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29/08/2023 00:08:38
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
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>>Philly.NET used to run a session "Kids that code" where members brought their kids to show off what they'd done. Most were games and they were pretty good.
>>My grandson really wants to be another Warren Buffet and he plans to use computers to get to that goal.
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>I actually knew about that, and I used to take Katy to the Philly .NET/SQL events.
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>If I were to take steps towards helping her, I'd start with understanding data in parallel with the coding side of things.
>If she's truly serious, I have no choice but to help her. But I seriously hope she finds another direction.
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>Years ago, I got invited (by a woman) to participate in a "Women in Technology" session at a SQL Saturday event in Philly.
>I was one of five panel members (3 women, 2 men). The other man, for reasons I'll never understand, was a royal jackass who said that men are going to perform better in pressure I.T. situations because of genetics. (I kid you not, and there was a large room of attendees).
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>But I learned some things that day I didn't expect to learn: how some of my very actions in trying to "get ahead" have made it difficult for others, beyond just the notion of general competition. A friend of mine who attended asked me a pointed question during the panel discussion, and I had no choice but to realize, "Holy crap, he's right". It was the first time I realized that the, "I do what I do for my daughter to have the best life possible", isn't as clean-cut as I thought. It doesn't mean I'm going to change one thing about how I make a living, but I've seen now that things I've done , things I never thought would impact others down the line, have probably contributed in some small way. There's no way I can explain that to my daughter, so all I can do is hope she goes into something else. I don't want her anywhere near this industry.
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>(Yeah, I'm getting weird in my 58th year on this planet)

Depending on the way to count, I raised up to 5 daughters.
All I have learned is, one never knows what comes out. Assuming I'm not too weird, I've learned that what impacts the one positive, does the opposite to the next. One just can give what one can give. And what will you teach, except the stuff you're getting enthusiastic about?
A parent into some ball sports will show his enthusiasm the first the the kid is playing - and the kid will react. The same will happen in a family that runs on music. In a MD's family there is a certain way to think that gives a better start to became a MD. The bad on this is, when parents are losers, the kid has nothing to focus on.
Get me right, this is not deterministic, it's only about chances. Some make nothing out of it, and some raise from the dirt.

And if you tick on maths and algorithms, you will show it. Give all the love and all your skills - and let the kid do it's own failures. And what should she do with here life? Any industry (iow way to make a living) is made to squeeze the blood out of the people working in it. The one or the other way. That's the whole idea. The employer squeezes employees to become richer. This is named capitalism. The only way out is to become the top predator. Girls have an advantage, but I doubt you like to teach her that.
Words are given to man to enable him to conceal his true feelings.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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