Early today (give or take) NZ time, eMusic/J was featured in comments on both Slashdot and Digg. As a result, on the 24th of May, there were 56 downloads of eMusic/J, compared to a typical day of around about 5. Hopefully this will help the userbase grow a good bit. Oh, and before you ask,… Read More »
Found on Digg: “Once enough votes have been collected, the genetic algorithm gets to work. It picks the good images and breeds them using either mutation or crossing-over. Since the images’ genes are just trees, it is simple to cross-over two of them and produce new ones.” It’s a nice idea, similar-but-different to what I’m… Read More »
Here a point is made that I find is becoming a problem (for me, anyway) in movies and books. The problem comes when the author (or scriptwriter, or whoever) tries to be realistic in a field they don’t really know. If it happens that this field is something that I know about, and the author… Read More »
This week just past was apparently elections for the Otago University Students Association. Typically with these kinds of things, there is campaign advertising stuff stuck around the place. Those of you who have seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite will understand this that I saw today: Also chalked on the ground were things such as “Pedro… Read More »
Dunedin locals may be aware of the Tui ad on Albany St, on the side of Liquorland. It looks like it had been attacked by someone with a bit of wit. Here is what it said tonight: The previous edit that I remember was turning “My new flatmate keeps giving me the eye” into “My… Read More »
The other day I finally put out another release of eMusic/J. Here’s what’s changed: Renamed ‘None’ to ‘Clear’ for the .emp drop for button, added a ‘Clear’ button to the proxy settings Allowed proxy settings able to be cleared (fixes bug #14) – Oops, turned out there was a bug here. My fault 🙂 Made… Read More »
A few years ago, I learnt LISP at university. Just for a semester, write a poetry generator, things like that. All pretty simple. I didn’t get into it much at the time, beyond what I had to, but I do remember thinking that it looked like quite a powerful and fun language. A while ago,… Read More »
I heard back a few days after the phone interview that I didn’t get the Google job. Pity, but not too surprising really. I suspect that it was because I lacked the knowledge/experience related with the systems reliability side of things. So for now, things are just going on the way they have. Soon, I’ll… Read More »
At Linux.conf.au, which I’ve efficiently failed to finish writing about, Google had a beer bash. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I went because – well, free drink! However, at one point I was sitting talking to some people, and one of the recruiters came by with a list for me… Read More »
I’ve had a couple of requests from people for a 64-bit version of eMusic/J. So I made one. It’s theoretically just a matter of substituting the appropriate SWT libraries with the 64-bit versions, but I have no way of testing it. I have heard that it worked, but required a bit of finagling with system… Read More »