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I'm not convinced. If you need a role model (Of the same sex) to do something, you probably don't 'love' it enough or find it intellectually stimulating enough to do it for yourself.

Personally, I think this just throws up an issue where there is none.

Any woman can get into tech, learn technology, setup websites, make apps, do a startup etc etc. I'm not really sure what barriers there are for anyone, apart from the barriers they impose on themselves.

Also I'm not a fan of sexism even when it's "reverse" - this website is "women only". It'd be much better to just share stories from everyone...

Just my 2c.
One of the coolest things i remember doing as a kid was sitting on an acorn computer and writing some text that then controlled a Lego robot. I didn't know it at the time but that was my first exposure to programming.

It's really great when a kid gets massively excited about learning how to make things work whether it's a computer or something else.
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This helps. I've been learning Go. I'm pretty much in love with it even though I haven't done much with it yet.
Reading the story, and the comments, there seems to be a disconnect between why the kids were delighted - it is not that they are delighted about Linux or XMonad. Or that they are learning valuable life skills.

They are delighted to be spending time with dad. Doing something fun, that dad seems engaged in.

As a dad, too much time seems to go on the mundane or the boring. Raising up the enthusiasm level, is a marvellous thing for dads and kids. It does not matter if that is installing Linux, writing blog posts, foraging for mushrooms, bird-watching or football.

Plus one for spending quality time with the kids. what we actually do it seems is less important than doing it.

Enjoy

Edit: clarity
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I think you are underestimating how few people actually would do such a thing at a young age.
Top marks for utilising feet for inputting. We have grown lazy with smartphones almost limiting our interaction to a shake of the wrist.

Could a neck collar or head band be developed to perform similar tasks? Eg you move your head left or right to navigate web sites.
Is this a big deal? It's amusing that it is such a simple chunk of HTML, but I was under the impression that it's not terribly difficult to DoS the average browser.

I accidentally discovered some very simple HTML that reliably crashes Outlook whenever you try to view or preview the message a while back. I reported it and I think they eventually fixed it.
Had no clue DotCom was on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/#!/KimDotcom
>Would the site really have been worse off if the same posts had been submitted under the founders' real names?

I can only speculate, but a site ostensibly where "all readers are editors" full of posts from only "kn0thing" and "spez" doesn't make for the best first impression of a community. Something to also remember is that in 2005, it was MUCH harder for buzz to spread online; I saw this firsthand launching hipmunk in 2010 and what a difference just 5 yrs made in producing all those 'social media' websites.

>Instead of starting out with false pretenses, could they have encouraged their friends to contribute?

Believe me, I did. Maybe 3 of them became regular submitters: Morgan, Connor, and Steve's girlfriend. Perhaps I'm not persuasive enough, but the 1% rule applies -- 1% or less of the traffic that visits a user-gen site actually creates content. So even if you had 100 friends who became regular visitors, you could only count on a few of them to become submitters.

>I think once one goes down this path, the success of the whole endeavor is tainted. Yes, crime frequently pays and cheaters often win, but that's something that we as a community should work to change.

Wow. That's quite the charge. I'm sorry you feel that way. I agree we should work to fight cheating, which is something we to this day take very seriously when it comes to trying to game reddit -- one of the reasons why reddit triumphed over digg.
> daddy is a woodworker, so here's some stone tools

Are you suggesting that if "daddy is a developer" that he's only using a touch screen for development? Or that development of touch screen apps is all a developer does? I'm confused by this statement.

Edit: Maybe I'm just not reading this right. Did you mean:

daddy is a woodworker, so here's some stone[-working] tools

or

daddy is a woodworker, so here's some stone tools [used for
woodworking]
Exactly! I could be screwing in a screw and my son would enjoy it and be delighted about it.
Those homescreen tiles are a cool new idea in mobile UIs and keep getting better. Kudos to those guys.
Congratulations, Ryan and Ed!
Apple absolutely does not care about "Enterprise" if Enterprise means only IT people and middle managers who buys the same Wintel stuff year after year after year.

I'm pretty sure Apple does some of the things just to spit you guys, personally. Like requiring iTunes until just recently.
When 'new' features are advertised, many people like to use them.

"You can do XYZ on your Android, except not the one you bought brand new last month because it's really 23 months old already. To use XYZ, you'll need to shell out another $x00 vs just getting a software download".

Google allowing device manufacturers to even have a hand in deciding who gets updates and when is... crazy. The damage that can and will do to the Android brand over time is immense. The biggest 'value' most people see in Android is "not Apple", which isn't really a long term viable competitive position to take. MS has (and has had for some time) an opp to eat away at the "anything but apple" smartphone crowd, and they'll be taking share away from Android.
Neat project. I like the focus on the positive. IMO this will be a good resource. I really hope this succeeds and takes off in a big way. I like to encourage the women I know in tech to participate in stuff like this, but many times they don't want to because a lot of times "women in tech" issues focus too much on the negative, or the sexism issue rather than the positive or even just the tech.

I don't know anyone in Toronto, but I have several nominations around the US, should your scope expansion work out :)

(Completely aside: is there any good advice for men who want to further the role of women in tech -- because balance is always a good idea -- to help and encourage without being overbearing or accidentally patronizing? I worry about furthering the problem accidentally so I very rarely bring up this topic, even though I feel strongly about it).
Most people only live in that world.

I learned to operate the VCR before I learned to operate a computer. One thing does not exclude the other.

We are talking about kids here not computer scientists. If they have it in them they will have no problem switching.
That's a neat idea. You can post stories, work samples, a podcast, but...

If you already know whom you want to interview, the site would benefit from having a story or two already there, on launch.

If you're targeting the tech crowd, add an rss feed in addition to the e-mail newsletter.

And lose this bar at the top, it's completely unnecessarily wasting vertical space.
Am I the only one that feels a little queasy reading this?

First of all: I think it's great to be teaching your kids about how computers function at a basic level. I think it's cool and admirable that his kids can use a command line.

But the very evidence presented in this article suggests that he's repressing his children from having more fun, more "delight" than they're able to looking at a bunch of text. They're so excited by the visual interface because all young children are excited by stimulating visuals.

The (admittedly poorly written) comment which is currently at the bottom of the thread points out exactly what I was thinking. Imagine how excited, how delighted, these kids would be with all of the possibilities afforded by an iPad. The diverse critical development opportunities and perceptual stimuli would seem to far outweigh the advantages of being able to think like a programmer or whatever. And, it would just be so much more fun for them, in my opinion.
My company mental improvement ventures is specifically trying to focus on mom and pop, "very small businesses", and anybody else who wants a compact service offering at a relatively low price.

I saw the lack of focus ion this sector as an opportunity.
Converting C# ‘is’ operator to ‘instanceof’ Java operator
Quite common on translatlantic routes.
Cruise on a 747-400 is about mach0.85 (925km/h) and you commonly have a jet stream of 150km/h so a ground speed of close to 1100km/h is possible - above the speed of sound at 30,000ft
How many people would do which thing?
Google.com and malware (what attackers are doing to difficult detection)
Publicly complaining you can't find staff seems like a terrible idea.

It's an obvious selling point for the competition. "It looks to me like they're one illness away from missing shipments" is an easy fear to plant in someones mind.

Couple that with hiring away one or two solid staff members, and you're going to fail publicly.

The more committed you are to the fiction free markets don't work, the more you're going to suffer.
What was the problem? was it the unclosed <form> tag?
Okay ... I can accept the idea that diplo-speak is often a cover for power-grabs and may certainly be the case here, but how do you go about this "proper interpretation"?

I find any secrecy like what happens in many treaty negotiations to be concerning, I don't need to be sold there, but to trust your interpretation I need more transparency from you.

How does your secret decoder ring work?
More feedback - you have a utf-8 encoding problem in the first paragraph within "for learning your camera’s manual controls". It looks like the single quote was encoded by Word and doesn't translate to utf-8 - I see it as an accented "i". Just replace the ’ with &rsquo; in the html.
I completely agree with the article. Are we going to start accusing every modern day author of copying Shakespeare because they share certain themes? What matters is the execution not the idea.
I was doing Basic programming on the TRS-80 at about the age of 3. It's really not hard to learn how to string a few PRINT and GOTO lines together, and I think it's a great thing to teach kids to do.

> Also CLI tends to be more predictable

Generally I think that's true, but when learning Linux I managed to bork the system so badly using the command line so many times, that I just had to reinstall the whole OS.
I would imagine that there is an easement agreement of some sort on the island for residents.
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Yes #4 could be problematic if not implemented carefully, but it is addressing a real problem. Parallel evolution is commonplace in the tech industry. In the current system, if two (or three, or twenty) companies legitimately and independently happen onto the same idea, whoever gets the patent can blindside the others. Often after the other inventors have made large investments in developing and fleshing out the idea, possibly to a much greater extent than the patent holder. This makes no sense, whether you're interested in promoting innovation, or simple justice and fairness.
The ISO list shows Occupied Palestine in its preferred UN nomenclature, PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED. This is a politically controversial area as well. How you should choose to identify the area depends in part on to which region you're targeting your site/app.
> [Campbell talks about boom and bust cycles...]

People always dismissed it, when I told them - if only I was born x years earlier I would have graduated at the start of the boom cycle. I would have landed a high paying role out of college/Uni and earned enough cash by the end of the cycle to see me through the bust years. With the work experience I would have a better chance competing against new grads. Considering the value of money etc, benefiting from a 2/3 boom cycle could put you well ahead financially.

While this is rather simplistic and exceptions to the rule, timing can make one hell of a difference.
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We're trying to nail down some of the issues ourselves. The issues our team has discussed so far are often amorphous or interpreted differently depending on context and person, so you can imagine they are difficult to pin down. Exposure and networking were a couple of the harmless problems we thought could help address immediately.

We do have several men on our team (more men than women, in fact), and don't at all intend "reverse sexism".

Also, just to clarify, this isn't just for startup women but for any lady working in tech fields – including those coders who sit behind big monitors all day and are reluctant to put themselves in the limelight or to serve as mentors/role models.
Imagine how much more fun they could have painting instead of using tuxpaint. Learning how to interact with objects that aren't keyboards, mice, or lcds may benefit them in other ways as well.

Edit: In light of other comments by jgoerzen, this comment misses the mark.
This project sounds like an awesome idea if executed properly. The fact that you're already taking constructive feedback into account in a positive way makes that proper execution sound pretty likely. :)

On the note of constructive feedback, the "hounding women in tech until they meet with you" bit could definitely be misread. I know it isn't meant that way, but it sounds a little bit like you're going to harass women who may not be interested until they agree to be involved.
I wish they'd teach Linux in school, starting from the kernel, instead of this "how to use MS Office" tripe that passes for "computer science" here in the states.
Ok, I am fine with the need of something better than ebay and craiglist but would someone explain me why does it have to be a mobile app? why? i think that this services need to reach the larger audice they can. Making it an app does not do that..it is limiting IMHO. Why I, android and PC owner, should be excluded? i understand you will (maybe?) make it available in future for other platform even porting it to android cuts out all those people who want to do things on the PC, which is the biggest part of the userbase I think.
I remember watching my dad fix things when I was young, and I can confirm that this is indeed the case. It didn't matter what he was doing, I wanted to be watching. Carpentry, ditch-digging, vehicle repairs... It just didn't matter what.

I can't remember how many times he said, "Don't play where people are working." Also, (to Mom): "How many times have I told you not to put my tools away before I'm done working?"

Ahh, the memories.
Kids aren't learning abstract fundamentals at that age though. They are mimicking stuff.

My son was two when he could operate the ipad, go to youtube find his movie. That's not because he could read or knew what he was doing, but because he had learned to mimic how I did things.

So the kids might learn the commands and there might be a lot of value in that. But I do not believe that they are actually internalizing and learning fundamentals in any intelectual sense.

Anyway it's kind of a hard subject. I think it's great what the OP is doing but I fear he is reading a little too much into the reaction from the kids. Unless of course they are gifted with a high IQ (which might very well be the case)
As someone with 25 years of photography, I cannot recommend this "book". Starting with the very first photo, a typical photojournalist shot, super wide angle shooting into the sun photo. This just continues into the book with cliched subjects (sunsets, cats) and advice like "take lots of photos"

The section in aperture starts out with a photo that's hard to look at its so badly exposed.

The section on metering is just plain wrong, true only for spot metering, which most of the people who read this beginners guide are not going to be using. For the people it actually targets its misleading to talk about which spot the camera is metering on.

There are many many better books than this which will give beginners a grounding in the mechanics of photography.
Performance appraisal at large corporations definitely suck. Reasons are many. But the point that managers or companies miss is the fact that performance cannot/should not just be appraised at the end of the year by collecting feedback. It has to be a constant process throughout the year. Most companies miss this trick. It is always easier to get better feedback when I delivered something by asking the team involved in it rather than waiting for next 6 months and go to them with a bunch of questions.Also, give feedback constantly. By the end of the year, it will be a breeze to determine the overall performance.
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My first computer interface was a command line. I was five.

**** CBM BASIC V2 ****
3583 BYTES FREE
READY.

I learned that by telling things to the computer (via the keyboard), it would obey commands or remember information. This actually isn't terribly hard for a kid to grasp, though this level of sophistication probably won't work with a kid who's much younger than 5 or 6.
Learn the command line at a very young age.
Ask HN: Who plans to attend the International Startup Festival in Montreal?
I'm taking a train with some startup folks from Ontario [http://trips.threefortynine.com/] to the International Startup Festival in Montreal [http://startupfestival.com/en/], July 11-13, 2012. I'm curious who from the HN community is planning to attend, where you're coming from, and what your startup is if you have one.
Sites like Groklaw (who understand legal language far better than me) were praising the judge for how well he constructed his ruling to withstand appeals. There are no obvious gaping holes in his logic, and so I am sure Oracle's legal team will have to write a pretty clever appeal brief in order to be granted one.
Project members contributing:

Karen Reilly, Development Director

Responsible for fundraising, advocacy, general marketing, policy outreach programs for Tor. She is also available to speak for audiences about the benefits of online anonymity, privacy, and Tor.

Runa A. Sandvik, Developer, Security Researcher, and Translation Coordinator

Maintains the Tor Translation Portal and the translations for a number of projects (such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website). She also generally helps out with the Torouter project, bridge distribution through instant messaging, and other projects.
That's why Company B would never hire a C++ programmer and train them. Instead they would hire people who knew python (and insist of Python2.7rc2 b34 patch level 42 experience) AND pay less and rely on getting people that were either rejected from A or didn't find A.

They would then decide the problem was python, fire all the programmers and try again with magic-silver-bullet technology of the day
Got excited about this, grabbed it for iPhone.

Launched it, got error that it can't connect to server. Will probably be deleted now. You got the one chance to get my attention, and it got blown.

Edit: I tried reconnecting 4-5 times, still failed.

Edit2: Reading the TechCrunch article, they want to take 10% from the seller at some point in the future? For a craigslist style thing? How does this make sense?
Which is what? That learning about computing is more important for children 5 and under than happiness?
Handy Manny is a household favourite :-)
I guess it's subjective, but you would be in the minority [1] for thinking Metro UI is a "unicorn vomit/rainbow disaster".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_UI#Response
Ask HN: One week no distractions - what are you dying to get done?
HN

If you had one week vacation, with no distractions - what would you do?
I learned that the cat you let out of the bag is the same animal as the pig in a poke

Nope, the cat is the cat o' nine tails, when it was taken out of its bag, it was because someone was about to be punished. No idea what he means by this comment.
Google now offers support to developers with “Developers Live”
This is a good story, although there are some thoughts that come to mind when I consider what's happening.

It seems as though GUI environments are being treated as second-class citizens. While I live and breathe my command line as I have for years, GUI interfaces run the world. As long as the kids learn GUI interactivity at some point, they'll be better prepared for the world.

But the excitement those kids are getting is that feeling of control, of if-I-do-this-then-that-will-happen, which is a powerful motivator. startx and xmonad can offer a simplicity that would very much appeal to young kids interacting with a computer.

All in all, good for Dad and kiddos. They like doing those things, and Dad is focused on helping them succeed. A winning combination.
We are looking for fullstack Rails devs, would love to even out the gender ratio :)
I support any startup wanting to go after fees-heavy eBay.
The resources won't be used efficiently if the few with all the power/money can press their priorities on the rest of the populace. In the US, this takes the form of billionaires heavily influencing government policy, both through party funding to draw up the legislature and propaganda to win votes. In looser countries, this effect is even more direct.

You have to count on benevolent tyrants if you allow wealth concentration to run its course. That's hoping for a lot.
This was actually utilized at some point in Usenet's history to transfer posts between the US and Australia, as I recall. Googling isn't turning up citable references, so I'll call this apocryphal until verified. I do find traffic stats showing ~4GB/day posts as of 1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Technical_details).

Australia for a long time was a worst-case major economy networking situation with few, slow, and high-latency links (and still suffers from high costs due to limited links and telco monopolies).

For an understanding of how limited international data links were as recently as the early 1990s, one of the key public data links between the US and Europe at the time was a 9660 baud link according to a dated, but fascinating, compendium of networking at the time (lost somewhere in the Krell stacks, I'll dig a reference on request).

Jon Bentley's classic Programming Pearls discusses the problem of transferring graphical data images between Mountain View and Santa Cruz, California, in the 1970s. The high-bandwidth, cost-effective, sufficiently reliable solution? Carrier pigeons. Really.
I'm not convinced that you are "repressing" your children by not buying them every shiny new tech toy that 2012 has.

I'm no child development expert , but is it necessarily a positive to provide children with so much stimulation and stuff that is designed for short attention spans?

I had a variety of educational games as a kid but the majority of them had very limited potential to actually teach anything, I probably expanded my brain a lot more by making Doom 2 WAD files than I did doing any of that.
Agreed. Children's development has been tuned by ages and ages according to a world full of stimuli. The reason kids seems to go for iPads is because they are more like the actual world. You touch them, they react.
Well you could also say that the iPhone home screen looks like a bin of shiny colored glass children's toys were spilled onto the screen.

This type of criticism doesn't really help, because the vast majority of people seem to think both (metro, and iOS) look fine, if not great. What matters is how usable these phones/OS'es will turn out to be once people start trying them.
Really sorry about this. We're on it now!

Edit: to answer your question on fees, we're still considering how we roll them out. Appreciate the feedback. We felt strongly that we wanted to build a service worth paying for. We also didn't want to bait and switch users, so we do mention fees when you post, but the entire experience is free. When you try it, I hope you'll agree that it's a lot better than the one for which you pay 40% at a consignment store.