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when i was a baby my mom and dad took me to the genius bar and it turned out that yep, baby james was all the way on the far side of the bell curve baby. thats right - big cranium, high levels of electric currents in the brain, and basically plenty of pentiums worth of a processing power in this big baby noggin. anyways, there was an amiga in my pram and i started blasting out the codes right then and there. needless to say even as a baby i could easily interpret the machine code the BASIC generated even before hitting compile. it was trivial to start mastering the ancillary skills and fleshing out the requisite knowledge base to become a senior programmer even at the nubile age of 14 for a large open source technology. one thing led to another hehe and now im a 7 figgy computer infosec whiz at the age of 28. i dont really program for work anymore, but i still do it for fun.  anyone else got a similar story?
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Smythe posted:when i was a baby my mom and dad took me to the genius bar and it turned out that yep, baby james was all the way on the far side of the bell curve baby. thats right - big cranium, high levels of electric currents in the brain, and basically plenty of pentiums worth of a processing power in this big baby noggin. anyways, there was an amiga in my pram and i started blasting out the codes right then and there. needless to say even as a baby i could easily interpret the machine code the BASIC generated even before hitting compile. it was trivial to start mastering the ancillary skills and fleshing out the requisite knowledge base to become a senior programmer even at the nubile age of 14 for a large open source technology. one thing led to another hehe and now im a 7 figgy computer infosec whiz at the age of 28. i dont really program for work anymore, but i still do it for fun. Yes, my story is very similar as my name is also James, but I was born into a broken home and never learned to use a computer. Today I work as a house painter and although I have heard of the Internet I have not personally had a chance to use it.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:50
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please don't call 14 year olds nubile
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Started programming while in the womb. Built a raspberry pi program to help my mom time her pushes when giving birth to me.
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Started programming at age 8, burnt out and bitter at age 30
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Dec 21, 2015 22:55
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cool story brogrammer
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Dec 21, 2015 23:26
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A Pinball Wizard posted:cool story bromarf
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Dec 22, 2015 00:48
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smith how much of an average day would you say you spend on regretting not studying computer man codes instead of useless 5 figgy fucktard humanities nonsense
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Smythe posted:when i was a baby my mom and dad took me to the genius bar and it turned out that yep, baby james was all the way on the far side of the bell curve baby. thats right - big cranium, high levels of electric currents in the brain, and basically plenty of pentiums worth of a processing power in this big baby noggin. anyways, there was an amiga in my pram and i started blasting out the codes right then and there. needless to say even as a baby i could easily interpret the machine code the BASIC generated even before hitting compile. it was trivial to start mastering the ancillary skills and fleshing out the requisite knowledge base to become a senior programmer even at the nubile age of 14 for a large open source technology. one thing led to another hehe and now im a 7 figgy computer infosec whiz at the age of 28. i dont really program for work anymore, but i still do it for fun. hell same
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pram posted:hell same
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unfortunately i did not pay richard lowtax kyanka for the privilege of using search
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Smythe posted:when i was a baby my mom and dad took me to the genius bar and it turned out that yep, baby james was all the way on the far side of the bell curve baby. thats right - big cranium, high levels of electric currents in the brain, and basically plenty of pentiums worth of a processing power in this big baby noggin. anyways, there was an amiga in my pram and i started blasting out the codes right then and there. needless to say even as a baby i could easily interpret the machine code the BASIC generated even before hitting compile. it was trivial to start mastering the ancillary skills and fleshing out the requisite knowledge base to become a senior programmer even at the nubile age of 14 for a large open source technology. one thing led to another hehe and now im a 7 figgy computer infosec whiz at the age of 28. i dont really program for work anymore, but i still do it for fun. what age were yOU when you graduated with your BS CS (top 50)?
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SpaceAceJase posted:Started programming at age 8, burnt out and bitter at age 11
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Dec 22, 2015 04:21
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i am still programming as a child
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i programmed as a child and never again
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i programmed as a child (qbasic  ) and now i'm doing nothing with my life hail satan
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languages i learned, in chronological order, with age: lisp, like 7 years old logo, like 8 or 9 years old qbasic, 12 java, 13 c, 18 scheme, 18 vhdl, 19 c#, 20 c++, 22 scala, 23 python, 24 verilog, 24 i think that's about all of em, op.
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Dec 22, 2015 05:50
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vhdl before verilog? you poor bastard
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Dec 22, 2015 06:17
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Bloody posted:languages i learned, in chronological order, with age: no ti-basic, voted 2
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wait hang on i came up with a better postBloody posted:lisp, like 7 years old a mind is a terrible thing to waste 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWvvE9w6Po
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JewKiller 3000 posted:no ti-basic, voted 2 Oh yeah forgot that one slot it in around 14 or 15
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JewKiller 3000 posted:wait hang on i came up with a better post 
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i bought a book about java 1.0 when i was about 8 years old. i figured out how to do some stuff but i didnt really like it because what i really wanted to do was learn c like jeff vogel
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when i was in elementary school I hand-copied hex values from a C64 magazine to play some stupid ninja game im basically mel
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I hosed around in AMOS on the Amiga which let you take basic a bit further but virtually every thing was gleaned from reading other code. I had no idea how to do anything I just messed around. wished someone had guided me. been my mentor
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i used to know lisp as a child but the speech therapists beat it out of me
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my friednd Jim GBS startyinged devouring descartes at the age of 3. he thought he was sooooo smart. little did he know i had already realized the inferiority of the humanites and instead directed my incredible genius towards computer programming. i had mastered all the dinorsaur textbooks by the time Jim was just starting on plato. needless to say after a bit of a run-in with teen ennui due to finishing college at age 13 and still having never been able to muster the courage to don my klurf suit and gently caress my dead dog Jim ended up with a slight advantage. i knew it was short lived. my iphone app soared to the top of the app store and i really rubbed it in jims face. stupid bitch. he works for me now asking if i was fries with that. haha
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Dec 26, 2015 23:32
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I didn't realize this was a smythe thread. thanks awful app
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i was chomping camus at age 2, nibbling nietzsche at age 3, slurping sartre at age 4
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Smythe posted:my friednd Jim GBS startyinged devouring descartes at the age of 3. he thought he was sooooo smart. little did he know i had already realized the inferiority of the humanites and instead directed my incredible genius towards computer programming. i had mastered all the dinorsaur textbooks by the time Jim was just starting on plato. needless to say after a bit of a run-in with teen ennui due to finishing college at age 13 and still having never been able to muster the courage to don my klurf suit and gently caress my dead dog Jim ended up with a slight advantage. i knew it was short lived. my iphone app soared to the top of the app store and i really rubbed it in jims face. stupid bitch. he works for me now asking if i was fries with that. haha textme
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I always wanted to program but not knowing how let me stick to the cool IT jobs.
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Started from the bottom, now we're here.
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Squinty Applebottom posted:Started from the bottom, now we're here. started from the upper-middle, now we're bs cs top 50
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