Unsurprising really - most older programmers I know are fed up with solving the same problems over and over again with whatever the new technology happens to be. After a while, writing what amounts to CRUD by and large is pretty dull.

I'm an "older" programmer and I love doing basic CRUD for work. Largely because it can pay very well, is reasonably hard to get wrong (= happy management = renewed contracts = happy me) and takes very little of my limited brain power.

If I want risky projects that might be spectacular failures, I'll do them in my spare time -- I really don't want those in front of the people signing my pay cheques...

When you are young, you can make risky bets with your retirement investments; not so much when you are older when you should be preferring safer bets instead.

I would think that the same is true with career management, especially after you 30 something and have a family to worry about.

But to be honest, the amount of age discrimination in our industry has me really scared about getting older.

"Especially after you 30 something" Ouch! That's not old! :) (am i old - oh noes!)

Bloody hell, if 30 is old, there's a glue factory looming in my immediate future.

I think the "having a family" part is more important in than being 30+, though the two events are often correlated.

Bada bing - That's where things get serious. You can go play with the startups, but once you have a family to support, whether you're 28 or 48, you need to do what needs to be done, whether it's your favorite or not. Luckily for me, I have the opportunity to still program and not be stuck in management, but there are many that didn't have that choice to keep a steady paycheck.

"Older" programmer here (I'm 46). I disagree. We're not solving the same problem over and over (at least not where I've been working). It's the opposite - once you've solved a problem with code, you can reuse it. Sure, it doesn't work out perfectly, but for the most part, it's new stuff.

I've been programming for > 20 years, and I still love what I'm doing. A big part of that is being able to create new things every day. Fred Brooks wrote very eloquently about "The Joys of the Craft" in the book "The Mythical Man-Month". My comments/take on it: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/

55 here, writing iOS apps currently and still enjoying it. I still maintain a programming blog and continue to learn new stuff at a faster pace than I did when I started. Everything I do is something new.

You should link to your blog in your HN profile. Always fun to check out what the HN commenters are up to.

Sad news - RIP.

"10x represents the best freelance programmers and designers"

not to be too snooty, but couldn't they get one of their best design freelancers to give their site a bit of a makeover?

Or set encoding properly? The text of last quoted client has all kinds of escaping issues.

Our website is 10x worse than it should be

Some of the fonts are rendering strangely for me in Windows Chrome 25. The anti-aliasing is chunky. Not sure if it's some TrueType thing, it's been a while since I've had to work with such problems.

I think he was talking about Bootstrap. This is a good example of when it's not the best choice.

dodgy popups that encourage you to "join Free as a Bronze member" :/

Nothing specifically for the eyes. I take cod liver oil regularly and zinc if I start to feel the early stages of a cold.

I've tried Zinc, it has nasty side-effects of the bathroom variety. :)

this should so have been called "How to make a quick bug"

Funny. That was the working title but I thought I was going to be hammered by pedants pointing out the spelling error!

I use Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins on Dvorak for one handed copy paste, but I also don't really find the standard ctrl-c ctrl-v a problem with two hands, I sort of poise my middle finger over "c" and pinkie over "v" with left hand on the ctrl .....feels comfortable to me, but I've been on Dvorak for over 10 years now :)

nicely done. It would be extra awesome if you could weight the answers a little by date and whether the current version of the language matches the date. Actually that would probably be a pain. Maybe just some (optional) sorting by date?

sucks to be on the receiving end of some nasty/uncivil comments. On the other hand, you are now the person that re-wrote sed. That's pretty awesome.

Mostly, BBC