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Comment by forgotpwd16 | Hacker News Reader

Have noticed that teens tend to indeed say they're x old on stuff they're doing.

While some do, in order to increase their credibility, there's also a lot of survivorship bias/selection bias. There are a lot of projects (or comments) by teens that don't disclaim their age.

I know I don't mention my age because I want people to judge my work objectively. (not to imply that I'm a teenager...)

I never have because, and no disrespect to the author here, I feel I'd be seeking attention. It brings my brain back to that "14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer Dreams In Code" video, actually.

Oh wow, I remember that. Whatever happened to that kid?

Edit: ML research at Apple[0]

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slgonzalez

I went down that rabbit-hole too :) He's a private pilot too, apparently. Good for him.

And he's been working on it for a year. So he built a web framework at 14.

And I can't center a div without a google search...

(I am a back-end dev tho, so its a little better than it sounds)

Use margin: auto, unless you want to make people mad in which case XHTML just gives you the much more convenient and less semantic <center>

Just use Flexbox and blame it on the user if they are still using old browsers that doesn't support it.

Can't see they did it here, though. You have to click into their profile to see it.

Probably safest to avoid people raining hate in them for any perceived falling.

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