Feminist Hacker Barbie

User-Submitted Improvements

Her professor was harsh, but fair. "Barbie, I'm afraid the graphics aren't very good. It's a start, but they're obviously rushed. However, it looks like your code is almost flawless, and the bugs remaining are negligible. Overall, I'm giving you an A for programming this engine out so well in only 3 weeks, but I'll have to give your design team a B-. If you can do the hard work and long hours, so can the boys."
Her professor was harsh, but …
"Ms. Smith," Barbie asks as she raises her hand? "Yes, Barbie. What is it," the teacher asked on baited breath. "Your binary has a typo in it."
"Ms. Smith," Barbie asks as s…
Skipper dives to grab her laptop before Barbie can reach it. "Whoa!" She shouts. "Don't you know not to touch a laptop before the browser history's been cleared?"
Skipper dives to grab her lap…
Skipper greets her sister with a cheery "Good morning, Barbie!" "Oh, Christ, is it morning already?" Barbie replies. Barbie has been up all night coding again. Skipper knows that Barbie is deep in Hack Mode, so she pours her sister some orange juice and calls herself an Uber for the ride to school.
Skipper greets her sister wit…
Barbie listens intently as her professor explains the latest programming concepts. She feels confident that these new and advanced theories could really improve her skill set, and is excited to try them out.
Barbie listens intently as he…
"I'm just finishing my implementation of the simplex algorithm. Now I'll be able to find good approximations to certain classes of hard problems within a good smoothed running time!"
"I'm just finishing my implem…
I've no idea how to do this smoke sim, but I told the boss I could do it. I'll use the 'unresponsive render farm' excuse again!
I've no idea how to do this s…
"It will go faster if Brian and I help," offers Steven. "Great!" says Barbie. Now because you guys know nothing about computers you can plug and unplug, play my favorite music from this cd. And get me some coffee. That would really help"
"It will go faster if Brian a…
"Sorry, just a second, Skipper, I just noticed that the data I'm dealing with is always monotonically increasing, so I can reduce the space complexity of my data structure by at least a factor of n," Barbie says. "Gosh Barbie, none of that space or time complexity stuff really matters in practice, you know!" Skipper jeers. "Skipper, that is the worst thing I have ever heard anyone say." Barbie is very upset because Skipper is very wrong.
"Sorry, just a second, Skippe…
Look, guys, I can't talk right now; I've got this disk with a corrupt partition table that I've got to rebui... Wait, what are you staring at?
Look, guys, I can't talk righ…
Let's go to buy an arduino board. So I can start to make the puppy project I just designed last week.
Let's go to buy an arduino bo…
"There's way too much information to decode the Matrix," Barbie explains. "You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."
"There's way too much informa…
Barbie wants to a run Linux based platform on a Windows partitioned solid slate hard drive but can't decide if it's worth it
Barbie wants to a run Linux b…
Should I implement my visualization with P5.js, D3, Node.js, or Three.js with WebGL? Gah! I'm leaning towards Three.js for its performance, but P5.js for its pedagogic value.
Should I implement my visuali…
Barbie is thrilled that she chose a shinny new PC over a Mac or Linux workstation. Now she can run Maya, 3dsMax, Softimage, Houdini, or Cinema 4D without being limited by OS! With all that cash she saved, she can even buy FumeFX!
Barbie is thrilled that she c…
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Check out this raytraced scene of a dog and her doghouse! Getting the subsurface scattering in the fur was really tricky.
Check out this raytraced scen…
Barbie tries to execute the code Steven wrote to implement her design, but suddenly her screen starts blinking. "#$%$ freaking windows 8" says Barbie. Barbie and Skipper go to the command line and run the .exe. The code doesn't execute, throwing an error that indicates a typo. "Looks like Steven screwed up, big sister," says Skipper.
Barbie tries to execute the c…
Ok for the teens out there, you don't need f-bombs or tequila to be successful in this industry, I swear. Well actually maybe you do.
Ok for the teens out there, y…
"Your robot puppy is so sweet," says Skipper. "Can I play your game?" "Yes, of course. Not just you, everyone with a device can play it. I will have the game programmed in a couple hours. Steven is creating the graphics and Brian is trying to market it. Just a little bit patience!" Barbie says.
"Your robot puppy is so sweet…
"Not to worry, Skipper," says Barbie. "When I get back from school I will debug and make a fix for the virus." "Yes! I remember when you did that for Steven last time and saved all his graphic designs" Skipper replies as she throws away the pillow to grab her Programming with C++ book and puts it in her backpack.
"Not to worry, Skipper," says…
"I'm only creating the design ideas," Barbie says, laughing. "I'll need Beth's help to turn it into a real game! The red balloon still doesn't work."
"I'm only creating the design…
I'm using this laptop I "borrowed" to doxx the heads of various fracking companies.
I'm using this laptop I "borr…
"No Barbie, there's no need to get angry at them! They just want to stand up for ethics in games journalism. That's what started it all in the first place."
"No Barbie, there's no need t…
"So what do you think of my code?" Skipper asked Barbie, her older sister and well-respected C hacker. "Skipper... this is full of gotos." Barbie sighed.
"So what do you think of my c…
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