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wilkie / diversity_links.md
Last active June 15, 2021 16:49
Some links devoted to diversity discussion.
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wilkie / foo.sh
Created February 25, 2013 00:08
A demostration of what xxd -i will do: It takes any binary file and generates a C-compatible file defining a static array of the contents which can then be #included in.
xxd -i foo.txt > output.txt
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wilkie / abstract.txt
Last active December 12, 2015 06:38 — forked from wolfwood/abstract.txt
XOmB+Djehuty: A Remix OS for Computation Liberation
In the world of software, most developers are building upwards and
losing sight of the cyber-centuries worth of cruft below, which we
call the Operating System: the final arbiter of access, privilege and
resource allocation on all computers. These systems are developed by a
shrinking community that has ceded us a particular approach to
resource management that parallels the power structure present in
their community and society at large. It has been observed
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law) that there is a strong
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wilkie / gist:4727102
Created February 7, 2013 00:02
* Look at how systems researchers look at primarily competitive aspects and assume maliciousness
* Look at "fairness" metrics.
* Distributed systems show us that scaling-up is problematic (inherently centralized). We need to scale-out.
* Trust.
* Perhaps discuss open source politics (gpl-hate)
* Goal: Some technical problems are social problems... therefore some social problems in our community have technical solutions.
Open with social issue stuff, social problems.
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wilkie / put_in_address_bar
Last active December 11, 2015 23:49
Some people really linked the browser notepad in one line thing... well have some syntax highlighting... still in one line. Ok, fine. A really long line. And I cheated so hard that the caret doesn't show up, but that's ok, right? :) Oh, and you can't copy and paste in HTML because contenteditable is really broken for pre tags, jeez.
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wilkie / atomic_counter.cpp
Created December 19, 2012 05:22
A lock-free reference counter. These two classes offer an easy method of ensuring copies of classes with data that must be reclaimed can only be reclaimed when all other copies are destroyed. It uses an atomic compare and exchange method of managing a counter without using an explicit mutex, so it is thread safe. I didn't want to use a smart poi…
#include "atomic_counter.hpp"
AtomicCounter::AtomicCounter() {
AtomicCounter(0);
}
AtomicCounter::AtomicCounter(unsigned int value) :
_value(value) {
}
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wilkie / experiment.rb
Created November 19, 2012 23:51
Code to produce a probability distribution of how likely a gender breakdown in conference speakers is, and also to experiment to produce the result
# This program will select at random a set of speakers and look at the gender breakdown given 20% women
total_speakers = 15
percentage_of_women = 0.25
hist, list, results = {}, [], []
(1000 * (1 - percentage_of_women)).floor.times{list << 0}
(1000 * percentage_of_women).floor.times{list << 1}
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wilkie / reply.txt
Created October 13, 2012 17:30
reply
My reply to http://laurasanders.net/a-primer-on-sexism-in-the-tech-industry-by-an-actual-girl/
Thank you for writing this article. I do appreciate your comments on the original article, and pointed out some problems I had not seen at first.
However, just as he is clearly over-generalizing, you may be under-generalizing. The systemic oppression of women in this field is indeed strong
and undermines female involvement. Let me go through your points.
1. It's true. The article does not tackle sexism directly. http://rarlindseysmash.com/index.php?n=1313531468 is an article about sexism. Written
by a woman. Uses facts and citations.
Does he need to define the words? Unfortunately yes. You tell a white-male-techy that they are using 'privilege' and they'll respond 'I've never
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wilkie / framework.md
Created October 6, 2012 22:57
An Infrastructure to Promote Sustainable Coding

An Infrastructure to Promote Sustainable Coding

We have long promoted the idea of the re-usability of our code. After an era of writing for our machines instead of ourselves, we discovered that human literacy was preferred over performance. From this notion, we developed higher level languages that started to abstract and even completely obscure the underlying machine. A beautiful era emerged where the Turing machine was our model, and humans our audience.

However, these methods of human expression are not compatible. Although they all express and run upon the same theoretical basis, they cannot collaborate effectively. This is due, ironically, to the constraints set upon the languages at the machine level. For instance, {Rust, D, Java} implies a garbage collector to allow object expressions that ignore allocations and to better analyze the lifetimes of these objects. When the language constrains the type of garbage collector policy, this constrains the languages that can be used together.

However, it is

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wilkie / opengl-transparency-demo.cpp
Created September 5, 2012 20:46
Rendering directly to a composited window in vista+ with opengl.
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#include <windows.h>
#include <windowsx.h>
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glu.h>
#include <dwmapi.h>
#pragma comment (lib, "opengl32.lib")