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If you gave computer manuals to kids today, they'd cry and beg for their phones back
by dangwu 7y ago
If you gave computer manuals to kids today, they'd cry and beg for their phones back
- kart23 7y agoDont give them a phone in the first place
- lacampbell 7y agoWhat's your point? Most kids back then would have cried and begged for their comics back, or for the television to be switched back on.
- dangwu 7y agoI'm disagreeing with OP's suggestion that giving computer manuals to kids is a "fairly effective way to create world-changing computer engineers."
- fao_ 7y agoYou could give computer manuals, but you have to: a) praise achievement not intelligence and b) Create an interest first. Maybe make it seem like magic or show something that you can do with it.
- lacampbell 7y agoAnd I think it depends on the kid, and the fact that smart phones exists now makes little difference.
- darkpuma 7y agoWhen I was a kid, some of my friends would whine whenever their parents took away their gameboy. But I didn't have a gameboy, so I never had the opportunity to whine about it being taken.
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- option 7y agoits mostly terms of use and legal disclaimers these days /s
- leetrout 7y agoApplies to college age kids as well.
- na85 7y agoYes, those lazy milennials with their instant grahams and their books of faces
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Especially not generational flamewar, which is particularly contentless. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html