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8:11 PM

@AttackingHobo What are we looking at here Hobo?

katana bouncing

(other than a Katana swinging around)

:(

heh

@JohnMcDonald other than that, nothing.

8:12 PM

ok

@JohnMcDonald though the webm looks much better than the gif. gfycat.com/SizzlingHighFallowdeer

was trying out the volumetric scattering but I coulnd't get it how I wanted

ic. That's more like what I was trying to get at. Did you make it, what's it for, what were trying to do, etc. Otherwise it's just a sword and some noise

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user4704

"No."

lol

user4704

8:18 PM

"You're viewing the site wrong."

user4704

:D

Ya not a real issue as Byte pointed out

I'm viewing the site from the front page. Am I doing it wrong too? :(

user4704

Only if you care about dealing with the front-page-plastering I'm going to keep doing when pruning tags.

@JohnMcDonald I saw something exactly like this about 10 years ago ... im not worried yet!

8:23 PM

Maybe I should feel ashamed for doing it wrong then. Better change my habits so that the programmers at SE can rest their fingers

Would be great to bounce ideas off Siri or Cortana though when programming right ... I can focus on the creative aspect of my programming and let the bot figure out the complex problems

@JoshPetrie i'm confused by this statement ... how can you "view a site wrong" ... if that's really the case surely the site is in need of UX face lift.

user4704

@Wardy You're holding your phone wrong.

eh?

user4704

It was meant to be a mocking reference to the Steve Jobs' quote about holding one's phone wrong.

when there was an issue with the 4s antenna, right?

user4704

8:27 PM

(But also, partially valid because the asker is viewing the site in the mode that means "show me the active questions" and complaining that it was showing the active questions)

Steve Jobs populatiry has always confused me

user4704

@Almo I think it was the 4, but yeah, it was one of those.

:)

I seem to recall his business was basically dead at one point

Microsoft was basically forced by the courts to bail Apple out for the competition reasons

user4704

What, Apple?

user4704

8:28 PM

Apple was not his business.

else Microsoft would have basically had no competition

or something like that

That sounds like bs

I can't remember the details now

@Shroeder wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0806

there's evidence of it all over the net

user4704

Jobs left Apple, and then Apple tanked and nearly went bankrupt.

@JoshPetrie how does that work? jobs was still with apple when he died

user4704

8:31 PM

@Wardy Um, he came back when Apple bought NeXT?

user4704

I think you're a little hazy on the history of the entities you're critiquing.

yeh I only picked up bits of the history ... maybe some reading is in order

I only recall the big stuff like "apple was nearly dead"

user4704

(The MS deal involved MS dumping a bunch of money into Apple via stock and committing to support Office for the next five years.)

and i link jobs to apple with good reason

user4704

Sure, the association to Apple is valid.

8:32 PM

I don't think I've ever taken the time to dig in to it

user4704

But the assertion that "his company was failing" is wrong.

user4704

Apple was failing, but NeXT and Jobs basically saved it.

It's just humorous today because Apple is a mammoth company due to the iCrap line success

user4704

There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike Jobs, you should pick one of those.

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lol

user4704

8:34 PM

Subjectively, yes.

ooo the 100 started up again

has anyone seen gracepoint ?

debating on following it

gfycat.com/about#cat

8:49 PM

@Shroeder whereabouts in st paul are you?

494 and 35 e. technically eagan

ahha

i commute through there on my way to st paul proper

hows the drive

usually not bad

but you know...game of thrones and all that

indeed

8:52 PM

also i often work from home these days

ahh

more during the winter?

heh...it will be even nicer then, yes

im interested to see what the commute will be when the snow builds up

oh, are you new?

started in march this year

8:53 PM

oh holy shit

look your ass out

unless you're coming from rural north dakota or something

ha, i'm a native to minnesota

ahha

just a different commute

ah, well it can get bad anywhere

i suppose you are right

last year i found a dead guy in a car

8:54 PM

if you've seen one buried interstate you've seen them all

uh

ok...maybe you haven't seen them all

i went to check if he was all right and obviously he wasnt...

er, at least i haven't

jeebus

user image

neato

ready to get home and vegitate

i've been listeneing to this label printer for a good hour now

i dont understand why they keep moving data entry people next to our dev team...

synergy

8:58 PM

:D

you a web programmer seth

most of the time, yeah

you got a game you working on?

sure, a few

:P

anything takin off?

i've been kicking around a js shooter lately

no no no

i have earned exactly $2.10 as a game dev

9:02 PM

fkn a man

you been watching the vikings:P

not once

you might say i'm a football anti-fan

though usually i can stand it

i haven't even seen the hole where there used to be a giant crappy stadium

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Does any of you have any experience with Scala?

From the descriptions I've heard, it sounds like Java trying to be C#.

Yeah you haven't missed much

it's true, there isn't a better place to not care about your football team than here

every game i load up facebook to see all the crying and laugh at my luck for not caring

Haha yup this is true

I'm hoping i will have the ambition to do some work on my game tonight

9:14 PM

that's always the challenge

I'm at about an hour a night

that's pretty good if it's consistent

Whereas when I first started I clocked in 4-6 hours a night

ah. well that pace would be tough to keep up

You think I would want to code more now that I buttoned up a larger project at work and haven't coded in over a week, but its the opposite

9:17 PM

have you been to any of the local igda meetings?

i only made it to one, but it was very interesting and i would love to find more evenings for them

I've never been, just googled it

well i am sure it's very chapter-specific in terms of quality, but i very much liked ours

Are you in the game development field for a career @SethBattin

i enjoy the hobby. i like the way it contrasts with other arenas of programming. i don't intend to make it my career, no

i feel more like a blogger who wouldn't mind a book deal

but i'm not counting on it

wth is a singleton?

9:26 PM

actually, after reading some accounts of people who did try to make it their career and failed, I'm quite certain i want to keep my day job

singleton is a thing that there can only be one of

^, as well as the interface that enforces that through abstraction

Highlander?

mentioning it will probably start large discussions about how you should not used them, or at least be absolutely sure it's what you want before making one.

yah

9:28 PM

Theres a documentary on Netflix of the devs of super meatboy

was pretty insightful

user4704

9:42 PM

@Shroeder A singleton provides global access to an enforced single instance of some type.

user4704

It's generally a bad idea.

wow, new game from papers please guy has an amazing style

forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0

10:05 PM

pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~vouillon/publi/modalmodel.pdf

hahah great title

user4704

Found that on programmers.se did you?

user4704

Or no. It was theoretical CS

user4704

Yeah.

yeah there

it refers to this song

user4704

10:46 PM

Sometimes Powershell is awesome. And sometimes it is fantastically stupid and I can't believe somebody would design it this way.

what are you doing with it?

user4704

(command) -match "some regex"

user4704

(so basically, capture the output of "command", and match it against some regex)

i got nothing

it's pretty easy with grep!

user4704

"-match" returns True or False.

user4704

10:50 PM

It also sets the $Matches automatic variable, containing any match captures, etc.

user4704

HOWEVER, if the left hand side of -match is a collection, $Matches is not set.

uh

user4704

So if "command" returns one line of output, it works.

user4704

If "command" returns more than one, it becomes an array, and $Matches is not set.

i guess that first case might be useful

though it sure seems like it would be more useful to pass the matching lines through

user4704

10:53 PM

Yup!

user4704

Or at least behave consistently.

user4704

Since it doesn't, you have to result to ugly code to enforce consistency.

user4704

For example:

user4704

("" -join (command here)) -match "regex here"

user4704

Because that is totally readable, right?

11:00 PM

how about if you only join them with \n, since that isn't a line break?

hahahahha

user4704

Should be newlines in there anyway; doesn't matter though, the only reason the -join exists is to flatten the potential array that might be there

ah, so it's not just multi-line input?

user4704

Multi-line output from command will break any code that looks at the matches that runs after the -match (since $Matches won't be populated)

ah, well clearly i'm out of my element here

my sympathies, that sounds like it sucks

user4704

The join turns multi-line output (which powershell provides as an array) into a scalar, which does set $Matches.

11:03 PM

converting things to arrays is definitely an MS crime that i'm familiar with

mostly from the IE department

You did IE dev?

Why?

11:25 PM

what a come back! dotabuff.com/matches/981175673

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