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Re: I need serious help!

seebs

7/14/2007 3:13:00 AM

In message <b37300880707132007x11de6439j30f8ce32779bfbec@mail.gmail.com>, "Gregory Brown" write
s:
>Age doesn't mean anything, I generally dislike when people bring it up
>as a measure of skill or wisdom. For the record, I am 21, and I look
>up to a few well known Rubyists that are 16-18yrs old. :)

>Joe is actually just acting like a classic jerk, it has nothing to do with age.

Age isn't proof of anything, but the correlation is strong enough to be
noticable. I agree, though, that I know people in their thirties and forties
who are just like that.

-s

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Gregory Brown

7/14/2007 3:23:00 AM

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On 7/13/07, Peter Seebach <seebs@seebs.net> wrote:
> In message <b37300880707132007x11de6439j30f8ce32779bfbec@mail.gmail.com>, "Gregory Brown" write
> s:
> >Age doesn't mean anything, I generally dislike when people bring it up
> >as a measure of skill or wisdom. For the record, I am 21, and I look
> >up to a few well known Rubyists that are 16-18yrs old. :)
>
> >Joe is actually just acting like a classic jerk, it has nothing to do with age.
>
> Age isn't proof of anything, but the correlation is strong enough to be
> noticable. I agree, though, that I know people in their thirties and forties
> who are just like that.

Oh give me a break. Generalizations like that are similar to the ones
that say we should do ethnic profiling at airports.