I thought this article would be about people streaming on twitch and receiving donates.<p>Because let's be honest, it wasn't really gaming that paid off in this case, but programming and hard work.
> Pedro wanted to use Apple's new personal assistant, Siri, but she only spoke English. By the age of 15, he had managed to make Siri speak Portuguese.<p>How could one teach Siri to speak new language? Sorry but I am clueless...
Impressive - getting Siri to learn Portuguese, coding gaming servers, creating a PayPal like payment system ... All as teenagers.<p>Nothing to do with "lucky and gamers" but interesting nonetheless.<p>Kudos to them.
So they have a profitable biz... Why bother with college? What are they going to learn there that they haven't already demonstrated enough savvy to acquire on their own? Seems like a waste of scholarship.
I think the intent of this article was to show that PC gaming can sometimes introduce young kids to the world of IT. In trying to figure out how to make their games work, they learn concepts along the way.<p>I agree, the headline was really misleading. But the title was something that I've heard my own parents tell me, looking in retrospect at the hours I spent on Descent or X-Wing, figuring it was all for naught then, and seeing how it lead to a job later on.<p>Flying an X-Wing of course, didn't teach me anything. But it was at an age when I had to get my father (not-computer savvy) to install my games. After he couldn't, the game sat, for most of a year, until one day I opened it up once more to read the manual, and noticed that there were instructions I understood: DOS memory needed to be configured to allocate more to EMS (or something along those lines) and I successfully made the configuration change. I was 10.<p>It was all in the name of being able to play a game, sure. But it was a good motivator to developing a set of skills. If you're lucky enough to love computers, getting games to work is a good place to start when you're little. =)