I was hacking since before I was 8, and my family wasn't well off back then (although my dad's computer skills did get us to that point many years later). Of c

I was hacking since before I was 8, and my family wasn't well off back then (although my dad's computer skills did get us to that point many years later). Of course, that young hacking still hasn't gotten me anywhere special yet at the age of 27. If you read the article though, it's more directly addressing the issue that computing as a male geeky hobby at a young age has shaped and defined the current computing culture, and that is undeniably true. Changing, yes, but not changed enough, yet.