This post is wrong on so many levels. It basically indicates that the author has zero recollection of being an awkward teenager without self-confidence. As som

This post is wrong on so many levels. It basically indicates that the author has zero recollection of being an awkward teenager without self-confidence. As someone who was 15 and making Windows freeware in 1997, let me tell you - it mattered a whole world that people acknowledged that what I was doing was very impressive for a 15 year old. I actively told people that I was the author of X and that I was 15, specifically because I needed to gauge their reaction to see whether they thought I was sufficiently talented in the field to pursue it full time. In fact, if they hadn't done that then, I don't know if I today would be the reasonably successful software developer I am. It is a very rare kid who has infinite internal confidence that what they are doing is good and worthwhile and will be appreciated by the world. Others need encouragement. So shut up, and get off the frontpage.