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Re:Kid Launches Social Networking Site, Gets 227K Views in 1... by coderdude on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:07PM (#2052738)
How so? He's a minor in nearly every state in the US, where he lives. I tried to find the legal age in Boston but "Boston Legal" keeps coming up...
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Re:Kid Launches Social Networking Site, Gets 227K Views in 1... by jacquesm on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:15PM (#2052770)
The legal age is not what I had in mind. If someone is 17 chronologically but in every other way behaves like a very smart adult would then it feels as though calling them 'kid' is talking down to them. Nothing major, it just seems to not be one of the three words that I would use to describe Mark with :)
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Re:Kid Launches Social Networking Site, Gets 227K Views in 1... by coderdude on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:18PM (#2052781)
Understandable. This is one of the few occasions where it's not quite as derisive because this person actually is a kid. For once. Usually you see anyone in their 20s being called a kid, and that's when it's negative IMO.
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Re:Kid Launches Social Networking Site, Gets 227K Views in 1... by fletchowns on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:21PM (#2052791)
Like this? http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20081219/business_week_kevin_rose...
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Re:Kid Launches Social Networking Site, Gets 227K Views in 1... by coderdude on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:22PM (#2052795)
Right. He was like 30 in that picture.
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