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Double it and deprecate the development platform you have been using for the last 5+ years and see how it feels.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That's the one, I hated HTML/Javascript back in the 90s - the last time I worked with the dogs breakfast they call web development. The ONLY reason I took the teams to web/silverlight was the whole binding thing. Now the bastards refuse to go back to the desktop, WPF where all our skills and resources are relevant and insist on going to MVC.
If I ever meet the thick witted, numbskull, pea brained, moronic idiot, bastard in Microsoft who made that decision I will take great pleasure in being quite rude to them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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He/She probably is worth $20 billion got a home on the beach in Maui and don't give a sh*t what you or I think?
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Probably, but I would like the satisfaction of telling he/she just what I think of them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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...that's worth way more than $20 billion, it's priceless.
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WPF is obsolete. The cool kids have moved on to greener pastures.
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So that is why the WPF team is building up numbers again?
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They are? Maybe they're making it usable.  Too late though, will never touch that pile of dung.
Wout
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They are, and I find it extremely usable.
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Mycroft, give your middle finger to the web trend of microsoft, and support a WPF developer like me by buying IaaS Management Studio.
Good old productivity tool in WPF and licensing as we always liked 
Or else, I'll be obliged to jump on the MVC band wagon and give right to the pea brained idiot. :'(
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It means they're getting close to 0x20
I'm drawing a blank. 
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We don't like characters like you saying things like that.
/ravi
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There's a space between my ears and I sometimes act out of character.
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And that's the difference between upper and lower case.
/ravi
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I think that's the right protocol.
/ravi
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Er.. I'm not really terrified, I'm 42 already!
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Business Insider wrote: the future for an average programmer can appear pretty bleak after 29.
The future for an average anyone can appear pretty bleak after 29. 
/ravi
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Very true and thats the scary factor.
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I call bullshit.
Headhunters will always be lazy; yes, it is assumed that those fresh out of school aren't experienced enough, and that those with a certain mileage are outdated. He's merely talking about the generalization of the public - a "good" programmer is at least as young as the founder of FaceBook. And if he's as old as Bill Gates, then he "must" be equally outdated.
I found that the prejudice is actually beneficial. No more "exciting opportunities" or "challenging environments", no more marketing-drivel. It's a nice way of filtering all those non-job-offers that merely exist to fish the top 1% out of the market (ask Joel[^]).
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: age 30, the future for an average programmer can appear pretty bleak after 29.
29 
I have seen many developers crossed this benchmark ... Very soon, I will cross that line
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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I don't know really, I have recently passed 51 and I am still doing fine.
Mind you: it helps if you can think, calculate and dream in binary and hex. A skill few youngsters these days are any good at.
Remembering and knowing how to cram a bunch of software in something with a few dozen kilobytes and even less RAM is also a bonus. Those of us who are below 30 are sometimes a bit addicted to freely available multiple gigabytes.
My first machine had 1024 bytes of EPROM (to hold the "OS") and an equal amount of RAM (to hold the software and data) so yes: things have evolved a bit since then.
Just go with the flow, keep up to date with new stuff and things should be just fine. You never know when they need some knowledge from an old dinosaur or crocodile.
I have been called an old crocodile and I don't mind. They were there before the dinosaurs and they are still around so I guess I have a bit a margin yet.
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I'll take your 51 and raise it. Clearly I'm still do something right. I have the good fortune I don't look like the typical profile of someone in my age group. My wife would probably say I don't act my age either so there's a complement in there somewhere, at least I think there is.
If you feel older than you are it'll probably show. I avoid the here-today-gone-tomorrow fads in development. So far I've got by without them. I'm not 29 any more but don't get me started on that crock of shite called Agile this, Scrum that, Kanban must-do and other MBA buzzwords.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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