The Whiteboard

user55340

12:05 AM

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Meta.StackExchange has a nice side bar over when you are on the main 'questions' page. Its great. You can see there is a 'faq' section, its right there when you go to meta, and you can then go and dig into more faqs if you need to. Persite metas don't have this faq sidebar. A new user g...

user55340

I blame caching... its per not pe.

user55340

12:54 AM

btw, I used non-freehand salmon colored... just to see if anyone comments on it (besides @GlenH7)

user55340

Ohh! Neat. When you type a person's name you see the icon!

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user41796

@MichaelT pretty sure that's new. Very cool

user55340

Now I'm seeing little @gnat s all over...

user41796

Swat 'em?

user55340

1:30 AM

Hmm... Its nice to see experts that I didn't expect to see...

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Glenn Randers-Pehrson, N 39.26.30 W 76.16.01 Edgewood, MD

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> Coauthor of PNG spec, developer/maintainer of libpng. Author of pngcrush. Retired, father of four, grandfather of ten.

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(one of those "I haven't seen that name" when I get a comment...)

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@MichaelT is right about 14 characters. That's the limit stated by Bourne in "The Unix System", 1982. — Glenn Randers-Pehrson 1 min ago

user55340

1:58 AM

Well, tomorrow is going to be another drive around day... probably heading back north to check out some spots I saw there before they go past peak fall colors.

user55340

My car doesn't seem to mind it... driving on US highways and country roads mostly... 55mph. My car gets ~55-60mpg i that range (compared to upper 40s and low 50s for the 65mph for highways).

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Its even better than town driving (too many stops, starts, and changes in acceleration).

user55340

2:14 AM

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So yea... going back there to get photos before they're gone.

Ampt

3:12 AM

@MichaelT that looks gorgeous!

Robert Harvey

3:23 AM

@MichaelT Holy cow... Do you have solar panels on the roof?

Does it look like this?

user55340

3:53 AM

@RobertHarvey honda insight 2010. going 55mph. It's engine runs near ideal at that speed. Combine with cvt for a tad bit more torque when going up hills and the electric assist. As I understand it, if you aren't changing rpm much, you can make very efficient engines.

Ampt

If you can tune your engine to only run at a very specific RPM, you can achieve all sorts of efficiency. Problem starts when you want to do stuff like change speed

MetaFight

10:38 AM

my new favourite fail:

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Q: What's your software development question? Be specific

Are there any books the equivalent of the Effective C++ series or the Effective Java book? book

scala

enderland

1:48 PM

@MichaelT I love it!

Jimmy Hoffa

2:44 PM

I wonder if in the olden days when people had been writing hardcore assembly for years and started hearing all of this fortran this and fortran that, was the reason they thought fortran was nonsense because the people talking about fortran were as clearly confused with the concepts as modern JS/NoSQL folks always are? Perhaps half the problem with newer tech, is they're mostly used by inexperienced people which turns folks off the plausibly good tech

while experienced people were busy cranking stuff out and knowing what they're talking about for 15 years they've no reason to move to the newer stuff so the only people using the newer stuff are folks who, like this fellow here, seems to have gotten so confused by node.js that he thinks JavaScript itself is an asynchronous IO language

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Q: TypeScript with NodeJS or Go for easy development of a heavy I/O-bound application server

I'm working on a new web application, which would mostly forward and route traffic towards databases and other servers, who would than do the heavy lifting with logic, ... Initial idea was to implement it in TypeScript because of JavaScript's async I/O, TypeScripts static typing (the compiler ca...

web-development web-applications node.js go typescript

user55340

3:46 PM

Read a post somewhere out there that was "Calling a Database a NoSQL is like calling a car NoSedan"

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Jimmy Hoffa

4:24 PM

prefix notation JavaScript for the fun: jisp.io

Is a fun thing to play with just generates normal javascript from a stupidly simple lisp that's very 1 to 1 with JavaScript, acting more like a sugar over JavaScript. Is fun if you already know JavaScript

user55340

4:39 PM

Lets Stop Saying "NoSQL"

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And and there's MySQL 5.7 - HTTP Plugin for MySQL -- so now MySQL can serve JSON via http requests intended to be coming from the client rather than going through php or some other layer.

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... now you can do your SQL injections directly!

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT no, it uses JSON, now they're NoSQL injections

psr

@MichaelT Though if you take that job you won't be using a "No PHP" language most of the time.

user55340

4:43 PM

shell> # curl -X DELETE -i --user basic_auth_user:basic_auth_passwd --url "http://127.0.0.1:8080/doc/db/another_table/"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
{"info": "Table dropped"}

user55340

If that doesn't make you a little wary...

user41796

4:59 PM

> I'm going to migrate this question off PSE to MSDN because apparently I admitted to being in a satanic cult when I said the "Microsoft". Thanks for the reply. It has been noted. – hlyates 20 mins ago

user41796

^^^ Guilty conscience?

user55340

@GlenH7 I'm going more with 'doesn't realize we say the same things about people asking for red hat support, mac os support, mathematic support, etc... and thinks we're picking on him/microsoft'

user41796

Quite likely. I just found it to be an overly defensive comment.

Ampt

5:50 PM

Overly defensive comments are like the icing on the cake though

without them, how can you be sure you're doing your job properly

user41796

@Ampt True; it was a missed opportunity for snark

user55340

@GlenH7 @gnat that xkcd comic post has hit its 2 days... needs a total of 4 delete votes.

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(its also sitting at 4 reopen votes... though its gotten kicked out of the queue programmers.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/78208 - so unless we want to go through another open/close round...)

user41796

Let's put some downvotes on it, that'll cut into the number of delete vote required

user41796

@amon - sorry about the DV BTW. But the question needs to die. :-)

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