Does Age matter?

Originally Posted by Koobi The developer of the Mozilla Firefox engine was a 14 year old kid if I'm not mistaken. His mom still drives him to work since he's not old enough to drive a car.

I think he was 14 when he first started hacking/messing with the Mozilla engine to create Firefox... about 18 or 19 now - I think.

Cool!

I'm 13 and I can say I have way more talent then people at 36 who has been into designing for 3 to 4 years, but what jon is saying is also correct ~ no one at 13 would get into a big company like anyone at 30

Originally Posted by seen.to I think he was 14 when he first started hacking/messing with the Mozilla engine to create Firefox... about 18 or 19 now - I think.

To have messed with code like that at that age he must have either been a genius or he must have started coding when he was really young.

I was a total idiot at 13...I still am an idiot, but less of one

well somehow I had (matt) on my buddy list for AIM, he IMed alittle bit ago. I understand why you think he is childish.

I think age does affect the respect you get from older people. I heard along time ago that studies say that people that are 18+ or something think 13+ cant have a logical conversation but I wouldnt say that is true for everyone.

Originally Posted by Petter I'm 13 and I can say I have way more talent then people at 36 who has been into designing for 3 to 4 years, but what jon is saying is also correct ~ no one at 13 would get into a big company like anyone at 30

I'm the only person I see on here who is 36 but you can't mean me.

I think age does matter. In terms of designing/programming, there are alot of bright kids out there who are much better than any adult, so in terms of that it's irrelevent. When it comes to maturity, experience and communication, age can be a barrier and can often than not hold people back and lose people clients. I've dealt with so many kids in my time and this always shows through (quite recently i've found alot of people do act mature though, those being around the age of 15-16).

But of course, if you're 15 you can't get a job, credit card, drive, sign contracts etc.

I have a job, not a very good one (being a paper round) hehe but im going to get a new job soon when ill be earning £42 more which will make a big difference for me soon

I got a job to and its not even a good one, I had to get one. I have to work nights putting tools on shelves at B&Q. £5 an hour though so its kindoff ok, I start next week
Anyway I agree with robsons points that how I wanted to say it.