Stream: Google Code-in

Topic: having fun?

Sean (Dec 22 2017 at 19:48):

Is everyone having fun working on tasks?

Lucas Prieels (Dec 22 2017 at 19:54):

Yes! I'm trying the "Write program comparing performance of bn_randmt vs SFMT (vs C++ STL)" task right now.

Sean (Dec 22 2017 at 20:03):

oh, that's a cool task, very useful

Siddharth (Dec 23 2017 at 05:06):

Yes! I'm loving the web design tasks:blush:

Jeff Sieu (Dec 23 2017 at 05:07):

Yup, it's been great so far, except now I'm a bit stuck on building rt^3. Had fun making the chess models though. :P

Naseef (Dec 23 2017 at 11:33):

Yeah! Having a lot of fun with BRL-CAD. The task are awesome!

Naseef (Dec 23 2017 at 11:44):

I like these tasks because I love C++. Most other organizations don't have much C++ tasks.
These tasks helping me to learn C++ in a fun way!

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 18:51):

I like these tasks because I love C++. Most other organizations don't have much C++ tasks.
These tasks helping me to learn C++ in a fun way!

@Naseef we're going to be adding quite a few more c/c++ tasks too (as well as more web dev tasks)

Naseef (Dec 24 2017 at 18:59):

That's great!

Siddharth (Dec 24 2017 at 19:05):

Hey Mentors could you please add some designing tasks too?

Siddharth (Dec 24 2017 at 19:06):

Only design tasks I found were the Facebook banner and image gallery

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 19:17):

@Siddharth we'll be adding some web tasks, to fix and improve things on the website

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 19:18):

there's considerably more emphasis this year on coding tasks

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 19:18):

if there's something specific you'd like to work on design-wise or otherwise, send me an e-mail describing it

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 19:18):

email is brlcad@mac.com

Sean (Dec 24 2017 at 19:18):

or can send to devs@brlcad.org

Mahdi (Dec 27 2017 at 01:38):

I love the comments on the top-level cmake file for BRL-CAD.
# Allow the BRLCAD_ROOT environment variable to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
# but be noisy about it. This is generally not a good idea.
...
# While we're at it, complain if BRLCAD_DATA is set

Siddharth (Jan 05 2018 at 10:55):

How's everyone's weekend going?

William Cook (Jan 05 2018 at 10:55):

Good, working on some C#

Rahil Malik (Jan 05 2018 at 11:00):

Even i a having fun, but am in bit of a pickle

Rahil Malik (Jan 05 2018 at 11:03):

How are you ?

Siddharth (Jan 05 2018 at 11:16):

It's going good

Rahil Malik (Jan 05 2018 at 14:25):

Good for you

William Cook (Jan 08 2018 at 20:25):

Hello @Sean , how are you?

William Cook (Jan 10 2018 at 05:21):

Have any of u done research on the mountain view area. It's simply amazing. I plan on visiting Steve jobs grave and the computer history museum when I win :wink::joy:

Siddharth (Jan 10 2018 at 08:13):

Haha, Don't be over-confident, All the best

Siddharth (Jan 10 2018 at 08:14):

May the best designer/programmer win

Sean (Jan 12 2018 at 19:17):

or keep working on BRL-CAD, become a mentor, contribute a couple years, and our organization would likely eventually send you to California as a BRL-CAD delegate, e.g., as a GSoC mentor

Sean (Jan 12 2018 at 19:18):

it's happened many times for those that contribute consistently throughout the year and on their breaks, fun things are possible

Naseef (Jan 12 2018 at 19:42):

Goodluck @William Cook
I've done some research, Before GCI started, I thought I will be working there after I got a degree. LOL

Naseef (Jan 12 2018 at 19:45):

I'd like to visit the Golden Gate Bridge, I've seen it many times in a few video games.

Naseef (Jan 12 2018 at 19:46):

May the best designer/programmer win

Or maybe both, AFAIK there are two grand prize winners per organization.

Lucas Prieels (Jan 12 2018 at 19:49):

Actually, are all the winners always together or is it only when they visit Google?

Mahdi (Jan 12 2018 at 22:52):

I still can't get over how cool it is to actually see how CAD software works internally.

Sean (Jan 13 2018 at 05:18):

May the best designer/programmer win

Or maybe both, AFAIK there are two grand prize winners per organization.

there are 5 finalists and 2 grand prize winners per organization

Sean (Jan 13 2018 at 05:27):

Actually, are all the winners always together or is it only when they visit Google?

there are too many orgs and winners now for everyone to be there at the same time, so now they get split into two big groups that visit separately. the groups mostly stay together, but it is a celebration with a variety of events where you get to know the other winners, one of the mentors, and a variety of events throughout the visit.

Rahil Malik (Jan 13 2018 at 11:00):

What platform do you think our mentors are using ?

Naseef (Jan 13 2018 at 11:04):

AFAIK Sean has a Mac Book.

Rahil Malik (Jan 13 2018 at 13:18):

yeeaa, i remember screenshots

Siddharth (Jan 13 2018 at 17:22):

Last day! Gonna miss all of this

Rahil Malik (Jan 13 2018 at 17:28):

Totally, but actually day after tomorrow is the last day to claim task and last day is 17/1/18

Naseef (Jan 13 2018 at 18:20):

I'll complete tasks even after the deadline (coding ones), Mentors won't review it and I won't get any points for doing it, But this is so fun!
All the tasks will be archived (hopefully), So I can read the instructions any time I want. I haven't got to try out tasks from other organizations, I'll check them out too. I learned a lot by doing these tasks, I'll learn even more by doing more tasks!

Mahdi (Jan 15 2018 at 17:33):

Have any of u done research on the mountain view area. It's simply amazing. I plan on visiting Steve jobs grave and the computer history museum when I win :wink::joy:

Wishing you the best

Naseef (Jan 15 2018 at 17:38):

https://www.inexhibit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Computer-History-Museum-Mountain-View-16.jpg
Who don't like to go there?

Sean (Jan 16 2018 at 07:28):

AFAIK Sean has a Mac Book.

Sean has a bunch of macbooks, several linux boxes, a freebsd server, a lame windows install, and haiku in a VM ... variety is the spice of life

Naseef (Jan 16 2018 at 08:25):

I have a PC with Windows 10 + Kubuntu 17.10.
Android 4.3, MikeOS, and Windows XP VirtualMachines.

Siddharth (Jan 24 2018 at 07:40):

I have a PC running Windows 10 and an iMac pro running high sierra

Naseef (Jan 29 2018 at 04:33):

You have a $5k IMAC? I wonder if my PC worth at least $100 LOL.

Siddharth (Jan 30 2018 at 06:43):

Won it at a hackathon, so yeah

Sean (Jan 30 2018 at 06:44):

that's awesome! where was the hackathon?

Naseef (Jan 30 2018 at 11:20):

I wonder If I could participate to a hackathon and win a 1gb ddr3 ram stick, LOL.

Naseef (Feb 02 2018 at 05:48):

Have you guys tried any kind of virtual reality like Oculus Rift or HTC Vive?

Sean (Feb 02 2018 at 12:44):

yes, I've looked at and tested a fair bit of vr and avr tech over the years

Naseef (Feb 02 2018 at 13:31):

Is it like watching movies on a 3D TV or like it's talking you to another world? How VR can be used in CAD?

Naseef (Feb 02 2018 at 16:55):

taking*

Sean (Feb 02 2018 at 19:33):

neither vr or avr are like 3d tv @Naseef .. it's more like you're in another world (at least with vr, not so much with avr)

Sean (Feb 02 2018 at 19:34):

I don't see much potential right now for vr in CAD for design, but it can be interesting for model exploration or using avr to look at how models might fit into existing spaces

Sean (Feb 02 2018 at 19:35):

for example, exploring a CAD model of a new museum before it's built, walking down the halls, looking out windows to see the view, etc

Naseef (Feb 04 2018 at 16:09):

I'm a little confused with AVR, Do you mean AR (Augmented Reality)? If not, What it means?

Sean (Feb 05 2018 at 17:03):

@Naseef yes, avr == ar

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