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6:07 PM
Indeed. sips brandy
 
God, I could use a drink.
Or a pizza.
 
nothing like botching an interview to ruin your motivation for the day :(
 
I wish I could actually have a drink...
 
Oh no!
What happened, @Almo?
 
@almo sup ?
 
6:08 PM
I froze during the "write some algorithms" part
didn't get far enough. forgot my vector math as well
 
for example they didn't let you allocate textures larger than 4k*4k until recently and that's only 64MB of data
 
-t
 
that doesn't happen to me often. I'm usually pretty relaxed at interviews.
 
Ahem, I will end my shit when I feel ready.
 
6:09 PM
*just noticed this message was not posted last time
 
What kind of algorithms?
 
@ShotgunNinja :P
 
you know simple ones. unsorted array, determine if 2 integers add to x
unsorted array, find index of x
 
@ToddersLegrande even mine?
 
6:10 PM
reverse a string
don't remember the other one
i did ok on them, but not finishing was bad
 
Chill bro
 
at least i have one offer on the table to consider
might take that
just it's with a boardgame company so the pay isn't great and it's an hour commute
 
Aim high, then adjust
 
:)
 
Be persistent with this company
ask for feedback and be open to it and that will show you care and you're willing to adapt.
 
6:14 PM
yeah pressure can make you do stupid things
 
@Blue what did they ask about?
 
+1 Jimmy
In my interview?
Or Almos?
 
@Blue in the interview..
 
About my history mostly.
The agency thought when I called that I was a rival agency trying to farm info about their clients!
Apparently too good to be true.
 
well, are you?
 
6:16 PM
Nope.
I'm exactly as good as I intend to be.
Which is usually awesome.
Thing is that it is a company that designs applications for letting agencies and the content of that sounds boring as hell. I'd be the only developer in an office of only 3 people which sounds seriously lonesome.
Right now I'm the only developer in H&M in the UK but at least I have 80 odd first line agents around me to talk to.
 
H&M has only one developer in the UK? :<
 
Yep, me.
All the others are in Boras - Sweden
 
H&M the store?
 
Clothes etc, yes.
 
My god, you are a juggernaut.
 
6:20 PM
?
"I'm the JUGGERNAUT BITCH!"
 
@Almo was this the Ubi interview?
 
I can't imagine being the only developer for a company in one country.
Or even in one office.
I'd go insane.
 
CAE
 
cae?
 
what is a CAE
 
6:23 PM
canadian aeronautics engineering
was with the health division doing surgery simulators to train surgeons without hurting real people
 
Restecpa
 
yeah would have been a pretty sweet gig
the other job is 25k less, no benefits.
but great environment, great people, fun business.
and i have to let them know by Friday
 
TIL FRIDAY - WE SHALL DEPLOY THE JOB GNOMES..
 
and since i'd be the entire iOS department, I wouldn't feel right taking it then leaving in a few months
 
6:25 PM
@ToddersLegrande - DEPOLY
 
hahah
 
I wouldn't feel right taking then leaving anything in a few months TBH
 
agreed
 
I know that feel.
Been in H&M for a year and 4 months now.
Officially a developer since October.
 
Been at my current gig for about 4 years now, but it's getting about time to move probably.
I rocked my last phone interview though
 
6:28 PM
@Gajoo your english is just fine. It's usually a minor mistake here or there. You generally don't botch whole sentences :P
@Blue wut??
 
:)
 
@ToddersLegrande seems it's better than what I thought it was...
 
@Blue Typo != Broken English incase that's what you were getting at.
 
nope.
I typo'd and didn't notice.
 
Then I have no idea what we are depolying
 
6:31 PM
We are Deploying* I just didn't notice that I commanded you to Depoly...
Although now I wonder...
 
I still don't know why you said that to me lol
But I sure enjoyed your enthusiasm!
 
You seem like you could control an army of gnomes.
brb - char siu bao is calling me to steam it.
 
Blue are you Asian
 
Sure I could. But who would want to? Gnomes are useless.
 
@jimmy Nope I just like buns.
 
6:33 PM
who doesn't
 
6:45 PM
can i render the same vbo multiple times, so that the content would appear in different locations?
 
The buns ... they are amazing...
 
awww, jerk... I had to skip lunch today...
 
buns? where?
 
he made char siu bao. He said that earlier.
or steamed BBQ pork buns.
 
gimme buns
<3 buns
my precious
 
6:59 PM
MY BUNS!
 
facepalm
 
@Blue I am confused
 
You probably should be at this point in my evening.
 
7:13 PM
@ToddersLegrande any progress? about what you were doing last night?
 
Been at work all day. I'll check it out tonight (4-5 hoursish)
I'm pretty sure I've just gotta configure the MIME types to allow ISO files
but for some reason my server takes ages to update that -_-
And half the time it fails the first time
 
Helloooo... this place.
 
@ToddersLegrande tnx
@William'MindWorX'Mariager wataduin?
 
Just continuing on the browser game experiment. :)
 
I preferred if you worked on legeria, but anyway your choice :D
 
7:20 PM
Hehe, yeah, me too.
But I can't find the energy for it. The browser game helps me a bit with school too, which is why I decided to do it.
 
imgur.com/a/wIAaa#401 How I feel when my project leader in response to a bug in the database says german accent "I'm just going to delete all the data in the database that was added today, I think its because there are too many rows of data... Then no problem"
-.-
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Heya :)
 
Oh boy.
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Q: Java Game Development?

Josh LewisI am looking for some resources for learning Java - ideally centred around creating games. My main goal is to be able to take part in competitions such as Ludum Dare. I also would like to have a game project to work on in my free time..as a kind of hobby. I suppose a language like C# wouldn't be ...

 
@JohnMcDonald, Do you use sql databases on your site?
 
7:33 PM
Look at them tags.
 
Hehe
Well, he does mention C# in the question. :P
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Yup
MySQL
 
How do you handle the whole login/connect part?
An included php or login each place you need it?
 
All in php
I'll usually have a db.php or something that will open the connection, and I'll include it in php files that require the database
 
7:36 PM
Right, that was what I was thinking about.
 
I've got a good wrapper you can use if you like
 
I was thinking about making a db.php file that I could include, that also had a few common functions, like look up by user id/name and other similar things.
 
Then you gotta store your db.php file above your wwwroot folder so that its not as easily accessible by dem hackerz
 
Heh, I don't think I have that option. :P
 
ewwww, php
 
7:39 PM
It's a shared hosting solution afterall.
It's as insecure as it's cheap. :P
@ShotgunNinja Way to contribute to the conversation. ;)
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager all the shared hosting solutions I've used have given you several folders before your wwwroot folder. :(
Like if you ftp to the server (not your subdomain) as the admin aren't you usually put a few layers before you find files accessible via the interwebs?
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager My pleasure ;P
 
You know whats crazy... I haven't paid my old host in like a year and my sites are still up and I still have ftp access. Haven't tried cpanel...
 
7:41 PM
That's my root.
 
When logging in with the FTP.
 
Weird
so the folder I was referring to on my hosting was public_html
but I see you dont have that
 
Well, just give me your hosting then. ;)
 
lol
if you want to point your domain to mine I really don't have a problem with that
It can be kind of slow on the draw though thanks to IIS App Pools being awful slow to load when no one has hit them in a while
 
7:44 PM
I wonder if I could just try and find a cheap IIS host to replace my current one.
I really would prefer to code in C#.
 
3ix.com
Ah IIS host.
My bad.
 
I'm using arvixe.com
but like I said... I'm open to letting you use some space. I've got @Gajoo's blog, my... thing... and another persons site all on there already. Very little traffic comes to any of us
So we won't hold you back
the problem comes in when you need control panel access... I'm not exactly the speediest admin to fix your problems
 
www.3ix.com damn cheap for the content and simple cPanel.
 
Well, unless there's something special I need, I don't see the need. All I need is a database of some kind and FTP access.
 
7:48 PM
FTP is gross... there needs to be a better deployment system for websites.
 
I'm using this as a starting place, and so far, it's worked out well: github.com/WritheM/captioncontest
 
sftp ftw
 
@ToddersLegrande, I would love to give it a go. Just a /gws/ folder and access to it. :)
VS isn't the best for PHP dev anyways. :P
 
Adobe Dreamweaver <3
 
@ShotgunNinja Microsoft has been working on that with their Web Deploy. I personally haven't used it but it looks slick
 
7:49 PM
That would be pretty nice
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager whats the best way to contact you with sensitive information?
 
Telemephone?
 
@ToddersLegrande nikolaj.mariager at gmail.com
I have skype too if that's better.
 
Skype is good when I'm at home. Gmail/Gtalk is good for when I'm at work
I'll start with the gmail for now
 
I idle Freenode, EsperNet, AfterNET and synIRC. :P
Choose your weapon!
 
7:51 PM
I can help you out as well with a few classes.
pastebin.com/4is5vnjh For those interested
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager ok - I have to go for now. I'll send you an email when I've got stuff up and running. I gotta fix some stuff for Gajoo so I might as well throw up your site while I'm in there
 
I actually just remembered I get free hosting through my school's computers. They have both ASP and PHP. Not ASP.NET though, which is what I really want.
@ToddersLegrande You do that. <3
Thanks.
 
ASP???
Jeeze
@William'MindWorX'Mariager have you used Razor?
 
lol old-school ASP
 
Never. :P
Yeah, my school IT crew is kinda... Old.
 
7:54 PM
College or high school?
 
Razor is new school ASP. Combine it with MVC and you've got some pretty sexy code.
 
I know more advanced programming than the guy teaching us the equivalent to Intro to Programming. :P
 
Anywho. I'm for truly leaving now
Later all
 
Can be run like this:

$connection = new Connection;
$connection->connect();
$connection->runQuery("SELECT * FROM `table`");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($connection->getResult()))
{
$post = new BlogPost;
$post->setDetailsFromRow($row);
echo $post->getGeneratedPostHtml();
}
$connection->freeResult();
$connection->close();
 
@ShotgunNinja Not 100% sure. Our school system is a bit different. It's the thing before University.
@Blue Sexy.
 
7:55 PM
My college's IT crew is made up of students who work for the school.
 
Damn straight its sexy. :P
 
I've had 10 years of schooling. Now I'm on to 3 years of schooling before entering University after that.
 
Okay, that makes sense. In the U.S., we have 13 years of schooling (Kindergarten, then grades 1-12) before entering university.
Grades 1-5 are usually handled by "elementary schools", grades 6-7 (rarely) or 6-8 are handled by "junior high schools" or "middle schools", and grades 9-12 are handled by "high schools".
Kindergartens are either separate schools, or small parts of elementary schools.
Because of the fact that most American students hit puberty during middle school, it is often regarded as the least favorite of the three, and statistically, there's very little guidance or support from parents or school staff during these years.
 
I guess High School is what I'm in then.
At the age of 25. :P
 
Hmm. Usually, students graduate from high school at the age of 18 or 19...
What country are you from?
 
8:09 PM
@ShotgunNinja similar to the system we used to have in Iran 1-5-3-3-1, now it's 1-6-3-3
 
in the US typically high school is compulsory
so it's rare for people to retake high school @ 25
usually you'd just take a standardized test (GED) to get the equivalent of a diploma if somehow you managed to not take it
 
Yeah; generally, you need to either finish high school or meet the requirements for an equivalent GED
 
@Gajoo I think in US traditionally it's very common to have 1-6-3-3 as well
although the alternative is almost always 1-5-3-4. Although they exist, "prep school" is uncommon
 
@Jimmy As far as I've seen, the 1-6-3-3 is only in very isolated environments, since the 1-5-3-4 system has been adopted by a large amount of school districts, and students moving between different systems would cause issues.
 
yeah it seems that way
at least, 4 year-schools became more common as I got older
 
8:17 PM
Also, the 1-5-3-3-1 system seems a bit strange to me... Why divide students for just their last year of compulsory education?
 
I suspect it's a college-prep year?
 
@ShotgunNinja i'll explain it later
 
@Jimmy I was going to assume the same, but I wanted to propose it as a question rather than state an assumption.
 
After school, I wasn't really feeling it for studying, so I got a few jobs, made some money.
Then a year ago, I decided I wanted to continue, so here I am. :)
 
yay
i optimized my game
and gained 10 fps :D
and i'm about to gain more!
 
8:37 PM
@Jimmy yes, or to put more exactly a year when people get ready for national university exam.
 
8:56 PM
@visDEVion woop woop
 
@visDEVion what's your exact fps now?
 
@Gajoo about 80
 
9:41 PM
+5 fps :D
good night
 
 
1 hour later…
10:49 PM
just for fun, started writing a LOL model importer :)
Surprisingly enough, that's Shen's neutral pose
or perhaps not surprisingly. I didn't realize he has his hands like that all the time
 
11:18 PM
@Jimmy do you follow fairy tail?
 
not really
I watched like the first 50 episodes or so
 
these two last episodes were really something else. demonstrating natsu's power :D
 
it just seems like a "One Piece with more filler episodes" series to me
 
@Jimmy so you were short-anime type
 
yes. I lose patience with long anime because at some point the story gets really blegh
 
11:20 PM
@Jimmy there is a big difference, also it doesn't have that many filler episodes, maybe one or two between every two arcs
 
some of the entire arcs are low-quality
 
also fairy tail has a lot more twists compared to one piece
@Jimmy I can't argue with that. though this last arc (especially episodes 174,175) were the best.
 
Have you seen Magi?
Related: are "Arabian Nights" stories big in Iran?
 
@Jimmy nope
any links?
 
11:28 PM
well, I don't have that one in my archive
meaning I won't be watching it anytime soon, unless you think it's really amazing which might result in reordering my priorities!
 
It's based (extremely loosely) on the Aladdin / Ali Baba stories
I'd rate it higher than Fairy Tail, if we're talking about action series
 
I could figure it out based on summery
 
but then again, most of these series (Naruto, Bleach, etc.) are pretty high quality for the first season. I'm not sure if Magi is intended to go on for 200 more episodes or not.
 
right now the it's only naruto which I feel is getting of the track
bleach also had some issues but it managed to fix itself
fairy tail has ups and downs, it's mostly around 8/10 but sometimes it gets as low as 5-6
and for one piece it's almost always 7/10
 
11:44 PM
@Jimmy downloading started, probably will finish in a week!
 
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