850 (or equivalent)!
My take on Webvan was simply that they used the Amazon model a little too late. Webvan started a year later than Amazon. At the time, Amazon "proved" you could throw profitability out the window and just go for growth, and investors would still climb on. Then that changed. The change was late enough so Amazon could adjust, but Webvan was still to far from reigning in their over-extended reach.
Otherwise, Webvan seemed great. Their warehouse system, IMO, would be the correct long-term solution. They had a plan similar to Amazon except the started with groceries instead of books. Imagine once they owned the "last mile" of delivery and then would drop off a book, etc!
I live in Atlanta, and while I never got around to using them, all of my, admittedly techie, friends used them regularly and religiously.
Oh well.
On the other hand, if you want to try your pen at cool quips, maybe you should do it for Serious Sam instead. He's more international (since he's from Croatia) and cooler because his engine rocks and has features id hasn't even done. After all, Croteam DID invent this contest, which I guess will become one more thing Duke rips off. (http://www.croteam.com/quotes)
Good thinking! It should be possible to build "transparent" PGP into mail clients. If this were done for Linux mail clients, and if there were Kparts interfaces, etc, this might be a good killer app for Linux -- supporting a movement from Win to Linux!
In short, a "transparent" PGP mail client would automatically go to the keyserver for a public key you don't have (via a secure connection), then cache is until it expires.
Maybe the servers are the ones we have now, or maybe we could push a key-serving protocol and get it on more servers. (A version on every linux box would probably be too spoofable.)
It would also need to work out other meta-issues with PGP, such as what to do about mailing lists, and wether a signed message should be stored in the senders "sent" mailbox with or without the encryption (because keys get lost sometimes).
It could probably use a few 3D artists to get a few awesome levels and so forth.
As a hard-core gamer of many years, I suggest other adrenaline gamers do not miss Serious Sam! It's like a cross between Doom and Robotron. Dozens of enemies attacking at once for only twenty bucks! (-:
With K7-850 ($100) and GeForce2MX ($100) it runs smooth and is full of gorgeous effects.
A few years ago, right when Origin was selling to EA, I visited a game company created by ex-Origin staff who were running away. Their claim was that Origin was beefing up the staff with random people to bolster the sale price to EA!
So is EA really the culprit? Some people who owned Origin (hint, hint) got lots of extra money this way.
According to "Lord British," they didn't have the management bandwidth to pull it off. Who's fault is that and why did they do it?
It would be interesting to know how long "Lord British" had to stay after being bought out. Did the time just so happen to expire recently? (-: Maybe he's taking a page from Peter Molyneux, who sold Bullfrog to EA for outrageous fortunes, waited for his three years (?) to pass, then scrammed.
Sure, if you play basketball the best, you will be noticed. But I have never seen this in mental athletics. I've never had a boss who noticed that my code was bug-free and on-time. But I have had a boss who remembered my code was late when it wasn't! He also remembered his friend's code was on time when it wasn't. Hence, the beginning of a nespotism as it always was and always will be. (And this boss was my age.)
I am now 33 years old and have also worked for people younger than me. I recieved the same treatment so it wasn't about being older. My conclusion is that older people "are respected more" because they tend to find ways to the top outside of merit, then reap the reward of being at the top. It's a shallow respect but get used to it. A younger person who gets there faster is no more inclinded to respect you because of his young age. It has nothing to do with age directly. Eventually you will gain promotions by changing companies or lucking out. Then you too can have false respect. (-: