It's fine if you cringe. :-) I am just saying that I simply do not see the slam on older programmers that others seem to be taking away from this article. It seems to me there are plenty of older programmers on HN and some of most esteemed folks here are not 22-25 years old and are, instead, a good bit older (in some cases, old enough to have kids that age, in theory if not in reality).

(In fact, I suspect none of them are that young -- but I don't know all the ages of, say, everyone on the leaderboard, so I can't assert that as fact. Edit: Also, not everyone that age here can rightly be called a programmer.)