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Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« on: November 29, 2014, 01:04:12 PM »
https://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/

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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2014, 02:05:15 PM »
oh, come on. Even you have to admit that is pretty dumb of Computer Engineer Barbie to need her boys to write her *expletive deleted*ing code.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2014, 02:27:10 PM »
I'd really like to see some of the submissions that didn't get posted.

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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2014, 10:36:09 PM »
She's smart pawning off the grunt work to the boys.  Why get bogged down in coding? Pay the boys 40 bucks an hour to get it right and work out the bugs then send them on their way, meanwhile working up ideas for the next, greatest thing.
Sell the app for $$$, keep all the profits. 
Repeat.

Buy shoes, pay off the mortgage on the dream house, hire gigilo Ken couple times a month.

Programmer Barbie?
More like "I am Barbie, millionaire.  I own a mansion and a yacht."
7-11 was a part time job.

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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2014, 10:41:14 PM »
Weren't there a couple of coders getting paid high bucks by more than one company, who actually were outsourcing their work to China or India, hiring a bunch of coders for a small fraction of their own salary?

Sounds like a good gig, if you can get it.  >:D
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2014, 11:31:31 PM »
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I have the ponytail. But I'll have to grow a goatee and move back in with my parents before I can truly call myself a computer engineer.


Oooh . . . somebody flunked out of Comp Sci in college.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2014, 08:43:13 AM »
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2014, 11:40:21 AM »
She's smart pawning off the grunt work to the boys.  Why get bogged down in coding? Pay the boys 40 bucks an hour to get it right and work out the bugs then send them on their way, meanwhile working up ideas for the next, greatest thing.
Sell the app for $$$, keep all the profits. 
Repeat.

Buy shoes, pay off the mortgage on the dream house, hire gigilo Ken couple times a month.

Programmer Barbie?
More like "I am Barbie, millionaire.  I own a mansion and a yacht."

It's not that it's not a great way to get stuff done, it's that she can't write the code.

If she had said, "and now I will use my feminine wiles and trick the stupid boys into doing all the grunt work while I rake in the cash" I'd be like "That's right, Barbie!"
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2014, 01:16:41 PM »
It's not that it's not a great way to get stuff done, it's that she can't write the code.

If she had said, "and now I will use my feminine wiles and trick the stupid boys into doing all the grunt work while I rake in the cash" I'd be like "That's right, Barbie!"

Oooooooooo.  so maybe she's playing the pity angle.
"Poor wittle ole me can't write code"
"Will one of you big, strong, boys help me?"

Beta boys write code for free, go home with blue balls while Barbie profits.

Either way, she's not stupid, she's looking out for herself.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2014, 01:45:15 PM »
Oooooooooo.  so maybe she's playing the pity angle.
"Poor wittle ole me can't write code"
"Will one of you big, strong, boys help me?"

Beta boys write code for free, go home with blue balls while Barbie profits.

Either way, she's not stupid, she's looking out for herself.

yes, but for it to be a valuable life lesson for little girls (and a warning to little boys) Barbie has to say that's what her plan is in her story.


and for the record, I *expletive deleted*ing HATE Barbie with a burning passion. IMHO, it is, hands down, the worst toy you can give a little girl. I am disgusted by the lack of progress in making Barbie more physically correct and I loath the ditzy and bimbo narrative of the whole thing.

Furthermore, it is just an all around crappy toy. The head pops right off, you can never get the tight clothing on and off without a battle royal, and the shoes always get lost and cause more pain when stepped on than Lego's. The ultimate destination of all Barbie's is headless, naked and bald. Plus, head or body usually pops off in the oddest places.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2014, 02:56:22 PM »
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headless, naked and bald.

headless she will, of course, be bald
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2014, 03:10:21 PM »
headless she will, of course, be bald

the head is bald, dude, the head is bald.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2014, 03:15:22 PM »
Have you tried Barbie (headless, legless, or otherwise) as a reactive target?

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« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM »
Have you tried Barbie (headless, legless, or otherwise) as a reactive target?

stay safe.

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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2014, 06:39:09 PM »

I am very tempted to send said book to a friend that designs classified aerospace devices for a living. I bet she would invent quite a few new curse words.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2014, 07:06:48 PM »
I am disgusted by the lack of progress in making Barbie more physically correct

Here ya go.

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« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2014, 07:38:49 PM »
Here ya go.

https://lammily.com/

there's been about a billion variations on this theme for the past 15 or so years.

Barbie, herself, did have some minor proportion changes, but not enough to be even close to realistic.

Barbie is the brand and the name, with the capital and the connections (example, the Disney spin off dolls) to actually provide the accessories and collections that sell. The other things are flash in the pan attempts that never make it.

Plus, I'll be honest, fashion dolls are stupid, period. They can come up with a billion jobs for Barbie to do, but it's still a shallow celebration of having a Kardashian lifestyle.
American Girl may be expensive, but at least there is some substance behind the dolls. I liked Cabbage Patch, too. I'm not sure if those are still a thing, but they where dolls you played with, not just dressed up.
I played with Barbie's and other toys and I distinctly recall that playing with Barbie, with other little girls, the play was a lot less imaginative or adventurous. It pretty much revolved around changing Barbie's clothes and waiting for Ken. My Little Pony's (which was also big with me and the girls I ran with) was much more creative and active.
I would say the only thing Barbie did that was adventurous, and this is true, was, uhhh, well, little girls are curious about that sort of thing and we did wonder what Ken was supposed to have were he was flat. In other words, Barbie was kind of a slut, at least as far as a bunch of 6 - 8 year olds could figure out.
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Re: Feminist Hacker Barbie - take that, Matel!
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2014, 09:06:24 PM »
Have you tried Barbie (headless, legless, or otherwise) as a reactive target?

stay safe.

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