selenamarie

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   by selenamarie 14y ago

   Thanks! :) I'm thinking next year will be the year I attend conferences for fun, rather than just work. I put it on my calendar.
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   by selenamarie 14y ago

   It's heartening to hear that. I was a *nix security researcher and admin in the late-90s, and attended DEFCON 8 with a group of men. I never went back on my own. An organizer's support for kdotcdot's cards makes me want to go to DEFCON next
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   Today, for the first time, I got harassed on IRC.(storify.com)

   4 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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   Security release for PostgreSQL(postgresql.org)

   2 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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   How experts recall chess positions(theinvisiblegorilla.com)

   1 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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   by selenamarie 15y ago

   Ah, sorry about that.
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   VCs are Dicks (not really)(learntoduck.com)

   2 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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   How your cat is making you crazy(m.theatlantic.com)

   12 points by selenamarie 15y ago|5 comments
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   by selenamarie 15y ago

   I was just reading a bit about publishing medical research, and a researcher whose department has decided to publish everything in a combination of R and LaTeX, with Sweave: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/ Their term for this
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    by selenamarie 15y ago

    BJ Fogg has been doing weekly habit formation sessions on this topic: http://tinyhabits.com/ It's a great exercise if you want to hack your own habits and learn about his methodology and research at the same time. Uses all the same ideas.
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    Interface Secrets of Hit Apps with Mike Rundle(swipeconference.eventer.com)

    1 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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    Offline email with mutt(technosorcery.net)

    5 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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    by selenamarie 15y ago

    Wikipedia page might provide a bit more insight into the Mosuo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
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    Founder Gap: more women in open source == more women founders(adainitiative.org)

    1 points by selenamarie 15y ago|0 comments
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    by selenamarie 15y ago

    For those who weren't at pgconf.eu - we're actually serious about the cruise. Let me know if you'd be interested in going. :)
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    I'm not quibbling over definitions. And we are not describing the same reality.
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    Yeah, that's a really good point. I am talking about organizational culture. More specifically - structure around participation. But, at the same time, it seems people often conflate governance and power with organizational culture. Is ther
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    You've created a circular argument - if someone doesn't currently have free time or knowledge, how could they ever write good code? re: free time - I didn't suggest any particular solutions, because the point of this exercise isn't for me t
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    My objection is that the use of merit to justify rewards typically seen as an objective measure. We should carefully identify the reasons for measuring and rewarding a thing - like "we reward excellent code with commit rights", rather than
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    Thanks for your thoughts! Made me think. I brought up privilege, not gender diversity.
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    I listed a few: freedom, time and indulgence. More specifically, the freedom to pursue passion in life is often enabled by one's parents having enough money and stability. Time is mostly about leisure time. Having a job that supports work o
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    I'm a she, and you're leaving out all the things that led to becoming a programmer. Which largely had nothing to do with merit. The point of the article isn't to discount the work involved in becoming excellent, but to point out that the op
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    Privilege isn’t just about money – it’s about a collection of gifts individuals receive from society, regardless of merit. Those gifts include but aren’t restricted to freedom, time and indulgence. And to say that a person can only contri
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    I wrote the entry that started this thread, and an earlier post that mentions do-ocracy in the context of the Portland tech scene[1]. I totally agree with you, and go even further when it comes to the community that's evolved in Portland. I
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    Japan Status - crowdsourced radiation levels(japanstatus.org)

    2 points by selenamarie 16y ago|0 comments
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    Happens mostly at conferences for me, sometimes at networking events. Especially if I'm at an open source software booth. I don't look like "a hacker", so prevailing stereotypes apply. Last year it happened at least once at each of 3 confer
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    Would love to! Thanks for the feedback. I've started an outline for another class.
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    that's actually a higher learning institution. but, to answer the larger question: given the target audience, I'd say it's complimentary.
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    tsearch2 would be easy to add to the intro course. Thanks for the suggestion! PostGIS may be an advanced topic, but you're right that it should be mentioned. I'll think about whether I can come up with a concise way to cover it, with an eye
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    by selenamarie 16y ago

    I'm also thinking about a advanced tuning class - hardware + core pg. Would love feedback from HN on the outline.