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Just wondering. Are there any other women of a certain age in here with more that a couple decades of software behind you?
Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
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stgagnon wrote: Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
That would be a great idea for a straw poll - Let's do an adhoc survey.
20 years, and about two months.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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stgagnon wrote: what is the average age of Loungers
That is a particularly difficult question as some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
I don't think CM collects age info on the profiles, and probably doesn't care as it is not a factor in the value of the contributions.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Speak for yourself. I couldn't be bothered leaving my first childhood.
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Exactly!! If growing up was any fun, I would have done it already!!
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They forever insisted I grow up now they are complaining that I'm growing old disgracefully.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: some of us are coming in to our second childhood.
Meh! You're not trying hard enough, I'm on my third or fourth already! 
speramus in juniperus
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7 years experience
and officially 29 years old but never left childhood in my mind 
(o and not a woman sorry but just in case you wanted to expand your poll )
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I don't think any women will answer that question.
Our lounger is about six years old.
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I turned six and half today... 
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Is that a barkalounger[^]?
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I think the average age of regular loungers is defined as follows, where AA == the average age
MidLifeCrisis < AA < Senility
As for those of a female persuasion? I think TrollSlayer was the last truly regular female (or so (s)he said) although DeathByChocolate has been known to post once in a while.
I'm all for more women in the industry in general, and the lounge in particular, if only because it makes us stereotypical geeks feel just a little more social if we can mention conversing with members of the opposite sex once in a while!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: if we can mention conversing with members of the opposite sex once in a while!
Pretty low standards there... I don't know if to  or to 
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_Maxxx_ wrote: the opposite complementary sex
FTFY
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I'll take your word for it - I don't recall ever being complimented by a member of the opposite sex.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: As for those of a female persuasion? I think TrollSlayer was the last truly regular female (or so (s)he said) although DeathByChocolate has been known to post once in a while.
You forget Argonia here. She posts quite on a regular basis here 
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Male, 52 years old, 33 years of professional programming experience.
Yes, I did programming on punch cards.
No, I don't know COBOL.
Software Zen: delete this;
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One of these is not like the others.
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stgagnon wrote: Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
Many of us are quite timeless, while others are long past their use-by date. Some appear to be reanimated corpses; many are of uncertain gender, or, possibly, frequently change gender.
CP has a few hundred-thousand larvae: their names always begin with "Member," and are followed by a number. They migrate in the late autumn as the days shorten, and nights lengthen, and can often be seen roosting in cell-phone towers along their migratory path where they are, evidently, warmed by the radiation.
bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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BillWoodruff wrote: frequently change gender
You're spending  too much time in Thailand
speramus in juniperus
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To answer your first question, my guess is that there are about a dozen women who are regular contributors here. [I am male...]
To address and give more attention to the second question, I am quite surprised at the seniority of a lot of CP participants. I am 59 in a few days and am not the oldest. Software developers seem to be a mostly younger crowd, yet we have a lot of geezers present.
If you are either male or female, you belong here. If you are "young" or "old" (by any definition) you belong here. Welcome to the site.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Women are pretty rare around here - we're nerds, after all, and the vast majority of nerds don't do well (in behavioral terms) in the company of members of the superior sex. Mostly we get so excited that our tongues become too stiff to talk properly and we end up falling down, drooling and making odd, gurgling sounds. Not attractive... But we do get paid obscenely large salaries, and tend to produce intelligent children, even if we have to resort to making them in the laboratory.
The average age is difficult to determine. When I first joined, we had a demographics page, but that disappeared ages ago. We have a scattering of precocious youngsters (hence, the Kid Sister Rule), a bunch of thirtysomethings give or take a few years, then there's us old farts. You can spot the old farts by their inherently superior breeding and all around good personalities and looks, along with spiffy-looking suspenders to go with our sensible plaid flannel shirts. I'm older than most, approaching 59 years of ever increasing wisdom, but there are some older. Pete, for instance - he's ancient!
I, too, got my start with Hollerith cards, punched late at night on huge, noisy machines, in a language not quite dead; apropos, I suppose. I spent about 10 years getting paid to program, not as my primary job, but as an adjunct function - the devices I designed needed software and firmware to operate, and who better to do the programming than the guy that designed the hardware? Since then I've dabbled in programming, while doing lots of other stuff for a living.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: You can spot the old farts by their inherently superior breeding and all around good personalities and looks
Me - spot on! 
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy a pair of suspenders...
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Lily Tomlin, Actress
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My gender is irrelevant - as it is for the whole site. There are a few ladies here that I am aware of, but it's up to them to reveal themselves.
My average age is the same as my real age, plus VAT and postage.
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OriginalGriff wrote: My average age is the same as my real age, plus VAT and postage.
But at least you're not dead yet! Or are you? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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