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Feminine math, science role models do not motivate girls(ns.umich.edu)
2 points by victork2 14y ago|1 comments
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by victork2 14y ago
Well most of us have been very very lucky in life, we have won the lottery, but among other things: * Born in a 1st world country * Born in a wealthy enough family that can afford computers and education for their children * Born with paren
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by victork2 14y ago
Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too. What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims " If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough " and self gratification.
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by victork2 14y ago
Interesting. On the other hand it shows a very American reality distortion field: the government is the main threat to privacy. Two things: The biggest threats are probably coming from private companies and private initiatives such as Googl
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by victork2 14y ago
It's a tiring endless war. I am not going to say the usual "patent is broken" or other clichés because I am not a lawyer and I have no real clue of the proportion of the problem and if some reasonable solutions exists but I am really afraid
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by victork2 14y ago
I kind of agree but I think I'd change a few things in this list. * If you call yourself a hacker you are very likely not a hacker. If you are convinced that you are a hacker without saying it there is also a strong probability that you're
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by victork2 14y ago
Being relatively young, I don't know if what I am going to describe is new or not. I am under the impression that the advent of a globalized internet culture has fostered the nostalgic phenomenon. If you are a regular reader of any social w
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by victork2 14y ago
Not to mention if you care about the privacy of your users every share button is a little tracking device that probes into your users habits and pages visited. (Ghostery can help you see the extent of the tracking that is taking place) I ge
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by victork2 14y ago
It might only be me but I think more or less everybody is (or will be) a fraudster on Kickstarter. Before downvoting me, please read below... I don't mean that people willingly steal the money / promise impossible things but the very nature
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by victork2 14y ago
Spot on. I've grown sick of these "amazing" or "beautiful", it's very relative, CSS animations. As you say it looks like what Flash was at the worst of its time or even before animated gif images were to geocities. I would be laughing if in
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by victork2 14y ago
I totally agree with that. When I build my websites I systematically refuse to use the whole "social" stack. I don't really care if I have less users or if they have to register, I think these things matter more than the extra effort you ha
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by victork2 15y ago
Yep, and that's one effect that I call "community myopia". This is a very wide spread phenomenon and it can be seen in almost every online community: members of a community have problems looking back at the support of their community and c
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by victork2 15y ago
Fun fact #2: In the top 9 most awesome Open Source projects in the world 6 out of 9 are ruby projects. Linux or Apache projects are not in the lists. Yep, seems about right... (I am sarcastic of course) Plus, but it may only be me, rating o
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by victork2 15y ago
This is very true. These GTD methods and everything is to "getting things done" what mac Donalds is to eating: it's quick; it's cheap but it's also a lot of crap. This read is part of the big family of "self-motivation" seminars and "find y
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by victork2 15y ago
I like Dan Ariely, I have read his books and they are really insightful and interesting but this interview was really superficial despite being so long, there was a lot of ridiculous name dropping at the beginning and I don't feel I learned
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by victork2 15y ago
I for one think it's a great analogy (having been in a camp I can definitely say that I didn't enjoy it and I was rejected based on that). I silently deleted my facebook account about two years ago because I didn't like losing my time looki
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by victork2 15y ago
Hi Tom, It's a nice gesture, but... this could have been handled way before and from the messages in this thread it seems like a very common occurrence. As somebody who wanted to use your services in the future that thread totally changed m
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by victork2 15y ago
Sorry to say that but we cannot trust the weather forecast in simulation for more than 5 days and we trust a forecast for mankind 30 years from now? I know people like these kind of studies, perhaps it conveys the feeling that "after me the
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by victork2 15y ago
Who would have imagined that groupon had a future? It worked on the novelty effect and it was doomed to fail. On the other hand, Chicago business is full of bugs. Ghostery block 13 (!) calls to different websites such as: Quantcast, 24/7 re
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by victork2 15y ago
Please, please everybody, before saying that the cloud is amazing let it resist the test of time. I am myself using some cloud software but there is one thing that is not yet being reflected very well, the ugly monster that lurks everywhere
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by victork2 15y ago
Hi, I respect you point of view but... it won't hold for high level education. Let me explain why: * I just wish people could forget the idea that Math is fun. It is not. It's interesting, but it's not fun and can be totally counter intuiti
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Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by victork2 15y ago|0 comments
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by victork2 15y ago
That made me laugh! I was hoping the compiler inside everybody's brain would be able to detect this minor inefficiencies and correct them on the fly. And yes, I was using Python2.7, I wanted to use 3.0 but the sexist libraries haven't been
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by victork2 15y ago
As you say in France we are taught not to see the differences. Indeed it is illegal to recognize any racial differences (gender differences are accepted in most scenarios ). You cannot be asked what is your ethnicity when you apply for a jo
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by victork2 15y ago
Hi thank you for taking the time to read my answers. Well as a matter of fact I really answered rationally... Well at least I hope I did. If you want to read my real motivation, beyond the immediate answer here it is: http://news.ycombinat
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by victork2 15y ago
To be honest I haven't read the others (I am totally apathetic about the Y combinator startup thing). But I'd have to the premises if they were "10 men who are awesome", trust me I would smite it as strongly as here. If none of the articles
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by victork2 15y ago
I agree, but it always bugs when I see articles that speak about a gender or a group of people. I believe it's part of a broader problem in the US. I come from another culture in Europe and that puts me in a position where I am able to anal
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by victork2 15y ago
Ah I love these moments when I know that I am writing a risky post and I will very likely be downvoted, but here it comes! How is this fair? Doesn't it qualify as "sexism"? You know the thing that was heavily debated on HN in the last weeks
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by victork2 15y ago
So much drama around what is basically a skin/cosmetic improvement... Good luck anyway.
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by victork2 15y ago
In the long run not preserving net neutrality will give a competitive advantages to the big companies. Let's imagine that Microsoft does a lot of lobbying with Comcast and they manage to make Bing Videos not count as part of your network ca

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