WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (2008)
Orang utan is a Malay/Indonesian word translated to 'Jungle human'. Orangutan are very calm, gentle and human like. It's a mystery how similar they are to us human in a sense that they are very predictable and very intelligent. Perhaps, evolution as we understand ..were already known to the people who were living nearby to the orangutan.
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Researchers listen to people who hear voices
Very impressive write-up. I didn't realize that the brain could get this wrong.
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: 'Today, Hong Kong; Tomorrow, Taiwan:' Resistance to China Spreads
This fight in Hong Kong is larger than just fighting over democracy. It's about preserving traditional Chinese culture and the Cantonese language. Who wants to be forcefully extradite and sent to camps to be re-educated about what the party believe is the correct value system?
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Computer Science vs. Computing Science (1999)
We are doing more with software now than ever before so I think we need to move away from the word 'compute'
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
You don't actually save a whole lot of money by outsourcing. "Engineers in India made around $5 an hour; it’s now $9 or $10, compared with $35 to $40 for those in the U.S. on an H1B visa, he said. But he’d tell clients the cheaper hourly wage equated to more like $80 because of the need for supervision, and he said his firm won back some business to fix mistakes"
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Dijkstra Archive (1930-2002)
A brilliant mind. His thoughts and ideas are extremely relevant to this day. In his letter 1304, Dijkstra said: “I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it", has not been met. On the contrary, most of our systems are much more complicated than can be considered healthy, and are too messy and chaotic to be used in comfort and confidence. The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash all the time, and we witness a massive worldwide distribution of bug-ridden software for which we should be deeply ashamed.”
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: How to Fix the Tech Hiring
How do you measure that? How do you know that someone will be capable of working in any 300 different frameworks?
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
The government (federal/state) and our legislators (senate and house of representative) don't always work for us or in our favor. Our political system is not strong enough to overcome the strong lobby/interest of few. We can however design our economy around solving these problems. Make it profitable to solve health-care problems. We would willingly pay a 'prime' membership if such an organization/corporation exist. And if we have more subscribers, then we will have more payer into the system.
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)
How did you learn. Where should someone start? I think now is the perfect time to learn shorthand since we have abandon hand writing completely due to overusing computer, mobile etc
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
There should be an alternative way of getting the insulin bypassing the big pharma... Any organizations trying to make that happen?
WomanCanCode
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6 years ago
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on: Sanders proposes canceling entire $1.6T in U.S. student loan debt
I think the problem is the high cost of education. There should be an alternative way of getting the education you need without being seriously in debt.
