gaming_mouse,

The program is 100% project based. Engineers from the mentor companies (some of them are former fellows of the program) drop by each day to discuss project ideas and help.

I would really appreciate a report on what you do during the program because it sounds pretty interesting.
If you have the time/feel like it I think opening a new thread once you start the program and using it as your program blog would be really cool

I will definitely write about it. It's a pretty big life change for me - Moving from Canada and leaving a good job

Well said.

"Big Data" will never die - it's here forever. It'll just become a thing that most companies have to do to stay competitive and best practices/tools will mature to the point where it won't be the sexy new thing.

Especially the predictive "Big Data" stuff will be unsolved, hard and lucrative for a very long time.
Think market fluctuation predictions, stock prices etc.

Data based planning in the ERP realm (production schedules, HR scheduling with constraints) will also be relevant for a long time to come.

Are you allowed to ask "Is there a tool to do X?" questions on any of the stackexchange sites? I know it's not allowed on SO or on programmers...

I'm looking for a mock API tool that people who are manually testing our iphone app can use. Something like apiary.io is the closest I've found, but isn't exactly what I need. The idea is that each API call has a success response and 1 or more error responses. The app is expected to do different thing on different errors -- sometimes display the errors in red, sometimes with a popup, perhaps by redirecting to a different page within the app -- the details don't really matter, the point is just that different things need to happen in different scenarios.

What we want to do is have the ability to swap out the base URL of the API the app is using in test builds. So as a tester you could say, start using "my.testapi.com", and then you would have the ability, in real time, to change the response to any API call you wanted, and see how the app would behave.

Imagine the API configuration page looked like this:

POST '/login'

[success] [email not found] [*bad password] [account locked]

And you could just press a button to turn on the response you want.

Does a tool like this exist, open source or paid would both be fine....

So our OS teacher decided that C would be a good language to write our final project in even though many in the class had never written a single C program. Sure was fun to make the first C program be a multi-threaded client with socket communications written and compiled on a Linux machine communicating with a server written in Java on a Windows machine. So glad this guy is gone after this semester.

Interesting. Can't confirm this for sure but I was told that one layer of the bluetooth stack in a well known RTOS is written in C, is multithreaded and communicates with the lower layer via sockets.

two plus two hand evaluator, does that use an array of integers ranging from 0-51 to represent cards? or are they represented by bits?

someone briefly explain how look up tables work? all possible hand possibilities are stored in an array and are pre computed, this then gets put into ram, when get given 7 cards to see who has the best hand, the program looks up the hand in the look up table, and spits out an integar saying how good the hand is?

I cant exactly remember and Coding the wheel article is down...

Anyone really good with gulpjs?

not an answer to your question, but i this article is relevant:

http://hadihariri.com/2014/04/21/build-make-no-more/

Make is really rough if you want to do complex things and have it work on PC and Mac. Grunt seems better but I wish it had better documentation.

Well gulp is a bit different from other make knockoffs in that it's a node module itself and can do node magic inside of it. But it still seems pretty rough.

So I heard back on the internship that I interviewed for. The manager said that he had gotten approval to hire an intern, interviewed me, and wanted to offer me a position. He sent the paperwork to HR to give final approval for the position and they told him they had just instituted a hiring freeze. This ****ing sucks

I like the sound of that.

There's a lot of talk on it in this thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...r-bot-1317707/

I'm pretty sure I posted a more standalone explanation somewhere but can't find it so maybe not. here are example runs: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...6&postcount=65

You're close.

All cards are mapped to an integer 0-51.

Every possible final 7-card hand is computed a score, higher being better (or the other way around, can't remember). These scores are what is stored in the 7-dimensional array.

So to do a lookup, you use the integer values of the cards as array index to the 7 levels, sort of. level 1 = [0-51], level 2 = result of level 1 + [0-51], level 3 = result of level 2 + [0-51] and so on. Which after 7 lookups yields the hand's score ("basic" in my output results). By comparing the score with that of another hand, you can tell which is the winner. It'll also give you a category and rank within that if you want.

It really does suck, sorry to hear it.

Yeah, the coding the wheel article was down for a while, then the cached version disappeared too. I've been wondering if someone really wanted it gone. That said, the related github is still up: https://github.com/christophschmalho...ter/XPokerEval

The 2+2 eval is more than just a LUT, it's a weird telescoping LUT, or directed acyclic graph?, that you walk through to look up a hand. I wouldn't want to try and recreate that wheel.

here's a link to archived coding the wheel if need be: http://web.archive.org/web/200810061...luator-roundup

Oh, cool. The last time I tried to access it through google's cache, I panicked a little when it wasn't there. Then I remembered the github page.

you guys are awesome

definitely ask him if he knows any friends at companies that are also looking for interns

Has anyone ever had to configure a macbook pro to be a live demo tool? I am looking at possibly having a display at a conference where you can sign up and interact with a website (create a user account, and interact within the community site), but I don't want you to be able to do anything else.

Depending on the solution that I find to the first one, I also am going to add a banner at the top of the web browser that shows our company logo. This could range from trivial to difficult based on the solution to 1. If it is too difficult I will just not do this part.

Coming from java, objective-c is such a wacky language. Pointers and pass by references are hard to get my head to wrap around.

Anyone else here self taught ios developing?

Anyways I ordered the ios programming book from BNR since I'm almost done with the objective c book

Those and garbage collection. I programmed two iOS apps to fruition and a bunch more prototypes and I still have no idea what and when I should garbage collect.

I finally figured out that crashing with no information other than EXEC_BAD_ACCESS or whatever was coming from overly aggressive garbage collection of pointers to system objects. Google is not a whole lot of help with stuff like that at 2am.