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"While cis girls, throughout their socialization and lives in our culture, internalize cultural..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:02:41 -0700

“While cis girls, throughout their socialization and lives in our culture, internalize cultural messages about ideal womanhood as a demand of what they need to be in order to be considered valuable, desirable, good women, they have the comparable “advantage” of at least already being girls / women (or at least already having that assignment). Trans girls, though, are subjected to those same messages but internalize them as what is required to manifest womanhood at all. We’re swimming upstream against our gender assignment, and if THAT is what “being a woman is all about”, THAT gets internalized as the standard we need to live up not simply to be loved and valued, but in order to simply be read and perceived as ourselves. In other words, while cis girls internalize it as what they need to be in order to be good girls, trans girls internalize it as what they need to be in order to be.”

- Is He Checking Me Out, Or Just Staring At The Freak? Self-Consciousness And Self-Oppression | Sincerely, Natalie Reed

"This really nails down what I see all the time with respect to women getting promoted or even just..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:59:18 -0700

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This really nails down what I see all the time with respect to women getting promoted or even just getting recognized for their achievements.

To paraphrase it, women tend not to compete for recognition as much as men, for whatever reason. Maybe they’ve been socialized not to, maybe it is a simple question of testosterone. I will go into why I think this happens below. But for now let me just say I get super pissed when a system has been set up to diminish the success of people simply because of this personality issue.

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- Google’s promotion policy sucks for women « mathbabe. Joan and Cathy make quite a combo. :-)

에픽하이(Epik high) - 1분 1초 (Feat. 타루). Epik High is not so much my...

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:27:33 -0700

에픽하이(Epik high) - 1분 1초 (Feat. 타루). Epik High is not so much my style, but I’m willing to accept that they’re pretty good for what they are, and I like the video in this one.

"Choosing to be a manager without being a leader is like choosing to drive across the country without..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:26:13 -0700

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Choosing to be a manager without being a leader is like choosing to drive across the country without a map. Choosing to be a leader without having management skills is like choosing to be a fish without gills. You have to know where you’re going, and you have to know how to breathe in your environment.

Managers set the strategy and the vision, so everyone knows what is going on and can work on the most important work. Managers create the environment so that the people all over the organization can succeed, including the managers. They are not the only people who do this, but they are the leaders who must do this. If managers do these things in a command-and-control way, they might succeed. If they choose servant leadership, they are more likely to be successful.

Managers must be leaders. We cannot choose between management and leadership. We must have both.

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- We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership | Managing Product Development

"Not the easiest, but the quickest: Don’t demand authority. Eagerly take..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:04:13 -0700

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Not the easiest, but the quickest:

Don’t demand authority.

Eagerly take responsibility.

Relentlessly give credit.

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- Seth’s Blog: The quickest way to get things done and make change. Still thinking about this one.

"I could propose all kinds of policies to curb the ongoing predation on the poor. Limits on usury..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:03:37 -0700

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I could propose all kinds of policies to curb the ongoing predation on the poor. Limits on usury should be reinstated. Theft should be taken seriously even when it’s committed by millionaire employers. No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. These are no-brainers, and should take precedence over any long term talk about generating jobs or strengthening the safety net.

Before we can “do something” for the poor, there are some things we need to stop doing to them.

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- How the poor are made to pay for their poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

"So working with feature branches is fine—as long as each feature completes in 2 hours or so. There..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:02:26 -0700

“So working with feature branches is fine—as long as each feature completes in 2 hours or so. There are teams that can define their scope this narrowly. They love feature branching. Their code is always shippable and fit to the customer’s purpose, and they don’t ever need to plan for a release.”

- Hamlet On Branching « Arlo Being Bloody Stupid. Good stuff on the question of whether or not to use feature branches.

IU- GEE/LIES/SORRYSORRY. Started going through IU’s albums...

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:55:39 -0700

IU- GEE/LIES/SORRYSORRY. Started going through IU’s albums today; early verdict is good enough to continue listening to, but I like her singing with an acoustic guitar on stage more.

"But all the little bits of complexity, all those cases where indecision caused one option that..."

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:17:59 -0700

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But all the little bits of complexity, all those cases where indecision caused one option that probably wasn’t even needed in the first place to be replaced by two options, all those bad choices that were never remedied for fear of someone somewhere having to change a line of code…they slowly accreted until it all got out of control, and we got comfortable with systems that were impossible to understand.

We did this. We who claim to value simplicity are the guilty party. See, all those little design decisions actually matter, and there were places were we could have stopped and said “no, don’t do this.” And even if we were lazy and didn’t do the right thing when changes were easy, before there were thousands of users, we still could have gone back and fixed things later. But we didn’t.

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- We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines

Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the Sumos of war

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:17:27 -0700

Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the Sumos of war:

The mood in the office has shifted back to a noticeably more playful one over the last month or so; which makes me happy. As does the fact that it seems to be combined with people enjoying their programming more, too.

Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families' Bail Money

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:15:15 -0700

Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families' Bail Money:

Asset forfeiture is evil.

Dreams of Your Life

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:14:14 -0700

Dreams of Your Life:

Finally got around to going through this (after Margaret Robertson’s GDC talk); glad I did.

"Internet security has a puzzling fact at its core. If security is only as strong as the weakest-link..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:33:51 -0700

“Internet security has a puzzling fact at its core. If security is only as strong as the weakest-link then all who choose weak passwords, re-use credentials across accounts, fail to heed security warnings or neglect patches and updates should be hacked, regularly and repeatedly. Clearly this fails to happen. Two billion people use the Internet; the majority can in no sense be described as secure, and yet they apparently derive more use from it than harm. How can this be? Where do all the attacks go?”

- Where Do All The Attacks Go?

The Aphorisms of the VGHVI School of Athens | Video Games and Human Values Initiative

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:30:05 -0700

The Aphorisms of the VGHVI School of Athens | Video Games and Human Values Initiative:

Roger has gathered some of the definitions we’ve been working through in the School of Athens podcasts.

"For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:29:28 -0700

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For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news. Her score on the Teacher Data Report, the New York City Department of Education’s effort to isolate a teacher’s contribution to her students’ performance on New York State’s math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests in grades four through eight, said that 32 percent of seventh-grade math teachers and 0 percent of eighth-grade math teachers scored below her.

She was, according to this report, the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

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- A Sociological Eye on Education | The worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City. Quite an article.

kanbandev : Kanban and Gamification

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:27:57 -0700

kanbandev : Kanban and Gamification:

Interesting simulation showing the effects of WIP limits.

A Brief History of Cambodia | Game Trekking

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:04:25 -0700

A Brief History of Cambodia | Game Trekking:

Speaking of games that do not make me feel good about myself to play; wow.

"The increased openness that has come with transition, and suddenly noticing this opening of..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:55:32 -0700

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The increased openness that has come with transition, and suddenly noticing this opening of possibilities- the possibility to try sex with another woman, or assuming a dom role- this emerges from now no longer needing to have some way of maintaining a sense of female identity in sex, or avoiding masculinity at all costs. Sort of like how in transitioning, a trans woman who had previously been a cross-dresser will toss out all of her more frilly and exaggeratedly feminine clothes due to no longer needing those totemic symbols of femaleness now that she feels secure in actually being a woman, my being a woman is now physically actualized in such a way that I no longer need to express it through symbolically “feminine” sexual roles. It’s no longer a tiny, fragile, precious secret of my identity that I could only preserve in my sexuality by avoiding anything coded “masculine”. It’s now a strong, unwavering fact of my being, and will remain as such regardless of who I sleep with, or how.

This leaves me free to explore the entirety of sexual possibility, should I choose to do so. Nothing I choose to do sexually can now diminish or threaten my sense of myself as female. Just like I’m just as much a woman in a t-shirt and jeans as I am in a dress and leggings.

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- Un-Gendering Sexuality | Sincerely, Natalie Reed. A lot to think about in this one.

Looking Glass Studios Interview Series - Audio Podcast 10 - Paul Neurath

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:19:58 -0700

Looking Glass Studios Interview Series - Audio Podcast 10 - Paul Neurath:

I did not know that the founder of Looking Glass is now at Zynga. (This whole interview series has been excellent, highly recommended.)

Board Games, Me, And (Of Course) Sumo! | Sumo Logic

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:49 -0700

Board Games, Me, And (Of Course) Sumo! | Sumo Logic:

Yay Sumo board games!