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3-5 week absence
« on: June 01, 2011, 11:04:11 pm »
I have gotten into the python programming course at Northwestern in Natchitoches, Lousisana and will be going to a 3 week class. They disallow laptops, and my parents refuse to get my a nice phone so I will not be on omni much. I will probably be able to get on maybe once every few days but I will have much reduced activity. After that i go on a scout high adventure trip to the boundary waters in Minnesota for a 10 day canoing trip. I will have no electronic there. So for the next 5 weeks about I will have very little activity and almost no progress on m y current projects except for the ones i mange to work on in Natchitoches, like my secret python game.

EDIT:one good thing though is that when I get back my parents are going to get me a laptop. They finally agreed with the idea I need it for school since I do online courses a lot
« Last Edit: June 02, 2011, 03:43:05 pm by ruler501 »
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2011, 12:06:38 am »
Sorry to hear, I can't wait for your return D:
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2011, 02:36:26 am »
why would a programming camp disallow the use of laptops?
just wondering, as i'm going to one later this year and they said the same thing.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2011, 03:17:52 am »
Yeah that's something I wonder ??? x.x
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2011, 03:01:45 pm »
Quote from: shmibs on June 02, 2011, 02:36:26 am
why would a programming camp disallow the use of laptops?
just wondering, as i'm going to one later this year and they said the same thing.

I'd guess they want to be in completely in control of your computer access. That's the only thing I could guess.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2011, 03:39:42 pm »
I don't really get the "No Laptops" thing either.

Either way, hope you enjoy it and I'll miss you.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2011, 03:40:20 pm »
Quote from: shmibs on June 02, 2011, 02:36:26 am
why would a programming camp disallow the use of laptops?
just wondering, as i'm going to one later this year and they said the same thing.
They want you to be social not on a comp(official reason) and I bet also to monitor what you do

EDIT: and the rule was actually no personal computers. they discourage smart phones also. That has a better reason since they make you leave phones in your room and don't want 200+ dollar phones being stolen
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2011, 04:29:43 pm »
Ah I see. THis sucks. X.x
* DJ_O hopes not too many people leaves this Summer D: (although given how high last year activity was, I can't imagine activity going down a lot this year considering we have 2x more)
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2011, 04:57:02 pm »
Activity will probably go down on and off while people are at camps and out of touch. This seems very odd to me because I usually think of Summer as when you have a lot more time
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2011, 05:03:36 pm »
Well I mean last year it wasn't even that bad. We had 7200 posts in June and 6500 in July. In August we even had more than June. However, I saw terrible Summers in the past when compared to other months in the respective years. I remember every fall we had to rebuild an entire new userbase from scratch. The worst Summers of all gotta be 2005, 2006 and to a lesser extent 2009 (only August was bad). Those years, activity dropped signifiantly.

In 2006 it was so bad that we went from 4000 posts in April to 1300 in July O.O . We took about 4 months to recover and we even considered a merge with United-TI.

What sucks more about Summer now, though, is that there are more trolls X.x (which means the return of the nDoom policy)
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2011, 05:15:27 pm »
Thats sad I hope omni doesn't fall apart in  my absence ;)
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2011, 05:18:46 pm »
Yeah, but hopefully things should be fine if rules are enforced properly. Besides that while it looks like there are more people leaving, it's only because there are more people on the forums in the first place, so it makes it look bigger. I hope those who leave will return, though. It would suck if they found new interests during Summer and moved on D:. But again, Summer is kinda some sort of guide to discover who cares about calcs in the community and stuff.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2011, 05:19:39 pm »
I'll be back. I have to come back to release my project.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2011, 05:39:06 pm »
By the way, have fun in the programming camp. Here in Germany are only a few public programming organizations.
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Re: 3-5 week absence
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2011, 05:40:04 pm »
It will be fun I'm sure. even though at first it will probably be boring since it is a from the bottom course on a language I know already
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