I'm a software engineer to the death...[views:5505][posts:33]_______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:03am - the_reverend ""] I started going to the gym. I try to go a lift some heavy things and than swim for a while. I have to trick myself to keep swimming cause I start thinking of all the things that I'm going to have to do during the day and then I stop swimming sooner than I should. So I started calculating squares while I was swimming. 78^2, 99^2, 56^2, etc... Then checking them on my phone later. So I did a couple of squares that were close together. 25^2 and 26^2. Being a software dude, I decided there had to be a better algorithm... then I realized that 26^2 was just 25^2+25+26 = 676 I was sort of stunned.. and then figured it out for a bunch of other squares. Then realized that (x+1)^2 = x^2 + 2x + 1 Which looks very familiar.. but I'm way too many years out of math class. I just surprised myself while swimming back and forth in a pool. bdc? |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:05am - Joshtruction ""] wow |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:05am - anthony ""] The foil rule? |
| ____________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:06am - FuckIsMySignature ""] i feel much stupider than usual. thank you rev. |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:07am - W3 nli ""] you need to stop smoking so much weed |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:08am - RichHorror ""] I can't wait to beat you up for your lunch money, pansy. |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:09am - the_reverend ""] anthony, close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOIL_rule |
| ____________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:09am - FuckIsMySignature ""] W3 nli said:you need to stop smoking so much weed weed > math. |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:09am - W3 nli ""] RichHorror said:I can't wait to beat you up for your lunch money, pansy. :bow: |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:10am - W3 nli ""] FuckIsMySignature said:W3 nli said:you need to stop smoking so much weed weed > math. you're out of your element donny :point: |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:11am - SellOUTd0od ""] Geometrical Cardiovascular! |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:11am - the_reverend ""] I think I need to START smoking so that I can stop. I was also watching bird's flocking patterns the other day and figuring out a flocking algorithm for them.. like boids http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:12am - SellOUTd0od ""] Aaron what exactly do design software for? |
| ________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:13am - Messerschmitt ""] porn |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:16am - the_reverend ""] RTTP? duh! actually, I can do just about anything in almost any language. at work, I'm an automation engineering. someone gives me what their job is and how they do it and I make a program that does it for them. free them to do other things... like getting a new job. that's why I can upload pictures so fast, I wrote all my own software for image processing. if I have to do something more than once, I write software to do it for me. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:17am - SellOUTd0od ""] Hmm.. All the complex math was leading me to think computers, or missles or something... I guess porn could be a good explaination.. Thanks Mess |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:22am - the_reverend ""] lately, I've been watching hex going by on an analyze and then doing encription on parts of the 1's and 0's and then sending them back.. getting a response and replying. watching numbers blaze by the screen burns my eyes out. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:26am - SellOUTd0od ""] Pretty nifty... You are replacing mankind with artificial inteligence basically? |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:28am - anonymous ""] i do programming for big time insurance companies. been laid off 3 times in my career. most of this stuff is outsourced to Indian contractor companies today but the pay is well worth it but i hate being laid off and worrying if i'm next. not fair i tell ya |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:30am - SellOUTd0od ""] Design programming to replace your boss, and then re-program it to give you a raise. |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:33am - the_reverend ""] anonymous: have you dealt with stuff from indian? my software mostly tests hardware/firmware for switches/routers. the projects that are outsourced to indian EAT UP BAGS OF DICKS. it costs 1/5 as much on paper, but then takes them 2x as long to do it. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:36am - SellOUTd0od ""] It's always about the bottom line rev. |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 12:01pm - anonymous ""] its tough, because the indian programmers are only contracted for maybe 3-6mo. so when their "tour" is up they leave and new ones come in. and its back to square one with them. don't get me wrong, they are highly efficent and know their stuff but as communicators they are horrible. so its tough. "business analysts" who are not programmers but know how the system should work/good communicators are life savers in this situation. web based software used at insurance companies have all been created here in the USA but tweaking, running, maintaining them they use indians and pay them less i assume. |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 12:23pm - the_reverend ""] indian's shoud never create user interfaces.. they always get it completely wrong and backwards. |
| _______________________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 2:14pm - TheHawthorneEffect_Kevin nli ""] Hey Rev, isn't that just the quadratic equation? The 'ol find the roots using (-b +||- sqrt(b^2-4ac))/2a ? Good to see I'm not the only one spending his days automating processes with software (mostly java and perl). I get paid to piss off old guys and make their jobs obsolete. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 2:17pm - the_reverend ""] I'm nto sure. and I program 99% of the time in java... though my group just got combined with another group so I'll be doing a lot of *pukes* TCL/TK |
| _______________________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 2:27pm - TheHawthorneEffect_Kevin nli ""] I've never used Tcl/Tk, I didn't think many people did, what with the popularity of php/perl/python and all the other scripting languages. It seems like it's one of those ridiculously forgiving languages that lets you pretty much make up your own syntax and it just figures it out. Which is great if you're by yourself, but if you're in a team and you're trying to read someone else's code, good luck. Though that Tk GUI toolkit looks kinda neat. |
| ______________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 2:33pm - the_reverend ""] yes it is... if you want something ugly. |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 5:20pm - brian_dc ""] I don't think your discovery has a particular name or anything fun like that. I just think you stumbled upon a practical use for expanding into polynomial form. there are all sorts of little tricks in math that you usually just don't think of. I'm not sure that would really be a more efficient algorithm for anything but a human being. For a computer, nothing would really be quicker than the normal squaring method. |
| _________________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 5:32pm - DrewBlood@Work ""] haha, when i go out running i calculate the energy that i expend into joules. not as tricky as your squares, but during the summer I also approximate the rate at which i'm losing weight from fluid loss and incorporate that into the equation. makes a nifty little related rate and since my pace is pretty steady, its actually accurate! |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 6:40pm - succubus ""] anonymous said:its tough, because the indian programmers are only contracted for maybe 3-6mo. so when their "tour" is up they leave and new ones come in. and its back to square one with them. don't get me wrong, they are highly efficent and know their stuff but as communicators they are horrible. so its tough. "business analysts" who are not programmers but know how the system should work/good communicators are life savers in this situation. web based software used at insurance companies have all been created here in the USA but tweaking, running, maintaining them they use indians and pay them less i assume. YES....i agree. When I was working for a high tech company and they outsourced some programmers from india..communication was an issue. I'm a BA II and no matter how clear specs would be...they had issues understanding. I think it cost the company in the ling run. Now I'm a business analyst for an insurance company during the day and i know the programming group could use some programmers..dunno where you live though |
| __________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 8:27pm - archaeon ""] I have a test on that stuff in algebra tomorrow |
| _____________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 9:38pm - xanonymousx ""] good luck with that. |
| ___________________________________ [Dec 20,2006 11:54pm - Bradness ""] i farted today |