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james_markslast Thursday at 10:37 PM1 replyview on HN

If I were 16, I’d be thinking I just made an obscene amount of money ($4,000!) messing with computers for fun, and got to meet people at a famous company.

That’s a free car. Free computer. Uber eats for months.

And my status with my peers as a hacker would be cemented.

I get that bounty amounts are low vs SE salary, but that’s not at all how my 16yo self would see it.


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finghinyesterday at 1:53 AM

When I was sixteen I was already familiar with the concept of leverage. I’m not sure if I’d have had the cajones to use it though.