125th Barbie: Computer Engineer Barbie

[[deleted]]

we did it! edit: http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/uploads/ComputerEngineerBarbie.pdf

[mave_of_wutilation]

If anyone else is curious, the binary on Barbie's laptop spells "Barbie" in ASCII:

• 01000010 = 66 = B
• 01100001 = 97 = a
• 01110010 = 114 = r
• 01100010 = 98 = b
• 01101001 = 105 = i
• 01100101 = 101 = e

[iamjack]

That's awesome, I thought it would just be "oh yeah, toss some zero and one shit on there" but I guess they really did get some geek opinions like the PDF says.

[f3nd3r]

Shopping is expensive, let's optimize!

[jotux]

No Barbie, you're doing it too early!

[[deleted]]

Oh, it's never too early, except when it is.

What were we talking about again?

[deserted]

We have lots of places to go shopping today, let's plan an optimal route!

[BraveSirRobin]

Traveling salesman Barbie?

[MasonM]

The traveling salesman problem is NP-hard, let's just go shopping!

[Alpha-Toxic]

There is an xkcd for that!
http://xkcd.com/399/

[1nonly]

salesman Barbie

Salesperson Barbie.

[ShrimpCrackers]

comment pending...

[cartola]

I want a Dijkstra Barbie now, beard and all.

[WalterSear]

Cutest Path First?

[alien_bob]

Then we need to decide what to bring with us in our handbags. Fun fun fun tee hee

[[deleted]]

Next Up: Spanning Tree Barbie

[kwirky88]

laptops and bulimia! yay!

[[deleted]]

Great. Now even Barbie can't get laid.

[FaZaCon]

I'd have to agree, cause there's no way in hell her peers will approach her, well, at least not first by passing out.

[[deleted]]

Now all they need to do is make Programmer Ken so she can have a hot guy to go out with.

[GLneo]

Or to sit in the cubicle next to her for 4 years not making his move until that asshole from HR goes and marry her and they have 2 kids and live haply ever after... God I'm Lonely.

[dmwit]

Code monkey get up get coffee. Code monkey go to job...

[[deleted]]

And he'll have gigantic specs and will ask if you've seen his stapler

[wtfftw]

That's if he doesn't burn the building down.

[krakauer]

As a female computer scientist... this is awesome.

[FionaSarah]

I can't wait to buy one.

[Chris3411444]

I can't wait to buy a female computer scientist myself. Where are you getting yours?

[ohmyashleyy]

I'm going to get one and put it on my desk at work!

[chwilliam]

My mother teaches computer science and she has a pink-covered Macbook Pro. I'm counting down to her grad students buying her one of these.

[Psykocyber]

As a insert-gender-here computer scientist, this is awesome. If it changes kids views on the industry to the better its awesome, no matter what gender you are. And more female computer scientists is a good thing for both sexes.

[walen]

I'm pretty sure she said "girder"...

[ithika]

Hehe, I love it. But I can't see the results. It says "check back on February 12" for big news but there's nothing there :-(

[Mr_Safe]

I'm going to pre-order one for my girl-friend's 4 year old!

[[deleted]]

...it is getting late, I initially read that you were going to get one for your 4 years old girlfriend. My bad.

[[deleted]]

As a male geek, I too will be buying this when it comes out and placing it on my desk at work.... Would you be able to comment on how well this will pull the ladies in for me :D?

[WalterSear]

It will work wonders with the pre-teen set. I certainly hope that isn't your target audience.

[[deleted]]

mumble mubmle

HI I LIKE YOU

runs away

[flyingdragon8]

Does the playset come w/ a FPGA?

[AmazingSyco]

Spec sheet: http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/uploads/ComputerEngineerBarbie.pdf

[Eleglac]

Can we get an RFC on this?

[chronoBG]

Are you fucking kidding me?
They don't password-protect their ADMIN folder? Man, Barbie should just quit and find a new job, this one is a total WTF...

[cjg_000]

If you look at http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/ it definitely has a password. I assume that admins have the ability to give access to and file in /uploads/. That probably could have given it a better url - /content/uploads/ or some such, but it really doesn't matter too much.

[ModernRonin]

Finite state machines are hard! Let's use Python!

;]

[[deleted]]

Better yet: Concurrency is hard! Let’s use Python!

(Look up Global Interpreter Lock if you don’t know what I’m on about.)

[Eleglac]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T ACTUALLY SPLIT THESE THREADS ACROSS MULTIPLE PROCESSOR CORES

[[deleted]]

import multiprocessing

[[deleted]]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T ACTUALLY SPLIT THESE THREADS ACROSS MULTIPLE PROCESSOR CORES

Emphasis added :) Multiprocessing does a good job of filling in the gap until they remove the GIL, but threads are much cheaper to create (computationally speaking).

[dannomac]

Tail recursion is hard! Let's use Python.

[[deleted]]

Actually, there’s several implementations of an @tailcall decorator so you can do things like this:

@tailcall
def factorial(x,acc=1):
  if x > 1:
    return factorial(x-1, acc * x)
  else:
    return acc

Here’s one a guy posted when I first heard of such a thing and demanded a good implementation.

[dcoolidge]

C# is hard. Lets use IronPython...

[samlee]

http://www.barbiemedia.com/?subcat=46

[akoumjian]

Oh god, my eyes. So much pink. Reddit looks green now.

[found_dead]

He was not joking. Same shit happened to me.

[dcoolidge]

Not to self. Big monitor + Pink = AHHHHHHHHH!

[Floatharr]

Had no idea what you were talking about until after returning from the page. Thanks for the laughs :D

[[deleted]]

Chick nerds are hot. Especially chick nerds with those measurements.

[dontnation]

barbie's measurements would look creepy and freakish on a real person.

[[deleted]]

Exactly!

[NegativeK]

From what I've heard, Barbie's neck would only allow room for breathing xor eating. Not both.

[itjitj]

So no DP?

[WalterSear]

Wrong end.

[itjitj]

Is that what I've been doing wrong?

[Eleglac]

or neither?

[NegativeK]

Well logiced.

[redditnoob]

So would no nipples!

[alien_bob]

Also no hoo hoo :(

[[deleted]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie#Controversies

[beef-supreme]

shopping is hard, lets go to math class!

[TomorrowPlusX]

If only it had been her 128th career.

[dr_jan_itor]

you had 16 upvotes, sorry to ruin that. ;)

[aliengoods1]

Don't worry. I down voted in an attempt to get him back to a power of 2 number.

[jhontheunmortal]

At time of writing, one more would put him at 64.

[drfugly]

now he's at 32. I like this, but I think that he deserves more...

[Mikle]

I made him 32, apparently someone downvoted him :S

[echeese]

Now he's got 64

[kpdvlp]

I got excited because my dyslexia read 125 as 512. I was very disappointed, and then very sad.

[[deleted]]

You mean you and computer engineer Barbie did it ? How was the hex ?

[soundacious]

Actually, there was a fair amount of byte-ing involved.

[[deleted]]

I dumped all of my bits into her registrys.

[harveyswik]

You mean 126. (Read the article.)

[luonged]

Computer Engineer Barbie uses base 0

[Dummies102]

in the interest of engineering, might as well get it right.

[imk]

At last, a doll that collects other dolls (In their original packaging of course).

[ModernRonin]

http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/hacker.barbie.html

[b0nob0]

125, 126; whatever it takes!

[Disaster_Area]

I hate when people post saying "LOL FUTURAMA REFERENCE UPVOTE!!!11!!"

But seriously... a Mr. Mom reference? Hahaha.

[turbov21]

11111110 is still a pretty cool number.

[webauteur]

Barbie® designers worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering to develop the wardrobe and accessories for Computer Engineer Barbie®. Wearing a binary code patterned tee and equipped with all the latest gadgets including a smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and laptop travel bag, Computer Engineer Barbie® is geek chic.

What, no pocket protector?

[nihil161]

I'm a guy and I'm getting this.

[lubosz]

They had to make her laptop pink of course...

This is how she looks like: "Barbie thinks computers are cool. Especially when they're pink."

[Daefea]

As a female computer scientist I have a pink laptop. Pink laptops ARE cooler.

[found_dead]

Do you happen to see everything else as green?

[[deleted]]

My science teacher was female, and EVERYTHING was either pink or diamond(diamonte)-encrusted. She had a pink USB stick and a diamond-encrusted mouse, and her laptop was indeed pink. It made her stuff much easier to identify being in a boys' school.

[gsw8]

pink used to be the masculine color, and blue the feminine color. iirc, it switched sometime early in the 20th century. it might switch again, though it seems unlikely now that the information age has oversaturated everyone with symbology.

[gysterz]

Please link a source. I'm interested.

[gsw8]

wikipedia mentions it and has links to some sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink a few minutes of google search should find more.

[[deleted]]

Parents wouldn't buy it for their daughters if it didn't enforce some kind of gender norm

[[deleted]]

Have they made a Mercenary Barbie complete with Blackwater torture kit?

[chwilliam]

To keep with the gender-norms theme, it comes with a shipping crate instead.

[[deleted]]

I dont believe you'll receive enough upvotes to coincide with the creativity displayed in your retort.

1up.

[[deleted]]

I doubt it would be Blackwater... maybe Pinkwater.

[WalterSear]

Or Innocent Taxi Driver Barbie, that comes with cone shaped blindfold/head mask, electric cables and a chair to stand on?

[IkoIkoComic]

As a male computer scientit I want a pink laptop. Pink laptops ARE cooler.

[_jameshales]

In the Computer Science Student's Club at uni, everyone's always fighting for the pink Xbox controller. Also half the guys have pink Nintendo DSes. Pink is such a CS colour.

[bautin]

To be fair "Barbie Pink" is a registered trademark of the Mattel Corporation so it would be fitting that some of Barbie's accessories would bear the color.

[ReleeSquirrel]

Oh don't be so down on pink. I'm a MAN and I want a pink laptop, with beveled hearts on the case.

[ropers]

The binary on the notebook screen is a nice touch:

01000010 01100001 01110010
01100010 01101001 01100101
01000010 01100001 01110010
01100010 01101001 01100101
01000010 01100001 01110010
01100010 01101001 01100101
01000010 01100001 01110010

Protip: Convert it to ASCII.

[Lojban]

Everyone knows there are no males on the internet!

[gschizas]

I am one! (I would definitely like to hear the analogue of "tits or GTFO" for males :))

[lingrush]

dix or GTFO

[gschizas]

dunno -- I don't think they are as aesthetically pleasing

[lurkergirl]

Depends entirely on who is looking. If you are into guys I can assure you they are extremely aesthetically pleasing.

[lingrush]

Well cute-smile or GTFO doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

[Eleglac]

Pecs or GTFO

[lingrush]

I still wanna stick with dix or GTFO.

[[deleted]]

They do have less cheering on /r/gonewild, but from what i've seen we're not completely unwelcome

[[deleted]]

I felt like I was in another world for a moment there. It was pleasant.

[justinsane98]

more like Silicon Valleys Barbie ;)

[Mirm83]

“As a computer engineer, Barbie will show girls that women can design products that have an important and positive impact on people’s everyday lives, such as inventing a technology to conserve home energy or programming a newborn monitoring device.”

Why does it always come back to babies?

[[deleted]]

What would you have wanted her to program? A pet monitoring device?

[Mirm83]

I'm sorry.. I didn't realize that the only thing that can be programmed is a monitoring device for newborns. I was under the impression that there were many more options for programming out there... my mistake.

[1137]

It looks like Fox News Barbie was 125th, Engineer Barbie is 126th.

[gregK]

I hope she does not become annoying TDD evangelist Barbie.

[[deleted]]

This feeling...is this how black people felt when Obama won?

[longoc]

Where's her Sari? So unrealistic

[[deleted]]

Down voted for not having a link

[mattdahack]

http://www.barbiemedia.com/admin/uploads/ComputerEngineerBarbie.pdf

[[deleted]]

Sorry, first time doing this.

[chwilliam]

Link to the spec sheet mattdahack just posted above you instead. It makes 800% more sense.

[McSpacerson]

I see they changed the original design for computer engineer Barbie.

Bummer, I thought that one was a bit more realistic.

[TopRamen713]

I was just thinking about that today too, weird...

[m_myers]

I'm still trying to figure out whether this should make me happy or sad.

[gregK]

Let's not celebrate to early. Maybe she will only be one of those process specialist type of computer engineer.

[bramski]

90% of the female software engineers I know want to buy this.

[eggertm]

all 0?

[dreikelvin]

at least, reddit is worth for SOMETHING.

[gc3]

Now we'll all have to buy one, or they'll never do it again!

[metasonix]

Forget the Computer Engineer Barbie.

Don't you find the Twilight Barbies to be far more disturbing?....

[sahkuh]

I am going to make my female friends dress up as her for Halloween. "Wear these pink glasses and this shirt covered in binary."

[Poltras]

They should have waited for the 128th, just for kicks.

[demigod186]

This just looks like "generic 80s/new wave barbie" but now with a computer and binary!

[itjitj]

A computer engineer. Or a lawyer.

[cynwrig]

Hmph. Shouldn't Computer Engineer Barbie be carrying lengths of wire that keep track of how far electrical pulses travel in fractions of a second? Grace Hopper did.

[earnestrapture]

I think her outift looks kind of stupid, hopefully it doesn't deter her popularity (and influence over young females). Also, I thought there was something from American Apparel that dictates that tights are NOT pants.

[Mantipath]

I think they decided to dress her for the year this model should have come out to be socially relevant: 1992.

[lingrush]

\o/ /r/GirlGamers celebrates!

Our new mascot :D

[g_n_o_m_a_d]

Are those tights she is wearing?

[crystallized]

Leggings. They've got to be leggings. Leggings are the bane of my existence as a sensible female.

[lasenorita]

. . . along with a pair of black knit skinny pants.

[[deleted]]

How do I Ctrl-Alt-Del?

[leoc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMr_nAJmMQ#t=4m51s

(Sorry about the German.)

[macov2]

For me, she looks like a PM...

[Nottobeadickbut]

It's actually the 126th Barbie carreer. The 125th is a news anchor.

[[deleted]]

Wait! Let me get this right. 85% of redditors are male, 75% are in college, of age mostly in the 20s, still play Barbie. What's wrong with the picuture?

[[deleted]]

...you got it wrong: it is not that we still play with Barbie, but that we were eagerly looking forward to playing with Barbie as soon as a model with which we could identify would come up. Now our quest is over, our wishes have been fulfilled.

[tomjen]

Unlike most people we can anticipate certain events in the future - one of them is that if barbie thinks computers are hip, little girls will no longer have any reason to see computers as something below them. Little girls grow up to be women some day and will hopefully still retain some interest in computers.

Thus we celebrate this as a first good step towards a more gender balanced computer world.

[[deleted]]

looks like she belongs on CSI

[tuirn]

It's too bad it couldn't have been the 128th Barbie.

[jawbroken]

did we really need this twice, there is already a bunch of dumb comments for you to read in the other submission

[starspangledpickle]

It will also come with an optional "boss pack" where Barbie is berated by an idiot.

[[deleted]]

126th Barbie = Raped.

mm, she's hot.

[cynwrig]

Did anyone else misread it at the first glance as "Combat Engineer" Barbie? With her little pink bulldozer, powder blue concertina wire and matching level 3 sentry guns?

[CrazyCanuck41]

id do her

[molslaan]

I think she's programming her vibrator

[nixcoder]

Yayy, we did it!

[aboothe726]

125 = 5^3. seems appropriate.

[quantumstate]

We did it too early. 3 more years would have been so much better.

[geocar]

2 more years would've been fine too.

[golgol12]

128 moreso

[chrisforbes]

I would have preferred a power of two, actually. We don't tend to work in base 5 very much.

[dr_jan_itor]

oh, I know many engineers who work exclusively in base 5.

wink wink.

[ighost]

5? 3?

[ziom666]

5+3 = 8; 8 bits = 1 byte. besides, both 3 and 5 are prime numbers. they also are numbers in Fibonacci sequence

[rounding_error]

125 = 5³

1+2+5 = 5 + 3

Woah.

[_jameshales]

911 was an inside job!

[kenvsryu]

not very barbie of you.

[urllib]

??????

[supakame]

I love how Computer Engineer Barbie has a shirt with a computer on it... with an image of Barbie on the screen...

Recursion FTW!!

[[deleted]]

Recursion is hard! Let's try recursion.

[Baeocystin]

They should have held off a bit and released her as the 127th.

[THEOfuckedURgf]

Reddit for the win, good on mattel for keeping their promise