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• How to hire a lady to do software engineering
• I need terrible female engineers
• Dear Marginalized People Coming Into Tech

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Hello!

Did you see my talk at CUSEC? If you're interested in hacking on the Linux kernel, here are some more resources! If you have suggestions for learning about OS X or Windows, or you're interested in learning about BSD, let me know!

• 4 paths to becoming a kernel hacker explains the 4 strategies I talked about in the talk.
• I talked about Hacker School, which is amazing.
• I wrote a lot about kernel programming on my blog

Reading kernel code:

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What it's about:

Writing operating systems sounds like it's only for wizards, but it turns out that operating systems are written by humans like you and me. I'm going to tell you what a kernel is and why you should care. Then we'll talk about a few concrete ways to get started with kernel hacking, ranging from the super-easy to the terrifyingly difficult.

It's by me! (Julia Evans)

• My blog: http://jvns.ca
• Me on Twitter: @b0rk

You should come talk to me about

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• GNU grep (source, maybe start here)
• TTYtter in Perl (source)
• Knuth's literate programming version of adventure
• The Python implementation of deques
• Some Ruby: rspec-expectations and Rubinius

A couple of good lists (thanks to @DanielleSucher)

• http://seanstickle.com/2013/12/27/great-works-of-source-code.html
• http://blog.fogus.me/2013/12/27/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2013/ ("Favorite code read")

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A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

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Distributed Systems

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• Write a tiny compiler in Haskell, targeting LLVM

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• Geek Feminism: http://geekfeminism.org/
• Philip Guo's writing: http://www.pgbovine.net/writings.htm
• Mel Chua: http://blog.melchua.com/
• Pointers Gone Wild (by Maxime Chevalier): http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/ (compiler fun!)
• Sumana's blog: http://www.harihareswara.net/ces.shtml
• Lindsey Kuper's great research blog: http://composition.al/
• Kelly Sommers is so inquisitive and thoughtful and amazing: http://kellabyte.com/
• Selena Deckelmann: http://www.chesnok.com/daily/
• Dan Luu: http://danluu.com/
• http://planet.mozillaopennews.org/

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At PyCon 2012, 11% of conference attendees were women. In 2013, it shot to over 20%; and the ratio of speakers matched. 33% of the speakers for PyCon 2014 are women. PyLadies and the Python Software Foundation worked hard to increase diversity with the help of financial aid, and it clearly showed. We’re hoping to continue that momentum.

In the past, one PyLady from the US/North America needed about $500 - $1000 to help pay for flights and hotels, with about $1000-2000 needed for those that are international.

We’re hoping to raise at least $20,000 to help about 20 magnificent women to attend. That money will go to women that will be speaking, giving a tutorial, presenting a poster, or trying out a lightning talk. It will go to women attending that give back to the Python and Open Source community, and those looking to make connections to start their own local PyLadies group.

If you folks choose to donate, we will give profuse thanks on our blog [3], tweet from our PyLadies handle [4], and include promotio

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