IRC log of openacs on 2002-01-14
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- 00:00:22 [talli]
- i fear ibm. i have heard nothing good about their consulting services
- 00:00:50 [talli]
- they seem to just hire a bunch of immigrant code monkeys that they can charge at 300/hour and pay 50/hour
- 00:02:15 [talli]
- i know one freelancer that worked on an IBM project as a manager who said that the hackers weren't that good
- 00:02:45 [talli]
- and i know one guy who had a massive project on which IBM bid and lost to accenture. apparently IBM did a pathetic job
- 00:03:21 [hazmat]
- depends on where in ibm.
- 00:03:30 [talli]
- if redhat can weather the downturn, they should be in good shape given linux's reasonable maturation
- 00:03:40 [hazmat]
- there already weathered it afaics.
- 00:03:48 [talli]
- do you have experience with IBM?
- 00:03:50 [hazmat]
- lots of phds at ibm as well doing research and dev.
- 00:03:58 [hazmat]
- intern.
- 00:04:05 [talli]
- ah, yes, but that's not their consulting services area
- 00:04:10 [hazmat]
- no, its not.
- 00:04:18 [hazmat]
- its more their tech. group.
- 00:04:28 [talli]
- IBMs processor R&D area is supposed to be the best in the industry
- 00:05:30 [talli]
- as far as RH, i hope they can weather the downturn. i hope some of the other linux consultancies can do the same, like progeny
- 00:11:42 [davb]
- anyone want to take a quick look at this site design? http://www.okfilters.com/new/
- 00:13:45 [talli]
- davb: it's nice, but the menu gifs don't come across too sharp
- 00:14:28 [davb]
- talli: thanks. I'll have to tweak the anti-aliasing. what are you using BTW?
- 00:15:11 [talli]
- IE 6 on win
- 00:15:17 [davb]
- ok.
- 00:15:54 [vinod]
- looks good on mozilla 0.9.7 (linux)
- 00:16:28 [davb]
- vinod: thanks
- 00:17:05 [vinod]
- np
- 00:17:05 [talli]
- vinod: have you gone to games at lambeau?
- 00:17:32 [vinod]
- just one. it's a bitch to get tickets
- 00:17:43 [talli]
- it's that hard? whoa
- 00:17:50 [talli]
- even just to see a game?
- 00:18:23 [vinod]
- truthfully, it's not too hard to scalp a single ticket (which is what i did), but you can't officially buy tickets. they're sold out through the year 2040 or so
- 00:18:36 [talli]
- jesus
- 00:18:47 [talli]
- did you watch the games from home or tailgate?
- 00:19:31 [jim]
- 2040?? if it weren't for other things to do, moving elsewhere might be an option
- 00:19:44 [vinod]
- when i was in gb, (for 6 months in 1999), i tailgated every wknd and then watched the game at a bar
- 00:20:03 [vinod]
- but, i grew up in milwaukee, so, we'd just watch games at home
- 00:20:07 [talli]
- jim: is there something else to do?
- 00:20:15 [dlk]
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- 00:20:16 [jim]
- I dunno :)
- 00:20:21 [talli]
- ah, you're from milwaukee... that explains it
- 00:20:33 [jim]
- I guess see something else, somewhere else :)
- 00:20:35 [talli]
- the people i know from milwaukee are true freaks.
- 00:20:38 [jim]
- me?
- 00:20:47 [jim]
- milawukee?
- 00:20:51 [talli]
- no, vinod. jim, are you a freak?
- 00:20:59 [vinod]
- i'm a freak
- 00:21:32 [jim]
- I program computers... I guess I qualify :)
- 00:22:08 [talli]
- jim: it also depends on how large your gut is, how long your beard is and how many OS tshirts you have :)
- 00:22:19 [jim]
- but I play bass too :()
- 00:22:33 [talli]
- upright or electric?
- 00:22:44 [jim]
- elec 5 string fretless :)
- 00:22:48 [vinod]
- * vinod realizes that the OpenACS tshirt that talli gave me was a ploy to turn me into a freak
- 00:23:02 [talli]
- oh man. you want another one?
- 00:23:19 [talli]
- i should fight the name change just so i don't have to burn 200 odd OACS 4 tshirts
- 00:23:41 [vinod]
- haha
- 00:23:51 [jim]
- I'm trying to learn something from Gary Willis... I visited him about 20 days before 911
- 00:23:53 [talli]
- i'll sell 'em on ebay :)
- 00:24:03 [talli]
- gary willis... where would i have heard his name?
- 00:24:24 [jim]
- he has Holdsworth album credits...
- 00:24:46 [jim]
- you hear him play, you jaw will fall off ;)
- 00:24:52 [talli]
- hmmm... don't know that. maybe i'm confusing him, or i'm just trying to sound smarter than i am
- 00:24:56 [talli]
- what kind of music are you into?
- 00:25:02 [jim]
- ..fall off trying to drop :)
- 00:25:13 [jim]
- he plays fusion
- 00:25:23 [jim]
- I play trad jazz right now
- 00:25:29 [talli]
- cool.
- 00:25:42 [talli]
- you should speak with rolf (rzolf). i guess he plays uprigth bass
- 00:25:51 [talli]
- what kind of trad jazz?
- 00:26:05 [hazmat]
- for me i like dead can dance, ambient electronic, rage against the machine... too young to have 'cultured' taste.
- 00:26:14 [talli]
- ever hear of tony scherr? greg cohen?
- 00:26:38 [hazmat]
- the second one sounds familiar...
- 00:27:37 [talli]
- greg cohen plays bass on tom waits albums
- 00:28:37 [talli]
- but he's primarly a jazz bassist
- 00:28:53 [hazmat]
- ah.. to be honest, i haven't been listening to music in a long time.
- 00:30:39 [talli]
- * talli is away: no reason supplied
- 00:31:06 [djg]
- somebody here an expert on the templating system?
- 00:31:16 [davb]
- I have used it :)
- 00:31:17 [hazmat]
- no, but you can ask.
- 00:31:30 [talli]
- * talli is no longer away
- 00:32:29 [djg]
- hmm i wonder about the cacheing.
- 00:32:54 [djg]
- i'm working on a clustering solution and i can't find a catch about in the template cacheing. seems to be totally transparent
- 00:34:16 [abbaJ]
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- 00:34:34 [djg]
- huhu?
- 00:37:43 [davb]
- I haven't looked into caching at all.
- 00:38:50 [hazmat]
- djg: there is no caching, just compilation (there used to some options, but i dont' think they exist anymore).
- 00:39:01 [hazmat]
- the compilation to a tcl proc makes it fairly fast though.
- 00:41:03 [davb]
- how does it know to recompile? for example if I change a template.
- 00:41:27 [hazmat]
- i forgot, i think it stores the mod time.
- 00:41:40 [davb]
- ok. np, I can look if I really need to know :)
- 00:41:55 [hazmat]
- the internals aren't very pretty cause of all the uplevel/vars.
- 00:42:00 [hazmat]
- which drove me nuts.
- 00:42:10 [davb]
- yes, they really scare me.
- 00:42:48 [djg]
- hmm but soem other modules seem to be abuse the template query cacheing.
- 00:42:52 [djg]
- guess i'll have to change those
- 00:58:02 [davb]
- wow. dreamweaver is great for dorking around with a dozen or so static pages that you want to change the design on.
- 00:59:30 [talli]
- davb: that's why webDAV is the answer for CMS
- 01:00:02 [davb]
- well is it and isn't dreamweaver is good for dorking around with HTML. so it might be good for editing adp templates.
- 01:00:20 [davb]
- for creating content, I would say it is not so great. WebDAV is still a good idea though :)
- 01:00:39 [davb]
- I am looking at Radio Userland again.
- 01:01:07 [talli]
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- 01:01:09 [davb]
- You need OS support for webDAV though. What you can do is put files into a folder and they are magically sent to the server.
- 01:01:14 [davb]
- oh well :)
- 01:02:53 [talli]
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- 01:03:06 [talli]
- hey davb, sorry, got booted
- 01:03:24 [davb]
- np :)
- 01:03:55 [davb]
- anyway, writing tools are very personal so we need a way to support adding and editing content from any tool using WebDAV or SOAP or whatever.
- 01:15:41 [talli]
- yes, that's true
- 01:17:52 [davb]
- and of course, allow uploads of word etc...
- 01:18:01 [davb]
- and do something clever with it.
- 01:18:14 [talli]
- well, that's teh thing. can't webdav do all that?
- 01:19:10 [talli]
- and do it very nicely, with versioning and locking and so on?
- 01:20:35 [davb]
- webdav is just a set of HTTP headers. It's all about moving the content back and forth and versioning. we can implement a webdav filesystem in the database to do the actual imlementation.
- 01:21:00 [davb]
- but that just gets the files to the server. then we have to intelligently process it.
- 01:29:27 [talli]
- well, that's true
- 01:29:52 [talli]
- i think, though, the big part is allowing client side apps other than the browser do more work
- 01:40:59 [hazmat]
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- 01:41:55 [docwolf]
- awright, where is that talli character? The one that was ripping on my hometown? :-)
- 01:44:15 [davb]
- talli: YES!
- 01:44:16 [davb]
- :)
- 01:44:39 [docwolf]
- hehe
- 01:47:24 [rzolf]
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- 01:48:12 [docwolf]
- go away rzolf, we don't want your kind here. "Boca People". harrumph.
- 01:48:31 [talli]
- docwolf: i thought your hometown was NYC?
- 01:48:38 [talli]
- are you in fact an old yid from Boca?
- 01:48:45 [docwolf]
- talli: that was a long, long time ago.
- 01:48:56 [docwolf]
- now i'm old, bitter, and wearing plad golf pants.
- 01:48:56 [talli]
- ah, ok
- 01:49:04 [talli]
- well, i'll send you some SPF 1000
- 01:49:06 [docwolf]
- it's a natural progression.
- 01:49:17 [docwolf]
- i'm getting extra-crotchety, too.
- 01:49:23 [talli]
- i know the sun is pretty strong down there. and the humidity... OY VEY!
- 01:49:29 [docwolf]
- hehe
- 01:50:01 [docwolf]
- rolf and i actually went out to a "hip place" the other night, and we were afraid of the "surly teenagers".
- 01:50:16 [talli]
- the only thing that might save you is the porn industry. but even that you said is on its way out...
- 01:50:38 [talli]
- aren't there any hotties down at the complex's pool?
- 01:50:41 [docwolf]
- yeah, very sad. ft. lauderdale has become too clean.
- 01:50:51 [talli]
- or, maybe at bingo night?
- 01:50:55 [docwolf]
- we haven't spent much time around the pool. too busy working :-(
- 01:50:59 [docwolf]
- and getting loaded.
- 01:51:02 [docwolf]
- on stimulants.
- 01:51:21 [docwolf]
- (we have a starbucks and an einsteins in walking distance. very bad thing.)
- 01:51:33 [talli]
- you writing yourself RX of ephedrine and ritalin?
- 01:51:40 [talli]
- what's an einsteins?
- 01:51:47 [docwolf]
- (cut to scene of docwolf's chest exploding)
- 01:51:57 [docwolf]
- einsteins is a bagel place, but they have mega coffee.
- 01:52:12 [talli]
- ah, einsteins = noahs, huh?
- 01:52:17 [talli]
- jewish kitsch
- 01:52:20 [docwolf]
- hehe
- 01:52:21 [docwolf]
- ot
- 01:52:30 [docwolf]
- it's like a middle-american bagel
- 01:52:48 [docwolf]
- not the authentic NYC experience.
- 01:52:49 [talli]
- isn't that a donut?
- 01:52:52 [docwolf]
- haha.
- 01:53:04 [docwolf]
- they don't have salt bagels. it totally blows. but their coffee is good.
- 01:53:15 [talli]
- hey, what was that discussion software you mentioned?
- 01:53:39 [docwolf]
- vbulletin. it rocks.
- 01:54:00 [talli]
- what's it written in?
- 01:54:14 [docwolf]
- PHP! (the Mother of All Scripting Languages)
- 01:54:26 [docwolf]
- don't worry, it actually works properly.
- 01:54:35 [docwolf]
- and it scales. rolf used it at winamp.
- 01:55:28 [talli]
- and it allows for email posts?
- 01:55:45 [rzolf]
- what is going on here
- 01:55:45 [talli]
- it is very nice
- 01:55:48 [docwolf]
- http://forums.winamp.com/
- 01:55:49 [chump]
- A: http://forums.winamp.com/ from docwolf
- 01:55:57 [docwolf]
- i am showing off your work
- 01:56:06 [rzolf]
- oh
- 01:56:12 [docwolf]
- and discussing our unfortunate habit.
- 01:56:20 [rzolf]
- i am looking at your prototype.
- 01:56:23 [talli]
- there's a lot of noise at vbulletin.org, but that can prob be taken out
- 01:56:30 [docwolf]
- uh oh
- 01:56:37 [docwolf]
- (docwolfs hangs head in shame)
- 01:56:50 [rzolf]
- is there some randy file where these constants are defined.
- 01:56:51 [docwolf]
- dude -- what's with the "tech support" forum at winamp
- 01:56:54 [docwolf]
- ????
- 01:56:57 [talli]
- it's not Libre, though (as my buddy brad says)
- 01:56:59 [docwolf]
- "point, click, install..."
- 01:57:18 [docwolf]
- vbulletin is like $40 a year.
- 01:57:19 [rzolf]
- like "PHP_AUTH_BLABLA"
- 01:57:31 [rzolf]
- or is that coming from the session.
- 01:58:09 [talli]
- rzolf: you talking to me?
- 01:58:39 [rzolf]
- no, doc wolf.
- 01:58:45 [talli]
- ok
- 01:59:26 [rzolf]
- whee.
- 01:59:50 [docwolf]
- (rzolf digs through code that no man should ever have to see..)
- 02:00:17 [talli]
- it's not that much nicer than the OACS bboards, though
- 02:00:19 [rzolf]
- it is better than acs 3.x groups
- 02:00:38 [talli]
- you mean the admin code?
- 02:00:46 [talli]
- the interface isn't that much better than 4
- 02:00:51 [rzolf]
- no i mean doc wolf's code.
- 02:01:16 [rzolf]
- vbulletin is a pile but it seems to work with minimum hassle.
- 02:01:22 [talli]
- ah, ok
- 02:01:30 [docwolf]
- total rube goldberg style
- 02:01:54 [talli]
- do they have a toaster connected to an alarm clock
- 02:01:55 [talli]
- ?
- 02:02:07 [talli]
- with a chicken in between?
- 02:02:08 [davb]
- heh
- 02:02:22 [davb]
- * davb looks for his "the incredible machine" floppies
- 02:03:09 [rzolf]
- heh.
- 02:03:14 [rzolf]
- that was a cool game.
- 02:03:37 [rzolf]
- what talli described sounds like a swiss art film.
- 02:03:47 [rzolf]
- only the chicken is wearing bondage gear.
- 02:03:59 [docwolf]
- i believe that would be a german art film.
- 02:04:04 [rzolf]
- and it cuts to a fat guy wearing a diaper.
- 02:04:13 [talli]
- no, definitely czech film
- 02:04:20 [rzolf]
- with the slow-motion cow mooing sound.
- 02:05:56 [davb]
- * davb learns: do not leave the eraser collection next to the sketches you just did in reach of the 3-year-old
- 02:06:11 [djg]
- talli: which preconceptions about czech movies do you have?!
- 02:06:22 [djg]
- the only ones i ever saw were kids' movies...
- 02:06:28 [djg]
- ah and the new hollywood-style breed
- 02:07:20 [docwolf]
- what on earth....
- 02:07:24 [docwolf]
- http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/13/bush.fainting.ap/index.html
- 02:07:24 [chump]
- B: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/13/bush.fainting.ap/index.html from docwolf
- 02:07:37 [docwolf]
- osama bin pretzel
- 02:07:57 [davb]
- oh my
- 02:08:02 [rzolf]
- what on earht.
- 02:08:11 [davb]
- you just can't write jokes like that
- 02:08:51 [rzolf]
- what happens if bush dies? is there even a vice president anymore?
- 02:08:59 [docwolf]
- RoboCheney
- 02:09:57 [rzolf]
- Why Maggie Matters: Sounds of Silence, East and West.
- 02:10:14 [docwolf]
- :-)
- 02:10:24 [docwolf]
- who said philosophy majors are unemployable?
- 02:10:38 [rzolf]
- heh
- 02:11:05 [talli]
- i don't know what happens if bush dies. i guess i'll just have to wait until cnn's web poll results come in...
- 02:11:41 [davb]
- i bet billg rigs it again
- 02:12:01 [docwolf]
- the better question of course... who will take over after everyone in the whitehouse with Enron stock is impeached?
- 02:19:10 [rzolf]
- i think cheney is off finding a place to hide
- 02:19:51 [rzolf]
- the secretary of the army was an enron exec?
- 02:26:27 [davb]
- the worst part is the CEO and enron attorney saying they welcome the justice department investigation so they can find out what happened to the company.
- 02:33:00 [rzolf]
- on a lighter note, http://www.caninefreestyle.com/
- 02:33:38 [docwolf]
- tjat
- 02:33:41 [docwolf]
- that
- 02:33:49 [docwolf]
- is even worse than http://www.pantscam.com
- 02:34:58 [rzolf]
- yes
- 02:40:41 [rzolf]
- www.assmorph.com
- 02:41:08 [docwolf]
- what on earth
- 02:42:07 [rzolf]
- assmorph.com is actually cool.
- 02:42:13 [rzolf]
- sort of.
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- hello
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- hi
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- bye
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- [#OpenACS] This channel is logged: http://www.blogspace.com/openacs/chatlogs/ and blogged: http://www.thedesignexperience.org/openacs/ircblog
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- 17:22:01 [davb]
- hello talli
- 17:22:14 [talli]
- hey davb and the everyone else
- 17:22:46 [jim]
- the jim says the hi :)
- 17:23:05 [talli]
- * talli says hi to the jim
- 17:28:43 [davb]
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23658.html
- 17:28:43 [chump]
- C: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23658.html from davb
- 17:28:57 [davb]
- C:|Borland demands users pay for license audit
- 17:28:57 [chump]
- titled item C
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- dlk is now known as dead-man-walking
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- 18:34:08 [vinod]
- hey everyone!
- 18:34:17 [vinod]
- can anyone else connect to postgresql.org?
- 18:34:49 [markd2]
- nnope
- 18:34:54 [markd2]
- I can't get to connectix.com either
- 18:35:08 [talli]
- nope
- 18:35:25 [vinod]
- markd2: i can get to connectix
- 18:35:33 [talli]
- i can get to connectix as well
- 18:35:58 [vinod]
- markd2: do you want me to read the page to you? ;-)
- 18:35:59 [talli]
- does connectix work nicely, markd?
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- 18:36:50 [vinod]
- i've used virtual pc 3.0 on my mac and it was functional. but if you made me use it for more than an hour i woulda killed you - it was pretty slow
- 18:37:42 [markdfoo]
- I've been running the VP5 for os/x preview for awhile
- 18:37:52 [markdfoo]
- and the day I acutally need it, it expires
- 18:37:59 [markdfoo]
- and connectix.com is down for upgrading from VP4
- 18:38:17 [vinod]
- doh!
- 18:38:26 [markdfoo]
- for what I want to do - read the occasional word file, do a dba test, run oracle, it's great
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- 18:40:25 [denshi]
- oof. Crowded in here.
- 18:40:57 [markdfoo]
- most of us are robots
- 18:41:07 [markdfoo]
- or waiting for another name to die due to a bad ISP
- 18:41:16 [denshi]
- I am not a bot, I am a free man!
- 18:42:14 [vinod]
- -- said the bot
- 18:42:54 [markdfoo]
- -- said the docbot
- 18:43:51 [talli]
- hey denshi
- 18:44:22 [denshi]
- yo talli.
- 18:44:23 [denshi]
- brb
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- 18:46:33 [denshi]
- so I'm reading the chatlogs; seeing what I've missed this wkend.
- 18:46:45 [denshi]
- I see vinod has an open question from saturday.
- 18:47:18 [denshi]
- 23:15:18 <vinod> what's functional programming? (in a nutshell)
- 18:47:26 [denshi]
- still need an answer?
- 18:48:24 [davb]
- * davb finishes the chapter on quadratic equations in his albegra book!
- 18:48:33 [markdfoo]
- woot!
- 18:48:49 [denshi]
- bork!
- 18:48:57 [jim]
- davb: cool :)
- 18:49:09 [jim]
- umm, what is chump?
- 18:49:14 [davb]
- now I have to finish up with ratios and inequalities, then on to trig!
- 18:49:25 [jim]
- hmm, you doing precalc?
- 18:49:29 [davb]
- chump keeps tracks of all URLs entered on a line by themselves
- 18:49:38 [davb]
- jim: after trig, then calc, etc...
- 18:49:45 [davb]
- chump: view
- 18:49:45 [chump]
- A: http://forums.winamp.com/
- 18:49:46 [chump]
- B: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/13/bush.fainting.ap/index.html
- 18:49:47 [chump]
- C: Borland demands users pay for license audit (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23658.html)
- 18:50:10 [vinod]
- denshi: sure. i've been reading up on haskell a bit, but my mind is still a little foggy on functional programming
- 18:50:17 [davb]
- the URLs also go to a web site: http://www.thedesignexperience.org/openacs/ircblog/
- 18:50:24 [jim]
- is chump a general combination of an eggdrop and an aolserver?
- 18:50:44 [davb]
- no, its written in Python. I just use it :)
- 18:50:56 [denshi]
- vinod: in a nutshell, 'funtional programming' means no side effects. Just functions returning values.
- 18:50:57 [davb]
- although something that worked in AOLserver would be nifty.
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- 18:53:06 [davb]
- * davb is planning on studying computer science to hopefully avoid a future of Access db hacking.
- 18:53:39 [denshi]
- vinod: to explain using history, functional programming is a style that does not assume the existence of a von Neumann architecture, unlike the imperative languages (eg, the Algols like C). A von Neumann machine is characterized as a set of registers and code that reads and writes to those registers -- the sophmoric language design on top of that is focused on handling those registers.
- 18:55:06 [denshi]
- other types of machines might be a stack machine (which is similar but uses stacks rather than registers), a turing machine (which will never be built), and so forth. I've never explored the LISP machine architecture, so I don't know what to say about that. Moving right along....
- 18:55:29 [markdfoo]
- * markdfoo just invested everything in turing machine tape manufacturers
- 18:55:30 [markdfoo]
- damn
- 18:56:05 [denshi]
- LISP was written in an attempt to axiomatize computation. So it doesn't assume anything about the underlying machine, only that the machine can implement function calls and value returns.
- 18:56:29 [denshi]
- but this is all a bunch of noise, I guess, if you're not already converted.
- 18:56:54 [denshi]
- I didn't fully grasp FP until I used LISP, and the reason why is the top level.
- 18:57:04 [jim]
- do the SICP thing at aduni.org to make it less noisey :)
- 18:57:37 [davb]
- Ah, more people here. So has anyone read The Little Schemer (or LISPer)?
- 18:57:49 [jim]
- I have seen the little schemer
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- 18:58:04 [jim]
- never opened it :)
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- markdfoo is now known as markd2
- 18:58:10 [vinod]
- * vinod wonders why denshi is going back to school :-)
- 18:58:14 [davb]
- I got it to ease the road to SICP :) it looks pretty good.
- 18:58:32 [davb]
- it is supposed to teach you to think recursively.
- 18:58:34 [jim]
- so are you watching the aduni flicks?
- 18:59:16 [davb]
- I have downloaded the SICP lectures from MIT, but they made my head hurt (thats why I am studying math and got the little schemer)
- 18:59:30 [denshi]
- There's no concept of a "main" function in LISP; any function can be called at any time. How does that compare to an imperative language? In C, if you call some random function at any time, it might crash, b/c certain environment variables, or globals, or some other kind of state condition has not been previously satisfied. OTOH, any fxn call in LISP is contained, so the toplevel is truly interactive.
- 18:59:34 [jim]
- videos??
- 19:00:17 [davb]
- jim: I DL them from aduni.org, but they are not available since they moved.
- 19:00:59 [davb]
- they are Real media format like everything else from there.
- 19:01:05 [denshi]
- This property in LISP is a result of FP. If you look at that for a while, you'll see how that can make debugging and rapid design much easier.
- 19:01:26 [denshi]
- I'm done for now. I can't explain this one too well yet.
- 19:01:28 [jim]
- davb: how many lectures are there?
- 19:01:45 [denshi]
- davb: I read the Little Schemer for the chocolate chip cookie receipe.
- 19:01:48 [vinod]
- thanks denshi - that was quite helpful
- 19:01:54 [davb]
- jim: for SICP, 20 I think... 10 lectures, 2 parts each.
- 19:02:05 [davb]
- * davb will check for the recipe when he gets home
- 19:02:52 [denshi]
- * denshi thinks he has to explain something to different people at least 3 times to learn how to explain it.
- 19:03:01 [jim]
- how much total space do they occupy?
- 19:03:32 [denshi]
- vinod: jess says it's lunchtime. I'll talk school later, as I hope I am not crazy. But lunch first.
- 19:03:44 [vinod]
- teaching is the best way to learn
- 19:03:50 [denshi]
- Later guys.
- 19:03:57 [jim]
- see ya
- 19:04:00 [vinod]
- denshi: sounds good. i promise not to make any psychiatric diagnoses yet
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- 19:04:19 [davb]
- vinod: how many CDs is that?
- 19:04:47 [vinod]
- 12
- 19:04:48 [davb]
- jim: the entire adUni catalog is like 80GB. This is just one course :)
- 19:05:00 [jim]
- yes, I'm getting the hd
- 19:05:13 [davb]
- jim: just the SICP lectures are probably around 500 mb.
- 19:05:18 [davb]
- jim: cool!
- 19:05:23 [jim]
- about to write the check now in fact
- 19:08:41 [dead-man-walking]
- dead-man-walking is now known as dlk
- 19:10:28 [hazmat]
- interesting thread on the python newsgroup comparing python to ruby.
- 19:12:18 [talli]
- hazmat: can one use TOra to do ER diagrams?
- 19:12:36 [hazmat]
- no, at least not that i know.
- 19:12:41 [talli]
- ok, thanks
- 19:21:32 [vinod]
- hazmat: is this the 'Ruby Impressions' thread?
- 19:21:38 [davb]
- http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-1.html#%_toc_start
- 19:21:38 [chump]
- D: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme-Z-H-1.html#%_toc_start from davb
- 19:21:49 [davb]
- D:|Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
- 19:21:50 [chump]
- titled item D
- 19:21:57 [davb]
- D: looks like a good intro to scheme
- 19:21:57 [chump]
- commented item D
- 19:22:10 [hazmat]
- vinod: yes. i looked through it, not much meat. but its nice reflection of the various styles.
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- 19:29:13 [vinod]
- yeah - i'm wading through the 'english does not come from italian' subplot ;-)
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- 20:40:18 [talli_]
- does anyone know of any other companies besides Redhat and IBM that support Linux on an "enterprise" scale?
- 20:40:41 [markd2]
- SuSE
- 20:40:53 [markd2]
- they're Oracle's reference implementation for 9i
- 20:41:21 [talli_]
- right, looking at them
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- magic
- 22:05:00 [lethedrinker]
- puff
- 22:05:01 [lethedrinker]
- dragon
- 22:05:07 [lethedrinker]
- eats
- 22:05:09 [lethedrinker]
- queries
- 22:07:45 [talli_]
- i once had paul pat my face after singing Puff and say, "it's not about drugs"
- 22:07:59 [talli_]
- * talli_ is away: no reason supplied
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- * talli_ is away: no reason supplied (away 10 minutes)
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- * markd2 is not away: no reason to leave
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- * talli_ is away: no reason supplied (away 20 minutes)
- 22:33:38 [markd2]
- * markd2 is still here (here for more than 30 minutes)
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- * lethedrinker is here in spirit, but his morals have gone elsewhere
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- * talli_ is away: no reason supplied (away 30 minutes)
- 22:38:28 [markd2]
- hey vinod
- 22:38:36 [markd2]
- beat up on talli_ for spamming the (otherwise quiet) channel
- 22:38:58 [vinod]
- * vinod pounds talli_ until the _ falls off his name
- 22:39:56 [markd2]
- I didn't know there was any marketing left to can
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- 22:42:54 [denshi]
- * denshi roars
- 22:43:55 [lethedrinker]
- * lethedrinker reminds that the best policy is to carry a big stick.
- 22:44:27 [vinod]
- * vinod steals lethedrinker's stick to pound talli some more
- 22:44:46 [denshi]
- I
- 22:45:03 [denshi]
- I'm just browsing around, wasting time on a monday.
- 22:45:50 [denshi]
- I wish aD would post more stuff about their latest boneheaded manuvers. They have a bboard, why can't they entertain me?
- 22:46:17 [lethedrinker]
- thats a greek tragedy not a comedy, imo.
- 22:46:20 [talli_]
- * talli_ is no longer away
- 22:46:23 [denshi]
- ooh... badger blog
- 22:46:24 [talli_]
- sorry
- 22:46:33 [markd2]
- heh
- 22:46:40 [docwolf]
- double-heh
- 22:46:42 [denshi]
- hah! mark is playing baldur's gate.
- 22:46:42 [vinod]
- don't let markd2 see you... he's got fire in his eyes
- 22:46:48 [docwolf]
- (docwolf resists urge to comment)
- 22:47:03 [denshi]
- markd -- petrify vision?
- 22:47:29 [talli_]
- docwolf: you don't have anything to say about aD, do you?
- 22:47:43 [markd2]
- yep. playing baldur's gate
- 22:47:44 [markd2]
- I love it
- 22:48:04 [denshi]
- is docwolf not commenting on aD or markd2's eyes?
- 22:48:10 [lethedrinker]
- in read about a community liason job at the new acs site @ museatech.
- 22:48:17 [lethedrinker]
- s/in/i
- 22:48:29 [vinod]
- haha
- 22:48:39 [docwolf]
- docwolf's lips are hermetically sealed.
- 22:48:39 [markd2]
- you should use rzolf for the community liason
- 22:48:40 [talli_]
- lethedrinker: you interested? a bridge and a piece of the desert comes with the job too
- 22:49:00 [talli_]
- it's a pretty sweet gig
- 22:49:02 [lethedrinker]
- only if the bridge is in brooklyn
- 22:49:26 [lethedrinker]
- can i telecommute ?
- 22:49:26 [talli_]
- sorry. it's in hahvahd yahd
- 22:50:06 [lethedrinker]
- whats the url for the museatech openacs site?
- 22:50:31 [lethedrinker]
- got it
- 22:51:46 [docwolf]
- whoa. totally random stuff on the aD bboards. haven't been there in a while.
- 22:51:52 [markd2]
- anything good?
- 22:51:55 [markd2]
- i've unsubscribed from 'em
- 22:52:01 [denshi]
- markd2: have you stopped worrying and learned to love the Minsc?
- 22:52:10 [markd2]
- It's Boo!
- 22:52:21 [docwolf]
- just like lots of long names of people from foreign countries with huge error logs from java.
- 22:52:22 [markd2]
- this time around, I had a full party of better characters, so I've ignored Minsc
- 22:52:45 [docwolf]
- with an occasional richard li or david eison comment
- 22:53:08 [talli_]
- docwolf: please summarize the richard li or david eison comments.
- 22:53:16 [talli_]
- i hope they are the usual ones
- 22:53:27 [talli_]
- "we are bitter bastards that know more than you..."
- 22:53:30 [vinod]
- "stop asking us questions on our bboards"
- 22:53:37 [denshi]
- In BG2, Minsc is cooler -- more Boo-based dialog, better stats, etc. I hacked him into a monk anyway.
- 22:53:49 [markd2]
- heh
- 22:54:01 [markd2]
- put the girdle of gender-bending on him for the complete outfit
- 22:54:22 [docwolf]
- http://eison.arsdigita.com/corvette/
- 22:54:22 [chump]
- E: http://eison.arsdigita.com/corvette/ from docwolf
- 22:54:28 [docwolf]
- sorry, chump
- 22:54:31 [denshi]
- there are some actual results from that in BG2 -- there's a gender bender subquest with Edwin.
- 22:54:35 [docwolf]
- no bot should be exposed to this kind of material.
- 22:55:16 [talli_]
- i think it's fine if chump logs that. but i think you might want to put a sticker of eison's frat on chump just in case.
- 22:55:17 [denshi]
- we're forcing the bots to evolve.
- 22:55:22 [docwolf]
- http://aure.com/aureNdave/
- 22:55:23 [chump]
- F: http://aure.com/aureNdave/ from docwolf
- 22:56:15 [vinod]
- * vinod stops his plans to make a webpage about his subaru
- 22:56:26 [markd2]
- * markd2 needs to get a pinto
- 22:56:58 [talli_]
- * talli_ is bummed that vinod chose not to follow the kiss tour in his subaru and chronicle the hijinx
- 22:56:59 [docwolf]
- haha
- 22:57:04 [docwolf]
- http://www.wolfwater.com/ct/sh/shuttle.htm
- 22:57:04 [chump]
- G: http://www.wolfwater.com/ct/sh/shuttle.htm from docwolf
- 22:57:13 [docwolf]
- the docwolf subaru page
- 22:57:44 [docwolf]
- i really need to make up a totally sketchy "Me and my car" site
- 22:58:08 [talli_]
- that'll get the chicks
- 22:58:23 [vinod]
- docwolf has a subaru too?!
- 22:58:45 [docwolf]
- the Mighty Sube (tm)
- 22:58:59 [vinod]
- haha - haven't named mine yet
- 23:00:06 [markd2]
- is that your picture there, doc?
- 23:00:24 [docwolf]
- heh. aren't i suave?
- 23:01:30 [vinod]
- If overdone, you can slip into an abyss, known as the "C.C. Deville Stage of Sudden Retirement". This occurs in young people when they are abruptly stripped of the adrenaline rush and stress that work provides, and have no clue what to do with themselves. Symptoms include weight gain of 100 pounds or more, deep depression, and a strange belief that you are somehow still relevant to the rest of the world.
- 23:02:11 [vinod]
- i think you've diagnosed me
- 23:02:16 [docwolf]
- haha
- 23:02:31 [vinod]
- is there gonna be a infomercial that sells the cure?
- 23:02:54 [docwolf]
- rzolf is here building me an e-commerce site just for that purpose.
- 23:03:08 [markd2]
- I thought it was to sell your "powerDrink"
- 23:03:16 [vinod]
- haha
- 23:03:39 [docwolf]
- WolfJuice
- 23:04:54 [markd2]
- sounds like you're Philip's ghostwriter
- 23:05:03 [denshi]
- markd2: I am apparently either Pacman or the Ghosts.
- 23:05:18 [markd2]
- wokka wokka wooka
- 23:05:19 [markd2]
- wookie
- 23:05:33 [markd2]
- Chew'bacca, 'bacca Khan, 'bacca Khan
- 23:05:38 [lethedrinker]
- markd2: aren't there java bindings to cocoa?
- 23:05:47 [markd2]
- yeah, but they're pretty nasty from what I hear
- 23:06:13 [lethedrinker]
- i would like to see someone do a greek play about aD's history.
- 23:07:27 [talli_]
- lethedrinker: aD's history may perhaps be good for a greek play, but it's by no means shakespearean
- 23:07:40 [markd2]
- I think Beckett might be more apropos
- 23:07:54 [talli_]
- or mamet
- 23:08:13 [docwolf]
- actually, i think of it more as a bad jerry bruckheimer film.
- 23:08:19 [talli_]
- perhaps even warhol, just to go totally post-modern
- 23:08:26 [talli_]
- whoops. i think docwolf's got it right
- 23:08:42 [markd2]
- mad Max, beyond chunderdome
- 23:08:44 [talli_]
- a jerry bruckheimer film starring all of the wayans bros
- 23:08:53 [vinod]
- lol
- 23:09:00 [denshi]
- "Its amazing how many people get out of the way when they see a giant mollusc flying towards them at 25mph."
- 23:10:32 [docwolf]
- man. sounds like more fun at aD today.
- 23:10:42 [talli_]
- where???? give it up!
- 23:13:37 [lethedrinker]
- i really don't understand what separates ad currently from every other company out there with a java product to sell.
- 23:14:12 [markd2]
- * markd2 hands lethedrinker a prize
- 23:14:25 [denshi]
- docwolf: what now?
- 23:15:11 [docwolf]
- denshi: just more churn. at this point, to me anyway, they are "just another shitty tech company in boston." none of the original people are left.
- 23:15:40 [docwolf]
- ok, not totally true. there is 1 person left there that I care about.
- 23:15:44 [docwolf]
- the rest.. well.. ugh.
- 23:15:52 [markd2]
- heh
- 23:15:53 [lethedrinker]
- * lethedrinker relegates the prize to aD rechristened as the visonless awards.
- 23:16:45 [denshi]
- docwolf: you should hire a Gibson-esque corp slave 'extraction' team to get that person out of there.
- 23:16:50 [denshi]
- Then you can nuke the site from orbit.
- 23:16:54 [denshi]
- It's the only way to be sure.
- 23:17:02 [docwolf]
- haha
- 23:17:05 [markd2]
- time to blow Chunks out of that place.
- 23:17:29 [docwolf]
- it's so sad.
- 23:18:22 [markd2]
- motley crüde
- 23:18:52 [denshi]
- it is sad.
- 23:19:19 [talli_]
- * talli_ is surprised that IRC has a crude mode setting. figures he must have it set for on by default
- 23:19:37 [lethedrinker]
- talli windows does that for you ;-)
- 23:19:47 [talli_]
- :)
- 23:23:41 [denshi]
- is vinod still here?
- 23:23:58 [vinod]
- yup - trying to think of a crude joke
- 23:26:20 [denshi]
- have you found the crudeness?
- 23:27:17 [vinod]
- nope - i'm giving up. noone can match markd2 for crudeness anyway (sorry talli)
- 23:27:19 [talli_]
- vinod, how about the crude joke of you being licensed to save people's lives?
- 23:27:38 [vinod]
- once again, i was mistaken - talli wins
- 23:27:42 [talli_]
- is that one over the top? sorry
- 23:27:46 [docwolf]
- low blow
- 23:27:57 [talli_]
- hey docwolf, you went to med school too...
- 23:28:03 [vinod]
- * vinod wipes the tears from his eyes and adds another name to his bully-book
- 23:28:18 [docwolf]
- i keep rolf well sedated, which has to count for something
- 23:28:22 [vinod]
- oh wait - talli is already in there
- 23:28:29 [vinod]
- haha
- 23:28:42 [markd2]
- and just when things get interesting
- 23:28:46 [markd2]
- gotta run. l8r
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- 23:29:57 [denshi]
- so is school crazy?
- 23:30:28 [talli_]
- denshi: certainly so. answer must be yes. totally
- 23:30:40 [talli_]
- btw, what are you talking about?
- 23:30:40 [vinod]
- nah - undergrad was the best time of my life. but i think i'd have trouble going back to any kind of school again
- 23:31:16 [talli_]
- school sucks.
- 23:31:18 [denshi]
- porque?
- 23:31:22 [docwolf]
- undergrad was fun. rolf and i are thinking of taking basket weaving.
- 23:32:58 [denshi]
- vinod? reasons?
- 23:37:21 [vinod_]
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- 23:38:00 [vinod_]
- damn dialup
- 23:40:39 [vinod_]
- denshi: a lot of undergrad is wading through reams of stuff that you hope will be helpful in the future
- 23:40:40 [vinod_]
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- 23:41:03 [lethedrinker]
- so why is post nuke cool?
- 23:41:04 [vinod_]
- vinod_ (~vinod@207-172-102-18.s272.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com) has joined #openacs
- 23:41:11 [denshi]
- apparently vinod's dialup terms of service forbid him from bashing it.
- 23:41:40 [vinod_]
- this time the phone rang and it was one of those automated spam services!
- 23:42:03 [vinod_]
- in case my isp is watching "i love dialup!!!" *force smile*
- 23:42:15 [vinod_]
- denshi: a lot of undergrad is wading through reams of stuff that you hope will be helpful in the future
- 23:42:50 [vinod_]
- and after doing that in undergrad and medschool and realizing that most of it isn't all that helpful, i don't think i'd be able to tolerate it again
- 23:42:59 [denshi]
- vinod: you can disable call-waiting on your modem. So you won't get interrupted.
- 23:43:30 [vinod_]
- yeah, but i rarely get calls on my landline. plus it makes for a good excuse when talli starts talkin
- 23:44:03 [lethedrinker]
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- 23:45:35 [denshi]
- I can handle the wading through stuff. Work is like that all the time.
- 23:46:31 [docwolf]
- denshi: i disagree with vinod in one respect: undergrad was fun _because_ of all the useless garbage.
- 23:47:09 [denshi]
- I found college hilarious after I went back the first time. On the first day, they *give* you a list of everything that's going to happen for the next 5 months. No reorganizations, no evil bosses, no suprise clients, etc, etc. I felt like I was let in on some kind of secret.
- 23:47:28 [vinod_]
- that's true. i was talking more about learning which carbon atoms on the kreb cycle changes in each step
- 23:47:37 [denshi]
- after that, I can't understand students who can't schedule.
- 23:47:42 [docwolf]
- right. i agree with vinod there.
- 23:47:59 [docwolf]
- for people who go into medicine, all of college seems like one large "vocational school" rat-race
- 23:48:10 [docwolf]
- (taking useless courses b/c you have to..)
- 23:48:25 [vinod_]
- denshi: i liked that part about college, too
- 23:48:33 [talli_]
- that's pretty much what engineering school is about as well.
- 23:48:34 [docwolf]
- but i really dug taking classes that had nothing to do with 'employment'.
- 23:48:45 [vinod]
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- 23:48:46 [docwolf]
- like comparative literature, etc..
- 23:48:50 [vinod_]
- yeah - my favorite class was african storytelling
- 23:48:54 [talli_]
- after grad, i realized that the discipline was more important than the subject
- 23:49:09 [vinod_]
- learning how to learn
- 23:49:51 [denshi]
- I think lib arts is validated b/c of the one or two really fantastic professors you find in several years. They open up whole new realms of questions.
- 23:50:36 [docwolf]
- right. but these days "the humanities" have become really weak.
- 23:50:39 [talli_]
- denshi: what year in undergrad are you in?
- 23:50:49 [talli_]
- docwolf: i kinda disagree with you there.
- 23:50:58 [talli_]
- rather, that's a very ambiguous statement
- 23:51:14 [denshi]
- then they fail you, just to take their hideous price. Never work with the undead, my grandfather always said. He was a cyborg, you know. He faced terrible cyborg persecution back in nineteen dickety-two, as that was the style of the time....
- 23:51:53 [talli_]
- docwolf: if by weak you mean diluted, that may be valid
- 23:52:10 [talli_]
- but there's still alot of good scholarship out there, and the same books are still available...
- 23:52:45 [denshi]
- talli: 30 credit hours to go.
- 23:53:05 [talli_]
- how many times have you gone and come back?
- 23:53:09 [vinod_]
- denshi: ahh - you're almost done
- 23:53:56 [denshi]
- started at 15, left at 18 to work, back at 20, out at 21 to work, back at 23.
- 23:54:08 [talli_]
- uhmm... started at 15?
- 23:54:11 [denshi]
- * denshi has leveled up.
- 23:54:17 [vinod_]
- denshi: geez - you're just a kid, too ;-)
- 23:54:20 [talli_]
- is that what people do in texas?
- 23:54:28 [denshi]
- yup. You heard it here first -- I'm as wierd as they come.
- 23:54:44 [talli_]
- so you're a smarty pants, huh?
- 23:54:47 [talli_]
- not bad.
- 23:55:42 [talli_]
- you should go and speak with aaronsw. you can hang out in treehouses and plot the demise of western civilazation's education system :)
- 23:55:58 [talli_]
- (just kidding)
- 23:55:59 [denshi]
- talli: in a word, no. But there's a wierd little school adjunct to a major university that accepts 400 students in the middle of high school, sticks them on campus, tells them to survive for two years as college students, and gives them two diplomas afterwards. The student burn rate is pretty. :)
- 23:56:22 [jim]
- pretty burn?
- 23:56:54 [jim]
- umm, north tx state?
- 23:57:06 [denshi]
- UNT.
- 23:57:19 [jim]
- ahh
- 23:57:24 [talli_]
- denshi: so you have a high school diploma by now, or just the equivalent?
- 23:57:25 [jim]
- phenom music dept
- 23:57:54 [jim]
- Gary Willis and Steve Morse came outta there
- 23:57:55 [denshi]
- uhh... that school is accredited to give high school diplomas, so I have one of those. Then I went to UT Austin.
- 23:58:03 [talli_]
- ah, cool
- 23:58:06 [denshi]
- jim: so did the Eagles.
- 23:58:40 [jim]
- Joe Walsh was in that
- 23:59:37 [jim]
- the Eagles went to north Texas state?