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was trying to write a post about what happened at launch today, but it just doesn't seem possible to concentrate on writting, so I'll probably concentrate on sleeping. I'll talk about it either tomorrow or on Monday...

Saturday

Second day of Launch, 1pm. The project I'm taking part in is called comparetheuniversities.com and it's about creating a website for young people to help them make a decision which university to go to and what course to take. One of the coolest features, I believe, is integration with Facebook and LinkedIn and mapping university courses with jobs that people have. For example, if you search for computer science, the website would give you the list of professions you're likely to have after graduating. Likewise, If you want to become, say game developer, the website would suggest what course you should do then.

I think generally it's going pretty well. Had a tiny conflict, but it's been resolved. That's all for now, stay tuned.

Btw, you can follow us on twitter: @launch48, @compareuni, @megatelevizor, @aboynejames, @redsteg, @macleodan, @jimmi2009, @mconnell

Launch48 Day 1

Hey. So, the first day is over. I'm very very tired, it's past midnight already and I should really go to bed soon so this is going to be just a quick update. The conference was pretty cool, some very interesting ideas, very much liked the skyskanner's presentation. Following are just a few things I wrote down in my notepad, quotes and ideas that I thought sounded cool and worth writting down:

• Americans don't like using non-american web-sites
• Think global, act local
• You don't have to be in silicon valley, you can be anywhere to run business
• One of the most difficult things in business is bridging the gap between the technology people and business people
• 2 main rules of successful start-up: 1) Spend no money 2) Take the money

Alright, hopefully tomorrow I'll have a chance to write more about all that and the project I'll be working on, but for now... zzzzZZZzzzZZzzz................

Hacker's manifestum=)

When battery's full and when battery's low

Whenever you're single or when you're in love

Whenever you're sober, whenever you're drunk

Whenever you're up and whenever you're down

Whenever you're sane or whenever you're mad

Wherever you are and what thoughts you have had...

... it don't matter.

You can write CODE. And what you write is BEAUTIFUL.

Happy Hacking!

update

at the moment sitting in a computations with distributed resources (CDR) class - probably the most boring one on the week. Anyway, yesterday I proposed my idea for our IE project. Generally people like it but say it's very complex. 'course it is! At the moment even thinking about the algorithms we might have to use is driving me mad, though it might be too early to think about implementation details for now. So, the team agreed to work on this, which is good. On the other hand, none of them is taking part 2 of this course which runs over the second semester, and that's bad. Don't know how much support I'll get from them in terms of coding the system, but I'd appreciate any, any...

thoughts aloud

Starting to get an urge to do some coding. Hm... what should I start with, interesting=) Probably do some work on Topographica again, especially since I got quite a few new ideas.

post #1

I see an enormous amount of opportunity in parallel programming, I can feel if with all of my inner senses, but I can't quite figure out what it is. It's driving me nuts.