This is awesome, and so is your website. Programming, writing, flying, music, that 's wild. Congrats!
I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
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Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#82> The envp argument contains another null-terminated list of environment variables used as context for the application. They’re… conventionally KEY=VALUE pairs. Conventionally.
TIL! It seems a lot of (newer) programming languages make this assumption.
> …I love computers.
Me too, kid. Me too.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#83Meta point: I'm curious of people's thoughts when OPs in general post "I'm N years old..." or "I'm a blind programmer who..." before posting something unrelated to their life situation. Personally I think this falls into the "girls do not exist on the internet" rule of thumb. No reason to state that you're a girl (or 12 years old or whatever) other than to prime people to look upon your writing with lower standards.…
Everything is marketing.
The age thing is a bit of a red flag now given that too many parents in this industry try to give their kid an advantage by presenting their work as the work of their child. Seed the internet with all of the amazing accomplishments your kid "achieved" at a young age. I now look on the "I'm NN years old and I..." claims with skepticism, to the point where it's a net negative. It makes the project look worse.
Not in this case. It probably a nice guide. Already know how CPUs work so didn't read it, but it's entirely reasonable that a teen could do the work and assemble the details of how a CPU works.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#84This is awesome, and so is your website. Programming, writing, flying, music, that 's wild. Congrats!
Note, in response to the title, that I don't mean "awesome for a 17yo", I mean awesome, period.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#85Meta point: I'm curious of people's thoughts when OPs in general post "I'm N years old..." or "I'm a blind programmer who..." before posting something unrelated to their life situation. Personally I think this falls into the "girls do not exist on the internet" rule of thumb. No reason to state that you're a girl (or 12 years old or whatever) other than to prime people to look upon your writing with lower standards.…
Mixed feelings, but overall, I think it does two things: - promotes more civil discussion. Commentors are less mean, less dismissive, and when posting criticism it's usually more constructive - gets the article more attention/traction than normal as a subset of the audience is impressed by the accomplishment/effort given the backstory Which both benefit the author, and that's fine. We talk about hooks and marketing a…
Can't wait for people to start abusing this strat by lying about their age.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#86This is on my reading list. This little bit sold me on it in the past: > The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline. Such a tiny and, in hindsight, obvious detail. It's surprisingly pleasant. When I noticed that, I knew I had a passion project in front of me.
There are quite a few very nice UI touches. I think the bit about the author (authors?) being 17 is relevant because it seems like they put a lot of thought about how to represent a book on the web and came up with some new conventions, just like you'd expect from a new generation. The chapter navigation widget at the top for example, where the previous and next chapters are slightly opaque. Haven't seen that before.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#87Meta point: I'm curious of people's thoughts when OPs in general post "I'm N years old..." or "I'm a blind programmer who..." before posting something unrelated to their life situation. Personally I think this falls into the "girls do not exist on the internet" rule of thumb. No reason to state that you're a girl (or 12 years old or whatever) other than to prime people to look upon your writing with lower standards.…
Doesn't the idiom "girls do not exist on the internet" itself point to the "standard" that, in this circles, men think of the people are interacting with as men, as "default", and the not-default is women. And we come back to the invisibilization of people who are not a white young guy in tech. I'd wish to get as far away as possible from such an attitude, and thus really enjoy when I see people outside of this "norm…
I don’t think it’s intended as such, but the particular phrasing as expressed could be misinterpreted as such. Therefore it should be expressed differently; don’t choose to differentiate based on attributes that shouldn’t make a difference for your message.
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#88The only thing is I hate titles like this—the title is bragging a bit too much. Maybe a title more like: “How I’m helping my high school peers learn about CPUs”. That way it implies you’re young, smart, and care about others—all of which I imagine are true :)
Hacker News automatically removes the word "How" from the beginning of submissions (and then Title Cases them for good measure) - so I believe submitting that title would instead result in this:
I'm Helping My High School Peers Learn About CPUs
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#89I've only skimmed so far, but this looks really great. Good work!
Re: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs
#90Hi! I'm Lexi, I wrote this article/mini-book. There's a classic question of "what happens when you load a website?", but I've always been more interested in "what happens when you run a program?". About 3 months ago, I was really annoyed at myself for not knowing how to answer that question so I decided to teach myself. I taught myself everything else I know in programming, so this should be easy, right? NOPE! Appare…
I haven't read the whole thing yet, but initial impressions are that this looks GREAT. Being able to communicate concepts like this well in writing is a rare skill, it will serve you very well in your future career.