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I know you explicitly don't want to play the "I'm a kid" card, but you're kind of doing that just by mentioning it in this follow-up post. I think 17 is probably the age when you just don't have that card to play anymore.

I released my first OSS project (here) at 17, and mentioning my age didn't even cross my mind. You just take the feedback and criticism and reiterate like everyone else, because you won't have an excuse forever.

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Oh, relax. I'm over twice his age at this point (and still younger than many here). If you work at it, then your judgement improves Zenoically each year. At 17, you can have reasonably adult-like judgement about most things, but still get other things wrong by lack of experience.

So, sure, he's still got that card to play. Not that he needs it; choosing to sit back and wait things out and not get dragged in to the HN morass was pretty level-headed thinking. I certainly would've screwed that up at 17.

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