It's through an exam .... Which I'll be giving in March
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dpmittal realizes he has a lot to study
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gcilou
That's sad. But it's difficult to tell how a school will accept you because it's based on essays and such instead of scores
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anshuman73
gcilou: that's true. Uncertainty is probably an issue for schools in US
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anshuman73
atleast for a while
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iliekcomputers
dpmittal: I've heard that IIIT-H (a great college for CS) takes in people based on stuff like IOI etc
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iliekcomputers
?
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iliekcomputers
do they consider GCI as well?
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gcilou
Definitely. That's why we apply to so many when we're not confident in scores and essays 😬
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Sp4rrowh4wk
It's true that here we're lucky enough: if you pass the end of high-school exam with reasonably good grades, you're admitted; and then they kick out 60% of students by the end of first year. So we do get a chance to prove CS skills more than you seem to
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dpmittal
iliekcomputers: after ioi round they will have an interview round and then there they will see your academics ... But still only one college in india
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iliekcomputers
dpmittal: CMI is pretty cool as well, from what I've heard.
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dpmittal
They will consider GCI but a little bit..
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iliekcomputers
But yeah, the "popular" IIT's and NIT's taking via physics, chem and math is pretty much a sham lol
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dpmittal
Ya if u know ... It's nice
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dpmittal
*... It's nice ... Please omit if u know
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anshuman73
CMI and IIIT-H are both a bit too difficult to get in ;)
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gcilou
colleges also have to keep certain diversity percentages up, so in engineering, I may have better changes than Ohm for example, just for being a girl
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iliekcomputers
anshuman73: all of the top colleges here are :P
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anshuman73
and let's not forget IOI isn't easy either
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anshuman73
iliekcomputers: yeah :p
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gcilou
and they consider family background, race, religion, sexuality too
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anshuman73
gcilou: whaaaaa ?
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gcilou
so it's just a really weird process
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iliekcomputers
especially if you haven't completely given your life to physics, chem and math :)
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anshuman73 hides in a corner
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gcilou
anshuman73: yeah. and they want more diversity so the school ends up looking better
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dpmittal shocked after seeing gcilou's 2nd last message
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Sp4rrowh4wk
gcilou: is that even compatible with human rights?
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anshuman73
iliekcomputers: well, Idk, I return home after 12 hors of academics most of the days these days, I don't know how much more time I can spend :p
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anshuman73
gcilou: that's cool. I think India's got some schemes, but they're seldom implemented
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anshuman73
except for the reservations...
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gcilou
I mean, private schools can do whatever they want. It's not discrimination, but rather just wanting as many good diverse students as possible
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dpmittal
Wow ..
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Sp4rrowh4wk
meh - I'm thouroughly unconvinced
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Sp4rrowh4wk
*thoroughly
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iliekcomputers
Sp4rrowh4wk: haha, you don't know how bad it is in India lol
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anshuman73
gcilou: that's actually a good idea. More diverse people, better it is ! I'm lucky to have experienced that in an international school for a while. Got friends from around the world now :p
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Sp4rrowh4wk
I mean - who chooses the ratios, and is it really a good thing that someone be taken over someone with a better profile because they 'fit the stats'?
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dpmittal
iliekcomputers: u r in a college?
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iliekcomputers
iliekcomputers: an low-tier NIT
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gcilou
heh. well that's why we have to try to look smart, impressive, unique, and diverse on applications
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iliekcomputers
I didn't study much chemistry :P
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dpmittal
Still a NIT....
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gcilou
Sp4rrowh4wk: the school decides. and yes it's all politics
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dpmittal
NIT is very good
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Sp4rrowh4wk
iliekcomputers: I knew it was 'bad' in a theoretical sense, but never really encountered it
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anshuman73
iliekcomputers: I was hoping chem is the easiest :( Got tons of organic left tho...
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gcilou
if people like what they
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gcilou
*they're doing, they'll get more money
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gcilou
but I think it is a good idea
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Sp4rrowh4wk
gcilou: wow. That enables a fuckton of loopholes
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Sp4rrowh4wk
gcilou: but then again considering that India (correct me if I'm wrong) has some *serious* women in tech issues (or in anything), it's probably good
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gcilou
I wouldn't know
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gcilou
It's bad enough in the US
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anshuman73
Sp4rrowh4wk: it does, the government's trying it's best.
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anshuman73
gcilou: you should see in India, it's worse.
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iliekcomputers
anshuman73: well, chem is the most scoring, but I'm not the best person to talk to about this.
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iliekcomputers shudders from past experiences
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gcilou
anshuman73: I have figured that it's bad. I have a female indian friend in CS who moved to the US to go to school
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anshuman73
mot of us *
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anshuman73
gcilou: afaik, they don't give much to international students unless they're US citizens
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Sp4rrowh4wk
US schools cost a damn lot compared to public education in Europe for often not much better before PhDs
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Sp4rrowh4wk
you people are better off coming in Germany
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Sp4rrowh4wk
or France
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gcilou
yes it's all too expensive
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iliekcomputers
Sp4rrowh4wk: Germany is free public education almost, yes?
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github
[picard] samj1912 opened pull request #581: Change windows packager to download and install latest plugins (master...plugre) https://git.io/vMyqa
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Sp4rrowh4wk
iliekcomputers: AFAIK yes. France is for sure, and Switzerland here is 600.- CHF per semester, so nothing compared to USA. Life is awefully costly though, if you don't get a student job things get tough. But germany has some rather rad public unis
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Sp4rrowh4wk
anshuman73: yeah, that's why I said come to Europe
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anshuman73
Sp4rrowh4wk: I submitted a PR for the problem you reported (about the bug tracker not being linked) Let's hope it's merged soon by Leftmost, LordSputnik
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Sp4rrowh4wk
we rock (and haven't *yet* elected the racist fucks)
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Sp4rrowh4wk
anshuman73: dammit you beat me, I was reading the Contributing.md rn
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Freso
Sp4rrowh4wk: Gotta work faster! ;)
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anshuman73
😂
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anshuman73 wonders why BookBrainz PRs aren't reported here
anshuman73, because that's probably not set up \o/
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Sp4rrowh4wk
Freso: well I'm revising for my EM exam at the same time, so... (procastination ^^)
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samj1912
oh sorry, no idea how that happened
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samj1912
1 sec
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Sp4rrowh4wk
(electromag)
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anshuman73
Leo_Verto: yeah...
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Sp4rrowh4wk
Freso: also I don't know any js, my languages are haskell, scala, perl and C -- so I was figuring out what was where ^^
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anshuman73
also, is there a reason why bookbrainz repos aren't attached to the Metabrainz account ?
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samj1912
zas, working a bit slow today :P
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github
[picard] samj1912 opened pull request #582: PICARD-916: Fix type error in initialization (master...picard916) https://git.io/vMymr
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Freso
anshuman73: Aren't they though? If any are not, then for historical reasons.
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anshuman73
hmm, makes sense. But seeing that they are now under development, maybe it's a good idea to move the repos to MetBrainz's Github account ?
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Freso
anshuman73: Ask LordSputnik or Leftmost about it.
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anshuman73
yes, ofc :)
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anshuman73
I believe they have been pinged enough for tonight;)
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Sp4rrowh4wk
iliekcomputers: http://sac.epfl.ch/partner-universities < this is a list of universities in Germany with which my school has partnerships (which means they have a good to excellent reputation in Europe). I believe most of them are public and (nearly?) free
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anshuman73
Sp4rrowh4wk: i think iliekcomputers is already in a college ;) he did mention and indian univ a while ago
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Sp4rrowh4wk
anshuman73: ah - indeed. Well it's out there FWIW ^^
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mayhem
gsoc application nearly complete. :)
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dpmittal
Wow
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Freso
Okay. I lied.
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Freso
«GSoC 2017: Thanks for submitting MetaBrainz Foundation's application»
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Freso
anshuman73: LordSputnik has never been pinged enough!
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Freso
You must ping LordSputnik more@!
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dpmittal
Lel
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Sp4rrowh4wk
All ping the LordSputnik
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Freso
mayhem: Oh. You started a MeB application too? I guess I'll mail OSPO then.
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Freso really heads out now
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armalcolite
gsoc, gci and now gsoc. phew. its already been a year now!
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dpmittal
Hehe...
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mayhem
Freso: yes, I would like to be in charge of GSoC this year.
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iliekcomputers
alastairp: ping. If you get free time, would you mind reviewing my PRs to listenbrainz? :)
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iliekcomputers
Sp4rrowh4wk: That will be of use to me some day in the future, I'm sure :)
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CatQuest
Sp4rrowh4wk: did you say perl?musicbrainzserver is (still?) written i nperl, afaik
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CatQuest
also loi haskell :D
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Sp4rrowh4wk
iliekcomputers: well if you're taking it like that, I can't help but recommending EPFL - we absolutely *rock* (and have quite a few indians around)
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Sp4rrowh4wk
CatQuest: my perl is not very good yet as I've been twiddling around as a side project this semester
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Sp4rrowh4wk
but yeah, and haskell well.. FP is the (second) love of my life <3
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iliekcomputers
I have messed around with haskell some
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Sp4rrowh4wk
All the webapps of my society (FOSS on campus) are written in yesod
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iliekcomputers
It is pretty fun
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CatQuest
(initially) bookbrainz,or the first iteration of it, was (supposed?) to be written in haskell
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Sp4rrowh4wk
yeah I read that in the about page
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CatQuest
or have we actually gone fll cirlce on that and gone backto haskell? LordSputnik
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Leo_Verto
not yet, I think :P
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CatQuest
we went through several diff languages
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CatQuest
what is it now?
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Sp4rrowh4wk
there seemed to be an indication that the editing backend was in haskell or smthg
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CatQuest
stil phyton?
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Leo_Verto
BB's moving to full JS
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CatQuest
erh python. yes moving to full js
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CatQuest
i dunno. javascript man, it can be.. well i like ajax (but still)
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Sp4rrowh4wk
... well...
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Sp4rrowh4wk
like I said, I like FP so js and python are both languages I have a bit of trouble with... too unpredictable ^^
