Hackfest 1111011
New Member: Dustin
- went to school at RISD
- rock-climbs with Humza
- joking about a movie where:
- - a man who burns other people's copies of comics to make his copy more rare
- making Flash animations for Intel + Beijing Olympic ads
- partway through watching tekkonkinkreet
Drew:
- trying to get on the network
- getting into AMQP
- - similar to JMS (which he uses at work)
Lindsey:
- 13 work days left before summer vacation
- - down to 8 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die
- looking for an apartment in Bloomington!
- still chipping away at SICP
- - trying to finish chapter 1 exercises by the end of the month
Martin:
- working on Tyrus's "flipping coasts" app
- - for keeping in touch with people after he moves
Erik:
- wrote code for adding negative captchas to rails apps
- not as excited by phusion passenger as tejus is
Rob:
- configuring his (thinkpad-mac) to do japanese (kotoeri) input
- �ん����
Alex:
- reading Graham's DAFX paper
- can't do classloading (which jython needs) in an applet
- - wrote a blog post about it
- - to which Frank W. (big Jython guy at Sun)
- wrote some schema
- thinking metrics for how good a regression fit is
Ashok:
- says that Knuth doesn't believe in unit-tests
Mike:
- researching how to get high-speed internet to his rural small-town
- - so that his younger brother can be part of internetdom
Mark:
- reading Graham's DAFX paper
- chattering