Nine Year Old Systems Engineer

BGK said:
I don't see a problem with that. If you do engineering you should be able to call yourself an engineer. Should we make it so only people with MBAs can call themselves businessmen?
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How about because when these "engineers" screw up, people die? You want to drive on bridge built by civil "engineers"? How about flying in a plane built by an aeronautics "engineer"? How about... ohhh... everything else around you? The world is built by engineers, and the only reason it doesn't collapse like a certain Atlantic island is due to the professional ethics of a hundred thousand engineers.

Engineers are professionals.
Doctors are professionals.
Lawyers are professionals.
Nurses are professionals.
Pharmacists are professionals.

Being a "businessman" is not a profession.
 
The negative reactions to this make me sad. We should be pushing our kids to learn as much as they can in their early years while their brains are still vacuums for information. It doesn't look like this kid neglected the social side and already has a head start on marketable knowledge. Good for him.

Our culture is in danger if this board is indicative of the general population. I'm guessing the general population is worse.

You all realize it's easier to learn a second language, calculus, etc. when you're 9 than it is when you're in your late teens, right?
 
Holy shit! According to the second picture she knows how to set up a router! Holy shit!
 
LOCO LAPTOP said:
You guys fail. It's a guy.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10435937-56.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
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Even through the thick accent, you can tell he is well spoken for a 9 year old as well. I figure some people just "get" things in life sometimes. I say sometimes because I may be the baddest ass BMW mechanic but I never really worked on anything more than my Jeep. I think there is a profession or skill we could all fit right into but that certain thing never crossed our paths. I think it is more of a part of luck that he found this gift early and didn't let it pass. Mozart anyone?
 
ahh, shut up kid, ya bother me! :)

....and that's because you're smarter than me.
 
Good for him but he is not an engineer. That term is thrown around too loosely. It's like calling someone a doctor because they are CPR certified.
 
LOL he basically called us all a bunch of losers:

"I do not play games on computers because there is nothing serious about playing games on computers...If you want to play, go outside and play with your friends."

You silly people with your eye-infinities and stupid Call of Duties. :rolleyes: Go play outside!

Screw the LOLcats, we need Marko Calasan as our "Serious Business" picture. :p
 
PTNL said:
The article keeps using words like "he" and "his", but the pictures seem to contradict...

Very impressive feat, regardless of gender.
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Yeah that's definitely a girl.
 
wyldfire said:
You're joking, but I think it does indicate something about the MCSE certification.
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According to the article he has an MCSA cert (which basically means he knows how to install or upgrade Windows and configure Windows Firewall), not an MCSE.
 
when I was 11 or so I was programming in basic on my vic-20.. I used to borrow the TV from our TV room so I could stay up all night writing basic programs in my room on the vic.
 
KVW said:
LOL he basically called us all a bunch of losers:
"I do not play games on computers because there is nothing serious about playing games on computers...If you want to play, go outside and play with your friends."

You silly people with your eye-infinities and stupid Call of Duties. :rolleyes: Go play outside!
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So basically this Marko Calasan sucks at games. I call 1v1 cs_office right now. Put up or shut up. :D
 
when i was 9....we didnt even have a space shuttle program, pcs or tvs bigger than 19". I DID have pong though....so therefore I'm totally deprived, unless you count the lack of electricity, indoor plumbing and the wheel not being invented yet :p
 
I think we all agree that we're still stuck on the fact that we're looking at a male.

That aside, I was rebuilding one of the first computers I've owned at age 9, and helping my dad build a server.
 
This is the kind of shit why Microsoft adding the "E" to their simple certifications threw up a huge stink with every professional Engineering organization.
 
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I agree on the engineer front, there's a number of european countries where engineer is a protected title in the same way as Dentist, Pharmacist etc is.

The one that bugs me more is architect. Suddenly everyone in IT is an architect. With software engineering I could almost understand it but it's ubiquitous now. I wanted to be an architect when I was young so I appreciate the effort they go in. We need the old style job titles in IT again. All way too complicated, mine is just a joke. "Senior Solutions Architect: Infrastructure and Security", pfft whatever.

Oh yeah, architected, I go spazzy whenever writes that in a document. You f'ing designed it, f'ck off.
 
No worries ... in 6 years he will be headed to "Pacific Tech" and and we'll find out if he ends up being Chris Knight or Kent Torokvei :D

KVW said:
LOL he basically called us all a bunch of losers:

"I do not play games on computers because there is nothing serious about playing games on computers...If you want to play, go outside and play with your friends."

You silly people with your eye-infinities and stupid Call of Duties. :rolleyes: Go play outside!

Screw the LOLcats, we need Marko Calasan as our "Serious Business" picture. :p
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tungt88 said:
No worries ... in 6 years he will be headed to "Pacific Tech" and and we'll find out if he ends up being Chris Knight or Kent Torokvei :D
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you bumped a 10 months old thread for that comment?
 
I wrote a cool game in basic when I was 12... at 9 I think I was still lego obsessed..
 
Am I the only one who has heard of a paper MSCE? It applies to every profession, awesome GPA crap experience and/or knowledge.
 
morfinx said:
Sigh, there should really be laws dictating who can call themselves engineers, like there are laws for doctors or lawyers. I mean there is the ABET and the PE certification, but none of that is required to call yourself an engineer.

Still, pretty impressive for the kid.
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In Canada, there are laws against calling yourself a professional engineer.

Of course, I'm a Computer Engineer, but have no plans to ever get my P. Eng. I simply don't have a need for it. It's a designation required when stamping plans/documents that could have an impact on personel/public safety.
 
lol, I love how everyone here is talking about how when they were 9 they were messing with computers.

I'm willing to bet a bunch of you are straight up LYING!

When I was 9 I was discovering the awesomeness of boobs in my friends dads Penthouse magazine collection. Three years later was when i was into computers...and mostly because I discovered that porn sites were WAY better than still pictures in magazines! :p
 
stop!theradio said:
lol, I love how everyone here is talking about how when they were 9 they were messing with computers.

I'm willing to bet a bunch of you are straight up LYING!

When I was 9 I was discovering the awesomeness of boobs in my friends dads Penthouse magazine collection. Three years later was when i was into computers...and mostly because I discovered that porn sites were WAY better than still pictures in magazines! :p
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Some people may be younger than you and grew up around computers. When I was 9 I was playing games on an Atari 800XL at school.
My nephew is 3 and has his own PC.
He was also playing Divinity II this afternoon.
 
stop!theradio said:
lol, I love how everyone here is talking about how when they were 9 they were messing with computers.

I'm willing to bet a bunch of you are straight up LYING!

When I was 9 I was discovering the awesomeness of boobs in my friends dads Penthouse magazine collection. Three years later was when i was into computers...and mostly because I discovered that porn sites were WAY better than still pictures in magazines! :p
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I was ignored as a child but grew up near an IBM, XEROX and Server building place. So there was a load of second hand cheap (slighty old) computers kicking around. The people who took care of me were busy all the time, but worked in offices and brought home computers (old IBMs and later new IBMs) everyone I knews parents worked in offices or as systems people and crap, so all of them had (at the time) high end computers of different types (on even had a crApple III [I think]) so there was pleanty of material to work with before I was even 9. I was largely ignored as people were working and the other children were sick so I was left to run amok with unused systems doing stuff like feformats and OS/software installs (windows 2/3.0/3.1 mostly then later 98 and 2000) they were like toys and stuff (and had no fucking games :(). So eventually a child starts to want to do more, and I did basic and crap and blah blah. So it is feasible and junk.

But if a child is railroaded into something by their parents they 100% of the time end up as a cocaine addict with several broken marriages.
 
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