The 2nd Monitor

Yuushi

12:11 AM

@Corbin They had Feynman teach introductory physics :)

Corbin

I bet it was captivating. But it would feel so wrong. Like using a jack hammer to hang a picture or something.

Yuushi

I'm not quite sure why they'd have Bjarne teach an introductory course either, though

that being said, the amount of crappy C++ instruction out there...

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Mat's Mug

Yay! Got a shiny new [badge:sportsmanship]! :D

2

Yuushi

congrats

nhgrif

@Corbin I don't know what is being discussed exactly, but it's common for well known people to teach at least one entry level course if they teach. It helps drum up more interest in the program and helps inspire those already interested to stick with it. And from a teaching perspective, it perhaps teachers better fundamentals. No matter the discipline, good fundamentals are always, well, fundamental...

Corbin

12:23 AM

True, I suppose. I'd just be afraid that someone so far advanced might not remember what it's like to be a beginner. I imagine someone as smart as Stroustroup or Feynman though would be aware of that and make sure to monitor it. Blerh who knows. Would certainly be interesting.

Mat's Mug

I'd take a C# lesson from Eric Lippert anytime!

Jerry Coffin

@Corbin Bjarne is aware enough of it to have written a book specifically for that purpose.

Corbin

Haha. True.

Jerry Coffin

@Mat'sMug If you have no choice but to mess with C# he's as good a person to learn it from as anybody. :-)

Mat's Mug

..or Jon Skeet...

Corbin

12:28 AM

Eric Lippert has actually written quite a few answers on CR. That would be a bit intimidating but nifty.

Oh, actually he answered something 3 hours ago, haha.

Mat's Mug

Yeah, telling you, CR is the next big thing :)

Jamal

It's great having experts here. :-) I imagine he wanted a little break from SO's crap.

Jerry Coffin

@Mat'sMug Honestly, I kind of hope not. At least I hope it doesn't grow to the volume of SO anytime soon.

SO reminds me of the old Yogi Berra line: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

nhgrif

How do you find answers/questions you've starred?

Yuushi

@nhgrif under your profile page, there's a "favourites" tab

Jamal

12:33 AM

I don't think that will happen in a very long time. SO is just too big and is too active for people to keep it clean over time. But when we get a lot of new questions, we need enough reviewers around.

Corbin

I don't think CR ever could be StackOverflow's size. The asker to answerer ratio is just way too off.

nhgrif

I found it finally.

Anyway, speaking of authors/professors/etc on SO...

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Q: Using the AND and NOT Operator in Python

Here is my custom class that I have that represents a triangle. I'm trying to write code that checks to see if self.a, self.b, and self.c are greater than 0, which would mean that I have Angle, Angle, Angle. Below you will see the code that checks for A and B, however when I use just self.a !...

Yuushi

haha

Mat's Mug

I don't think CR can ever grow to SO's size either. But it can definitely become the place to post one's working code for peer review.

Jamal

@JerryCoffin: By the way, I happened to see your latest SO answer as it was posted. ;-) I was doing my usual snooping of crap to flag.

Jerry Coffin

12:35 AM

@Corbin I think there's more to it than that. Specifically, a lot of answers on SO take only 15-20 seconds apiece (either to ask or answer). Asking a (decent) question here takes somewhat longer, and answering takes a lot longer.

Mat's Mug

but it's so much more fun and rewarding over here!

Corbin

Well, that's certainly part of it. I was seeing it more in terms of the higher time investment is why there's not many reviewers and why it would be incredibly unlikely to scale.

It takes 30 seconds to throw up a blurb of code from some project or other, but a thorough review can take any where from 15 minutes to an hour.

Jamal

And your posts don't get swept away nearly as quickly, meaning more exposure.

Mat's Mug

@Corbin reviews/answers don't have to be thorough

(still takes at least 15 minutes though)

Corbin

True. Very true, in fact. But still. Even if you just glance through the code and explain 1 item, it can be time consuming.

I've actually wondered before if we shouldn't all be breaking up our answers more. Some of our wall-of-text answers could really be more like 3 answers in spirit. Just a bit rep-whorey. On their own though, there's certainly nothing wrong with short answers. Half the time a short answer is actually sufficient.

Stack Exchange

12:38 AM

0

Q: Member has cyclomatic complexity of 21 (105%)

I have the following method which basically converts an input audio file to a monophonic FLAC file. Now I am getting Member has cyclomatic complexity of 21 (105%) message in Visual Studio, while I've taken care of improving it as in the beginning it was longer, now there's not much I can remove ...

c# cyclomatic-complexity

Mat's Mug

@Corbin oh so true:

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A: Simulation of an ocean containing sharks and fish

Just a quick comment: Your Ocean class knows/does too many things. I'd be expecting a Fish class and a Shark class. Creating an ocean requires a starveTime constructor parameter? That's a sign you've broken the single responsibility principle (SRP). Methods like void addFish(int x, int y) would...

Jerry Coffin

@Jamal Yes--when I started on Stack Overflow, "nice answer" flags were nearly meaningless; virtually any halfway decent answer was likely to get one. Nowadays, things stay on the front page such a short time, they happen a lot less frequently.

Mat's Mug

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A: Simulation of an ocean containing sharks and fish

As I mentioned in this answer, your Ocean class is breaking SRP, which makes your code harder to maintain than it needs to be. Memory Usage Let's pretend the ocean is an array of X-Y coordinates with 3 possible values at each intersection: EMPTY, FISH or SHARK (what your code does). If the ocea...

Long answer: 3 votes; short answer: 12 votes!

Corbin

@Mat'sMug Might be worth mentioning encapsulation in that first one. Your Fish class is certainly flirting with it.

But yeah, half the time "Look up SOLID" seems sufficient. Which is kind of sad, since I believe that reflects a lot of the state of software engineering as a field.

Mat's Mug

lol Thanks Santa (the intent wasn't to attract some more votes... merely to show that long, time-consuming answers are not always rewarded with as much love as a shorter, less time-consuming answer)

Corbin

12:43 AM

You should know by now that anything posted in The 2nd Monitor will almost certainly attract at least 1 vote :)

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Yuushi

5th time lucky installing octave...

Mat's Mug

:)

5 more [badge:sportsmanship] awardees and we have a football/soccer team!

@Jamal at what time is the recalculation for tag badges?

Jamal

This is probably my longest answer so far.

Mat's Mug

^^ that still counts as something posted in The 2nd Monitor ;)

Jamal

@Mat'sMug I think it's something like 3:00 AM UTC.

Mat's Mug

12:49 AM

makes sense, like, right after the serial-voting-reversal script

Jamal

Thanks, Santa(s)!

Still, I cannot compete with Winston Ewert. His answers are long.

Mat's Mug

Been there. But since the mid-November discussion with encouraging shorter answers, I've tried to keep my answers reasonable.

nhgrif

I only wish CodeReview had more iOS/ObjC questions posted. It's the only language I feel comfortable enough with to really review.

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif post some! you never know, it might attract a crowd of Objective-C devs!

nhgrif

I've posted a couple.

Corbin

12:53 AM

Oooo, I didn't know we have an Objective C person. I should post some of my iOS code. Got thrown into it for work, and I have some doubts about the quality.... x.x

nhgrif

syb0rg has been trying to learn some Objective-C too.

He's also not completely comfortable with OOP.

I told him what really cemented my OOP understanding was implementing a RationalNumber class, and suggested he do this and post it was a CR question.

In ObjC.

Yuushi

I have to say, ObjC has about the most jarring syntax of any language I've seen (minus things like J or APL)

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Mat's Mug

Re-reading the introduction of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, I feel like I'm a total noob at OOP. Probably am. And then I look at the code I'm coping with at work and ...I don't know anymore.

Yuushi

honestly, a lot of the patterns are workaround for not having first class functions / closures

nhgrif

Objective-C syntax. You hate it until you realize it's better than everything else.

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Mat's Mug

12:58 AM

var everythingElse = new[] { "Java", "C#" };

Yuushi

sounds like stockholm syndrome :)

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nhgrif

MyClass *myObject = [[MyClass alloc] init]; But you can also do... MyClass *myObject = [MyClass new]; and it's the exact same thing.

In C++, you'd have MyClass *myObject = new MyClass;. new in C++ is basically alloc in ObjC, and init is sort of like the default constructor.

Objective-C doesn't allow stack allocations though. All of your objects are on the heap.

Mat's Mug

I don't do C++ but if given a choice between ObjC and C++, guts are telling me to go with C++...

nhgrif

Nah. It's about picking the right tool for the right job.

Do you want to write an iOS app in C++?

Mat's Mug

Right. Apple => ObjC

Stupid question, but could there be a compiler for ObjC on Windows?

nhgrif

1:03 AM

I think there could be... but it wouldn't have the Cocoa library.

It'd be like writing VB or C# without .NET

Mat's Mug

So it's possible to learn ObjC without getting a mac.. like it's possible to write C# in Notepad and compile it with csc.exe

nhgrif

I guess.

Yuushi

@Mat'sMug stackoverflow.com/questions/3538051/…

nhgrif

It'd be pointless to learn ObjC without Cocoa.

Mat's Mug

Cocoa is like, the Framework?

nhgrif

1:06 AM

err yeah, Framework

It'd be especially pointless if you already know OOP.

If you're completely comfortable with C# and you want to learn ObjC, you'd pretty well only want to learn it to write an OSX or iOS app... and you can't do that very easily in ObjC without Cocoa/CocoaTouch

Mat's Mug

Oh, I'll learn me some JavaScript before I dare approaching a Mac!

nhgrif

lol

Jamal

Off-topic:

0

Q: (Python) Trying to solve old GoogleCodeJam problem for practice

I'm working on some of the old Google Code Jam problems as practice in python since we don't use this language at my school. Here is the current problem I am working on that is supposed to just reverse the order of a string by word. Here is my code: import sys f = open("B-small-practice.in", ...

python google

Mat's Mug

I seriously need to get into some web dev. Windows dev is fun, but I'm totally missing out...

Stack Exchange

0

Q: (Python) Trying to solve old GoogleCodeJam problem for practice

I'm working on some of the old Google Code Jam problems as practice in python since we don't use this language at my school. Here is the current problem I am working on that is supposed to just reverse the order of a string by word. Here is my code: import sys f = open("B-small-practice.in", ...

python google

Mat's Mug

1:10 AM

Welcome to CR! Unfortunately this site can't help you with getting your code to do what you need it to do. Have you seen our help center? Take a look, get your code working as you want and then edit this post so that it's on-topic for this site and you'll certainly learn from our Python reviewers :) — Mat's Mug 7 secs ago

Corbin

@nhgrif Hah. Objective C syntax is like C had a misformed baby with Java version 4. NSArray, NSDictionary, etc using a glorified void* is just gross. Oh, you want to call a method on an item in an NSDictionary? Get ready to either use a cast or assign it to an intermediary variable!

Jamal

lol

Corbin

There are certainly aspects of Objective C syntax that I like though. And, as a tool it's actually quite nice. GCD, for example, is a relatively painless way of concurrency in a fairly low level language.

Mat's Mug

I ♥ C#

@nhgrif I like how your selfie starts with "You're right. There is a simpler way."

nhgrif

lol

Jamal

1:13 AM

I have now reached 400 helpful flags on MSO. Just 100 more to go...

Mat's Mug

@Jamal you mean just 600 more to go...

Jamal

I'm aiming for Marshall, which is 500. MSO/MSE will surely happen before I reach 1000. But I've already reached more than that number on SO.

Mat's Mug

[Gareth Rees] has passed 9K!

nhgrif

@Corbin Meh, I like this about ObjC actually.

Corbin

Then you would like C. You would love C.

I'm far too addicted to the type safety of C++.

ObjC needs generics :(

Jamal

1:17 AM

Non-answer:

-1

A: JavaScript Quiz App

I like so much your quizz application. Can you please tell me how can I use it in my website. Thanks you so much again for creating such a nice quizz application. Your soonest reply will be highly appreciated. Nasir Ahamed

konijn

Yah

flagged!

Jamal

Eat it up. :-)

Mat's Mug

Delete-voted

konijn

I ought to thank him, one more helpful flag raised ;)

Jamal

And it bumps your answer!

Hm... checks for sockpuppet activity

nhgrif

1:19 AM

What's a "generic" in other languages exactly?

Mat's Mug

List<T> is one

nhgrif

What does that mean in English?

It's a list you can put any kind of object in?

Corbin

It means compile time type checking

Mat's Mug

In C# a generic is a class (or method) that can take a type parameter, where the type parameter can have constraints

Corbin

For example, a std::vector<Student> in C++ cannot have a NSView (assuming it existed) pushed into it.

The compiler would yell at you quite loudly.

konijn

1:21 AM

@Jamal , so far I only got -1 ;)

Mat's Mug

So when you have a List<String> that list can only take String items, and that's compiler-enforced.

nhgrif

Hrm.

You could subclass NSArray to do compile-time checking.

Corbin

But you would have to do it N times for N classes.

nhgrif

I guess.

But it's very rare that I'm building arrays or dictionaries by adding objects to them one at a time.

Mat's Mug

Technically List<String> is one class, List<Class1> is another class

Corbin

1:24 AM

True... Just after coming from type safety, it feels primitive to not have it.

nhgrif

My use of arrays or dictionaries mostly revolves around methods of other classes that return these types of objects

Jerry Coffin

@Corbin Not necessarily. Originated with Ada where (like in C++ templates) all the type checking is static, but some languages have generics that are checked at run time.

nhgrif

For example, [someString componentsSeperatedByString:@"\n"];

NSString method that returns an NSArray where each index is an NSString from the original string broken on new line char

Corbin

@JerryCoffin I'm confused what that's a response to? Afraid I'm having a moment :)

@nhgrif Right, but you know that by documentation, not by contract (for lack of better wording).

Jerry Coffin

@Corbin Mouse over it, and it'll highlight what I replied to.

Corbin

1:26 AM

Ah, wow. Can't believe I never realized hovering would show me which message.

Mat's Mug

lol

nhgrif

That's fair enough. But Cocoa is Apple and Apple's documentation is exceptional.

Mat's Mug

^^ Take that, Microsoft!

Jerry Coffin

@Corbin SE's chat has serious shortcomings in dealing with problem users, but in some ways, it's actually pretty good (including this one).

Corbin

@JerryCoffin I suppose in a way type checking in Objective C is implicitly done at run time. I guess that's not the same as true checking though. It's more of just, you're going to get a segfault.

nhgrif

1:29 AM

Objective-C has a lot of ways of making sure you're dealing with the right kind of object.

Corbin

Haha. Can't ban people who create fake accounts with swastika avatars (i think you were here for that?), but we can hover over highlights!

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nhgrif

isKindOfClass:, respondsToSelector:, etc

Corbin

@nhgrif right, but the difference is that none of them are innate to the language. they're run time checks.

Jerry Coffin

@Corbin Yes--Objective-C is really based pretty closely on Smalltalk (where all type checking, to the extent it happens at all, happens at run time).

Corbin

Ah, I knew it's concept of "messages" was based on smalltalk but didn't know it borrow the types ideas from it

nhgrif

1:30 AM

innate to the language?

What do you mean by that?

Jerry Coffin

@nhgrif I think he means "automatically enforced by the compiler", or something similar.

Corbin

In C++ you know you're dealing with the right kind of object because you literally cannot compile the program if you're not (unless of course you use some kind of casting).

nhgrif

Right... but NSArray isn't Objective-C even.

It's Cocoa.

Corbin

Well, it was just an example. As a language, there's no way to create a variably type container in Objective C, for example.

nhgrif

Yes, you can...

Corbin

1:33 AM

How?

nhgrif

NSArray holds anything...

Corbin

Ah, sorry I was vague.

nhgrif

But you could subclass NSArray. Instead of holding a pointer to anything, it holds a pointer to objects that conform to a specific protocol.

Corbin

I don't mean a container that can hold any type. I mean a container that can hold 1 and only 1 type.

Well, but then you fall back to the N subclasses for N types problem

nhgrif

Or a pointer to only objects of that class.

Corbin

1:34 AM

NSArrayString NSArrayNumber NSArrayView, etc is not very scalable

compare that to vector<string>, vector<number>, vector<view>, and hopefully my point is clear

nhgrif

Yeah, but I just don't feel like it's that necessary.

Corbin

there's a certain static type safety capability in C++ that's not possible in ObjC

nhgrif

Because there are plenty of runtime checks you can do to make sure you're not trying to send a message to an object that doesn't respond to that message.

Corbin

it's not necessary, and really it's not a big deal. just something that irks me coming from a more C++ background.

We're arguing different things.

I'm saying that you can't do something at compile time, and you're responding, "but you can do it at run time."

It's the ability to do it at compile time that I miss.

nhgrif

I guess. I just don't really feel like it's something missing.

Jerry Coffin

1:36 AM

@nhgrif The fundamental difference is between "that you can do" and "that the compiler does completely automatically". Objective C (like Smalltalk) leaves the job entirely to you.

nhgrif

It's a different way of working...

NSArray holding a pointer to anything isn't particularly as helpful as NSDictionary.

Corbin

Yeah, it's not a huge missing thing. In fact, like you're saying, it can often times be an advantage. For example, parsing JSON in Objective C with an NSDictionary is much, much more natural than the C++ handling of it where you have to have a variant.

nhgrif

Yep.

Corbin

It's definitely a bias of my background. Just something that always lingers at the back of my mind. Probably just a sign of my newness to ObjC :)

nhgrif

My current project (which I submitted to app store today) makes use of NSDictionary for getting objects from a SQL database.

Or rather, the library that I'm using to talk to the database does that.

syb0rg

1:39 AM

@Corbin You are learning it too?

nhgrif

And because knowing NSDictionary is fundamental to knowing the language, it was a snap to get it working.

Corbin

@syb0rg Sort of. I wouldn't say I'm learning it anymore. I've written a fairly complicated application alone in it. I'm somewhere between beginner and moderate knowledge, probably a bit closer to moderate.

Far from good at it though. I like it over all though. Very interesting way of thinking.

@nhgrif Yeah, it's definitely nice sometimes to just assume types are going to line up. That's probably one of the reasons ObjC is better for what it's used for than something like C++.

Though for something with a small set of types like a database, static typing wouldn't be too bad. Just a bit more typing and mental overhead.

nhgrif

It's not even about assuming the types will "line up". Polymorphism & NSArrays are nice.

I could have an NSArray with three completely unrelated types of objects in it

Two have a method called fooBar

Corbin

I would call that duck typing rather than polymorphism.

But yeah, duck typing is convenient.

nhgrif

for(id foo in myArray) { if ([foo respondsToSelector:@selector(fooBar)]) { [foo fooBar]; } }

Yuushi

1:47 AM

@Corbin Definitely duck typing

nhgrif

So now the 2/3rds that respond to fooBar have the method performed, the other 1/3rd are safely ignored, and fast enumation is really fast.

rolfl

Sorry, auto-lol-star-bot was delayed.

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Malachi

2:01 AM

@Mat'sMug it was an awesome answer too

anyone throw this question some upvotes?

Mat's Mug

:)

Malachi

1

Q: Using GeoComplete with RequireJS (with shim config)

I am using the GeoComplete plugin with RequireJS It works, but please could someone confirm I've done this correctly, mainly my understanding of shim: requirejs.config({ waitSeconds: 120, paths: { async: './lib/async', jquery: './lib/jquery-1.7.2.min',...

javascript require.js

Mat's Mug

BTDT ;)

Malachi

BTDT????

Mat's Mug

been there, done that

done my round just an hour ago ;)

Malachi

2:02 AM

I am opening my RPSLS game again!!!! time to make some changes

Mat's Mug

these weekend-challenge projects are going to surface back one day or another ;)

it's cool that you're giving it another round!

Malachi

I am going to start with Eric Lippert's answer and then work on @chriswue's answer too

he got 14 upvotes!!!!! HOLY CARP

and HOLY MACKEREL

I only got 6 for the question!!!

nhgrif

Ugh. In SO's NSChat, there's a user who regularly complains about all these "bugs" he finds in Apple's code. And by "bugs", we're talking about a complete failure to ever read or understand any documentation and start with the assumption that the framework or library he's using is broken and buggy and the code he's writing is perfect, despite the fact that in a room full of professional iOS developers, he (an amateur) is the only one who is experiencing all these problems.

syb0rg

@nhgrif Is it that guy that only works for money?

nhgrif

Apparently his latest tirade is now that someone apparently misinformed him about a class 2 days ago, and he's peeved that he spent 2 days trying to use it wrong before he finally read the docs to find out that it doesn't do what what he needs it to do.

And yes, syb0rg.

Malachi

2:08 AM

at least he is coding iOS and not Linux or Windows.. let him be.....I don't want him coding stuff I might use some day

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syb0rg

@Malachi Yeah, he is the number one answerer on the site: data.stackexchange.com/codereview/query/952/…

nhgrif

lol

Malachi

@syb0rg do you know how far I had to scroll to find my name....... that makes me a sad panda.....back to coding for me

konijn

Typo of the day: totalRowCount -> TotalCowCount, 'C' is not even near 'R'..

7

nhgrif

I couldn't find my name. :/

Mat's Mug

2:11 AM

yeah, pinned that

syb0rg

@nhgrif You are #27

Malachi

what number am I ?

Mat's Mug

@syb0rg which ranking? link! link!

Malachi

I need some Ritalin...

nhgrif

ah, now I see

Malachi

2:12 AM

@syb0rg @Mat'sMug

syb0rg

@Mat'sMug #35

rolfl

Meh, I have not been pimping my answers (much) recently.... my scores have dropped.

Malachi

57 until I break 4k BTW

nhgrif

I'm going to start breaking my big answers up into a different answer for each topic I cover.

syb0rg

@Malachi Errm, pretty low.

Malachi

2:14 AM

I know

nhgrif

At least the long ones.

syb0rg

@Malachi Let's see what I can do about that ;)

Malachi

@syb0rg slowly

Mat's Mug

I'm not sure what to think about the fact that #500 has an average score of 0.93...

Malachi

I lost 35 points the other day

Mat's Mug

2:15 AM

@Malachi and you earned it back the next day? ;)

syb0rg

@Malachi I know. I've tested the limits of the serial-voting detector.

Mat's Mug

I'm sure these specific words are secretly screened ^^^^^^^^^^

Malachi

@Mat'sMug I earned some of it back I think.......

can someone explain this little snippet to me so I understand it clearly

static class Extensions
{
    public static int? BoundedParse(this string str, int lower, int upper)
    {

Mat's Mug

it's an extension method

it extends the string type

Malachi

is class a collection of extensions? how do you use it?

Mat's Mug

2:18 AM

so you could do "Hello".BoundedParse(0,10);

syb0rg

@Malachi I've upvoted as much as I could safely.

Malachi

how is it an extension of string?

Mat's Mug

(this string str)

the method body can operate on the instance of string, called str.

the this specifier indicates an extension method. Has to be static

Malachi

so I just put it inside of my namespace and it will be available to any string I call inside the namespace?

Mat's Mug

Best regrouped in static classes

exactly

Malachi

2:20 AM

what do you mean best regrouped

Mat's Mug

or you put it in an MyApp.Extensions namespace and do using MyApp.Extensions; to use them from another namespace

Yuushi

does int? represent an optional return type...like Some and None?

Mat's Mug

It's a shorthand notation for Nullable<int>

so the return value can be null, or any valid int

Malachi

@Yuushi that was my next question thank you @Mat

Mat's Mug

:)

Malachi

2:22 AM

can I do short?

'night!

@konijn Good night!

later @kon

later!

The Nasir is back!

-1

A: JavaScript Quiz App

I've downloaded it and using it now. Would it be possible to add unique image with each question? That would be huge help if you can do this. Please let me know thank you so much again. Nasir

okay, now I really going

Mat's Mug

2:23 AM

is this on-topic?

3

Q: ReaderWriter Synchronization

This code uses a ReaderWriterLockSlim to store data (on a disk or wherever), so that only one thread can write and many threads can read. All writers should be finished before reading, and the write should not block the caller. Basically my solution would work, but it doesn't look and feel natu...

c# multithreading

konijn

I would guess yes

if it works..

Mat's Mug

I have written this code in .NET 2.0, I'd like to use .NET 4.0 features, how would I do that

Malachi

Congrats, you've gained the privilege – trusted user – learn more

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Thanks Santa(s)

syb0rg

-1

A: JavaScript Quiz App

I've downloaded it and using it now. Would it be possible to add unique image with each question? That would be huge help if you can do this. Please let me know thank you so much again. Nasir

@konijn I've temporarily protected the question to prevent him from answering again. @Jamal Do you want to take further action?

@Malachi ~~Santa~~ Santas

Mat's Mug

Welcome to 4K @Malachi!

Jamal

2:25 AM

@syb0rg Protection is okay for now. There's an automatic answer ban, but I'm not when that is hit. I cannot trigger it manually.

syb0rg

Hmm, it was deleted before I could add a comment :/

nhgrif

in NSChat on Stack Overflow Chat, 21 secs ago, by God

I hate programming-_-

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Jamal

@syb0rg I can still add one myself, which will be sent to his inbox.

syb0rg

@Jamal Probably a good idea, since he didn't get why his answer was deleted the first time.

Malachi

@nhgrif they should force him to change his name, God would never whine like that

4

7 more up votes on this codereview.stackexchange.com/a/40280/18427

syb0rg

2:33 AM

@Malachi Till what?

Malachi

reversal badge

syb0rg

Ohh

1 more upvote on this:

4

A: C String - new function to detect user's anger - thoughts?

A few notes: Right now you have the method str_findString(). I'm guessing this is an variation of strstr(). I'm also guessing that <string.h>'s implementation of this method will be more efficient and faster, based on it being a standard library. if (strstr(temp_a, "$#@#")) { ... } Decla...

Corbin

There's someone who makes a point of complaining all the time and his name is god? That seems either trolling-y or someone severely disconnected with reality O.o

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nhgrif

Yea, both.

There's this gem to:

in NSChat on Stack Overflow Chat, 5 mins ago, by God

for me it is. you get to sit at work and do this, then go home and relax

He programs as a "hobby" and doesn't think it's relaxing.

I program as a career and find it relaxing..

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Malachi

@nhgrif I love writing code, my job doesn't let me do enough of it

Corbin

2:37 AM

For the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell his avatar is.

Looks like someone took MSPaint to some man-boobs x.x

nhgrif

I agree. The frustrating/stressful parts of my job are when I'm doing non-coding things.

Like trying to get a refund from the ODBC Router people.

I mean, I could understand finding programming frustrating or not enjoying programming. There are things I don't enjoy that other people do as work or hobby. But I certainly wouldn't pick up something as a hobby if I didn't enjoy it.

Corbin

Yeah, that doesn't make sense at all. I suspect he's either trolling, or a 14 year old.

nhgrif

He's 17 or 18

Corbin

Then again, the amount of people like him whom I've come across in real life is disturbingly high...

Mat's Mug

troll.. or whatever. It's just chitty-chatty useless comment that ought to be weeded out.

Corbin

2:43 AM

Ah, that explains it to an extent.

nhgrif

He may be trolling, but he's got at least a couple apps on the app store.

Corbin

Oh god. I bet those are some truly well made apps :o

nhgrif

Also... I've seen large chunks of the source code for his app...

Back when I still had the patience to look through huge heaps of trash to figure out his problem.

Mat's Mug

say no more..

;)

nhgrif

He just told me he was going to post some of his code:

in NSChat on Stack Overflow Chat, 47 secs ago, by nhgrif

I'm not going to look at it for both our sakes.

Mat's Mug

2:47 AM

hmm

Jamal

Aw. I can't star deleted messages. :-(

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Malachi

@Jamal me neither

nhgrif

WOW.

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Bad question and bad answer.... lol

Mat's Mug

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The answer is ...wow!!

rolfl

@Mat'sMug I have rabies, and I bite ;-)

Jamal

2:53 AM

Napalm'd.

Mat's Mug

@Jamal mwahahaha the other kind of napalm...

nhgrif

going to listen to Neil DeGrasse Tyson before bed. Cya later.

Malachi

I couldn't get that extension to work right, oops I had it inside another class....lol

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