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		cutler on Sept 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The forty-year programmer Speak for yourself, mate. I'm 62 and just getting going after 22 years of programming. Now learning Kotlin, Swift and Go while developing my own app for mobile and web. Age is a state of mind so long is you keep minimally physically active. I discovered recently, whilst dieting, that eating once a day improves mental clarity and energy. Try it.

rufus_foreman on Sept 4, 2022 [–]

>> Speak for yourself, mate

That's exactly who I am speaking for, mate.

jefftk on Sept 4, 2022 | [–]

You started this thread by telling the OP that "I have at least twenty more years of this left, and maybe fifty years" was "not the way it works".

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