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Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by drewmck »

remixz wrote: post #16

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

The thing I notice about a lot of software/games/whathaveyou made by people Looking at this module, had you not informed us otherwise, I would have not have guessed the person that made this was 15. It's impressive both in its focus and goals, and having no prior experience with IM/GM I'm now even more interested in using this as a pickaxe.

You should be proud of what you've done outside of the fact that you're 15 - it's really cool!

If you're looking for praise because of your age+abilities I would warn you that this praise is short-lived, and efforts to do so can backfire to the delight of douchey tech writers: http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

Well done. One question, though: Shouldn't the commands be a list instead of an object? I would think you would want to be sure to keep order for image processing. For instance, I don't want my image down-sized for the web until after all the processing is done to it.

The Ecmascript spec leaves the object attribute iteration order undefined (though it appears most implementations iterate in the order attributes are added).

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by danilocampos »

bashzor wrote: post #56

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…

We're top-voting this comment, folks?

Really? That's how we want to encourage the next generation?

Age is entirely relevant. In having youth, OP is sitting on a one-shot mass of potential energy that can be channeled in a multitude of ways. Among other things, by including age, OP is perhaps asking to be encouraged that yes, this is a valid and worthy combination of talents and ambitions. That this work shows potential and can lead somewhere.

The prosperity of my country, and of the human race altogether, absolutely depends upon swelling the ranks of STEM professionals. Our future requires we encourage our youth down the very challenging road of developing their minds.

So when one of those indescribably valuable minds comes to town seeking the support of the elders, we say fuck yeah, good job. You're doing it right. How can I be helpful on your journey?

OP, I know nothing about Node, but I nonetheless encourage you to continue your quest. We need you to keep loving this, even though it's hard. Keep it up. You'll get to help define the future.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by kloncks »

bashzor wrote: post #56

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…

Ironic to see "bash" in your username.

C'mon dude. 15-year-old kids don't normally write modules like this. I'm happy he's writing good code at his age. A lot of us starting programming when we were younger. I'll proudly encourage others to do that and then be there congratulating them when they accomplish that.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by rymith »

rymith wrote: post #4
ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

Sorry, I don't see that your age is relevant.

And I don't see why this comment is relevant.

Seriously, I'm down voted to obscurity because I don't see the relevance in some asshole picking a fight with a 15 year old kid? Releasing your own node module (or any code fo that matter) is something most developers never do, they are consumers of these packages, never contributors. You can look at the stats, it's pathetic. But a kid who can't legally dive a car releases a module. That's great, and whatever head up the ass mentality that brought hacker news to dump on this kid is simply ignorance if not pure jealousy. Way to go kid, don't let these dipshits discourage you. You're a better developer than the two late twenties, college graduates, that I have working for me.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by dchichkov »

danilocampos wrote: post #63
bashzor wrote: post #56

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…

We're top-voting this comment, folks? Really? That's how we want to encourage the next generation? Age is entirely relevant. In having youth, OP is sitting on a one-shot mass of potential energy that can be channeled in a multitude of ways. Among other things, by including age, OP is perhaps asking to be encouraged that yes, this is a valid and worthy combination of talents and ambitions. That this work shows potenti…

Shouldn't a threshold for "good job, you're doing it right" be a bit higher, than an iPhone game or an image processing module?

Like launching your code into space? Or solving a major machine learning challenge?

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by siglesias »

dchichkov wrote: post #66
danilocampos wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're top-voting this comment, folks? Really? That's how we want to encourage the next generation? Age is entirely relevant. In having youth, OP is sitting on a one-shot mass of potential energy that can be channeled in a multitude of ways. Among other things, by including age, OP is perhaps asking to be encouraged that yes, this is a valid and worthy combination of talents and ambitions. That this work shows potenti…

Shouldn't a threshold for "good job, you're doing it right" be a bit higher, than an iPhone game or an image processing module? Like launching your code into space? Or solving a major machine learning challenge?

Why?

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by saebekassebil »

bdcravens wrote: post #43
ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

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…

I think this is very suitable description of today's HN - I'd just love this to emphasized more clearly, since it seems like a common mistake to believe that HN is about actual ground-breaking stuff. It's not even if it were ment to be just that.

I must say that I agree with people stating that people should present their creative works here, with the intention of getting feedback of the product - How is it any relevant for any other HN reader (than OP), that we praise him/her as a person, rather than the product? The FAQ states, that relevant information is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" - Of course that's a quite vague definition, but still this is hardly intellectually stimulating.

Re: Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry

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Post by astrodust »

chris_p wrote: post #39
orangethirty wrote: post #27

On behalf of all the idiots that decided to rain on your parade, I would like to apologize. All of you should be ashamed. How dare you insult this young person whose only wish is to share his work with us? In terms of the module, can't really comment much on your code. It looks clean and well written. I'll try and run it during my free time to get a good feel for it. Well done. Now go back and build something bigger.…

Who is insulting him? People are just saying that his age is not relavent to what he did, and I agree. His post should describe the project. It should be about how awesome his project is, not about how awesome he is.

It looks like a good module that stands on its own merits. Adding irrelevant demographic information weakens that.

If this headline was "I'm black, and I released my first NPM module" or "I'm a Republican, and I released my first NPM module" would it be appropriate?

It's as if anyone who's not 20-40, white and male needs to somehow draw attention to that fact. Shouldn't this be an inclusive community rather than one that needs to tag its members?

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