[jcroberts]

Seems like you were starved for attention and couldn't answer your own questions, so you decided to waive your female bait, twice, to see if you can sucker any of the dorks into helping you with your homework.

Congrats on nailing two suckers so far!!!111oneoneone~~

A (supposedly) smart (MIT) girl like you should already know all the programming (manipulation) instruction you need can be found in the pages of Cosmo.

You're probably an overweight male sitting in his dirty underware thinking he can socially engineer HN. If so, you're pathetic, but if not, you're still pathetic.

so much for my karma...

[Female-hacker]

Well aren't you lovely. A starved for attention (supposedly) smart (MIT) girl? Overweight pathetic "Cosmo" reading male? Please make up your mind.

Or..I'm an Econ major taking my FIRST course in computer science with ZERO background experience in this space at all. I'm looking for advice and guidance as a humble beginner.

If you were looking for literature and daily publications on Austrian Economics or other heterodox schools of economic thought, I would have a list to give you.. I'm just looking for the equivalent in programming.

[kapilkaisare]

It would be awesome if you could post that eco-related list someplace. I am a programmer who's always struggled with that stuff.

If you do post such list, please let me know.

[jolie]

Sheesh, there's one in every thread...

Thanks for starting this topic, ladydude. I've been looking for the same sort of advice/extracurricular materials, myself.

This one's on my wishlist. As in, I wish I had the time/cognitive tenacity to read it: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxe...

[rick_2047]

(Fuck my karma, but I just need to say this) I just hated how he presented the point. But that does not change the fact that leading the question with her gender and institute is actually pathetic. Have you ever seen a post like "Male Stanford philosophy major wants to learn neural networks"?

This is what I don't get about women, they rally for women empowerment, equal rights and this and that, then you go about flaunting your female charm (not specifically talking about the thread).

[Iris]

That's a silly thing to say, not all women rally for women empowerment and not all women go about flaunting their female charm (whatever you may mean by that).

What I'm trying to get at - there's no point looking for contradictions in a group that doesn't abide by a single idealism. Now if the OP tells you that equal treatment is of the foremost importance to her, then feel free to rub the contradiction in her username in her face.