Feminist Hacker Barbie

Help make Computer Engineer Barbie better!

Barbie's new book tells girls they need boys to code for them.

Help Barbie be the competent, independent, bad-ass engineer that she wants to be.

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"Let's see what you have accomplished so far, Skipper", says Barbie and turns towards the computer screen. "No!!", Skipper screams and grabs her computer away from Barbie "I don't want you to see the awful fucking mess-of-a-code, it's too embarrassing. Please, all you need to know is that it works" "I've managed to code a hair shader that is able to retroactively query the render environment and determine the level of detail suitable for a person that is seated from 2km out to 2 nanometers. Blinking results in a barking noise made from alternating the power attenuation of the modified class 2 laser of the cd player. Don't worry the EN 207 requirements were never breached in any way." Pour mine with an extra espresso shot, sis. Some scrub decided to link directly to ATLAS instead of generic BLAS and LAPACK, so now I have to write patches to get this bullshit to link against Accelerate.framework instead. I'm not about to pollute /usr/local/lib with a bunch of stupid dependencies. This awful shared library model is why Linux can't have nice things. "It will go faster if Brian and I help," offers Steven. "No it won't," says Barbie. "You'll waste time looking for the 'ANY' key again. Just give it here." After class, Barbie meets with Steven and Brian in the library. "Hi, guys," says Barbie. "Steven, I've just forked your repo and I've noticed that you're using some Ruby gems with really degrading and sexist names. Would you like me to help you find some alternatives that are less offensive?" ‘Did you write tests?’ ‘No, but I'm confident. Let's put this in production!!!’ "Your ASCII-art-design-tool is wonderful," says Skipper. "Can I contribute too?" "Sure!", Barbie says, grinning, "More the merrier!" "This command-line tool I wrote should help you trace any bugs you encounter while interfacing with the architecture I designed. It's easy enough that even a software engineer should be able to figure it out." After class, Steven and Brian come by. "Hi, guys," says Barbie. "I'm reverse-engineering that malware you accidentally sent us. I have one laptop running the Windows kernel under a debugger connected to the other laptop so I trace the rootkit execution in IDA." Did you try to turn it off and on again? "C'mon man, (?y.M)[x := N] ? ?y.(M[x := N]), if x ? y, provided y ? FV(N) is the process of replacing all free occurrences of V in the expression E with expression R." "Damn, thanks Barbie!" says Steven. "Your robot is so smart and advanced," says Skipper. "Can you teach me how to code?" "I would love to!" Barbie says, excited, "but we will have to start with something a little easier than a robot." "I'm so sorry, Skipper," says Barbie. "I have to run off to school now. But I promise to implement extra if-defs to make it more optimized on windows." "You better!" Skipper replies as she playfully hits barbie with a pollow. "I'm only creating the core rendering engine," Barbie says, laughing. "I'll need Steven's and Brian's help to turn it into a real game!" Barbie emails her design to Steven, and afterwards starts thinking about what programming language she should use for her new game. Skipper isn't really interested in this world of computers and decides to eat her banana and chocolate milk. "Darn it, I can't decide" shouts Barbie.
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