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With practice and decent eyes. Once your eyes go downhill, it is amazing how much changes.

Most software developers are under 40 and therefore have little to no appreciation for what happens to people's eyes after they are past 40.

He isn't speaking of reCAPTCHA but google's nearly impossible to read captchas that take way too much time to decipher.

If you'd like to see it you can usually get it by putting in a bad password to a gmail account too many times (though I don't know if that has other consequences).

Edit: Here is an image example http://www.techian.com/wp-content/uploads/captcha.png

I wonder what they do for non-Latin locales?

Strange they don't use reCAPTCHA for this.

Oh those, yeah they are very hard to decipher.

For me, the key word is usually the unreadable one. I've never had success typing only the readable one.

After reading that previously on HN, I tried and sadly had to type both word.