#apertus IRC Channel Logs

off to bed now ... have a good one everyone!

good morning

good morning everyone

being called Polaroid

hi FergusL

http://alphadev.apertus.org/

se6astian: it's on the ftp too ?

http://alphadev.apertus.org/ == FTP

that will get me ready for the real deal

well actually it's just copy pasting php code;.. it's just that it had php errors... I have to manage an utter small friends forum

well I committed some changes to github today that added comments to the registers php file

se6astian: comments in the code or... ?

m-m-morning, right

aren't you in Europe ?

I'm not aware of an european timezone that has an offest from GMT that could justify calling "now" a morning :p

ha true !

(Bertl's Local Meridian Time)

HAHAHA, "universal"! come on !

now you'll tell us that you shift UNIX epoch time so that it matches your birthday ?

tsk ! easy guess !

hi gwelkind ! welcome here

Thanks! That was fast!

the host name suggests US, east side, so summer is a few months away, yes?

so, will you be busy till June or do you plan to help out during your semester as well?

sounds reasonable, okay, so what area interests you most? where do you see your strong suit?

Well, I'm at a stage in my education right now in which I'm fairly competent with programming, especially with python, though I'm just beginning to experiment with electronics (almost finished building my first RepRap at aforementioned hackerspace).

I REALLY like Blender. I've gone through intermittent phases of spending lots of time with it. Although, I confess, I don't really have the natural talent or practice to make beautiful models, I'm well acquainted with lots of different facets of Blenders usage, and I've poked around with python automation a bit too.

gwelkind: what hackerspace are you going to ?

It's called NESIT. It's in Meriden, CT.

I go to one called LeLoop here in Paris

yes

Seems like the hip thing to do

most of the team is located in Europe, rather, I'd say

Have you followed the Velocar cc project at all?

It's just been integrated into OSE's global village construction set. I know they're making very fast progress in France.

not sure what to think about

btw, I do a lot of python too

That's awesome!

If I had to do it again, I wouldn't have studied it formally. Honestly, CS at liberal arts school is a joke. Everything I've actually found useful I've had to learn on my own.

yes I try to use it

but most of the time I write python in Geany, a very lightweight IDE

Hmm, I've never tried it. What do you like about it?

nohthing about project files or custom filetypes

I can appreciate that. I just use vim with a couple plug-ins for tab completion, custom folds and some plugable syntax highlighting. I try to keep things as simple as possible.

I can understand that

haha, yep. Us pythonistas have a lot of important stuff abstracted and black boxed away.

I learned cpp first, so I'm pretty comfortable with it conceptually. Every time I go back to it, I find myself slamming my head against the wall trying to figure out how to do something trivial that I could do in python with 2 lines of code.

haha yes

I find C++ not being too coherent... it feels weird...

my thing lately has been PureData, do you know it ?

it's a visual programming language designed for computer music, but that can do much more

it becomes instant beautiful when you begin to understand the whole paradigm

hahaha, awesome

I never tried either but I know it's possible

sadly you can't really plug in python

(a hack to embed python in puredata I mean, it's called pyext)

What's your role in Apertus, FergusL?

No specific role, just like you I'd say, I poped in and try to help. I've been following the progress for... 3 or 4 years maybe

For sure!

I agree about the learning opportuning

top notch knowledged people around here

I asked about internship, se6astian is the person that can answer this kind of question

although of course there are legal entities for both the company and the association

There must be organized collaborative meetings for prototyping, no?

I might have missed something

there are collaborative meetings weekly iirc but they are more formal, about what has advanced and for discussing idea

gwelkind: the learning curve will be steep, nobody will hold your hand, but we can guarantee a huge amount of knowledge and great accomplishments if you pull through

that's for an internship ?

Bertl ^

for seriously working on the project, regardless of internship or not ... of course, occasional help is something different

what's the word?

i'm going to share it here then, it's in a video, a conference by Miller Puckette, creatore of Max and Pd

qwrdy eiezed

it just is bugging me

sounds like he is talking of a quality of programming languages which (to me) sounds similar to core-de-iced (not that it makes sense to me)

yes

or it could be a special term relevant to computer/music languages which I do not know (yet)

but he talks about a state a software "becomes"

but well anyway, enough off topic maybe

good night everyone!

Bertl: I might just write a mail to the man speaking, Miller Puckette haha

besides, this talk is very interesting

how to design new instruments

I didn't share the python code I promised,n it's actually pretty bad, 0 comment, still a lot of unused commented stuff