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Outreachy Expands to People of Color Underrepresented in U.S. Tech(sfconservancy.org)
2 points by britta 11y ago|0 comments
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by britta 11y ago
Double Union has never had a laser cutter, but it has two small milling machines (a Shapeoko and a Handibot). It has a bunch of other tools as well, such as screenprinting equipment (exposure unit, screens, ink, squeegees, drying racks, pap
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Malware for iOS(theiphonewiki.com)
1 points by britta 11y ago|0 comments
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by britta 11y ago
Even if you don't mean this comment to be insensitive, it is pretty insensitive to people mourning the permanent loss of a talented and loved person who contributed much to their communities and friends.
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by britta 12y ago
Pretty much all projects can benefit from these kinds of skills. I'm a community manager and technical writer, and I make non-code contributions to open source projects. My process is something like this: 1) Find an open source thing t
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by britta 12y ago
There are some people who call it the Space Claw: https://www.flickr.com/people/spaceclaw
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by britta 12y ago
Saying that these problems look like bug reports is dismissive of the depth of the problems. Stopping development of products and removing access to features isn't unintentional, and a lot of people have already complained about each o
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by britta 12y ago
For a specific example of real problems caused by killing Google News Archive search, it affected the work of Wikipedia editors. I and a lot of other editors had found it very useful as a high-quality and fast way to find good sources for a
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by britta 12y ago
Edhat also allows lots of nasty racist commenters. Not so great overall.
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by britta 12y ago
EveryBlock tried to be that gathering-together service, but it got shut down: http://www.niemanlab.org/encyclo/everyblock/ + http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/ "We show
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by britta 12y ago
Yess, and a local Facebook group and/or subreddit can work really nicely in coordination with a LocalWiki. To share local knowledge you totally need that conversation part, where the oldtimers and newcomers sit around and chat (or comm
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by britta 12y ago
For inactive regions, I'd rather see LocalWiki put up a signpost in the form of "This region got a start with five articles and two contributors but hasn't been edited in six months - would you like to help renew this project
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by britta 12y ago
Aw yay, I took that photo on the new homepage! It was during an editing party at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco ( https://localwiki.org/sf/Prelinger_Library ). I've been a Wikipedia editor for many years, an
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by britta 12y ago
Yes! I attended and spoke at the second conference in Portland, and it was great. One thing I valued from it: getting a sense of the careers of a whole crowd of people who also do documentation as an important part of their work (and care a
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by britta 12y ago
Fanfiction writers are creative with all types of media - it's part of the culture to go wild with experimental ideas and have fun with them, laughing together about it. Well-established characters mean that you have more common elemen
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by britta 12y ago
A sticky can only be updated by the original poster, while a sidebar can be updated by all of the moderators. For sidebars there's even a diff log so that all of the moderators can understand how it's been updated. Most subreddits
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by britta 12y ago
As an iOS-related subreddit, we have few readers using Android devices. There are of course people who don't read the sidebar even when it's very visible (such as in the standard website view), but we also had a real pattern of pe
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by britta 12y ago
Interesting, that's not too terrible for sidebar access, but that choice of featured screenshot means I can't officially recommend it. It doesn't matter as much now though; with Reddit's endorsement, Alien Blue is the ap
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by britta 12y ago
I moderate a midsize subreddit where many of the 35k daily readers use Alien Blue, and this is a bit of a headache because Alien Blue makes it hard to find the subreddit sidebar, where we list important FAQs and rules. Our sticky post is de
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by britta 12y ago
Ha, my friend used the same photo as the example for his mathematical analysis of the rolling shutter effect: http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/post/54400376441/playing-detec... The questions he investigated: "Ca
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by britta 12y ago
Assuming your device is jailbreakable, the problem is that your phone is vulnerable to jailbreaking, whether you've decided to jailbreak it or not. In the relevant scenario (the one described in the article, with "a few minutes al
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by britta 12y ago
Every day on Caltrain includes unexpected delays, and it's interesting to look at how those delays affect the system. Check out the linked visualization of Boston-area trains: http://mbtaviz.github.io/ - a single day h
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I'd like Caltrain to publish raw train data(stackallocated.com)
97 points by britta 12y ago|50 comments
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by britta 12y ago
This is great. I want this information to be in a form easily accessible and readable for any project maintainer who wants to learn about concrete ways to improve their projects. So, question: what form should that be? A blog post explainin
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by britta 12y ago
You can educate yourself and others! There are lots of resources for learning how to do more, including speaking up to other men and putting some money toward supporting people who are making a difference. Here's an article with a bunc
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by britta 12y ago
I'd suggest checking out http://growstuff.org/ to get your fill of more literal open source gardening! It's a neat project: "Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. We're building an open source plat
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by britta 13y ago
There is also a PyLadies meetup group in San Diego: http://www.meetup.com/sd-pyladies/ - I know one of the organizers and she's great.
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by britta 13y ago
Nice, thanks for editing the post. Sociolinguistics is fascinating; at least not every kind of mismatch/misunderstanding is loaded. And there's a paper for some linguist to write on the hybrid tone of friendly and authoritative t
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by britta 13y ago
The meaning of "guys" (as "men" or "people of either sex") depends a lot on its context and a lot on the person reading the words - here's a survey with some examples: http://jvns.ca/blog&#
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by britta 13y ago
It's not so clearly neutral; this confusion could be a language register mismatch issue. "You guys" as a gender-neutral term is a very informal usage - it's something I might say in person to a mixed-gender group of my c

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