How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist

Re: How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer ... by ars on Thursday February 11, 2010 @05:05PM (#1118889)

Hu?

You make it seem like she grew up in a 3rd world country sorting garbage for a living, and found a pony which changed her life.

What's unlikely about her life? And why's she a diamond in the rough?

She probably when to school like everyone else, and the pony had nothing to do with it. It was just a prop.

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Re: How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer ... by cynicalkane on Thursday February 11, 2010 @06:15PM (#1119066)

A diamond "in the rough" is not a diamond surrounded by roughness, but rather an unpolished diamond. Or at least that's how gemcutters use the term. The idea that a "diamond in the rough" is related to sorting diamonds from junk is probably a folk etymology.

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Re: How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer ... by roundsquare on Friday February 12, 2010 @04:18AM (#1120140)

So you are saying she is an unpolished diamond? Or was? Perhaps, but no more than any other budding mathematician/computer scientist.

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