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Author Archives: Karl
Listen to Benjamin Herold’s report on Philadelphian HS students and college
NewsWorks: Benjamin Herold for The Notebook and WHYY: “Fixing Philadelphia’s broken pipeline to college”. You can follow more of this report at The Philadephia Public School Notebook and take part in the comment thread there.
“Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.”
I went on an interesting journey online last night that led me to the source of the above phrase, a poem on mortality, entropy, memory… and databases. Yes, you read that right. I read Tor.com’s wonderful blog almost once a … Continue reading
My Favorite Classic Doctor Who Episodes
This is a handy list of older Doctor Who episodes to watch while waiting for the new season to start. For new fans, if you can get past the special effects, and imagine a series where most episodes were more … Continue reading
“A manifesto for teaching computer science in the 21st century”
John Naughton wrote a public set of proposals to Michael Gove, Britain’s MP, Secretary of State for Education, for rebooting its ICT curriculum and published it in The Guardian. It’s a good read. Even better, check out The Guardian’s profile … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Education
Tagged childhood, education, k-12
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Charles Miller: “how mind-blowingly awesome that is?”
We’ve come a long way from the 80s and the devices that so many of us started our journey as programmers Charles Miller notes in “Johnny and Jenny Can Code”: Today, if you’re a teenager with a Mac (insert some … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Software Engineering, Programming, Education
Tagged education, history, progress
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Non-Metal Iron Maiden Covers
YouTube: naddani: Wasted Years (Iron Maiden) – Acoustic cover: YouTube: Thomas Zwijsen: Classical/Acoustic: Iron Maiden acoustic – Wasted Years: YouTube: JonathanHarpa: Iron Maiden in harp and guitar – Hallowed be thy name: YouTube: vkgoeswild: Iron Maiden – Run To The … Continue reading
Storm: the Hadoop of Realtime Stream Procesing
This presentation was great to get a peek at what Twitter’s Storm was about: YouTube: PyCon US 2012: Gabriel Grant: Related: Twitter Engineering: “A Storm is coming: more details and plans for release” GitHub: Storm
Thought Provokers From Python’s Guido Van Rossum and Clojure’s Rich Hickey
At Strange Loop 2011 Clojure’s Rich Hickey gave a presentation (video) on programming and simplicity that rankled some feathers and triggered a heated discussion at reddit. Duncan McGreggor, decided to contact Python’s Guido Van Rossum to interview him about his … Continue reading
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Tagged craft, design, programming, systems, texts, video
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The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer
Emily Badger in The Atlantic recently wrote about “The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer”. Technically Philly had a conversation with Philadelphia’s Adel Ebeid, Philadelphia’s first Chief Innovation Officer, back in November last year: “There’s this one side of … Continue reading
Tor.com re-watches “Total Recall”
Tor.com gets at the philosophical core of “Total Recall” in ‘”If I’m Not Me, Then Who The Hell Am I?”: Total Recall’. I need to get around to reading some of Philip K. Dick’s stories.
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Tagged movies, sci-fi, storytelling, Total Recall
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