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		wensing on June 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the... So we can probably all: (A) see through the sensationalism and be happy for the youngin' or (B) react to the sensationalism or (C) both. I'm cool with A or C. B seems lame.

tekromancr on June 30, 2013 [–]

Totally, but if you saw a headline "16 year old invents new communications medium" and it turns out it was a PHP guestbook, and major news outlets were making a huge deal about it, it kinda makes sense that there would be some backlash, even though a kid learning to code is, IEHO, pretty fucking cool.

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