Let's get programmy!

[Akonyl]

To all the college grads and current undergrads.  We've all done this.

Sign says " No food or drink allowed in Soda Hall"

eh, I was honestly never really one of those people, I just did the stuff in my dorm and then walked over and transferred it to make sure it compiled on the school servers.

in other news, the recent posting about xml parsing got me around to actually writing the second half of saving/loading in the thing I was working on (I had saving done, but didn't wanna write the loading since parsing is slightly more annoying), which was approximately infinity more work than I'd done in the past few months. This got me to writing the part of the dungeon generator that loads pieces in, but then my svn went retarded and I decided to blow up the directory and check it out again

...unfortunately I hadn't added the dungeon xml to the repository so it got exploded. There are few things less cool than having to rewrite something you wrote a few days before but lost due to being a complete retard.

[ranger]

I'd mainly go to the Computer labs/workstations for MPs (Machine Problems/Projects) when I needed to work on it with other people.  I'd remote access to the stations from home sometimes, but its just slow as f, since I need to use certain software for VHDL shit

for my xml parsing in Java I just import the org.w3c.dom package for work.
It's fairly easy to use, with its Element/Node/NodeList interfaces.


And sorry about your svn troubles; ever try using Git Akonyl?  I transitioned to it from SVN a couple months ago - its got a learning curve but the things you can do with it is awesome...far more powerful than CVS or SVN

[Akonyl]

VHDL shit

probably the two words that go together best in the english language. Well, one's an acronym, but that's beside the point.

And nah, haven't tried Git, but I doubt it would help anyway, considering this was less of an SVN error and more of a user retardation error.

edit: This joke sucks but I laughed when I heard it so I have to share it anyway:

Did you hear about the Linux car that crashed at the Indianapolis 500 the other day?

Spoiler:

yeah, it's hard to find good drivers for Linux.

[Conia]

That joke's so bad that is good

[Akonyl]

my favorite kind of joke :V

[Kogorou]

To all the college grads and current undergrads.  We've all done this.

Sign says " No food or drink allowed in Soda Hall"

Nope never done this. I have my PC at home, and I can always remote access the servers to compile my stuff there It's way easier than going to those crappy places all the time.

[ranger]

Free online CS classes
http://www.udacity.com/

Taught by a former Stanford professor that has worked w/ Google, other accomplishments, etc.

Has an introductory python course for those that wish to pickup programming for the first time.

What REALLY catches my eye is the web application course, taught by the one of the founders of Reddit..I'm most likely getting on that.  Other cool stuff being taught as well.

[redangelran]

Free online CS classes
http://www.udacity.com/

thanks for this!

[ranger]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/0x10c- ... pace-epic/

Have you guys heard of Notch's new game? If you don't know who Notch is, he's the creator of the famous indie game Minecraft.

0x10c..sounds freaking awesome.  Your own CPU that you can program? I took a look at the documentation for the ISA for the game, the DCPU-16, it's pretty simple, 8 registers, onloy 16 instructions.

I don't know how many of y'all would be as interested in this as me, since this isn't really a Computer Sciency thing rather than a EE/CE thing..

But in the original poll, I DID vote for the binaries by hand, Assembly is my shit.  I'm excited.

[Akonyl]

I've heard about the game yeah, but I don't really see any reason to be excited for it yet. An in-game programmable computer is nothing new, and nobody really cared much about it the last times it came up so I don't see this really being any different, if the game surrounding it isn't any good. And if the game surrounding it is any good, I'd probably end up caring more about the game than the computer inside anyway.

[Kogorou]

Already read about the game and it's freaking awesome.
Can't wait

[Akonyl]

bumping for another computer-related joke:

Why did the physicist push his computer console out of the window?

Spoiler:

He wanted to see if it would reach terminal velocity.

[Conia]

...

[Akonyl]

ima bump this thread because I stumbled across an old game I made back in college on my computer (still built, which is good because I don't know the correct versions of libraries to use to build it anymore)

never finished it, so it only has two rooms (which are basically debug rooms anyway  )

http://minus.com/mrpcLI2kF/
(windows only, deal widdit)

Spoiler:

abilities 1-4 are 1-4 on the keyboard, 5 is left button, 6 is right button
mousewheel scrolls through ability pages
esc for menu

[Callid]

Wow...
It seems the date of a (Java) Gregorian Calendar changes depending on whether you look at it or not.

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        GregorianCalendar greg = new GregorianCalendar(1992,7,12,17,30);
        System.out.println(greg.getTime().toString());
        greg.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+1"));
        System.out.println(greg.getTime().toString());
        greg.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-1"));
        System.out.println(greg.getTime().toString());

gives me

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Wed Aug 12 18:30:00 CEST 1992
Wed Aug 12 18:30:00 CEST 1992
Wed Aug 12 18:30:00 CEST 1992

That's all nice and fine. But if we out-comment the second line - yes, the println, not one of the setTimeZone - I suddenly get

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Wed Aug 12 17:30:00 CEST 1992
Wed Aug 12 17:30:00 CEST 1992

... the JVM is, undoubtedly, a quantum computer :x