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Thanks all. Spent all day at Barnes and noble studying for the mcat. Not much time to relax until aug 17th but hopefully I'll get a few days to take off somewhere nice with the gf once the test is over.

Happy birthday sir

Matlab. How did I forget that? Maple is another one. I love Mathematica for having the greatest help tab in the history of all languages. A monkey can write a reasonably difficult program in it given the entire help section. Now if they could just stop using those damn square brackets they seem to be married to...

Most if not all back end financial stuff is written in C++. But with so many flavors optimized to particular needs and niche models i don't know if it's fair to call them all C++ even though they all sprouted from there. I guess I don't follow the argument. If you know how to code you know how to code. The rest is syntax which IMHO can be picked up a lot easily than say actually understanding encapsulation or polymorphism and being able to implement them in one language. Again the assumption is working on some oop language. Outside oop I don't know much but I can't imagine the syntax being that hard to pick up. Also if you are smart enough to understand the theory behind objects would it be a terrible stretch of imagination that you could pick up non oop languages kinda quickly too? Also one doesn't NEED to work in emacs or some super super lean editor and then compile stuff. At least I don't see such a need. Work in a sufficiently advanced IDE and it should give you plenty of help writing code and getting used to the syntax. So many people in my dept stuck to vi just for the hardcore points when the rest of the team was working in eclipse or CodeWarrior. Gui's aren't always a bad thing. Developers can get microsoft stuff for free. My naive suggestion would be to spend a few hours looking at the libraries they use for whatever the job requires prior to the interview if possible instead of picking a 500 page Wiley manual to learn java or the like. One part of the interview at rutgers for financial engineering was reading their library for parsing parallel threads in C++ which apparently wasn't natively supported and then answering questions on how one would solve specific problems with some screwy classes. Ps. Fuck java and whoever made it.

Finished Michael crichtons last posthumously released novel - micro. Richard Preston took over the unfinished manuscript and turned what started off as a great book almost as good as prey or timeline or state of fear and turned it into a steaming pile of shit about halfway through. I can almost pinpoint the very chapter where I couldnt feel crichtons voice reading the book to me anymore. Bought the game of thrones. Hopefully it is not as arduous as the Iliad or the lord of the rings books. Starting game of thrones on iPad now.

holy hell. initially i read that as 1tb of hard drives and i was wondering why that would be fun to play with.

while taking a class on financial engineering and models i had to come up with something for a final project. obviously i waited until the night before thinking i could probably cook up something relatively A worthy in C++ or R. Turned out either I had to write functions from scratch or use the plethora of libraries available for C#, a language I did not know. Similar to C++ but its so freaking quirky. Ended up spending all night learning C# and turned in a project in the morning with bugs. Figured my professor would run it and email me back and by then I would have had time to debug it. Worked out luckily. Got an A for the most extensive project in the entire class.

that sounds like fun dan. chris what kinda stuff are you running? (assuming you can talk about it vaguely) i wasted some time on a 32 core mainframe at my dept running some silly simulations. like modeling the burj khalifa floating on a submarine. very strange results but fun to run nonetheless. the labbie was obsessed with navier stokes equations and was always trying to make a 10 second sequence of a tidal wave look as realistic as possible.

I miss having university Internet nice Shelly.

simply. fucking. amazing.

I saw your first post and starting trying to find 1300 bucks Then I read other replies to my post and I had a sad

$1300? I haven't kept up with the prices but is that a stupid good deal or the usual going rate now?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that interview. Just out of curiosity...

have you considered manual focusing? could go fast and wide and get very good iq.

Happy birthday ben

very cool video about zeiss lenses being tested. http://www.popphoto.com/news/2012/04/inside-look-carl-zeiss-lens-stress-test

Happy birthday beanman

Happy birthday raffy

What Dan suggested never crossed my mind. I'm addicted too now

Happy birthday jin

I am always amazed at the stuff people do with the book carvings.

happy birthday sir

Never had crawfish but looks like everyones having fun naaman.

I have the tenba discovery photo laptop messenger and absolutely love it. The camera sections lifts out completely for when you want to pack for a couple of nights and want to take your laptop but no camera (business trip etc). Completely packed it held my 13"MBA, charger, d7000 (without the vertical grip) with a rokinon 35mm/1.4 (big ass lens), nikkor 50mm/1.8, sigma 30mm/forget f stop, a couple of notebooks, assortment of pens, pencils, wallet, phone, jh16. Oddly enough it wasn't bad at all to walk around with. http://www.tenba.com/collections/discovery.aspx

That's mean larry. Just mean.