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Apparently this person is some celebrity I don't know about. The tumblr linked in the article [1] was more interesting than the article itself. But it didn't

by csense 13y ago

Apparently this person is some celebrity I don't know about. The tumblr linked in the article [1] was more interesting than the article itself. But it didn't contain anything I wouldn't expect to see from any other person blogging about freshman year as a CS major new to programming. Why exactly is this HN material? [1] http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/ http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/

qohen 13y ago
There aren't that many 47 year old female undergraduates, let alone in computer science. And, in addition to describing her own experiences at UCLA, Bateman, is publicizing stories of older women going back to school in STEM subjects, as you'll see from her twitter and esp. her tumblr, where she lets some of these women tell their stories, at length. And it's interesting reading about her interest in computer science, what it took for her to be able to be admitted to UCLA, her experiences with the courses and projects, etc. Additionally, if you read her stuff, you'll see she is an entrepreneur, with her own company, who was trying to get Hollywood interested in doing projects involving digital media, the internet, etc. years ago but kept getting push-back. And that's without any of the celebrity pixie-dust. As far as that goes: she was on a very highly rated, award-winning TV show, along with Michael J. Fox, called Family Ties, back when tens of millions of people would watch a TV show. And: given that the newly-revived Arrested Development just came out on Netflix, she happens to be the sister of Jason Bateman, who plays Michael Bluth. tl;dr: she's quite HN-worthy.
- gaius 13y ago
  Neither her gender nor her age are relevant. "Wealthy celebrity dabbles in unrelated field" is a reality TV formula, not Hacker News.
  - pessimizer 13y ago
    >Neither her gender nor her age are relevant. To you.
    - gaius 13y ago
      To anyone, unless we are sexists and ageists on here now.
      - chris_wot 13y ago
        What, we can't be interested in a celebrity studying computer science without being sexist and ageist? Ridiculous.
        gaius 13y ago
        The word for what she is is dilettante. Look it up.
        chris_wot 13y ago
        Goodness. Time to end my interaction with you, calling her a dilettante implies you know her true motivations, something I considerably doubt. By all means, continue to judge the motivations of others without knowing anything about them. For me, that's a worthless attitude, and not one that requires more of a response than complete disdain.
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        gaius 13y ago
        I look forward to not interacting with you in the future.
mililani 13y ago
You seem pretty young. I'm 39, and when I was growing up in the 80's, she was a pretty big deal. I think it's pretty cool to see my childhood celebrities growing up and moving on with their lives by going back to school, a good one at that, and majoring in a difficult subject. Props to her.
pravda 13y ago
It's MALLORY KEATON! Her TV 'brother', Alex, is the reason I and countless others became Republicans. I am surprised to discover that freshmen are writing code. It wasn't like that back in the day.
mwfunk 13y ago
Apparently csense is some commenter I don't know about. The article csense was commenting on was more interesting than csense's comment itself. But it didn't contain anything I wouldn't expect to see from any other commenter complaining about perceived off-topic articles on any other tech news site. Complaints about off-topic articles because the commenter never heard of the subject of the article are as constructive now as they were when they first started appearing after every Slashdot article ever going back to September 1997. If a similar pattern appears on HN, then we'll know it's all over and the magic is gone and we can all go back to posting on Metafilter or yelling at imaginary people on buses or whatever everyone did before they came here. Why exactly is this HN comment material?

by csense 13y ago

qohen 13y ago

There aren't that many 47 year old female undergraduates, let alone in computer science. And, in addition to describing her own experiences at UCLA, Bateman, is publicizing stories of older women going back to school in STEM subjects, as you'll see from her twitter and esp. her tumblr, where she lets some of these women tell their stories, at length. And it's interesting reading about her interest in computer science, what it took for her to be able to be admitted to UCLA, her experiences with the courses and projects, etc. Additionally, if you read her stuff, you'll see she is an entrepreneur, with her own company, who was trying to get Hollywood interested in doing projects involving digital media, the internet, etc. years ago but kept getting push-back. And that's without any of the celebrity pixie-dust. As far as that goes: she was on a very highly rated, award-winning TV show, along with Michael J. Fox, called Family Ties, back when tens of millions of people would watch a TV show. And: given that the newly-revived Arrested Development just came out on Netflix, she happens to be the sister of Jason Bateman, who plays Michael Bluth. tl;dr: she's quite HN-worthy.

gaius 13y ago
Neither her gender nor her age are relevant. "Wealthy celebrity dabbles in unrelated field" is a reality TV formula, not Hacker News.
- pessimizer 13y ago
  >Neither her gender nor her age are relevant. To you.
  - gaius 13y ago
    To anyone, unless we are sexists and ageists on here now.
    - chris_wot 13y ago
      What, we can't be interested in a celebrity studying computer science without being sexist and ageist? Ridiculous.
      - gaius 13y ago
        The word for what she is is dilettante. Look it up.
        chris_wot 13y ago
        Goodness. Time to end my interaction with you, calling her a dilettante implies you know her true motivations, something I considerably doubt. By all means, continue to judge the motivations of others without knowing anything about them. For me, that's a worthless attitude, and not one that requires more of a response than complete disdain.
        deleted 13y ago
        [deleted]
        gaius 13y ago
        I look forward to not interacting with you in the future.

mililani 13y ago

You seem pretty young. I'm 39, and when I was growing up in the 80's, she was a pretty big deal. I think it's pretty cool to see my childhood celebrities growing up and moving on with their lives by going back to school, a good one at that, and majoring in a difficult subject. Props to her.

pravda 13y ago

It's MALLORY KEATON! Her TV 'brother', Alex, is the reason I and countless others became Republicans. I am surprised to discover that freshmen are writing code. It wasn't like that back in the day.

mwfunk 13y ago

Apparently csense is some commenter I don't know about. The article csense was commenting on was more interesting than csense's comment itself. But it didn't contain anything I wouldn't expect to see from any other commenter complaining about perceived off-topic articles on any other tech news site. Complaints about off-topic articles because the commenter never heard of the subject of the article are as constructive now as they were when they first started appearing after every Slashdot article ever going back to September 1997. If a similar pattern appears on HN, then we'll know it's all over and the magic is gone and we can all go back to posting on Metafilter or yelling at imaginary people on buses or whatever everyone did before they came here. Why exactly is this HN comment material?