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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by ryandrake on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:29PM (#19100756)
Late ‘90s, and it was just as hard as today. Applied to dozens of companies as a Senior in undergrad. Similar 1 on 20 response rate as today. I remember the interview—typical “solve this trivial thing in a language of your choice.” Most college kids picked java. I picked x86 assembly and nailed it. In think that impressed someone.
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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by ghaff on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:43PM (#19100886)
Heh. The main shareware program I sold for a number of years was written in x86 assembler. The horror. The horror. :-) I was just reminded this afternoon when someone sent me a message on company chat asking if I was the person who wrote said program.

When I code these days, I'll take Python.

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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by acutesoftware on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:38PM (#19102802)
Well, what was the program you wrote? We wont judge you
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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by ghaff on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:21AM (#19104751)
Directory Freedom. DOS directory utility.
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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by james_s_tayler on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:18AM (#19103813)
I'd be impressed by that. Like who does that? Especially if it was these days. That'd be inspirational.
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Re:Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around ag... by elektro_nik on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:37AM (#19105803)
That's awesome. Did you submit it in HEX? :)
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