gemma

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by gemma 13y ago
It absolutely does. That feeling of abnormality is one of the things that helped push me into tech--I wasn't normal, so I went to a place where I hid my non-normalness in a way I never could (so thought my 15-year-old self) from real p
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by gemma 13y ago
When I was 8 or so, a relative gave me a huge pink plastic box full of barbies and barbie accessories. I hadn't asked for it, and I wasn't entirely sure what to do with it, but I said thanks and tried my hand at playing with barbi
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by gemma 13y ago
Not a MOOC, but the Stevens Institute of Technology offers an (online) accredited graduate degree program on the same topic: http://www.webcampus.stevens.edu/Space-Systems-Masters.aspx
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How GitHub Hired More Women—In Part, By Encouraging Them To Talk(readwrite.com)
5 points by gemma 13y ago|0 comments
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by gemma 13y ago
KeePass also makes a global keyboard shortcut available (Ctrl+Alt+A by default) that will complete login fields based on the active window title. (The mechanics of the text entry and the window title matching are all configurable, though th
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by gemma 13y ago
I still don't see the "fundamental flaw". Non-reachable commits are automatically deleted by the garbage collection system, which can be also be run manually. Accidental commits with large files or private content can be &quo
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by gemma 13y ago
No, that advice from the article is fundamentally broken. Outside of the garbage collection system (which runs by default after what, 30 days? 90?), Git doesn't delete committed content. Any commit you "lose" through rebasing
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by gemma 13y ago
Wow, massively flawed premise here. 1. Using user stories to define your requirements does not make your process agile, just like writing a traditional requirements doc does not make your process waterfall. It's not about the tools. If
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by gemma 13y ago
Other: RamNode
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by gemma 13y ago
Less surveillance and more hackers/cryptography/NSA origins: Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
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by gemma 13y ago
I think we're evaluating the circumstances with different criteria. You're looking at the story and relating it to a thin-skinned woman who can't handle non-politically-correct humor in the workplace. I'm relating it to
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by gemma 13y ago
> Minority entities will be teased practically any time they exist, regardless of sector or age, and they need to be taught to handle it well. Yeah? So this high school programming class isn't so much a programming class as a crash
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by gemma 13y ago
Formal proofs predate how we think about unit testing (check out IBM's 'Cleanroom' process). The concept comes from an age when most programming was a lot more like applied math, and it still has a lot of traction in industri
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by gemma 13y ago
I just switched to clavid. As @elektronaut pointed out they do support delegation, and their two-factor authentication supports a big list of OTP standards (so it's compatible with the Google Authenticator): http://www.clavi
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by gemma 13y ago
Because I'm not that good.
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Robert Scoble interviews Koding founder Devrim Yasar [video](youtube.com)
3 points by gemma 13y ago|1 comments
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by gemma 13y ago
https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F.ssh%2Fid_rsa&type=Cod...
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by gemma 13y ago
As a veteran of the USPS software industry, I wouldn't worry too much.
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by gemma 13y ago
But as a crowdfunder, I know that going in. Donation levels are clearly marked with what returns, if any, I can expect if the project is successful. "Worthwhile" to a VC means "big financial returns"; "worthwhile&qu
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by gemma 13y ago
> I'm really turned off by this model of 'pay us in advance for developing a product that hasn't been market tested or validated' Isn't that the whole premise behind a huge chunk of the projects on indiegogo and
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by gemma 13y ago
This isn't an analysis of Git vs. Mercurial, this is an analysis of Git's documentation vs Mercurial's documentation. Disappointing.
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by gemma 14y ago
My favorite: git diff --color-words=.
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by gemma 14y ago
status -sb
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by gemma 14y ago
Yeah, but the PowerShell output from those "aliases" doesn't match the *nix versions (e.g. ls), which drives me nuts.
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by gemma 14y ago
"Gmail's security hole"? Really? So "security hole" now means "any opportunity for users to be stupid". In related news, Gmail's other security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts when users choose a password of 'password1'!
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by gemma 14y ago
TortoiseGit gets a little funky with the shell icon overlays on Windows 7--don't expect them to always tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057734/tortoisesvn-icons... ). It's a
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by gemma 16y ago
> a) It's not going to kill you. No, probably not. And yet, from the response of UCSF PhDs, it sounds like there needs to be more research into what the effects will be. Let's get that done before we foist it on the flying public (parti
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by gemma 16y ago
I appreciate Ron Paul's stance, but the introduction of this bill reminds me of the West Wing character Ainsley Hayes and her stance on the Equal Rights Amendment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPLirJRGDQ#t=3m54s The Fourth Amendment sh