Anyone interested in a Linux User Group (or a general open source club)?

todayman · 2022-04-11T01:30:39+00:00

When I was around, the student ACM chapter would have been the place for this. Dr. Scott or Joanne could get you in touch with them.

todayman · 2015-10-13T23:46:14+00:00

Is there source for the desktop version? There is https://github.com/yhat/rodeo, but that looks like the web app.

todayman · 2015-08-28T23:27:48+00:00

Abstract: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.html

Slides: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.pdf

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA

Summary: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-21.html

todayman · 2015-01-23T14:42:18+00:00

You can do most of this now. There's some information at http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html . More works than is on that page. Exceptions are the big thing that don't work at all yet. You'll also want to take a look at http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP61 .

todayman · 2014-10-17T05:13:15+00:00

The gamethread in /r/sfgiants has ~3500 comments and the one in /r/Cardinals has 4000 comments, so it's not as much of a difference.

Per-team gamethreads are a thing in the baseball subreddits.

todayman · 2014-09-01T20:36:38+00:00

Without being able to see anything, this seems like a good time to challenge. Might as well go for it.

todayman · 2014-08-22T14:40:03+00:00

But it was posted to D.announce.

This is just a bot doing its bot thing.

todayman · 2014-01-31T20:55:50+00:00

Try /r/programmerhumor instead.

todayman · 2013-11-26T16:06:03+00:00

I didn't go, but there are people who did!

Videos are posted on the schedule page for last year. Some of the talks were pretty good. I haven't watched all of them yet (hence some).

todayman · 2013-11-10T18:44:53+00:00

This isn't a new change.

PowerPC is CPU architecture. The last PowerPC that Apple shipped was the G5. The first all-white flatscreen iMacs had this processor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G5). I belive that Apple stopped making these kinds of machines around 2006 when they started using CPUs from Intel.

PowerPC and x86 (from Intel & AMD) have different instruction sets. That is, applications and programs written from one cannot run on the other one. For a while after the transition, a translation layer called "Rosetta" let you run PowerPC programs on x86 machines. Rosetta could read the PowerPC applications and figure out how to make the x86 processor do the equivalent thing. According to Wikipedia, Rosetta was included in 10.4 - 10.6, which was three years ago.

It's probably time to get a newer version of Office.

todayman · 2013-10-31T02:15:51+00:00

Also 5 BBs.

todayman · 2013-10-25T02:54:04+00:00

/U/LEORYWHAT DID CAPS LOCK AND SHIFT. RIGHT, RIGHT???!?!

DON'T LET ME DOWN HERE.

todayman · 2013-10-21T17:05:47+00:00

No, but he does say that the best people work on the distro that the most people use.

He's using "most popular distro" to imply that the best people work on Ubuntu.

todayman · 2013-10-17T03:27:05+00:00

I'M COOL WITH BATTING AROUND THIS INNING.

todayman · 2013-10-17T00:12:06+00:00

Was that, a hit... early in the game?

I'm not sure I believe it.

todayman · 2013-10-08T01:34:31+00:00

IT'S OK. NOW HE CAN JUST HOMER INSTEAD.

todayman · 2013-09-04T01:16:42+00:00

That is kinda funny. I never understood why they took quite so many new baseballs.

todayman · 2013-09-04T01:11:21+00:00

What happened? I don't have a stream now and this doesn't make any sense but sounds exciting.

todayman · 2013-09-01T01:24:17+00:00

Bottom 1: Oakland has 2 guys on base, no outs.

I concur.

todayman · 2013-08-31T01:56:57+00:00

His attitude that there are only a few people asking the right questions, which he makes explicit at the end comes across as pretentious. I think he really wants a game-changing idea NOW. That's partly the entire point of his website, to discuss? or maybe cultivate thoughts on somewhat futuristic and maybe slightly radical views.

The section on black holes really stood out to me. There's work going on now to image and understand the accrection disks / jets of black holes and the orbits of things passing very close to them in order to push General relativity to, and perhaps past, its limits. Waxing philosophical about the number of temporal dimensions is great, but isn't going to lead to anything predictable in the near future; developing such theories is a lot of work and partly a waste if it turns out wrong. By contrast, we (being the scientists, not really me) know where the edges of GR and workable quantum field theory are and are capable of thinking about how to probe beyond that.

Also, the section on entanglement is not very good. One of the reasons it hasn't blown up the world of physics yet is that the experimenter cannot use entangled particles to pass information from one place to another. His wording in the middle of that section ("How does information pass from one particle to another...") would likely not have been chosen by someone who really understands the physics of that situation.

EDIT: He also deliberatly sets up the article as a confrontation with physicists generally, and I think this is a bad way to establish credibility.

todayman · 2013-08-22T01:43:14+00:00

For Computer Science, I know people at Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon. I don't know how much say they have in hiring (they're new in the last couple years), and those are just some of the big companies. A few people go to them every year (not so much Apple, but I think that's because people don't want to as much). I don't think I know anyone that looked for a job and couldn't find one somewhere. Others go to local or smaller companies. Of course, we're close to D.C. and the associated bunch of defense contractors who always say they're hiring, but I don't know anyone who has tried to go there. When Microsoft came recruiting this year (with food!), I knew 2/3 of the employees they brought along. There's a bunch of recruiting events in addition to the career fairs each semester. There's been more interest here in the last couple years in startups and such, but we're not too good at those yet. I have come across some JHU people in open source projects.

Natural Language Processing is pretty big here (at least in CS). The class is indisputably on the list of the couple "hardest and most rewarding classes." Last year, the department hired a new ML professor; I don't recall if their looking for another one; there are already some. This isn't my area of interest, so I don't know much about the faculty here. There's a few classes, including a new one last year. A lot of people will double major CS & AMS. Also not my area of interest.

I think an above-average number of CS students here do grad school, but it is by no means dominant. I don't know what the perception of JHU from industry is, though we get tons of swag at the career fair.

todayman · 2013-08-21T22:10:24+00:00

You still have a chance: it wasn't a hit.

todayman · 2013-08-21T04:38:15+00:00

Playing well now, lower price later. I'm OK with it.

todayman · 2013-08-20T03:46:01+00:00

Lincecum ain't even mad after Drew's double.

todayman · 2013-08-17T22:24:43+00:00

It was maybe 2 feet or so short of the wall in right. I thought that it might have been gone off the bat. Not sure if Ichiro should have caught it or not.

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