[whyenot]

Every programmer I've known thought he was a super hacker by the time he got out of college.

Wasn't Linus Torvalds a college student when he released linux? For that matter, Facebook was written by a college student. Some college students can do amazing things. Also, this is just a pet peeve of mine, but don't diminish college students by calling them "kids." Many may be young, but they are adults.

[abalashov]

Yes, but an advanced graduate student, and Linux was his thesis project. Though he was ~21-23 at the time, the experience and maturity level was indubitably higher than the average CS undergrad in American universities.