Monday, 13. June 12016
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“How I discovered I spend 2 hours a month crying — and learned to be okay with it.”

Think Jupyter for JavaScript.

Kajero: interactive JavaScript notebooks with clever graphs.

“The Day we hired a Blind Coder.”

Saturday, 4. June 12016
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Brown paperbag.

“(…) an uneducated, self-taught woman could never have built such a sophisticated machine.”

Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform?

Jessica Abel’s story is all about investigating story.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it. —Soren Kierkegaard

I wanna go bang in the light of the miracle.

Inside the Trove of the Genre-Buster Arthur Russell.

Thursday, 2. June 12016
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Cinephiles against dubbing.

Steffen Noe bringt es auf den Punkt: »Im Science-Fiction-Drama Cocoon gibt es am Ende eine Abschiedsszene, wo ein Boot zu einem Raumschiff nach oben gezogen wird. Eine der Figuren springt dann noch mit den Worten May the Force be with you! vom Schiff ab. Da hat der Übersetzer, dem Star Wars anscheinend kein Begriff ist, wohl lange nachgedacht und sich für folgende Übersetzung entschieden: Hoffentlich lässt die Kraft nicht nach, die das Schiff hoch zieht.«

Wednesday, 1. June 12016
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Coding Standarghs.

Effective Coding Standards.