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. anyone else got a similar story?