You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
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Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
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#62"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…
Justice Byron White played college football, got a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, played in the NFL for Pittsburgh and Detroit, served in the Navy, built a private practice, and served on the Supreme Court for 31 years.
Gymnastics leads to becoming a well-rounded person, which is a pre-requisite for the Harvards and Stanfords of the world, which leads to exceptional careers in medicine or technology. American culture places a tremendous value on athletics, even for people in intellectual pursuits. In the business world, athletics is a key way for intelligent people to distinguish themselves within the pool of other intelligent people.
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#64You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
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This comment is also out of line. Two wrongs do not make a right, and personal attacks are absolutely unwelcome on Hacker News. It doesn't matter how provocative the other person was being.
When you see something provocative on HN, please reflect before responding. Fighting poison with poison makes things worse. Please either add comments that make things better, or no comments.
When responding to a toxic comment, re-read what you just posted to make sure that you didn't slip up and make a toxic comment yourself. If you did, edit out the acidity until your comment is neutral; or simply delete it. That's what I do, and I can tell you from long experience that this approach works.
Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
#65Maybe 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.
You can win the robot game and it has no bearing on advancement. The key is the 3 interviews. In the robot design interview, the number of points for quality of engineering is low. Most of the points are in the show your work category. A better presentation of a poor design will score better than a poor presentation of a quality result.
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#66You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
Thanks to the fair-minded users of Hacker News for downvoting this bullshit. When I encounter a comment like this, it's a relief to discover that the community immune system already rejected it. When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top. Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps…
He's not just trolling and vicious, but he's wrong too. The other day, I brought up the fact that Michael Bay had gotten the design of the ninja turtles totally wrong in the new movie. And she said: "I always kinda liked TMNT, but it was a 'boy' thing so I never really got into it a kid. I mean, I guess they had April."
So yes, gender matters. Kids want to be able to relate to their heroes, and gender is a deep part of identity. And admitting that gender matters isn't sexist.
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#67You should reach out to Otherlab. https://otherlab.com/
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#68You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
Thanks to the fair-minded users of Hacker News for downvoting this bullshit. When I encounter a comment like this, it's a relief to discover that the community immune system already rejected it. When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top. Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps…
I wonder how many civil, patiently explained responses that live up to your expectations for HN standards would have appeared if the request was for a male-only engineer.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks to the fair-minded users of Hacker News for downvoting this bullshit. When I encounter a comment like this, it's a relief to discover that the community immune system already rejected it. When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top. Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps…
He's not just trolling and vicious, but he's wrong too. The other day, I brought up the fact that Michael Bay had gotten the design of the ninja turtles totally wrong in the new movie. And she said: "I always kinda liked TMNT, but it was a 'boy' thing so I never really got into it a kid. I mean, I guess they had April." So yes, gender matters. Kids want to be able to relate to their heroes, and gender is a deep part…
Being wrong is not a crime on Hacker News; trolling and viciousness are.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks to the fair-minded users of Hacker News for downvoting this bullshit. When I encounter a comment like this, it's a relief to discover that the community immune system already rejected it. When you see a comment that is truly toxic for HN, flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top. Edit: Since I know some people have concerns about unpopular opinions being suppressed, perhaps…
I wonder how many civil, patiently explained responses that live up to your expectations for HN standards would have appeared if the request was for a male-only engineer.
It doesn't matter. Trying to measure these things for who's worse, etc., is a guaranteed way to fall straight back into raging. What we need are "civil, patiently explained responses" all around.