[tptacek]

It's interesting how ageism is repellent when we're discussing development jobs, but natural when we talk about politics. There are in fact many 60 year old developers. They were in the primes of their careers in the 80s. They're probably better than you at assembly language.

Perhaps a better line to draw is between lawyers and other kinds of professionals, lawyers being overrepresented in Congress. But the track record of nonlawyers (doctors, for instance) in Congress isn't all that great either.

[mratzloff]

A 60-year-old software developer is still a software developer. In the general population, older people are less technically savvy than younger people (on average). Most politicians are not software developers, therefore it stands to reason that politicians tend not to be technically savvy.

[mechanical_fish]

In the general population, older people are less technically savvy than younger people (on average).

[Citation needed.]

[mratzloff]

Hacker News at its most pedantic.

http://readwrite.com/2011/08/02/older_people_not_using_smart...