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My god, this kid is plain awesome
Susan Wojcicki is the person who owned the garage where Google started out. We both forgot her name. http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#susan
I would rather spend $200 than $2000 for the same spec any day - and thank the lord I don't have to use a MAC!
DK
MediaSnackers Founder
And then get old and lose it again in new and interesting ways
and let Social Networking do the rest ;-)
_Marc
Why don't you set up a fundraising page so that we can all get this kid a new computer?
Count me in for some $$$.
BTW: Facebook, it appears, is not a "walled-garden": http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/08/...
These new social networks are springing up all the time, but only a few can stand out. No one is going to visit multiple (maybe two or three) sites to social network. So the new networks need to pull people away from old services if they want to gather a user base. They need to include features to integrate with other social networks, and sports new features that people will want. Much easier said then done. If you don’t gain a user base quickly, you’ll be just another dead social network. It is getting to be a pretty large graveyard.
-Vainentree
http://thenerdcan.wordpress.com/
-Vainentree
I love his confidence and drive.
Donating money to a kid who comes from a family who have money is rather sad, don't you think?
https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/groupacti...
Thanks everybody!
But I think it is important that one or both of your parents come into this comment thread and make a note that they're OK with this fund raising drive.
http://dbrusilovsky.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/th...
I hope you will understand this.
Thanks,
Daniel
I will gladly chip in a bit for a new machine for this kid -- Mac or PC. If you decide to do this, post about it and I will pick it up via Google Reader or the Wordpress dashboard.
Best,
Jeff Ventura
GracefulFlavor
More power to this kid; I hope he succeeds in his endeavors.
A fact, seemingly forgotten by folks, is we can't just talk to and give money to kids online without their parents knowledge and consent. Forget the moral aspects of giving a 14 year old money without knowing if his parents are aware of the money, there are legal ramifications.
Daniel got caught up in the moment, and seems like a nice young man. He's decided that it would be best not to do this 'fundraiser'.
Him getting a computer, and how he gets it, is really between his parents and himself. Financially, the family can afford it, but have other priorities. I can respect that. Admire it, even.
But don't forget: mature presentation or not, he is only 14.
I know a couple of people who started IT companies when they were 14/15. It's really not as uncommon as you'd think, anymore. They're just pretty tough to track down, unless you happen to know someone who knows someone who knows the kid...
https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/groupacti...
Thank you,
Daniel
Daniel's sending any donated funds to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fund. Which even furthers my belief that Daniel's a great kid.
Try to find a modern Core 2 Duo PC for $200. That's right, you can't.
It's moronic statements like yours that make me uncharitable enough to entertain the thought of having ignoramus platform bigots banned from the Internet. I use XP and OS X everyday, and in case Windows bigots didn't know it, Bill and Melinda Gates have donated enough money to Planned Parenthood to pay for over 80,000 abortions, which surely must have culled some future kids like Daniel from the human gene pool. Think about THAT next time you pay for Microsoft products.
Daniel, IMO, deserves praise for his ability to see a bigger picture, which is more than I can say for the lazy thinkers posting ignorant comments here.
Indeed. That's why we've set up an investment account for our son, who'll need it to fund his university education. I don't want him going into debt - I didn't have to take out student loans when I was in college because I had saved my high school scholarship money to pay for college tuition. My son uses an Apple iBook because I refuse to pay for Microsoft products that will be used to help fund donations to Planned Parenthood. The deliberate destruction of innocent human life has got to stop.
No, hopefully more can be done to foster enthusiasm for clear thinking instead of media sound bites and infotainment. Schools are often purveyors of intellectual pap dressed up to look like mental nourishment. Don't take my word for it, read what an award-winning schoolteacher discovered over a 30-year career:
www.johntaylorgatto.com
Compared with an average kid who attends regular public school, perhaps. I went to a high school filled with kids like him, and many of my former classmates are now neurosurgeons, physicists, molecular biologists, and so on. But Daniel seems like a pretty good kid, and I pledged $50 towards the charity he designated. Talk (and blog posting) is cheap. We should put our money where it can do some good, instead of being used to kill babies.
Another platform bigot, apparently. Sometimes, parents just have to make a stand against arrogant ignoramuses who pollute the blogosphere. Daniel at least is open-minded enough to look at the merits of Apple technology, which is more than we can say for you, judging by your asinine remarks.
Their loss. And I say this as someone who has used Windows on a daily basis since version 3.1 (1.0 and 2.0 were too immature).
Yes, he's stuck me as a kid who will go far.
I am impressed at how you have managed to twist this to your own agenda Victor, but perhaps this is not the best place for it!
All this Kid knows are the things us Technologists and Software Engineers have spent years and years working on. Useability!
All Software Engineers give yourself a pat on the back our programmes are so user friendly, even a Kid knows how to use them.
Because of him, I went down to B&H and spent $100 on a podcasting kit (no hard feelings Daniel; it's money well spent).
And because of him, I now have the courage to get my voice (my physical voice, which happens not to be the best-sounding one ever, and mental one, which doesn't seem to flow as nicely as Daniel's) to the world.