FB seems to be the favorite punching bag for HN, probably because it’s full of people who have tried to set up 600 different startups and raised exactly $0 where as Zuckerberg made more money than all the people here combined in 100 years.
Most of the parents here will abuse their kids on a weekly basis with coding crap until they “like” it. Kids like to run, jump, play, be with other kids, not code.
Kids like different things. I apparently liked to be a smartass.
On the BBC Micro, tape-based games needed to be loaded into memory at 0x0E00. But the floppy disk driver (DFS) took up 0x0E00 to 0x1900, so you couldn't just copy your games from tape to disk.
My dad wrote a simple program in BBC Basic, to load a game from disk at 0x1900 and then relocate it to 0x0E00 and run it. I thought this was ingenious, but kind of slow.
The BBC Micro user guide must have been very good, because I (7) managed to learn enough 6502 assembly language to rewrite the relocator. My version took just a few seconds.
I'm not sure my relationship with my dad has ever quite recovered.
My little brother started programming when he was five. You might want to rethink your sweeping generalizations about "parents here" or kids in general. It's not just rude and obnoxious, it's ignorant and plain wrong.
My son is almost 9, and he is far more accomplished in programming than I was at that age. And I was a precocious self-taught programmer of the TRS-80 era.
1) Lack of IT courses in K-12 affects both genders, why make this a female issue?
2) Completely subjective.
3) Pretty much the opposite. There are tons of events for women only, as well as grants and positions that are available for women only or where they’re more likely to get hired than men (so quota is filled).
4) Most of women (as in 99%) in CS don’t suffer this. Even this being of importance, I believe this happens in all industries.
5) Similar to point 3.
6) Well, empower yourself? What do we tell to male nurses then?
