Then why not ask for gender while we are at it. And race as well. Collecting data selectively is how discrimination starts. But you are probably right, it's not illegal.
I doubt many 40+ programmers are going to come out in support of this article. In cases of discrimination, you are labeled a crybaby so it's better to just stay quite. HN is mostly young and the only 40+ ones here are…
It's deplorable that people like PG insist on age as a criteria for the YC application :-(
Then why not ask for gender while we are at it. And race as well. Collecting data selectively is how discrimination starts. But you are probably right, it's not illegal.
I doubt many 40+ programmers are going to come out in support of this article. In cases of discrimination, you are labeled a crybaby so it's better to just stay quite. HN is mostly young and the only 40+ ones here are…
It's deplorable that people like PG insist on age as a criteria for the YC application :-(