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Sorry, I don't see that your age is relevant.

The "HN" ethos tends to reward those who go against the odds: founders who jumped off a cliff financially, teams working crazy hours with too few employees, working a full time job while bootstrapping, trying to have a family life, etc. In the end, none of that matters: you either ship good stuff, or you don't. However, whether you have a full-time job or are dealing with the time-suck that is high school, we're here to support, sympathize, and empathize, so it's all relevant.

I don't see how being 15 years old requires any empathy by default.

I think this is very suitable description of today's HN - I'd just love this to emphasized more clearly, since it seems like a common mistake to believe that HN is about actual ground-breaking stuff. It's not even if it were ment to be just that.

I must say that I agree with people stating that people should present their creative works here, with the intention of getting feedback of the product - How is it any relevant for any other HN reader (than OP), that we praise him/her as a person, rather than the product? The FAQ states, that relevant information is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" - Of course that's a quite vague definition, but still this is hardly intellectually stimulating.

>time-suck that is high school

I don't follow, high school allows you the most spare time you will ever have.

I think that it's a great achievement for someone his/her age to do. I wish I could've had the determination and knowledge required to write and publish a module at that age.

Sure it is, but it makes this submission less about the module, and more about the writer. As someone who was publishing code at a similar age to the OP, I would avoid ever mentioning my age online for that very reason.

I agree, it's good to get in the habit of letting your accomplishments speak for themselves. Your work is stronger for it, and you don't feel like you've lost anything when you grow up and your age is no longer special.

Yes, this. I would love to read a post about why the OP developed this module and how he got inspired/mentored towards it, but when evaluating the usefulness of the module itself, the age mention kind of throws me off. The OP wants an honest critique, I have to fight against the inner urge that thinks: "eh, why even bring up this issue, the dev is only 15 years old and is just trying things out. Good for the OP"

Alrighty, here's a bit on development/inspiration.

It started a couple weeks ago with me working on some internal projects. Talking with my bosses (I intern at a company called DIY), we figured the best solution would be to use GraphicsMagick. However, looking at the libraries available, they were a bit weak for what we wanted. So, I got to work. After some toying around with concepts, I decided on the task-based system. It kept things clean, but still allowed for extensibility. My bosses really helped me out to keep it clean and make sure my code was optimal. Fast forward to now, and there's wizardry!

If you (or anyone!) has any questions, feel free to ask them.

His age is totally relevant. I wish that at 15 I could have known just to code, he actually published code!

It's great that we see youth influenced and impacted by HN.

> It's great that we see youth influenced and impacted by HN.

So this is the HN version of "We did it, reddit!".

I don't use reddit, nor do I understand your point.

As a 16 year old, telling someone something is good because of their age is very detrimental to their learning later in life. I wish people didn't treat me differently when i programmed when I was younger. It creates a fixed mindset.

bitches gonna bitch

And I don't see why this comment is relevant.

Seriously, I'm down voted to obscurity because I don't see the relevance in some asshole picking a fight with a 15 year old kid? Releasing your own node module (or any code fo that matter) is something most developers never do, they are consumers of these packages, never contributors. You can look at the stats, it's pathetic. But a kid who can't legally dive a car releases a module. That's great, and whatever head up the ass mentality that brought hacker news to dump on this kid is simply ignorance if not pure jealousy. Way to go kid, don't let these dipshits discourage you. You're a better developer than the two late twenties, college graduates, that I have working for me.

I upvoted you. HN has a lot of haters. I got downvoted too before.

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