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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by onemandevteam »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #396
brewdad wrote: post #390

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Certainly not everyone, but a lot of the people who have entered the field in the past decade are chasing the money. The never had the passion for it but they were and are good at it, so here they are.

The last remaining field is game dev. The pay is low and react kiddies cannot learn it in a week. I wish the pay was higher buy the passion remains there.

Yes, game dev and developing software for personal projects. Corporate world is insufferable.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by 0xFEE1DEAD »

This is adorable. Writing HTML might be straightforward for us, but for a 7yo it's a significant cognitive achievement. It wasn't long ago that she learned to read. Tell her a random internet guy is proud of her.

Maybe this marks the beginning of her journey in tech - it certainly was for me. I started writing HTML at 13 and soon realized that a guestbook involves more than just a tag. That led me to learn PHP. That was 20 years ago and though I am now primarily a backend developer my passion for learning and working in tech remains undiminished.

My son is now 2 1/2, and I hope he too will develop an interest in these things in the coming years.

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Post by efilife »

different_base wrote: post #493
efilife wrote: post #373

Don't tell me she also included Cloudflare analytics on her site?

Why on earth Cloudflare scripts are running on a webpage made by a little girl? We fucked up bad. Real bad. As software engineers, we have produced nothing but garbage in the last two decades.

I doubt that we fucked up. I didn't, you probably didn't too. It's on the megacorp

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Post by galdosdi »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #463
galdosdi wrote: post #442

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I'm surprised to hear this, I would never think to lump Pittsburgh in with big metros. Are you being picky or something? Do you have kids and thus school district is a major consideration? Do you have a specific neighborhood you want? Really, Pittsburgh of all places? I know a quick search from someone from out of town is kind of shaky and there's a lot of local knowledge you have, but are houses like https://www.zil…

Many rust belt cities are de facto segregated by class and race. I’m not familiar with Pittsburgh specifically but just glancing at those listings I suspect they may be in “the ghetto”.

As a white man living on a very black block in Philadelphia, it's extremely difficult for me to relate or sympathize. People move from here to Pittsburgh because of Pittsburgh's famously low housing costs.

Sucks to suck I guess.

PS: Regarding safety, I went back and looked at street view for all three properties. All three appeared to be surrounded by well-kept yards and houses, cars in decent condition, etc, which is a very good barometer for safety and basic neighborhood quality. These are nice suburban houses.

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Post by nimbleal »

mondrian wrote: post #500
nimbleal wrote: post #205

I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how the wonder I felt at that in many ways led me to where I am today, so many years later. These things matter.

Do you still have the animation?

I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.
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