[1_player]

One Twitter message of theirs reads "WOW THIS IS SO EMPOWERING", and a quote from Steve Jobs about changing the world.

I am 34 years old and I have a hard time finding a use for that word as it is, I can't really imagine 11 years old me grasping the concept of "empowerment". I was already writing (some) C at that age, I felt like a cool kid because I managed to paint the screen red in Turbo C++, but not so much to have the maturity and foresight of opening a whole business, create an MVP, market it, and ask Paul Graham for advice.

But what do I know.

[Azaan]

Friend,

Aged 10, I passed my GCSE Mathematics exam with the highest possible grade, an A Star (Grade 9).

I am one of the youngest boys in the 33+ year history of the exam to have achieved this.

We are all born with different abilities and talent. I suck at sports but excel in Mathematics and Sciences etc

https://educational-life.org/ten-year-old-maths-whizz-gets-h...

[jackhalford]

this « article » and the whole website feels odd. It looks like a news website but the articles all look like paid marketing placements.

[Azaan]

Friend don't be so cynical.

[eps]

> Friend don't be cynical.

... and if one needs an explicit confirmation that it was someone older than 11-year old posting all this, here it is. Phrasing, voc and the tone - none of it correlates with what a kid would say, leave alone to an adult stranger.

[dang]

Please stop this, all of you. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, goading and piling on an 11-year-old. Even if you're 100% correct, none of that would be his fault—taking it out on the kid is shoddy, and also childish in its own right. The proper response is to be warm, receptive, and encouraging down the path of actual learning and creation. Get him talking about the details of the project that he finds most interesting, get him technically engaged, direct the focus away from age-achievement. Then maybe something good comes of it.

[huhtenberg]

Daniel, I don't believe for a second that the site at a link could've been developed by an 11-year-old child. That's just not possible. However it is presented as such, and pretty aggressively at that. Some of his comments here could've not been written by a child either, that's pretty bloody obvious if you are to take just take an impartial look. This whole project has a very strong smell of manipulation and sock-puppetry.

I am all for encouraging anyone to get better at things they are genuinely interested in, but being warm and receptive to blatant mis-representation of one's work is not the right thing to do. It sends the exact opposite of the right signal.

[honkdaddy]

To what extent did your father's experience building a global trading platform influence the creation of this platform, Azaan?

[dang]

You're seriously breaking the site guidelines. Please read them and stick to the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note this one: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine." And above all, this one: "Be kind".

As for cross-examining an 11-year-old - what kind of community do you guys think this is supposed to be? Please re-read the guidelines repeatedly.

[honkdaddy]

You're right dang - apologies.