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gvwilson

  1. @biancawylie Yes, still looking --- ping me (gvwilson@third-bit.com) and I'll send background? Thanks!
  2. "This old naked mole rate wishes he had tried getting dressed earlier." (at home, reading stories to a 5-year-old with the flu)
  3. @audreywatters Hm --- no programming or computer science textbooks from Inkling yet?
  4. @mfeathers cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… --- we may be starting from behind, but I'm confident we'll make up ground quickly.
  5. @mfeathers Anyone mailed them a foot lately?
  6. See also aosabook.org/en/llvm.html for an in-depth exploration of LLVM's architecture cc/ @mfeathers
  7. All API docs are wrong, but some are useful.
  8. I want to print a photo on canvas. FedEx, UPS, and Black's all claim to do it, but their web sites are all broken in different ways. *sigh*
  9. @lambacck Thanks for the links, but like I said, I don't know how I'll explain this to novices... :-)
  10. Must... have... smore.com/clippy-js
  11. @lambacck Thanks! But I have no idea how I'm going to explain this to novice programmers...
  12. Looking for contacts with women-in-science groups: intros would be welcome.
  13. Still no answer to my Python UTF-8 question: stackoverflow.com/questions/1065… (Note: I can *read* XML just fine; problem is in output.)