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A collection of 16 posts

5 Apr 2018 • 3 min read

JSON and & "Good, not Evil"

The JSON license is apparently infamous in the FOSS community for its inclusion of a moral clause. The license was nearly identical to the classic MIT License, except the one line, The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. This line has persisted in the license since 2002 when

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The Robotanist drives through a young sorghum field, four sturdy wheels and one long tower on its front.
1 Aug 2016 • 1 min read

The Robotanist

A robot for grabbing plants

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29 Jul 2015 • 2 min read

On Being A Nice Hacker Princess

Spring break. I was sitting in the airport, lamenting that three of my professors had assigned work due the week after break, but delighted that there was enough WiFi to squeeze in a half hour of work. I was focused, writing something in C++ for my Computer Vision class when

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10 Dec 2014 • 3 min read

Testing & Pooping at Google

“Testers are paid to break stuff.” I’ve heard this line a dozen times from a dozen different people, most recently during a presentation by IU alum and current Googler Mark Meiss. Breaking things is fun, so I decided to look into Testing more, specifically Test at Google. Google has

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