Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume it stands for San Diego unless otherwise specified.
Really? I would have guessed South Dakota.
Fun fact. There are more people in City of San Diego than the entire state of South Dakota.
Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
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Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teaching your kid that work and obligations of life are more important than pursuing the things that make you happy leads to...
well, probably healthier relationships with other people, for starters. blowing off your obligations to do whatever makes you happy is probably going to upset a lot of other folks. there's certainly a balance to be had, and it isn't fully in favor of short term happiness, either.
"and it isn't fully in favor of short term happiness"
Exactly. And see nobody wants to believe that. They want to think that things will just work out.
I'm wondering about how many people downvoting or disagreeing are aware that the major problem in marriage (as reported in popular culture and I believe it from my observation to be true) are money problems. So sure hey continue to pursue what gives you happiness but don't forget the things that allow basic survival.
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#43I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas.
(find me at avani@salk.edu)
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#44Is SD a neighborhood, city, state, country? South Dakota? Sudan? Santo Domingo? San Diego?
I was wondering "What the hell is SD?" as well, though the user profile page does make it clear. Still, could have saved many of us a click and some parsing time to just write San Diego in full. Being a European on the Internet is really a first world problem :)
As a chinese,I can't agree more with you.:)
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#45Maybe HS First requires a lot of programming, the regular FIRST for 9-14 does not require any programming to advance. It is mainly focussed on presentation skills rather than technical skills.
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#46Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#47Maybe HS First requires a lot of programming, the regular FIRST for 9-14 does not require any programming to advance. It is mainly focussed on presentation skills rather than technical skills.
That's not specifically true, especially on a team level. Some of your team members might not have to program but you do have to get the robot to do stuff well in order to advance.
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Both of my sisters received NCAA scholarships for gymnastics. So it can lead to a free education, where her daughter might choose to study something STEM.
"so it can lead" Care to discuss the probability of that happening? I know someone who got an NCAA (or similar) scholarship for swimming. The rest of the team didn't.
Well nothing in this world is guaranteed.
Anecdotal still, but both of my sisters turned down the gymnastics scholarships. They trained 36 hours a week from age 6-18 and then quit completely. One is now a nurse and the other is in vet school. Seems wasting their childhood on something they loved wasn't terribly detrimental after all.
I think that there are "intangible" benefits to athletics (not just team sports) that you're missing here.
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#49Is SD a neighborhood, city, state, country? South Dakota? Sudan? Santo Domingo? San Diego?
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Please don't post snarky putdowns of Hacker News on HN itself. They get low-quality upvotes, but they're profoundly uninteresting. If you have a genuine concern about Hacker News, it's not hard to express it appropriately.
Normally we recuse ourselves from intervening when people are being critical of HN or YC, but here I think the community interest is clear: Snarky comments aren't welcome here. The only difference with HN itself as a topic is the strange fascination of meta.
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#50Check out iD Tech Camps. They're all over California, including at UC San Diego.
http://www.idtech.com/locations/california-summer-camps/la-j...