This might very well not be what you meant, but kids (at their best) are inspired, curious and surprisingly determined in large part because they don't understand the concept of "hard work". They build their own stories in their heads which makes the process itself rewarding and challenges irrelevant. Which is what makes it so great. Some other young bloggers:
Because people used Spirograph to make similar patterns. And the cog wheels of her device are reminiscent of the cogs used to make Spirograph patterns also.
This is great. This has a chance of inspiring the next generation of people to eschew traditional routes. I'm sure she'll be super-successful/inspiring in whatever she does, even if she doesn't fulfill her original objectives (similarly with many of the Thiel Fellows).
These are all stunts. What if now every parent of every 10 year old applies to the fellowship? Will all of them accepted and is that the mission of the fellowship. This is a pathetic attempt for self ad campaign by some organization.
Facebook is not displaying the article to those of us without Facebook accounts.
On another note, HN should not be upvoting Facebook links.
Facebook's whole premise as a website is to farm data from unpaid morons, but it runs even deeper than that.
If we accept FB links, we accept Facebook psychology experimenting with the moods of their users and attempting to change our decision making processes through Pavlovian methods.
We accept that they may have inadvertently or deliberately caused Brexit through Facebook timeline confirmation bias.
If we accept facebook links we accept Facebook recording our attention if we were to purchase Occulus.
We accept them recording our whole IM history through the facebook app. We accept them watching us. Like hunters watching prey.
Drooling. Disgusted at times by us. Loathing us at times.
Let's keep the hate off of HN. We get that you are salty. We're all salty. Give us the benefit of not being so predictable about it. Spread hate on a thread about C++ pointers. Ask us why we don't use Rust. Literally anything.
Now dead comments; the community is generally interested in positive voices and even criticism of the most recent programming language is expected to trend towards constructive.
Really ???? I bet if this had happened in India or China or Africa there would have been a ton of comments about how this is noth g but a stunt and how it is more important for those countries to worry about the poor. Just because the actors involved is white no contrarian viewpoints are being entertained. No Sir the hate is not outside HN the hate is all there all the time among all the white establishment including HN white and colored hipsters in a very subtle fashion. In fact hipsters are very discriminating and they discriminate against people who look older, who don't wear tight jeans or tshirts, who speaks with an accent and even who expresses any old school opinion including calling a stunt a stunt!
Not sure what hate you're referring to, but even though this is a Facebook link it seems to be absent the nagging sign-in pop-overs we see on other FB posts. This is a good thing.
Looking further, it seems these new 'Facebook Notes' pages behave like regular web pages, without trying to annoy non-FB visitors into signing up. That is good and important when the subject matter is kids. Their stories should be allowed to exist without some tech giant agenda riding the coat tales of viral activity.
People aren't salty but lets remember that last time the HN/Reddit/Tumblr/Huffpo hive mind promoted a child it was a kid who took apart a radio shack clock, threw its contents in a briefcase, and tried his best to scare his teacher so his dad can get on the news. Suddenly, everyone here was uncritically praising this charlatan and falling for a stupid political ploy.
People should be skeptical of wonder-child claims. Thankfully, this kid looks like the real deal.
Her blog shows her as a very curious young person who is not only meddling in programming but also in history, politics and 3d-printing :)
I had to laugh hard when reading "Pour construire sur 3DSlash, il suffit de savoir jouer à Minecraft." [~ For constructing in 3DSlash, it's sufficient to know how to play Minecraft.] That's the right attitude!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
37 comments
[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 116 ms ] threadhttp://gizmodo.com/5911806/adorable-nine-year-old-girl-revie... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/05...
Thanks, Gandi does have it.
Currently on sale at $0.88 for the first year.
Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph
Because the most awesome Spirograph patterns come from the relatively prime pairs of gears.
Kinda getting tired of this word being thrown around...
But good for her.
On another note, HN should not be upvoting Facebook links.
Facebook's whole premise as a website is to farm data from unpaid morons, but it runs even deeper than that.
If we accept FB links, we accept Facebook psychology experimenting with the moods of their users and attempting to change our decision making processes through Pavlovian methods.
We accept that they may have inadvertently or deliberately caused Brexit through Facebook timeline confirmation bias.
If we accept facebook links we accept Facebook recording our attention if we were to purchase Occulus.
We accept them recording our whole IM history through the facebook app. We accept them watching us. Like hunters watching prey.
Drooling. Disgusted at times by us. Loathing us at times.
Plotting.
Looking further, it seems these new 'Facebook Notes' pages behave like regular web pages, without trying to annoy non-FB visitors into signing up. That is good and important when the subject matter is kids. Their stories should be allowed to exist without some tech giant agenda riding the coat tales of viral activity.
People should be skeptical of wonder-child claims. Thankfully, this kid looks like the real deal.
I had to laugh hard when reading "Pour construire sur 3DSlash, il suffit de savoir jouer à Minecraft." [~ For constructing in 3DSlash, it's sufficient to know how to play Minecraft.] That's the right attitude!