[bdcravens]

The key with ageism in tech is to move into mgmt. You're not supposed to be a code monkey at 30.

To suggest that one must move into management, and not do a particular job, because of age, is quite possibly the most ageist comment I've ever heard on HN.

Assuming you have a degree, that means you have 6 or 7 years of experience. To think that's the full extent of your development "career" means that our entire industry would be exceptionally shallow skills-wise.

I'm 37, and I love to hack. And no, I'm most definitely not making $30K for 80hr/wk.

And especially not having 10 years of experience in a technology 10 years old. Is this an indictment against those who get in on the ground floor of a technology? Are you suggesting that you should jump to the latest hipster language, never becoming an expert in anything? Not to mention the fact that most languages that drive the web (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, to name a few) are about 20 years old at this point.