<story><title>82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding</title><url>https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olingern</author><text>I just moved to Japan, and it&amp;#x27;s fascinating that connotations (including my previous) with Japan are &amp;quot;High tech, futuristic, efficient&amp;quot; when in reality it is, &amp;quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&amp;quot; I can comment more as to why &amp;#x2F; how.&lt;p&gt;This woman is not only fighting cultural norms of the _world_, but also Japan. Software engineering, in general, lags so far behind the rest of the world, save robotics. It&amp;#x27;s starting to change, and I&amp;#x27;m glad that people like Wakamiya-san are preventing the creation of a &amp;#x27;conventional software engineer&amp;#x27;. Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>&amp;gt; Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.&lt;p&gt;How about not idolising anyone? Those role models you list are each admired for completely different reasons. What&amp;#x27;s wrong with them? At the moment your comment seems sexist.</text></comment>
<story><title>82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding</title><url>https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olingern</author><text>I just moved to Japan, and it&amp;#x27;s fascinating that connotations (including my previous) with Japan are &amp;quot;High tech, futuristic, efficient&amp;quot; when in reality it is, &amp;quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&amp;quot; I can comment more as to why &amp;#x2F; how.&lt;p&gt;This woman is not only fighting cultural norms of the _world_, but also Japan. Software engineering, in general, lags so far behind the rest of the world, save robotics. It&amp;#x27;s starting to change, and I&amp;#x27;m glad that people like Wakamiya-san are preventing the creation of a &amp;#x27;conventional software engineer&amp;#x27;. Seriously, the field needs more role models like Grace Hopper to idolize rather than our current trend of Jobs, Gates, Woz, Knuth, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrothrock</author><text>&amp;gt;  when in reality it is, &amp;quot;slow moving, traditional, and (frequently) inefficient.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Since you just moved here, I would also consider the &amp;quot;whys&amp;quot; of those problems you see. Approaches are probably different from what you&amp;#x27;re used to elsewhere, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily make them inefficient or bad -- just different from what you&amp;#x27;re used to.</text></comment>