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0-10

5 (0.9%)

11-14

37 (6.4%)

15-18

113 (19.4%)

18-20

105 (18.1%)

21-25

168 (28.9%)

26-30

80 (13.8%)

31-35

37 (6.4%)

36-45

23 (4%)

46-55

5 (0.9%)

56+

8 (1.4%)

Total Members Voted: 580

[martinuzz]

I'm 32. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 64k. Buying a game for it translated to buying a book with 50 pages assembly code, entering it into the computer, and recording it on tape/microdrive. Good old days.

[Stworca]

There's one vote in 0-10. Any guesses?

He is one badass kid for sure.

[lordnincompoop]

There's one vote in 0-10. Any guesses?

Could be just a "blah" vote.

...

No-one's guessed my age yet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
bool bIsAge = false;
int nAge = 0;
char cTruth;
while (bIsAge != true){
std::cout << "Are you " << nAge <<"?\n";
std::cin >> cTruth;
if (cTruth == 'y') {std::cout "I won!\n"; bIsAge = true;}
else nAge++;
}
}


18?

[NotPete]

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
bool bIsAge = false;
int nAge = 0;
char cTruth;
while (bIsAge != true){
std::cout << "Are you " << nAge <<"?\n";
std::cin >> cTruth;
if (cTruth == 'y') {std::cout "I won!\n"; bIsAge = true;}
else nAge++;
}
}


C++ Right? Why do you have std before every cin and cout?

[Areyar]

My age is

Code: [Select]

2A, the first computer I owned was a C=64,
my first bit of coding also constituted typing over from a magazine a game called 'High Noon', 't was pretty fun too.
I still listen to the 8-bit tunes from my favorite games.

edit:
That code should be optimized to exclude any ages that have already been guessed and follow the bell curve.

edit2: Drat, Toady shielded the forums with robot.txt from the wayback machine.

[NW_Kohaku]

This kind of scares me, I thought I was below the curve in age, but if you put 15-18 and 19-20 together, it's the largest age bloc.

Geez... I hope this doesn't make Toady feel old.

[Lupusater]

18, so I'm in the second majority.

[Tellemurius]

also remember some of us have been here longer, i have been here for 3 years.

[Mel_Vixen]

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
   bool bIsAge = false;
   int nAge = 0;
   char cTruth;
   while (bIsAge != true){
      std::cout << "Are you " << nAge <<"?\n";
      std::cin >> cTruth;
      if (cTruth == 'y') {std::cout "I won!\n"; bIsAge = true;}
      else nAge++;
   }
}


C++ Right? Why do you have std before every cin and cout?

he uses Std:: to refference the Std "namespace" . Since the old<iostream.h> (, for which the MS compiler gives you the nice alert "_OLD_IOSTREAMS_ARE_DEPRECATED", ) still exists and is used wildly this may be needed to get the correct function since both libs have a cout function. I for once would have referenced the namespace in the header by using "using namespace std;" instead of typing Std:: each time.

[TolyK]

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
   bool bIsAge = false;
   int nAge = 0;
   char cTruth;
   while (bIsAge != true){
      std::cout << "Are you " << nAge <<"?\n";
      std::cin >> cTruth;
      if (cTruth == 'y') {std::cout "I won!\n"; bIsAge = true;}
      else nAge++;
   }
}


C++ Right? Why do you have std before every cin and cout?

he uses Std:: to refference the Std "namespace" . Since the old<iostream.h> (, for which the MS compiler gives you the nice alert "_OLD_IOSTREAMS_ARE_DEPRECATED", ) still exists and is used wildly this may be needed to get the correct function since both libs have a cout function. I for once would have referenced the namespace in the header by using "using namespace std;" instead of typing Std:: each time.

I use my own header file

[Mel_Vixen]

btw. i guess 24.

[Gatleos]

This kind of scares me, I thought I was below the curve in age, but if you put 15-18 and 19-20 together, it's the largest age bloc.

Geez... I hope this doesn't make Toady feel old.

...19!

[SeriousConcentrate]

Turning 25 this year. I think I start playing DF in 2005 or 2006 though, don't remember which. I didn't know about the forums until a few months ago. @_@ As for TolyK, I'm just gonna randomly draw out a number here and say 23.

[Starver]

The Hercules monchrome graphics card was a very good card in its day.  [...]

The PDP-11 did have to be toggled into awakeness.  [...]

Later on I went to work for an oil company.  [...]

I'd just like to say that I envy you.  I never try to out-geek anybody (intentionally, although I do ramble on sometimes and only later realise that I look like it), but it sounds like you (a mere few, as yet indeterminate, years older than I) got to live at least part of the geeky life I would have loved to have lived had I been around a few years earlier and maybe on the other side of an ocean.  I might not have married your husband (small problem of gender, from the legal standpoint, but lack of that kind of inclination would have been an issue as well!), but the rest sounds like a good basis for parts of my fantasy alternate lifetime.

Kudos to you, certainly.  Or whatever word a person of my age ought to be using in its stead.

*bows*

[slink]

The Hercules monchrome graphics card was a very good card in its day.  [...]

The PDP-11 did have to be toggled into awakeness.  [...]

Later on I went to work for an oil company.  [...]

I'd just like to say that I envy you.  I never try to out-geek anybody (intentionally, although I do ramble on sometimes and only later realise that I look like it), but it sounds like you (a mere few, as yet indeterminate, years older than I) got to live at least part of the geeky life I would have loved to have lived had I been around a few years earlier and maybe on the other side of an ocean.  I might not have married your husband (small problem of gender, from the legal standpoint, but lack of that kind of inclination would have been an issue as well!), but the rest sounds like a good basis for parts of my fantasy alternate lifetime.

Kudos to you, certainly.  Or whatever word a person of my age ought to be using in its stead.

*bows*

I bow to you in return.  *bows*  Geekiness came naturally to me from an early age, and if that was also the case for you then I am sure you did your best in whatever circumstances you found yourself.  Finding an appropriate spouse was important in my case.  I can't imagine having been allowed to fill the spare bedroom with homebuilt computer-y gadgets had I had a husband who expected me to go out on the town every evening and then entertain his friends and family on the weekends.  As it was, he spent his weekends in that room with me, enjoying the co-exploration, and during the finest part of it our once weekly night out on the town was capped by a visit to a software store after a large Mexican dinner with margaritas.  That store owner loved us.