In this episode, Marty and Victoria feel depressed over the mess at SXSW regarding Gamergate and online harassment, then move onto a different kind of startup accelerator, cars that are auto-updated to include new features, and coding academies.

What Victoria’s up to

• Victoria has been playing with Jekyll: A static site generator that does a good job of balancing the amount of control over your blog vs the headache of configuration. Hosted using Github Pages!

• And went to an ABI.Local meeting

• While also working on her Halloween costume

What Marty’s up to

• Midterms in CS 106B

Tech news

• SXSW’s GamerGate Debacle: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/10/sxsw_canceled_panels_here_is_what_happened.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/27/this-is-not-a-game-how-sxsw-turned-gamergate-abuse-into-a-spectator-sport.html

  Update: SXSW announces online harassment summit to try to make PR amends, but their actions show they still do not get it </victoria editorializing>

  

• Lupe Fiasco and Waze/Google CEO Di-Ann Eisnor and their startup accelerator: http://www.fastcompany.com/3052616/most-creative-people/lupe-fiasco-and-a-waze-exec-make-a-million-dollar-bet-on-inner-city-inn

• Tesla software update makes their cars become self-driving-ish: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/tesla-self-driving-over-air-update-live/

• TechCrunch: Coding academies are nonsense (uggggh): http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/coding-academies-are-nonsense/
  • Dev Bootcamp
  • General Assembly
  • Flatiron School
  • Interesting article on salary bumps after coding schools: http://readwrite.com/2015/10/27/coding-bootcamp-school
• lolwhoops the article we didn’t get to but will address next time: https://medium.com/featured-insights/is-qa-dead-f1aa21b3f8b8

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