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fish2000

One of the best things in this article is how the kid, in the quote wherein he describes his 11-year old experience, spells the prefix "pseudo" as "sudo" -- that one little blip of an error totally reinforces the autodidact angle of the piece way better than any explicitly expositive thing (provided the reader is also of the nerdy inclination).

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The story was written as a quick response to an email on a list, not an article for the front page of hackernews. Please excuse the obvious errors (of which I am sure there are quite a few)

Aha I had assumed that it was an error on the part of the quotee -- this was not the case then? Either way, no judgement on my part, I'm not pedantic about such things.

I was in the terminal at the time and broke my workflow to reply, I was still in 'sudo' mindset not 'pseudo' mindset -- Sorry, I just realized I misread the entire comment and assumed it hostile, my bad!

"Year 10 or 11" in the UK would be equivalent to 9th or 10th grade in the US, and 14-15 years old, not 11 years old.

Whoops. I apologize for my characteristically American cultural buffoonery.

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