IRC log for #sourcefu, 2015-01-04

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Time	Nick	Message
03:19	pdurbin	My daughter and I threw together a game using +MIT App Inventor tonight. It's… - https://plus.google.com/+PhilipDurbin/posts/Qb1tNZd3iAm
03:51	sivoais	hahaha "If he mis-times the jump, Panther bites him" :-D
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06:33	pdurbin	:)
06:35	pdurbin	sivoais: there's a video to watch too: http://youtu.be/odEg2TV_gp8 :)
06:38	sivoais	pdurbin: :-D The joy of playing with something you made!!! Just like LEGO!
06:39	* sivoais	plays "Pure Imagination"
06:40	pdurbin	while she's been sleeping I've been cooking up a new version. with Panther scarily catching up to Tiger
06:40	pdurbin	the first version had only the protagonist (Tiger)
06:42	sivoais	are you doing your homework behind the scenes so that you can walk her through it later? :-)
06:43	pdurbin	absolutely. this is too much in the weeds, all the stuff I'm trying
06:43	pdurbin	but I'm getting the hang of app inventor better
06:44	pdurbin	I've also been dabbling in real Android development, which has been fun: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-android
06:45	sivoais	I did some teaching using Scratch and I had to learn it beforehand so that I could know where the kids might get stuck
06:46	sivoais	ah, I tried a bit of Android development a year ago. The build system wasn't really fun. Getting a project setup was a real drag...
06:46	pdurbin	sivoais: but! it's a new world now! Android Studio 1.0 just shipped
06:47	pdurbin	and I kind of like all the guidance with material design, which is also new
06:47	sivoais	I'll have to give another go then! There's some ideas I want to try
06:48	pdurbin	yeah? some ideas for apps? it's so satisfying to be able to walk around with an app you've worked on in your pocket
06:48	pdurbin	even if my little app doesn't do much yet :)
06:48	sivoais	some apps and some uh...hacks...
06:49	pdurbin	the guy I mentioned it to was pretty excited though: http://irclog.iq.harvard.edu/dataverse/2014-12-23#i_14823
06:49	pdurbin	had to lower expectations :)
06:50	sivoais	one of my ideas is to use the TTS built-in to Android through the emulator. There are some nice voices available in the Play Store that I want on my desktop
06:52	pdurbin	huh. I don't use text to speech much but I probably should, given how much audio I consume via podcasts
06:54	pdurbin	sivoais: oh, new podcast you might enjoy: http://www.thetalkingmachines.com
06:54	pdurbin	(about machine learning)
06:54	sivoais	check out the IVONA voices in the Play Store. They sound pretty good. They have some issues with normalizing some technical words, so I want to code in my own
06:54	sivoais	oooh!!!
06:55	sivoais	thanks!!
06:56	pdurbin	oh sure. listen in good health :)
07:04	* pdurbin	tweets at sivoais: https://twitter.com/philipdurbin/status/551635095585832960 :)
07:05	sivoais	:-D
07:06	pdurbin	it's more polished than many podcasts I listen to: http://podcasts.greptilian.com
07:06	pdurbin	interviews spliced in. very nice
07:12	sivoais	hehe, I'm going to have to figure out how I can keep my skills polished when I get into med school... stuff like this wil help :-)
07:13	pdurbin	can't hurt
07:57	sivoais	Just finished the podcast. That was great!
09:01	pdurbin	:)
09:02	pdurbin	and I just finished hacking on my android app
09:02	* pdurbin	yawns
09:02	pdurbin	'night
09:02	sivoais	night!
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