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General Discussion / Re: My CodeCamp 2011 talk

« on: March 12, 2011, 12:17:35 pm »

You're a homo(nym)

You don't make friends with salad, you don't make friends with salad!

didn't you hear?  it's so cliche to gripe about bose being cliche.

you must've missed the last hipster meeting.  how very hipster of you.

deadly goes to hipster meetings?

deadly, you've come far

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General Discussion / Re: My CodeCamp 2011 talk

« on: March 10, 2011, 02:48:32 am »

It's pronounced "bows", like the things people put on Xmas presents.

I disagree.

Yes, because "bows" is both a plural noun as well as a third-person singular present active, the two of which are pronounced differently.

A better way to say it would be "Well, take Bo Jackson, and clone him a few times. The result is a bunch of Bos"

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General Discussion / Re: My CodeCamp 2011 talk

« on: March 09, 2011, 08:52:52 pm »

"Ron"?

Bowes. I thought it was pronounced like bending over on a stage, not what you put on Christmas presents.

Me too!

I really enjoyed this! You did a great job presenting.

Also, lookin' good!

Let's keep that to the PMs, kbromo?

What are you, a homophobe?

I'm just giving the man a compliment. He looks striking these days.

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General Discussion / Re: My CodeCamp 2011 talk

« on: March 07, 2011, 11:21:28 pm »

I really enjoyed this! You did a great job presenting.

Also, lookin' good!

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: February 23, 2011, 07:48:48 pm »

Maybe I should just lower my standards and date a fat chick... I guess if I expect a white woman to be open-minded enough to date outside their race, perhaps I should be willing to date someone who weighs more than me.

With an attitude like that, I hope it's a good long time before you inflict yourself on somebody else.

Yeah, I think you should work on your attitude. Maybe you are too self-absorbed? I would work on becoming a better person (to others) and figuring out our values, and then the girls you are attracted to will become attracted to you.

I apologize in advance if I'm completely wrong in this advice as, admittedly, I do not know you very well.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: February 23, 2011, 07:33:07 pm »

I want my JD now. It looks like my graduating debt will be around $120k once paid back. COOL!
/sigh

$120k? What the fuck! How do you plan to pay that back?!

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General Discussion / Re: Laptop won't boot

« on: February 06, 2011, 01:39:54 pm »

I think the only light that turned on was the light indicating the charger was in. I forget, though, since it was my friend's computer and he already took it back with him.

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General Discussion / Laptop won't boot

« on: February 06, 2011, 12:36:08 pm »

I have an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop with me and it won't boot up. I hook it up to the charger and press the power button and it's completely unresponsive. I've tried holding the power button down but it still won't boot.

Does anyone know what could be wrong with it, or how to go about figuring out the problem? I was thinking that probably the battery is dead. Is this the only thing that can be causing it? I would hate to buy a new battery and then discover that the battery wasn't the problem.

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General Programming / Re: Rails

« on: January 29, 2011, 06:29:52 pm »

What is wrong with SQL? Everyone uses SQL :-)

I think there has been a shift from "web sites" to "web applications". It seems like just about everyone is employing Rails, Spring-MVC, or ASP.NET. I don't think big companies ask anyone to write a web site in PHP anymore.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: January 26, 2011, 07:12:54 pm »

I'm also playing in a band with Beyonce's bass player now. Had our first show opening for Adler's Appetite (Guns n Roses drummer's side project) earlier this month after 3 rehearsals. here's a vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeeD_g9S2-s

keep watching for some Rage.

Wow, that's really impressive!

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General Programming / Re: Brief refresher on C?

« on: January 25, 2011, 09:10:30 pm »

The K&R (1) book is the classic textbook, and it's also good as reference material. There's also the man pages. It's useful to poke around /usr/include and /usr/lib if you're on Unix, and it's also useful to refresh yourself on libc (2).

There's a ##C channel on freenode which is good for language-specific questions. Don't be scared off by the newbies - the people who answer questions usually know C pretty well.

I also wrote a packet sniffer and an IRC client in C. I uploaded them to sidoh's server. (3)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_%28book%29
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library
(3) http://ktm.sidoh.org/code/

Nota Bene: In addition, I'd strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with gdb and assembly. Also: linking, loading, and dynamic libraries. And, of course, memory management, if you're not familiar with it already.

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General Discussion / Re: Remote Desktop from Snow Leopard to Windows XP

« on: January 23, 2011, 01:34:24 pm »

Unless you've explicitly set for the hard drive to never spin down, it should spin down. And if you have done that, I'd go back right now and switch it off, because that's just asking for the motors to go bad.

Good to know... I'll set it to spin down tomorrow and see if I can still remote my way in.

You don't say for sure but I'm guessing that your work machine is a desktop? I've never had heating issues with a desktop except the one that didn't have a processor fan. If it's not full of dust (and it may well be, take a look on the exhaust (for lack of a more technical term off the top of my head)), you should be good.

Yes, it's a desktop. Okay - so the concern isn't overheating, but the possibility that the HD will develop motor problems.

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General Discussion / Re: Serial comma or no serial comma?

« on: January 22, 2011, 08:08:40 pm »

Logically, it makes more sense to have a serial comma. Let's say you have the list

Germany, Spain and France, England, and America.

The serial comma in this case indicates that America and England should be grouped in the same way as Spain and France are grouped.

For instance, let's say the aforementioned countries went to war. The italicized list could be used to show that Spain and France were allied in a four-way war. If you omit the serial comma, then England and America would all of a sudden appear to be allied. This is certainly an uncommon example, but logically it makes a lot of sense.

However, context matters. In fiction it might be more aesthetically pleasing to omit the final comma. Even in everyday writing, the writer might want to omit the last comma to make the sentence flow better. Unless the serial comma makes a logical difference in the sentence, I think it's mostly a matter of style. And since it rarely makes a difference, it's common to see both.

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General Discussion / Re: Remote Desktop from Snow Leopard to Windows XP

« on: January 21, 2011, 06:56:34 pm »

I got it to work! The problem was that my Win XP work computer kept on going into standby mode. So I set the power scheme to "Always On".

It works now, though I'm a little worried that my current power scheme might cause heating problems =/ It's set so that the computer never goes on standby, never hibernates, and so that the hard disk never "turns off" (stops spinning I presume).

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General Discussion / Re: Theoretically longest sentence

« on: January 21, 2011, 06:51:01 pm »

Beats me.  No one has ever given me rules and explained them and why and shit and fuck and ... who cares.

I dont really care all that much about grammar.  If your writing is simple and to the point, then we probably won't have any fucking problems...stupid English rules.

When you're learning a new language, you expect that language to have a consistent grammar :-) Else it becomes very hard to learn a language... hence the importance of grammar.