The Whiteboard

1:30 AM

@MichaelT there are two dynamic problems here...

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@Ampt Use regex!

First you have to calculate all the possible circuits, then calculate all their equivalent capacitance

@MichaelT then I'll have N! problems

pretty sure my solution is 2^N in runtime but lets see if I get the right answer

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@Ampt 2^18 is not small.

A: I need help with making a were tyrannosaurus PC in Pathfinder

@MichaelT nope. Hoping the i7 and 16 gigs of ram can chew through it though

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Good News! There's actually a template for that in the official rules - see here. That link contains all the information on creating a lycanthrope template for any were-thingy you can think of :) I'll add the specific details for a were-rex in a few moments... Edit: here they are: rule quo...

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1:42 AM

o_O

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It's not covered by the rules, but I am amused by the concept of a character, who in the light of a full moon, is stuck with very tiny, difficult to use arms. — MadMAxJr 5 hours ago

2:27 AM

Siiiiiiiiiiighh — Aerovistae 2 mins ago

Abhishek

6:41 AM

Hi, Is this the right place to ask about programming challenge issue i am facing?

tgkprog

9:44 AM

Login page - understand that needs to be in https, using spring. can i have a login page as a iframe over lay. and then on login only the overlay change, and at end of it -> both http and https channels have the principal? OR must i refresh main http page too for session at end of succesful login?

12:47 PM

Heh, workplace is down a mod...

On the other hand, SE is up a community manager ;)

And a very solid addition to that group at that

Frack. I thought I had the solution for sure

@enderland agreed :)

Curse you @MichaelT!!

1:14 PM

Did you actually solve this one?

1:31 PM

Am I wrong and thinking that there must be a simple formula for calculating the equivalent capacitance of 2 caps in series? Not the 1/c = 1/c1 + 1/c2

too many rounding errors in that one..

there it is

c = (c1*c2)/(c1+c2)

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@Ampt Nope. Former cow-orker and I spent some time on it at one point trying to think it through for size 4 and 5 by hand... identifying the problem... and gave up on that.

I can get D(4) correctly (15)

but D(5) should be 35 and I'm not getting that

I think I'm hitting rounding errors but... I'm not sure

github.com/Ampt/EulerProjects

if you're interested

otherwise I'm happy spending my commutes figuring it out haha

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1:58 PM

Oh, nice - Tower followed up on a feature request form a year ago!

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> Hi Michael,

I wanted to let you know our newest release Tower 2 contains a feature that you requested: support for multiple main windows.

Besides that Tower 2 comes with a brand new design, 50 additional features, and an increased performance.

You can download the new version from our website and see for yourself: http://www.git-tower.com

Best,
Fabricio

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The request was put in on October 22, 2013.

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@MichaelT That's pretty sweet that they personally followed up with you

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@GlenH7 Yep. Going to have to look at buying a copy now.

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It really is a great git client.

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2:06 PM

So have they called yet? :-)

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Its still morningish.

@MichaelT interviewing?

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I know! Why are they wasting precious time?!

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@Oded Yep.

Cool. What kind of environment / job?

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2:08 PM

Senior Software Development Engr (Madison)

Amazon

If you have passion, you can build great software at Shopbop and be part of the Amazon family of companies. Shopbop is…

Posted on Careers 2.0 on June 26, 2014

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And its nice that those are one boxed.

Never heard of them.

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@Oded #1, you're from the other side of the pond...

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#2...

#3 profit?

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2:09 PM

I thought the deadpan came through pretty well.

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I don't exactly see you dressing up in the products they sell.

@Oded you've never heard of... amazon?

My kindle doesn't' know them either

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But you never know...

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2:11 PM

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One of those tops might look good on you.

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So yea... amazon related company specializing in boutique fashion.

Retail is... interesting. So is fashion. I worked for a couple of different online fashion retailers here.

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@Oded Employer^^ was a large home improvement retail company.

figleaves.com (lingerie - NSFW) and asos.com

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2:14 PM

Though brick & mortar retail is different than online retail.

Well, then you should be good. A SKU is a SKU... and a purchase order is a purchase order.

@MichaelT to an extent. Online retail is simpler ;)

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But with online you don't have to deal with "tools for sales people" or "push POS software update to 300 stores * 16 registers" installation problems.

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(that was actually a fun problem... that I solved with perl)

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take previous build files, current build files, checksum everything, build list of files that are added, changed, and deleted... and then write a shell script that moves the deltas to the correct places.

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Went from several hundred megabytes of stuff to just a few dozen with a typical release.

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2:19 PM

One of the fun things to track down was the nastiness of java inner class names. Foo$Bar$1$1$4 was not an impossible class name.. and shells tend not to like the $ when doing commands.

@Oded was your kindle dropped on it's head as a child?

I can imagine :)

@Ampt it has. It is now a kinkle.

@Oded That explains a lot

A: Is "continue" and "break" in loops antipattern/bad practice in Java?

It may have fallen on my head. Can't remember.

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2:36 PM

@GlenH7 @Ampt remember the goto conversation yesterday?

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The classic goto has different forms with various restrictions on them. Be it return, try{} catch{}, throw, break, or continue. They are all really goto with some additional bits around it. One could refactor the continue or break into another looping style with return: for (int i = 0; i <= m...

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yep & enjoy the repz

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Some people are clueless. OP gets a well deserved insta-close, so they go and edit the question to make it even more off-topic.

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Q: Best book to learn OOP in Java if you know C/C++ at beginner level?

Which is the Best book to learn OOP in Java if you know C/C++ at beginner level? Or What is the best way to learn JAVA and OOP in case one knows C/C++?

ha

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2:39 PM

btw, @Oded we love your speedy closes. They really do help.

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Is it bad when you're hoping for one more down vote so you can VTD?

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Our whinging about being out of close and delete votes would be insufferable without Oded's help.

Always nice to hear that ;)

@MichaelT gah, you dirty cheat

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@Oded - you can put in your annual performance review "Helped reduce the volume of whinging from the regulars in The Whiteboard by providing speedy, binding close votes."

2:42 PM

Experience with applying executive power to free up resources, keeping operations running smoothly

@GlenH7 QFT

So, there is one elevator in the bank where I work that is always goofy in the mornings. The updraft keeps the doors from closing, so they'll always get to about a foot from closing, then pop back open

The first time I saw it, two people just went "Ugh. This stupid elevator" and started to push the doors closed manually

so naturally, whenever it happens to me now, I push the doors closed and look like the grizzled veteran to everyone on the elevator

it's the little things

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Can't you take a different elevator that hasn't had its safety features disabled? :-)

Q: How does your career proceed after you do certification in SAP ABAP?

I take the first elevator the bank gives me :P

it's like a 1/10 or 1/12 chance

and it's just the updraft. At least that's how it was explained to me ;)

btw, 3200x1600 on a 14" screen is a sweet spot for windows 8.1 magnification

1080p on a 10.6" was either too small to read with magnification off, or super fuzzy with magnification on

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I have just finished my engineering in Electronics & Communications & I'm looking for a job. Some of my relatives were suggesting me to do a course in SAP ABAP which will improve my chances of getting a job. I've searched online for whether it is really worth of doing the course as people say i...

engineering sap abap

3:02 PM

> Career Advice is off topic for Programmers, as it is mostly conjecture and opinion based.

Not all career advice is that way - but this question absolutely

Good point. Removed

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You could also point them to: Why was my question closed as off topic?

Q: Need an open-source license with a small commercial addition

Non-binding close vote for all those P.SE mods:

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I'm working on an open-source project and people can use it and modify it, no problems here. The only thing that I don't want to allow is that people exploit it and earn money using my work (because that's what my plans are!) What kind of license should I use to cover these requirements?

licensing open-source commercial

@enderland beat me to it haha

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I should put in the bit about prognostication in there too...

I need about 2k more rep here I guess so I can VtC too

3:06 PM

@enderland shhhhh, they only give it to you if you act like you don't want it

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(had some snark the other day about someone asking if it was better to go computer science or biotech for jobs after college... my snark amounted to "That sounds like a wonderful question - you should write a blog post about it in 5-10 years when you find out the answer. Programmers rarely take classes in fortune telling, and when they do its only about Oracle.")

Read that one and had a good laugh

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@Ampt nah, we like enderland. So we'll happily vote up his quality answers.

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It would certainly help if he had more Q or A in place to vote on though.

I was going to make an impassioned plea for a second association bonus at 20k that would give you 3k on another site, but quickly though about all the SO users who would come and close our questions and thought better of it

Q: How should I remember why and what was I doing on a project 3 months back?

3:18 PM

Hahahah

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I was working on this project 3 months back, and then suddenly another urgent project appeared and I was asked to shift my attention there. Now, from tomorrow I'll be heading back to my old project and I realize that I do not remember what exactly was I doing and where to start! I wish to know ...

project-management documentation

This is a good question

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Proofreaders please: meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/posts/6488/revisions

"of the desktop" is awkward

> Asking questions to predict the future job market and what skills are best is completely speculation and cannot have any right answer.

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@enderland phrase removed.

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@enderland And yep, that's better worded. Changed.

A: How should I remember why and what was I doing on a project 3 months back?

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What to do now? Now, from tomorrow I'll be heading back to my old project and I realize that I do not remember what exactly was I doing and where to start! My guess is you have not done any of the "what to do." So looking up a todo list won't work. Block a period of time. Put this on your...

?

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3:23 PM

@enderland maebert.github.io/jrnl

@MichaelT there are a lot of good systems

Well then. This new joiner survey is a little.... forward

One of those strongly agree -> strongly disagree forms

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@Ampt I told you about the "idiot test" for Employer^^?

no?

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"Its ok to take items from inventory if you are paid less than $15/h and they are worth less than $50"

3:27 PM

I always feel like a traitor when I answer those. Of course I think about working elsewhere, I'm talented and competent and if I'm not satisfied with what I'm oding longer term I will leave

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"Its ok to get in fights if you are on break at the time."

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"You can have a beer during lunch if you aren't interacting with guests afterwards." (things like "driving forklift" and "stacking drywall" instead)

3:40 PM

lmfao

no, this was more like overly attached girlfriend

"DO YOU TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT ME ALL THE TIME?!?!"

"HOW LONG ARE YOU COMMITTED TO OUR RELATIONSHIP"

3:51 PM

aaaaaaand the close review is empty (for me at least)

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6 in first post queue and 11 reviews to be done... its fairly empty.

4:39 PM

from C++ to node.JS dripping with flavor of the day libraries and design approaches... I'll take it over C++, but still way more conventions based than my liking -> A website that does basically nothing and has already hundreds of files in it, that sounds like the start of a project that's going to turn out easy to maintain right?

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4:57 PM

@JimmyHoffa Sounds like that one is gonna be awesome!

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And the overall review count is down to 9!

@GlenH7 taking on from dev who's leaving Friday. After he's gone there's no saying what simplification steps may be applied to remove unnecessary library du jour

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@Ampt until you get to know company culture much better, treat those things like idiot tests. My memory is that the parent company really pushed company loyalty in a major way. And that included fully embracing the "company way."

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@JimmyHoffa Yep, understand it first, then rip out the useless crap.

psr

5:21 PM

@JimmyHoffa You've moved on from C++? I was waiting for you to post that since C++ is a superset of C and Haskel can compile into C...

5:43 PM

@MichaelT is there a way to see a fancy revision graph from within intellij?

@psr then in turn the bell witch haunting is a true story of a trapped spirit who tried to write Haskell derived code in C++?

6:15 PM

In a better mood today.

psr

@JimmyHoffa That would just be the maintenance developer. You would more be the witch.

@RobertHarvey I take it the Tequila shipment arrived safely then?

whash?

Jan 10 at 17:46, by gnat

@RobertHarvey you need to consult with Yannis about how much tequila could help

Not quite at the Ballmer Peak yet.

6:27 PM

Jan 8 at 17:35, by Thomas Owens

@MichaelT Drink more tequila?

I'm pretty sure we could have a valid conversation using nothing but quotes already said in the room..

4 hours ago, by GlenH7

Can't you take a different elevator that hasn't had its safety features disabled? :-)

3 hours ago, by Ampt

no?

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You should also look into the 'tasks and contexts' under 'Tools' menu. It will do automatic branching, merging, and have the context of the file. The tasks can be integrated with a number of task/bug trackers.

Apr 2 at 16:57, by Jimmy Hoffa

@Ampt are you sure?

6:41 PM

Jul 2 at 17:48, by GlenH7

yes

Nov 28 '12 at 21:52, by Yannis Rizos

@MichaelT Found it, thanks.

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That way if you have multiple tasks you are working on, IntelliJ keeps changes in different change lists making commits easier.

Apr 4 at 22:02, by Jimmy Hoffa

^-- WRONG

yeah I didn't see the little log button there for the longest time

once I did it was like DOH

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Example of tasks and change lists:

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6:43 PM

oooh

that's fancy....

I wish that the graphs lined up just a little better

they seem to be... off for me

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the github vs the git history?

at the top there

and anywhere there is a diagnal line

they don't line up perfectly

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Granted, don't have any complex ones in my stuff, but that might be a font issue.

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The vertical font size pushing out the line padding while the lines are being drawn with a particular line height.

I haven't messed with any fonts at all

well. I changed the editor font size, but I just tried changing it again and it doesn't affect that

hmm

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6:47 PM

Note that in mine, I don't see that... though I've only got one vertical line.

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Btw, you saw the thing about Tower responding back to me personally for a feature request from October?

hrm

yeah I saw that

too bad A) I didn't get the mac

and B) I like my tools integrated, yo

went for the windows machine instead

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I like integrated tools too, but sometimes I want something that delves into a particular tool with more than the abstract 'all vcs' interface.

true

Q: Prevent bounties for questions which hit a negative threshold (and auto remove if the hit this)

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Situation On smaller sites, some low quality questions may be downvoted but not closed This also applies to in scope but low effort questions, such as "give me teh codez" on Stack Overflow There is no threshold for a posts score in considering a bounty A user can add a bounty to a heavily dow...

discussion feature-request low-quality-posts

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6:50 PM

I had times when I was "I need to do something hairy in git (netbeans integration wasn't complete enough), and I want to make sure I see what I'm doing (command line is good knowledge about how to do it, but with dozens of files I'm not always sure I'm getting them all)

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btw, scheduling on site interview...

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@MichaelT Wooo, congrats

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"The on-site interview will last a full day (seven separate meetings with team members.)"

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Oy

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marathon interviews are rough

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6:55 PM

at least they should buy you lunch

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One bit there was the full-stackness of my experience makes me candidate for several different groups rather than just one.

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The first HR person was confused "are you a server person? or an ecommerce person? or is it more the web site?"

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yes!

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erm, sorry. You probably wanted an actual answer to that question. My bad.

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I can certainly understand some of the confusion there... when dealing with the more junior types or just out of college, they've tended to focus on just one area. For that matter, even the experienced ones can sometimes go deep into one of those areas.

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6:59 PM

blog.codinghorror.com/…

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having skills in all of those areas makes you more attractive as a candidate but also makes it harder for HR to identify a fit.

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which isn't necessarily a bad problem to have

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The web programmers of the elder days had to be that...

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We once got a resume for an embedded developer with a solid 20+ years of experience. I had to explain to my director why the guy could do what we needed but wasn't likely to want to do what we're doing.

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We wrote the code to do the CGIs. Tech writers gave us word files and we had to know all the html tricks (granted, html was simpler then) to make it look nice. The sysadmins would install httpd but when they looked at httpd.conf they went "mahwr? what is all this? and how often do you want to change it?!" and then gave us write access to httpd.conf

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7:03 PM

HTML was much simpler then.... <sighs>

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And as new tools came out, we'd learn them... and the config files didn't get any simpler either.

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Sometimes the sysadmins would split off a group that had the sole responsibility for care and feeding of the app servers and take away write access from the devs... but we still had to be the ones to say what we needed in the configs.

@MichaelT Congrats!

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@GlenH7 1x1 transparent .gif and <table> FTW!

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There really wasn't a way to be a web programmer in the '90s and early '00s without being a full stack developer.

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7:06 PM

This is quite true

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startribune.com/local/east/268033441.html #midwestproblems

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> A massive summer mayfly swarm, a grotesque natural phenomenon calling to mind a biblical plague or an Alfred Hitchcock film, swept across the Mississippi River Valley late Sunday from Red Wing, Minn., to Prairie du Chien, Wis.

Billions of the short-lived bugs began emerging to hatch just after 8:30 p.m. — so thick that they appeared on radar as a minor rain squall — and then peaked about 9:45 p.m., said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in La Crosse, Wis.

How long is short-lived? A few days?

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@RobertHarvey Just one.

7:08 PM

I guess I can stay indoors for one day.

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> Often, all the mayflies in a population mature at once (a hatch), and for a day or two in the spring or fall, mayflies will be everywhere, dancing around each other in large groups, or resting on every available surface. The hatch of the giant mayfly Palingenia longicauda in mid-June on the Maros (Mureș) River and the Tisza River in Serbia and Hungary, known as "Tisza blooming", is a tourist attraction.[4] In regions of New Guinea and Africa, mayflies are eaten when they emerge en masse.

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Mayfly

Mayflies or shadflies are insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera (from the Greek εφήμερος, ephemeros = "short-lived" (literally "lasting a day" "daily" or "day-long"), and πτερόν, pteron = "wing", referring to the brief lifespan of adults). They have been placed into an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains dragonflies and damselflies. They are aquatic insects whose immature stage (called "naiad" or, colloquially, "nymph") usually lasts one year in fresh water. The adults are short-lived, from a few minutes to a few days, depending on the species. About 2,500...

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There's a species of sand fly further north that has an adult life span of 5-15 minutes.

> “What made this unique was the massive number of insects that were involved,” he said. “The signature on the radar was pretty impressive.”

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The side bit of this is that mayflies are an indication of good surface water conditions.

7:12 PM

And hopefully fishing conditions (going to be fishing some in WI this weekend)

So how institutionalized are things like Angular getting? Do you need to know Angular to find work nowadays, or are most shops still doing their own thing?

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@RobertHarvey it helps, there are angular shops, but there is also enough variety in that area that people still debates about the right framework... and the field is easily disrupted by the Next Great Thing.

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I'd agree - knowing angular right now would likely help you jump to another ship if that's what you wanted to do. How long the framework will last is hard to predict

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It certainly has its strengths, but a SPA doesn't solve every web problem in existence.

Angular is mostly for SPA's?

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7:17 PM

angular? 'raw' jquery? bootstrap? backbone? ember? knockout?

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With that many options in the field, one can't expect people to be following The One True Way.

I would have thought that Google had some mojo to make theirs a defacto standard. "Oh, the PhD's at Google wrote it, so it must be The One."

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bennadel.com/blog/…

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@RobertHarvey yes, that's my understanding. Angular's main claim to fame is that it simplifies writing a SPA.

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7:20 PM

angular, ember, knockout are basically SPA frameworks

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bootstrap helps with UI layout

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Employer^'s javascript guys played with it some... though on the java side of the aisle, we stuck fairly closely to bootstrap.

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breeze helps with local caching and object binding. The SPA framework helps with data object binding too.

A: Why use AngularJS instead of jQuery?

As the amount of time you stay in The C++ Lounge increases to more than a couple of minutes, the probability of seeing an expletive approaches one.

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and jquery is the devil's tool. Very powerful, does too many things at this point in time, but if used with a measure of caution it's very helpful. Primary benefit is simplifying access to getting (querying) data

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7:21 PM

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Data-Binding You go around making your webpage, and keep on putting {{data bindings}} whenever you feel you would have dynamic data. Angular will then provide you a $scope handler, which you can populate (statically or through calls to the web server). This is a good understanding of ...

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@RobertHarvey You know you want to go ask Stats.SE about that... What is the equation for 'Pfu' based on t? Here's the complete transcript of the lounge...

Too Broad.

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What is the value for t such that Pfu > 0.5?

in WTFs per hour.

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There was a post on reddit about the visualization of vulgarities for a given hour.

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7:27 PM

An older one... note (if it need be said) NSFW based on text (mouseover and read the link if you doubt that). motherboard.vice.com/read/…

8:19 PM

@MichaelT My first instinct was to get a flame thrower and put those things out of their misery

I don't think that would be a wise choice of action given their location

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@Ampt gas stations are the worst because of nice illumination. Car dealerships aren't overly fond of it either.

Plot twist: Tom is the one wearing socks and sandals, and just wanted to feel validated in his office attire choice. — Ampt 27 secs ago

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@Ampt Well played, sir.

I figure that the roomba will come take care of the question eventually anyway. May as well have a little fun

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@Ampt actually, no. up voted answers will prevent the roomba from sweeping that one away

8:33 PM

@GlenH7 drat. well then I will be a voice in the sea of unacceptance on that page haha

on that note, there was a Pro-Israel protest down the street from work today....

it was.... odd. I haven't seen anyone in that much support of one country invading another one since 9/11

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I was wondering why the question didn't have any close votes on it and then realized the bounty temporarily erases them

@GlenH7 yep. can't do anything without moderator intervention

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There's a lot of effedupedness going on in this world at the moment.

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@Ampt I upvoted the answers. Maybe one of them will get a reversal badge before the Q is nuked.

me too haha. I hope they do get the reversal

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8:37 PM

manually editing little endian binary files hurts my head

hahahaha have fun with that

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yeah, I thought you would appreciate that one

back when I was doing CAN network stuff, that was alllll little endian, except for one part, in the middle of the message, where we messed up the spec

that was big endian

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whoops!

then we made a new system, and we decided to fix it, so all the devices had to have updates to work with the new system, while maintaining backwards capatability, so they had to be able to switch back and forth on demand

it was.... a nightmare

but a crap ton of fun

yesterday, by GlenH7

embedded is cool, but some of the stuff is crazy

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8:40 PM

iSeries handles the conversion on the fly too. I'd be curious to poke at those drivers and see how scary the code is.

iSeries?

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IBM midrange servers

either Serta, IBM, Apple or Intel?

haha

(or BMW, or .....)

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as opposed to zSeries (mainframe) and pSeries (RISC / AIX) or xSeries (x64)

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iSeries is used as a back-end for a lot of retail and insurance firms

8:42 PM

@GlenH7 I thought i series were pre-z series

and as400 as pre i-series

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was cheap enough that you could put a server at each location, but had the reliability and stability of a "real" server"

all of which being realtime RPG machines

or perhaps the i-series is of a different lineage I'm not remembering correctly

You're thinking of the iSeries Bed by Serta

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OS/400 is the predecessor operating system for iSeries, and AS/400 was the hardware for OS/400. But that's being a bit pedantic

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AS/400 has always been separate from mainframes

8:44 PM

@GlenH7 and is not z Series the newer version?

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but the appeal was mainframe like stability, security, etc... at a reduced price

@Ampt Serta makes shit, Simmons4Lyfe

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zSeries is the new version of MVS which is the new version of system 360

@GlenH7 oh yes system 360

n/m

@JimmyHoffa somebody beat you to it twitter.com/search?q=%23simmons4lyfe&src=typd

no onebox for twitter

@JimmyHoffa you can play xbox games on your mainframe?

sick

8:45 PM

I just remember they had i series running all the back-end for the banking stuff at one job I worked where they provided banking software to banks

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banks loved iSeries too

I get the i and z confused because the z series is their most modern

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big finance uses zSeries because of transaction speed

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but it was common to drop an iSeries in the local branch that talked with the mothership zSeries

@GlenH7 yeah, we had to work on the .NET web services that did integration with modern services around the internet where everything we integrated with we simply spat back to these RPG services running on i-Series machines

it took us a tenth of the time to integrate with a 3rd party servicer where RPG devs of course take far more work so all the external integration pieces were .NET, I worked on a piece using websphere MQ to communicate credits/debits with the federal reserve using their fix message format

moral of the story: Want a job writing RPG? I got the hookup. Alternative story: Want a job writing RPG? Get help from a mental health professional.

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8:49 PM

Yeah, I've done work in RPG-IV before for some report generation. It's .... thorny

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That said, I loved working on iSeries

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when you can treat a file as a file or an SQL table depending upon what's most efficient for your needs - that's pretty dang cool.

@GlenH7 I did hear some positive things about the iSeries. Apparently the horsepower is just stupid and it's an RTOS to top off the insane hardware underneath it (or so I was told...)

user41796

all true, yes

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and the OS is a DBMS and the DBMS is the OS

user55340

8:51 PM

@Ampt twitter one boxes are single messages.

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@GlenH7 yeah and that all comes from RPG or perhaps RPG comes from that ca. AS/400

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RPG was one of the original languages built on top of OS/400 - meant to handle report generation.

I know RPG is all about everythings-a-database, something of a foxpro among languages trying to merge applications programming and database programming

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Given the target industries, it made sense to have a language tailored towards report generation