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 .pXI [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back | Adam Back ]] cryptographer, cyberpunk, [[ Hashcash | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash ]]  .pXI [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back | Adam Back ]] cryptographer, cyberpunk, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash | Hashcash ]]
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 .p011 [[ Gerald Weinberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg ]] [[ https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programming_Psychology.html | The Psychology of Computer Programming ]]  .p011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg | Gerald Weinberg ]] [[ https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programming_Psychology.html | The Psychology of Computer Programming ]]
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 .p021 Young travelmate Alex, maintains websites using the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework) | Django ]] web framework (like MoinMoin, coded in Python)
 .p022 Author's new home in Marin, where crimes are [[ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/harsh_one%27s_mellow#:~:text=(transitive%2C%20slang)%20To%20spoil,mood%20or%20to%20annoy%20one. | harshing a mellow ]] without a license, and gluten smuggling
 .p022 [[ https://ecstaticdance.org/ | ecstatic dance group ]] ... [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensei | sensei ]]
 .[[ https://us.pycon.org/2019/ | Pycon in Cleveland ]]
 .p023 [[ http://www.hosho.io/ | Hosho! ]][[ https://zulip.com/ | Zulip!]] [[ https://www.tivix.com/ | Tivix!]] [[ https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/ | Nexmo!]]
 .p25 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Ceder | Naomi Ceder ]]
 .p27 [[ https://www.recurse.com/ | Recurse center in Brooklyn ]], phrase "well actually" banned
 .p27 San Quentin [[ https://thelastmile.org/ | The Last Mile ]]
 .p28 [[ https://ehmatthes.com/ | Eric Matthes ]][[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=3&cn=4160387 | Python Crash Course ]]
 .p28 [[ https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding | Bikeshedding ]]
 .p28 [[ https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding | bike shedding ]] [[ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving | yak shaving ]]
 .p30 [[ https://pyladies.com/ | PyLadies ]]
 .p36 [[ https://roguelynn.com/about/ | Lynn Root ]] painting charity-auctioned for $16, $32, $64 ... $512 ... $1410!
 .p38 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra | Edsger Dijkstra ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/selectedwritings0000dijk | Selected Writings on Computing ]]
 .p59 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole | George Boole ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laws_of_Thought | The Laws of Thought ]]
 .p59 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) | Great Hunger ]] 1845-1852
  . homeless in the streets while academics and church elders dined luxuriously
 .p67 Post-Brexit Überschwemmung (flooding, presumably of coders from England to the continent)
 .p68 Anti-immigration riots in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Chemnitz_protests | Chemnitz ]] 2018
 .p68 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach | 2018 Google data breach ]] private data of 500,000 uw34w
 .p70 [[ https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/people/professor.php | Dr. Janet Siegmund ]] learning coder brain scans
 .p70 programming education [[ https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40594-020-00222-7 | high drop out rate]] (50% is "astronomical?" Higher for Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Law, and Accounting)
 .p72 [[ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37565521200 | André Brechmann ]] Combinatorial NeuroImaging, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg
 .p73 Java -> Python [[ https://peitek.com/ | Norman Peitek ]]
 .p73 [[ https://arthotel-magdeburg.de/ | artHOTEL Magdeburg ]]
 .p75 axon transmission rate 50% ??
 .p78 computer code comprehension activates brain areas for working memory, problem-solving, and language processing, left hemisphere for most right-handers
  . same areas for natural language and general analytical processing
  . no left hemisphere for mathematical thinking
 .p78 Dijkstra "An exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset for a competent programmer."
 .p79 "...some computer science students are hardly able to talk, to form whole sentences when they come to us/"
 .p79 "... you can't train them. All you can do is find them and let them loose"
 .p80 [[ https://dl.acm.org/profile/81498658492 | Scott Portnoff ]] [[ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152433 ]]
 .p81 "Homework ... was to memorize the assigned program ... to write it out perfectly."
 .p81 "... this is how we acquire language"
 .p82 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg | Gerald Weinberg ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/39640074 | The psychology of computer programming ]] an approach that works for one person may not work for another
 .p82 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poldrack | Russell A. Poldrack ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1028166610 | The New Mind Readers ]] Central 616.07548 P7629n 2018
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The Devil in the Stack

Andrew Smith . August 2024 . Beaverton Lib. 005.1 SMI

Andrew Smith 1961

My first glance at this book was off-putting - I somehow got the idea that the author thought perjoratively about programmers and technologists. The book is actually a journalist making a deep and sincere dive into software, the communities of people who create and maintain it, and how they think about it.

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