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I can respect her doing so much at such a young age, but if she acts like this in real life, she's only perpetuating the stereotype that she's trying to denounce.
The fact HN upvoted this straight to the number one slot based on age and gender rather than content is a little bit depressing IMHO. Either the average HNer is less discerning than I imagined, or the system is being gamed.
Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough. Unfortunately for her, she's going to really struggle to have people heed her good advice for quite some time as it's experience and success that dictates the value of your advice.
Ah, "the" start-up scene, AKA "everything that's wrong with London-centric UK". I hope Propelly takes off and reminds the tech-luvvies that there IS a world outside London. It might stretches as far as Scotland, if you squint hard enough and don't listen to fat Alec too much.
Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification. I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life. My gosh this article was obnoxious…
What I really hate is to see this kind of tall poppy syndrome, and I'm horrified to see it on HN of all places. Confident, ambitious people should be celebrated, not hammered down by small-minded people who are offended whenever someone tries to achieve above their station.
I wonder how much of a role her parents play in her life. Not to denegrate her achievements but a 14 year old is (typically) still dependent on their parents/guardians. Secondly, how is she 'helping' in this start up. Maybe It's just because I'm in a rather unhappy mood but this article just really irritates me. Sure this girl is in a great position and has the wonderful opportunity to work with intelligent and exper…
The issue with the article was that she had this attitude that she'd come from nowhere, which is untrue, but I don't think I as a 14 year old truly appreciated the gravity of how much a person is built by their surroundings and predecessors.
Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification. I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life. My gosh this article was obnoxious…
Personally, I think that's a pretty good attitude for a teenager to have.
Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification. I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life. My gosh this article was obnoxious…