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If a man did this, would it generate the same publicity? I am genuinely wondering, I'm not trying to troll.
by a3voices 13y ago
If a man did this, would it generate the same publicity? I am genuinely wondering, I'm not trying to troll.
- ionforce 13y agoYes and no, depending on your metric. If you look at it from the "hobbyist does cool hobby thing, gets a lot of upvotes" then yes. But if you look at it from the "minority does X cool thing" then the answer is no. I think there is some novelty that gender is being wrapped up into this. But I don't think a man doing the same thing would be completely ignored. I'm in the middle of studying a foreign language, so I am quite sympathetic to the "must do something every day" challenge. Man or woman it's quite commendable, no matter how small the feat.
- meerab 13y agoI didn't notice person was women until I started reading posts in HN. Why bring gender when others are discussing method of learning?
- dba7dba 13y agohttp://devbootcamp.com/ http://devbootcamp.com/ They are doing well and supposedly 95% graduates get job immediately after graduating. Their classes are booked until apr 2014. They basically make students go through what she did, but in an office.