MoinMoin: MoinMoinChat/Logs/moin-dev/2006-05-31

2006-05-31T00:16:27  <xorAxAx> Kepplar: well, i remember the discussion i had to a colleague about privacy in the US. she said that they are much more interested in it. i didnt believe that. later, i relealised that she really meant avoiding discrimination, not general results of non-existant privacy
2006-05-31T00:16:34  <xorAxAx> s/d to/d with/
2006-05-31T00:19:54  <xorAxAx> That said, if you do ask to be dropped into the google intern program
2006-05-31T00:19:54  <xorAxAx> or want to interview to become an employee, we'll have your
2006-05-31T00:19:54  <xorAxAx> transcripts at the ready for those folks here at google.
2006-05-31T00:19:59  <xorAxAx> ugh, they even want to store them!
2006-05-31T00:20:15  <xorAxAx> (i wonder if they can understand german marks at all)
2006-05-31T06:55:32  <mvirkkil> xorAxAx: By the way, a transcript: "a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)"
2006-05-31T06:55:49  <mvirkkil> xorAxAx: So it's quite reasonable to assume they meant just proof of enrollment.
2006-05-31T06:56:09  <mvirkkil> xorAxAx: That's from dictionary.com
2006-05-31T09:20:32  <Kepplar> i gathered that much
2006-05-31T09:20:46  <Kepplar> but seeing as google didnt even get back to me about the interim programme this year i cba
2006-05-31T09:21:03  <Kepplar> intern*
2006-05-31T09:21:15  <Kepplar> then again i didnt send a transcript
2006-05-31T09:21:18  <Kepplar> because i didnt know what it was
2006-05-31T09:22:02  <Kepplar> my grades so far aint the best - i can't to exams when why i've always been very picky on what information i give out, usually only very high-level data
2006-05-31T09:22:13  <Kepplar> 80-90% if cwm 20-40% on exams
2006-05-31T09:22:32  <Kepplar> mainly because i write the correct answer but dont have the "magic word" on their mark scheme
2006-05-31T09:23:23  <Kepplar> exams at least in the UK are a sham, the only people to do well are what I call the "try hards", usless indivials who spent all their time studying and generally aren't gifted in a particular areaa and have know knolwsge of the subjecty outside their course textbook
2006-05-31T09:23:30  <Kepplar> and now im lagging
2006-05-31T09:23:55  <Kepplar> sf hgse]
2006-05-31T09:24:05  <Kepplar> typo galore, because of irssi lag (well ssh)
2006-05-31T10:56:33  <nwp> Kepplar: at a decent (UK) university, the real bright people get either 1sts or 2.2/3rds. The try-hards get 2.1s.
2006-05-31T10:57:03  <nwp> try-hards are certainly not useless. the rest of us need to learn to make good use of them ;-)
2006-05-31T10:57:35  <nwp> I am of course biased, having got a 2.2
2006-05-31T10:58:05  <Kepplar> nwp: yep
2006-05-31T10:58:14  <nwp> but of the people on our course who were a priori identified as being "bright", about half got 3rds or dropped out.
2006-05-31T10:58:23  <Kepplar> im just shy a 2.1 although its likely ill get a first because of the format
2006-05-31T10:59:03  <nwp> oops, wrong channel
2006-05-31T10:59:25  <nwp> we shouldn't go so far OT here
2006-05-31T10:59:50  <nwp> apart from anything else, the evidence is preserved (hi log-readers!)
2006-05-31T11:25:29  <xorAxAx> here, 60% dropping out is normal for math exams
2006-05-31T14:00:24  <Kepplar> Hmmm
2006-05-31T14:01:21  <Kepplar> nwp: ironically if i work at it hard next year i need roughtlu 78% to get a first, else i'll be falling in that 2.1 catergory ><
2006-05-31T14:01:32  <Kepplar> We invented a new word for our studies
2006-05-31T14:01:38  <Kepplar> we "vised" before exams
2006-05-31T14:01:45  <Kepplar> as we didnt do it in the first place to revise it ><
2006-05-31T14:08:49  <xorAxAx> Kepplar: you should be glad that you arent studying in america. there your your grades just depend on the amount of money you pay :)
2006-05-31T14:13:46  <Kepplar> i think exams is a stupid system
2006-05-31T14:13:57  <Kepplar> 100% coursework all the way
2006-05-31T14:16:04  <Kepplar> if we fetch a revision do we want to fetch all the information regarding it?
2006-05-31T14:17:29  <ThomasWaldmann> Kepplar: fetch all metadata for that rev, but not all data (can be large)
2006-05-31T14:17:40  <Kepplar> ThomasWaldmann: thats what i was thinking, ok
2006-05-31T14:18:32  <Kepplar> how does getitem on an itemrevision object supporting the metadata sound?
2006-05-31T14:18:48  <Kepplar> item["metadata"] = data
2006-05-31T14:18:54  <Kepplar> er, not data
2006-05-31T14:18:57  <Kepplar> but you get what i mean
2006-05-31T14:20:50  <ThomasWaldmann> maybe rather item.meta[key] = val
2006-05-31T14:21:11  <Kepplar> that would work anyway, meta is a dictionary
2006-05-31T14:25:51  <Kepplar> ThomasWaldmann: by the way i scrapped the interface idea for the moin code, it will now directly maniplate classes, derived from a factory class
2006-05-31T14:26:46  <ThomasWaldmann> ok
2006-05-31T14:27:15  <ThomasWaldmann> if you have cleaned up the src, just commit it and i have a look later
2006-05-31T14:27:26  <Kepplar> working on that atm
2006-05-31T14:27:45  <ThomasWaldmann> btw, freebsd soc project was on german heise newsticker (what about the other 99 soc projects? :)
2006-05-31T14:28:01  <Kepplar> other 100 :)
2006-05-31T14:28:04  <Kepplar> 101 i thought?
2006-05-31T14:30:25  <xorAxAx> ThomasWaldmann: you have to get the journalists to subscribe to moin-announce and sent mails about it