The Whiteboard

1:36 PM

is MSE chat/The Tavern broken for anyone else? it still thinks I'm not logged in even though I've been posted on PSE and MSE and I can talk in other chat rooms

user55340

1:52 PM

@Ixrec Funny things break there some times.

Ixrec

unrelated, I think this is the most WTF thing I've seen in the review queues to date:

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Q: Mermaid problem (OOP)

A Mermaid is half human half fish and half human. It has upper human body and lower fish body. When under water its upper part swims like a human while its lower part swims like a fish. Please explain how can it swim like a human and a fish at the same time? Note: I don't want the actual code bu...

user55340

Btw, sense of scale for Middle Earth's voyages:

user55340

Ixrec

@MichaelT Isn't middle earth supposed to be part of Europe?

user55340

@Ixrec Kind of... though the thing is its hard for americans to think about how far it is to walk that distance in Europe.

Ixrec

1:55 PM

of course, gotta make it extra obvious for the americans

user55340

@Ixrec It really reads like a homework problem. Its answerable, but it needs more information on what the OP thinks the answer is. Otherwise its a bit on the too broad side.

user55340

@Ixrec Well, there are different sense of scale.

Ixrec

lol I wasn't suggesting it was a good question

I VTC'd as unclear

user55340

In the US 100 years is a long time. In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.

Ixrec

just though it was abnormally funny for a bad question

user55340

1:57 PM

I once had to explain to a British woman that "no, you can't drive from New Orleans to New York in a day"

user55340

Or another time, that my trip to drive around the west coast for some photography was the equivalent of driving the entire perimeter of the mainland of Japan.

Ixrec

weird

maybe it's a non-issue for me since I'm an American living in the UK, so I've already been through the requisite "distance shock"

user55340

I get real funny looks from europeans when I was "yea, I drive an hour and a half to go get a nice dinner in the next city over... one way"

Ixrec

that sounds weird even to me

user55340

Eau Claire has some ok places to eat... but I wanted something else... so I drove to Wausau: google.com/maps/dir/Wausau,+WI/Eau+Claire,+WI/…

Ixrec

2:01 PM

then again, I lived in the California Bay Area; the "next city" being 1.5 hours away is already weird to me

user55340

@Ixrec I've got a messed up sense of distance... I did a road trip one summer when I was unemployed that spanned three oil changes (start, later, and even later) and a new car... and then I put another 1.5k miles on it before I got back to Wisconsin.

user55340

When I take a vacation this year at some point, I'm looking at the National Grassland in ND (its the only state west of the Mississippi that I haven't been to... well, Alaska and Hawaii, but those don't count)... thats a 13h drive for me.

user55340

(thinking National Grassland, Black Hills, Devil's Tower, Black Hills, Badlands)

Ixrec

sounds like it'll be nice when you get there at least

user55340

@Ixrec fs.usda.gov/dpg

Ixrec

2:08 PM

personally, I'm really glad I can commute by train here in Europe, having to drive every day or for a long time seems like it'd be incredibly tiring or stressful

user55340

When I lived in Mountain View, I did a year where I commuted by train... just to see what it was like. Light rail to work, caltrain up to SF when I wanted to go there.

user55340

2:20 PM

Two more 20k (or a mod) delete votes on this before it is likely to be punted to SO:

user55340

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A: please Correct For Loop Design

class aaaaa { public static void main(String[] args) { for (int k = 10; k < 0; k++) { for (int j = 10*k; j >=10; j=j-10) { System.out.print(j+" "); } System.out.println(""); } } }

user55340

Because I know that level of crap answer won't get deleted on Stack Overflow easily... and the down votes get removed when migrating.

Robert Harvey

2:36 PM

@MichaelT I took care of it.

This isn't a programming question... it's a physics one. If you can put the physics into the question, it might be an answerable one from a programming perspective. Is this your teacher's idea of a good time? BTW, you don't need OOP to solve this problem; all you need is a function. That function must incorporate all of the bodily movements and demonstrate forward motion, and that's all it has to do. — Robert Harvey 14 mins ago

user55340

@RobertHarvey My comment was along the lines of "you need to finish your homework before we'll help you with it."

Robert Harvey

It's a terrible homework problem. I wouldn't even know where to begin answering it.

Good Saturday morning, BTW.

user55340

2:52 PM

Got Poppa Murphy's cinnamon breakfast pizza the other day. My nephew (3) was disappointed that the pizza didn't have pepperoni on it.

Robert Harvey

Sounds like a flat cinnamon roll that Luigi made.

Is Javascript used only in the browser and node.js, or is it also used in other places?

user55340

@RobertHarvey I once used it on Windows because I didn't want to also have to learn another language. There's javascript consoles too.

Ixrec

@RobertHarvey not counting the bizarre legacy systems where I work, that's all I'm aware of

user55340

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Q: How to run .js file from a command line on windows?

I have a shortcut with 'target' "C:\Users\Public\TestPro\TestPro Automation Framework\taf.js". I want to run that from a batch file so I copied the "C:\Users\Public\TestPro\TestPro Automation Framework\taf.js" into cmd.exe command line and pressed enter. Nothing happened. How can I run "C:\Us...

windows-7 command-line

user55340

Why I want close votes on deleted posts refunded:

user55340

3:00 PM

Ixrec

8:33 PM

it's a little sad every time you go into the reopen queue and see an OP who edited their bad question...into an equally bad question with slightly better grammar

Robert Harvey

But less sad than people who think it's OK to post questions with wretched grammar and never bother to fix them.

user55340

9:35 PM

Other Space - a sci-fi comedy from Yahoo.

Ixrec

11:06 PM

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Q: How to keep improving and not become stagnant

so Ive been thinking about this for a while and I thought Id see what others had to say. Ive been in the professional development environment but just about 2 years, and have a BS in CS (not sure it matters, just wanted to give background). Ive met a lot of developers while sitting in on intervie...

career-development computer-science skills theory

yep, we clearly need career-development blacklisted

Robert Harvey

Thank you for explaining what rest is, i tought it is a short for restaurant. If you don't understand the question you should rather skip it then going Aristotle. I got a bunch of solid replies on a different forum, thank you again on your philosophical approach to a simple question. — John 48 mins ago

What the hell?

Ixrec

11:23 PM

that didn't make any sense to me either

user20683

Tengger Cavalry-Battle Song From Far Away

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user20683

here, listen to some Chinese Mongolian metal

Robert Harvey

@WorldEngineer: While you're here, can I hit you up on this question? programmers.stackexchange.com/q/280172/1204

user20683

@RobertHarvey gone

Robert Harvey

Thanks.

BTW, I am Aristotle.

user20683

11:30 PM

@RobertHarvey you always struck me as more of a Xenophon

Robert Harvey

[goes to Google]

@WorldEngineer Sounds pretty much like every other death metal song I've ever heard.

user20683

@RobertHarvey it's more power metal than death but yeah

Ixrec

@WorldEngineer I've never liked that kind of rough vocals those metal genres have, but the non-vocal parts of that song sounded really interesting

Robert Harvey

I'm actually kinda into that modern metal stuff like the songs they put into the closing credits of "The Matrix."

user20683

@AshleyNunn introduced me to the "Map of Metal" though I was previously aware of many of the distinctions.

user20683

11:43 PM

@Ixrec the "technical" term is growling

user20683

in Symphonic metal where the lead singer is often female, this leads to an effect known as "Soprano and Gravel"

Ixrec

tbh, I'm still not entirely clear on what "metal" means exactly

Robert Harvey

Those grinding guitars, basically, and some generic drums and bass. Everything else is frosting.

The guitars in metal all sound exactly like that.

So, symphonic metal is grinding guitars with an orchestra.

user20683

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

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user20683

@Ixrec example of very early metal

user20683

11:54 PM

Black Sabbath is probably the most "metal" of the early groups but even they don't sound that "metal" compared to the more extreme "modern" groups and by modern I mean like early to mid 80s

user20683

I mean compare this to something like "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead

Ixrec

I think I have too little familiarity with all of the above to see any of the connections; I just hear very different songs that all have a guitar in there somewhere

Robert Harvey

Yes; that's the common element.

Growling.

user20683

fuzz in general is a appreciated element

Ixrec

"fuzz"?

user20683

11:59 PM

@Ixrec distortion

Robert Harvey

Distortion.

user20683

but a particular kind

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