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08:37.59kblinhi thebolt
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09:41.51thebolthi kblin , how are you doing today?
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09:47.27kblindoing fine, I'm on vacation :D
09:47.38theboltah, nice :) where?
09:47.46theboltor just not working? ;)
09:50.15kblinjust not working
09:51.45kblinor rather, justnot doing stuff I'm being paid for :)
09:52.22kblinneed to catch up on samba coding a bit
09:52.42MatthewWilkesI tell you what, I'm missing bank holidays
09:52.55MatthewWilkesit's a day off in England and I'm here at work, tired as hell
09:54.37kblinwell, I would've been at work as well, but my co-authors ruined my vacation last week
09:56.17theboltMatthewWilkes: hehe, haven't had any public holidays here since i arrived (iirc)
09:56.44MatthewWilkesme either, stupid germany
09:56.48MatthewWilkeskblin: Sorry to hear it
09:59.21kblinactually it's pretty nice to have this week off.. my gf is off at work, so I can spend my day coding, or restructuring the network or anything without hearing any complaints about not spending enough time with her ;)
09:59.36MatthewWilkeshehe
10:00.04MatthewWilkesI wish I was off work, sparkfun's order tracking has: Jan 3, 2011 9:29 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery BERLIN DE
10:00.31theboltMatthewWilkes: what did you order?
10:01.36MatthewWilkesthebolt: Various arduino-related stuff to play with
10:04.35kblinhehe, I just decided to get an arduino uno board myself..
10:05.18kblinmostly because I was getting another msp430-launchpad board from the same store, and it felt silly to pay as much for the shipping as I was paying for the board :)
10:09.54MatthewWilkeskblin: Any idea how much people check unlicenced wireless in .de?
10:10.55MatthewWilkeseg, how angry would they be at using http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9097 in a city?
10:15.58theboltkblin: i left my msp430 in sweden.. its somewhere in a box hm.. :
10:17.19kblinMatthewWilkes: that's bang within the GSM900 frequencies, so you'd be adding noise to the cell phones.. I think if that causes a service disruption, people'd be pretty pissed :)
10:18.09MatthewWilkeskblin: Indeed, I did notice the GSM band was similar…
10:18.15MatthewWilkesI kinda want it, though
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10:25.35theboltkblin: well, there are 900MHz bands that are valid in EU as well
10:26.33gevaertsI'd hope so. Mobile phones are allowed to operate :)
10:26.46theboltgevaerts: mobile phones use licensed space ;)
10:26.50thebolti refered to 900MHz ISM-bands
10:27.02gevaertsThey're still legal!
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10:30.14theboltMatthewWilkes: think your best shot is xbee-pro 868 module
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10:35.19MatthewWilkesthebolt: I just got some on 2.4ghz for now
10:35.26theboltMatthewWilkes: okay
10:35.36theboltMatthewWilkes: radio links are a pain btw
10:35.47thebolt(i spent about a week researching them a few months ago)
10:35.48kblinthebolt: the ISM 915 band is region 2 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
10:35.53MatthewWilkesthebolt: only if you're using them for serious things, I'm just playing
10:36.15theboltMatthewWilkes: true ;)
10:37.01theboltkblin: that list sure miss some ISM bands (or rather, bands with ISM-like usage allowances)
10:38.30kblinI still guess there's a reason for zigbee to use the 868 MHz band in europe instead of the 915 MHz band
10:39.06theboltyea, hm, seems that 915 isn't generally available.. in sweden part of 915 band is ok, but very low output power
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10:40.07kblinwell, it's closest to t-mobile's frequencies here, I couldn't care less
10:40.43theboltMatthewWilkes: ideally i want a 5.8GHz downlink, digital, at 1Mbit/s or so of multiplexed datastreams with QoS, and then a 100kbit/s uplink.. but I haven't found anything for that yet :(
10:40.55theboltMatthewWilkes: i thin k, given a year or two I could make one
10:41.02theboltbut i don't really have time for that :P
10:49.56theboltmaybe end up with using 802.11a or so, but without any IP-stack or other problematic parts on top :P
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16:10.59skfinHmmlol
16:11.24skfinIf you create a gmail account for your google account during gci, melange doesnt let you log in anymore
16:11.45skfinWith same account
16:12.05skfinLuckily you can remove gmail from your google account
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16:39.36kblinskfin: you could also email the melange devs and have them switch over addresses
16:39.40kblinit's a known issue
16:39.58kblinnot easy to fix with appengine, IIRC
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18:02.28summatusmentislh: ping
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18:22.06lhsummatusmentis: pong. in the middle of a call. can we talk in a bit? will ping.
18:22.43summatusmentislh: I've got about an hour, later in the day would work better for me
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18:23.06lhsummatusmentis: perfect, will plan on my afternoon, california time.
18:23.44summatusmentislh: cool cool, 4 or 5 EST should work ok for me
18:24.08lhsummatusmentis: should be free then. done and done
18:24.20summatusmentiscool, tah
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19:16.48[mharrison]wishes job interviewers would stop asking him Big-O questions. We should be beyond that by now
19:21.52thiagohow about how to reverse a string?
19:22.13gevaerts"Unplug the RAM chip and plug it in the other way"
19:22.15Catfish_Mannah, the best question is how to traverse a linked list
19:22.25[mharrison]lawl
19:22.57[mharrison]I was recently on my third interview (and the first face interview that I traveled 4 hours for) with a company and they were still asking me stuff like "What's the Big O of mergesort?"  wtf?
19:24.10Catfish_Man[mharrison]: I could see a more useful discussion coming from "given quicksort's generally superior performance, what reasons might one have for preferring another sort? Which one(s) would be appropriate when?"
19:25.06[mharrison]Catfish_Man, yeah that's a more decent question
19:25.46[mharrison]But I'd like to hear more questions like "Here's a specific problem our developers are trying to solve.  What are some of your ideas?"
19:25.55[mharrison]Something that moves beyond "Ok, prove you really studied what your degree says"
19:25.59gevaerts"Well, when one has to sort fish, one would obviously use bubble sort"
19:27.10Catfish_Man[mharrison]: to be fair, last month I did run across some 6+ year old code in the application startup path that was linear-searching a sorted list
19:27.35Catfish_Manone would think my predecessor would have known better
19:27.52[mharrison]lol
19:28.14Catfish_Manthere was even a bug filed about it... 3 years ago
19:28.32gevaertsconsiders repeating his story about the date difference function that worked by adding one second to the first date, comparing for equality, trying again until the dates matched, and counting the iterations
19:29.34gevaertsApparently the first version (which I haven't seen) even did the "add one second" by string manipulation, with carries and things implemented by hand
19:30.05Catfish_Manimpressive
19:30.16[mharrison]o.O
19:31.23gevaertsAll done for a real project by someone with an actual university degree
19:31.40Catfish_Mananyway, back in a while
19:34.25[mharrison]I wonder if there's a better answer to the question "What sorts of things do you want to work on?  What are your career goals?" than "My eventual goal is a project manager/architect/design type position".  The guy I just talked to seemed a little disappointed by that
19:35.05gevaertsHe was still looking for someone who wants to be a trampoline artist
19:35.36[mharrison]lol
19:36.06[mharrison]He sort of hinted at "Well those decisions are left to the product management team here, and you'd be more responsible for implementation"
19:36.32[mharrison]Which I know, which is why I say it's an "eventual" goal.  Even though I have project management experience, I wouldn't hire me for that position at this stage in my career
19:39.01schumamlthe product management team manages projects, too?
19:39.14schumamlhow are these terms defined there?
19:40.40[mharrison]schumaml, the product management team works with the customers, defines which features will and won't be added to an application, etc.  I think there was some disconnect in what I said and what he thought I meant
19:41.36[mharrison]My thing is I want to design the different modules of a system, and define interfaces between the modules, not just have that design handed to me and be a code monkey
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20:10.05kblinah, I don't know.. all good intentions go overboard if you're still sitting on code that should have shipped last week
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21:05.36ThomasWaldmannsome native greek speaker reading?
21:07.12ThomasWaldmannwe have 2(?) gci students coming from same ip
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21:09.08ThomasWaldmannslightly suspicious (but proxies/NAT exists)
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21:23.07summatusmentislh: ping
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21:27.07ThomasWaldmanni need an admin :|
21:38.53ThomasWaldmannfacts are cumulating that someone is cheating badly
21:40.55lhsummatusmentis: pong, will pm you
21:46.18Dark_Shikarihow can you cheat GCI by using the same IP?
21:46.21Dark_ShikariI mean, if you're doing the tasks....
21:47.16kblinDark_Shikari: there's a limit on how much you can "win"
21:47.23Dark_ShikariOh, you mean to get more money
21:47.23Dark_Shikariaha.
21:47.33kblinI'd consider that cheating
21:47.37Dark_ShikariYeah, that's cheating.
21:47.45Dark_ShikariI totally forgot that GCI paid money.
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21:49.07ThomasWaldmannit looks like someone might have multiple accounts and doing translation task using something like google translate
21:49.45ThomasWaldmanni have just checked with a native speaker and he tells it's total crap that can only come out of a machine
21:50.06gevaertsThat's easy then
21:50.34ThomasWaldmannsome other gci student who wanted to claim same task said something similar btw, but i wanted first a neutral opinion
21:50.51gevaertsYes, clearly :)
21:51.11gevaertsBut rejecting something because it's bad work is easier than because you suspect it's cheating
21:51.54ThomasWaldmannthe problem might be that one usually can't really verify translation tasks, except if you have a native speaker at hand
21:52.18ThomasWaldmannso if all strings got translated, you usually assume that job is done
21:53.00ThomasWaldmannand if that person did that kind of "job" for other projects, too, he might have caused quite some harm
21:53.02gevaertsYes, it's tricky
21:57.45Dark_Shikariugh, yeah, translation tasks are easy to game
21:58.36gevaertsSometimes people also don't realise you want people who actually know the language to do this
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22:06.33ThomasWaldmanngevaerts: """You should have good English skills (for understanding the original text) and very good skills of the target language (for updating/creating the translated text). Very good means that you are either a native speaker of the target language or have comparable skills. You also need to be good in orthography and grammar. """
22:06.47ThomasWaldmannfrom our requirements section of the translation tasks
22:07.53gevaertsWe (rockbox) have had people who kept submitting google translate stuff after we told them we didn't want that. No money involved there...
22:08.50ThomasWaldmannmaybe they didn't understand english :P
22:09.07gevaertsAlways a possibility :)
22:09.14Dark_Shikarilol
22:09.31Dark_Shikarireminds me of http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=771
22:09.42Dark_Shikari(fun translation experiment where they pitted machines, vs humans with machines, vs novice humans, vs professionals)
22:09.53Dark_Shikarithe result is often hilarious.
22:10.13Dark_ShikariThe best part is how the machine-assisted humans accidentally invert the meaning of half the text.
22:18.00ThomasWaldmannhehe
22:18.31ThomasWaldmannany romanian, magyar, finnish native speakers here?
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22:22.02Nightroseskfin: ^
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22:25.21gevaertsNice stuff
22:27.00kblinDark_Shikari: inverting the meaning of half the text? sounds like my latin translations back in school :)
22:27.59gevaertsdoes disagree with the bit that says there is humour in that second text though :)
22:29.57Dark_Shikarithe google trnaslation is hilarious
22:29.58Dark_Shikari"
22:29.59Dark_ShikariEvening Call - "... ... it's a percentage that is opening completely man ...""
22:30.33gevaertsOh, yes, the wrong translations are funny
22:30.42gevaertsI just don't think the correct ones are :)
22:30.50gevaertsBut maybe that's because I don't know any context
22:30.56Dark_Shikariwell, yeah, it's not like it's a joke.
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22:45.17andre__ThomasWaldmann: in that case the name(s) of the student is welcome, as we also had some Greek translation GCI tasks (but with a Greek reviewer, so it's unlikely)
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23:01.28ThomasWaldmannsomeone from gnome here?
23:04.50ThomasWaldmannmagyar/hu lithuanian/lt spanish/es romanian/ro finnish/fi < any native speaker of one of these here?
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23:07.23Dark_ShikariThomasWaldmann: I know a finn
23:07.43ThomasWaldmanncan you get him here? :)
23:07.43Dark_ShikariWho also knows Swedish, Japanese, English, Russian...
23:07.59Dark_Shikariwhat do you need done?
23:08.29ThomasWaldmannlooking at some translation (wiki page, diff), whether it is finnish or google translate output
23:08.43Dark_ShikariAh, ok
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23:09.32Dark_Shikarisummons the finn
23:09.45JEEBis summoned
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23:10.40ThomasWaldmannhi JEEB :) thanks for helping.
23:10.46JEEBno problem
23:10.46ThomasWaldmannJEEB: http://master19.moinmo.in/4ct10n/info/MoinI18n/fi?action=diff&rev2=288&rev1=284
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23:11.12JEEBgets at it
23:11.13ThomasWaldmannthis is a translation done by a gci student. yellow is deleted, green is new stuff from him.
23:11.45ThomasWaldmanni have no clue about finnish.
23:12.33Dark_ShikariThey make good snipers.
23:13.11ThomasWaldmannJEEB: what i'ld like to know is whether this is from a human translator and of reasonable quality.
23:13.19JEEBI'm reading through it
23:13.22Dark_Shikari"Sivua %s ei voitu synkronisoida. Etäpään sivu uudelleennimettiin. Tämä ei ole vielä tuettua. Sivujen poistaminen lienee tarpeellista synkronisoinnin aikaansaamiseksi."
23:13.32Dark_ShikariIt makes German look like a joke.
23:13.50JEEByah, we have lots of stuff you can stick after a word
23:13.51ThomasWaldmannlooks almost like base64 to me :D
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23:16.54JEEBmsgstr "Tulosta diaesityksen" <- generally awkward... but scrolling down still, how much does the student have as per Finnish language education?
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23:17.40andre__ThomasWaldmann: I'm from GNOME...
23:18.37ThomasWaldmannJEEB: i don't know. we require native speaker or equivalent. but i don't want to be picky about that. if it is acceptable, i can live with it. but i don't want a google translate copy and paste job.
23:19.31JEEBwell, yeah -- I'm handling a Japanese localization of a subtitling application, as well ^^;
23:19.48JEEBanyways
23:20.13JEEB2926-3022 on rev288
23:20.21JEEBmajor awkwardness
23:20.53JEEB"Create redirect re-named pages?"
23:21.13JEEBthat does indeed smell like machine translation
23:21.38JEEBor 2995, where there is an actual older translation
23:22.07JEEBChanges compared to the older version on the left part -> Change is oldest for checking in the left screen
23:22.33JEEBso yeah, def. went up a few notches on the awkwardness level
23:23.12JEEBIt could of course be that he's just not good with the language, but a localization task just should not be done in such cases by such a person
23:25.25JEEBline 2227 is Edit a dia show -> Print <nothingness> of the dia show
23:25.45Dark_ShikariThomasWaldmann: did he do multiple languages?
23:25.59gevaertsMaybe you could run some of the awkward ones through some online translators and compare?
23:26.06Dark_Shikarigevaerts: yeah, that's be a good idea
23:26.10Dark_Shikarisee if it matches lol
23:26.18gevaertsIf it matches, it's easy again
23:26.31gevaertsIf it doesn't match it doesn't prove much of course
23:26.41Dark_Shikarithere are many machine translators, yeah
23:26.53Dark_Shikarithough maybe fewer for finnish than for say spanish
23:27.51JEEBit's...
23:27.52JEEBa match
23:28.11Dark_Shikarihahahahahahahahaha
23:28.13JEEB"Print slide show" to Google LT
23:28.14JEEB*TL
23:28.19ThomasWaldmannDark_Shikari: i suspect so. different accounts.
23:28.28JEEBit will output exactly the same
23:28.38Dark_ShikariThomasWaldmann: sounds like you can just ID him using google translate
23:28.39Dark_Shikarilol
23:28.41Dark_Shikariwithout knowing the language
23:29.02gevaertsWell, google translate may be correct every now and then :)
23:29.19Dark_ShikariYeah, but you just translate multiple things
23:29.22Dark_Shikariif they all match exactly...
23:29.22Dark_Shikarilols
23:29.46ThomasWaldmannDark_Shikari: the problem is that i don't know the target languages
23:29.56ThomasWaldmannso i have to ask people who do
23:30.06Dark_ShikariThomasWaldmann: you don't need to know them
23:30.09Dark_Shikarisend the english through google TL
23:30.13Dark_Shikariif it matches exactly, bam
23:30.18Dark_Shikariyou don't need to know a language to do a strcmp
23:30.29JEEByah, def. google tl
23:30.36JEEBhe hasn't really modified a lot at all
23:30.42JEEBand where he has it's all crap
23:30.48ThomasWaldmannDark_Shikari: that would be assuming that GT is 100% fail :)
23:30.55Dark_ShikariThomasWaldmann: no, it isn't
23:30.59Dark_Shikariif a sample of, say, 5 exactly match
23:31.01Dark_Shikariit's google TL
23:31.06Dark_Shikarieven if google TL was 100% accurate
23:31.09Dark_Shikariit'd still be google TL
23:31.13Dark_Shikaribecause no two people translate identically
23:31.18ThomasWaldmannok
23:31.25JEEByah
23:31.33Dark_Shikari(I don't know how much leeway one has in english->finnish, is it as much as english->japanese?)
23:31.49ThomasWaldmannJEEB: ok, so i can put this under major crap category?
23:31.51JEEBYes
23:32.19JEEBDark_Shikari, let's just say... that Google TL translates rather funny stuff with Finnish
23:32.41ThomasWaldmannlooks like some student will win some negative scores soon
23:32.46Dark_Shikariehehhehehe
23:33.46ThomasWaldmann"I was young, dumb - and needed the money." :)
23:34.09Dark_Shikariwhat country is the IP from?
23:37.03gevaertsDark_Shikari: would using an automated translator and then checking the results be cheating? If not, five matches may still not prove much
23:37.23Dark_Shikarigevaerts: Yes.
23:37.33Dark_ShikariHuman-assisted machine translation is awful.
23:38.26gevaertstrue
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23:39.02JEEByou wouldn't end up with 100% matches in most cases as applications etc. tend to need overall image of what's happening
23:40.15gevaertsAlso you probably won't just use one word samples. With those, all bets are off, but with longer phrases a good machine translation is indeed rather unlikely
23:40.38gevaerts*hopes* that most of those systems get "OK" and "Cancel" right
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23:44.47Kovensky< Dark_Shikari> the google trnaslation is hilarious <-- translation party!
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23:48.26Dark_Shikarigevaerts: it's actually unlikely they'll even get those right
23:48.28Dark_Shikaridue to lack of context
23:48.32Kovensky< Dark_Shikari> Human-assisted machine translation is awful <-- idk if it's appropriate to link this here but: http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=771
23:48.39Dark_ShikariKovensky: I already posted it
23:48.39Dark_Shikarilol
23:48.42Kovenskylol
23:51.22ThomasWaldmannhehe
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