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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
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(Unfortunately, this post has been linked to by a white supremacist site. Instead of providing a forum for their foulness, I'm shutting down comments on this post.) Unfortunately, I lost the link that inspired this. But I recently saw a...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:31 PM • 171 Comments •
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This post is off-topic for this blog, but there are some things that I just can't keep quiet about. Via my friend and fellow ScienceBlogger Janet over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, I've heard about some absolutely disgraceful...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:00 PM • 94 Comments •
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One thing that continually amazes me is the amount of email I get from readers of this blog asking for career advice. I usually try to just politely decline; I don't think I'm particularly qualified to give personal advice...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 5:02 PM • 36 Comments •
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This is really off-topic for GM/BM, but I just can't resist mocking the astonishing stupidity of the Conservapedia folks. I'm sure you've heard by now that Andy Schafly and his pals are working on a "new translation" of the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:55 PM • 62 Comments •
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Via Tor.com, a meme that I thought looked really interesting. What were the last three genre books that you purchased? Why did you purchase them? And do they feel comfortable together? Daniel Abraham,The Price of Spring (The Long Price...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:51 PM • 16 Comments •
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This comment thread has gotten long enough to start causing some server load problems. As a result, I'm closing the comments here, and I've added a new post where discussions of this past can continue. If you're not interested...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:45 AM • 413 Comments •
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This is an edited repost of something I wrote nearly three years ago. You can see the original post and comments here. Over at Dr. Isis's blog, there's a post answering a reader's question about whether to tell her...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 11:25 AM • 103 Comments •
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Just a quick status notice: a bunch of commenters have been having problems with the system demanding authetication to be able to comment. I'm trying to fix it with the help of the SB tech folks. My first attempt...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:08 AM • 4 Comments •
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Just a brief note, to let you all know why there's a lack of new posts. Once again, I managed to kill my laptop. The machine died suddenly, with no warning. I'm currently waiting for a replacement, and once...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 3:17 PM • 3 Comments •
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I'm working on more substantive, mathy posts, but in the meantime, I'm pissed, so I'm making a quick off-topic post. With the horrible things that are going on in Gaza right now, I've gotten a raft of antisemitic spam....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:45 PM • 72 Comments •
