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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?".

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/

Single WordPress on a Droplet

Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 12.04
How To Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 12.04
A Basic MySQL Tutorial
How To Install phpMyAdmin on a LEMP server
How To Install Git on Ubuntu 12.04
Generating SSH Keys and connect with DigitalOcean
Install Composer on DigitalOcean
[Install php5-cli if you get stuck with installing Compos

Viewing IPython notebooks in GitLab

GitLab is open source software to collaborate on code (a GitHub clone to run on your own server). Clicking a blob (a file in a repository) in GitLab shows a nice rendering if GitLab supports the file type (e.g., images, Markdown documents), or its content as plain text otherwise. The patch described here adds support to GitLab for rendering IPython notebooks (.ipynb files).

This list now exists over at http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/02/101-off-limits/ and will be updated there.

I keep saying that impromptu, unwanted feminism 101 discussions are exhausting and not a good use of my resources. Then people ask what I mean by 101, so I'm starting to make a list. This list will change over time - I recommend checking back.

I highly recommend checking this list before engaging with me about feminism if you're new to it. It'll save both of us a lot of time and frustration.

Diversity in tech

Women aren't equally represented in tech because biology

Nope. This argument is bad and the science does not support it. Unfortunately, every time you say this out loud, you are contributing to cultural problems that do decrease the number of women in tech.

	This is how to automatically delete cached image previews from your Mastodon instance if they are older than 7 days.
	Log in as your "mastodon" User or log in as root and then change to the "mastodon" user, who runs Mastodon:

	# su - mastodon

	Open crontab:

	$ crontab -e

	... and add these lines to your crontab:

	/**
	* Toggles the CSS classes of an element based on a prefix::
	* > elems = $(".status")
	* > elems
	* [<div class="status status-active">, <div class="status status-pending">]
	* > elems.toggleClassPrefix("status-", "status-pending")
	* > elems
	* [<div class="status status-pending">, <div class="status status-pending">]
	*/
	$.fn.toggleClassPrefix = function(prefix, toAdd) {

	<!DOCTYPE html> <!--Sets the document type to HTML-->
	<html> <!--Now we begin describing the web page-->
	<script> <!-- We are using inline javascript. That is Javascript inside HTML //-->
	var note, html, timeout; <!-- Set the variables //-->
	window.addEventListener('load', function() {
	note = document.getElementById('note');
	html = document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0];
	html.addEventListener('keyup', function(ev) {
	if (timeout) clearTimeout(timeout);
	timeout = setTimeout(saveNote, 100);

	-- a little flame in a functional style

	function particle(step, style, t)
	local newStyle = step(style, t)
	return {
	style = newStyle,
	next = function()
	return particle(step, newStyle, t + 1)
	end
	}

	#!/usr/bin/python

	"""
	Playing around with slightly various ways to simulate uniq in Python.
	The different strategies are timed.
	Only m1() and m2() do not change the order of the data.
	`in` is the input file, `out*` are output files.
	"""

	infile = 'in' # Change filename to suit your needs.