Re: [alliance-iosk] Driver programming and GPL

[vhandel@chem.vu.nl (Ramon van Handel)]

>Ramon van Handel wrote:
>
>> First of all, because they won't let you just start in the middle so I'd
>> have to sit through the first two/three years being bored.
>
>Oh, in Italy the first two years are much similaro to math course, plus 2
>exams
>CS related.  The other two are much more CS oriented. But I like math, so I am
>not bored for this.

Here, the first two years consist of some math, and a lot of CS courses -
introductory programming, computer organisation, alghorithms, data
structures, logic, operating system design/implementation, and the like.
In short, not much I don't know yet (except networking.)

>> Secondly,
>> because then in stead is sitting behind the computer 25% of the time or
>> something I'd be doing it 100% of the time :),
>
>in italy there is much freedom: if you want the lab it's up to you.

Everybody has to learn to program.  Otherwise, you don't go study CS.
Anyway, it's also what kind of job you end up with - after all, with a CS
diploma I get a job in computers, and I don't really want that.

>> and thirdly, because I
>> simply like chemistry/physics better than CS.  If there were open-chemistry
>> or open-physics projects over the net, in stead of open-source, I wouldn't
>> be here ;).
>
>I like this one a lot more :). Which chemistry specialization you want to
>follow?

Physical chemistry/Biophysics (femtosecond laser spectroscopy on light
harvesting complex and the like.)  Or anyway, that's what I have in mind
now :).  Theoretical chemistry is fun too, probably good for a minor.

>> Programming is just my hobby, but my love is in chemistry and
>> physics.
>
>I wonder what you do in Chemistry, if you are building an OS from scratch :).

Study, mostly.  This is only my second year.  Next year I will start my
specialisation.  I'm also part of one committe (committe of education) and
I have taken part in a project where high-school students can come to the
uni one day and work here in the lab under supervision of a student.  I'm
never bored, anyway :)

>> >I hate these books. People that use that really things to know what's going
>> >on, but they are still dummies.
>>
>> But on the other hand, if Alliance ever gets to the stage when dummies will
>> start using it, that'll be (for me) the true sign that our project has
>> succeeded.
>
>This is correct, but still I *hate* these stuff. Paper and trees waste. In my
>home I own 15 books of CS. Because the 99% is pure rubbish. In chemistry and
>physics is not so bad.

Perhaps not... though I in my turn intensely dislike Stephen Hawking and
his likes, for just about the same reason.  So there you are :)

Ramon


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Ramon van Handel   <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Chemistry Student, OS Programmer and all-round Weirdo
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
(Ogden Nash)


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