OS midterm today went better than I was expecting.
Also, oh god interviews… so many interviews.
That is all.
Life, the universe, and thou
Life has been interesting lately.
The thread library was due Friday. Given that we had run largetest and successfully created and exitted and joined over 1.2 million threads, I think our library was fairly good. We did some comment and code cleanup on Friday and handed in on time.
Wean has entered the 410 zone.
What that means is that the kernel came out Friday… I’ve been studying the spec and going around writing pseudocode this weekend. I really feel like I should have gotten more done, but alas, such is a lazy weekend.
Next week is going to be death. Flight to California on Thursday, OS midterm on Tuesday, an in-Pittsburgh interview on Wednesday, and oh-god-lots-of-kernelling this weekend after I get back because checkpoint 1 is on Monday.
Car, Jeff, Tyler, Alan, and I experimented with chocolate bacon,
and chocolate-dipped salt-and-vinegar chips.
The former was interesting, the latter was vile.
There was more CS volleyball on Friday.
I think I’m getting better at anticipating action, because this set of photos came out better than previous times’.
In any case, I should sleep. Tomorrow is class, work (last day for a couple weeks), interview, kernelling, and studying for midterm. Ahhhh death!
OS, Late night happenings, and thou
First, I want to link a journal entry by my friend:
Here
I think it’s well written and deserves a read. Seriously, Christians are getting way too worked up about things nowadays (although, to be fair, so are a lot of liberals who want to completely ban all references to god/religion).
Last night there was an Evan-from-the-internet and halfpricing with some people. There were games of Eat Poop You Cat and mini-EPYC (where you are limited to two words or a tiny drawing). Afterward, we went to the 8th floor whiteboards in Wean and drew a (terrible) group picture:
(Click, it gets bigger)
Can you find all those things in it? ;)
OS goes. We are still making tweaks to our code. Found a race condition that wasn’t exposed by any of the tests… hopefully it’s fixed. We’re going to write better tests sometime this week and generally improve the performance/cleanliness of our code.
Tonight there was delicious Unos pizza followed by work followed by ITG. Also, Alan and I playtested Student Wars v2. It seems my adjustment to strengthen the Fine Arts faction may have gone too far and made it a bit too strong. Meh… I’ll do some more tweaking to it later.
It is 1 AM. I should sleep.
More OS
OS is going very well.
Our thread library now passes all tests, a week early (it’s not due until next Friday). Our mutexes, condition variables, and semaphores have all been tested. Everything seems to be working. This is awesome.
We are going to make a bunch of improvements to it… for example, thr_exit() currently does not clean up its memory (we leave that work to thr_join(), which is kinda not a good idea). We also want to generally clean up and optimize our code and replace our slow linked lists with faster BSTs. Woot.
Other stuff has been awesome too. Life has been full of interviews lately with very interesting companies. Hopefully I’ll actually have a job after I graduate. This would be good.
Student Wars v2 is coming along. I’m almost done with the base set, I think. People should help me playtest sometime (this weekend?).
OS and life
I’ve been seriously neglecting this journal (as well as most of my website). Meh.
My life has been full of work, interviews, and OS.
OS, in particular, is amazing and awesome, but is consuming my life like no other class ever has before. We are in the midsts of P2, the thread library. It’s harder than it might look and/or sound… but holy crap is it fun.
My parents came to visit this weekend, along with my aunt and grandpa. It was lots of fun. There was a Costco run. I now have something like 10 pounds of chicken, 2 pounds of salmon, boxes upon boxes of snacks, a huge cake (now half-eaten), and more shampoo and conditioner and soap than I will use in two years. It was also nice seeing them again… it’s been a while.
I bought Psych Season 1. Unfortunately, it came the day before P2 came out, and so I haven’t really had time to watch it. Blar.
Work is going well. I’m doing (more) unit testing for the API refactoring.
I also have a decent number of interviews, although the two places I’m really, really interested in haven’t contacted me, and I’m thinking it’s unlikely they will. Meh.
Back to OS.