Wow, how disappointing. Just another lesson demonstrating that if you hear about a law being passed and it sounds good (or bad), it's really just motivated by the interests of those with the most power.
All of those things are fantastic but extremely isolated. Some of those things make the news every time they happen. Agendered thinking is pretty marginal.
Why not call it "GoldieBlox: The Cute Engineering Toy"? Why enforce gender roles? Isn't the title kind of saying "Girls like cute stuff, boys don't ever like cute stuff, and the only way to get girls interested in engineering is to make it cute"? Couldn't we get females into engineering more easily if we stopped culturally delegating "cool" to little boys and "cute" to little girls?
[Or the real solution, just stop having gender identification entirely, but that's a ways away]
"Another result that derives from Gödel's ideas is the demonstration that no program that does not alter a computer's operating system can detect all programs that do. In other words, no program can find all the viruses on your computer, unless it interferes with and alters the operating system."
I think I just heard a 'pop'ping sound.. but really, writers try too hard sometimes to make this stuff accessible to people. I don't think someone who is going to get a whole half-way into the article is going to need such reductionism to catch their interest; I'd honestly be more excited if the actual symbolic definition of the theorem was shown to me at that point.
Where here does it say Turkey is "killing school books"? Even if they were replacing all schoolbooks with tablets, I find that idea kind of bad seeing as it makes it difficult to flip between exercises and the chapter or the index and the rest of the book (or other functionality that a textbook is supposed to support). Ebooks are fine for novels but I just can't use an endless scrolling touchscreen tome for learning something
Just to make sure Sweden wasn't actually trying to banish gender, I kept reading:
"The idea is that names should not be at all tied to gender, so it would be acceptable for parents to, say, name a girl Jack or a boy Lisa."
The funny thing is that this is the opposite of the idea; at the very least it's stated in a pretty uninformed way. This should read "The idea is that any name within reason would be acceptable for any human being that is born." The way the article puts it is subtly incredulous that a BOY would be named LISA??
And then I stopped reading. At least with printed news media you have the weight of the fact that what you write will be printed permanently on physical materials to perhaps keep you from producing taglines as embarrassingly juvenile as "A country tries to BANISH GENDER"
You don't seem to be getting the point; you do not, in fact, have it straight.
The Point: people are usually good at things because they enjoy doing them. People succeed at "careers" or other "things-that-take-a-long-time-to-succeed-at" because they see at least part of it as not-work while others see it as tedious.
Second of all, you think this is new-age? Have you seen zenhabits.net?
You come off as angry and looking for an argument. The author clearly isn't talking about every action and behavior pattern you might enjoy/not enjoy. The author isn't asserting a new paradigm of behavioral philosophy. You've apparently been here for a while, you seem to have read the entire article, and yet you don't recognize the point through the context?
Do you have it straight? From the article: "Instead of the raise they requested, these workers were given the following ultimatum: quit with compensation, or keep their jobs with no pay increase. Most quit and never got the money. That's when the mass suicide threat came in. The incident actually caused a factory wide shutdown, reports Record China. "
should replace a good portion of the create_mnemonic function. But now I'm just showing off. Just letting you know that Python is much cooler than you know.
Haskell, however, could probably do this in a few lines.
Anyone who didn't want weeds and actually cared ;(
(sly little plug to my time-based animal crossing wild world bug/fish checklist because this is the best place to plug it that I may ever find on HN http://wild-world-clock.googlecode.com )
"The exploit is to do with the clock used on devices running the two mobile operating systems, and just as importantly how games use it to aid in gameplay progression. Many of these farm-style games rely on the clock to grow crops the player plants or by signifying general time progression. "
Oh christ, this article is just pure silliness. Ignore the below. And the article itself.
If the hacker and intelligent human being happened to have a penis wouldn't the title be one word shorter?
//this// is an actual real reason why people without Y chromosomes aren't as into tech or the engineering industry; because as soon as they get in, they are pushed into this subset of "girl hackers", "girl geeks".
I understand that it isn't "on-topic" and posts here aren't supposed to be motivated by emotion (especially not anger), but I really expect more from sites getting to the front page here.
