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cmaloneyblergh10:56
cmaloneyI mean, good morning10:56
rick_h_ugh sounds good to me11:20
cmaloneyyeah, this is first day back since Pycon11:21
cmaloneyand have exterminators coming in to see if there's anything in the traps11:22
cmaloneyfun fun11:22
rick_h_wheeee11:22
rick_h_and GSoC day11:22
cmaloneyYeah11:22
rick_h_going to be a lot of explainin to do11:22
rick_h_nodeman is going to br crushed11:22
cmaloneyYeah, I know11:23
mrgoodcatYou know who you got then?11:44
rick_h_yea, we picked two and they weren't duped11:49
rick_h_so unless someone backs out we should be set with our two11:49
mrgoodcatDuped?11:56
rick_h_mrgoodcat: matches in multiple projects12:06
mrgoodcatWho did you get? Or should I wait for announce?12:08
rick_h_yea, we're not allowed to say anything until the announcement12:09
cmaloneyWhen is that supposed to happen?12:15
brouschI think today 3pm our time?12:17
rick_h_brousch: yea, it said noon, but wasn't sure what noon that was12:20
brouschI think all the other stuff has been pacific time12:22
mrgoodcat~timezones~12:29
mrgoodcathow was everybody's easter?12:36
mrgoodcatsurvive the families?12:36
brouschI got sun on my face12:37
cmaloneyEaster was OK. Had the family over.12:38
cmaloneyAte too much and wanted to sleep midway through12:38
brouschYeah, I felt awful from too much fatty food and candy last night. Rode the exercise bike this morning and am feeling much better12:39
cmaloneyI stayed away from the candy.12:41
cmaloneyThe beer however was another story. :)12:41
mrgoodcatI did a pretty good job not eating too much bad stuff...12:42
mrgoodcati went mountain biking early in the day so i felt pretty good around dinner time12:42
cmaloney"pretty good" only works with horseshoes, hand-grenades and Windows Programming.12:43
mrgoodcatlol windows programming12:44
mrgoodcathow do I POSIX12:44
mrgoodcatnode takes FOREVER to build on a chromebook12:45
mrgoodcatI don't like waiting12:45
cmaloneyWell, I don't think compiling software is part of Chromebook's core competencies. :)12:47
cmaloneyto be fair. :)12:47
brouschIt's Gentoo!12:52
mrgoodcatlol12:57
mrgoodcatAnybody here use keybase?13:28
mrgoodcatactually, aside from keybase, does anybody here use gpg regularly?13:46
cmaloneyI use it for password file encryption regularly13:46
cmaloneywhat's up?13:46
mrgoodcatother than encrypting things for my personal use (eg backups and such) I can't think of too many things I'd want to encrypt or sign13:46
mrgoodcatI'm trying to figure out what the use case is that would make this useful to me13:47
mrgoodcatI love the idea, but I'm not sure where it fits into my life13:47
cmaloneyOne use would be for sending sensitive documents (PDF) via email13:47
cmaloneyrather than via fax or some other means.13:48
cmaloney(assuming encryption experience on the other end)13:48
mrgoodcatthat's the part that is a pain13:49
cmaloneyAnother use would be fore ensuring that your mail hasn't been tampered with13:49
cmaloney(signing)13:49
mrgoodcatI would love to encrypt and sign messages, but it seems like it would almost never be worth the trouble on the other end13:49
cmaloneyDepends on the audience13:49
mrgoodcatI don't want to inconvenience my boss, or coworkers, or a client for that matter13:49
cmaloneyIf it's a note to my mom asking her to pick up cat food for the cat while we're away then it's likely not worth the effort13:50
mrgoodcathaha13:50
mrgoodcatno not likely13:50
mrgoodcatespecially since a GPG message would just be greek to my mom anyways13:50
cmaloneySigning is pretty transparent if it's not supported13:50
cmaloneyencryption notsomuch. :)13:50
mrgoodcatsigning i guess13:50
mrgoodcatI've seen signatures used in mailing lists quite a bit13:51
mrgoodcatbut i've never once felt the need to verify a signature13:51
cmaloneyyeah, I guess if you're paranoid that folks are taking your mail and messing with it signing makes sense13:51
mrgoodcatit seems like a tool for paranoid people13:52
mrgoodcatand making secure backupgs13:52
cmaloneybut I've never felt the need and feel if someone will take me out of context they'll do so signed email or not.13:52
mrgoodcatwow spelling13:52
cmaloneywell, the Snowden revelations are giving me pause.13:52
mrgoodcatrick_h_: seems like every time i log on to g+ I see a picture of your wine13:55
rick_h_mrgoodcat: must mean you've got good timing :)13:55
cmaloneyOr you have him in a Friends circle which I believe has precedence.13:58
rick_h_woot! I win!13:59
brouschstrange. I never see his wine14:00
cmaloneybrousch: You need to untick the "mute all posts from rick_h_ " box14:00
brouschRick Harding Works at Morpace Inc Lives in Michigan14:01
cmaloneyOld profile14:01
rick_h_brousch: heh yea, you need rharding@mitechie.com profile14:01
brouschI have both of them14:02
brouschweird14:02
brouschMaybe G+ is getting as bad as FB14:03
brouschI unfriended the morpace rick_h, and now I see wine14:04
rick_h_well there you go, guess your feed can only handle so much rick14:04
brouschSafety feature to keep it below a certain threshold of awesome14:05
mrgoodcatlol14:06
brouschYou all get rooms at the Blackwell for PyOhio?14:08
mrgoodcatwhy the blackwell?14:09
rick_h_easy walking distance to the union, others are there, and it's a really nice hotel with an omlette bar for breakfast14:10
brouschThey always stay at the Blackwell, but rooms are short there this year14:10
brouschWe'll be at the secondary hotel this year14:10
mrgoodcatI wasn't even planning on going?14:11
mrgoodcatany compelling reason i should?14:11
rick_h_it's an awesome small python conference14:11
brouschVarsity Inn South14:11
rick_h_good open spaces, smart folks, and it's free to attend14:11
rick_h_but I won't be there this year :(14:12
brouschwat?14:12
mrgoodcatthe schedule is pretty sparse... http://www.pyohio.org/schedule/talks/list/14:12
bookiebothttp://is.gd/MRI4og - PyOhio | Accepted Talks14:12
rick_h_I have to travel for work that weekend14:12
brouschmrgoodcat: They are still in request for talks phase14:12
rick_h_mrgoodcat: call for proposals is ongoing now14:12
mrgoodcatgot it14:12
mrgoodcatanywhere i can see proposals? or are they not public?14:12
brouschNot public14:12
rick_h_http://www.pyvideo.org/category go to pyohio14:13
bookiebothttp://is.gd/LOQIO2 - pyvideo.org - Categories14:13
brouschThough you could volunteer as a reviewer/selector. It was about 4 hours of work last year14:13
brouschThen fighting over talks was another 2 hour IRC meeting14:13
rick_h_mrgoodcat: you can even see a few talks from me and brousch in there14:13
mrgoodcatcool :)14:13
rick_h_cmaloney: have you done one? I thought you did one but am not recalling14:13
mrgoodcatso you're obviously pretty involved14:13
mrgoodcathow is attendance usually?14:14
brouschrick_h_: No. He is a slacker14:14
rick_h_cmaloney: and I went to the first one that was some 50 people in a library room14:14
rick_h_mrgoodcat: so we're fans. It helped me get into python14:14
brouschmrgoodcat: I want to say 27514:14
rick_h_brousch: boooo. We'll have to make him go14:14
rick_h_brousch: mrgoodcat they were over 350 I thought last year?14:14
brouschCould be14:14
mrgoodcatwow14:14
mrgoodcatnice turnout14:14
brousch302 last year14:15
rick_h_Attendee growth from 150 developers in 2010 to 350 in 2013.14:15
rick_h_per the sponsor prospectus14:15
cmaloneyrick_h_: A PyOhio talk? I've only volunteered14:15
brouschHm, the email from Costlow says verified 30214:15
mrgoodcat"in and around Ohio and the entire midwest"14:15
rick_h_cmaloney: gotcha, I kept thinking you did some pygame something or other but mixing up mug/etc14:16
mrgoodcatwhat does that even mean? the conference isn't in a single location?14:16
cmaloneymrgoodcat: I've convinced several of JoDee's friends to go14:16
cmaloneyrick_h_: Yeah, I've only done Pygame talks at Penguicon and MUG14:16
cmaloneynot at PyOhio14:16
cmaloneymrgoodcat: It means the conference draws from many states, not just Ohio14:16
mrgoodcatgot it14:16
mrgoodcati'm having a hard time figuring out where this thing even is14:17
mrgoodcatcolumbus?14:17
rick_h_yea, right on campus14:17
brouschHm, I thought they said Varsity Inn south was walkable, but it's really far14:18
rick_h_< 1mi?14:18
rick_h_that's kind of my 'walkable' limit14:18
rick_h_after 1mi it's a hike14:18
rick_h_though cmaloney and I did some hiking for chicken in montreal lol14:18
mrgoodcatI walked 6mi from my hotel to dinner in Ft Lauderdale14:19
rick_h_needs a big dinner for that one14:19
mrgoodcatlol14:19
mrgoodcatactually dinner was really good14:19
mrgoodcati was not disappointed14:19
mrgoodcatand a saw the bat yacht so that was cool14:19
brousch1.7 miles14:20
cmaloneyrick_h_ and I always manage some excursion to far-away lands on our trips. :)14:20
brouschI guess that's a 30 minute brisk walk14:21
brouschYou get free parking if you're speaker, so I'm sure we'll be lazy14:22
brouschhttp://goo.gl/maps/YeMoj14:23
bookiebotVarsity Inn OSU South to Ohio Union- The Ohio State University - Google Maps14:23
mrgoodcatbrousch: you doing a talk this year?14:26
brouschMaybe'14:26
brouschSome pieces are coming together for a good follow-up talk to last year's14:27
mrgoodcatwhat was last years?14:27
brouschhttp://www.pyvideo.org/video/2259/kivy-creating-desktop-and-mobile-apps-with-pyth14:28
bookiebothttp://is.gd/CIDMBH - pyvideo.org - Kivy - Creating Desktop and Mobile Apps with Python14:28
brousch2 hour tutorial14:28
brouschOne of the new projects I introduce at the end has matured well, and there's a project that makes it a lot easier to compile APKS now, and both of those projects have GSoC students this year14:30
brouschSo they should improve quite a bit14:31
mrgoodcatcool :)14:33
brouschOne of my goals with Kivy was to make Android apps on Android using Python so kids whose only computer is a tablet could do so. However there has been a noticable shift in the market from tablets in schools to Chromebooks, so I'm not as gung-ho for that14:35
rick_h_the web will always win, eventually14:37
brouschThat is a good thing14:38
mrgoodcatand development in web browsers has become pretty good actually14:39
mrgoodcatI was amazed how easy dev was on my chromebook14:39
mrgoodcatgranted, i still put ubuntu on it14:39
mrgoodcatno web application can beat vim yet :)14:39
brouschYou use a browser IDE?14:47
mrgoodcati tried a few14:48
mrgoodcatthey were....14:48
mrgoodcatbetter than expected14:48
mrgoodcatbut most of them are paid services that run your app on a low-spec VM14:48
mrgoodcatso since vim and localhost are free linux won that battle14:48
mrgoodcatsome of them have heroku integration though. so you can deploy right from the web interface which is kinda cool14:49
brouschYeah, that's what I found too15:00
brouschI've only done vim over ssh to a remote server so far15:01
mrgoodcatthat's my preferred workflow15:03
mrgoodcatsometimes localhost15:03
brouschWhat's the next step up from Scratch?15:04
mrgoodcatsnap?15:04
mrgoodcatit was originally a scratch mod with lambdas, first class data, procedures, recursion15:05
mrgoodcatbut now it's been rewritten in javascript an they no longer consider themselves a scratch mod but rather a totally separate project15:05
brouschGood find!15:06
mrgoodcathttp://snap.berkeley.edu/15:06
bookiebothttp://is.gd/s26Lr1 - SNAP! (Build Your Own Blocks)15:06
brouschThat gets me through the next few years of teaching my son15:06
mrgoodcatafter that i'd say the next step might be a real high level programming language15:06
mrgoodcatpython, ruby, [insert easy programming language here]15:07
brouschright15:07
brouschPython15:07
brouschBut that looks like a good in between15:07
mrgoodcathere is the original scratch mod http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Build_Your_Own_Blocks_(Scratch_Modification)15:08
bookiebothttp://is.gd/KuEiok - Build Your Own Blocks (Scratch Modification) - Scratch Wiki15:08
mrgoodcatcool that it runs entirely in browser http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html15:09
bookiebothttp://is.gd/5u7UHn - Snap! Build Your Own Blocks. Beta15:09
brouschYeah, with chromebooks doing it all in browser is important15:10
brouschUntil kids are mature enough to use ssh and vim ;)15:11
greg-gbrousch: start 'em on the command line first15:11
mrgoodcatthat's a theory i've heard a lot15:11
greg-gwho was it, one of the dads on planet debian did that15:11
mrgoodcatwork from the bottom up15:12
greg-git worked pretty well for him/his son15:12
greg-gjohn goerzen?15:12
mrgoodcatit's the same idea as learning c as a first programming language15:12
greg-gcan't remember15:12
brouschI'd need to take away his chromebook15:12
brouschThis would not go over well15:12
mrgoodcatchromebook does ssh15:12
greg-gyeah, once you go gui....15:12
mrgoodcatctrl+alt+t15:13
rick_h_it takes you years to find your mistake and go back to no gui :P15:13
mrgoodcatssh me@awesomeserver.com15:13
greg-grick_h_: :)15:13
mrgoodcatbrousch: what model chromebook is it?15:14
brouschc72015:14
brousch4GB model15:14
mrgoodcati have the c720. I've found it to be a pretty capable machine15:16
mrgoodcati the c720P actually15:16
brouschYeah, I like them15:19
mrgoodcatbrousch: what is your goal? are you trying to teach him more about how the computer actually works or just to think like a programmer?15:24
brouschProgramming right now. Scratch seems perfect. Once he has some scratch experience, we can work on the Rpi with it too15:25
mrgoodcatbut more fundamentally than that, is it the logic structure? or the analytic skills? or something else?15:28
mrgoodcatthere's some motivation behind it i assume?15:28
brouschI think it's an important skill to learn, and the schools do a rotten job of it15:29
mrgoodcatyea my school's programming class was a joke15:30
mrgoodcatHTML is not programming....15:30
cmaloneymrgoodcat: wait, WHAAAAT?15:30
mrgoodcatunfortunately, my parents weren't great with computers either15:30
mrgoodcatso i was pretty much all self taught until college15:31
mrgoodcatactually, i still consider myself mostly self taught15:31
cmaloneymrgoodcat: I taught myself computers as well up until high-school / college15:31
mrgoodcatmost of what school did was point out the things i don't know so i could research them on my own later15:31
cmaloneyand yes, I learned the fundamentals in school but my day-to-day stuff is mostly self-taught15:31
mrgoodcateven college did a pretty meh job of actually teaching15:32
mrgoodcatthey never go in depth enough15:32
cmaloneyWell, to be fair, I wasn't ready for a lot of things they tried to teach me15:33
mrgoodcatmost of the alg/struct teaching consisted of "this thing A exists", "here is an implementation in Java of A", "Please memorize the time/space complexity of A", "on to thing B"15:33
cmaloneyThat's not teaching, that's asking you to memorize wikipedia15:33
mrgoodcatyerp15:34
cmaloneyI hate that15:34
mrgoodcateven in my college classes i had to pretty much teach myself15:34
cmaloneyLike memorizing hte periodic table15:34
cmaloneyI challenge you to find a chemestry classroom that doesn't have a periodic table prominently displayed15:35
brouschIn the end, you have to teach yourself15:35
brouschWe cannot cram knowledge into brains yet15:35
cmaloneyWell, and there's a difference between knowledge and trivia15:36
cmaloneyknowing what an atomic number and how it relates to chemical process is knowledge15:36
cmaloneyknowing the atomic number of Krypton is trivia15:37
mrgoodcatrick_h_: i made lastfm function ignore #bookie18:28
mrgoodcatsorry i know how spammy bots can become when you get carried away18:28
rick_h_sorry, I live in irc all day and am old school so hate the busyness sometimes18:29
mrgoodcatthat's fine18:29
mrgoodcatany of the other functions you want ignored in #bookie?18:29
cmaloney.np18:29
cmaloneynuts18:30
cmaloney:)18:30
mrgoodcatcmaloney: you have to use your username18:30
cmaloney.np squeekyhoh18:33
cmaloney.np squeekyhoho18:33
bookiebotsqueekyhoho's last track - Solsagan by Finntroll on Nifelvind [21 Apr 2014, 17:56]18:33
cmaloneyOh, nice .:)18:33
mrgoodcatrick_h_ didn't like that function in #bookie18:33
mrgoodcati think he's trying to keep botspam down18:33
cmaloneyrick_h_ is a fuddy-duddy. :)18:33
mrgoodcati just made that function ignore #bookie18:33
cmaloney(Yeah, that can get a little annoying)18:33
mrgoodcati do realize i've gotten a little carried away with adding functionality too18:34
mrgoodcatesp. since most is useless really18:34
mrgoodcatthe lastfm app scrobbles the google music app, which apparently is used for android sounds18:37
mrgoodcatso i get my notifications in my scrobble list18:37
mrgoodcatsometimes... apparently not all the time18:38
mrgoodcati just left like 20 channels on 3 servers. my channel list was getting too long18:44
mrgoodcatrick_h_: you should see the WMU computer club channel. i think we might have more bots than humans18:46
mrgoodcattop artist of all time on last.fm is coldplay.... wat?18:57
cmaloneyWee19:34
cmaloneyApparently we got two rodents19:35
cmaloneyand one of them was further along down the decomposition path than the other one19:35
brouschlovely19:38
brouschFor a second I thought you were talking about the gsoc students19:38
cmaloneyhar har19:39
brouschI feel bad for rejected gsoc students19:59
cmaloneyme too20:03
cmaloneyI'm in conversation with one at the moment who feels like we lead him on20:03
brouschWe have a butthurt one in #kivy too20:06
brouschIs there a nicer word for butthurt?20:06
brouschI know greg-g will not approve of that20:07
mrgoodcatlol20:10
mrgoodcataggravated?20:10
brouschdisgruntled maybe20:10
brouschI'll go with disgruntled20:10
mrgoodcatit makes sense that some people will be upset20:10
cmaloneyYeah, and it's hard20:22
cmaloneywe had several folks put in some serious efort20:22
cmaloneyAnd under different circumstances they'd be celebrating tonight20:22
rick_h_yea, it's just darn tough.20:26
rick_h_you try to be supportive but they think you've milked them for their time20:27
rick_h_one guy in #gsoc was pissed and ranted against OSS and rage quit20:27
brouschjust one?20:28
brouschHm, yeah, that has to be a crazy channel today20:28
rick_h_well one I saw20:28
rick_h_One guy I think quit but he's quiet and so he just left20:28
rick_h_the other wanted to know what place he was in, who was ahead of him, and wants to compare commits and such20:29
brouschYour selection was highly competitive just because of the number of proposals and slots20:29
brouschWe rejected half of our proposals20:30
rick_h_yea, I'd say half of ours were no go at all20:30
brouschWe had 4 slots for 6 proposals20:30
rick_h_but the other half were all usable20:30
rick_h_you had 6 proposals?20:30
cmaloneyyeah, and had we had 5-6 slots we'd have easily filled them.20:30
rick_h_wow20:30
brouschSo we accepted 3 and gave back 1 slot20:30
rick_h_wow, ok I feel crazy now20:31
cmaloneyHad we had another mentor we would have easily filled another slot20:31
brouschIt is totally crazy20:31
cmaloneyWonder if being under teh PSF was not the best move20:31
brouschIt was an extra hoop for students to jump through20:33
brouschthe PSF gave back 3 slots to the pool, I think20:34
mrgoodcatLots of people quit #bookie23:15
greg-gawwww23:16
mrgoodcatI get a join part quit synopsis in my client23:19
mrgoodcat9 quit 1 joined then quit23:22
mrgoodcatMost names I didn't recognize though23:23
cmaloneymrgoodcat: I think that's to be expected23:26
mrgoodcatYea but still would have been nice to see them stay. Maybe now that rick_h_ won't be as swamped I'll try to get into some bookie code23:27

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