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I was just the opposite! My degree is Computer Science & Engineering, but my least favorite classes were the hardware theory and design classes, so my work has been nearly all software. :). Thank goodness the world has both kinds of people! I leave hardware to you!Maybe I had bad profs then, they were both first-timers. All I know is I stumbled my way thru C -- or was it C+? Or C++? I don't even know the difference -- and then would have completely failed Assembly if not for my partner who did 99% of the work. In an effort to explain how an algorithm can be written to count -- oh, and this was after the prof explained to me what 'algorithm' means (why not just say "program"?!) -- my Assembly prof asked me "How do you count things?"
To which I replied "I count them one by one...and then, um, they're counted."
It was that class that prompted me to switch to the electrical engineering program, which I was infinitely better at.
interesting.
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Most of my degree was networking and operating system focused. I stumbled through my programming courses and didn't look back. At least until capstone was "build a network application" and the three of us looked at each other like "should have studied programming further".
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If you ran a dubious pawnbroker then I'd probably be checking the area out just to see you know, if it was legal?
Why, if I had so much as a suspicion of an inkling of an idea that any of these goods had been illegitimately acquired, I'd tell you immediately, I swear.
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The mirror one might be a combination of multiple reasons: for a long time, a mirror was an extremely expensive accessory and in completely unrelated matter, a reflection was considered a manifestation or representation of one's soul (many supernatural beings don't have soul and thus don't have reflection), fracturing a mirror could be interpreted as fracturing a soul...
*mind blown*
So that's where the weird vampire no-reflection thing comes from!
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Maybe I had bad profs then, they were both first-timers. All I know is I stumbled my way thru C -- or was it C+? Or C++? I don't even know the difference -- and then would have completely failed Assembly if not for my partner who did 99% of the work. In an effort to explain how an algorithm can be written to count -- oh, and this was after the prof explained to me what 'algorithm' means (why not just say "program"?!) -- my Assembly prof asked me "How do you count things?"
To which I replied "I count them one by one...and then, um, they're counted."
It was that class that prompted me to switch to the electrical engineering program, which I was infinitely better at.
Re: Algorithms
An algorithm is a process used to solve a particular problem
"Sort this list of strings into alphabetical order"
"Solve this equation"
"Search this org chart to retrieve everyone who reports to the person John Smith."
depending on how granular you want to go, a program contains an algorithm, algorithms, and algorithms of algorithms.
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I was just the opposite! My degree is Computer Science & Engineering, but my least favorite classes were the hardware theory and design classes, so my work has been nearly all software. :). Thank goodness the world has both kinds of people! I leave hardware to you!Maybe I had bad profs then, they were both first-timers. All I know is I stumbled my way thru C -- or was it C+? Or C++? I don't even know the difference -- and then would have completely failed Assembly if not for my partner who did 99% of the work. In an effort to explain how an algorithm can be written to count -- oh, and this was after the prof explained to me what 'algorithm' means (why not just say "program"?!) -- my Assembly prof asked me "How do you count things?"
To which I replied "I count them one by one...and then, um, they're counted."
It was that class that prompted me to switch to the electrical engineering program, which I was infinitely better at.
Haha, deal!
Nevertheless, it would be useful to have some programming knowledge. We’ve been having some issues with the manufacturer-provided software for the solar panels at the solar ranch I work at. The ranch has a grand total of two employees, neither of us knows anything about programming, getting help from the manufacturer now that we’re out of warranty is like pulling teeth, and we expect help from our corporate engineering department in Portland sometime next never. So it’d be really nice to at least have a basic understanding of the problem we’re having.
Luckily, a friend has just volunteered to help me learn C. Thanks John!
Re: Algorithms
An algorithm is a process used to solve a particular problem
"Sort this list of strings into alphabetical order"
"Solve this equation"
"Search this org chart to retrieve everyone who reports to the person John Smith."depending on how granular you want to go, a program contains an algorithm, algorithms, and algorithms of algorithms.
*Mind blown again*
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Maybe I had bad profs then, they were both first-timers. All I know is I stumbled my way thru C -- or was it C+? Or C++? I don't even know the difference -- and then would have completely failed Assembly if not for my partner who did 99% of the work. In an effort to explain how an algorithm can be written to count -- oh, and this was after the prof explained to me what 'algorithm' means (why not just say "program"?!) -- my Assembly prof asked me "How do you count things?"
To which I replied "I count them one by one...and then, um, they're counted."
It was that class that prompted me to switch to the electrical engineering program, which I was infinitely better at.
Re: Algorithms
An algorithm is a process used to solve a particular problem
"Sort this list of strings into alphabetical order"
"Solve this equation"
"Search this org chart to retrieve everyone who reports to the person John Smith."depending on how granular you want to go, a program contains an algorithm, algorithms, and algorithms of algorithms.
this is making me nauseous.
Should it be making me nauseous?
Is this math?
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Most of my degree was networking and operating system focused. I stumbled through my programming courses and didn't look back. At least until capstone was "build a network application" and the three of us looked at each other like "should have studied programming further".
I am confused, don’t networks and OSes need to be programmed too?
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Here you go, Tacticslion:
I would be an Oracle with the Diva Bard archetype, which makes no sense, but seems like the type of thing I would do. With a PrC, let’s flip it and go Bard/Radiant Servant.
why oracle?
I thought you would go straight bard.
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THANOS!!!
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I don't think I have told fawtly people this but when I disappered last time I went so deep into lubuntu I ended up finding it impossible to get a job but easy to test linux installs and report like 180 bugs that got fixed. My trouble with programming is I make typos and read what I intended to write so I get so frustrated. That and I need concentration and to be left alone but my dad needs help in person.
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"I have, like, seven thousand favorite movies, but I'll just tell you three, Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, Cars 3, and Spider-Man Homecoming" - Tiny T-Rex, channeling Napoleon Dynamite on the walk home.
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All of this programming talk is giving me flashbacks.
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The good news: the hair loss is most likely the result of a vitamin deficiency
The bad news: figuring out what's causing the deficiency and other anomalies in my blood-work. Yet more stuff to deal with on the Medical Mystery Tour.
But hey, some of the scary stuff has been eliminated as possibilities, so that's something. And this means my hair is likely to grow back once we've addressed the vitamin deficiency. Which is a relief.
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It'll take me years to make sense of all that. It'd be easier if I could see the source, provided it's in C++.All of this programming talk is giving me flashbacks.
From what little of it I understand, it significantly predates programming languages and styles used today.
From what little of it I understand, it significantly predates programming languages and styles used today.It'll take me years to make sense of all that. It'd be easier if I could see the source, provided it's in C++.All of this programming talk is giving me flashbacks.
This is... amazing.
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Me be luddite. Me no understand computer languages.
Jania took too long. Would have had a good long talk with him and Murderhoboed him a while back. Again, I'm a straightforward kind of kitty.
Anakin-the problem I see is that he was trying to have his cake and eat it. He wanted his position in the Jedi so he had power, and also his pretty wife. The codes stated one or another - and he tried to get both and made a mess out of it.
What he didnt realize was that someone like him could have wielded a power of different sort(political) and changed the world more as that then being a Jedi Knight. Change, however we want to put it, has to trickle down from the top.
Freeing slaves is one thing - but think how much good you could do if you could change the law to abolish slavery.
There is no shame in leaving the Jedi Order as well - many have done it before him. In fact as he realized he was fed up with the way they were doing things, he should have left earlier.
And if nothing else, if Anakin loved Padme that much, he should have thought on how disappointed she would be in his course of actions.
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Syrus - also there will be many gaps in my knowledge of the legacy of the force series and the new order series. This is because I get them from libraries, so what I get to read depends on what there is on the shelf. Furthermore after so many sad things happened in them, I couldn't really bear to read those books. So if my reply regarding the New Order or the Legacy of the force is a bit short, my apologies. I don't have much ammunition so to speak, only having a rough idea what happened.
It's a bit like my discussion with TL over the wall of the faithless in 3.5. I had no idea what the wall did, since I played MOTB only. I missed out the entire series about the time of troubles since I couldn't understand the plot. So the first thing I thought off was yaaaaay freedom to all! I ain't gonna be spending eternity on that silly wall! Bust it down! Since I had no clue what it did. And felt the Gods were d*cks for forcing people to worship them by intimidation of being put on the wall.
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Here you go, Tacticslion:
I would be an Oracle with the Diva Bard archetype, which makes no sense, but seems like the type of thing I would do. With a PrC, let’s flip it and go Bard/Radiant Servant.
why oracle?
I thought you would go straight bard.
Because I’m a Celestial Healer. Oracle of Life sounds about right.
Of course, I threw in a fun Bard archetype.
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How to get the new people to think you're a manager in two easy steps.
1. Forget your nametag at home.
2. Boss the new people around like you're a manager.
It helps if the managers don't contradict you and treat you (relatively) like an equal (in that I know my job and they trust I'll do it right so they don't boss me around).
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Lol reminds me on the speech I was preparing if I was asked to state my business in the building.
Pretend you belong there and no one will bat an eyelash. Sneak around and the security will come after you.
It's all about the attitude.
Which reminds me... Back to recruitment threads to see if anyone wanted a character without a novella long backstory.
Oh TOZ, you could have had the decency to reply that you weren't interested in my invite to Strange Aeons. At least I'd have known to find another player, which I've already done, anyway.
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Yes, if Anakin had left the Order, it would have gone a bit differently, perhaps. But, torn between Yoda's wise instruction and Palpatine's thinly-veiled hints . . . . He decided he was supposed to have "all the things". Too bad. But we wouldn't really have a story to discuss if not for that conflict, now, would we?
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There's many a reason I prefer the Grey over both Jedi and Sith.
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Mara Jade came from the dark side. She knows how seductive it feels. In fact the dark side feels like a good buffalo mozzarella…slurp! But I digress. So I suppose she knows how to identify the falling to the dark side symptoms. Excessive cheesiness and all…So compared to the rest of her family, she moved a little faster, and nearly got it right except for getting suckered by Jacen with Ben. Who really should’ve grow a backbone and stand up for himself…
Also note: You shouldn’t padawan your own family – I think too much familial relationship makes it hard to be an impartial teacher.
Anakin – that’s his ego speaking.
In the expanded universe, his padawan, Ahsoka – also left the Jedi order after being framed for murder, arson and jaywalking which she didn’t commit. The Jedi Council finally came to the realization that they had made a horrible mistake but by that time it was too late – despite them agreeing to give her Jedi Knight title – she was thoroughly fed up with them and left the Order.
I know I can be a little tongue –in-cheek when discussing stuff. I think if you don’t learn to laugh at yourself and the world, you’ll just end up crying through life. If I have offended anyone, I apologize, please don’t take it personally.
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Part of me would like to think I could make a Jedi Knight. I certainly have the alignment for it (I believe Jedi are LN). I’m happy following the rules, I can actually understand why the Jedi practiced such detachment. They were trying to keep their emotions out of things so they could judge things impartially. A judgement made in anger is likely not one that is fair.
The problem is that my emotions have never really been under control. Anger especially.
Ask TL the last time what I was planning to do to someone who slighted me…
I was practically growling and bristling for 2 days. But in my defense I will say I handled the situation fairly diplomatically – by not resorting to PvP, considering that I was of a higher moral standard then the person slighting me.
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There's many a reason I prefer the Grey over both Jedi and Sith.
What, that letdown of a Liam Neeson film??!
Totally kidding.
Too right -- too backstabby on one hand, too stuffshirt on the other.
I'd go settle down on Ambria or Bespin and go full hermit.
Good news, everyone! I am lacking one contact!
... so much for reading anything at all, this evening.
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I, on the other hand thought you were so into the name of freedom and didn’t bother to reply, assuming that I would get the hint if you didn’t answer. Or your mailbox was full of mails because you’re a big-shot VC.
I guess next time I do this kind of thing I should put at the bottom a disclaimer – whether you’re interest or not, please reply if you’re interest or not so I can find the next player if you’re not.
Now me and running recruitments – except for the very first time, I never ran recruitments on the boards. Reason being I have to sieve through a whole bunch of applicants, and read their…novella long backstories, which I have..urm limited interest in doing.
Some players put backstories and expect the GM to do something about them. Well, as a GM I consider player backstories as sacred(since I’d be pissed if I went through the trouble of writing a nice happy family for the GM to have them all brutally murdered), and usually will not play with them unless I get their prior permission, or I know that the player in question won’t mind. Not to mention adjusting an AP for a backstory also requires some work on my part, and I’m not good at homebrew. And if a backstory of one player interferes with another player, now how am I supposed to sort it out?
So my recruitments are private affairs where after I have tracked my potential players electronically and vetted their posting history, then a small little PM asking the player in question to contact me if they are interested.
As a GM I’m more concerned in your ability to post reliability twice a day, and push plot and do what you’re supposed to do in the AP. Try not to spend too much time bickering with your party or expect your GM to take sides in your inter party arguments.
As a GM I have generally rather dubious morals (breaking in, intimidiation, torture, setting things on fire doesn’t really bother me) – preferring to give players their freedom. Though with the saying, ”The freedom to swing your fist ends at your neighbours nose”, and if it may cause party conflict/screw the party in some way, then yes I will step in (like evil alignments, and animating dead and/or trapping souls).
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As a GM I have generally rather dubious morals (breaking in, intimidiation, torture, setting things on fire doesn’t really bother me) – preferring to give players their freedom. Though with the saying, ”The freedom to swing your fist ends at your neighbours nose”, and if it may cause party conflict/screw the party in some way, then yes I will step in (like evil alignments, and animating dead and/or trapping souls).
You haven't met Blackwarm, the Friendly Necromancer.
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Ah, gotta love global megacorporations and their compensation algorithms. I managed to do well enough to merit a raise (a fairly unusual thing at our company), putting my salary to the point that it ended in $9997.05. I told my manager, "Are you serious? You can't give me an extra $2.95 a year to make it even?"
"Oh, no. It's already in the system!"
I appreciate the raise. But I'm amused that anyone who ever sees my salary will ask, "What did you do, ask them to pay you in 'supermarket price' wages?"
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Look at what I had to deal with :(
Personally, I don't CARE what you do with animating the dead, I only care if it causes group conflict.
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I am confused, don’t networks and OSes need to be programmed too?Not to the extent that software does. :P
What is the other aspect of networking and OSing that is not programming? O.O
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Well I hope you would not try to animate the dead with a cleric of pharasma in the group that sounds like a recipe for party conflict.
Also I made good tacos.
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What is the other aspect of networking and OSing that is not programming? O.OI suppose I should clarify that desktop support requires much less coding than programming. And that coding was not emphasized in my degree plan when apparently it should have been.
Submiting bug reports is not coding. It is quite important for bugs to get fixed not that I think automation can fix all of them.
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Submiting bug reports is not coding. It is quite important for bugs to get fixed not that I think automation can fix all of them.What is the other aspect of networking and OSing that is not programming? O.OI suppose I should clarify that desktop support requires much less coding than programming. And that coding was not emphasized in my degree plan when apparently it should have been.
What is the difference between coding and writing algorithms?
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Now you know why all my games forbid animating dead or trapping souls? Once is bad enough.
I don't have any personal issues with it(other then some town entry RP if they want to walk in with their animated undead visible). It's players that want to make a mess out of the freedom given.