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An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App (cnn.com)
After 43 years working in one of Japan's leading banks, 81-year-old Masako Wakamiya has launched an iPhone app called "Hinadan" that shows users how to stage traditional dolls for the Hinamatsuri festival. From a report on CNN Money: She says she felt compelled to do something after noticing a shortage of fun apps aimed at people her age. "We easily lose games when playing against young people, since our finger movements can't match their speed," Wakamiya told CNN. The retired banker asked a bunch of people to create games for seniors, but no one was interested. So she took matters into her own hands and achieved something many people half her age haven't done. "I wanted to create a fun app to get elderly people interested in smartphones," she said. "It took about half a year to develop." Wakamiya started using computers at age 60 when she was caring for her elderly mother and finding it difficult to get out and socialize with friends.
I was hoping more for a "81 year old woman just reversed her own aging with home biohacking kit".
But I guess this is cool too.
Being motivated is half the battle in most endeavors.
Awww. Are you a young white male and feeling like you haven't accomplished anything of real value in your life? 'Cause you sure sound that way to us. She did good. Shoot, I'm about 1/2 her age and I think I might be too old to learn to program android or iphone. I'm pretty sure it would be a lot harder to pick up now than when I was younger.
I am so surprised to see the similarities between the Golu I grew up with in South India and this Japanese doll festival Hinamatsuri. Images of Golu, arrangement of dolls celebrated for the Navrathri ( nine nights ) festival Images of Hinamatsuri
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
...Or she could just use facebook, like everybody else's grandma! /ducks
I'm glad to see more diversity here, even if it's a simple app. That's one badass baa-chan.
So did she really create the app, or did she just have the idea for someone else to do it? I seriously doubt she sat down and learned how to do this like the SJWs would have us believe.
Why, the "skills needed" aren't really that hard. I'm sure they're completely within the realm of possibility for a complete novice to learn and execute with a year of learning or less given proper motivation. Of the millions of old women in the world, it doesn't surprise me there are some who have learnt programming late in life.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Which was more important to the slashdot editors here? That she was a woman or that she was old?
No, it was because this was the first iPhone app written in Fortran.
So did she really create the app, or did she just have the idea for someone else to do it? I seriously doubt she sat down and learned how to do this like the SJWs would have us believe.
Why not? At 81 she is retired and has plenty of time. Anyone who can think logically, understand abstractions, and is willing the to put in the time can learn how to program. Article said she was a banker, so she was a professional and would have at least basic math and logic skills. Article also said "She calls herself a technology evangelist and even wrote her own PC textbooks", so she has at least a basic computer understanding. Given determination it wouldn't be that hard to go find a sample application (and associated build process) and keep tweaking it until it does what you want.
Wakamiya started using computers at age 60 when she was caring for her elderly mother and finding it difficult to get out and socialize with friends.
Probably lives in the basement, too. Great start!
That is all.
Also the summary said she started using computers at 60 years old. At 81 now this means that she's likely more capable and competent than many Slashdot posters and has been using computers longer than many of these AC trolls have been in the world.
I'm wouldn't question if she can write an app, I'm wondering what else she can do that would put a lot of youngens to shame.
If Objective-C ; did she use ARC or she went old school manual reference counting...... If she didn't use arc, she's a hardcore granny. Respect.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
The foundation of an App is completely created by drag and drop in Apple tools.
Programmers and also non programmers simlly underestimate how good those tools are and how much work in crafting Apps is automated. Nevertheless she of course had to code the actual logic she needed by hand.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I'm pretty sure the ridiculous multi-gigabyte baroque development environments would have been as inaccessible to the younger us as they are to us now.
Ezekiel 23:20
I realise a woman coding is such a huge accomplishment because they cannot comprehend basic mathematics, so we have to write a news article about it every time they do. But we have to remember, she is also asian, so we know she is naturally good at coding, and probably had lots of free time after she crashed her car and lost her husband in a crowd of other identicle Asian men.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Because she is fucking eighty-one years old.... the technology to do what she has done here didn't even exist until she was already near or past retirement age. Perhaps if you are fortunate enough to make it to that age yourself you will understand why demonstrating the skill to learn something new at that age is a kind of a big deal.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Actually, she deserves praise for pulling off what she did, regardless of her age or gender
That said, from /. POV, I think that since she's both, a combination of the two. This is a gold mine - when you have a person meeting multiple diversity checkboxes, thereby enabling just one person to be praised for multiple things. Imagine a Black Lesbian Trannie who developed an automatic appmaker on her own. Not only would it be a remarkable feat, but Blacks, Lesbians and Trannies would all get to celebrate.
That's wiccan for you, Ms Pipsqueak!!!!
I'm damn near exactly half her age.
Good for her. I still haven't made anything for a phone or tablet (though I'm actually thinking about it).
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good going grandma!
She's a witch!
But how do you KNOW?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
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