Does he work for Portland Group, because their compiler Suuuucks. We had to make our code compile in PGC to make it HPC compliant and it gave us like a 15% slowdown vs intel.
I would have to ask. Although I probably won't because, while he was a nice guy and super smart, he sucked at running a college class and I will be steering clear of him most likely.
fwiw i do have a deep love for C++ after data structures (especially) and design patterns possibly because of something resembling stockholm syndrome
My work has been in a dead period over the holidays so was getting bored out of my mind. Started rewriting a previous personal project of an excel-type spreadsheet application. Forgot how much I love doing my own thing with this stuff and not following some agile bs
i'm trying to plan out the tasks for my little group project over the next few months. i don't know if i can match your hatred for xml (particularly with Intellisense) but mine is growing sharply.
Is there a point at which an API becomes necessary? Currently users of our app just talk directly to the database, which is pretty slow because we're using the free student Azure stuff.
IME, splitting your system up into discrete pieces, like microservices, can give you a lot of flexibility and options in the long run. it also makes it easier to have multiple people working on it simultaneously.
Anyone who does Python as a hobby have any home project ideas or resources? I’m taking a beginner class again and would like to supplement with my own work. Is there an easy way to make a Python program function on a website or am I going to have to get into JavaScript if I want that?
I use Flask for that. It's an extremely lightweight Python module that essentially turns your code into a sort of web server. (web framework.) So you can easily code your own custom routing system, where you can make any URL route to any method. http://flask.pocoo.org/ Django is another web framework, but it has additional functionality that is called an "ORM", which is a way of taking SQL tables/rows and mapping them as objects in Python. It will definitely do what you ask, but it is "opinionated" and has a lot of overhead. The complicated part about django and flask is that you need to actually have a web server that you can install them on. Like an AWS EC2 or something. So you may also want to check out Google App Engine standard, which will host a microframework for you, for free, on appspot.com https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/quickstart
great flask tutorial for those not familiar Aaron Hernandez https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world
also flask tends to work better in linux. if you have a windows server box , configuration is time consuming and there's not much in the way of authoritative guides to setting it up.
apparently that missile warning in hawaii was triggered when someone selected the wrong item from a drop down menu. how did anyone think this was a good idea and how did it pass through multiple people before being released?
It wasn't even a dropdown menu, it looks like some 1996 webpage. I wouldn't be surprised if it was since so much government IT/Web services is probably grotesquely old and out of date.
Sup guys. I started a blog http://atlantasportsdaily.com/ and I've been trying to figure out which Ad program I should be using. I got approved for Google Adsense but then got banned after about a week for some reason. I've read that they ban people for all types of reasons, but I'm not really sure what I did wrong. Now I'm using Media.net ads, but I've read they're not great for sports sites. I've got a few real advertisers, but I'm just wondering if I should continue to try and recruit legit advertisers or use an Ad program. Site has been up for three weeks now and here are the stats. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Spoiler
submitted a proposal to some funding body at my school to get money for better hosting. AWS and Azure must just print money. in its current (probably poorly optimized) state it would cost $150/month for it to be possible for like 100 people to use our little app at the same time.
Just SQL for a single database. Service level S3 from here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-database/
Anyone done anything with tensorflow? I’m trying it out after using Azure ML, seems a lot more low level than Azure
School project right? If you're gonna have ~100 using it maybe the S0 level should be fine? It's got 1/10th of the computing resources (DTUs) available compared to S3 but I'd imagine the S0 could handle 100 concurrent users. Plus, 250GB is going to be a huge database that I can't imagine you would even come close to filling. S0 is $0.02/hr instead of $0.20/hr
1 user = ~.7 DTUs currently. We have access to a free version provided by the school, which provides 5 or 10. There's a symposium in the spring where we demo what we did for ~4hours for industry people and whoever else wants to show up. We want people to be able to download and use the app during the symposium, if possible. I already submitted the proposal anyway.
Sounds cool. Good luck. Have you started looking into how/how often you're reading/writing to the db to lower the DTU for a single user?
Thanks. There are a few performance things we've been looking at. Basically the area around the campus has been divided into 256 squares in a 16x16 grid overlayed onto Google Maps. Users "claim" a cell based on their GPS location. Currently when the map is loaded or updated, all 256 cells have to load to the user's phone from the db. This is bad and we're experimenting with ways to tweak this.
Everything is running in our UI thread as well (because we have no idea what we're doing) so that's something else we'll need to change
You've probably thought about it, but instead of loading all the cells each time, maybe try to just grab the cells that have changed from the user's current map? Are you doing this in C#?
Try Keras. Keras is a higher level front end to TensorFlow that will probably be easier to work with.
Yeah we're using Xamarin so we can make Android stuff with C#. We have thought about doing it that way but we don't know how to make the database initiate that kind of dialog with everyone's phone. As it stands now, checking the database for changed cells isn't all that different from just loading the whole thing again. It might even be slower because 256 comparisons would be done.
i found this entertaining, given that things are more or less the same today in terms of non-mobile market share. if nothing else you get to see steve jobs and bill gates both get booed within about 5 minutes of each other.
if there are any android people in here: is there a reason to go with linear layouts over relative layouts for UI stuff? the xamarin guides i've been reading say that relative is, among other things, better for performance because of... reasons. linear layouts scale poorly in the emulators, but no one in my group has had a problem on their phones (galaxy s6-s8).
Any mid level Java developers in here want to move to Denver? The market for Java devs with 3+ years of experience is unreal.
I'm still in school but what is the pay like? Just out of curiosity Denver seems like it would be nice too