October 2011
21 posts
“We are expected to know how to do things we’ve never done before and...”
– Coders are special.
GitHub Secrets: Discover the GitHub features you... →
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PAX Valkyrie: No Flat Girls: How Allies are Born →
paxvalkyrie:
This is a story about gamer culture, casual sexism, the silence of friends, and its fallout - more or less in that order. Firstly, context. I’m a recent graduate working as a game designer for a social games startup in New York City, and I identify strongly with other students and alumni who…
“((lambda (x) (requiescat-in-pace x)) ‘john-mccarthy)”
– via
Spinach - Like Cucumber but with more Ruby, less... →
thechangelog:
Another week, another Ruby testing library. The latest is Spinach from the developers at Codegram which aims to remove the Regex magic from Cucumber. In Spinach, steps are implemented as Ruby classes:
# from the docs at [http://rubydoc.info/github/codegram/spinach/master/file/README.markdown](http://rubydoc.info/github/codegram/spinach/master/file/README.markdown)
class...
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“How can we design systems when we don’t know what we’re doing?
The most...”
– “Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction,” Bret Victor. So good. (via lifeandcode)
programming language checklist →
How do you juggle a day job with indie... →
dhotson:
Some good time management advice on the IndieGaming reddit.
The Dusty Programmer: A Programmer’s Greatest... →
dustyprogrammer:
A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck. A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
Indeed, it’s a skill…
Side-by-side comparison of PHP, Perl, Python, and... →
gadcode:
Great if you’ve already mastered one and are looking to quickly get up-to-speed on another!
And also great for every other shortcut in these languages
The Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of Tomorrow --... →
Out in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing code in dorms.
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Finally: Wunderlist for Linux!
wunderlist:
Penguin. Penguin? That’s right, Wunderlist for Linux is here. We know you Linux guys have been after it for some time, and Tux is now gracing the Wunderlist stage.
Wunderlist for Linux comes packaged as a .tgz file. Simply extract, and double click the executable – it will be up and running in no time. Wunderlist for Linux is available right from our website. Go forth and have...
