On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 21:12:20 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> I lost -15 pounds or so this year. Does that count?

My goodness! How'd you lose 4294967281 pounds??

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 21:44:52 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 21:12:20 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
>> I lost -15 pounds or so this year. Does that count?
>
> My goodness! How'd you lose 4294967281 pounds??

Eating more, lifting heavy weights, and avoiding storing deltas as unsigned integers.

On 12/11/2013 12:44 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 20:43:22 UTC, monarch_dodra
> wrote:
>> Also, it didn't
>> stop me from getting my pregnant! Yeah!
>
> Wife. Got my *wife* pregnant.

Same thing happened to us and the product is three months old today. :)

This reminds me of a funny makefile target that we have here where I work. It prints the names of the newborns of developers:

  make babies

... lots of names printed ...

:)

Ali

On 12/11/13, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was in a pretty bad Bicycle vs Car accident

Ouch.

>, but 6 months in, I
> managed to recover most of my physical abilities.

Nice to hear. I had some close encounters with cars as well. Sometimes with other cyclists too, lol!

> Also, it didn't
> stop me from getting my wife pregnant! Yeah!
>
> My first mini-geek is due in June :D

Awesome! So it's a he?

Damn you guys speaking about food, now I'm hungry again!

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 21:12:20 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> I lost -15 pounds or so this year. Does that count?

Lost -15 pounds = gained 15 pounds, right?

2014 is the year I (finally) get my master degree. That one is a given.
My _dream_ for 2014 is having a chance to prove that D + ZeroMQ can earn a place in the scientific computing world (I got so much tired of C/C++ and MPI), but I will have to fight people that still think that there's nothing a good FORTRAN77 code can't compute.
Also, I would like to contribute more to the D language.
Will I succeed? Only time will tell!

Oh, also, I hope to run away from Italy, and spend a good year somewhere in Europe! :D

Francesco Cattoglio:

> My _dream_ for 2014 is having a chance to prove that D + ZeroMQ can earn a place in the scientific computing world (I got so much tired of C/C++ and MPI), but I will have to fight people that still think that there's nothing a good FORTRAN77 code can't compute.

Now there's Julia, a nice language. I don't like its arrays being 1-based, and its lack of """visible strong typing""" (unlike Ada I sometimes discuss around here), but its scientific usage will grow.

Bye,
bearophile

On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 23:52:17 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Francesco Cattoglio:
>
>> My _dream_ for 2014 is having a chance to prove that D + ZeroMQ can earn a place in the scientific computing world (I got so much tired of C/C++ and MPI), but I will have to fight people that still think that there's nothing a good FORTRAN77 code can't compute.
>
> Now there's Julia, a nice language. I don't like its arrays being 1-based, and its lack of """visible strong typing""" (unlike Ada I sometimes discuss around here), but its scientific usage will grow.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Honestly, to my eyes, Julia really looks like a "better Matlab", with a heckload of stuff packed in his standard library.
I have not yet experimented with it but I don't like the premises that much.

In short: I think D language can do as much as Julia can do, with pretty much same bang for the buck.

Francesco Cattoglio:

> Honestly, to my eyes, Julia really looks like a "better Matlab", with a heckload of stuff packed in his standard library.
> I have not yet experimented with it but I don't like the premises that much.
>
> In short: I think D language can do as much as Julia can do, with pretty much same bang for the buck.

Look better, Julia aims also at partially replacing Python as golden glue in scientific computing, and it seems to have some of the numbers for it. It's statically typed, it has type inferencing, a refined type system with multi-methods and more, and a good LLVM-based JIT (that's in my benchmarks produces a performance no more than 2-4 times slower than D compiled with ldc2. If you compile D with dmd Julia is often faster for FP-heavy code. This means it's much faster than any Python code). It's better than Matlab about as much as D is better than C, and it's already better than Python for some things :-) And Julia is currently much more flexible than D (there's a REPL, lot of scientific routines in the std lib, and the JIT). In two years its easy to write code has allowed lot of people to write more standard library than D community has done in 7 years. For the kind of purposes Julia is designed for, I don't think D has the upper hand, it seems D has already lost that race, despite Julia is rather younger. D remains my preferred for general or heavy computing.

Bye,
bearophile

On 11/12/13 02:44 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I thought we'd enjoy a bit of reminiscing of the past year and talk about our plans for the future, whether it's something personal or D-related that anyone is willing to publicly talk about. It should be a fun topic, or so I hope! :) So let me begin..
> 
> Generally this has been an awesome year for me. This year I've become a part of the D core team, which is not something I even planned for, but I'm really grateful it happened. It's an awesome team to be in!
> 
> Another thing that happened, is that after many years promising myself that "this year" was going to be the one where I get in shape and live a healthy life, it turns out that 2013 was that year! I've lost 20 Kg (44 lbs) this year and now my BMI is in the normal range at around 22.4 BMI. It was 28.4 BMI at 95 KG (209 lbs) at the start of the year. It wasn't just frequent exercise that helped me lose weight. I started eating healthy food, and now spinach, kale, beets, and other vegetables are a permanent part of my diet. I wouldn't dream of saying this last year, but steamed veggies are absolutely delicious!!
> 
> As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice programming-related job next year. I've never had a programming job, most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as drilling through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and electrical work, and stuff like that.
> 
> I also want to and plan to study algorithms this year. Whenever some algorithm-related discussion popped up in the newsgroups I would typically avoid giving any input as most of the conversation would go over my head. But I'm gonna bite down and study hard, I really want to "grok" it.
> 
> Ok, so who's next who wants to share?
> 

2013:
Most of my major accomplishments deal with me becoming more confident in
myself - Running for a leadership position (twice) (first time I didn't
get it, finding out the second tonight), publicly announcing a library
I've developed for the first time, coming out to family and friends,
going to more Hackathons and demoing more things I've built.
I also got a chance to work on some kind of interesting projects,
including giving most of my other-language code a bit of a D accent.
Whoops. My Python got interesting for a while.
Got put onto a large(r) project at my co-op, something that directly
affects dozens of shipped products as well as rewriting a tool to help
with testing all those products.

2014:
Goals include:
Winning that election
Becoming more involved in open-source development (and "hacktivism" as
my friend/professor puts it).
Start learning more about programming language design and theory - I'll
be taking a class on it, but I'd like to learn more about how it works
in the "real world", not just academia.
Get in better shape - I'm extremely scrawny and want to put a little bit
of muscle on - rock climbing is helping with that.
Biggest goal: teach others. I have several seminars lined up to present
to local students at RIT, including some on D and Python.

-- 
Matt Soucy
http://msoucy.me/

On 12/12/2013 4:44 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Ok, so who's next who wants to share?
>

2013

The biggest thing for me is that the hot dog shop I opened in at the end of October of last year really took off this past spring. We got a great review in a local expat magazine and a number of Korean "power bloggers" at naver.com and elsewhere have driven a lot of traffic our way. We've done no active marketing whatsoever. It's all been word-of-mouth. The guy from the magazine heard about us that way. It's hard to find really good hot dog shops in Seoul, so that's been a big plus on our side.

And on a personal note, I "won" NaNoWriMo. This was my first year participating. I thought it was going to be difficult, but it was so much fun that I hardly broke a sweat. This was a very big deal for me. I've always loved writing, but I hadn't written any fiction in over ten years. And I had never written anything novel-length before. It was very liberating.

2014

I need to finish a project in D! I've got a dozen D projects in various states of completion just bit-rotting on my hard drive. My biggest goal in 2014 is to put all of my attention on *one* of them and get it done.

To facilitate that, I also want to grow the hot dog business somewhat. We're planning to expand the menu and I'm hoping that, coupled with some promotional activities we're considering, will bring in enough new business for us to hire a couple of regular employees so I can take some time off. Right now, I'm only off two days in a month. And I still have a handful of classes to teach, besides. I need more coding time!

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