This past weekend, I read one of Matt Might’s recent posts, and, as it always happens, was immediately inspired to Seize the Day, Suck Out the Marrow of Life, and so on, but in the largely sedentary manner common to computer scientists. So, that very day, Michael and I spent all day making a lightweight…
Technical Women & Related Topics: Link Roundup #1
Have you heard about #womanspace? Nature Publishing Group allowed a male scientist to crap out a “science fiction” piece so terribly-written and sexist that it managed to offend a bazillion of scientists, women, and science-fiction writers/aficionados. It’s hard to believe this happened, because it was so stupid and surreal, but it did; it would be hilarious, too,…
2012: It Is Resolved.
Perhaps as further evidence that I might be a tad obsessed, my first act after thinking “hm, what are my New Year’s resolutions?” was to google “app for managing new year’s resolutions.” Unfortunately, they turned out to be some self-tracking apps for reaching weight loss and quitting smoking goals. So that was disappointing, but then I got…
In Defense of the Kindle Fire
Let me be clear: I value well-executed interaction. I value devices and applications that are fun and simple to use, especially when it is clear there were a lot of clever people making them that way. I agree with pretty much every review of the Kindle Fire that bemoans the slow and clunky interface. I agree that relative to my…
Development Tips & Resources (Roundup #1)
General Programming Advice Be realistic and self-aware about scheduling development Never, ever grab other people’s keyboards Use version control. (Don’t use subversion.) bitbucket offers private repositories, wikis, etc; most of this free for students google code is excellent but does not support private repositories (as far as I know) Don’t make the demo look done! But…
I have a soft spot for people who, though they may be wrong sometimes (and right others), make me think longer, harder and more deeply. I have a soft spot for people who don’t fit neatly into ideological categories, and whose wrongness makes me interrogate my own position, and defend it more thoroughly. Christopher Hitchens…