Horse_ebooks is human after all
Curated dissociated text. That’s great
(tags: ebooks art horse_ebooks internet twitter markov-chains)
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(tags: coding funny processors multicore multiprocessing branch-prediction hardware)
To my daughter’s high school programming teacher
During the first semester of my daughter’s junior/senior year, she took her first programming class. She knew I’d be thrilled, but she did it anyway. When my daughter got home from the first day of the semester, I asked her about the class. “Well, I’m the only girl in class,” she said. Fortunately, that didn’t bother her, and she even liked joking around with the guys in class. My daughter said that you noticed and apologized to her because she was the only girl in class. And when the lessons started (Visual Basic? Seriously??), my daughter flew through the assigments. After she finished, she’d help classmates who were behind or struggling in class. Over the next few weeks, things went downhill. While I was attending SC ’12 in Salt Lake City last November, my daughter emailed to tell me that the boys in her class were harassing her. “They told me to get in the kitchen and make them sandwiches,” she said. I was painfully reminded of the anonymous men boys who left comments on a Linux Pro Magazine blog post I wrote a few years ago, saying the exact same thing.
I am sick to death of this ‘brogrammer’ bullshit.(tags: brogrammers sexism culture tech teaching coding software education)
“The cricket bat that died for Ireland”
The bat had the misfortune of being on display in the shop front of Elvery’s store on O’Connell Street, then Sackville Street, during the Easter Rising. J.W. Elvery & Co. was Ireland’s oldest sports store, specialising in sporting goods and waterproofed wear, with branches in Dublin, Cork (Patrick Street) and London (Conduit Street). […] Its location, about one block from the GPO, meant it was in the middle of the cross-fire and general destruction of the main street.
(tags: ireland cricket 1916 history easter-rising crossfire sports elverys)
_Availability in Globally Distributed Storage Systems_ [pdf]
empirical BigTable and GFS failure numbers from Google are orders of magnitude higher than naïve independent-failure models. (via kragen)
(tags: via:kragen failure bigtable gfs statistics outages reliability)
Why We Hate Infographics (And Why You Should)
YES. (via Des Traynor)
(tags: via:destraynor infographics visualization dataviz graphics fail)