http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~mds2/js_play/calculator.html

cool.

Some side comments
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I have several questions I'd like to ask the PL people out there (and really, anyone else who feels like giving their own answers, as I'm mostly soliciting opinions, scenarios and what-ifs rather than "facts"). I am posting them here because I would like to see some degree of lively debate. Anyway, here goes:

1. Given how much the "standard ( Read more... )

Javascript...

I seem to have the basics down although I probably just used them to create a godawful bad UI...

I'm also guessing that for most of the things people use it for, they just end up copying one of a bunch of standard pieces of code...

... also what the hell is with firefox doing image scaling by point sampling.

I'm slowly getting the impression that the field I knew of as "computer science" when I was an undergrad (remember when the undergraduate catalog listed a "scientific computing track"? CS majors don't do that shit anymore) is slowly schisming into a bunch of only-tangentially-related fields ( Read more... )

Anyone know of a javascript tutorial which doesn't assume its my first programming language?

 http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2291

The bad part about getting a PhD is you stop getting paid to be a "Grad Student Researcher"

I kinda (read "really") need some sort of temporary income between now and whenever I get my postdocs / real job.

Does anyone know where I can get temporary / contract work that I can do from Los Angeles County?

http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=133373

Procrastinating from "writing papers" (and motivated by the fact that I might apply to graphics-related jobs using my very non-graphics-related grad school experience) I decided to fix most of the things that sucked about the graphics for my simulations.

Check outhttp://www.soe.ucsc.

http://www.processing.org/faq.html#java

The main rule when using Java code: You cannot use most of the AWT or Swing (which is built on the AWT), because it will interfere with the graphics model. If you want to add scroll bars and buttons to your projects, you should make them ( Read more... )