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Ever seen a post saying “I’m a Norwegian woman, look what I made”? Your personal info is just as irrelevant. Please don’t destroy the balance of equality with it.

Let's be honest, a post titled this would probably skyrocket to the front page and devolve into arguing about women in tech within the first hour exactly how the I'm X old and made X posts devolve.

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#5
> But in pursuit of this, don’t loose sight of your goal

I don't know why, but every time someone writes "loose" when they mean "lose" really bothers me. I need to work on that!

EDIT: Quote the relevant line from the post

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> But in pursuit of this, don’t loose sight of your goal I don't know why, but every time someone writes "loose" when they mean "lose" really bothers me. I need to work on that! EDIT: Quote the relevant line from the post

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

It's annoying. My pet peeves are your/you're and their/they're; seems everyone on Facebook under 25 is mixing them up, all the time.

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#10
Because the metric is excellence. Realistically, you can't expect a 14 year old to produce something of the quality from someone with a decade more experience, all else being equal. But if they can produce something that is uncommonly ahead of your time, then you have a case for showing it off based on that fact, and it benefits the community to reward skill as early as possible and give people the opportunities that "fame" affords.
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