How old are you and what is your education level?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63294

by nextmoveone • 19 years ago

34 163 19 years ago

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Hey I was wondering?

What are hackers age and education?

Feel free to add: Age + Education Level

Me = 20 + High School.

cperciva2• 19 years ago

26 + D.Phil in Computer Science (D.Phil is Oxonian for PhD.)

rms3• 19 years ago

21 + 84 credits into a BS in Industrial Engineering.

raju• 19 years ago

29 + MS in Industrial Engineering

Xichekolas3• 19 years ago

24 + BS in Computer Science

caveman82• 19 years ago

25+Master's in Life (oh yea,I have a B.S. in EE too)

jkush• 19 years ago

29 + G.E.D.

rbitar• 19 years ago

26 + M.S. Computer Engineering / Management Science

henning• 19 years ago

22 + college dropout

nostrademons• 19 years ago

26 + BA in Computer Science.

pietro• 19 years ago

40 + BA in Architecture (buildings), sort of getting an MS in Computer Science

carpal• 19 years ago

23+BBA in CIS and TLAs

myoung8• 19 years ago

20 + College Junior (BA Econ)

buss• 19 years ago

21 + College Junior studying Computer Science Engineering

astrec• 19 years ago

30 + BSc. (Philos /Comp. Sci.)

nanijoe• 19 years ago

Just curious, what is the point?

ALee2• 19 years ago

I think it just helps us know the community more, and it's a good reference in case we are eventually looking for someone with a MS in Electrical Engineering.

rms3• 19 years ago

There are several people posting here that are very new users.. it's good to get new users engaged, give them a little positive reinforcement and mod them up so they will feel good about sticking around.

ptn2• 19 years ago

Curiosity :)

Xichekolas3• 19 years ago

I, for one, am impressed by all the non-CS majors. Didn't realize the idea of web app startups had broken that far afield.

rokhayakebe• 19 years ago

25 + dropout twice. Never going back.

jdavid• 19 years ago

28 + BS. Computer Engineering with near minors in art/ anthropology/ math/ and theo-philosophy 180 hrs attempted 148 accomplished.

3 semesters of continuing edu in japanese

greendestiny• 19 years ago

29 + PhD

transburgh• 19 years ago

25 + BS in Business

cellis• 19 years ago

20 BS in BS

redrory• 19 years ago

19 + 2nd Year in UNI doing Com sci.

jsackmann• 19 years ago

27 + didn't finish college.

ptn2• 19 years ago

19 + 3rd year college

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

20 + 3rd year Chemical Engineering student

engineering for 0 years and had enough

programming for 10 years and with luck many more

ryanspahn• 19 years ago

32 + B.S. Recording Industry Founder of Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock

ALee2• 19 years ago

22 + BA in Philosophy

daniel-cussen• 19 years ago

19 + High school

jojoleflaire• 19 years ago

36 - B.A., M.A. Classics; undergrad minor in Comp. Sci. 2 startups: 1 acquired; 1 round C and soon-to-be-profitable.

ardit33• 19 years ago

26 BS. Major: Computer Science Minors: in Math and Physics

Some certificatioin for Finance and Management

philtur• 19 years ago

43 + BS in Business

nextmovetwo• 19 years ago

20 + 3rd year Digital Media (BA) student

igexome• 19 years ago

21 + Completing BS in CS, YC next summer?

pcurtain• 19 years ago

44 + 2 yrs college (accounting! :) ) --p

cheponis• 19 years ago

53+BS EECS + all non-thesis work toward PhD

But what's the point of data from a self-selecting sample?

rms3• 19 years ago

this is not a statistical study, it's a forum thread. It's for entertainment, mostly

Neoryder• 19 years ago

24 + BS EE

wammin• 19 years ago

26 + B.B.A. + lots of self-taught geek skills

cglee• 19 years ago

28 + BA in MIS and minors in Comp Sci and Chinese

swhnorton• 19 years ago

21 Completing BA in Economics

aschwo• 19 years ago

21 + B.F.A. ... Would you like fries with that?

tdedecko• 19 years ago

24 (going on 25) BS Geology minor Computer Science

spking• 19 years ago

25 + Struggling to finish my last year as an undergrad; taking pointless bullshit required GE classes that I couldn't bring myself to complete the first time around.

tokipin2• 19 years ago

i must have failed english four or five times before i dropped out. doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers

24 i think (lost count) + almost electronics engineering BS + 100k debt. just dandy ^_^

i'm looking to return for physics/math soon, but i'm wondering if my time would be better served atm in another endeavor

edw5195• 19 years ago

"doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers"

You're right about that. Doesn't help a bit.

edw5195• 19 years ago

Sometimes I think the whole point of college is, "If this person can bring themselves to complete pointless bullshit, then they can bring themselves to complete anything."

imsteve3• 19 years ago

Which turns out to be bs in the end. Just about everyone does college and just about no one brings it upon themselves to do anything out of the ordinary afterward.

timr• 19 years ago

30 + PhD

samson• 19 years ago

22 + 4th year in BA Philosophy (a very possible dropout)

gibsonf1• 19 years ago

41 + Architecture (building) college for 5 years - left school 2 months before degree for NYC + famous Architect - long story

rwebb• 19 years ago

28 + jd/mba

guest• 19 years ago

25 + jd as well (didn't think about dual degree until AFTER I finished)

trekker7• 19 years ago

21 + almost out of college (studied EE/CS)

electric2• 19 years ago

87 + High school

bluishgreen2• 19 years ago

27 + math (ug) and computer science(pg) degrees. presently in Phd .might drop it.

ajmoir2• 19 years ago

All that time spent in school you'd be better off sticking it out,

bluishgreen2• 19 years ago

I don't want my children to find out the amount of bullshit I can take. Thats one of the reasons I am considering dropping.

iamelgringo• 19 years ago

34 + AAS Nursing + 4th year CIS (finishing next summer)

ajmoir2• 19 years ago

39 + B.Sc.(Hons) CompuSci

limeade• 19 years ago

ba physics + phd physics in progress

caudicus• 19 years ago

26 + BS Computer Engineering

mgummelt• 19 years ago

18 + in first year of college

yudkowsky• 19 years ago

28 + no high school, cofounder of nonprofit with ~$X00K/year donations

jey• 19 years ago

Nice to see you here.

22 / kicked out of college / wish I was yudkowsky

Pete700• 19 years ago

20 + 3rd year in college (majoring in Business Economics & Marketing)

altay• 19 years ago

26 + BA Biology (neurobio/psychology focus)

dmdavis• 19 years ago

29 + BS in CS

tzury• 19 years ago

I am 4 years old going to kindergarten with my laptop.

breck2• 19 years ago

Really? What type of laptop?

mrgordon• 19 years ago

21 + Finishing my last year as an undergrad

chadboyda• 19 years ago

28 + CHSPE

My high school counselor recommended I graduate early to attend college, but being 16 and feeling unchallenged by school I opted to apply myself to the real world and started my own business instead.

JohnN• 19 years ago

22 + BA (Politics) I may just be the only person on the forum who has done this.

viergroupie• 19 years ago

23 + in grad school

bigred• 19 years ago

62 + 1 year college - wow! there's a lot young uns here

asmosoinio• 19 years ago

27 (this young still for a few more days!) + MS in Computer Engineering (Wonder if that term really works for example in the US? Anyway that's what the university here calls it in English.)

ajeyshah• 19 years ago

22 + Getting MS-CS

nailer• 19 years ago

26, certificate in Business Management (tertiary level, but completed while at high school).

timbar• 19 years ago

32 + BS CS + MBA

PStamatiou• 19 years ago

21 + 1 year left for BS in Computational Media (new major here - half CS, half design, culture, media, etc) at Georgia Tech

jgrahamc• 19 years ago

39 + BA Mathematics and Computation + DPhil in Computer Security

sbraford• 19 years ago

27 + BS in CS

thomasfl• 19 years ago

40 + BS in CS. Hopefully a MS in CS next year

DaniFong• 19 years ago

19 + 2 Years PhD. I'm weird that way.

naivehs• 19 years ago

20 + 1st year in industrial design engineering

edu2• 19 years ago

23 + BSc (Eng) Computer Science (Computer Systems).

today I just started an MSc in Computation

adnam3• 19 years ago

Where are you doing that? At the UPC? I'm just finishing off a masters in Software Engineering there.

edu2• 19 years ago

yes :)

O3d• 19 years ago

23 + Getting a BS in CS in '08 (hopefully?)

pistoriusp• 19 years ago

24 + 0.

chris_l• 19 years ago

27 + Master's in EE

lst• 19 years ago

40 + autodidact

Goladus• 19 years ago

28 + BA Computer Science, BA Music Theory, currently taking grad courses (csci) but no plans for a degree yet.

ntoshev• 19 years ago

30 + MSc in CS

Strong interest in cognitive science, but decided not to do a formal PhD.

Somebody pls compile stats in a couple of days :)

apgwoz2• 19 years ago

25 with BS (Computer Science). I started a graduate program a while ago, did a year, dropped it and got a job. Now I wanna go back full time and get a PhD.

electric2• 19 years ago

"Now I wanna go back full time and get a PhD."

why?

apgwoz2• 19 years ago

I'm not happy working, but I enjoy doing research, learning and tinkering so it seems like a good fit for me. There were a few reasons why I dropped out, none of which were because I didn't like what I was doing.

edw5195• 19 years ago

52 - B.S. in Abacus Science, MBA

adnam3• 19 years ago

11 and 3/4 years old.

PhD + bronze swimming certificate.

MoeDrippins• 19 years ago

41, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

jamiequint• 19 years ago

22 + BSEE

imgabe• 19 years ago

26 + BS Electrical Engineering

covertgeek• 19 years ago

24 + Masters in Network Security

joshtempte• 19 years ago

28. BS in Comp. Eng. & MFA in Digital Production Arts.

yubrew• 19 years ago

24 + B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Minor in CS, Accounting

rami• 19 years ago

26 - B.ENG, MBA

Okkef• 19 years ago

19 + High School, now doing a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence.

steveplace• 19 years ago

At the time of this posting, and including me (22 + BSEE) and the OP, here are some stats:

Sample Size: 88

Max: 62

Min: 18

Mean: 27.3

Median: 25.5

StdDev: 8.17

I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school)

Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot:

"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

cperciva2• 19 years ago

More interesting statistics: Out of a sample size of 107 (as above, after removing obviously silly reports), there are:

41 people whose highest completed degree is a Bachelor's,

17 people whose highest completed degree is a Master's, and

5 people whose highest completed degree is a Doctorate.

At all three levels, there's roughly a 40:20:40 split between degrees in areas other than computing, people who didn't state what field their degree is in, and degrees in computing.

dlimeb• 19 years ago

36; half a BA in Jazz Performance (dropped out) + half a BA in Psychology (tried to rescue the first BA, couldn't)

paulgb• 19 years ago

18 + High School

(Currently in 1st year CS)

Hexayurt• 19 years ago

35, two years of computer science (Edinburgh), never completed the degree - helped start http://voxar.com

tomh• 19 years ago

36 + BA Russian and two graduate degrees: a MS in Computer Science and an MA in Law and Diplomacy (think International Affairs with a cutesy name).

Wow, that was a lot of BS I just put up there. All those degrees still hasn't gotten me the job I want/love, yet ;).

damon• 19 years ago

31 + BS in "Information Systems"

philcrissman• 19 years ago

34 + halfway done college.

Doing college part time, plus I didn't start until late. In some ways I think I could probably just do without the degree, but I've invested so much time into it, I want to finish.

niels• 19 years ago

33, Comp. Sci. Masters

adbachman• 19 years ago

26 + BA (theology), 1/3 of a CS master's

mrtron• 19 years ago

25 + bachelor of CS

a13x• 19 years ago

28, Last year of undergrad Philosophy and Maths

boriskozak• 19 years ago

21 + Senior B.S. Info Systems

sosuke• 19 years ago

23 + High School

Mistone• 19 years ago

27 + B.B.A + Tech / Web Certs

ivankirigin• 19 years ago

26 on the 26th. MS in Robotics. CS undergrad.

jharper• 19 years ago

25 (B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Comp Sci)

fuelfive• 19 years ago

25 + BAS in CS

juliaB• 19 years ago

39, BAs Philosophy & Zoology and that was plenty

webwright• 19 years ago

35 BA Psychology (and 10 years of self-employment... Whew-- what an education!)

breck2• 19 years ago

23 + BS Economics 07 Duke

henryw• 19 years ago

23 + BS Econ, BS Bioengineering

jackdied• 19 years ago

33 + BS Computer Engineering

hugh• 19 years ago

27, PhD in Physics

pixelmonkey• 19 years ago

23 + Bachelor's Comp. Sci.

Jaggu2• 19 years ago

32 + Computer Engineering

Jaggu2• 19 years ago

By the way whats purpose of this post? Are you just trying to find what age group people are reading news on this site?

nextmoveone• 19 years ago

It's really just because, there is no real purpose.

darragjm• 19 years ago

24 + BS in Mechatronics

imsteve3• 19 years ago

most of college. probably will decide against finishing.

jsmcgd• 19 years ago

23 + BS CS

Retric• 19 years ago

27 + BS in Computer Science

veritas• 19 years ago

21 + BS in Comp Sci

febeling• 19 years ago

{{age,34},{education,architecture,diplom}} = Me.

Xichekolas3• 19 years ago

Was tempted to copy and paste the Bad Match error from my latest project, but then I figured, what do I know about you. Kudos for interesting explanation.

scylla• 19 years ago

32 (almost) BS in CS

Readmore• 19 years ago

26 + Master's Degree in CS

tachim• 19 years ago

16 + High School

jsnx• 19 years ago

I'm 26. I was in college for two years, studying Physics and then CS. I left to study Zen, in California, and then went into contracting.

mg83• 19 years ago

Not a hacker yet. But I follow the forum. 24 + BA Philosophy.

david• 19 years ago

17 in second year of community college.

koolmoe• 19 years ago

35 + PhD in chemical engineering

gommm• 19 years ago

24 + master degree in cs (french engineering degree)

after 2 years of working finally starting my own business ;-)

rmason• 19 years ago

55 + BA Journalism + Third career

cowmoo• 19 years ago

20, undergrad, CS and Biology

orionlogic• 19 years ago

27 + Bs. in BA + Ms. in MIS + Ms. in IT in Design

andrewcooke• 19 years ago

40 + phd (thank god for electric)

joe• 19 years ago

22, B.S. in "Computer Information Systems".

benmathes• 18 years ago

24 + Masters

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