Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy?

Re:Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy? by pmelendez on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:04PM (#6511254)

>"old fart"

From the link: >"6-7 years higher than mine"

Gee.. since when only 6-7 years more experience than a presumably junior engineer is considered to be an old fart?

That makes me feel really old right now :(

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Re:Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy? by _jsn on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:06PM (#6511275)

"Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit." - Snow Crash

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Re:Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy? by zwieback on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:40PM (#6511474)

Thanks for pointing that out. I started coding for profit in about 1990 so I was thinking more along the lines of 15+ years of experience as the old-fart cutoff.

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