IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REARRANGING LETTERS.
http://www.juxentente.com/2006/11/28/the-dafrito-code-this-is-my-fir/
So, cryptography is taken out of the picture… What do you have left?
From Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
I gave the above test to Graeme, Travis, and Brett. They all failed due to logic errors. It is important to note that Brett and Travis are both professional programmers. Failing this test does not in anyway demean them or anything. It is more of a test to point out how hard it is to write correct code the first time.
Me, on the other hand, passed with flying colors.
EDIT:
There was no testing before submission and only the first submission would be accepted. Everyone did get it right the second time though. Travis and Brett’s original if statements were incorrect and in turn outputted wrong results. The only thing wrong with Graeme’s code was that his range was from 0 to 100; however, Graeme’s output was unreadable because it was on one line.
FINAL VERDICT: EVERYBODY FAILS
PIXZORTSTZTZX — Pictures from BestBuy using iMacs.
Vivian and Jessica (me in the red shirt off-picture)
Vivian techno’d.
Using the super sexy iMacs. I want one so bad.
The ease of use of our new archive system has actually lead to me reading them myself during work the past two days when all I meant to do was look for something specific. I was struck by two things:
- This website has essentially tricked me into keeping a journal since 2002.
- The frequency, especially during 2005 and early 2006, that I complained about Woodstock’s affect on my commute.
I no longer drive I-575 daily, living south of Woodstock in Kennesaw as I do now, so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. My new daily nemesis is Marietta. I have so much hate for Marietta at this point and its ability to stall I-75.
Speaking of the archive pages, I’m probably going to be running a test soon where we put Google ads on 1 out of every 5 Narchive pages or something. We’ve never had ads before, and I don’t really want them on main content pages ever, but I’m going to see how well this works out. It depends on what Peter and Travis think and if I can integrate them into the design of the site. Regardless it’s not like we’ll suddenly be turning a profit or anything; it’ll just make us lose very, very, very slightly less money doing this.
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize in advance (and also for some recent, previous blunders) about any mistakes I may, or more likely, will make while getting used to the new Jux and how it’s run*.
I are not smartness of the computers. Nerd<GEEK.
*This will probably be more of a bother to the boys who run this joint than the readers themselves. You guys did a beautiful job with it though!
Look around. There might be a howling stone nearby.
Since the members page has been slightly upgraded recently I feel the need to up my stats. That is all.
This is something that Travis and I were talking about in the channel yesterday, but after a nice long conversation with Kelley this afternoon it’s back in my head. One of the more interesting things that have occured as part of the continuing saga of the Jux Entente is that we place rather highly in the Google searches for almost anyone who name we mention on the site.
For myself, Travis, Peter, and Kenny this is obvious. Searching for our names immediately brings up The Jux Entente as the first relevant result. But this also applies to Rebecca Traylor, Ryann Frye, Jayde Avakian, and pretty much anyone else we’ve ever had romantic involvement with, among others.
Why do I think this is hilarious? Because, as a historian, I know that this means that in the battle for what “really happened” in events involving a Jux member and one of the above, we have “won.” A third party who knows none of us is going to find the Jux version first. Googling someone you just met? The Jux Entente is there. Now, any good historian or other person who really wants to know the truth is going to search deeper, but in some instances, there is no deeper. We are the web presence for the above.
Of course, we have our own biases and slants, intentional (rarely) or not (commonly). We think we’re in the right of most of these debates, if not all. The very asynchronous nature of the web can come back to haunt us sometimes, too; this was also part of the discussion yesterday.
Let me explain this a bit: Let’s say, correctly, that Travis publishes a feature in 2002 that casts some disparaging words on Jayde. He last had any real involvement with Jayde in 1998, at the most recent. Four years is a long time, but I think it’s still within the statute of limitations to be a bit pissy.
Jayde, however, doesn’t find that article in 2002. She searches for herself and finds it today. (Note: when this story actually happened, she found it in 2004) She’s pretty pissed at being represented this way, and to her, this is brand new. Travis has now been holding his grudge for 9 years in her mind, well beyond what could be expected. She doesn’t bother to look at a timestamp or anything, and even if she did it might not matter, because this is still brand new in her head.
It’s an interesting consequence of having a moderately popular and well-linked website. Our stamp on the history of events, at least as far as the web is concerned, is far greater than those who might challenge us for whatever reason. An unintended consequence to be sure, and not one that I feel will ever affect editorial policy here at the Jux Entente, at least on my end, but one that’s important to be aware of in some situations.
Yesterday, during some of my fleeting Wednesday night freetime, I installed Gallery on a subsection of Jux and started playing around with it. I wanted something more dynamic than just uploading Picasa exports to Jux as a way to display my photos. Unfortunately, Gallery is one of the shittiest pieces of software I have used in awhile.
It’s not that it’s broken. Everything worked exactly as it was supposed to. All the plugins were fine. It’s that it all sucks. Everything about it. It’s ugly, and no theme seems to be able to fix it. There’s no way to add large numbers of photos at once that’s any simpler than, again, just uploading a Picasa page. It’s clunky. It’s just…bad. I could list all the stuff I got annoyed with, but what’s the point? It’s like Yahoo’s home page. There’s so much wrong that it’s easier to try and find what’s right.
With Gallery, the only thing that was right is that everything worked exactly as intended. The intentions were just bad.
