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An aside, this lady's accomplishments at her age make her someone I look up to, ngl
by Karsteski 5y ago
An aside, this lady's accomplishments at her age make her someone I look up to, ngl
- kleiba 5y agoActually, that's not too surprising, given that a lot of technically minded folks start digging into their craft in their early teens. I think that it's only natural to get most of your accomplishments in at a relatively younger age, when your independence is at its peak. Like, say, once you become a husband and father, there's no time for anything any more.
- jjuel 5y agoCan confirm that with 3 kids under 3 I have ZERO time to do anything I would like to programing wise outside of work.
- vaxman 5y agoYou’re holding it wrong. Seek tech partnerships with others lacking such time constraints and optimize shared responsibilities with existing partners. YOLO Time waits for no man.
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- grumpyprole 5y agoCan confirm, as a father of two kids, I get no time or energy for projects. I used to get two 30 minute train journeys pre-covid. I'm not at all unhappy with this situation, but do still occasionally wish I had done more when I was younger.
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- tome 5y agoEven further aside, how are you deducing her age? Her photograph? I didn't see anything prominent about her age anywhere.
- Karsteski 5y agoI tend to check out the personal websites of people with cool accomplishments
- tome 5y agoI don't even see an age there ... are you inferring it from her student status? Anyway, not that it's a big deal, I was just curious!
- oxygenoxy 5y agoHer resume is up on her personal website.
- mariodiana 5y agoHer résumé states she was a National Merit finalist in 2019, a scholarship competition for high school students. #EMDW https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&gid=2&pgid=424 https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/interior.aspx?sid=1758&...
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- pantalaimon 5y agohttps://rosenzweig.io/blog/americas-rough-draft.html https://rosenzweig.io/blog/americas-rough-draft.html
- throwaway17183 5y agoPretty sure it's a he...
- fsf-non-intern 5y agoShe (rightly) got the internship at the FSF the year I applied [1], so now I feel envious every time I read about something amazing she did. [1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-alyssa-rosenzweig-intern-with-the-fsf-tech-team https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-alyssa-rosenz...
- daptaq 5y agoHow do people react to information like this? Personally, it just makes me feel bad for myself, especially when I don't know the person in question. Most people usually react positively, but I am not sure if this is some kind of a "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything"-mentality, or if I am the bad one.
- Karsteski 5y agoWhat do you mean? What I said is a compliment
- daptaq 5y agoI was generally speaking about praising someone's accomplishments because/despite of their age.
- Karsteski 5y agoIdk, maybe it depends on the person. I would take it positively, as its an accomplishment regardless of their age, but even more so given how young the person is.
- megous 5y agoI get some praise for my FOSS work. Nobody mentions my gender or age ever, though. :) It would feel kinda weird I guess. I mostly don't care about the praise, because it's not the motivating factor. I usually interpret it non-presonally as the other person being excited about similar things I am. (probably a projection, but whatever) Also in > 80% of cases the communication goes 1) praise 2) I need this. :) So, being praised is associated with someone wanting something from me, by now. The best praise is the one that comes with a donation. :)
- megous 5y agoYoung hackers show us that becoming a hacker doesn't require that much time. A few years, perhaps. :)
- oblio 5y agoMy bet is that they started hacking (with help/guidance, most likely) since when they were able to read, which could have been as early as 3-4. So at this point they probably have 10+ years of experience and probably thousands of hours of practice. Still amazing. But coding is easy to get started with. Now, a 14 year old world renowned notary, that I will probably not see within my lifetime :-))
- rowanG077 5y agoI don't really believe notary is harder or easier then programming. However there are very crucial reasons that you will never see a 14 year old world renowned notary. 1. It's a protected job in most countries 2. It's just boring for kids. In addition with programming you can create and mod games which is how a lot of people start their first programming steps as a kid. Kids don't just start programming because they think hmm I want to program. No they want to do something and to do it they have program. There is 0 incentive for a kid to do notary work.
- oblio 5y ago> harder > 1. It's a protected job in most countries Not all things which are difficult to do are difficult because laws of physics do not allow them ;-)
- rowanG077 5y agoHuh? How are laws of physics even remotely related to a kid learning any adult profession?
- oblio 5y agoI'll rephrase my previous comment: because being a notary is a protected profession in most country, it's hard (probably impossible) for a kid to become a successful notary. Sometimes "hard" means "other people make it hard". It doesn't mean that it's hard in the sense that you have to discover new things or go to other worlds or be able to read binary code fluently while it's scrolling down the screen, Matrix-style :-)
- rtz121 5y ago> this lady's Immediately knew where this was going.
- i_am_new_here 5y ago"(A) Women accomplishes something, ... yada... yada... yada (nobody actually/really cares). As opposed to men: They accomplish things to attract/impress attractive females. If females do it it feels so misplaced / out of place. She should be investing in her beauty (but doesn't). She is Jewish btw... Such a smart girl, bravo! Beating anti-semitism one smart girl at a time.
- rtz121 5y agoSeems like you didn't get what I was on about. Very sad.
- i_am_new_here 5y agoThanks for pointing out to me that I did't get something/anything from the word you uttered. Also thank you for pointing it out and not taking up the chance to start voluptuous chatter, now. You must be a man of sparse words.
- jvanderbot 5y agoTech is skewed so strongly towards the young, that I thought your comment implied the author was old, not young. A teen hacking together something awesome is commonplace. A 65 year old doing it is less so?