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Emma Mulqueeny
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Emma Mulqueeny's personal blog at mulqueeny.wordpress.com covers politics and culture. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Emma Mulqueeny's blog for her campaign to teach children to code, including a petition she started and her account of being uninvited from a Women's Hour segment. Comments only cite or link the posts.
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What Hacker News says?
For whatever e-petitions might be worth, here exists a "Teach our kids to code" petition http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/15081 , started by Emma Mulqueeny ( http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/teach-our-kids-to-... )
Comment linking /2011/09/15/teach-our-kids-to-code-e-petition/
on “UK government response to my letter about programming in schools”Submitted My ICT teacher can’t mark my homework as a story · 104 points
HN discussionI'll have a go but refer to original for definitive version. Emma Mulqueeny ( http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/about/ ) works on encouraging children to code in particular girls. Women's Hour was planning a section about activities to encourage girls to code and invited Emma to contribute. She was later uninvited. She then discovered: 1) That both participants would be men, both involved in programming for kids but on…
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on “No Willy No Woman's Hour”Submitted No Willy No Woman's Hour as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 issues with email overload and ONE solution that gmail should do as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to alienate all girls from anything computing as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assange, Swartz, Manning, Snowden... you get it, right? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 questions to ask before you ask people to do stuff for no money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted For a girl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 7 reasons why the year of code is a load of bs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Silent Club as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted "You are not a bellend", a story of courage, determination and ultimate bravery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The girl thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Head teacher won't let me teach computing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kick the cat off the printer – your coding country needs you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One reason why we all want to be politicians, and 5 why we don't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital unicorns and democratic rainbows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five ways to support the Festival of Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Festival of Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Around the world with Young Rewired State as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding girls: in their own words as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack Day prizes - please stop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can we do to help people engage with gov and community, and vice versa? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One piece of paper and two pens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Festival of Code, that's all as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted #Carswellwatch cuckooing UKIP IMHO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get teens voting in 5 minutes flat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Call for centres for the Festival of Code 2015 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Martha Lane Fox, the knee trembler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I have a nightmare” as a story · 1 points
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