29 Aug 10

Imagine the irony

My classes at SJSU are going well. I have met all my instructors and am finally taking classes that only have finals! It’s an exciting time in my life. One of my classes in particular is looking very fun! We were given brand new motherboards on the first day – this is my first class in VHDL!

My instructor paged through a bunch of slides showing us how technology has changed and it was amazing to me. Transistors are well into the millions, pixels are getting smaller and smaller, LCDs are being replaced with beautiful arrays of LEDs… and here my instructor stands paging through printed out, and badly printed I should say, slides on an overhead. Even my English teacher has pointed out the oddity of having a bunch of CS people in a classroom every day, at least she only has us meet in person once.

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Tagged SJSU, Technology, VHDL

9 Aug 10

Discussions with a theist

The quotes you chose out of my response were, admittedly, sharpened with condescension and hyperbole. The point I was trying to make is that I, personally and exclusively me, do not find any of the benefits that any person I have discussed Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any other God oriented religious group to be exclusive to that group, and in every case I’ve been shown thus far Atheists do them just as well.

The things you interpreted that I implied – Christians are not logical or Scientifically Sound, Christianity does not provide answers to life’s big questions, Christianity is not true because it is old, Christianity doesn’t interest the intellectual world of today – are acceptable, but not entirely supported by my statement.

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Tagged Debate, Discussion, Logic, Religion, Theism, Thought

7 Aug 10

Firearms: Source Worklog – August 6th

Implemented code behind a number (The Number is 7) of weapons to be potentially included in the 1.1 Release
Corrected a couple missing/screwed up references to textures
New Default MOTD =) yay for valve and content length limitations that don’t really make sense!
Began work on the UI overhaul
All weapons begin with full load of ammo now (No more Ammobox runs at the beginning of the match)
No more Vollmer Lasers
Strafe & Backwards modifiers have been modified
Weapon Accuracies modified across the board
Weapon Balance continues

Considering mitigating merge mags, instead have the gunnery skill drop all mags that aren’t full and grab new ones.

Who knows how these things will turn out?

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Tagged Programming, vgui, weapons

9 Jul 10

Automation Abstraction

For all things web development you have to be able to test them and confirm that they work. With the progression of AJAX and DOM altering JavaScript testing these web applications has become more and more of a chore. Unit tests and frameworks provide a certain level of quality assurance from the back but the user’s experience needs to be confirmed as well. The last four years of work at Broadcom has afforded me a number of opportunities to diversify and expand my skills palette, but no matter what I do I always find myself back in the role of a tester, unfortunately.

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