(While James was out sick^Wabusing the list, I was fighting with my MacBook (5,1) which no longer boots Debian[0]. So, apologies for the wrap up's tardiness, but here we go!)
Hello Hackers-
Thanks to Meetup for hosting us again! If you or someone you know would like to host us, and have room for 75-100+ people, get in touch!
We had no puzzle for Round 16. If you'd like a puzzle, I urge you to
write a dictionary data type using no other heap storage but closures.
No one said it had to be efficient. It should support the functions
assoc and lookup -- Go!
Maybe it's been a while since you've used an Apple II to play your favorite games from the 80s, but that wait is almost over. AppleToo is an emulator for the Apple II that runs in your browser. They are about a disk controller away from being over the top awesome, but it's seriously impressive right now Too (see what I did there? --Ed)
Hack and Tell is run by two people, one with absolutely no musical talent, and the other with a lot. Musical talent may be binary, but the ability to create instruments you cannot play is just a small matter of programming. Jordan took a Wii-mote, a Novation Launchpad and some code written in ChucK and did just that. He couldn't play Keyboard Cat on it, but I still thought it was cool.
SPDY is all the rage these days. If you're a Chrome, or Chromium user, you're probably making reduced latency requests all the time because of it. But, if you're a programmer and hack Python, how do you speak SPDY? Well, for now, you've gotta use Python 3, and Colin's SPDY library.
Mroth is pretty much obsessed with Internet Memes. I met him for lunch a while back and we talked about Nyan Cat, and hacks related to it for probably an hour[1]. So, it wasn't a surprise to me that he presented LOL commits, which is a way to make your git commit messages fun again. How does it do this? Well, it uses a git commit hook to take your picture, and plasters your image with the commit message in Impact (the font).
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In other words, Lucas talked about using Markov Chains to generate text.
You don't typically think of the browser as a real time video processing tool, but Sidney and Thomas showed us that you can indeed write real-time video processing in Chrome, if you take advantage of WebWorkers and other optimizations.
AutoAPI lets you take your DictShield models and turn them into automagicly generated JSON APIs (works with Brubeck).
If you know me at all, you'll know that I'm a huge fan of Scheme and other Lisp derived languages. So, I was happy to see someone present their efforts to compile Scheme to JavaScript. The project is young, but like most things, gets better with age.
I wouldn't normally suggest you go to summer school, but Hacker School is different. Spend the summer writing code for you and become a better all around programmer. For more information check out http://www.hackerschool.com
Have something you'd like to present? Have a desire to host the next Hack and Tell? We're starting to plan Round 17 now! Let us know if you can help!
HOPE is invading Hotel Pennsylvania yet again. This time, it takes place on July 13-15. For tickets or more information checkout hopenumbernine.net.
That's it! Hope to see you all at Round 17!
Happy hacking,
Andrew and James.
[0]: It now boots OS X again after a grand old reinstall, but I can't do serious work on that monstrosity. If anyone happens to be have expert knowledge of Grub and rEFIt, you know how to find me!
[1]: I'm kidding, we talked about Lolcats, Charlie, and Chuck Norris too.