Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?

Re:Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years an... by gedy on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:03PM (#23366808)

Wonderful to hear that, and congratulations to you for that accomplishment. I worry those type of opportunities are no more, or at least much rarer.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years an... by quickthrower2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:37PM (#23366972)

I always wonder what the next thing like programming is that isn’t mainstream yet. Maybe there is an opportunity in that. Quantum computing? But then they’d hire phds I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years an... by jfitzsimons on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:02AM (#23368445)

As someone who runs a quantum computing software company, I can confirm your intuition. Almost everyone we hire to work on quantum computing directly has a PhD.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years an... by SonOfLilit on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:28AM (#23368113)

In Israel at least there are probably hundreds (out of a population of 8,000,000) of programmers working professionally below the age of 18. They don't get on-the-job training, though, it's just so easy to teach yourself at home or in high school.

When I was 17 I started a program connecting high tech firms to winners of a programming competition for high schoolers that is still going, 14 years later :-) But I was far from the first to do this here.

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