Atlhack

Martin:
– zmachine, maybe?
Erik:
– aloe, maybe?
Alex:
– “vim is 354k lines of code”
– got excited about git,
– figured out how to work perforce and the GOOG build process,
– working on some blog posts,
– expecting a docreader release on valentine’s day
Lindsey:
– reconfiguring the network,
– set up nfs,
– uses textmate over nfs to a linux box,
– learning not to trust QA people
Mark:
– wrote javascript in continuation passing style
Drew:
– refactored code from yue into miru
Tejus:
– researched g maps,
– updated photos on vijedi
Sonali:
– did annual evaluation for sita,
– found gap in analysis,
– fixed requirements that were not met
– researching new project is web 1.5!!
– rpc, jmx, wsdl

talked with Stefan about his font on the wall
 – http://www.youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=T0133
 – http://flickr.com/photos/byrdhouse/2198183437/

nanobot silliness:
 – "have you been up to nanobottery?" -mr
 – subatomic nanobots: "they’re mostly made out of math" -ar
 – "i assume they take micropayments" -ar

discussion of gender, dialects between speakers, prisons
 – "nature deplores a vacuum … of dichotomies" -ar
 – apparently there are different dialects for conversations between genders (4 total)

predictions about P = NP
 – "by 2010 we’ll have made P = NP" -mr
 – "with Moore’s law, P will equal, I mean, for all practical purposes, will equal NP" -ar

Alex and Lindsey in Portland
 – went to Powell’s
 – went running 10 miles, and 6 miles, and went to the gym
 – biked all over Portland

– – – – Local Attendees: Martin, Mark, Erik, Alex
– – – – Remote Attendees: Graham, Lindsey, Zach G

Martin is reading about suffix trees.
Mark is thinking about Haskell, writing Javascript to translate between languages.
Erik had a job interview in San Francisco, was offered a job, is considering this weighty decision.
Alex is reading about linear algebra.
Lindsey rebuilt desktop machine with Alex’s help; installed Ubuntu, went to Code n’ Splode.
Zach G made a very fast BigNum implementation in Java.

and Graham reports, from Barcelona:

today saw a demo from Yu Nishibori of the Tenori-On. (Yamaha gave the MTG
one from meetings last week), and Yu was in town he played for us. My
impression is that it is a beat-based grid sequencer, but in that
context fairly flexible and fun.

Tonight, at the França library working on Mused. Still no idea yet,
but moving swiftly on refactors that should reduce the amount of code
maintanence for adding features, widgets, etc.

Played ping-pong, worked on forehand.

reading Numerical Optimization by Nocedal… would recommend it so far
for readability.

    Bob:
        phenomenology and Forteanism,
        dilemma of the pregnant co-worker’s rights
    Tejus:
        building a blog in appcelerator,
        working on the apcl framework itself,
        trying to figure out wtf an ria is
    Sonali:
        making presentation on testing and documentation process at working,
        adding colors and charts to impress suits
    Martin:
        python zmachine interpreter,
        fighting google code’s svn,
        decoded "the only important part" of the zmachine header
    Lauren:
        reading Ursula K LeGuin
    Erik:
        preparing for startup-weekend-atlanta,
        looking at ideas
    Alex:
        running every single day of November,
        has collaborator in Portland, a software developer
        working on scrabblebot,
        given a move, what are the new words that come into existence?
    Mark:
        wrote a method_missing to examine the bindings of a Proc,
        porting appcelerator to python/pylons
    Stuart:
       making industrial sounds and music in Reason

Erik:
    creating (system) architecture diagrams and descriptions,
    to foil inevitable "postgres/rails is unproven, use oracle/.net" fear-mongering
Kelly:
    going to do "National Novel Writing Month" (NaNoWriMo)
Stuart:
    wants to write a web applet that uses a Kalman filter
    for tracking stock prices
    rush, zappa, shoegaze,
    "i rewatched american psycho again last month, and i really want to live that lifestyle"
    (stuart’s motivation for persuing a finance degree)
Rob:
    "i like small cups"
    and vampire shirts
Alex:
    scrabblebot,
    gödel, nagel paper (which also appeared on ltu)
Mark:
    learning ruby on rails and appcelerator,
    asking Erik about ActiveRecord