Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:59:43AM -0700, Steve wrote: > Why is Assembler not listed? Or Forth, Algol, or Fortran? Perhaps it's all a Scheme? -- Charles Curley /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ /Respect for open standards and/or writing?

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "Ryan Byrd" on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:34:35 MST: > Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? Neither did it allow Tcl. Andy -- [---[system uptime]] 7:54pm up 3 days, 9:39, 2 users, load average: 2.05, 3.15,

Re: Geotagging? (Was: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS)

2006-11-01 Thread Daniel C.
On a similar (but not entirely related) vein, I've thought that it would be cool to have photosets on Flickr or something that are all taken within, say, 3 meters of a specific location. Kind of like geocaching only with pictures. On 11/1/06, Marc Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geotaggi

Geotagging? (Was: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS)

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Christensen
Ryan Simpkins wrote: I'd like to get some opinions from everyone about how they organize their digital photo collections. [snip] Also, I'd like to attach a story to a group of pictures to sort of digitally scrapbook special events. I almost want a blog/gallery jammed together. Geotagging

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Carey
On 11/1/06, Stephen Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Carey wrote: > if(!defined("STDIN")) define("STDIN", fopen('php://stdin','r')); > $input = split("\n", fread(STDIN, 8192)); // PHP has a limit of 8192 > bytes on fread :( Not all PHP installs have a STDIN file descriptor defined? Dun

Re: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Christer Edwards
> kphotoalbum looks like it may also do this, though I don't know how well it > performs. I used to use Gallery2 (still have it installed, but its neglected). I've recently moved most everything to Flickr &/or Photobucket, which allows organization by album & tag.. both public photo services, of c

Re: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Clint Savage
On 11/1/06, Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:19, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > I don't know if there are any tools to do this yet (google's picasa, or > photomesa, perhaps? some image gallery framework?), but the way I would > want to do it would be to tag t

Re: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:19, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > I don't know if there are any tools to do this yet (google's picasa, or > photomesa, perhaps? some image gallery framework?), but the way I would > want to do it would be to tag the images and create a folksonomy database > for them. Th

Re: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Nicholas Leippe
I don't know if there are any tools to do this yet (google's picasa, or photomesa, perhaps? some image gallery framework?), but the way I would want to do it would be to tag the images and create a folksonomy database for them. Then you could search/collect them any way you want--by person, eve

Re: How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Steve
How about Picassa for Linux? On 11/1/06, Ryan Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to get some opinions from everyone about how they organize their digital photo collections. Right now I am using gallery2 and I'm not happy with how I started. I have about 1,000 family photos spanning 4

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Weeks
Chris Carey wrote: if(!defined("STDIN")) define("STDIN", fopen('php://stdin','r')); $input = split("\n", fread(STDIN, 8192)); // PHP has a limit of 8192 bytes on fread :( Not all PHP installs have a STDIN file descriptor defined? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscrib

How to Organize Photo Collection with FOSS

2006-11-01 Thread Ryan Simpkins
I'd like to get some opinions from everyone about how they organize their digital photo collections. Right now I am using gallery2 and I'm not happy with how I started. I have about 1,000 family photos spanning 4 years in there right now. I've made the mistake of organizing them by family member

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Carey
On 11/1/06, Stephen Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josh Coates wrote: >your code should assume that the input is coming via standard input (stdin) if(!defined("STDIN")) define("STDIN", fopen('php://stdin','r')); $input = split("\n", fread(STDIN, 8192)); // PHP has a limit of 8192 bytes on fr

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Dibb
Stephen Weeks wrote: Chris Carey wrote: if (!file_exists($argv[1])) exit; [EMAIL PROTECTED]($argv[1]); Ryan Byrd wrote: $fp = fopen ($argv[1],"r"); Josh Coates wrote: your code should assume that the input is coming via standard input (stdin) Here's a function I use on my shell scr

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Weeks
Chris Carey wrote: if (!file_exists($argv[1])) exit; [EMAIL PROTECTED]($argv[1]); Ryan Byrd wrote: $fp = fopen ($argv[1],"r"); Josh Coates wrote: your code should assume that the input is coming via standard input (stdin) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscr

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Ryan Byrd
here's my php, which is basically the same as Chris' solution: ($size-1)||!$difference) { $output = "not a match"; break; } } echo $output."\n"; } fclose($fp); ?> On 11/1/06, Paul Seamons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Need to catch the following: > if ($diff

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Paul Seamons
Need to catch the following: > if ($diff > $size) { if ($diff && $diff > $size) { Because the difference must be in the range 1 .. n - 1 Paul Seamons PS - unmaintainable solution in perl perl -ne 'chop;@a=split;$n=grep{$t=abs($a[$_]-$a[$_-1]);!$t||$t>[EMAIL PROTECTED] $#a;print$n?"no

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Grant Shipley
On 11/1/06, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be hosting a utah-resident-only coding contest. we will be awarding the winner w/ a $10K prize. Josh: Kudos to you for doing this. This is one of the best marketing campaigns

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Carey
command-line php solution if (!file_exists($argv[1])) exit; [EMAIL PROTECTED]($argv[1]); foreach($input as $line) { $numbers = split(" ",$line); $size = count($numbers); for($i=0;$i<$size;$i++) { $curr = $numbers[$i]; if ($last) {

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Steve
If I win is there a promise of a job offer of some sort so $10k doesn't look like SOO much money to me? On 11/1/06, Stephen Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josh Coates wrote: >The following languages are permitted: >* Perl > >only 'standard' libraries will be permitted to be used. > Are yo

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Weeks
Josh Coates wrote: The following languages are permitted: * Perl only 'standard' libraries will be permitted to be used. Are you going to provide a list of perl modules that you consider "standard"? As I recall, different distributions of perl have different sets of modules included by

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Paul Seamons
> just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be hosting > a utah-resident-only coding contest. we will be awarding the winner w/ a > $10K prize. For those of us who can't make it (and for those that can), it would be great if you'd post the questions and the winning respons

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2006-11-01 Thread Rob Jackson
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RE: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Hill, Greg
> I told him it sounded to me like they were all looking for > unskilled code-monkeys. That about sums up most companies in Utah. Luckily, there are enough exceptions. Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the peng

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Ryan Byrd
like promised, here's the shout out to Josh's contest: http://www.ryanbyrd.net/rambleon/?p=438 Josh -- expect a slashdotting-like-flood of traffic in 5.4.3.2.1... On 11/1/06, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be ho

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Dan Stovall
Josh, Did I see a billboard advertisement for this on I-15 at point of the mountain, or were my eyes deceiving me? I noticed it because my bro-in-law is a headhunter in Salt Lake and says that no software firm that contracts with him is looking for people that know python, perl, ruby, or anythin

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Steve
Why is Assembler not listed? On 11/1/06, Mister E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Josh Coates wrote: >>Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? > > > dude - *little* contest?? c'mon this is HUGE!! ;-) > > okay, we'll add php... > well I just won't do it. I refuse to compete

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Mister E
Josh Coates wrote: Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? dude - *little* contest?? c'mon this is HUGE!! ;-) okay, we'll add php... well I just won't do it. I refuse to compete with PHP pundits ... not even for a million bucks ... just kiddin ;-P Mister Ed

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Ryan Byrd
dude - *little* contest?? c'mon this is HUGE!! ;-) sorry for the condescension. $10,000 is a lot of money. Since you acquiesced to my PHP request, I'll post a link to the contest on my blog. Just think of all the resultant traffic you'll get! -- http://www.ryanbyrd.net /* PLUG: http://plug.org

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:44 -0700, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > 2) I hope some Java slup wins. Scratch that, I hope that some PHP shlup wins. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Dibb
Bryan Petty wrote: On 11/1/06, Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? It's pretty much given that if you show to this contest writing PHP code, you've already lost. ;) Oh, I dunno about that. It looks like the samples on there req

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:20 -0700, Josh Coates wrote: > just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be > hosting a utah-resident-only coding contest. we will be awarding the > winner w/ a $10K prize. Very effective. I've had 5 (independent) people tell me about this. Two th

RE: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Josh Coates
> Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? dude - *little* contest?? c'mon this is HUGE!! ;-) okay, we'll add php... -josh > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ryan Byrd > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Bryan Petty
On 11/1/06, Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? It's pretty much given that if you show to this contest writing PHP code, you've already lost. ;) Regards, Bryan Petty /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscr

Re: $10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Ryan Byrd
Notice that Josh's little contest doesn't allow PHP. What gives? - C - C++ - Java - Ruby - Python - C# - Lisp - Perl On 11/1/06, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be hosting a utah-resident-only

$10K coding deathmatch

2006-11-01 Thread Josh Coates
hi all, just a notice that this saturday we (berkeley data systems) will be hosting a utah-resident-only coding contest. we will be awarding the winner w/ a $10K prize. see details and a couple of sample problems below, or go to http://mozy.com/contest -josh --