This article on NPR has former Google executive sharing some interesting thoughts on the gender gap in high corporate jobs.
I particularly like the bit about what she calls "stereotype threat" and how it relates to women in Computer Science.
read more"What's holding women back in computer science is the ...
This snippet has a cool, short method for solving linear equations.
read moreThis article from NPR the other day talks about another yet another computer infiltration incident coming from Chinese hackers.
Although the Chinese government has never admitted any involvement in these attacks, it's widely considered that these and many similar attacks throughtout the past several years are supported at least ...
read moreI haven't really talked about JavaScript that much here even though I write it every day at work. I think this is mostly because I don't really like JavaScript. It's got its good parts for sure, but I just don't enjoy writing code in it as ...
read moreEvery developer that works with JavaScript should take a few moments to play around with CoffeeScript. When I first was exposed to CoffeeScript two years ago, my opinion on CoffeeScript quickly deteriorated from thinking it was really neat and cool way to write JavaScript to an unnecessary abstraction.
Why has ...
read moreI have been trying to read one computer science book a month as my New Year's Resolution for 2013 and the first book for this year is Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler.
A book about refactoring code may not seem like the most riveting ...
read moreI haven't been able to get up to the mountains for skiing very much this season. Today was actually the first day that I was able to find the time to trip out to Arapahoe Basin to freeze my ass off and shoot down a ice covered mountain. Glorious ...
read moreI finally got all my documents together for my tourist visa to China. Tomorrow I get to mail in all my info and cross my fingers that everything is a go.
I hate the idea of having to buy my plane ticket before I can get my approval from the ...
read morePart of the reason I started this blog was to get over my anxieties of allowing my work to be scrutinized. I have found it difficult in the past to present my code to peers knowing that tough judgement would soon follow. That kind of fear and anxiety makes it ...
read moreWithout further ado, my New Year's Resolutions for the year 2013
Write at least 52 more blog entries (once a week!)
Contribute to Django core.
Design my own website (logos, layouts, typography, writing, etc.) from scratch
Read one Computer Science book a month
Visit Chelsea in Shanghai
Travel to ...
Quickly bootstrap a Django app using virtualenvwrapper. The default project template includes startup assets for generating a responsive design from bootstrap
pip install virtualenvwrapper.django_template
mkproject -t django <project_name>
This will generate a startup project with a basic responsive design courtesy of Twitter Bootstrap ...
read moreLooks like there will be debates starting today about the FISA Amendments Act that is up for renewal.
First passed in 1978, FISA has a pretty interesting history and was a big part of the expansion of executive power during the Bush administration. What started as an already substantial anti-espionage ...
read moreFor the past couple weeks, I've been test running the free online course site, Coursea by taking the Intro to Cryptography course instructed by Dan Boneh.
Most of the material I had seen before in Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson's awesome book, Practical Cryptography, but this was a ...
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