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Humour and Jokes / Ask blog on crappy technical support
« on: January 14, 2014, 08:17:26 pm »
This shouldn't be a good idea since it came out of the mind of a drunk Lunar Fire, but I still went through with it. I started a new satirical ask blog on Tumblr that will be about bad tech support. I called it simply Ask a Shitty Support Technician (http://ask-shitty-technician.tumblr.com/)

The basic idea is that you send your technology related questions or issues through the ask box (I got a virus, my hard drive is full, etc.) and I will answer the most bs thing I can think of. And I have seen some pretty f'd-up things in my time as a technical analyst. Maybe not as much as some who made a career out of it, but those guys didn't have the idea to start an ask blog on it.

So I thought that you Omnimagians, who are technology-inclined people, would have lots of ideas of things to ask me on this tumblr. So go ahead, do it. You don't even need a Tumblr account to ask, you can do it anonymously. Or post it in this topic and I will send it anonymously to my own ask blog (and maybe even answer it).

And I want to know what you think of think of this crazy idea straight out of my mind. Do you think it should have stayed in my mind, or are you happy that I decided to go through with it?

Also, I'm open to any suggestions to improve on this idea, so do not hesitate to post them here.

P.S. Does posting this here add up to my post counter? It would feel wrong for me to increment my post counter with self-promotion.

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Introduce Yourself! / Hi huh... I'll introduce myself... if you don't mind...
« on: December 16, 2013, 12:57:01 pm »
Hi guys,

As my screen name says, I am Lunar Fire. I am an electrical engineering student in Quebec. I stumbled across this site by stalking Juju, one of your programmers.

I used to do calc programming when I had a TI-83+. I programmed both in TI-Basic and in z80 assembly. However all of my code is lost somewhere in limbo, probably on my lost calculator and my friends calcs, and in corners of the internet.

I am currently a developper for a french Zelda fansite called Puissance-Zelda. We are preparing the new version of the site (V8), which should be relased some time next year. Summer is an early estimation, but my knowledge of deadlines tells me that it probably won't be completed by then. I probably won't get involed a lot in your projects for now but I would love to after my other projects are done.


I do have one project for those of you who might be interested, but for now it is at the stage of vague idea. The idea would be to develop a mobile application that would allow for basic programming of math functions with the same freedom that TI-Basic gave you.

Why did I have this idea? Because I remember that when I was still in high school, most of us had a programmable calculator. I also remember that some people with very basic knowledge of programming knew how to create programs to calculate the functions that our teachers were showing us. This is the experience that would be cool to recreate on mobile phones. The simplicity of a language like TI-Basic that would allow us to create micro-applications, like taxes calculation or simple geometrical calculations, without having to download countless "utility-like" applications from the App Store.

I know that calculator emulators are available on the App Store, but those don't give me the same feeling than TI-Basic did. What could be done is an application with a basic TI-Basic-like language and built-in mathematical functions that would allow you to create small programs like you could do on TI. And probably add stuff like graphing, fixed-point  - fraction conversion, etc...

So, what do you guys think of this idea? Does something like this already exists somewhere on the internet (maybe I just didn't find it)? If not, would some of you be up to the challenge?

Later,
Lunar Fire

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