Apparently, girls speak two-and-a-half times less than men in a classroom setting. Whereas men and women speak about the same normally. What are we doing that gives our girls so little confidence in the classroom?

Sources: Urban Youth Workers Institute, NPR

just tracking down my aunt’s thesis paper because apparently she wrote a parallel computing language BACK IN 1993. How am I supposed to live up to some of the people in my family?

theprofoundprogrammer:

[text “one line fix, my ass”, photograph of an entire goddamn building having to be destroyed, despite the previous construction company insisting that all it needed was a paint job]

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I’ve had a cycle of these posters as desktop backgrounds for a couple months now. The captions are my favorite.

my dash isn’t moving fast enough. Reblog if you post quotes, Castle, art, computer science stuff, geeky things, or humorous posts :)

theprofoundprogrammer:

[text: “have you ever heard of naming conventions what makes you think this is okay”, photograph of possibly the only flora in the entirety of Arizona overlooking the Grand Canyon]

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Lol. At Microsoft my mentor told me that if there was one thing he was teaching me before I left, it was naming conventions.

theprofoundprogrammer:

[text: “there’s no fucking way I wrote this this is awful what the fuck does this even do”, photograph of ocean beach at sunset with cruise ship outlined in the distance]

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It's Bring Your Kid to Work Day at the office...

Don’t mess with a programmer’s code without their permission. If you want something changed,ask them to change it. Particularly if you plan to change everything.  

I don’t think I’ve ever been that pissed off in my life.

worldiary learns that some times it’s best to keep your mouth shut

So last week I was working late and I heard voices outside my office. There was David, my mentor for the programming part of my project, and one other voice. And David is talking about how the interns (us) haven’t gotten all our machines set up. So the other voice goes,

“You mean they’ve had nothing to do? You should send them on a scavenger hunt! ‘Go down to Commons and get me 5 different types of tacos.’ “

I’m thinking, “Hang on, now. We’re not just sitting on our butts. We’re trying to get our system up and running.” So I figure I’ll go inform them that I can kinda hear them from my office.

“Well, I love scavenger hunts,” I joke, walking out into the hallway. And both David and the other guy chuckle a  little and then David goes:

“Meet my boss.” He points to the guy who had made the comment in the first place. “I normally wouldn’t send you on errands like that, but I guess he says that it’s okay.”

Oh. It’s his…boss.

Google does not lie.

I need feminism because…

whoneedsfeminism:

…dealing with sexism shouldn’t feel like a rite of passage in order to be a woman in computer science.

Hahahaha. Love him. The sad thing is that there are people out there who probably think that that’s exactly how his scenes were filmed, lol.

(via detjohnblake)

So all the GSIs and TAs* in Computer Science 10 (the class I lab assist for) have been super cool. We went rock climbing together, there was a paintball outing, I even have basically all their numbers.

So they’ve ruined the rest of college for me. Now I see grad students as normal human beings that I am allowed to befriend if I feel so inclined. But other grad students, I have been told, see us undergraduates as some form of pond scum/set of malformed infants. So I will probably freak some people out…

*GSI: grad student instructor. TA: teacher’s assistant. At UC Berkeley, it’s the exact same job, just one’s an undergrad and the other is a grad student. I see them as one unit.

I love my friends...