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Guess I'll leave one of the few comments about the project itself. I'm going to evaluate this when I get home. If it works as described, I think I'll be integrating this into an imaging service we're building. The interface looks great. Keep coding man. This looks really good.
I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on top of.
You know how I know you're 15? Light grey text on a white background. I remember when I was younger and discovering ImageMagick - a perennial favourite for building little tools on top of.
Sorry, I don't see that your age is relevant.
The "HN" ethos tends to reward those who go against the odds: founders who jumped off a cliff financially, teams working crazy hours with too few employees, working a full time job while bootstrapping, trying to have a family life, etc. In the end, none of that matters: you either ship good stuff, or you don't. However, whether you have a full-time job or are dealing with the time-suck that is high school, we're here…
The age is not relevant. Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included his age. If he had gotten into programming at 35 and this was some kick-ass thing, then yeah that would be kinda neat. Now you could have been programming for five years or so, which gives you a big advantage.
If you had been twelve or so, then I'd say it rocks. But fifteen is a fine age to develop something.
I don't mean to discourage you at all, just let the product speak and not your age.
Hi all! Thanks for the great feedback. I did realize the title might have been controversial, but I have a small argument for it. A few weeks ago, there was the 14 year old who posted their rad iPhone game on HN. Their post did inspire me to post my own work. I have a tiny hope that someone else who's doing something like I am will see this and post their own work. I doubt it, but you never know! :D
I'm currently in University studying Comp Sci; I can say with confidence that the level of competence demonstrated by you doing this surpasses the majority of my peers and your work-ethic is certainly much higher than those of us who have skills. Good show dude! Keep up the awesome stuff and you'll have money & praise showered on you.
Oh a 15 year old, how cute. So, what about that module? Why is it special enough to be posted to HN? The age is not relevant. Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included his age. If he had gotten into programming at 35 and this was some kick-ass thing, then yeah that would be kinda neat. Now you could have been programming for five years or so, which gives you a big advantage. If you had been twelve or so, th…
> I don't mean to discourage you at all, just let the product speak and not your age.
C'mon, really?
I'm much more interested in the story of a 15-year old developer creating and publishing something, than I am in yet another node module.
> Imagine someone of 36 made this module and included his age.
Yes, that would probably be dumb. But 15 is not 36. Lots of people write programs at a young age. Not many publish them on the internet, at least historically. I was writing programs at that age, but I wasn't publishing them.
Heck, even just from the "hack the social system of hacker news by including age" angle this fits with many posts we see here regularly.