What I did today

Miscellaneous Topics
#4801

Been studying my ass off for the THIRD time I’m taking the SAT. This time the ‘new’ one though. Jesus I hope it goes well this time. I need the equivalent score of >700 for math to really qualify for the comp sci schools I’m looking at.

I also started doing freelance programming for some pocket money and wow does it pay well.
18th bday in exactly a week.
first sub-10 average of 12 on rubik’s cube

Mental breakdown incoming in 5, 4, 3…

As a side note, F is a really neat language for statistics and stuff, it has very interesting syntax. I’ve been playing around with it recently and am impressed by its versatility. I used it to generate some julia fractals, fun stuff.

#4802

Simple interesting what freelance sites you using?)
(never try freelance :frowning: )

#4803

Today, I moved from Eclipse to Intellij IDEA.
Eclipse is great, but damn, IDEA is awesome!

#4804

Yes I did, it’s good stuff. Idk why I didn’t when I first saw it

#4805

I was a huge Eclipse fanboy for ages, but can’t stand it now that I’ve given IntelliJ a chance. It seems to be better in nearly every way.

#4806

Netbeans, anyone?

(Also, I can’t stand Eclipse, it always randomly hides blocks of code and refuses to open them until I launch it again)

#4807

It randomly hides blocks of code? Huh. Doesn’t do that for me at all. In fact, Eclipse is really stable. I haven’t ever seen a single bug in Eclipse. It’s a really great IDE for Java, but IntelliJ is a lot better.

#4808

It may be because of the option to automatically collapse your code, however it sometimes collapses code while I’m editing it, and most of the time when it does that the [icode]+[/icode] button disappears and I have to launch it all over again… Or maybe I only have an outdated version. :persecutioncomplex:

#4809

Never seen that in 15 years of using Eclipse…

To be fair Eclipse has had its share of massive bugs but in recent years it’s been very stable and it’s also very frequently patched.

Cas :slight_smile:

#4810

Wrote a method designed to free memory.
Expected output: [icode]freed 230MB[/icode]
Actual output: [icode]freed 4MB[/icode]

#4811

Have same problem in every Eclipse version that i use
sometimes hiden blocks refuse to open in big file (like 1000 lines+)
i call it “Eclipse eat lines”
becouse if you try delete or write in visible part of hiden block it simple delete Whole BLOCK
so i try - not use hide at all

#4812

Eclipse does two annoying things for me:

  1. when I type something that ends with a parenthesis and a semi colon, like setColor(Color.BLACK); , when I hit enter to go to a new line, it ALWAYS deletes the last parenthesis and produces an error. Is this a setting? It’s super annoying.

  2. this probably has to do with my computer, but probably once every 3 or 4 minutes, the program freezes and wont respond for maybe 10-20 seconds. It’s annoying because its easy to lose your train of thought when it happens.

#4813
  1. Doesn’t happen to me, I am using Eclipse Mars 1&2 and Neon.
  2. Also doesn’t happen to me (Ubuntu 16.04)

You should search for it on Google / DuckDuckGo(Or whatever you are using) otherwise ask it on the eclipse site or StackOverflow. I don’t think this isn’t the right place to ask it here, i could be wrong.

Good Luck!

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#4814

Eclipse does a periodic System.gc() call, which you can disable by adding

-XX:DisableExplicitGC

into the eclipse.ini VM arguments.

Cas :slight_smile:

#4815

Thanks! Hopefully that will stop the freezing issue.

#4816

I think i have something same long time ago - simple now: i use clean Java eclipse
without additional plugins and even version without eclipse git (i use git external)
All works like a charm ^^
(except on every launch it recompile 1-3 min my project with 2000 errors XD)

up
p.s i also remove git from OS autorun - because background git:
make synchronizeon every file change, it looks nightmare for me - it call HDD billion times
(I may be wrong about git synchronize, maybe someone who know how git background works - fix me ;))

#4817

There’s a lot of people who scoff at Philosophy without ever understanding it at all. I had an AI lecturer who raged against Philosophy and then went on to present his theory of AI which was just so much really bad philosophy.

#4818

What I did… actually over the weekend… was I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and figure out coding a modern OpenGL application. I knew the pre v2 OGL pretty well and I figured it was time to take the plunge. It’s been fun. Using “3D Game Development with LWJGL” GitBook as a guide.

#4819

Today, I found this wonderful explanation of the rendering equation. I understand now :slight_smile:

http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=272

There’s also this:

http://www.gamedev.net/blog/2031/entry-2260986-the-rendering-equation/

#4820

Most of Sunday has been spent reconfiguring the UtilityClick maker (DinkMaker) to its third iteration, with carrier, modulator, and lfo that can either be tremolo or vibrato. Just finished the GUI and the api controller and am hoping to test and debug interface to synth very soon. (Hoping it doesn’t need much debugging.)

Tedious to rewrite something that takes many hours, on the notion that the new setup will be a little better. I think this will work for both making utility clicks and things like short ray guns bursts. The export-to-wav works well. Discovered the export-to-wav on the ShepardTone thing I wrote is messed up. So will have to fix that at some point.

Tedium is relieved by finding and listening to music by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, an awesome Buchla Synthesist I just discovered, with a nice Terry Riley influence (Rainbow in Curved Air).

Following is a duet she plays with veteran synthesist Suzanne Ciani (also known as the voice of Xenon for pinball enthusiasts–this video from 1980 is a hoot!).

Here is the piece where I learned of KAS:
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