> For instance, how can you make sure that other Continents that you have never been to, exist?

Sheesh. How do we make sure historical events have occurred, given that we've never been able to travel through time?

@Oded He's History's problem now <evil grin>

hehe

thank you Santa

@GlenH7 better now stackoverflow.com/questions/24980824/… ?

I am an intern and I need to explain why my company switched to scala from C# .NET for our large data driven web application... The best reasons I have are that some of the senior devs like functional programming and we wanted to get away from microsoft, IIS, etc... but I don't really understand why scala and play are better for our use case

@inquisitiveIdiot Maybe the person who decided to switch would be a better person to explain it.

@ThomasOwens @GlenH7

@Oded I'm not convinced any of them have. I suspect we were all dropped here ~80 years ago as a science experiment, all those "historical events" are all just as fake as the habitat they've dropped us in for study. The only question is, are we the control sample?

@ThomasOwens @GlenH7 Fair point but I feel like they would want me to know without asking

@inquisitiveIdiot Unless it's documented somewhere and you have that information, how are you supposed to know what other people were thinking?

Ok thanks

@GlenH7 ack, don't combine them like that!! You might as well have stream | stream D:

@GlenH7 red <|> blue <$> pill or at the least (pill & red) | (pill & blue)

and no I don't need explicit precedence on the first because everybody knows monoids are associative...

@GlenH7 hah. HAH. Ok let's be honest here though -> What language is this?

@GlenH7 It probably has a performant numerical parser that's forward only so by the occurrence of the exception it likely has no reference to it because C#/Java/similars people like to tune those primitive things to the Nth degree

that said, tryparse is your friend in those scenarios...

What's wrong with that? Any 4 bytes can be turned into an int.

4 bytes is 4 bytes.

@ThomasOwens unless they're not 8 bits :)

GIGO is my philosophy when it comes to parsing bytes.

Just don't let the application totally blow up, but if you get some bogus bytes, run with it as far as you can.

@GlenH7 yeah, internal tools breaking on bad data + huge batch of otherwise valid data == not fun

> Rule number one: never trust user -input-, not even a little bit

how do you do strikethrough in chat

oh three. I tried -test-, --test--, <s>test</s>, <strike>test</strike>

High-res screen problems

Pretty sure that says english

does it involve me turning down my resolution? :P

doesn't help the virtual machine during install process

you'll note that everything else shows up at a reasonable size because windows scaling is on, but it doesn't quite extend to virtual machines haha

(Note: I'm not in a web browser)

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confused would be one way to put it. "Not giving any fucks" may be another

it works in an internet browser but not anywhere else in my limited testing

personally I like ctrl + and ctrl - for changing the browser size. I find it's easier to control

lmao

@GlenH7 Bifocals for your desktop. Thanks grandpa!

Anyone know what the default host key is for virtualbox?

I enabled scaling mode

by accident somehow

Macs do zoom on an OS level way better than Windows

and, you know, gaming hehe

@GlenH7 skyrim at 3k goodness makes me a happy man on the train

have you seen nardwaur vs skrillex? Made me like skrillex so much more haha

yep

fair warning, if you haven't watched a nardwuar interview before, it's... interesting

he has a very interesting interview style

it can be offputting if you're not used to it, but I find that it brings out a much different side to the interviewee than the traditional approach

right?

he seems so down to earth

all of nardwuars questions are left field. Like I said it's.... different

but his research is literally second to none

he should have been in the CIA or something

oh, it definitely is

but it makes for a good interview

some of the interviews go very poorly though

I.E. Nirvana. You may not want to watch it if you like any of the members of nirvana, or so I hear

I didn't watch it, so I can't confirm or deny it

just noticed, someone really didn't like me on July 18 at about 13:30. :) Got a pair of "dupe-DVs", one at SO, another at MSE

@Gnat's back!

@Ampt yeah... I think. :) Gotta ask my boss for more vacation, but my "feature request" will likely be status-declined

Well I, for one, hope he declines it so that you don't go off and dissapear again haha

call me selfish :)

@GlenH7 haven't caught that. I heard that weird al was really good though

functions are not data...functions are not data...functions are not data...functions might be data, but nobody else believes that so don't try to treat functions like data...

this friendly self-note brought to you today by the arguments object in JavaScript and manually currying functions

@WorldEngineer functions should be data, people just don't know that so when you treat functions like data...they might try to see if you weigh the same amount as some wood...

Whiteboard poll of the day: What meta-variable-words do you use commonly that you made up on your own?

I often use arr, gar, tre

(can't explain the last one, the other 2 are from the fact that test code rarely works so I'm usually grumbling when playing with it)

or do you all just use foo/bar/quuz?

urp, erm, grf, pfft, ack.

Oh, wait.

@RobertHarvey I might steal pfft, I rather like that one..

Use it when you're ambivalent about your code.

@RobertHarvey so, always?

Exactly.

Forgot about blargh.

bleh = arr.gar(pfft);

And there's always the classic plugh and xyzzy.

An all day interview? Sheesh, they'd better be serious.

@Ampt I got through two minutes of his squealing, and couldn't take it anymore. Guy sounds like one of Skrillex's processed vocals.