28-07-2009, 07:44 PM
To start, this seems to have gone very offtopic.
Not to make any enemies after just coming back and browsing for a little nostalgia, but Liam is completely correct here. It got me more interested in computers than I already was, it gave me people skills and project mnaagement skills that most kids my age never had. In field, it also has given me the advantage - I am a hardware engineer with a deep programming background from the time I was a "small" child, as considering that I was a preteen then.
Mirage was a great help to me, and when it got split into Konfuze, I loved it because it gave me something to lead in as a kid, and that was cool. I loved it even more when it went open source, and I made a lot of "friends" per say over the internet through it. Deloria, Elysium, Konfuze and all other spawns of MirageSource that went into the mainstream did nothing but benefit people. Who cares about the "script kiddies" and noobs, they are all where you were at one point or another, because I have been here when most of you started, I know this for a fact, and I helped or watched most of you get helped.
Anyway, these "noobs" should make you feel better - in the real world there is not many times you will get to feel important and even less that there is not someone better than you - they give you the ability to be a mentor or just someoen who kicks ass in comparison.
As for some of them being completely retarded, not being able to ever grasp programming (I firmly beleive it is a "born" thing to be able to comperehend it well, just like being a good engineer) or just being a plain douche - ignore them, or politely tell them they will not get any help that way, and let them epicly fail.
Besides that, be proud of what you do, but realize VB6 is not where you want to be when you get into the field. For the first month I got stuck writing macros for Excel spreadsheets, it sucks, learn something more mainstream and you'll have a better chance of better projects - but always know the basics of dying languages, they tend to crop up and could help you out.
That's all I got.
Not to make any enemies after just coming back and browsing for a little nostalgia, but Liam is completely correct here. It got me more interested in computers than I already was, it gave me people skills and project mnaagement skills that most kids my age never had. In field, it also has given me the advantage - I am a hardware engineer with a deep programming background from the time I was a "small" child, as considering that I was a preteen then.
Mirage was a great help to me, and when it got split into Konfuze, I loved it because it gave me something to lead in as a kid, and that was cool. I loved it even more when it went open source, and I made a lot of "friends" per say over the internet through it. Deloria, Elysium, Konfuze and all other spawns of MirageSource that went into the mainstream did nothing but benefit people. Who cares about the "script kiddies" and noobs, they are all where you were at one point or another, because I have been here when most of you started, I know this for a fact, and I helped or watched most of you get helped.
Anyway, these "noobs" should make you feel better - in the real world there is not many times you will get to feel important and even less that there is not someone better than you - they give you the ability to be a mentor or just someoen who kicks ass in comparison.
As for some of them being completely retarded, not being able to ever grasp programming (I firmly beleive it is a "born" thing to be able to comperehend it well, just like being a good engineer) or just being a plain douche - ignore them, or politely tell them they will not get any help that way, and let them epicly fail.
Besides that, be proud of what you do, but realize VB6 is not where you want to be when you get into the field. For the first month I got stuck writing macros for Excel spreadsheets, it sucks, learn something more mainstream and you'll have a better chance of better projects - but always know the basics of dying languages, they tend to crop up and could help you out.
That's all I got.