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November 2015
Grind your functions
With a large project in hand, our speaker (Daryl) began researching various languages and the balance of speed Vs ease of coding. He picked a scheduling algorithm which worked through the locations of 10 people and pick the nearest job from a pool of 500 until it had assigned 50 jobs to each person. He wrote a number of implementations and then turned everything up to 11. Functional Vs Object, Rust Vs Haskell, two go in - one comes out.…
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Up a Hidden Alley
For possibly a first... NLUG wanders up a very healthy Alley to find: the alley cafe bar Usual 7:30pm Thursday 03/12/2015. And this certain alley is very easily missed off the northern side of Angel Row. Not to be confused with any of the "Harry Potter" or "Dr Who" 'Trap Streets'... But then, there are who-knows-what cyber-multiverses aplenty... ;-) See ya there if you can find us! All welcome, Just look out for the very obvious electronic freedom…
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A New Year Monkey Shabab
We have another (Gregorian calendar) New Year. This time round resplendent with nights that are preternaturally warm, newly illuminated by daylight LED streetlights, aurora, and capped (as seen from Norway) by very strange polar clouds... Even the polar bears are scarily warming their paws and wondering what has hit them from their slumber! Meanwhile, unperturbed, from a long time past... We go Monkeying to the timeless Shabab: Firstly we warm to the delights of the blue monkey brewery at:…
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Welcome to the first talk of the new year. Not really time for anything exciting to happen (well, bar that critical SSH bug, and that critical kernel bug, Ubuntu tablet to be announced, new Linux trojan...) so the talk tonight will mostly be about working with the NLug site and posting content. This will save people like me, who really don't do anything that interesting, spouting random waffle and generally bringing the quality down. Hrm...that's a point. The more content…
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A Malay Broadway to Nada Budaya
Tastefully good. Too good not to do again! ;-) So, without further ado... Meet: Meet at 19:30 in the first floor Mezz Bar of the Broadway Cinema (or, if closed, the ground floor cafe) and then wander alongside to the to discretely delicious Nada Budaya for around 20:00 (it’s literally alongside, no no huge treks involved). Meal: Nada Budaya Lower Ground Floor (next door to Broadway Cinema) 20-22 Broad Street Nottingham, NG1 3AL Phone: 0115 9585566 Openstreetmap All…
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