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Originally posted by Mr.Deflok
I just don't find that kind of comment acceptable, to downplay someone hopes like that, it's just like buying a kid a bicycle he wanted for christmas then running over it with a truck while the kid watches.
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I suck at art. I have no aesthetic talent whatsoever. Let's say I was thinking about being a painter and asking for advice, but demonstrated a significant lack of knowledge/ability.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather have people say "That's really not your thing, find something else." rather than have people get my hopes up by saying BS like "You're doing great! You'll learn everything about it in no time!", and then go on to be a failure.
I think he mentioned being 20 or so. If you want to go into a computer related field and don't know what source code is by that age, good luck getting a degree and far more importantly, finding a job while competing with people who have been computer geeks all their lives. By all means he should keep playing with computers as a hobby and learn as much as possible, but it's foolish to expect to be competitive in such a demanding field, and it's even worse to disillusion him into thinking he could pull it off at this point in time.