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No. Your comment baited users to downvote you and introduced classic flamebait. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. > Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you.
This is anecdotal, but when I was his age and getting into the "real" tech world (and getting my work recognized), I really disliked my age being made a big deal. A big influence on my own view (and I think many others in this community) of being a "hacker" was Steven Levy's "Hacker Ethic", which specifically said: "Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position"…
It's relevant because it's remarkable and it puts the author in a much smaller circle than he would be if he were older. Trying to pretend otherwise is silly.
Being able to read at age 18 is a lot less interesting than at age 4. Same goes for rare technical feats (and writing an OS is such a thing, most developers wouldn't be able to pull it off, so doing so at age 13 is certainly a lot more interesting than when you're older).
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Maybe we should get rid of weight classes for boxing, women's leagues for sports, and anything that acknowledges accomplishments for anyone that is not 100% objectively the best on the planet.
You're acting like this wouldn't be interesting if it were an adult doing it.
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Detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046119 and marked off topic. Edit: The comment was off-topic because it went on a flamebait tangent. The topic at hand is an operating system project. Given the context, it's natural to talk about age and precocity too. But "Now it even matters what your political and religious views are [...] Brendan Eich [...]" is wildly off-topic, and exactly the sort of generic…
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I'm very happy to see people are still doing this sort of thing! I've always wanted to see something of a truly 'barebones' OS; but one that could at least get you 64-bit mode, OpenGL ES, audio output, USB polling and network connectivity with libc available. Yet not be as complex and large as Linux/BSD. Being able to run a real-time application with no pre-emption, no virtual memory protections, no kernel transition…
> Only strong use case would be for embedded; but ARM platforms have this area beat substantially in cost, power, tooling, etc.
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/run/ch01_02.htm
Linux started out as something quite a bit less impressive than what you see today.
From "About me" My name is Muazzam Ali Kazmi, a hobbyist programmer from Shahpur, Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan. I am a student of grade-11 and I started programming about 4 years ago. I am developing the OS since 7 September 2014. My interests include religion(s), philosophy, operating systems, virtual machines, simulating a universe in the computers, compilers, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, math…
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Regarding learning assembly, I'm beginning to come to the view that it's in fact the best way to teach the first course in programming to kids. They don't come with any preconceived notions of what programming should look like and given an explicit, visual model of the computer, they quickly learn the small number of operations to write programs. More over, once they learn to do LDA A ADD TWO STA A DAT TWO 2 in C or…