----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:56 am Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Just a general discussion thread, I guess. I am kind of new to the whole Forum thing. Basically just a hang out. And by the way, if I am not allowed to do this sort of thing, I apologize, I didn't know. ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:15 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Off Topic is exactly this -- you are in the right place, welcome! ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:09 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Forums do seem a bit weird some time. You see some from early internet days, and there was a cult following for them. ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:27 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Who runs the site? As in, who made it? ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:04 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- And also, I tried getting Java for the chat room, but I think that it uses out of date Java and therefore security blocks it. To quote the videos my avatar came from, "3sad5me". ----------------------------------- Nathan4102 Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:10 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Tony & Dan run the site here. They also run a blog and the DWITE contest, though it's sadly not running any more. ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:46 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Stars are strange objects in Turing. ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:31 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- What is the DWITE contest, by the way? ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:55 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- http://dwite.org/ is the first google result for "DWITE" -- it's a programming competition that we used to run, as a way to let students practice for better recognized events, such as UWaterloo's CCC. ----------------------------------- Nathan4102 Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:17 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Is there a specific reason it was shut down?? Or was it just you and Dan didn't have enough time to administrate it? ----------------------------------- Raknarg Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:59 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- I think it had something to do with them both getting jobs and starting their careers, iirc ----------------------------------- Dan Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:04 pm Re: RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Is there a specific reason it was shut down?? Or was it just you and Dan didn't have enough time to administrate it? It was mostly time issues. Running DWITE basically meant I had to take a full day off to prepare for and run each round. This was becoming more and more unworkable for me as I had more course/research work and TAing duties (for example I have to run a course Lab every day of the week this semester that would have conflicted with the times DWITE contests are run). Tony and the other question writers also had to contribute a significant amount of time to run DWITE and had their own conflicts. There was some talk about getting it started up again under new management but so far there has been little progress. ----------------------------------- Nathan4102 Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:31 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- That's too bad, it was about the time I started getting into CS contests that DWITE shut down. I'm not experienced enough to lead an iniative to start it back up, but if it does i'd be more than happy to help out with any grunt work. ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:09 pm Re: Talking Thread ----------------------------------- This may be considered necroing and really stupid (I have an excuse for the latter. In Science today we worked with Bunsen burners, and we had trouble lighting them, so we may have inhaled a little bit of methane.), but what is iirc? ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:29 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=iirc If I Recall Correctly ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:30 pm RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- Thanks Tony. It's been a while since I was here last. ----------------------------------- MatthewDaigneau Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:55 am RE:Talking Thread ----------------------------------- This may seem lIke a big thing to ask, but do you think a mobile version of the website is possible? By mobile I mean tablet and phone friendly. It would be a realay great addition to the site IMHO.