26 Jan 2014, 20:42 p.m.

Plunge

It is easier for me to write a confrontational email in which I will disappoint someone than for me to open up a coding problem that I fear I will fail at. With the former, …

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19 Jan 2014, 15:51 p.m.

Interesting-Looking Talks at PyCon 2014

This year I'm going to visit PyCon! In fact, I'm presenting a poster: "What Hacker School Taught Me About Community Mentoring". You should register soon if you're coming, especially to take advantage of heavily subsidized …

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18 Jan 2014, 13:59 p.m.

Cleaning My Virtual Room

In late December 2013, my personal email inbox got to over six thousand emails. Many of them had been there for years. I was using nearly no filtering, and so there was important stuff in …

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14 Jan 2014, 12:20 p.m.

Hidden Jewels of the RFC or PEP Process

I've been looking into other open source projects' processes for making big architectural changes, to help improve MediaWiki's process. Some have Requests for Comment processes, separate from normal bug/enhancement tickets. Some don't. Some have voting, …

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11 Jan 2014, 8:21 a.m.

Also A Bunch Of Indian Kids Were Avoiding A Puja By Watching "Sleepless In Seattle"

A dream from last night included these bits: I was a teen actress on a sitcom. We were filming a story in which a burglar broke into our kitchen, the kids came downstairs to check, …

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06 Jan 2014, 18:37 p.m.

Tourists

What do you know about pipe organs? Several years ago, all I knew about organs I'd learned from a few pages in Cryptonomicon comparing them to vacuum-tube computers. And I liked their sound. I was …

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04 Jan 2014, 20:50 p.m.

Linkdump of Scifi, Songs, Sprezzatura, and Misc Does Not Start With S

Medical user experience in the US is pretty terrible; at least one New York City medical practice is looking to improve that. I've had really good experiences with Kaiser Permanente's infrastructure (pharmacy, test lab, specialists …

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28 Dec 2013, 16:11 p.m.

console.captain'slog

This week I started remembering JavaScript (two years ago I picked up a little bit). A few fun things: I understand @horse_js better now! I sort of understand the differences among Node, npm, ClojureScript, CoffeeScript, …

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26 Dec 2013, 21:33 p.m.

Yuletide 2013 Recommendations

I have been sick with a cold for about a week. Fortunately, this year's Yuletide fan fiction harvest brought me tremendous bounty! I now feel the urge to re-watch or re-read Protector of the Small, …

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23 Dec 2013, 19:48 p.m.

Darmok and Jalad at StackExchange

I have a cold, so I've been watching and reading comfort media. Yesterday Leonard and I rewatched that old Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect". When the senior officers need to figure …

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