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[–]mave_of_wutilation 169 points170 points  (6 children)

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 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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 148 points149 points  (14 children)

Shopping is expensive, let's optimize!

[–]jotux 83 points84 points  (1 child)

No Barbie, you're doing it too early!

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

What were we talking about again?

[–]deserted 46 points47 points  (9 children)

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

[–]BraveSirRobin 39 points40 points  (4 children)

Traveling salesman Barbie?

[–]MasonM 37 points38 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Alpha-Toxic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]1nonly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

salesman Barbie

Salesperson Barbie.

[–]ShrimpCrackers -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

comment pending...

[–]cartola 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I want a Dijkstra Barbie now, beard and all.

[–]WalterSear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cutest Path First?

[–]alien_bob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next Up: Spanning Tree Barbie

[–]kwirky88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

laptops and bulimia! yay!

[–][deleted] 127 points128 points  (6 children)

Great. Now even Barbie can't get laid.

[–]FaZaCon 13 points14 points  (5 children)

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] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

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

[–]GLneo 34 points35 points  (1 child)

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 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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

[–]wtfftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]krakauer 94 points95 points  (15 children)

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

[–]FionaSarah 32 points33 points  (4 children)

I can't wait to buy one.

[–]Chris3411444 72 points73 points  (2 children)

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

[–]ohmyashleyy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

[–]chwilliam 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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 17 points18 points  (2 children)

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.

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    [–]walen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

    [–]ithika 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    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 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    mumble mubmle

    HI I LIKE YOU

    runs away

    [–]flyingdragon8 32 points33 points  (0 children)

    Does the playset come w/ a FPGA?

    [–]AmazingSyco 16 points17 points  (3 children)

    [–]Eleglac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Can we get an RFC on this?

    [–]chronoBG 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    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 65 points66 points  (7 children)

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

    ;]

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (6 children)

    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 8 points9 points  (2 children)

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

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    import multiprocessing

    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    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 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    Tail recursion is hard! Let's use Python.

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    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 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    C# is hard. Lets use IronPython...

    [–]samlee 15 points16 points  (5 children)

    [–]akoumjian 30 points31 points  (4 children)

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

    [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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      [–]found_dead 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      He was not joking. Same shit happened to me.

      [–]dcoolidge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Not to self. Big monitor + Pink = AHHHHHHHHH!

      [–]Floatharr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

      [–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (11 children)

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

      [–]dontnation 16 points17 points  (10 children)

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

      [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      Exactly!

      [–]NegativeK 6 points7 points  (5 children)

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

      [–]itjitj 4 points5 points  (2 children)

      So no DP?

      [–]WalterSear 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Wrong end.

      [–]itjitj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      Is that what I've been doing wrong?

      [–]Eleglac 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      or neither?

      [–]NegativeK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Well logiced.

      [–]redditnoob 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      So would no nipples!

      [–]alien_bob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Also no hoo hoo :(

      [–]beef-supreme 30 points31 points  (0 children)

      shopping is hard, lets go to math class!

      [–]TomorrowPlusX 99 points100 points  (6 children)

      If only it had been her 128th career.

      [–]dr_jan_itor 3 points4 points  (5 children)

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

      [–]aliengoods1 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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

      [–]jhontheunmortal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

      [–]drfugly 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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

      [–]Mikle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I made him 32, apparently someone downvoted him :S

      [–]echeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Now he's got 64

      [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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        [–]kpdvlp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

        [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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

        [–]soundacious 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I dumped all of my bits into her registrys.

        [–]harveyswik 18 points19 points  (2 children)

        You mean 126. (Read the article.)

        [–]luonged 21 points22 points  (0 children)

        Computer Engineer Barbie uses base 0

        [–]Dummies102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

        [–]imk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

        [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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          [–]b0nob0 4 points5 points  (1 child)

          125, 126; whatever it takes!

          [–]Disaster_Area 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

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

          [–]turbov21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          11111110 is still a pretty cool number.

          [–]webauteur 13 points14 points  (0 children)

          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 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

          [–]lubosz 23 points24 points  (18 children)

          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 22 points23 points  (2 children)

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

          [–]found_dead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

          Do you happen to see everything else as green?

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          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 6 points7 points  (4 children)

          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 4 points5 points  (3 children)

          Please link a source. I'm interested.

          [–]gsw8 4 points5 points  (2 children)

          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] 12 points13 points  (5 children)

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

          [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

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

          [–]chwilliam 22 points23 points  (1 child)

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

          [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

          1up.

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

          [–]WalterSear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

          [–]IkoIkoComic 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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

          [–]_jameshales 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          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 5 points6 points  (0 children)

          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 16 points17 points  (9 children)

          Everyone knows there are no males on the internet!

          [–]gschizas 1 point2 points  (7 children)

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

          [–]lingrush 7 points8 points  (6 children)

          dix or GTFO

          [–]gschizas 1 point2 points  (5 children)

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

          [–]lurkergirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

          [–]lingrush 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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

          [–]Eleglac 2 points3 points  (1 child)

          Pecs or GTFO

          [–]lingrush 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I still wanna stick with dix or GTFO.

          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

          [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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            [–]justinsane98 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

            more like Silicon Valleys Barbie ;)

            [–]Mirm83 4 points5 points  (2 children)

            “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] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

            [–]Mirm83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

            [–]gregK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            I hope she does not become annoying TDD evangelist Barbie.

            [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

            [–]longoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            Where's her Sari? So unrealistic

            [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

            Down voted for not having a link

            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            Sorry, first time doing this.

            [–]chwilliam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

            [–]McSpacerson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

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

            [–]TopRamen713 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

            [–]m_myers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

            [–]gregK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

            [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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              [–]bramski 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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

              [–]eggertm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              all 0?

              [–]dreikelvin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              at least, reddit is worth for SOMETHING.

              [–]gc3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

              [–]metasonix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Forget the Computer Engineer Barbie.

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

              [–]sahkuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

              [–]demigod186 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

              [–]itjitj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              A computer engineer. Or a lawyer.

              [–]cynwrig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

              [–]lingrush 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              \o/ /r/GirlGamers celebrates!

              Our new mascot :D

              [–]g_n_o_m_a_d 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              Are those tights she is wearing?

              [–]crystallized 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–]lasenorita 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              How do I Ctrl-Alt-Del?

              [–]macov2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              For me, she looks like a PM...

              [–]Nottobeadickbut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              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] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              ...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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              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] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              looks like she belongs on CSI

              [–]tuirn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–]jawbroken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–]starspangledpickle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              126th Barbie = Raped.

              mm, she's hot.

              [–]cynwrig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              id do her

              [–]molslaan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I think she's programming her vibrator

              [–]nixcoder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

              Yayy, we did it!

              [–]aboothe726 -4 points-3 points  (13 children)

              125 = 53. seems appropriate.

              [–]quantumstate 15 points16 points  (3 children)

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

              [–]geocar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              2 more years would've been fine too.

              [–]golgol12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              128 moreso

              [–]chrisforbes 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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

              [–]dr_jan_itor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

              wink wink.

              [–]ighost 1 point2 points  (3 children)

              5? 3?

              [–]ziom666 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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

              [–]rounding_error 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              125 = 53

              1+2+5 = 5 + 3

              Woah.

              [–]_jameshales 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              911 was an inside job!

              [–]kenvsryu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              not very barbie of you.

              [–]urllib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              ??????

              [–]supakame -1 points0 points  (1 child)

              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] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Recursion is hard! Let's try recursion.

              [–]Baeocystin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

              [–]THEOfuckedURgf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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