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12 years agodiscuss

OK. Let's do the stats.

Men are 95% of homeless, 90% of prisoners, 95% workplace deaths, 80% suicides...

In second case:

I went unnecessary offensive, call it "most women cry for help" whatever.

The fact is that people who are at risk of suicidal behavior are equally distributed between genders [1]. Also mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are equally distributed [wikipedia].

So I see two options why women have much higher suicidal attempt rate:

- it is a cry for help

- men suicide attempts are under reported

[1] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9501750

12 years agodiscuss

What part do you actually disagree with?

If you have two persons with the same body mass, both of them drink 1 liter of whiskey. I bet in one case it will be 'really bad hangover' and in second case it will be 'suicide attempt'.

12 years agodiscuss

It is not suicide attempt if you are not planning to die. For example drug overdose is not necessary suicide attempt.

Men in general are treated like a shit, so they kill themselfs. Most women are emotionally blackmailing their families.

12 years agodiscuss

> At its best, the study of the humanities is an exercise in analytical skills, critical thinking and logic.

I think there is a typo, author probably meant mathematics. Most study of humanities are threatened by logic and critical thinking.

12 years agodiscuss

I seen cricket for 50 cents/pound on street market in India.

12 years agodiscuss

Perhaps you have not noticed that most loosers are men.

12 years agodiscuss

> Oh, I see. So, since no one said,

Kind of. I see lot of endorsements, but no evidence that someone actually read her code. There is also nobody who followed her on daily basis, since her announcement year ago.

You do not understand my basic complain. I do not mind girls get special treatment (not that she would need it). I mind that boys do not get the same special treatment.

There is a huge shortage of developers, but I only see helping programs to encourage GIRLS coding. There are FEMALE only internships and so on. Men are only 38% of college graduates.

Now when men learns to code by himself despite education system, he is called chauvinism because he is proud of his achievements.

12 years agodiscuss

Can you show me _one_ comment which actually recommends how to improve her skills? You know: " I noticed you are using ... but there is framework which does it better"... sort of stuff.

I think boys deserve bit more encouragement and girls deserve bit more honest constructive criticism.

12 years agodiscuss

I think here website is impressive as bunch of simple puzzles. I teach programming as a hobby and I may actually use some of that stuff.

I have problem with comments here. Nobody offers any sort of constructive criticism. We should review source code and give her some advice. Perhaps recommend a new framework to use, or even completely new direction (NodeJS).

12 years agodiscuss

- About half of the comments are about girls/gender/sexism and so on.

- Any sort of criticism is down-voted to hell, this never happens when author is a boy

- and finally show me similar toy project from boy, which would make into front page of Hacker News.

12 years agodiscuss

Nothing against Jennifer, her stuff is impressive.

But I find this ridiculous. This is called learning and is done by thousandth/millions others. Everyone has to overcome their fear of being judged and stuff. Giving kudos just because of gender just undermines girls to take on harder challenges in future.

I started coding professionally when I was 17 not to starve, while overcoming depression and mental illness. My cousin started coding recently, he was born without hands! Nobody gives a shit because we are men.

12 years agodiscuss

Who needs enemies with such friends...

12 years agodiscuss

So you prove my point :-)

12 years agodiscuss

Sometimes I need to check time on my phone. And I carry laptop from work, I never actually used in cinema.

Anyway 'movies from internet' just provide better services. And in most countries in Europe it is actually legal.

12 years agodiscuss

What is funny about that? 20% of rape victims are totally ignored.

12 years agodiscuss

Also cinemas are really becoming hostile. I have to subject my bag to inspection. I also risk arrest every time I take phone out. They also ask me to leave my laptop at reception...

12 years agodiscuss

I call bs on this. Companies are desperate to hire programmers.

12 years agodiscuss

Study: 90% deaths at workplace are men.

Study: most victims of violent rapes are men (prison)

Study: college hostile towards men, most graduates are woman.

12 years agodiscuss

YCombinator already openly discriminates man, there is no need for secrecy.

12 years agodiscuss

For start why is long distance flight 10x cheaper than train?

Air planes require much less personnel and have no tracks. Trains are still in 60ies with fat unions and zero innovations. Also how is 50 ton airplane less efficient than 5000 ton train?

And if train takes 5 days instead of 5 hours, you should also count in the foot print of person who is traveling. In one sleeping coupe you could fit 6 aircraft passengers...

Sure airplanes do make traveling easier, but that does not make them less efficient.