The Nineteenth Byte

I'm currently trying to figure out the easiest way to host some kind of server for that continuous KOTH idea. I'm assuming someone in this room knows how to do that very well?

Chris Jester-Young

@TheBestOne The job description is here: careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34229/…

@PhiNotPi AWS! :-P

Alex A.

Haha

I think that would get expensive

Chris Jester-Young

@AlexA. Yes, I hope we have a long and mutually-beneficial work arrangement.

@AlexA. AWS, expensive?! Surely you jest.

Alex A.

11:07 PM

If it's going indefinitely?

It's inexpensive short-term.

Granted I don't have a whole lot of experience with it.

Chris Jester-Young

@AlexA. If it's not doing jack, it's not expensive. I have a micro EC2 instance that does nothing, and it costs me $0.40 per month.

(Forty cents.)

Alex A.

Didn't know! That's really cool!

TheBestOne

@ChrisJester-Young Wow. It looks like they don't even require a degree.

But being a good programmer is required.

Alex A.

I love that SE doesn't score 12/12 on Joel's own scale. XD

Chris Jester-Young

@TheBestOne Yes, the bar is very, very high. But having a degree is not part of that bar.

@AlexA. Correct. Isn't it nice to be able to be honest, rather than having to pretend to be 12/12? :-P

Alex A.

11:11 PM

That's for sure!

Unfortunately I think the bar was too high for me for the position I applied for. I had the education but all of my experience is in the world of clinical trials using a dumb, ancient language called SAS.

Seriously though, PSA: Don't use SAS.

Chris Jester-Young

@AlexA. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Okay, I should explain why I laughed so hard.

1. I'm a statistics major at the University of Auckland, where R was invented. R is, of course, a rival to SAS. I actually contributed code to the R core back in 1999, when I was a student.

Alex A.

Oh nice!! I love R!

Chris Jester-Young

2. I actually still like R a lot.

3. SAS is headquartered in the Triangle, where I currently live.

Alex A.

I freaking hate SAS.

Chris Jester-Young

4. SAS employs a lot of people in this area. I know multiple people who work at SAS.

PhiNotPi

11:16 PM

Okay, regarding the continuous KOTH idea, let's hypothesize that I'm a broke high-school student. What's the easiest way to host something, if that situation were to happen to me?

Chris Jester-Young

@PhiNotPi Get sponsorship from a local company, then try again.

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi: Haha "let's hypothesize." Yes, let's.

@ChrisJester-Young: Are you currently a stat major? Doing a distance program or something?

@ChrisJester-Young: Nvm, you said you were a student in 1999

Chris Jester-Young

:-)

Alex A.

Undergraduate, masters, PhD?

PhiNotPi

So, basically, it's not going to happen?

Alex A.

11:19 PM

@PhiNotPi: Anything is possible if you believe.

Chris Jester-Young

@AlexA. Bachelor with honours (2:2). I was too crappy of a student to be admitted any higher up.

Alex A.

What's 2:2?

rcrmn

Maybe with openshift? I don't know if something like this could be made to work there, but probably...

Alex A.

@MartinBüttner: Hello!

Chris Jester-Young

@AlexA. Second-class honours, second division. It's the type where you can't advance to PhD with (unlike first-class or second-class first division).

Alex A.

11:22 PM

@ChrisJester-Young: I don't know of an equivalent in US universities, but then again I wasn't a good enough student to be in honors.

@Calvin'sHobbies: Hello!

Calvin's Hobbies

Mhph

rcrmn

@PhiNotPi openshift.com

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies: ?

Calvin's Hobbies

A grunt like that is not an uncommon greeting from me irl

PhiNotPi

I have some new 100-round Red vs Blue results.

2/97/1

TheBestOne

11:24 PM

@PhiNotPi Get a job :P

@PhiNotPi Sniff sniff...

Alex A.

@TheBestOne: Why are you sniffing @PhiNotPi?

@PhiNotPi: When I said "believe," I meant it: youtu.be/HRz4SkLDBOY?t=3m

Martin Büttner

@AlexA. hi!

Alex A.

@MartinBüttner: How is a life of moderation treating you?

Martin Büttner

So far, I spent most of it with family and friends, away from a PC :P

Alex A.

That sounds great!

randomra

11:28 PM

@PhiNotPi what the a/b/c denotes?

PhiNotPi

Red wins, Blue wins, ties

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi: WOW. The blues are absolutely crushing the reds!

randomra

I see

PhiNotPi

Image I posted in the other chat room: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20949696#20949696

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi, @Sp3000: Your twin bots are unstoppable juggernauts. Really great work!

randomra

11:31 PM

how often your paired up bots die?

Martin Büttner

@randomra that's why I was thinking Unary, but it doesn't specify what the interpreter does with non-0 characters in the source.

TheBestOne

@randomra Whenever at least 5 reds attack it all at once.

randomra

@MartinBüttner writing a just row&block-correct unary/lenguage seems interesting

@MartinBüttner CH writes characters so if an interpreter doesn't handle all unicode as single char, you can do it with 2 characters in that language

if you want to strech the rules

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies: Two of your challenges are in the top 10 in all of PPCG history! data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/297126

Doorknob

@AlexA. Anything wrong with sort by votes? :P

Alex A.

11:41 PM

@Doorknob: Nothing at all, I was justing messing around with the neat online SQL interface.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Haha, I know. Tell me how many times I've been on the hnq list more than other users. That's a stat I'd like to see

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies that should be adjusted for the number of questions you've asked :P

like an HNQ rate

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies, @MartinBüttner: I'm on it.

Doorknob

@AlexA. Don't bother. HNQ history isn't stored.

Calvin's Hobbies

Shucks

Alex A.

11:45 PM

@Doorknob, @Calvin'sHobbies, @MartinBüttner Update: Not on it.

Calvin's Hobbies

No 2010 languages?

Alex A.

@Doorknob: There's been a lot of (well deserved) praise and attention focused on Martin lately given his election as the new moderator, but I just want to let you know that I--and I think I speak for the PPCG community as a whole on this--greatly appreciate your invaluable efforts as well! You've helped make this site what it is today, and what it is is awesome. So congrats to you too! :)

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@Calvin'sHobbies: Fun fact: Programming didn't exist in the year 2010.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Doorknob You opened the door for us

Alex A.

Cue the pun trumpet

Sorry, I meant trombone

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