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| Friday, August 29th, 2008 | | 11:18 am |
OMG, Yahoo alerts just finally picked up my last livejournal post. What the hell is going on OCP? | | Monday, August 18th, 2008 | | 2:32 pm |
Twitter
I has a twitter. twitter.com/charred | | Monday, August 11th, 2008 | | 10:53 am |
Lessons learned
1) 3-in-1 Thai Iced Tea powder is not very good Thai Iced Tea(still semi tasty). 2) Powdering does not de-lactose milk. | | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | | 10:53 am |
| | Monday, May 12th, 2008 | | 1:13 am |
We have liftoff
T-15:00 Yay, my new computer chair is complete, time to enjoy! HEY, why won't this thing recline, it's totally uncomfortable without the reclining! T-14:00 Maybe it just needs a little exercise, I'll rock it back in forth T-10:00 Why they hell do they have the tension adjustor in the back of the chair. I have to get out of my chair to adjust tension and then try it again T-09:00 Maybe if I keep clanking this lock lever it'll do something. T-01:00 I give up, I'll have to call tech support for my chair; I have been defeated. Oh well, let me see how well this baby spins. T-00:30 Why the hell is the center of the chair not aligned with the center of the wheels? This makes for extreme wobble! T-00:00 OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHhhhhh, seat's on backwards. T+15:00 YAY reclining and centered spin. But my back hurts a lot from trying to fix my messup with comfy chair. | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | | 11:57 am |
| | Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 | | 2:28 pm |
Question re IPv6
So, a week ago or so I learn IPv6 will no longer support fragmentation. Is it just me, or is that going to break basically most UDP programs, and make them a pain to fix? Am I missing something? | | Friday, January 25th, 2008 | | 6:07 pm |
I'm scared
It's a really creepy feeling. I'm playing with NumPy, a multidimensional array library for python. The problem with multidimensional data is that you keep having to reorder it, or if you want to manipulate it, you need to write the proper functions to traverse the data. I got tired at digging around the manual to find the best way to do what I want(it's easy to use, but there are a lot of functions for manipulating the data), and just decided to write down how I wish things would work, and it works. Everything I do is pretty much like, nah, that couldn't work and still be fast, but it works. I can't say if it's fast, but other people have benchmarked numpy and scipy as being faster than mathematica. Here's an example. Make me an array of points in an XY sinplot. NUM_POINTS = 34000 a = numpy.array([(i*dx,math.sin(i*dx)) for i in range(NUM_POINTS)]) [[ 0.00000000e+00 0.00000000e+00] [ 2.94126298e-04 2.94126294e-04] [ 5.88252596e-04 5.88252562e-04] ..., [ 9.99941175e+00 -5.43527431e-01] [ 9.99970587e+00 -5.43774294e-01] [ 1.00000000e+01 -5.44021111e-01]] so you can do a / x, and divide every element by x. What if you want to divide every x by a certain number and every y by a certain number? I was trying to figure out the best way to do this with numpy. I figured you have to do two seperate ops, and join them together, but if I was lucky, I might be able to do it in place. Figured I'd just give this a shot. a /= [x_scale, y_scale] [[ 0.00000000e+00 0.00000000e+00] [ 9.80420993e-05 2.94126294e-02] [ 1.96084199e-04 5.88252562e-02] ..., [ 3.33313725e+00 -5.43527431e+01] [ 3.33323529e+00 -5.43774294e+01] [ 3.33333333e+00 -5.44021111e+01]] Everything I try just works. This is really the first programming library that has worked so well for me. It's also amazing to see how powerful the python syntax is for this, since numpy didn't introduce any syntactical changes to the language(though it convince Guido to keep the ellipsis ...). For example. a[:,:,3] will return a 2D array of all the points where z = 3 a[1:3,:,3] will return a 2D array where z = 3 and 1 <= x < 3 and a[a<3] will return all the elements < 3 in a flattened array. print a[1000][1] print a[1000,1] return the same thing. I dunno what I'm scared of, but for some reason I am. Perhaps I'm scared of numerical heaven. Or perhaps I'm afraid it's all a dream and will come crashing down on me. Maybe I'm scared I'm so excited about multidimensional arrays. | | Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 | | 5:46 pm |
Stupid Cauci, Stupid Internet
Give me no info, or give me more info. This "the polling places are stuffed" doesn't help my news addiction, it just means I have to wait longer for results. Screw participatory democracy, Charlie wants his results! | | Friday, December 21st, 2007 | | 3:48 pm |
Missing SGI
So I am reminded today of why SGI was so awesome back in the day. I was looking up ethernet packet types with my brother. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers. Guess what I found 32788 8014 - - SGI network games [AXC] Oh SGI, this is why you were so awesome. This is also probably why you crashed and burned. Oh SGI, the Shoreline Century Theaters will never the same without the little thrill I got every time I drove by your building. | | Monday, December 10th, 2007 | | 12:32 am |
That's it, it's official
I'm having a bad month. Two car accidents, bad news for the company, missed deadlines due to overcommiting, and now my homemade chocolate syrup has mold in it. Nobody told me that happens. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I want my chocolate milk! | | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 | | 2:14 pm |
The value of technical expertise
When I left my first real internship, my boss/dad told me something that surprised me. Me told me my biggest weakness was that I was arrogant. This surprised me a bit, because I'm a quiet guy, was scared of girls and so forth. I tried to keep it in mind, but I didn't really understand what he was getting at. He recently told me the same thing, and I understand where he's coming from now. Part of it is that I'm good at what I do. I'm really good, and I express displeasure at things I feel are technically poor. I can diagnose programming and computer issues very well. I can help people with programs that are written for languages I don't understand. Previous coworkers still come to me for help and I've turned down a few job offers as well. I also like to help people with technical issues. I can often save people hours of frustration or hundreds of dollars from incompetent tech support in 15 seconds - 2 minutes, and a few times it'll take me a few hours. I've helped people with programs in languages I don't understand. I've diagnosed a complex program for a really hard problem for a very technical friend, over the phone, in 2 minutes. Almost countless times I've referred people to the exact spot in specs/documentation that are hundreds if not thousands of pages long to help them with their problem. Whatever it is, or however long it takes me, it feels great to know that I helped somebody with what I know. It's a great feeling to know I've just saved them hours of frustration, or fixed a problem that couldn't have fixed on their own. However in my personal life there seem to be a number of people who don't really understand the value of my help. They often come to me with problem I can fix in a couple of minutes. When they come to me all the time, all their problems don't take me very long to fix. They feel like I'm just replacing a light bulb they can't reach, and I get all the appreciation of a guy who replaces light bulbs. Sure, it might have taken me the same amount of effort at the time, but that's because I've spent so much time studying and exploring computers. And when I'm not around, they get all the frustration I've gone through to get my expertise, and I get all the blame for their frustration for not being around. What also sucks is that once they get on this track, they also start taking for granted the things that take me hours to do. I'm writing this because I'm sure most of the people who read my journal probably have the same issues. What do you do for this. Some people I can talk to. Sometimes I've just refused to help for certain periods of time, but that just leaves them pissed off at me for the time. I've started thinking that maybe I should start feigning difficulty with their issues. Still solve their problems, just not instamagically. What do you do with friends/relatives who undervalue and abuse your abilities? | | Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | | 2:08 am |
| | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 4:44 am |
Wanna meet women from China, use skype
I recently started using skype. I guess because I've been up late, I'm been getting some random people wanting to add me. It seems like they are real people, cause one just flat up said "I did not notice you were too young, I will not bother you" right after hi. I guess hitting on Americans over skype is a big thing for the Chinese womens, or something. | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 2:31 pm |
| | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | | 7:16 pm |
Time warp
It's that time. It's time summarize all my misery online. It's horribly written, but it's not really something I want to dwell on and edit. I'm in a really weird place right now. I left Yahoo and took a new job in February to work with my Dad. The main reasons I took the job were, 1) It's a startup, so after a year, I can just reasonably pick up and leave for any reason. 2) I eventually want to start my own company, or be in very few select companies. Yahoo was comfortable, and interesting, but the issue was I was always thinking about backend issues. Really interesting and I think powerful backend ideas, but still limited by trying to fit them into what already exists at Yahoo. I this job would be a good stepping stone out of Yahoo, as well as an incubating time for ideas. However, it's six months in, and I feel like I'm in limbo. These six months have felt like forever. My head is brimming with ideas. I just got a new Apple laptop, and the shareware industry is just great there. A lot of things I think would be fun but nobody would pay for, people actually pay for in the Apple community. However, I just can't get started on any of my ideas. I'm supposed to be putting in 60 hours a week at my job, which is actually not neccessarily a big deal. I pulled 60 hours at Yahoo easy, without being requested to do so. However, here it's torture. I feel the tasks given to me are not challenging and not difficult, yet it takes me forever to get around to doing anything not mechanical. I used to have big ideas for my current project, but it's been such a hassle. The programming talent for the company varies greatly as this is actually a hardware company. I've reduced the current library down quite a bit. It's simpler to use. There's no need to copy paste lots of files into your project, just add about 5-10 lines of code to your project as a minimum. Turns out they wanted everything to be copy pasted anyway. I've reduced my library usage down to a literal wizard for people to use, when what I wanted was a simple yet complex tool which would have increased the functionality of the old tool to great new levels. I have all the framework in place, but no appreciation or desire to go ahead with the new features. I think the thing that really still gets at me, is when I was supposed to present this tool to a group, I had two people hijacking my presentation, guiding my presentation, and answering questions for me. I had to step in and correct them on changes I made. I could barely get a word in edgewise, and I was the guy with the projector. Worst part really is, I've lost my focus or confidence or whatever. I can't do anything productive anymore. It got so bad yesterday, I had to really focus on driving home yesterday. I wasn't swerving all over the road, or dozing off, but somehow it felt like the road was distorting. I've done very little of note lately, but a number of my friends have started really small startup, and have actually been seeking my help. This marks the halfway mark of my year commitment. A year has never felt longer. | | Sunday, August 5th, 2007 | | 11:46 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | | 11:15 am |
| | Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | | 6:28 am |
| | Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 | | 3:16 am |
Sad day
I'm incredibly sad at this and this response to the VT shootings. Even though it's clear she's a walking caricature of blind rage, it is still incredibly depressing to see. I need some cheering up. |
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