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> I disputed the notion that programming required "talent", whatever it means. Learning to program isn't rocket science, but it required a lot of dedication and patience.

The dichotomy between hard work and talent can be a false one. What I'm talking about is teachers rewarding girls for solving easy questions without any fuss, and rewarding boys for solving hard problems. Programming requires hard work and talent, but it's seen as talent by outsiders (i.e. 99% of the people most high-school students know).

While codeacademy and learn-x-the-hard-way may help lower the barrier, learning to code has, historically, been really bloody hard.
Something that I think is important in math is the practical and theoretical going hand-in-hand. I'm still an undergrad student, but I have really enjoyed my math education so far. I have always appreciated both the beauty of the abstraction of math, as well as the beauty of applying that abstraction to solve very real problems.

That being said, I think something might be lost when you take away the abstraction of math. I think a lot of math -and math abstraction especially- is difficult because of the way variables are understood. Since the beginning of algebra one, we learn that we can have an unknown, say 'x', and we can solve for it trivially by manipulating an equation to set 'x' equal to some value. But people always seem to get caught up in the naming idea. I remember in high school math classes, many of my peers would get so hung up as soon as the 'x' was turned into a 'y'. I felt like it was hopeless trying to explain that 'x' and 'y' are just names for something.

This same problem percolates into every bit of math. After enough time, functions in math become first class citizens as well. That throws even more people. The exact same problem is seen in the programming world when people move from functions as an idea of a subroutine to being treated like a first class citizen. And lets not even mention Haskell or another functional language, with currying and stuff like that.

I guess that's the problem that I see in math; the idea of an abstraction is difficult. However, I'm not totally convinced that making complex math more concrete is the best way to do that. At some point, having linked numbers like in interface builder looses its usefulness. So much of math is proofs. How can you do proofs when you are constantly instantiating concepts, rather than dealing with an abstraction. At some point, "there exists" needs to become "for all," which I think might be difficult in this type of mathematical environment.

Again, concrete and abstraction really go best hand-in-hand, in my opinion.
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It's difficult to picture many people wanting this at all. I agree with Gruber 100% on this.
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Part of the problem with the article though is that it seems to assume that "tech" means "hot tech startups." And "startup" here has a specific meaning that assumes that it does not include the self-employed and therefore involves a sort of work style that historically women have actively avoided.

A third of the software engineers and developers out there are women. I am willing to bet though that the numbers in hot tech start-ups are significantly less than that.

And yet, what of the woman who says "I don't want to work this job while I raise my kid? I am going to become a freelance tech writer! (or developer, or whatever)" They don't count in these metrics. Which may also say something about the sexism latent in the metrics.....

BTW, two of the most talented programmers I have ever met in my life were women. One worked in academia, and the other, despite her important achievements, worked at a tech-centric coffee shop as a sysadmin, and later got a job as a developer for a relatively obscure yet stable company.
Also, I think a point that could be made that if you were to teach a 'layperson' how to use a command line, given they were willing to learn it -and not pull the "I'm too dumb, this is for you computer people" card- I think they would quickly discover that there are few things they do daily that they could do quicker.
http://www.cprogramming.com/begin.html

This was one of the first results I got searching for "how do I learn to program". The other results were Norvig's "it takes 10 years", the University of Phoenix, and a wikihow page recommending SICP.

If you know how to program, it's easy to get into it. If you don't know, you won't know where to start. You'll get tutorials saying "Install Linux, apt-get build essentials; open vi ...."

Once you know how to program (hello world, for loops), you can calculate fibonacci numbers. Wow. Then you need an application. People will think "you're a programmer, so, can you write me a game? Hack the Pentagon? No? LAMO!".
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I am teaching my 8 year old son to program. He's really into robots so I figured we'd be pushing towards getting him mindstorms once the programming clicks. I am teaching him C and Perl. First things we did were simple loops and hello world programs.

Next was a simple number guessing game (one screen of code in Perl). Next will be the number guessing game in C.

Really, what helps early on is a teacher. I am able to give him assignments. Ask him to make changes to his code, etc. He is starting to get it but it is a lot of work at first.

Maybe an apprenticeship model would be ideal?
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Yeah, I don't know why AMD decided thought digital TVs would be susceptible to under-scan or over-scan.
Does anyone need a co-founder?
I'm looking to start or join a project with someone. Preferably someone with skills and interests similar to mine. I previously worked for a startup in Philly, where I was a UI Engineer. I'm currently working on an iPhone game but want to get into something else once this is finished. I'll be looking to devote all of my time towards a new project.

I've coded in just about every language you can name, so I can adapt to whatever you've got going so far. Most recently, I've been using Python, Backbone, Coffeescript, jQuery, SimpleDB, and some other stuff that probably isn't worth mentioning.

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I'm not sure how I feel about this. Sometimes complicated things are just complicated. I'm not sure making pretty pictures to make things appear more simple than they are is necessarily a good thing. Abstract thinking is difficult. Breaking the problems down such that it no longer requires abstract thought somewhat defeats the purpose.
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FTA: "By comparison, consider literacy. The ability to receive thoughts from a person who is not at the same place or time is a similarly great power. The dramatic social consequences of the rise of literacy are well known."

I'm thinking it might be a bit on the difficult side to express the relationships written equations make easy if all you've got is an animated graph full of dials or a "scrubbing calculator".

Written math is wonderfully dense and meaningful and allows the transmission of a very particular kind of knowledge with the simplest of mediums.
But what passes for talent is very often times just a hard, critical eye directed into one's self. In other words, asking, 'how can I do this better?'
What additional rights do you believe they have here? If I understand rightly, pinning something is using an entire work under US copyright law, which makes it hard to claim fair use.
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Just don't use anything with a folk etymology if you're a politician: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%2...
The problem is that our education systems, by and large, include effectively no education about computers whatsoever. (Classes with touch-typing lessons/word-processing skills/etc. don't count in my mind.)

As a result, most people have no concept of how a computer really works. With just the tiniest bit of this knowledge, the command-line would seem much less arcane, and the 'I'm too dumb, this is for you computer people' argument wouldn't really apply.

It's shocking how computing is quite literally the technological advance of the millennium, both for industry and for individuals, and yet we somehow think it's acceptable to leave it up to people to learn about it all on their own, and even then only if they care to.
It's sexist. Period.
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By thinking that crap you will raise your kids with those misconceptions and they will be true.

nothing is because of gender. Everything is because of social organization. No matter how much your logical brain wants to see otherwise.
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With the exception of spiders and other AI-like things, no, we are not expecting clients to spontaneously consume RESTful services in meaningful ways. REST clients are generic. They don't know anthing about specific services, thus allowing those services to evolve independently. A client that is coupled to a specific service is not RESTful, nor is any API that can only be consumed by such a client.
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No, thank you both!
Not someone to hire, but there were some really good tips posted here previously http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214397

Hope this helps you to do it yourself if you are unable to find one
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If you find a way to persist the popup please share, I spent the last 9 hours in all out battle. Basically chrome shit cans the window object on blur, the closest I came was pushing the popup body into the background page for resurrection later, but it's clunky around the edges as your dealing with a new window/document context so stuff like js context, scroll position, etc.

I've tabled it for now. I'm 99% sure the way to go is to put a popout link on the popup, setPopup to null and then bind the click listener for the popup icon to focus the popup. If the user closes the popped out popup reset setPopup and the process starts anew. I'll still be overring backbone sync and keeping all the data in the background.
I actually like (or liked) TC (and MG and Mike, and Jason, et al) but all this back-patting is getting a little ridiculous.
OK, it might be better to come up with some scaling law. Frigates, Battleships, and Carriers will have different volume/weight ratios.
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I think Bret may be targeting laypeople from what I've seen, so he will always come down on the side of enabling growth for larger numbers of people, as opposed to an 'elite' few (comparatively).
> And furthermore, if you believe in evolution, you have to believe that there was no consciousness

Actually, you don't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
Its not done yet, its in draft stage and has been available for a while. Im waiting for it to come out fully on a pdf so i can throw my money at him.
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That's a good point. Sort of like when I first discovered regular expressions, I thought "Wow, I can express a whole sentence worth of very specific commands in a few characters." The same goes for Math. I don't really like Math, but I certainly won't deny its power and ability to be expressed in such a compact form.
Actually it's a question of considerable empirical debate, and the consensus answer to the nature or nurture question in general is "some of both". You are discussing political doctrine, not empirical science, when you make such bold claims.
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They're demonstrating that users are getting value out of it.

School administrators will pay for this system if they can demonstrate teachers want to use it and are able to get better performance out of their students by using it.

These users are also monetizable - if the system is entrenched in a school or district and they announce free + paid plans they can convert at least some of these to paying users - paid for by the school itself or school district.
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Here one should not forget the past, and look to Jeffrey Friedl's excellent "Mastering Regular Expressions".
Reminds me of the thesis behind the Learn Python/C/etc. The Hard Way series. By abstracting away the abstraction and complexity we may be turning out people who are very comfortable with the specific task but, due to a lack of familiarity with the primitives underlying what they're doing, are incapable at generalising it to even slightly different problems.

There is another set of "abstract symbols" we have a "freakish knack" for manipulating: the alphabet. Literacy was once, too, deemed beyond the reach of commoners.
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Shouldn't the title be about an "AT&T Subscriber"?
I have had third party cookies disabled for years and only ran into problems a few times, but that was years ago.

Disabling third party cookies seems like a sensible default to me. You can have an argument about which option is better and there are good arguments for either of them – but neither of the two options seems outrageous to me if you were to pick them as the default.
Why do algorithm books generally devote so much space to FFT?
It seems like it has very narrow applicability: apart from signal processing and multiplying big integers or polynomials, what else are they useful for?

Wouldn't it be better to explain divide-and-conquer with some other algorithm having broader applicability?
The most disgusting part is where the Argentine government censors private analysis/journalism of economic statistics:

"In an extraordinary abuse of power by a democratic government, independent economists have been forced to stop publishing their own estimates of inflation by fines and threats of prosecution."

To be fair, even the European Commission drafted something similar in the height of the financial crisis, when they considered "regulating" credit ratings agencies (e.g. telling them what ratings they could and could not issue on sovereign debt).

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I don't disagree, but tech isn't the only one that wrings its hands about gender disparity... lack of male teachers being an obvious one (although the pedo hysteria basically drove away any of them in elementary level).

It's hard not to feel that tech is missing out on something by not having more women, we just don't know what we're missing. I would bet money if more women were in games, we'd have had the social game revolution a good 3 years earlier at least. As someone else mentioned, working with women creates a more pleasant and balanced place. Sometimes it's nice to hear about how the new baby is doing, or have someone to gossip with. Interactions you don't tend to get with men. I bet that helps with creativity too.

What I largely disagree with is how we go react to it: very large doses of affirmative action at both the industry and college level. Not only does it just feel like we're throwing money at women who would have done it anyway, it's a rather discriminatory set of policies on top. The message is that females are the weaker tech sex, which in turn breeds things like imposter syndrome. However, I won't pretend that the locker room antics that is college Computer Science courses isn't intimidating.

The problem is lower down. IIRC, there's research that says girls of 12-13 entertain the idea of going into science or engineering, but something happens in middle school age where that interest gets beaten out of them, and by high school it's all over. You've lost them. We give grants and jobs to those that had the resolve to go through it, but have nothing to say to those 14 year old girls that are wondering why they thought they'd make iOS apps at all. That's who we should be targeting.
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Seems like a little upselling going on in the defense. That is mastery.
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This article isn't necessarily about making ALL math less abstract / challenging. That's arguably impossible. It's about making math more accessible to the masses.

Most college educated Americans have never learned ANYTHING about differential equations, linear algebra, or discrete math... That is a serious shame and you could argue impacts our national productivity/potential. Most people simply will not try to learn higher level math out of fear of failure, challenge, or whatever.

Making SOME higher level math more intuitive is a great objective. I would much rather live in a world where more Americans ultimately understand a higher level of math (regardless if the path to get there was a little less challenging) than leaving math education in it's current state.

Analogy:
How many average American's tried to use computers with just command prompts? I would argue that it was the creation of an intuitive interface ("physical" folders where you store documents) that really started mass adoption of computers throughout the world. Is this less challenging/abstract than command prompts- yes. Is the world vastly more productive because of it? Absolutely.
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nothing is because of gender. Everything is because of social organization.

That's a pretty willfully blind stance to take. Have you never studied human biology? Or have you decided that you are simply above the chemicals in your bloodstream?
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