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Comment by belval | Hacker News Reader

I am disappointed to see how some comments jump straight to "we shouldn't single out individuals", "his parent helped" or "yes he did X but Y is on another level altogether".

This really feels like some here should work on themselves to see why they feel so personally threatened by the achievements of a 13 years old. Even with the help of his parents (which we have no indication of) this is a good inspiration for other younger of our community that feels some knowledge is out of their reach.

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I know that some of the people who were singled out to their classes as the smart kid (and thereby encouraged to keep learning, because they felt they were doing well at it)... suspect as adults that other kids were discouraged by it (like the other kids felt they didn't have the special aptitude).

A different message than "obviously, this is a Smart Kid" would be "this achievement is within reach of kids who put the effort into it, and we should be supporting all kids to reach like this".

The piece had some bits in it were hitting the first message, rather than the second.

At his age — or maybe a little older, 14, 15, I’d have to check my version control history — I was developing a multi-user networked chat client using kevent/kqueue :) I remember being so inspired by the C10K problem. I miss the times when everything was new and exciting, tbh.

I will say I’m really happy I kept all my old projects. Looking back I actually wrote really good software, expect for my long since shed distaste for testing.

I wish I was using version control at age 14 or 15 8)

Heh, I have a very small bit of code I wrote at 14-15 and I thank god ots locked up in some private storage.

Definitely, I started coding at the age of 10, it doesn't matter how much help he has gotten, rather that he is interested and has discovered what might be his future path.

I think it is FATIGUE

So many people drumming up - this young person did something that FOR HIS AGE is impressive

Who the @#$#$ cares

why is it on Hacker News?

It should benefit the people visting in HAcker News in some way

ain't none of us 10 and get inspired by a 13 year old doing something that FOR HIS AGE is impressive

Share something that helps people here or is TRULY IMPRESSIVE in the Field

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