02:04:11 <Psychephylax> :/
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03:32:29 <Psychephylax> heh
03:32:31 <Psychephylax> Hey Mark
03:32:45 <Psychephylax> Happy Christmas eve :)
03:32:50 <Psychephylax> and Merry New Year!
03:32:53 <Psychephylax> upcoming
03:33:14 <markd2> Furry Kissmoose!
03:33:28 <Psychephylax> Stay Fuzzy...Save the world...Decisions!
03:33:29 <Psychephylax> lol
03:33:32 <Psychephylax> Hey, guess what :)
03:33:49 <Psychephylax> I wrote my first outside of school C program
03:33:51 <Psychephylax> It prints out a histogram of word sizes
03:33:58 <markd2> qool
03:34:03 <Psychephylax> yeah
03:34:16 <Psychephylax> Now I'm trying to make it print vertically instead of whorezontally
03:36:52 <markd2> heh
03:37:04 <Psychephylax> I don't think my idea is the most efficient
03:37:05 <markd2> crackwhorezontally
03:37:11 <markd2> step 1)  get it working
03:37:16 <markd2> step 2) make it work faster
03:37:16 <Psychephylax> I did
03:37:21 <Psychephylax> heh
03:37:21 <Psychephylax> ok
03:38:08 <markd2> if you're on some unix flavor, and have 'gprof', here's a little tutorial I wrote many moons ago on intrepeting the output
03:38:10 <markd2> http://badgertronics.com/writings/gprof.html
03:38:11 <chump> F: http://badgertronics.com/writings/gprof.html from markd2
03:38:16 <markd2> f:| how to read gprof output
03:38:23 <Psychephylax> WHOA
03:38:26 <markd2> F:|how to read gprof output
03:38:26 <chump> titled item F
03:38:27 <Psychephylax> That was interesting
03:38:34 <Psychephylax> I could click on the link!
03:38:37 <Psychephylax> AND IT WENT!
03:38:51 <markd2> F: brief tutorial on interpreting the output of the unix gprof profiling tool.
03:38:52 <chump> commented item F
03:39:02 <markd2> F: note that it's not a GNU tool, even with the g in front of the name
03:39:02 <chump> commented item F
03:39:10 <Psychephylax> i know
03:39:15 <Psychephylax> Stark taught us about profiling
03:39:18 <Psychephylax> It was kinda cool
03:39:29 <markd2> excellent
03:39:30 <markd2> I love profilers
03:39:41 <Psychephylax> But again, nobody appreciated it because we were not taught one programming language then how to appreciate it
03:39:57 <markd2> having actually used these tools in the Real World, I like them
03:41:48 <Psychephylax> Well, that kind of works
03:42:02 <Psychephylax> but not right
03:43:07 <Psychephylax> I'm doing a scan
03:43:14 <Psychephylax> of the square
03:43:23 <Psychephylax> and if it finds a cell that matches a condition it prints a * else a space
03:43:27 <Psychephylax> but it doesn't work right
03:43:34 <markd2> sounds like it should
03:45:37 <Psychephylax>   for(i=20; i > 0; i--) {
03:45:37 <Psychephylax>     for (j=0; j < 20; j++) {
03:45:37 <Psychephylax>       if (wordlength[j] >= i) { 
03:45:37 <Psychephylax>       } else {
03:45:40 <Psychephylax>       }
03:45:42 <Psychephylax>     }
03:45:44 <Psychephylax>     printf("\n");
03:45:46 <Psychephylax>   }ack
03:45:55 <Psychephylax> tabs get interpreted in BitchX funny
03:46:08 <Psychephylax> in the if, I print a *
03:46:12 <Psychephylax> in the else I print a space
03:46:14 <Psychephylax> they got cut out
03:46:28 <markd2> so, one axis goes 0 to 19, and the other goes from 1 to 20?
03:46:34 <Psychephylax> yes
03:46:39 <markd2> that's confusing
03:46:48 <Psychephylax> You can't have a 0 length word :)
03:47:01 <markd2> ah.  good point
03:47:09 <Psychephylax> heh
03:47:22 <markd2> that looks like it should work
03:47:37 <Psychephylax> but it doesn't :(
03:47:49 <Psychephylax> The output is skewed 
03:47:57 <Psychephylax> like I have 4 rows of size 20 or so
03:48:19 <Psychephylax> I don't want to paste the output in here
03:49:41 <markd2> yeah
03:50:05 <markd2> are you using a proportional font?
03:50:19 <Psychephylax> i'm using whatever is this term set for
03:50:43 <markd2> so check what your term is using
03:50:53 <Psychephylax> heh
03:50:55 <markd2> if it's proportional, you'll never get it to work
03:50:57 <Psychephylax> Terminal
03:51:25 <markd2> that's probably fixed-width then
03:51:34 <Psychephylax> You want me to send you my c file?
03:51:37 <markd2> sure
03:51:42 <markd2> markd@badgertronics.com
03:51:45 <Psychephylax> You know how to use DCC?
03:51:58 <Psychephylax> eh
03:52:02 <Psychephylax> see what this does
03:52:11 <markd2> send it email
03:52:15 <markd2> (non-attachement)
03:52:23 <Psychephylax> ummm
03:52:27 <markd2> please
03:52:33 <Psychephylax> ok, how do I do that from pine?
03:52:35 <markd2> or, send it email/attachment to bork@borkware.com
03:52:51 <Psychephylax> ok hold on
03:54:26 <Psychephylax> sent to Bork
03:55:20 <markd2> got it
03:55:33 <Psychephylax> cool
03:55:35 <Psychephylax> try running it
03:55:51 <Psychephylax> You want me to send you my working (at least as far as I understand it) version 1?
03:56:00 <markd2> nah
03:57:03 <markd2> the output looks good to me
03:57:11 <Psychephylax> ?
03:57:19 <Psychephylax> you mean it looks right?
03:57:26 <markd2> I get bars the correct height in the correct order, to match the input
03:57:35 <Psychephylax> what are you testing it on?
03:57:40 <Psychephylax> what input
03:57:43 <markd2> mac os/x
03:57:48 <markd2> a
03:57:48 <markd2> a
03:57:48 <markd2> a
03:57:48 <markd2> bork
03:57:48 <markd2> bork
03:57:49 <markd2> bork
03:57:51 <markd2> the
03:57:53 <markd2> the
03:57:55 <markd2> bork
03:57:57 <markd2> bork
03:57:59 <markd2> and I get
03:58:01 <markd2>     *
03:58:03 <markd2>     *
03:58:05 <markd2>  *  *
03:58:07 <markd2>  * **
03:58:09 <markd2>  * **
03:58:11 <markd2> modulo proportional fontage
03:58:28 <markd2> a bar 3 high, an empty column, then two high, then 5 high
03:58:49 <Psychephylax> yeah I get that too with that
03:59:23 <Psychephylax> ok, it's printing 0,3,2,5
03:59:34 <markd2> 0,3,0,2,5 for me
03:59:41 <markd2> for that
03:59:49 <Psychephylax> isn't that wrong?
04:00:08 <Psychephylax> Well, I guess not since I didn't get rid of the 0 length words
04:00:12 <markd2> 3 a's (1 char), no two-char words, 2 the's (three-char), 5 borks (4-char)
04:00:35 <Psychephylax> Oh
04:00:36 <Psychephylax> heh
04:00:38 <Psychephylax> you're right
04:00:42 <Psychephylax> then it does work
04:00:43 <Psychephylax> woohoo!
04:01:16 <Psychephylax> What is this asking?
04:01:26 <markd2> ?
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04:01:37 <Psychephylax> Write a program to print a histogram of the frequencies of different characters in it's input.
04:01:41 <Psychephylax> I don't follow
04:01:57 <Psychephylax> Do they mean how many times a occurs, then b, then c...etc?
04:02:00 <markd2> yep
04:02:04 <Psychephylax> bah
04:02:08 <markd2> keep a count of each of the letters
04:02:09 <Psychephylax> That's just one long switch statement
04:02:12 <beattiek2> Merry christmas Psychephylax, markd2, everyone.
04:02:13 <markd2> no!
04:02:14 <Psychephylax> Everything else stays the same
04:02:22 <Psychephylax> Happy holidays beattiek
04:02:23 <markd2> remember that chars are integers also
04:02:26 <beattiek2> :P
04:02:27 <Psychephylax> Right
04:02:27 <markd2> you can just have an array
04:02:36 <markd2> no switch statement needed
04:02:48 <Psychephylax> yeah I could do it like that too
04:02:56 <Psychephylax> That's one long ass array :)
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04:02:59 <markd2> doing a big switch is ludicrous
04:03:11 <Psychephylax> heh
04:03:16 <markd2> assuming one byte per character, that's just a 255 element array
04:03:31 <Psychephylax> Well, the way I would do it is I would just store it in the array index of the value of the char
04:03:52 <Psychephylax> I was talking screen wise
04:04:17 <markd2> you need a bigger monitor
04:04:21 <Psychephylax> :-/
04:05:33 <Psychephylax> Well, I'm not going to write that program, I know how to do it :-)
04:06:46 <Psychephylax> I'll do Section 1.7 tomorrow, now i sleep and watch seinfeld
04:06:49 <Psychephylax> Good night Mark!
04:06:55 <markd2> nite
04:06:58 <Psychephylax> :)
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19:01:42 <markd2> rob?
19:45:47 <Psychephylax> bob/
19:45:49 <Psychephylax> Frob?
19:45:53 <Psychephylax> Glob or Blob?
19:46:09 <Psychephylax> insert into mark values (chocolate, chip, cookies);
19:50:30 <markd2> blob
19:59:08 <Psychephylax> :)
19:59:14 <Psychephylax> Haaaapppy Holidays
19:59:20 <markd2> wheee
19:59:23 <markd2>    http://crazy.codetroop.com/randimg/?elefant_synvilla.gif
19:59:37 <Psychephylax> That's a blob alright
19:59:51 <Psychephylax> brb
20:05:27 <Psychephylax> backus shmacus
20:13:43 <Psychephylax> bah
20:13:45 <Psychephylax> brb
20:13:50 <Psychephylax> need to reboot this PoS
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