Sup /g/,
How does it feel to know that a 14 year old kid is better at coding then you?
>>52166642
>Sup /g/,
>How does it feel to know that a dog is better at coding then you?
FTFY
for everything I do there is a 14 year old kid that can do it better.
I can handle it
please not this again
>claims to be a programmer
>doesn't even dream in code
LMAO
>>52166642
All of his apps are shit.
>>52166642
This was posted 2 years ago.
He's 17 now.
>2035
>CS classes have been mandatory starting in 1st grade
>Every high school graduate can now code
>All those /g/tards with their STEM degrees are now competing with HS graduates for coding gigs
>Average pay for coding falls to minimum wage
>STEMTard status:
[ ] Not Told
[X] Told
[X] Really Told
[X] TOLDASAURUS REX
[X] Cash4Told.com
[X] No Country for Told Men
[X] Knights of the Told Republic
[X] ToldSpice
[x] The Elder Tolds IV: Oblivious
[x] Command & Conquer: Toldberian Sun
[x] GuiTold Hero: World Told
[X] Told King of Boletaria
[x] Countold Strike
[x] Unreal Toldament
[x] Stone-told Steve Austin
[X] Half Life 2: Episode Told
[X] Roller Coaster Toldcoon
[x] Assassin’s Creed: Tolderhood
[x] Battletolds
[x] S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shatold of Chernobyl
[X] Toldasauraus Rex 2: Electric Toldaloo
[x] Told of Duty 4: Modern Toldfare
When was the last time he updated his site? (pic related)
>>52166642
Who gives a shit there's always someone better at something. The only difference this autist gets recognition that will last a week before he gets BTFO by some Korean kid who sleeps, pisses, shits, and cums code.
>>52166731
>gnome
pleb
>>52166748
>criticizing something you know nothing about
It's Xfce.
>>52166729
> 14+2=17
>>52166730
Meanwhile the humanities ubermen are enjoying excellent job prospects right?
>[x] Battletolds
alright, I did chuckle
>>52167080
>not doing floating-point arithmetic
>>52167080
Well it is new years, so I just wanted my post to still be right tomorrow
>>52166729
He just got his master's degree in CS 2 weeks ago. Did he do a master's thesis? I'd like read it if it's posted online somewhere.
>>52166642
This kid shitposts 5 star reviews to his own apps on the Apple app store.
>>52166642
>>52167438
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/hicaduda/id314732530
Here's a link because Super Programmer Kid's link on his website is broken.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw
>14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer Dreams In Code
>Published on Jan 3, 2013
so he's actually 16 or 17 now
>>52167445
'Santiago I love to program just like you I am also going to be going into college soon for math science and computer sciences. The only problem I have is were to learn how to to program I only know java. My Iq is about 150 so I learn quick but programming lesson are expensive. You are living my dream life.
I am 11'
Kek
I've known many of these programming "prodigies" over the years. Most are just kids who started programming at a young age and since that's rare they're somehow "prodigies". Some of the best programmers I've known didn't start programming 'til their late 20s.
>>52167445
Most (all) of these apps are shit. They look like something you make with one of those drag and drop UI creators. This would be perfectly excusable if he wasn't trying to sell them.
>>52166642
>https://twitter.com/hicaduda
>Santiago Gonzalez
>@Hicaduda
>
>Programmer. Computer Science grad student at @coschoolofmines. Feminist. Nerd. 17.
>>52167520
You could literally make them in MIT app inventor
For every thing I do, there will always be someone better than me at it.
However, there will never be someone who is better than me at everything I do.
>>52167493
I literally don't understand how anybody could vaunt the title of "code prodigy" when code, in and by itself, is one of the easiest goddamn things to learn. We need more Terence Tao types in Computer Science instead of these pervasive no name "whizzes" who fixate on the application rather than the theory.
>>52166642
Feels like i'm not autistic, which is good.
>>52167372
I found this:
http://slgonzalez.com/other/ICNC_15.pdf
He's definitely smarter than all of you.
>>52166642
Indifferent.
I mean there kids better then me at Dota 2 too.
It's how the world works.
>>52167606
And you.
>>52166642
>then
>>52167611
I wish there was a way to improve intelligence.
I'm never jealous of rich people or good looking people. They're getting the same exprience as me.
But I am quite jealous of intelligent people and how they see the world. It frustrates me to no end that simple things like 2134*12356 can't be done in the mind in an instant.
Hell I'd struggle with 78/14.
>>52167526
feminist + fiscally conservative
>>52167550
>However, there will never be someone who is better than me at everything I do.
Prove it. Your wishful thinking is cute.
>>52167625
His credentials are currently the same as mine so that's not a given.
>>52166709
Lmao. This
>>52167630
>grunt math
>intelligence
>>52167550
That's not really true though. In fact you'll probably meet people on your life who are better than you at everything by virtue of them having similar interests to yours.
>>52167606
Its an okay paper, but nothing I couldn't do if I researched it, and I have absolutely fuck all knowledge about the topic.
Still, that he did this given his age is still a decent feat.
>>52166642
I started coding at 11 without having internet access neither books if a 14 yo kid cannot learn to code today maybe he is a dumb ass.
>>52167606
Firstly, this isn't a thesis of any kind. It's a research paper, and doesn't seem to have been accepted at any conference just yet.
Secondly, he's listed as the last author.
Thirdly, as an academic I read several of these types of documents per day. There isn't anything special about it. It's competent, but nothing here shows signs of 'brilliance'. It's a proposal for an exploratory study for goddsakes.
>>52167650
What universities even offer a degree program in Advanced GNU/Linux Ricing?
>>52167796
It's like the programming "prodigy" thing. People see something that's superficially intelligence and go ermergod GENIUS.
>>52167777
This.
I started programming in the eighties on a Commodore 64. Mind you, I did have access to books on the subject, but I didn't find it terribly difficult. Was I supposed to? Was any young person learning in the pre-Internet days supposed to?
>>52167777
>>52167842
You guys didn't have rich parents shopping their special snowflake to the local news.
>>52167796
I didn't say it was a thesis, just the only thing published with his name on it that I could find. And he graduated with his MS two weeks ago so he must've defended his thesis though I couldn't find it.
>>52167650
>Delusion: The Post.
>>52167877
Not every university requires students to defend their masters thesis. You definitely always have to defend a PhD though.
>>52167801
>>52167881
Is he smart or is he not? Half the posts say he's a genius the other half say he's retarded.
>>52167927
he's intelligent but he's not the second coming of alan turing.
>>52167927
He's definitely smart but child STEM prodigies have a very poor track record when it comes to creating game changing technology.
The reason is that most of them have the most severe quarter life crises ever possible, and fall into massive depression.
>>52167606
This is not some "hardcore" genius level paper. It's also made by three students. It does nothing but gives a higher level overview and when analysis required it uses some proper tools (statistics, etc.).
This:
>>52167796
>>52167573
Too bad that will never happen since CS is just math for people who can't run with the big boys
>>52167948
Alan Turing probably could've correctly aligned text on a web page.
>>52167975
You mean he'll go crazy and an hero like Ian Murdoch just did?
>>52168025
>santiago an heros to get advice from alan turing
>turing fucks him in the ass instead
circle of life
>>52167630
Intelligence has nothing to do with number crunching. In fact I know very talented/intelligent people who are very bad at mental arithmetic, but are extremely brilliant and creative. Real intelligence isn't about being able to calculate things fast, it's about how you can calculate things (fast); what are the certain relations, how things work and how can you use that.
>>52167573
Tell that to everyone who failed out of CS 101.
>>52168025
>implying one of his generation's most talented mathematicians would take time of his schedule to html and css
>>52168048
That's what they tell black kids who get low SAT scores.
>>52168009
Most of the time, yes, but there are a few who choose it because they're brilliant in it. Although, they can learn other things if they want to with ease.
>>52168072
Part of his schedule involved raiding men's anuses; he would've had time to learn html and css.
>>52166731
>Made on a mac
>>52168081
I'm not sure you understand what I said. On the other hand in the SAT you got a piece of paper and a calculator at the math test. So basically mental arithmetic is the only thing it doesn't care about.
>>52168124
A desktop computer is more capable than all humans on earth combined at crunching numbers.
>>52168048
To me it looks like you're trying to find excuses for your low agility in what you call "number crunching".
>>52168104
>implying he was a top
>>52168138
Go. Troll somewhere else.
>>52168143
I guess it's a samepost. On the other hand I don't know why you're projecting. I said that people who are not good at calculators can be still very brilliant. Just because I don't know an answer in an instant, I can still easily approximate it by knowing relations about numbers and certain functions.
I won't write more though, hopefully winter break is over soon.
I dreamt I was coding something the other night. It was a nightmare.
I was all alone, had no internet, and no way to look up what the imported library functions do. I was given a deadline of 1 hour to code a printer driver for a shitty inkjet HP printer for Windows Vista. The room was very dark and spooky while I was staying in the workplace till 4:00am in the morning. A janitor in the distance leered at me with beady white eyes.
I wanted to get off this crazy ride. It was difficult to breathe. My heartbeats were shallow, and my legs were paralyzed. Why the fuck am I writing a printer driver in Ruby?
>>52168187
>Just because I don't know an answer in an instant, I can still easily approximate it by knowing relations about numbers and certain functions.
Well aren't you a special snowflake
>>52167606
Doesn't look like he's gonna be getting any emails with the listed address.
>>52168213
Kek
>>52167948
Alan Turing claimed credit for the Enigma-cracking work that was actually done by the Polish Cipher Bureau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfr%C3%B3w
>Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau revealed its Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to representatives of French and British military intelligence, which had been unable to make any headway against Enigma. This Polish intelligence-and-technology transfer would give the Allies an unprecedented advantage (Ultra) in their ultimately victorious prosecution of World War II.
>>52168187
>Go. Troll somewhere else.
It's not trolling, dumbass, humans are really bad at basic arithmetic.
>>52168237
You have other problems too or you're a mediocre troll. Maybe you should read it once more what that guy said.
>>52168232
POLAN STRONK
Theme song for thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VuyQuRAsHI
>>52168271
Not him, but the guy he was replying to said that a desktop computer was better at math than the combined mental workforce of the planet, essentially. This not only true, but the reason calculators and computers were invented in the first place.
>>52166642
well, since he's like 20 by now, and probably given up "programming", and the fact that this was a feelgood Huffington Post tier article to begin with... ridiculously apathetic.
>>52167777
This.I did'nt have an internet connection until I was 19.Also my parents are complete dumbfucks who can't even make a new email account.
>>52166730
I believe this. I have a kid in third grade and they are teaching them properties of Javascript.
They use games to teach them.
>>52168111
I wondered why he looked like a faggot
>>52168915
I've seen the opposite. Computer literacy peaked during the late 1980s to early 2000s.
Dont mind really, my code is solid and I get my dick sucked daily.
back in my day we called this autism
>>52167636
for fucks sake.. go eat a dick, 'kid genius'
Good grief. I'm very sorry to whoever put you up to this, but it's simply time to stop.
He's already been picked up by some dumbass company and proven that he can't code. He failed at making a kickstarter. The system works, if you get "hired" from your 15 minutes of fame because some news place didn't have anything else to talk about that day, you aren't gonna really be successful.
This was all a year ago at least.
It's time to stop posting.
>>52170137
He was?
Didn't hear about that
>>52170137
Did Apple hire him?
>>52170487
SUCKADICK
>>52167372
>santiago gonzalez
Wow so he's a FUCKING WETBACK
also:
>Feminist. Nerd. 17.
I can see how he got there. "Diversity" and playing the cool popular kid.
Kinda unfair considering that most of /g/ could handle a masters at 17 if allowed to, but I got to admit that he played it very well.
>>52170137
Source please, this is hilarious if true.
this meme will never die
>>52170137
he just got his masters though and seeing how he thanks his university all the time he probably got a free ride because much diversity, muh "Feminist. Nerd. 17." and muh social skills rather than true talent.
and ironically he just twitted:
>Apparently NORAD has a "Santa Tracker". Are my tax dollars seriously being used to perpetuate a silly children's story? Ridiculous.
>>52167606
Tracy Camp, one of co-authors on that paper, has a PhD. Giving all the credit to Santiago is disingenuous.
>Programmer. Computer Science grad student at @coschoolofmines. Feminist. Nerd. 17.
I wish him the best of luck, but fuck him for his ideology. Or fuck me as thats the way of the future. Either way fuck it all.
>>52170662
he got a full scholarship for being a mexican, why would he dislike the establishment? :^)
>>52166730
Those who like something do it in their own time, of course you are increasing exposure to a subject but a dumb fuck is still a dumb fuck.
>>52170678
>Either way fuck it all
I guess I'm boned. Happy twenty-6-teen /g/, get drunk with me and listen to obscure Post-Proto-Rock from the 90s.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0nLaA7WkNxb
>John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors Of America - Gonna Be A Hard Rain
>>52170942
Next groovy song:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yVYTTv0Wez
>John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors Of America - Summer Sun
>>52166642
HOW IS HE AT BUILDING CLOCKS
DOES HE EVEN SOLDER HIS OWN CPUS
>>52166642
>then
>>52170942
>>52170991
Great taste anon
>>52166642
>then
How does it feel to know that a 14 year old kid is better at grammar than you?
