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Note: This document is hosted here for archival purposes only. It does not necessarily represent the values of the Iron Warrior or Waterloo Engineering Society in the present day. 1 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ENGINEERING SOCIETY VOLUME 34 ISSUE 15 | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2013 Favourite Albums and Songs of How to Pull an Allnighter Top Wayz to Conduct an Interview 2013 Page 7 Page 13 Page 15 facebook.com/TheIronWarrior twitter.com/TheIronWarrior iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan Francis R. Malasig/EPA/Landov Typhoon Haiyan makes landfall in the Phillippines. NINA FENG The area most particularly affected by of the globe in the form of supplies, aid Forces’ Disaster Assistance Response 3B ENVIRONMENTAL the storm was the province of Leyte, on personnel, and monetary donations, Team (DART) were also deployed and Samar Island. Parts of its capital, Tacloban sometimes highlighting political tensions will not return for a number of months. Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the City, were completely washed away. The and competitiveness, especially in the Their duties include providing clean Philippines on November 7, leaving total number of confirmed fatalities sums cases of China, and the United States. water, medical assistance, and rescue cataclysmic destruction in its wake, before to over 5,000 people, with an estimated Canada allocated an initial $5 million, with work. Immigration applications and visa heading north to Vietnam. With wind 18,000 more injured. Billions of dollars another $15 million for UN and Red Cross extensions from those personally affected speeds of up to 315 km/h, it was classified worth of agriculture and infrastructure organizations as needed. In addition, by the events will also be prioritized and as a Category 5 super typhoon, setting the were destroyed in the Philippines, and the government pledged to match every treated compassionately. record for the strongest tropical cyclone surrounding countries such as China and dollar donated by its citizens to registered Many obstacles have been faced, to make landfall and the fourth most Vietnam. Canadian charities until December 9. powerful observed to date. Foreign aid is coming from all parts Some members of the Canadian Armed Continued on Page 2 at TYPHOON EngHack! CLARISSE SCHNEIDER breaks, and fresh pots of coffee. at Square, Co-founder of FreePoint Inc, Boy Mohammad. Good Morning is a 2A SOFTWARE After working all night, the teams set and previous Senior Software Engineer at personalized, user-friendly day-at-a-glance up to demo for our lovely judges: Chris Google. service that integrates weather, events, On November 9, 100 hardcore hackers Vandevelde, a 4A Systems Design student The judges visited every team and came and news into one customized experience embarked on an endeavour of epic with a specialty in Android development together to choose their top 8 teams, who with email notifications, accessibility from proportions: to design digital solutions to and previous co-ops at Canopy Labs then publicly presented their product in any web browser, and a native iOS app. student problems in 24 hours. and Square; Lucas Wojciechowski, a 3B more detail. After much deliberation, the top The algorithms take into account weather Running from 7PM on Saturday to 7PM Software Engineering Student and front- three teams and honourable mentions were statistics to calculate daily weather, highlight on Sunday, students broke up into groups of end wizard with previous co-ops at Twitter announced and various prizes distributed major upcoming events in your calendars, one to four people to code a unique project and Inkling; Vinit Kudva, a Software (including Nerf guns and plush geese!). and display daily news that interests you. which would benefit their peers on campus. Engineering graduate, recurring judge for The first-place team’s hack, Good In second place was uWallet, an Android The lengthy competition was punctuated by Software Fourth-Year Design Projects, Morning, is the brainchild of 1A software app created by 1A software engineering goofy Minute to Win It games, swag drops and current Enflick Software Developer; students Sameer Qadri, Geoffrey (courtesy of Google), much-needed food and Marcelo Cortes, a Software Engineer Yu, Hicham Abou-Jaoude, and Jami Continued on Page 7 at ENGHACK THE IRON WARRIOR 2 Editorial WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2013 Letter From the Editor Thank You and Don’t Forget to be Awesome The Newspaper of the University of Waterloo Engineering Society meetings due to scheduling conflicts with accomplish next term. a class. I will personally remember these last Editor-in-Chief ALEXANDER LEE Alexander Lee EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I also have some awards to mention. three months as some of the best months Every term, we give out two awards. The of my life. This was the first time I took on Iron Pen Award goes to the person who such a large responsibility, and I can only Assistant Editor wrote the most number of words in the pa- hope that I shouldered it admirably. One Farzi Yusufali Hello readers, per in the term. The Editor’s Award goes thing I know I could have improved on It’s been a long road with many ups and to those people who have helped me the during the term was communication with Layout Editors downs, but we’ve arrived at the final issue most this term. EngSoc. I know scheduling conflicts kept Nancy Hui of The Iron Warrior this term. I’d like to The Iron Pen Award this term goes to me from being able to go to meetings, but Kevin Liang thank all my staff for all their hard work newcomer Alex Toth! Nancy Hui was in I could have found other ways to keep in writing articles and copy editing. They’ve the lead for most of the term, but despite touch with them. Their input and advice Copy Editors been an invaluable help to me this term, an impressive 2000 words coming from could have made this term much easier, Nancy Hui and without them, there would not be a Nancy this issue, Alex delivered a 3055 and Hopefully this will not be the end, but Jessica Keung newspaper. word monster to me this issue, which just a beginning as I pursue bigger and better Kyla Rodgers I’d like to thank Jacob Terry and Farzi barely placed him over Nancy in word things next term, and I hope to stay in- Leah Kristufek Yusufali for all their help this term, espe- count. Congrats to Alex! volved in the engineering community. Jacob Terry cially early. They helped me to iron out the The Editor’s Award this year goes to Jes- All that said, these last several days have kinks in our publishing schedule this term, sica Keung! She’s been very helpful this been rather trying to me. My godmother Photo Editor and Jacob was the one who suggested term, writing several articles and starting passed away early last week, and naturally Kyla Rodgers printing the election issue. Farzi has been a new humour column called How to Talk I needed to attend the funeral. This meant invaluable in helping me to catch mistakes to… which will hopefully be a worthy suc- I would be home from Thursday night Advertising Manager in the issues. cessor to the vaunted TopZ (with a Z). She to Friday morning. While I do not regret Alex Toth I’d also like to thank Nancy Hui, Nina has also been my representative at said this decision, it did put me behind, both Jessica Keung Feng, and Vince Magas as well as all my EngSoc meetings which I couldn’t attend, in schoolwork and on the paper. Again Nissrine Bouslama other copy editors for all the work they did has done virtually every edition of the Iron though, no regrets here. While it’s impor- catching grammar and spelling errors and Inquisition this term, and has been here tant to learn from every experience in your Circulation Managers making sure that articles were printed as for the majority of production weekends. life, it’s more important to know what you Meagan Cardno error free as possible. Thanks for being such a big help and for learned in those experiences. I had lost Thank you to the many who contribut- doing basically anything I needed you to. my grandfather and my godmother, both Web Editors ed to the paper this term. Your words and I would also like to announce the new of whom I was very close to, within the Nancy Hui thoughts are the heart of the paper, and I EIC for the Summer 2014 term: Nina span of months. But I do not wish they did Vince Magas hope those thoughts have informed many, Feng! Nina has been with the paper since not pass away. I miss them, but they both and made them think. 1A, and was one of the most prolific con- lived very full lives, and I am happy for Staff Writers I would like to thank both Mary and the tributors to the paper this term. She also the time I was able to spend with them. Alex Toth EngSoc execs this term for basically man- has layout experience and knows how the Change is nessecary in life, even if some- Brian So aging the paper’s finances. Mary has been paper will run. I’m sure you will do a great times we would wish it wasn’t. And the Cameron Soltys an invaluable help by delivering invoices job in Summer 2014 Nina, and if you need lessons I learned from this last week I will Edward Blake to advertisers and informing me about im- help, don’t hesitate to ask me or any of the keep with me for the rest of my days.