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    David Stone
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    Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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      Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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      Dan Pomerchik
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      Well, yeh you're the youngest here IMO. I'm almost 18 and it's average here. Mosts are 20+ and there are older too. But, what do you care ? :-) - Dan "Intel inside - Idiot outside"

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        Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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        Andrew Peace
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        I used to be a frequenter at CodeGuru when I was your age (and a little younger too) but didn't have a net connection at our house to had to use the public library and it sucked. Ever since CodeProject's inception I've been an avid visitor, though previously as a lurker up until the last six or eight months I guess. -- Andrew.

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          I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 :) However I did start at 17 and am currently 18 so there are a few that are close to your age. If memory serves me I believe there were some 13/14 year olds that were around a while ago. -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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          Dan Pomerchik
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          ****Matt Newman wrote: I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 My "bandwidth" is a 56K modem working like 2400BPS modem :-) :-) - Dan "Intel inside - Idiot outside"

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            Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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            Matt Newman
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            I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 :) However I did start at 17 and am currently 18 so there are a few that are close to your age. If memory serves me I believe there were some 13/14 year olds that were around a while ago. -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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              Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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              Domenic Denicola
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              I would be 13 :) And I don't just do web pages in FrontPage. I do Visual C++, .NET with C#, XML, XSLT, ASP.NET, and of course XHTML, CSS, and JScript.NET. Oh, and there was that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished.

              -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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                I would be 13 :) And I don't just do web pages in FrontPage. I do Visual C++, .NET with C#, XML, XSLT, ASP.NET, and of course XHTML, CSS, and JScript.NET. Oh, and there was that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished.

                -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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                Michael P Butler
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                Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)

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                  Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                  ISIS55
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                  Well I'm 17.3 at the moment but I've been programming since age 11. Of course it wasn't any serious programming back then but that's when I started. Only in the past 6 months I really took the time to delve into Visual C++. It's not the age that counts though, it's your motivation and will power. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704

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                    Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)

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                    ISIS55
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                    That was below the belt! :laugh: :laugh: This guy is young, he has a long way ahead before he needs to decide which field lures him most. Maybe he isn't interested in making games anymore, or maybe he wasn't ready for what he planned (or maybe he's a lazy bastard like me). I've been meaning to make a game for years, never had the knowledge to make a serious one. Only now I can really make this dream come true. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704

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                      Well, yeh you're the youngest here IMO. I'm almost 18 and it's average here. Mosts are 20+ and there are older too. But, what do you care ? :-) - Dan "Intel inside - Idiot outside"

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                      David Stone
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                      It's not that I care, I just noticed it. I like being able to talk to you guys and learn what you know. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                        It's not that I care, I just noticed it. I like being able to talk to you guys and learn what you know. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                        David Stone wrote: I like being able to talk to you guys and learn what you know. Then you've come to the right place! CP combines 2 of the 3 most important things in life: humor and knowledge. If CP had some women around, it would have been heaven... Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704

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                          Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                          Jack Handy
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                          I know someone who was doing very good C and TCL at age 12. He was also a very good unix user/admin. He is probably ~15-16 now and doing ASM. -Jack To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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                            I would be 13 :) And I don't just do web pages in FrontPage. I do Visual C++, .NET with C#, XML, XSLT, ASP.NET, and of course XHTML, CSS, and JScript.NET. Oh, and there was that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished.

                            -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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                            David Stone
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                            Surely you jest. Are you 13?? Besides, XML isn't programming. Neither is CSS, XHTML, or XSLT. DirectX isn't a language. ASP.Net really isn't a language either because you can use other languages within it. So really, you know C++, C#, and JScript.net. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                              Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)

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                              ColinDavies
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                              Michael P Butler wrote: I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team Harsh words, I can't number the amount of "dream" projects I have started and never finished. However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                              I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"

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                                Michael P Butler wrote: I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team Harsh words, I can't number the amount of "dream" projects I have started and never finished. However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. Regardz Colin J Davies

                                Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin

                                I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"

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                                ****Colin Davies wrote: However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. I think it's sad that it comes to this. I know I had dozens of projects I neglected at various points of their existance(some as ideas, some as almost completed applications), but I still finished what was important to me. I figure every programmer should always have one personal project in the making, even if it spans over years - the main idea is fulfilling your small dreams - regardless of financial profit. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704

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                                  I didn't have the bandwidth to visit the lounge at age 15 :) However I did start at 17 and am currently 18 so there are a few that are close to your age. If memory serves me I believe there were some 13/14 year olds that were around a while ago. -:suss:Matt Newman / Anti-Linux Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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                                  I didn't have a/ the bandwidth, b/ a modem ( they were 1200/75 or 300/300 at the time c/ Code Project, or d/ the world wide web to facilitate visiting when I was 15... :( Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?! - Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002

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                                    ****Colin Davies wrote: However that doesn't mean I can't finish a paying project. I think it's sad that it comes to this. I know I had dozens of projects I neglected at various points of their existance(some as ideas, some as almost completed applications), but I still finished what was important to me. I figure every programmer should always have one personal project in the making, even if it spans over years - the main idea is fulfilling your small dreams - regardless of financial profit. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704

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                                    ColinDavies
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                                    Isaac Sasson wrote: I think it's sad that it comes to this. No not really. A lot of my pet projects or at home projects was stuff that was far more difficult then anything at work, and just working on it was fun. Completion would have been nice, but then another interesting project would appear. One of my "projects" was a solution to "Rubiks Cube", years later I found so many other people had been working on similar stuff, and had done so much better than me. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                                      Surely you jest. Are you 13?? Besides, XML isn't programming. Neither is CSS, XHTML, or XSLT. DirectX isn't a language. ASP.Net really isn't a language either because you can use other languages within it. So really, you know C++, C#, and JScript.net. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                                      David Wulff
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                                      David Stone wrote: Neither is ... XSLT. I think that one is bordering very near the definition. ____________________ David Wulff It's in our nature to destroy ourselves. It's in our nature to kill ourselves. It's in our nature to kill each other. It's in our nature to kill kill kill. - Blood Brothers by Papa Roach; album: Infest

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                                        Domenic [CPUA 0x1337] wrote: that game I made using DirectX 8.1, but that never got finished. I see a great future for you on the Duke Nukem Forever development team :-D Michael :-)

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                                        Christian Graus
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                                        I think everyone has a project or two that they didn't finish because they didn't find time, and it was outside the areas they needed to throw their energies into. Mine is a 3D Asteroids game. On that basis, I took this as a ( very funny ) dig at the Duke Nukem team and not at the guy who posted at all, because who *doesn't* have an unfinished project at home ? Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?! - Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002

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                                          Jeez, I was crwaling through the member listing when it hit me...you guys are all WAY older than me. I think the only one I saw who was even remotely close was David Wulff. But he's still 3 years older than me. (I'm 15 currently. Born in '86.) When I go to local Microsoft events, I'm always the youngest one there. No one even comes close. When I went to DevDays 2002, the MC had me stand up out of a room of at least 3 to 500 and said that he wished that he had been going to Microsoft events at my age. I don't know any other 15 year olds that program (some of my friends do HTML in FrontPage, but that's not really programming). Are there any other 15 year olds on CP? David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com "I am but mad north-northwest, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." -Hamlet

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                                          Russell Robinson
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                                          Well, I'm easily old enough to be your father (and to many more around here). But I know of at least one person who's old enough to be your grand father. And he's still coding every day. :-) (oh, that smile was an effort.....I'll have to go and have a little sleep now...) Russell Robinson (russellr@rootsoftware.com) Author of TTMaker (Advanced Timetabling Software) http://www.rootsoftware.com

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