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Good for her. But to be honest, a lot of us did in fact do a lot of things including lots of reverse engineering when we were in high school. Arguably high school and early university is the place where you have more time to focus on these sort of things without having to worry about growing your "career" or thinking about how you will earn enough money to buy a house or a afford a family.

Some of the comments below surely are out of jealousy. But then again that jealousy is understandable, when not too long ago, people wouldn't celebrate the age of the people nor would they even mention the age anywhere.

To some extent, I personally am jealous that in the place I grew up we didn't understand how this kind of marketing helps with life later on. And I still find myself jealous of Americans who oftentimes market less work that lots of us have done as something that turns the person in question into some sort of hero character.

Though, I have plenty of other comments that actively critique hero worshipping. I personally think that even if you remove the jealously aspect its damaging to the persons character development.




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