<story><title>Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?</title><text>Are you still employed or retired? How does one&amp;#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&amp;#x27;s life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>&amp;gt; Ask HN: any hackers over 60? 70?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m 68, and I should add that &amp;quot;hacker&amp;quot; meant something different when I first heard it used. :)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Are you still employed or retired?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m retired, but I still program for enjoyment. I have a line of free Android apps published:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lutus&amp;amp;c=apps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;search?q=lutus&amp;amp;c=apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; How does one&amp;#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&amp;#x27;s life?&lt;p&gt;If anything, programming has become more important to me as I have gotten older, for the same reason that mathematics has greater appeal to a maturing mind -- it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gansai</author><text>Just love this part from above:
it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Any hackers over 60? 70?</title><text>Are you still employed or retired? How does one&amp;#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&amp;#x27;s life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lutusp</author><text>&amp;gt; Ask HN: any hackers over 60? 70?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m 68, and I should add that &amp;quot;hacker&amp;quot; meant something different when I first heard it used. :)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Are you still employed or retired?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m retired, but I still program for enjoyment. I have a line of free Android apps published:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lutus&amp;amp;c=apps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;search?q=lutus&amp;amp;c=apps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; How does one&amp;#x27;s passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one&amp;#x27;s life?&lt;p&gt;If anything, programming has become more important to me as I have gotten older, for the same reason that mathematics has greater appeal to a maturing mind -- it represents a rational counterpoint to a world that, over time, seems to make less sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milani</author><text>The answer to the last question depends on the geolocation. In developing countries, people won&amp;#x27;t enjoy programming when they get old, there are too many problems to solve in real-life that don&amp;#x27;t allow them to do what they like:&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>