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Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
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#12I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
I think the crankiness will be justified when HN fills up with "I'm a 15-year old who just made this app/website/blog post", but until then it just strikes me as a bit po-faced. No offence, this might be the first time you've had this particular grumble, but someone seems to do it every time a post like this hits the front page. Incidentally, I agree with you on the blog post. The other stuff this kid's doing - quite…
It is the first time I've had this grumble, but I migrated here from Reddit to escape the onslaught of everybody-look-at-meeeeee-I'm-a-teenager!!! Apologies if I come across as grumpy; I guess others found more value in the post than I did.
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#13I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
>As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience.
I get that feeling sometimes. I always feel bad about it afterwards. Don't worry, he'll regret it later.
Source: I'm 16. I've mentioned my age on the Internet many times, every time I felt like a dick about it later.
PS: This kids writing annoyed me, I know I must be doing something annoying with mine that I'm not noticing, please point it out to me; thank you in advance.
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#14Reading this brought a smile to my face. It took me back to the days of AIM chats, the silly screennames, Casio messagers that we could program to work as remotes for the school TVs to baffle teachers, et al... I never really considered how technology was evolving during that time of my life, but it definitely was, and I'm getting nostalgic just thinking about it :)
Those programmable Casio watches were a valuable item on the school black market and for good reason.
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#15I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
I think the crankiness will be justified when HN fills up with "I'm a 15-year old who just made this app/website/blog post", but until then it just strikes me as a bit po-faced. No offence, this might be the first time you've had this particular grumble, but someone seems to do it every time a post like this hits the front page. Incidentally, I agree with you on the blog post. The other stuff this kid's doing - quite…
> Basically, I want to consult with my teenage self and use that advice to invest time/money!
You and me both. As the eldest child, it was my job to walk the dog three times a day during school holidays. Most of the time I'd go alone. During those endless walks along riverbanks, through fields and down twisty country lanes I'd think and invent and create in my head. It was wonderful.
I remember dreaming up a multi-player game set in space, where every character would be played by another real person. You'd join a ship's crew and go exploring a gigantic galaxy. I was inspired, of course, by Elite on the school BBC and Star Trek; by the 9600 baud modem my Dad 'borrowed' from work and the bulletin boards it gave me access to; and by a dreamy child's desire for complete and total escape. A good fifteen years later Eve Online came out and I got my wish, just as I was settling into a busy career and saving for my first house. I've never even downloaded it.
Then there's the sketches I made in the mid '80s for a handheld computer with a touch-screen interface that would communicate, via radio, with transceivers in public buildings to give people directions and information. There was even messaging, with a kind of dead-letter-drop store-and-forward system that carried data between the transceivers on devices themselves, like a weird cross between bittorrent and the Royal Mail. I don't think I'd even heard of email at that point.
I came up with so much on those long walks. Nearly all of it has been developed in some form or other, never exactly as I imagined but always better in some ways and worse in others.
For me it's one of the most heartbreaking things about growing up: there's no time to indulge in exploration for its own sake. I can't focus my entire brain on a single thing for any length of time at all. If I could, if only I could.
Re: Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the crankiness will be justified when HN fills up with "I'm a 15-year old who just made this app/website/blog post", but until then it just strikes me as a bit po-faced. No offence, this might be the first time you've had this particular grumble, but someone seems to do it every time a post like this hits the front page. Incidentally, I agree with you on the blog post. The other stuff this kid's doing - quite…
It is the first time I've had this grumble, but I migrated here from Reddit to escape the onslaught of everybody-look-at-meeeeee-I'm-a-teenager!!! Apologies if I come across as grumpy; I guess others found more value in the post than I did.
One cynical way to look at it: it's free market research from a high-spending demographic that's completely impenetrable to outsiders. I'm grateful for it, although I share your wary distaste of age-declaring youths. (Shades of those irritating, high-achieving 21 year olds who declare with no sense of irony that they've done more than people twice their age.)
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#17I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
It may not be unique, but it does show how teenager have grown up with social networking.
Jared Erondu had an opposite viewpoint on revealing age[1] where he couldn't talk about his age (18) because of the discrimination that followed.
[1] http://theindustry.cc/2012/09/14/youre-young-im-18-so-what/
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#18It's a testament to the speed at which technology moves that, despite being not very much older than the author (he's 16, I'm 23), I feel separated by a significant age gap. I'm still often shocked that Youtube can afford all the bandwidth required for streaming video; he barely remembers the world where unlimited streaming video wasn't the norm.
> I'm still often shocked that Youtube can afford all the bandwidth required for streaming video; he barely remembers the world where unlimited streaming video wasn't the norm.
You know, looking back it's silly, but when Youtube came out and started getting attention (I was still in school, so this must've been 2004 or so), I remember thinking to myself "so what?" -- the idea that it was novel just never occurred to me.
Back in 2002-2003, I ran a little startup (at 14-15) that did online music streaming. Built around a little PHP (later C++) daemon, you could set up playlists on the site and then connect to an icecast stream to play that playlist from any device you wanted. The music was ripped from CDs that my friends and I had, and we even added advertisements every X songs or N minutes. It eventually failed due to not being able to raise money to get licensing rights (my dad was running the business side and simply had no clue, but neither did I at the time), but it was just... no big deal to me. I had no idea that it was supposed to be a hard thing to do until a few years later, when I ended up working for MP3tunes trying to build the first online music locker.
I always just assumed that the trend towards storage and bandwidth being "free" was going to move fast enough that anything I could come up with would Just Work (TM).
Re: Tech Trends I’ve Noticed As A 16 Year Old
#19I don't think this a particularly unique or noteworthy perspective, and nor does it provide any real insight into the youth demographic. As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. Now get off my lawn.
>As a sidenote, I've noticed that teenagers love to declare their age when posting on the internet, as if their youth entitles them to an audience. I get that feeling sometimes. I always feel bad about it afterwards. Don't worry, he'll regret it later. Source: I'm 16. I've mentioned my age on the Internet many times, every time I felt like a dick about it later. PS: This kids writing annoyed me, I know I must be doin…
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Don't feel bad. Many adults don't even use commas properly.
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