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Ivo Flipse

11:00

> FYI: the "CS-101" course is a really really basic introduction to computational thinking. If you want intro programming you probably want CS106A, which hasn't been put into this format yet.

Journeyman Geek

XD, thats fine too

Ivo Flipse

AI has no programming assignments, its more a theoretical introduction to probability and such

Journeyman Geek

this school threw me into a year 3 managementy IT module in the first term

Sathya

I need a class which gets me into the nitty-gritty of data structures

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya I'd like that too, guess I simply need the follow ups for all these courses :P

Sathya

11:01

@IvoFlipse hehe

Ivo Flipse

I actually like the DB-class a lot, if only because it shows how to actually use a DB instead of telling you how it works and let you figure out why that's even useful

Sathya

I write probably one of the longest answers I've ever written on SO & I get no votes :(

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Ivo Flipse

I wrote an application without using joins and foreign keys, simply because its daunting to use it if you don't know how it works

@Sathya I pity you fool ;)

My HN post is getting tons of votes, \o/

Sathya

@IvoFlipse whee!

Also, in other news, I have crossed 105 answers on SO!

Ivo Flipse

not bad

hopefully next year I'll actually know enough of programming to supply real answers :P

next to my high score questions :P

Sathya

11:04

yay that!

Ivo Flipse

I must have one of the highest upvote ratio's on SO

especially when you apply a penalty for asking only a few questions

just to prevent it from skewing to one person asking a 700 upvote question or something

Sathya

time for my phase4 kickoff meeting. Thankfully, it's online via livemeeting

slhck

morning!

Sathya

morning

slhck

oh, wait, it's noon already

Ivo Flipse

11:06

good luck @Sathya

hi @slhck

slhck

so, what's new? :)

Ivo Flipse

evernote.com/about/download/clearly.php

Sathya

apart from @Ivo being upvote magnet, nothing else :P

@IvoFlipse readability also went free, fwiw

right must focus on meeting

slhck

@Sathya Readability wasn't free?

haha

Sathya

it had some $$ attached to it

slhck

11:10

oh it had an app, I didn't know that, just used the bookmark

Journeyman Geek

hm, this class should have started 10 minutes ago

Ivo Flipse

@Sathya I already pay for Instapaper

though the I hate marco for making me pay for the ipad version :@

slhck

I just throw everything into Chrome Bookmarks ™!

Ivo Flipse

@slhck Well that's a deep pit

I have a ton of them and I never know how to get the right stuff out

slhck

Yeah, it's the worst, actually

Ivo Flipse

11:13

it even stripped all the descriptions of all the favicons, which is neat for my bookmarkbar, but it totally sucks when I look at my bookmarks

slhck

But I somehow haven't figured out an easier way to organize. Don't want to use any other apps for that.

Ivo Flipse

I want Google to fix it

Sathya

@IvoFlipse ah that happened to me too

slhck

ugh, that's not really useful :/

Sathya

duplicated all my bookmarks - one with full descriptions - one w/o

Ivo Flipse

11:15

@slhck the understatement of the year :P

slhck

haha

Ivo Flipse

Does anyone know if I can store pictures on Picasa Web albums in their original size

Assuming I pay for the storage that is

slhck

Nope, haven't used it yet, sorry

Sathya

@IvoFlipse they are stored in original size right?

Journeyman Geek

erg. school wireless is sucking today

Ivo Flipse

11:26

@Sathya I believe Picasa resizes them while uploading

3872×2592 pixels – 2451KB

Hmmm that seems pretty full size

Tempted to get space on Picasa then to backup my collection

if only because if I want to show them to others I can easily create galleries

Sathya

@IvoFlipse how much is Picasa pricing?

I'm a flickr pro user

$25 /yr

Ivo Flipse

20$/year for 80 Gb

its even shared between Gmail and Google Docs

I might upload a lot of my files/ebooks to Google Docs then ;P

Sathya

oh ok

slhck

That's actually pretty cheap

Ivo Flipse

yeah, though on second thought its only useful as backup of my pdfs

not as actual storage/library

slhck

11:38

Haha. U.S. congress officially makes pizza a vegetable.

Journeyman Geek

congress is filled with poopyheads

Ivo Flipse

they only got pizza as veggies when they were young, what else do you expect

slhck

> These changes are in addition to others that prevent the USDA from limiting the amount of white potatoes, corn, lima beans, and green peas served on school lunch trays. Senators from several potato-growing states worked that into the bill before it went to the House and the change stuck.

headesks

Ivo Flipse

I'm uploading a random folder of documents to Google Docs, but I fear if I upload all my university documents too It would get increasingly hard to actually find stuff

I mean queries are more likely to get random hits, especially when I don't know what I'm looking for exactly

slhck

@IvoFlipse Does that mean you'd entirely work in Google Docs?

or just synchronize every now and then?

Ivo Flipse

11:41

naah, I'd just keep it as a backup of older files

I wouldn't be working on them, just as a reference for 'if' I need them

> Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings to the corresponding Google Docs format

Uhh best not with all these presentations, I fear that's going to corrupt them

Journeyman Geek

lol

its optional i think

Ivo Flipse

@JourneymanGeek It is, just not sure if I should use it

oh I just found out those folders are 45 Gb large :P

guess I'm not uploading them after all :P

slhck

@IvoFlipse lol, what do you keep in there?

Journeyman Geek

>_> everything

slhck

all my important uni stuff fits in 4.5 GB, that's half the size of my Dropbox

Ivo Flipse

11:45

Every presentation I ever had in college

But I think there's also some raw data from my bachelor/master thesis in there

slhck

ah, raw data is nasty :P

Ivo Flipse

yup 20 Gb worth of raw data :P

Journeyman Geek

I usually toss mine, they tend to be crap

i mean presentations

Ivo Flipse

They are, but my field is rather specialized, so its not like there's a ton of books out there I could pick up instead

slhck

just read that @JourneymanGeek was tossing crap

Journeyman Geek

11:48

ook?

Ivo Flipse

auch, I have 355 Mb of storage just for my literature review (mostly pdfs I read)

slhck

@IvoFlipse What's your field, actually?

Ivo Flipse

Human Movement Science or Kinesiology

slhck

And you've got your Master's already?

Ivo Flipse

yeah, I graduated 3 years ago

but I wasted time on SU and Google Reader instead of reading programming books during the first two years :P

Journeyman Geek

11:50

>_>

;p

slhck

haha

I can somehow relate to that

Journeyman Geek

eh, 28, working on my first degree

and i didn't have SU to blame! ;p

slhck

@JourneymanGeek Says someone with >20k :P

ah well, gotta go anyway, have lunch, get stuff done

Journeyman Geek

well, honestly i have no clue how that happened

yay, i just stumped the lecturer ;p

DMA57361

12:57

woo, I've now hit my first ever 10k on SE over at Gaming

Ivo Flipse

w00t

I got a 44% score for my last AI homework :( Stupid ambiguous questions

DMA57361

ouch

is AI the one where you get stuck with your first score? or they one you can retry?

Ivo Flipse

stuck, for a whole freaking week

I made it 10 days ago, over the course of which a lot of information was added or rather people raised issues/ambiguities that didn't exactly make it easier to answer it

ah well, Peter Norvig said he was happy if we thought deeply about it, well mission f***** accomplished

DMA57361

lol

Tom Wijsman

14:36

@DMA57361 Skyrim has got me a lot closer to 10k on Gaming.SE.

Probably will be my second site next to Super User that I hit 10k on, so I might want to consider to invest more time in that community...

DMA57361

@TomWijsman it tipped me over the edge, but I was close anyway; I suspect you're nearly one of the top skyrim guys, you've been pretty active in the tag?

Tom Wijsman

@DMA57361: Yeah, second place for some days. Seems that Raven Dreamer has just put me to the third place...

Dunno how they calculate who the top user is.

DMA57361

not bad then :) and isn't it simply based on score?

Tom Wijsman

@DMA57361: skyrimvsmw3.com

DMA57361

oh, there

is that different from the top users in the tag? :/

Tom Wijsman

14:40

Yeah, there. And it is different from the top users in the tag...

DMA57361

ah, well tag is split in to answers and questions

looks like the VS site combines the two?

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, quite possible.

tombull89

15:04

If I ask a question about a specific model printer would that get closed as too localised? I've got a HP 6040 which can print A3 max and a student wants to print an A1 sheet by stitching A3 sheets together...is this even possible? Manual is very little help...

Journeyman Geek

hmm

if you ask about stitching A3 sheets together it wouldn't

and the printer model shouldn't be the focus of the question

orrrr

you could use something like this posterazor.sourceforge.net

tombull89

@JourneymanGeek Not terribly new, is it? :P Cheers, I'll have a look at that.

Journeyman Geek

or something similar ;p

Tom Wijsman

19:17

The day Skyrim released... o_O

Peter Turner

Anybody know who DID invent the scroll lock key? en.wikipedia.org/w/…

Daniel Beck

19:39

Visitors from xkcd: Secretary Chu did not create the Scroll Lock key.

Nice.

Ivo Flipse

what the hell, I can't seem to uninstall LiveDrive :S

@TomWijsman that's a lot of votes

Daniel Beck

@TomWijsman So much waste…

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck he's not the only one, Raven Dreamer and Mark probably have even more gone to waste

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Wow.

Ivo Flipse

yeah that's insane

I can't wait for Diable 3 to blow up the network :P

imagine if even a small group of those visitors turn into regular users, that's massive

Daniel Beck

19:53

It's great for Gaming.SE though. If this leads to long-term users of the site, this'll be nice.

Although I don't really get why Skyrim is so popular. I still prefer UESP, as the information is organized more logically there, and I've been using it for ten years or so now.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck I got it because I wanted to know what all the rage was about :P

perhaps we should let you have a try @DanielBeck ;)

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse Doing what?

Tom Wijsman

Just like StarCraft II, I heard too much people mentioning it's name.

Ivo Flipse

@DanielBeck Play Skyrim

I hate the Skyrim controls, but it has a lot of elements that drew me into WoW too

Daniel Beck

I'm sorry @IvoFlipse I meant as a topic on the site. Skyrim is on its way to me and I don't even have a Windows machine.

Ivo Flipse

19:58

@DanielBeck Its simply because there are so many variables, though a game like World of Warcraft could have easily overtaken it, if only you had a guild worth of users on our site

Daniel Beck

@IvoFlipse I know, and that's why you need a well organized site. We just have a list with sort options, where something like the article hierarchy and categories of UESP is very handy.

I've been using that site for Morrowind and Oblivion and it's always been accurate and complete.

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, Wikia is a pain.

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