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by dgabriel 15y ago
Of course. But how does National Merit Scholar compare vs. 4-H club president, or 6 years of piano vs. 4 years of community theater musicals, or civilian parents vs. military parents, or 3 years of Japanese vs. 3 years of fine art instruct
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Long ago, the valedictorian of my high school class (white, female), did not get into Brown, Harvard, MIT or Cornell, despite a stellar academic record and near-perfect SAT scores. She wound up going to a state school. Another white femal
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by dgabriel 15y ago
I'm about to get on a plane and don't have time to fully rebut, but I assure you the treatment of men in nursing school is a problem taken very seriously. Google "recruiting men in nursing," to see more.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
I'm sort of a broken record in this thread, but every time the question comes up I like to respond. Yes, there is a nursing shortage, and actively recruiting and retaining men is a high priority. Please see: http://www.minoritynurse.com/
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Yes. In nursing: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/06/health/main521057.... http://www.lpn-to-rn.net/articles/men-nursing.php In social work: http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/092310p32.shtml http://www.prlog.org/1169
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Your rewrite is completely valid. Were you expecting it to be absurd? It's not. The same interesting questions arise. I'm sure you can come up with reasons why men may choose not to make their living caring for children, even though t
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by dgabriel 15y ago
If you spend $20 a DAY on food (which is exorbitant), and you have health insurance (in MA, about $400/mo for a single dude), you will have $13,000 for travel. If you can't afford to go to Killington, it's probably because you should not b
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Agreed. My first response was a huge eye roll. Oh how will he ever survive?? This experiment only counts if he's also feeding, clothing, and housing three other people (two of whom will grow out of all their clothes 3 times a year). And
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by dgabriel 15y ago
My beloved was a German major once upon a time, and he assures me that this is exactly how German got started... or at least it's how German works.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Actually, Fortran is pretty widely used in the sciences. If you're working with R, you're probably doing some Fortran stuff, too.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Because you're in technology. There are a number of organizations dedicated to increasing the number of men in nursing and teaching.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Interesting. We have a 9yo boy, and twin 2 yo girls. So we have all the lego stuff, plus lego designer on the computer, etc. The girls LOVE getting into their brother's stuff, and one of them sleeps with a toy garbage truck (she also sle
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by dgabriel 15y ago
It's the hard gender division. Why are there "girl legos," and "boy legos"? And it also seems like they're offering the same "girl themed" play sets that all the other toys offer, except you have to put it together first. Who plays with
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by dgabriel 15y ago
We just have three enormous rubbermaid bins with lids. Half the fun is searching for the right piece, and possibly finding an old lollypop stuck to it. The sound of kid hands pawing through a vat of legos is awesome.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
I think what he's saying is that he won't rebuild the Millenium Falcon, that the pieces will get scattered and used for other stuff. That's how it goes in our house. The set gets built very quickly, and just as quickly is dismantled and u
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Ok, so women can't be professors because of abortion and false paternity? Really?
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Ok, now make it a nursing seminar, or an education seminar directed toward men. No outcry of sexism. See how that works?
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by dgabriel 15y ago
There is a huge difference between the two assignments. If you are communicating and supporting your ideas in half the words or slides, then you are not going into enough depth, or you've chosen a topic of lesser complexity. There is a go
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by dgabriel 15y ago
How many kids have mastered trig in the 10th grade? The standard math track is two years of algebra, a year of geometry, then trig (as far as I remember), and the more advanced track has you starting, but not completing, trig in the 10th g
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by dgabriel 15y ago
My daughters love the Sesame Street iPad translation of "The Monster at the End of this Book". Generally we read paper books to them, but they enjoy the interactive Grover story, too. I don't see any moral or development issues. Everythi
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by dgabriel 15y ago
> People, mostly women in my experience, loved that "shit work" the same way they loved putting on makeup or shopping for uncomfortable clothes. Really?
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Really smart, careful people also make mistakes. This is one of the things that can easily happen to a bright but inexperienced developer. While the numbered list is helpful, I don't think calling the programmer in question lazy, careless
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by dgabriel 15y ago
This is hacker news, so I would expect we would target technical arenas. I'm not going to argue the other stuff, because it is completely off-topic, derails the conversation, and is generally uninteresting to other readers. I have also fo
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by dgabriel 15y ago
What on earth are you talking about? At which technical conference were such accusations or jokes about men? Where in the technical community are men characterized as buffoons or monsters to general feminist approval?
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by dgabriel 15y ago
This doesn't count as a honeypot at all because it directly references a YC start-up and comments on start-up culture. A honeypot might be an article from msnbc about sexism at Walmart.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Woman programmer here: I automatically assumed they were looking for college aged men. "Brogrammer," is not a unisex term, no matter how they try to spin it.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
We are on Hacker News.... Indeed, Ada is named for Ada Lovelace, but Alice is named in honor of Lewis Carroll. We like math.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
Congrats to Jeff! My firstborn is also Henry, and I have two year old twin girls (Ada and Alice). The most interesting things about twins is how incredibly different they are from each other. They were nurtured in the same way, they shar
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by dgabriel 15y ago
In 1999, everyone was telling me they'd never need to hire another Java programmer now that Rational Rose would soon be able to spit out complete code based on the input of a team of architects. Just sayin'.
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by dgabriel 15y ago
> * Most developers are horrible at testing and writing unit tests. We have thousands of unit tests and the main thing that they catch is that someone did not update the test after refactoring code. I wish this were less true, but it's

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