@quintopia vzn would probably jam in ruby, but he may tell you more if you ask. I'm more of a problem solver type. For example, I fixed bug 142 in kdiff3 (because it is annoying), and the problem would now be to even get the slightest feedback from ...
@quintopia did you sign up for the notification? the idea of the code jam mtg (thx for asking) is just to connect with ppl who like code etc., in a very broad way. show and tell, conversation etc. more here
It would be great if mathematical plotting programs like gnuplot would support both mouse based zoom-in and mouse based zoom-out. I once tried to describe what I mean in a German post titled Zoom-out could be so easy, but the description is too incomplete. One issue of that post is that you norma...
@vzn Do you have current proposals for code jamming? Or maybe quintopia has some too?
@ThomasKlimpel the idea of "code jam" was that it was a catchy title for a chat room sort of like "h bar". ie just a catchy/ attractive name. have been trying to build momentum on that for several years with mixed effect/ success :|
@ThomasKlimpel collatz ofc! (a code jam of 1 for years!)
@quintopia the list is people who have signed up. it could be anyone.
@quintopia He doesn't mean to completely solve it. He means to play with it, to do visualizations, compute statistics, implement it with a finite state transducer, ... anything goes
hey guys thx for dropping by, was in a hot springs/ restaurant in mtns during the scheduled event, now have to crash, plz drop by later, thx for stopping by, lets continue this fun chat & plz feel free to invite all your friends too... later :)
klayout is a very good viewer for the layout data you deal with in semiconductor manufacturing, and it is open source. Just use it to look at the different layers in some standard cell libraries and maybe some obsolete compete chip, and you get a good feeling for the things semiconductor manufacturing is dealing with, and why the described zoom-out functionality can be important.
Some day I will have to blog about this (and include some interesting standard cells and complete chips), and how the way hierarchy is used to compress layouts is related to inverse semigroups in a way that can't be emulated by groups.
@vzn Sorry, it was actually in the middle of the night for me. I had made a small mistake which forced me to interrupt my sleep, and I had to go back to sleep sooner or later anyway. So you leaving was a good opportunity for me to leave as well.