May 2013
3 posts
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April 2013
16 posts
How Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter and... →
I have great respect for the ways that Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Marissa Mayer are doing what they think is right and completely ignoring all the chatter about them on the web. They are doing what any man would do – running companies and professoring – and sparking a national debate on the issues of work-life, family and leadership.
They’re doing a great job, which is more than...
HTTP Error 401 Unauthorized Explained →
HTTP Error 401 Unauthorized
Introduction
The Web server (running the Web site) thinks that the HTTP data stream sent by the client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) was correct, but access to the URL resource requires user authentication 1) which has not yet been provided or 2) which has been provided but failed authorization tests. This is commonly known as “HTTP Basic...
Tutorials - Jumpstart Lab Curriculum →
Setting up Ruby and Rails
Check out our tutorial to setup Ruby 1.9.3 on OS X, Linux, or Windows
Ruby
Ruby in 100 Minutes - Your first exposure to Ruby, focusing on the most important concepts and syntax elements.
Encryptor - An introductory project building a rotation-based encryption/decryption program, written for middle or high school students.
EventManager - An introduction to Ruby for new...
Ever Notice That There Aren’t Any Female Breakfast... →
SEXPAND
This sunny, almost-warm Sunday morning, CBS put together a cheerful little slideshow featuring the most eccentric and, dare we say, demented breakfast cereal mascots. The slideshow featured retro iterations of Tony the Tiger, the homoerotic trio of rice-puffing elves, Snap, Crackle and Pop, Franken Berry, the Quaker Oatmeal dude Larry, King Vitamin, Toucan Sam, and Captain Crunch. Even...
Margaret Thatcher: The anti-feminist →
As Amy posted earlier today, Margaret Thatcher has died. She was Britain’s first and only woman Prime Minister, crashing the ancient iron gates of patriarchal politics. Though her actions can be seen as a feminist victory, she herself was not a feminist. She once said,
“The battle for women’s rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should...
Talking 'Mad Men': Season 6 Premiere - NYTimes.com →
ACLU catches Ohio jailing those too poor to pay... →
AFP Photo / Karen Bleier
Corruption, Court, Human rights, Law,USA
A new ACLU report accuses Ohio courts of imprisoning people who are unable to pay court fees. The group, which claims to have found evidence in seven counties, likened the practice to a resurgence of debtor’s prisons - which were outlawed by the 1830s.
Entitled “The Outskirts of Hope,” the report also accuses Ohio...
“ah yes a critique of margaret thatcher depicting her wearing pants. i too...”
– https://twitter.com/kleptomik
Twitter, hate speech, and the costs of keeping... →
Geek School: Learn to Use Remoting in PowerShell →
One of the best features PowerShell offers is the ability to remotely manage your Servers. It even lets you manage a bunch of them at once as well.
Be sure to read the previous articles in the series:
Learn How to Automate Windows with PowerShell
Learning to Use Cmdlets in PowerShell
Learning How to Use Objects in PowerShell
Learning Formatting, Filtering and Comparing in PowerShell
vi/vim cheatsheet →
Cursor movement
h - move left
j - move down
k - move up
l - move right
w - jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
W - jump by words (spaces separate words)
e - jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
E - jump to end of words (no punctuation)
b - jump backward by words (punctuation considered words)
B - jump backward by words (no punctuation)
0 - (zero) start...
Veil of ignorance - Wikipedia, the free... →
This article is about the philosophical concept. For the music album, see Veil of Ignorance (album).
The veil of ignorance and the original position are concepts introduced by John Harsanyi[1][2] and later appropriated by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice.[3][4] It is a method of determining themorality of a certain issue (e.g., slavery) based upon the following thought experiment: parties to...
March 2013
13 posts
CodeScouts Helps Female Hackers Avoid 'Locker... →
At the kickoff event for Code Scouts—a nonprofit providing support and resources to women learning to code—founder Michelle Rowley Grlická stands in front of a room of almost all women, welcoming both new and familiar faces in the Portland, Oregon tech community.
She confesses how, at first, she didn’t feel smart or empowered enough to become a software developer. And how it wasn’t until her...
Solution for better sleep: exercise, at any time... →
A survey released last week by the National Sleep Foundation makes the case for exercising at any time of the day or night to improve sleep. The survey of 1,000 adults between the ages of 23 and 60 found that vigorous exercisers (running, biking, swimming) were almost twice as likely as sedentary people to report that they had a good night’s sleep every night or almost every night during the...
How memes are orchestrated by companies for profit... →
Google’s trend charts of the phrase “Harlem Shake” are seismic. Almost no one looked for the words until Feb. 7, then searches surged faster than any term Google ever had, except for “Whitney Houston” after her death. A few weeks later, they fell close to zero.
Experts said the “Harlem Shake” phenomenon was emergent behavior from the hive mind of the internet—accidental, ad hoc,...
North Korea Caught Photoshopping Hovercrafts Into... →
An image released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows several imposing hovercrafts approaching a snowy beach, while armed and battle-ready soldiers dash toward the shore. Writing for the Atlantic, Alan Taylor points out that the image was almost certainly Photoshopped:
“At least two, possibly three hovercraft appear to have been pasted into the scene...
Monster Energy poses monster threat to consumers -... →
(Reposted from Salon.com) A backlash against energy drinks is afoot.
On Long Island, Suffolk County passed three new bills “aimed at keeping energy drinks out of the hands of minors, citing health concerns, over objections of beverage industry lobbyists who called it unfair,” reported Long Island Press. The bills haven’t been signed yet by the county executive.
There is concern over the...
Ladies Be Moody: The Sad Sack Women of... →
Oh, Sepia Toned Lady Who Is Too Depressed to Look Out the Window! Ever since pharmaceutical companies got the go-ahead to market medication directly to consumers, she’s been an advertising powerhouse. Sometimes she doesn’t want to go camping. Sometimes she doesn’t want to cook eggs. She never wants to play with the goddamn dog. And she raises the question: “What in the...
Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim... →
Rare sketches, photographs, doodles, and other glimpses of the beloved Muppeteer’s mind and creative process.
It’s always an irresistible treat to peek inside the private notebooks and sketchbooks of some of the world’s greatest artists,typographers, naturalists, architects, anddesigners. But it’s especially delightful to peek inside the private world of one of modern history’s most celebrated...
Why Can't a Man Ever Tell a Woman the 'Truth'... →
In TV, magazine and etiquette lore, a man who dares to comment on a woman’s appearance in a negative or critical manner is on dangerous ground. “Honey, does this spandex see-thru jegging/tube dress make me look fat?” is trotted out in some sitcom or another by a validation-seeking female, then we cut to the awkward pause, the laugh track, the struggle in vain for the dude to find...
Taliban victim Malala Yousafzai starts school in... →
Link to video: Malala Yousafzai back at school six months after shooting
Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by Talibangunmen in Pakistan while advocating girls’ education, attended her first day of school in the UK, weeks after being released from hospital.
The 15-year-old, who is among nominees for this year’s Nobel peace prize, described her return to...
Google Keep note taking service officially... →
The Google Keep note taking service that leaked out a few days ago has officially launched. There’s a website and an Android app for now, and a post on the Google Drive blog it’s intended for users to quickly jot down ideas. They’re saved onGoogle Drive — which probably explains why this exists instead of the axed Google Notebook service — and on Android 4.2.2...
Google Keep note taking service officially... →
The Google Keep note taking service that leaked out a few days ago has officially launched. There’s a website and an Android app for now, and a post on the Google Drive blog it’s intended for users to quickly jot down ideas. They’re saved onGoogle Drive — which probably explains why this exists instead of the axed Google Notebook service — and on Android 4.2.2...
February 2013
4 posts
Sexism Fatigue: When Seth MacFarlane Is a Complete... →
A strange thing happened on Sunday night when I watched Seth MacFarlane joke thatZero Dark Thirty is a movie about how bitches be naggin’, and listened to him croon about how lovely Jodie Foster’s naked boobs looked mid-simulated-gang-rape. I felt…nothing. Just nothing. Nothing beyond exhaustion and an extreme desire for wine, anyway. I wasn’t happy about it, but compared...
What Happens To Your Brain When You Get Black-Out... →
You wake up in an unfamiliar room, missing a button or two, with a few stains on your shirt that you’re hoping are food-related. The last thing you remember from the night before was downing that fourth shot of Cuervo. Okay, so you blacked out. But what exactly does that mean?
What did alcohol do to my brain?
Anyone with a strong familiarity with booze has either had a blackout themselves,...
INTP Career Profile - The Logical Personality Type →
Video of My Run This Morning
<a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/171643336” data-mce-href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/171643336”>A 5.53 mi Run / Jog mapped on Thu Feb 07 2013</a> and more runs in San Francisco, CA on MapMyRun. <a href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com” data-mce-href=”http://www.mapmyrun.com”>Find run</a>
January 2013
48 posts
Programmer Interrupted →
’m writing this post in an apt state: low-sleep, busy, disorientated, and interrupted. I try all the remedies: Pomodoro, working in coffee shops, headphones, and avoiding work until beingdistraction free in the late night.
But it is only so long before interruption finds a way to pierce my protective bubble. Like you, I am programmer, interrupted. Unfortunately, our understanding of interruption...
Popular Python recipes tagged "meta:min_python_2"... →
gist.io · #4666500 →
women who code: interview practice
Big thank you to Lynn Root for starting this document! Email: Lynn Root
Advice for preparation & interview strategy (language agnostic)
Lynn Root’s Blog with her experience, how she prepared, and lists of practice problems and resources.
Stephanie Shupe’s presentation White Boarding: Interview Tips
sample questions (language...
Tutorial: Use the Flickr API, JavaScript (jQuery),... →
Flickr Services →
User Authentication
Many of Flickr’s API methods require the user to be signed in. In the past we were using our own authentication API, but now, users should only be authenticated using the OAuth specification which is the industry standard. By using the OAuth standard you will provide in your applications a secure way for people to sign-in into their Flickr accounts with all the different...
Accessing Flickr via JavaScript →
Accessing Flickr via JavaScript
In Chapter 10, we will be building a mashup that integrates Flickr data and Google Maps within the browser context. That is, we will need to call the Flickr API from JavaScript within the browser (in true Ajax style). Flickr provides JSON output to its API.[124]
In Chapter 4, I already presented some code that reads a Flickr feed in JSON format and renders...
The Ruby Toolbox - Daemonizing: Turn your scripts... →
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War |... →
The Republican “war on women” helped define 2012. Its main offensives are well known, including the assertion that you can’t get pregnant from rape; the obstruction of the Violence Against Women Act because it would have given Native American courts more jurisdiction over domestic violence; the demonizing of a woman who dared to assert that all women, rich and poor, deserve...
Debugging in Python | Python Conquers The Universe →
sontek's humble adode - John Anderson →
False beliefs persist, even after instant online... →
GitHub Banishes Brain Clutter With Zen Writing... →
Zen mode. Screenshot: GitHub
GitHub has given you the power to use its social coding website without the distractions that so often clutter our internet life. At least, that’s the idea.
The massively popular online service now includes a button that temporarily clears the junk out of your web browser’s window and presents you with a pristine, un-distracting white or black page where you can...
How to build user confidence in your UI |... →
