User talk:Mwn3d

Welcome aboard! I founded RC, and still administer it. (Though I get a lot of help from the "bureaucrats" around here.) Check out the village pump and the "Recent Changes" RSS feed. That's how I keep up to speed. If you have any suggestions, mention it on a talk page somewhere (The Pump doesn't get as much traffic as I'd like.), and people will start chiming in. The only time I remember down a suggestion from a user, I turned out to be wrong. So don't be shy. :-) --Short Circuit 18:55, 30 October 2007 (MDT)

You probably ought to sign comments with --~~~~. That'll come out something like this: --Short Circuit 20:07, 14 November 2007 (MST)

WITCHCRAFT! --Mwn3d 22:09, 14 November 2007 (MST)

Where's the note on your page about how you live in the RC power-apartment? Highest concentration of RC members in any domicile, pretty sure.--Slawmaster 04:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi I joined your website. You couldn't be a normal guy who likes football. --singheyjude 19:42, 23 June 2008 (EST)

Language implementations

Many of the languages only have one implementation (LotusScript for example) or are themselves implementations of another language (ActionScript vs JavaScript). It would be nice for the language template to only optionally link to the category in that case. Or at least not necessarily fill in the implementation category for every language unless a specific implementation is mentioned in an example. --IanOsgood 21:56, 29 November 2007 (MST)

I was just setting everything up. I don't know enough about all of the languages to figure out which ones actually have implementations. I figured something may happen like with RCBF and it'd be nice to have the page already made. --Mwn3d 22:06, 29 November 2007 (MST)

Operating Systems

1. Debian's package manager is called dpkg. APT provides an interface to that, and synaptic provides an interface to APT.

2. You should get an account on the RIT Plan 9 system so you can add that to your list.--Slawmaster 20:27, 28 January 2008 (MST)

Brainf***

So you think knowing all the commands makes you skilled? Let' see you implement a quicksort or a bubblesort. Heck...Even swap() that would safely work in an arbitrary position in an array would be interesting. :-D --Short Circuit 23:02, 7 March 2008 (MST)

blog

Would you be interested in a recurring responsibility? I'd like someone to post announcements of new tasks in the Rosetta Code blog, and you're the first person who comes to mind. I'll set up a username and password for you, if you're interested. --Short Circuit 23:02, 27 March 2008 (MDT)

I think I can handle that. Let me know if there's any special way you want me to do things. --Mwn3d 06:14, 28 March 2008 (MDT)

What happened? you're late! :P

I know. I apologize to my loyal readers. I've been on break for a few weeks and it's difficult to do the posts and spend time with family and friends. Also, while I'm working it's tough. I think the coming blog posts will only showcase more prominent activity (big pushes or discussions), new tasks and languages, and a suggestion for activity. It takes a while to summarize a week and now that I only have my nights and weekends to do my errands, my time is being stretched thin. I will likely be back to the same old posts when classes start up again in March. Please bear with me until then. --Mwn3d 01:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Language Comparison Table

Dude! That is an excellent addition to Rosetta Code! Well done! You should link it from the front page or sidebar. (If we had "Code stars", I'd give you one.) --IanOsgood 16:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Monty Hall simulation results

Hi, Could you show sample results from running your program please, thanks. --Paddy3118 15:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Data_Munging#Example_Data:_readings.txt

Could someone help by uploading the data file and leaving just the embedded zip on RC please. Thanks. --Paddy3118 10:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm working on it. Right now the site only allows images to be uploaded (no zips or txts). I'll talk to Short Circuit and see if we can change that. --Mwn3d 19:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I've uploaded it and modified the task. --Short Circuit 22:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

My thanks. --Paddy3118 02:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

case problems

Don't fix the case problems...That needs to be fixed server-side, as people *will* be using various cases when they add examples.

View spike

Actually, that view spike might have been from when I posted a link to a recent changes log item to #haskell on Freenode, trying to find out if I should revert it or not. Immediately following the post, people started mentioning that the site was running slow. I checked the server, and it was running an instantaneous load average of 0.46. It made me realize that RC is not in a good position to get Slashdotted again. And it doesn't help that I keep invalidating all the caches every time I add an extension or change a MediaWiki setting. And we're likely to see more of that, as I created an extension to allow reddit buttons to be added to pages, and added it to Template:Task... --Short Circuit 09:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Tag stuff

I'm beginning to think I shouldn't do any sort of mass-edits. I just make more work for you. I clicked Preview every time, I swear! :-P Still, a complete switchover to the lang tags would be good, IMO, whether or not we have support for all of the languages in question. Since all of the code between those tags goes through a specific code path I can easily modify, there are a bunch of interesting things I can do. I'm thinking of adding "download this code" and "copy this code to clipboard" buttons, for example, and possibly dumping the code into another database table where I can come up with interesting ways to package and analyze it.--Short Circuit 17:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't worry about those little mistakes. The "copy this code" button would be cool. Maybe not the "download this code" button. There are a lot of incomplete examples and I think mostly people would just want to copy a line or a method into their editor to change it for what they need rather than download the whole program. Though it might be nice for the project level tasks. Maybe that one could be added explicitly by the person who writes the example.

You should count the number of times the word "foo" is used in examples. That'd be a fun statistic. --Mwn3d 17:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Processor

I bought a Phenom 9650 several months ago when I built my current desktop. Really glad I did...It's a heck of a lot cheaper than Intel quad-core parts, even if it doesn't perform quite as well. I also turned out lucky in that I will very likely be able to swap it out for a Phenom II part eventually, when I finally feel the urge to upgrade. Oddly enough, though, I haven't yet found a task that truly taxes my CPU. I've got 8GB of RAM, so I've never really hit swap unless I forced the issue. Rather, my biggest performance issues come from Firefox, which does not seem to have been designed with multithreading as a serious possibility; It frequently becomes entirely unresponsive to input for several seconds at a time, and then hurriedly applies whatever input I'd provided, like there's some mutex or resource that even typing into this edit box has to wait on. --Short Circuit 05:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

JUnit

Thanks for doing the page on JUnit. I'd have done it, except I'm away from my books and stuck in a hotel where the network access is a little crappy (enough that doing web research is not preferred). —Dkf 20:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Loop Structures

Ah, I see that page is no longer a task. Thanks for tidying that up. --glennj 19:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

A similar change is supposed to be going on in Array Initialization if you're looking for more fun work. Read the note on top of that page for directions. --Mwn3d 19:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Template Question

Hello. I noticed a recent addition I made was tagged with the needs-review template. The needs-review template wording is rather strong, i.e. "may be incorrect". I had added my example to the category as needing attention because I had only solved half of the problem (the brute force side), not because my solution was incorrect. Is there a template other than needs-review that might be more apropos? Russell 22:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)