The Bridge

Grace Note

11:00 PM

The one about the rec API?

Arda Xi

Q&A should only be part of it. If you can do a proper recommendation without any human intervention, all the better.

Grace Note

It might work for commoners.

Arda Xi

But if you do need human intervention, the automatic bit still helps and learns.

badp

forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2089421

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Pareto principle. 80% of the people will only need 20% of the site.

Grace Note

11:03 PM

@ArdaXi By commoners I meant more like 90+%

Arda Xi

If they can log on, upload some data on their gaming from Steam or Xfire or XBL or wherever, enter some criteria they want (games like this, games with these things) and get a proper recommendation, the site's job is done.

Grace Note

I know a lot of people who have quirky enough issues to break mechanisms, but by consequence I know that statistically speaking we don't even make up 1% of the people who would even access such a resource.

Hence the vast majority would work exactly through that.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Exactly, but that's my point. An automatic system is never fool-proof. If it isn't, we use the human intervention bit.

Grace Note

@ArdaXi Aye, I don't think it needs to be, either.

Arda Xi

Exactly.

Grace Note

11:05 PM

We're in agreement, you know. Probably 100% agreement.

Arda Xi

We can even do "This guy is asking for a recommendation with lots of tags that you have on your profile. Can you help her out?"

Grace Note

So let's do the one other thing that we agree on - destroy badp.

Arda Xi

Well, you know, I tried, but we had too little time and too many witnesses!

Grace Note

Curses! Foiled again!

Arda Xi

Luckily, when we do the Dutch meet-up, we can all talk Dutch and conspire while he has no clue.

Grace Note

11:07 PM

You guys have too many consonants.

Arda Xi

@GraceNote Daar doen we het voor. :)

FallenAngelEyes

@GraceNote Je hebt gelijk

wow Lunatic's nuts

did Stage 1 in practice on Lunatic with Reimu to see how it was

geez

Arda Xi

So, now all this game-rec thingy needs is hosting and a designer.

FallenAngelEyes

@ArdaXi If you need someone to say "That looks horribad, change it" I volunteer!

Arda Xi

I could do it all by myself but it would look like crap.

user30

11:10 PM

Me and Mana were just going to use Bootstrap from Twitter.

FallenAngelEyes

Except I have no HTML or CSS skills. But I can tell you if it's ugly!

Arda Xi

I can make stuff based on function, but very definitely not on form.

user30

twitter.github.com/bootstrap

user30

and use Ruby.

FallenAngelEyes

Or has bad usability for the average person

user30

11:11 PM

because Ruby is awesome

user30

and I can write it with some degree of proficiency.

Arda Xi

Okay, I'm out.

user30

:)

FallenAngelEyes

@Grace Oh huh, you can collect Spell Cards in practice mode?

Arda Xi

I hate Ruby.

Grace Note

11:11 PM

@FallenAngelEyes Aye, you can.

Arda Xi

Not so much for the language itself, but for its community.

FallenAngelEyes

Interesting

user30

waghbl, ETF2L signups are open for Season 10

user30

time to assemble my team

Arda Xi

The .NET community consists of professionals and corporate users. The Ruby community consists of hipsters with Macbooks and netbooks.

Grace Note

11:12 PM

But capturing in practice mode ain't all that good as capturing in a normal playthrough, o'co'rs'

Arda Xi

How can you code on a netbook? I can't figure it out.

Mana

@Arda shrug? I mean, the standard for code width is 80 chars/line, so it fits nicely on a netbook screen.

user30

bah why is none of my team online ><

user30

oh well, we can sort it in the morning

Arda Xi

@Mana You've never worked on a project before have you?

It's not just about code.

user30

11:15 PM

oh, and highlander medals are up!

user30

yay

Arda Xi

You have documentation you need to look up, debugging, readmes, files.

Mana

Oh, I know.

Arda Xi

I can't fathom someone developing a project with less than 2 screens.

Mana

But I meant just the coding part

Grace Note

11:15 PM

@ArdaXi Eheheh?

user30

I work on a 13" laptop.

user30

Don't need any more space

Arda Xi

I guess I'm just spoiled, but I cannot work with only one screen.

Grace Note

Throughout college and when I actually got employed, I've only ever worked on one screen

Mana

IMO it's easier to work on one screen

user30

11:16 PM

tf2b.com/?id=lamb021

Grace Note

Two screens helps a lot, though

user30

oh my god look at that medal

user30

it's so shiny

Mana

since when I'm on two screens I'm more apt to get distracted by this place

Grace Note

(So I hear, at least)

Hum. The room name is the Bridge, but my page title still calls it The Suspension Bridge. Guess they can't really update that, or summat.

And yet it updates whenever there are unread messages...

Lazers

11:20 PM

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Arda Xi

Anyway, the reason I like developing in .NET has nothing to do with the language itself. It's the tools I get.

Debugging in Visual Studio easily beats anything else.

user30

Yeah, and I like developing in Ruby because of the language

user30

hrm, apparently you can't use description tags on medals

user30

that's annoying

Arda Xi

@ThomasMcDonald Don't get me wrong, I love C# too.

But I think the tools are more important.

user30

11:24 PM

TextMate/vim for me

FallenAngelEyes

This is a problem I run into whenever I think about trying to learn how to code

user30

but yeah, we need two misc slots already, so I can wear my earbuds and my medal.

FallenAngelEyes

I ask 5 different programmers what language I should learn and get 6 opinions

user30

brainfuck is a good starting point

Mana

Yeah, brainfuck is about the best there is.

user30

11:26 PM

oop, @Mana, you best remove that, brainfuck is a banned word on SE

FallenAngelEyes

user30

or it halfheartedly is

Mana

@FallenAngelEyes Well, no.

To be honest it's always difficult to tell where to start. It's all about finding a language that you feel comfortable using.'

Once you learn the basics of a programming language they tend to be pretty extendable from one language to the next; it usually becomes a matter of syntax for switching languages after that point.

So really you can start anywhere, pick up the basics, and then try and figure out what programming language you actually like.

That was a pretty general statement though; this won't work with all languages since some of them vary greatly in terms of design and usage.

FallenAngelEyes

@Mana Yeah... I just end up never knowing where to start and saying "fuck it"

Mana

Personally, I would recommend Python as a starter language since it was designed to more closely resemble natural language, so the syntax is pretty easy to pick up.

user30

11:31 PM

> Fucking horrible deal Setlet. A friend got offered a P. Energy Towering Pillar(the other guy’s a bit hesitant), and I just got offered around 80-100$ paypal for mine, or a Vivid Plasma Pickelhaube.

user30

eh

user30

that was when the participation medal was tradable

user30

there's 8k of those things

FallenAngelEyes

So for shits and giggles, sometimes I type the beginnings of common questions into Google to see what the autocomplete gives me

I typed in "What do I do if" and the first result is "What do I do if a ginger bites me?"

What the fuck, internet. What. The. Fuck.

user30

grr, why are my other 5 players offline

Lazers

11:41 PM

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