nsfmc @nsfmc@mastodon.social

deeply annoyed that nier replicant is going to be the best battlestar galactica game we ever get

It is proven! I am nsfmc on Keybase: https://keybase.io/nsfmc/sigchain#4d42e833e483333a70aedb56a3c18ced4d58d3b5e238cb213d33a92a442985a50f

@buzz did you find a small mastodon instance/setup or are you using the main one but just dinner for one style

i don't begrudge students that feel the need to have Practical Git Experience (see also http://nsfmc.tumblr.com/post/171349063154/a-checklist-for-computer-science-undergrads ) but "github experience" is very much a weird sort of proxy for lots of other things: working in a team, managing a divergent branches of development, coordinating/reviewing work, project management, etc. those are all valuable, but curmudgeon me definitely puts many of those in the "get you an internship that does both" bucket since those process vary so much between orgs

specifically, i bet that in 2007 if a blog post came out like this where s/github/rails/g the premise would have also been mostly true and people would have mocked it by making fun of some study paid by microsoft showing high schoolers felt they were more prepared for college when they had ms office training or whatever.

this is pretty interesting, but i feel like the takeaway is that github (more than git at least), has become an industry tool that students feel they need to use productively before they enter the workforce. https://blog.github.com/2018-08-15-classroom-report-predicts-positive-student-learning-outcomes/

Shoutout to the design museum without coat hooks in the bathrooms

OH in Copenhagen, several groups of teenagers unironically singing out loud to Vengaboys (boom boom...) and Aqua (Barbie Girl)

Of course this is what I find at the museum of natural history
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@ryanlittlefield oh, it is great, no denying that. i just found myself _many_ hours into mgs: peacewalkers, ground zeroes, and tpp and was like "how did this happen?"

still pretty impressed that watching that Making Of Burial's Untrue video got me playing MGS again https://youtu.be/Et5B-zfAIIo

I love that of the three mystery hunt sponsors, one is the _Garment District._
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i: pick me up, daddy
m: hold my beer

@bcrypt i'm very excited for a mix to go up on soundcloud

new years is a dish best served... auld

Draftjs is me driving through Harvard square en route to porter square on mass ave

GitHub API is the park near the pool by my old house where I joined my first swim team

i find it hilarious that my brain associates sundry tech (even new ones) with random places in cambridge ma long after having moved away. Couchdb is Royal East, Firebase is Lafayette Square looking towards Mariposa Cafe, clojure is the foyer just outside of the daycare in stata.