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Quote 1: "Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2/3 of my life
by unnouinceput 4y ago
Quote 1: "Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2/3 of my life, I’ve been building things on the web. "
Math: If 2/3 => 10, then 3/3 => X. X = 3/3 * 10 div 2/3; X = 30/2; X = 15. So the author is 15 years old and writing code since 5 years old, and during this time he was also employed. Unusual but not unheard to be employed as a child.
Quote 2: "I was 19 years old when I applied for my first technical job. The position I was applying for was called “Student Webmaster”."
Oaw there, we just calculated she's 15 so how was she 19 when first employed? Something's off on one of above quotes.
- mypastself 4y agoBesides employment. So like the rest of us, she likely coded before she started doing it professionally. I don’t think your “2/3 => 10” equation is supported by the quote. Seems pretty clear she started building things at 9 or 10, and got her first job a decade later.