UC Berkeley CSUA

In attendance: Mitch, Mikey, Christopher

GM is the 20th in the Woz, at 5:30pm. Chinese food will be served.
Mitch is going to start calling people to confirm about paintball.

Coding competition grading discussion:
The official judging citeria will be on files with 35 digit random numbers, one with 1 million, 5 million, and 50 million numbers. Due to the low number of entries edge cases are not going to be a grading criteria.

Our library is under utilized and takes up a lot of space. We plan to sort out the less used/valuable books and put them in the lounge. The remaining books will be made more accessible in the office.

Discussion of whether to keep the consoles and TV in office:
The new office only has space for about 3 laptops, more people would probably use the office if there was more space.
Should we box up the consoles?
Discision: no, instead we’ll reorganize the room to make more room for laptops.

We are no longer accepting submissions for the coding competition. Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. Results should be available in a few days.

In attendance: Dwight, Mitch, Rohan, Mikey, Christopher

Mikey is working on old-soda, hopefully will be finished this week
Lockheed Martin is holding a STARS event on Nov 7th
GM3 is scheduled for the Friday before Thanksgiving
Kitty has been approved for office hours
We will be using the NextGEN photo gallery plugin for the website. It is well supported, and seems easy to use.
Programming contest has received no submissions. Maybe next time we should hold a single day competition instead of a 2-week long one.
We’re going to buy a bunch of door jams because they keep getting lost, and people always think the door is locked.

CSUA, in coordination with St@b, hosted Y Combinator’s startup school this past weekend, and it was a big success! Many prominent speakers, such as the founders of Twitter, Facebook, and Lotus, came to speak. As well as many other entrepreneurs, and Wired editor, Chris Anderson. Check out the TechCrunch article.

Just a clarification on the competition judging, to address some questions I’ve received.

1) There will be a newline character after the last integer in the file.
2) White space in your output file will be ignored (I’ll be judging either with diff with ignore whitespace turned on, or with the C++ stream operators and string comparison).
3) Your program will be run at least twice, for each input, and the best time used.
4) I will cat the file before running your program, so that it should be cached in memory.