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> why mar the pride you should be feeling with manipulation? Because the achievement is greater with context of the creator. It's actually more interesting wh
by watty 14y ago
> why mar the pride you should be feeling with manipulation?
Because the achievement is greater with context of the creator. It's actually more interesting when a 14 year old creates a mediocre iOS app compared to 24 year old. Similarly it's more interesting when a 6 year old runs a marathon or a 10 year old graduates college (yes, both happened).
Honestly it sounds like the writer is bitter for whatever reason. HN has a voting system where the most interesting things are voted to the top and accomplishing a lot at a young age is more interesting to the HN community.
- bicknergseng 14y ago>Honestly it sounds like the writer is bitter for whatever reason Because the writer doesn't understand how important context is to understanding. The yc application isn't up right now, but I remember a question on it along the lines of "why you?" Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.