I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
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Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#2Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough.
Unfortunately for her, she's going to really struggle to have people heed her good advice for quite some time as it's experience and success that dictates the value of your advice.
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#3I wonder how much of a role her parents play in her life. Not to denegrate her achievements but a 14 year old is (typically) still dependent on their parents/guardians.
Secondly, how is she 'helping' in this start up. Maybe It's just because I'm in a rather unhappy mood but this article just really irritates me. Sure this girl is in a great position and has the wonderful opportunity to work with intelligent and experienced people but how much of this is because of her own hard work. The tone comes off as if she is the master of her own fate but I wonder if she would have still authored this article had she been born in Kabul!
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#4Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too.
What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims "If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough" and self gratification.
I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life.
My gosh this article was obnoxious.
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#5Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification. I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life. My gosh this article was obnoxious…
Sour grapes fella. How do you know she's been 'lucky' in life?
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#6How does this article have 41 points in 25 minutes? Is someone gaming the system, or am I missing something?
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#7Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough. Unfortunately for her, she's going to really struggle to have people heed her good advice for quite some time as it's experience and success that dictates the value of your advice.
Ah, "the" start-up scene, AKA "everything that's wrong with London-centric UK".
I hope Propelly takes off and reminds the tech-luvvies that there IS a world outside London. It might stretches as far as Scotland, if you squint hard enough and don't listen to fat Alec too much.
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#8The fact HN upvoted this straight to the number one slot based on age and gender rather than content is a little bit depressing IMHO.
Either the average HNer is less discerning than I imagined, or the system is being gamed.
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#9How does this article have 41 points in 25 minutes? Is someone gaming the system, or am I missing something?
I'm guessing average HNer's see "girl", and think to themselves "must stamp out any sexism by upvoting anything remotely related to females". Reverse sexism at it's misguided best...
Re: I’m a girl, aged 14, based in Northern England – working on a tech startup.
#10Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification. I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life. My gosh this article was obnoxious…
Sour grapes fella. How do you know she's been 'lucky' in life?
Well most of us have been very very lucky in life, we have won the lottery, but among other things:
* Born in a 1st world country
* Born in a wealthy enough family that can afford computers and education for their children
* Born with parents that are supportive of her actions
It's a very common misconception on Hacker News that we have started from nothing and if people don't succeed it's because they don't "try enough". If you really want to see nothing go to Africa and say you haven't been lucky in life. "Trying" for these people is way harder than YOUR trying and you have to realize that.
By the way I am in no way sour, it's just important to realize what we were given in life and stop giving lessons to everybody based on our limited experience. Just a little decency.