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Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
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join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL | Wow, this dude is 19??? Wait, so this dude is 19 and managed to code Firefox? 
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andyb
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join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario | Re: Wow, this dude is 19??? Dont forget how old Billy Gates was.He started very young and didnt finish school then because it wasnt advanced enough for him.(Or so i read about his schooling) | |
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join:2004-01-20
Lawrenceville, GA
| Re: Wow, this dude is 19??? There was a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the other day about a local high school junior who had developed his own video production editing software and was selling it for $7,000 a pop to school systems around the country. He's already got companies lining up for his services when he graduates.
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join:2004-07-04
Fort Worth, TX | Re: Wow, this dude is 19??? ![]() | |
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join:2004-08-21
Brazil | Heh
Reminds me of myself
Coded American Online chatserver with 20 yrs [:)] | |
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agemeansnothinginIT
@telus.net
| I'm still in High School, while I'm not top marks, I have had headhunters call me. Age means nothing in IT, some of the best known companies have been started by people still in high school.
As many people say, Marks are not the most important, ultimate thing in a young person's life. When it all comes down, I rather hire someone without good grades that's a pratical thinker than a breathing textbook that seems to be the standard A HS grad nowadays. | |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY | when they bust a virus spreader it tends to be a youngster. good for us this kid is so empassioned about building a better browser. | |
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Weirdal
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join:2003-06-28
Lincoln, NE | hmm, luckily he decided to make it free | |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden | So True! Not much more to say.... Long Live Firefox!!!!!!!!
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| Re: So True! said by Tzale  :Not much more to say.... Long Live Firefox!!!!!!!! -Tzale I agree.
He hits on a very important point, without community support, no product could've succeeded as well as firefox has so far.
Firefox users are passionate, IE users are...well... let's just say they probably don't know about firefox.
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fartness
Computersoc Dot Com
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join:2003-03-25
Look Outside
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| Re: So True! I've been trying different web browsers for the past 10 years - I still like IE the best. I do know about Firefox and do have it installed. I still don't fancy it much though.
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Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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| Re: So True! said by fartness :I've been trying different web browsers for the past 10 years - I still like IE the best. I do know about Firefox and do have it installed. I still don't fancy it much though. I have to say that I originally was the same way.
One day I just started using it. After I did so, I couldn't go back.
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rob_in_chatt
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join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN
 ·Comcast
| impressive im sure there are alot of kids his age that could do things like that, but the problem is the worms are what comes from it. i am glad to see him putting his smarts to work for the better of everyone, and at the very least.................securing his future. | |
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The_answer
@attbi.com
| Re: impressive The issue that spawns the problem you mention is that young people often experience severe age descrimination while looking for work. They work harder and smarter than someone twice their age and make less than half of the money leading to feelings of resentment towards the world creating their glass ceiling. Why do you think young people always feel rebellious? Easy, the rest of the world is working to hold them down so they can keep what's theirs rather than having to share with the new hotshot. | |
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| Re: impressive said by The_answer:
The issue that spawns the problem you mention is that young people often experience severe age discrimination while looking for work. It's been discovered over and over that many bright young people have technical development that far outpaces their character development, and this limits the positions they can hold without making those in authority legitimately nervous. Very smart people can trade "intelligent" for "experienced", but that only goes so far.
Steve
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join:2001-08-26
Matthews, NC |  Re: impressive
Anyway.....you are exactly right. | |
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| Re: impressive said by HSD4490 :You are right on the money. Some things in life seem backwardly allocated; youth to the young and wisdom to the elderly. I have the best of both worlds: many years of experience/wisdom, but I still get carded
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Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus
| Re: impressive said by Steve : I have the best of both worlds: many years of experience/wisdom, but I still get carded Let me guess...
"Excuse me sir, but may I see you AARP card ?"
 
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| Re: impressive Very funny kid: once you're finally old enough to drink you'll appreciate why a 42-year-old guy enjoys being asked for his ID.
Steve
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join:2001-03-15
hiatus
2 edits | Re: impressive said by Steve :Very funny kid: once you're finally old enough to drink you'll appreciate why a 42-year-old guy enjoys being asked for his ID. Uhm, Steve... I beat that milestone awhile ago... Several bartenders will vouch for that fact.
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quanta
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join:2002-05-07
Toronto, ON | Young guns Now that I think about it, the Mozilla crew is a bit of a young bunch...
Ben Goodger is in his early/mid twenties. Pavlov, when he first joined the Netscape open source push back in 1998, was in his teens. | |
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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| Re: Young guns said by quanta :Now that I think about it, the Mozilla crew is a bit of a young bunch... Ben Goodger is in his early/mid twenties. Pavlov, when he first joined the Netscape open source push back in 1998, was in his teens. A lot of the best coders in a lot of parts of the world are very young. I have seen a 19 year old code circles around a crew of developers. They have a tendency to have the time needed to learn and adjust to new methods and also the lack of kids and wives/life partners. The funny part is the older guys are generally very mad when these guys come and try to get a foot hold in industry. This tends to push them away from pro work and more towards the freeware/shareware and open source communities.
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Derch
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join:2004-10-16
Tulsa, OK | IE and Firefox Both IE and Firefox has it's ups and downs. But will Firefox always be open source? | |
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join:2004-08-10
London, ON | Re: IE and Firefox Ups and Downs?, The only down in Firefox is the few odd pages that dont work with it. IE just blows in general. | |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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join:2002-05-21
B-3000
| yes, because of the license...
if they'd ever change the license, then firefox would have to be open source, until that very point when they had changed it, and all code until that point has to be open; you can look at it as some guarantee, in a certain way they brag about themselves with this.
if that would ever happen, someone takes over from that point and continues, if someone doesn't, you can always do that yourself...
in fact (a bit off-topic) this happened with XFree86 under linux, XFree86 is the graphic system for linux and was really the only choice at the time. When XFree86 changed it license to another opensource license, but incompatible with most distributions, an old rival X.org was restarted at the very second, they merge all code from their own with the last version from XFree86 with the last license, and continued from there... Right now, XFree86 is pretty much dead and X.org is becoming the most used graphical system.
As they follow the same protocol, you can use the one or the other without difference, there is no real visible change in their versions, but they already added some longawaited features in their new version...
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pipdipchip
8 Megabits A Second
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join:2003-12-04
Hanover, MN | Yeah Long live young developers! | |
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join:2002-03-20
Corona, NY | Re: Yeah IE SUCKS. Patch after patch... never ending patches. Both netscape and Firefox seems to be a faster browser with patches require close to none. | |
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toddbs98
join:2000-07-08
North Little Rock, AR
clubs: | Re: Yeah Not true Foxfire just calls every bug and security fix a new version. | |
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Carl
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join:2004-07-21
Krotz Springs, LA
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| Re: Yeah said by toddbs98 :Not true Foxfire just calls every bug and security fix a new version. Foxfire?? Duh, it's FIREFOX not FOXFIRE!!! LMAO
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Carl
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join:2004-07-21
Krotz Springs, LA | Re: Yeah Have you ever concidered that for the past few months firefox has been in beta? Now it's much better. I'm using it now!
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join:2004-07-21
Krotz Springs, LA | Re: Yeah considered* | |
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Skyrunner8
join:2002-01-10
Berkeley, CA | Amazing 19. Amazing. I am suprised Google has not tried to add him to their team of brilliant programmers. I would not be suprised if they already offered him many times.
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Beyond_1986
join:2003-08-06
| Re: Amazing Heard so much about FireFox from many people, so I decide to give it a try and .....................................
find out that Internet Explorer is still my choice. I believe Gate will somehow update IE to version 7, and put the end to any browser out there.
19 yrs old developing Firefox is amazing??????
If he could develope something like"open source Windows", that's what I call amazing. In other word, create a system that's free, and better than windows. | |
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@cox.net | Re: Amazing Ever hear of linux?  | |
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Rickez
Goinginsane
join:2000-09-02
Three Rivers, MA | Re: Amazing Ever hear of linux?
Who¿¿¿¿¿ Actually, yea, just about every story here has a guy who says "Ever hear of linux?"
screw mac and Linux, the systems suck and the users never shut up. | |
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join:2004-07-04
Fort Worth, TX
| Re: AmazingLinux user here. I like not having to give BG any more money, but in reality, I was given Win98SE, Win2KPro & MS Office2000. So they didn't cost me anything anyway, BUT, Linux is much more secure, so much more powerful and free. It's just as pretty as Windows (KDE) and all the programs are there. Some people are just scared of change. I was too. Linux is the best operating choice for me at this time. I have a dual boot w/ the Win2KPro and I never boot it up. NEVER! You should try a Knoppix CD for a trial linux experience. It has come a long way since even two years ago.
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Rdins
@attbi.com | All the main developers at google have PHD's, all from major schools. A 19 yr old has a long ways to go before cracking into that group. | |
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T0rn
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join:2001-05-11
USA
1 edit |  Maybe...
Internet Explorer does its job, plain and simple. My computer is squeaky clean: virus and adware free. (Sure, I might get a piece of adware once every six months, but that's nothing to cry about It's easily dealt with, anyways.) | |
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PhoenixAZ
Joshua
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join:2004-01-04
Phoenix, AZ
1 edit | Firefox is good Firefox is good but there is a hard drive caching problem, you can hear the hard drive everytime you browse from page to page, with Internet explorer, it just jumps back and forth.
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Leicafl
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join:2004-10-18
Miami, FL | Firefox is Best! | |
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Pake
If you can read this.... RUN
join:2001-02-22
Huntersville, NC
 ·AT&T Southeast
| Humm... Kind of had a feeling the developer was young, but didn't think he'd be my age. Although it doesn't surprise me since I met a kid once who was 19 (I was 14/15 at the time) and he had already started up his own gaming company, programmed for it, and then sold it for $30mil or so. | |
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MizTEcK
join:2003-08-01
North York, ON
·Cybersurf Internet..
| not much to be said not to burst his bubble or anything, but personally i think once firefox "does" go into mainstream, it'll become just as "cheesed" as IE... with plenty of holes to be exploited... i've tried firefox many times, and went back to IE... but that's just me since i know how to properlly protect myself =\ | |
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Ginger5
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join:2002-03-24
Madison, WI
·Charter Pipeline
2 edits | Firefox Let's not give him credit for developing the browser as I suspect he was part of team; however, with all due respect if he's 19 or 59, I don't care.
It's fast, good and plays nice in the sandbox.
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Edit: PS: Did I tell you I was running Firefox? | |
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Sancus
join:2002-10-17 | Age Press Age press is somewhat obnoxious as it obscures the fact that this person was merely one of many involved in firefox, calling him a 'firefox architect' is somewhat of a stretch... | |
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altidude
join:2002-12-26
Ventura, CA
| I'll believe it when I see it From the interview:
Blake Ross says,
"...I think it's certainly a fair statement that we need to keep backwards compatibility in mind moving forward. Prior to 1.0, it was acceptable to break existing Firefox extensions and themes as we worked to build up the architecture for those features. Going forward, we will be careful to ensure that those continue to work or degrade gracefully." I hope what he's saying ends up being the case. It's been a royal pain in the ass waiting for many extensions to catch up to the current Firefox release. | |
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join:2002-06-26
Salem, VA | Re: I'll believe it when I see it FIREFOX SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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