The 2nd Monitor

chillworld

1:00 PM

it was closed (think 200_succes closed it as third and migration was rejected)

skiwi

I could spent years refactoring my code here...

There's always something that you can you can do differently.

ckuhn203

I hadn't realized it was a recent migration.

I guess I'm not the only one playing with Project Euler since their answer checking came back up.

there was a Haskel question yesterday too.

rolfl

@skiwi Context?

skiwi

@rolfl In a programming language, when programming

It's a very cheap and easy feature to implement and greatly enhances performance

rolfl

It does, but, it does not help with list.removeLast() which becomes O(n) (which it would have been before, but that's OK).

It's not a complete solution.

The classic comp-sci linked list has no pointer to the end.

skiwi

1:13 PM

How not?

@rolfl That I agree, but I doubt concrete programming languages map 1:1 to that version

rolfl

If you remove last element, you have to scan the full list to reset the last pointer

skiwi

Hm you've got a point there

rolfl

unless it is doubly-linked

skiwi

Yeah

Though in real memory and performance constrained situations, is a singly-linked version preferred over a doubly-linked, to save a few bytes?

rolfl

yes..... if you only need a subset of features.

Vogel612

1:15 PM

@skiwi doesn't that depend on the use-case??

if you're talking about things like a FIFO queue, then a singly linked list with a pointer to the last element would be preferrable right??

rolfl

no.

Vogel612

but for a more Array-List-Like use-case then a doubly linked list is better?

skiwi

It also depends on how many time you want to spend on unit testing, if you decide for a more complicated solution

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Better code development in Python

I'm new in Python and consequently I am searching to find some specific solution for code development. I already asked today some pythonic question and want to present my whole problem. Well, I have found some solution, but I really have interest to develop easier and clearer code in Python, so e...

python

rolfl

Yes, and how much functionality/performance you lose.

I have a library of util-replacement classes that are about as fast as java.util, but, for large datasets, save about 60 bytes per member for Sets and maps

when your data is a primitive, it saves even more.

So, things like a Map<Integer,Double> would save.... 120 or so bytes per member.

Vogel612

1:20 PM

@rolfl how do you get 60 bytes per member out?

chillworld

@ckuhn203 didn't saw it either the first time I looked at question

Vogel612

or asked better, where do you save them, without loosing functionality?

rolfl

and, if you have 100,000,000 of them, it makes a huge difference.

@Vogel612 I do lose functionality, and that's the point.

Vogel612

where, if I may ask?

Malachi

Morning!

Vogel612

1:21 PM

s/Morning!/Monking!/

Malachi

check me out on Programmers, I almost have a "Good Answer"

9

A: Should Android development be done on Windows or OSX? Is there any difference?

Linux I think you would want to use a Linux based OS for Developing Android applications seeing as how Android is a Linux Based OS, it's open source, it's free, and can run on a partition next to windows, and I think Mac Os as well (don't quote me on that though). it's been a while since I ope...

rolfl

HashMap has an internal 'Node' class which it creates an instance of, for each key.

skiwi

@Malachi It should be done on Android.

Malachi

@Vogel612 I am not sure about using "Monking" it seems a little derogatory to me

@skiwi lol

@skiwi Android Development on Android?

rolfl

I don't need that, I save the keys in an array, and I have a 'smart' hashing table on cached hashCodes() (or a custom hash function).

Malachi

1:23 PM

what do we call Santa on other sites?

rolfl

The actual data is stored in an array as well. Arrays of primitive if they are primitive types.

Vogel612

@Malachi How so?

skiwi

@rolfl Enjoy your improved performance vs base Java libraries until Project Valhalla is completed

Vogel612

@rolfl so in fact you the do the retrieval by searching the hashes for the index of the hash, and returning the corresponding index??

@Malachi Ho Ho Ho btw...

Malachi

@Vogel612 everyone is always calling @rolfl a Monkey... he's not a monkey! He is a Human being, a very smart one too I imagine. :)

@Vogel612 thank you

in The Whiteboard, 8 secs ago, by Malachi

thank you Santa

rolfl

1:25 PM

@Malachi - thanks for the rabid defense.... but, I am quite happy with monkey too.

@skiwi Well, since this code has been in production for 5 years .....

Malachi

sorry I was wrong, it wasn't a "Good Answer"

> You've earned the "Nice Answer" badge (Answer score of 10 or more) for "Should Android development be done on Windows or OSX? Is there any difference?".

rolfl

also, it is a multi-valued map, so, instead of doing things like:

Map<Integer,Container> mymap = new HashMap<>();

Malachi

interesting question

0

Q: Why was the first compiler written before the first interpreter?

The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy. Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. If that is so, why was the first compiler written six-years before the first interpreter?

history compilers interpreters

Donald.McLean

@skiwi Just because a newer technology is available, does not necessarily mean that a project manager is going to have his people rip out the existing technology and replace it.

2

Malachi

@rolfl well then I don't feel so bad using the term "monking"... :)

rolfl

1:27 PM

Where Container is a class with, say, 5 fields that are stored together, like a name, first name, age, etc.

skiwi

@Donald.McLean It's not what I suggested though ;-)

Malachi

@Donald.McLean I find they usually wait until they absolutely have to

rolfl

you can instead add a 'data dimension' to the new map:

skiwi

It's just that the performance should be on par, but that doesn't warrant investing time just to rewrite it and still have the same performance.

Donald.McLean

There are quite a few Scala libraries that have been released since I started working on my project. I might have used them if they had existed before but what I have works just fine.

rolfl

1:29 PM

MyMap<Integer> mymap = new MyMap<>(Integer.class);
DataColumn<String> namecolumn = mymap.addDimension(String.class);

Doing that, I can store all the base values as simple arrays linked to the same key hashtable, and share one table between multiple maps, etc.

primitive values get stored as primitive arrays.

skiwi

It sounds pretty sophisticated there

rolfl

it is thread safe too.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Is this approach correct when testing a controller?

I'd like someone to review these tests to make sure I'm along the right lines in Angular testing. Note - They do all pass (great) but I feel like I'm struggling to understand the finer points of Angular testing. var headerControllers = angular.module('header.controllers', []); headerControllers....

angular.js

0

Q: How to optimize this Linq query?

I am rewriting a VB.NET application in C#. I will nut subject you to the original code because its pretty messy. Below is the converted C# code: public IEnumerable<WebQuery> GetQueries(Request request) { var queries = new List<WebQuery>(); foreach (var report in request.Re...

c# linq

skiwi

I've found some code of mine that smells

rolfl

and, in one case, (the main reason for the system), I tuned a tuple-based dataset from about 18GB in memory to less than 1GB in memory (it had lots of primitive values), and as a consequence, even though insert and get performance was slightly slower than before, the overall performance was....

about 50% faster because GC was significantly reduced.

and the data simply fit, and did not cause the app to fail.

skiwi

1:32 PM

Nice

public static Path getSingleFileWithExtensionInDirectory(final Path directory, final Extension extension) {
    try {
        Objects.requireNonNull(directory);
        Objects.requireNonNull(extension);
        return Files.list(directory)
                .filter(FunctionUtils.pathEndsWith(extension))
                .collect(CollectorUtils.singleElementCollector());
    } catch (IOException | UncheckedIOException | NotASingleElementException ex) {
        ManualUtils.moveToManual(Config.REJECTED_DIRECTORY, directory);

rolfl

anyone using a HashMap with more than say, 100,000 members, is running in to problems.

skiwi

Smells like this method is doing multiple things at once?

@rolfl In most cases you should be using a database then though

But I'm very sure you know what you are doing

rolfl

except when the task is to load large datasets and validate them as they are being loaded in to the database

Malachi

is there a big noticeable difference between c99 and c11 besides a value difference of 88?

skiwi

I must've been smoking something really bad when I designed that method.

Malachi

1:37 PM

there is a c99 and a c11 I didn't edit either in because I don't know which one this is I was thinking that I just put in c99 because it sounds like that is the lowest one that would be possible given your comment on @vnp's answer — Malachi 4 mins ago

skiwi

@Malachi I think they only added a whole bunch of std:: container class and 12 years worth of development

Malachi

@skiwi sounds like c11 came after c99 and I thought that c99 was fairly new?

skiwi

@Malachi Oh... it's the years they indicate there after the c

rolfl

Plus some lag for implementation....

So, C99 is the 1999 specification, and C11 is the 2011 specification

you would think they would have solved the Y2K problem in the C specification already

4

next time I see Jerry I should remind him ;0

skiwi

@rolfl You are smart, at least you were in my previous issue

Currently I'm storing a bunch of paths to different executables (tools) in Config.xxx static fields

So I don't need to pass them into every single method (issue looks familiar to one few days ago)

But you cannot use the classes now if you do not have the Config class on your classpath and populated

I don't have problems with that situation, but it still does not sound very flexible

Phrancis

1:44 PM

Monking!

skiwi

Monking @Phrancis!

Vogel612

@skiwi you want to use a configuration-file with hardcoded defaults ~~again~~ instead??

skiwi

@Vogel612 They are temporarily hard coded in the program, but on startup they are load from a configurable file

Vogel612

so what exactly is your problem?

just verify that the stuff is loaded.

skiwi

Might scratch it as well, passable parameters are still better

Vogel612

1:49 PM

??

missing context

skiwi

Context was probably that I was being lazy

2

and wanted to do things easier at expense of correctness

Vogel612

shame on you..

rolfl

I have seen your problem solved in many ways. Your current way is relatively popular.

A single class with static methods that allow remote classes to obtain configuration data.

An interesting solution I have also seen was quite complicated, but effective....

Morwenn

@rolfl Only the informal name for the C11 revision did not solve the Y2K problem :p

The official one is ISO/IEC 9899:2011. Which is far too long to be remembered.

rolfl

write your methods 'properly', so, a method that needs a single file would take a single file argument, which makes sense.

Captain Obvious

2:03 PM

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Code below generates only 10 email domains. To me this is bruteforce programming it. Is there another random integer library? Could I use something like random.seed() in c++? import random domains = [ "hotmail.com", "gmail.com", "aol.com", "mail.com" , "mail.kz", "yahoo.com"] letters = ["a", "b"...

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Q: Is there a better way, with less graph api calls to get all likes from a news wall?

Right now my way gathering likes from a user wall is making a recursive call on the "/me/posts" edge and going through each post... If someone knows a better, easier way with less graph api calls necessary, please let me know! Thanks a lot ! Cornelius /* * * Count my_user_id likes in wall of...

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rolfl

Then, write a wrapper which takes an interface with a supplier method for the file. So, if the file was 'sourceDataDirectory', you would have the method:

public myMethod(File sourceDataDirectory) {...}

then you would have the method:

public mySuppliedMethod(SourceDataDirectorySupplier supplier) {
    return myMethod(supplier.getSourceDataDirectory());
}

Finally, you would then create an interface for each data type/set/subset.

Vogel612

@rolfl isn't this counterintuitive?

rolfl

Then, implement your configuration source to implement all of the interfaces... so, you could have just one place with all the config, but, each small place gets just a subset of it.

skiwi

That sounds a bit convuluted

rolfl

It is, and I don't recommend it.

But, it allows you to have your config developed independently of your code, and to have some other advantages in big projects.

Malachi

2:06 PM

0

A: Once upon a time in Stackland

From reading the Post, it looks like 3 things need to happen (at the least) @konijn Bot needs to be reactivated to keep the JavaScript Zombies from overtaking Code Review again The Java People need to take some time to learn a couple of other languages C# Python < joking > find a way to hide...

rolfl

5 mins ago, by rolfl

An interesting solution I have also seen was quite complicated, but effective....

When I do these things, I use the singleton pattern though (so shoot me).

and have the config in that.

That way I can access the config in a static-like way, or as an instance that is passed between methods:

skiwi

You do make it configurable from a file though I hope?

rolfl

File sourceData = Config.instance().getSourceDataFile();

or

public void myMethod(Config config) { .... }

Malachi

anyone want to look through my C# answers and vote as necessary (or appropriate)

Vogel612

youch..

rolfl

2:09 PM

yes, but, I work on code that has legacy components, etc.

skiwi

I see,I have a similarish approach

Vogel612

@Malachi nope, my smoking material is not finished yet..

skiwi

I also found out the hard way that it is good to hardcode some filenames as well

Path organizationFile = path.resolve("organization-invoice.ser");

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Multiple SQL statements in a single transaction

Using the following query I'm doing transactions with two tables BEGIN TRANSACTION UPDATE SalaryTrans SET carried_forward_amount = @carriedForwardAmount, net_wage=@netWage, processed_date = @processedDate WHERE employee_id=@employeeID AND reference = @reference DELETE FROM CarriedForward WHERE ...

sql sql-server ado.net

skiwi

I forgot to update this name when I updated it on another place

rolfl

2:10 PM

@skiwi Yes, often using Java properties, but also using databases, or XML, or default values when none present.

depending on the project.

skiwi

And last week I've been wondering why it wouldn't process it, but fixing it wasn't on the schedule yet

Malachi

@Vogel612 I was joking about activating @konijn lol

rolfl

I am sure there are libraries that do that sort of thing, now.

skiwi

Okay

Malachi

time to do some more VB.Net Development... yay :(

Vogel612

2:13 PM

@Malachi when two thirds of your answer are a joke...

well you decide what to put after that. I'm not sure what I am supposed to think of the answer..

rolfl

^^^ my thoughts too.

Malachi

no body else answered....

Vogel612

@Malachi the excruciating suspense ;)

2

rolfl

yeah, I know, and I was not sure what to answer myself, at the time.

Vogel612

just because it's unanswered, that doesn't mean that you should write a mostly-joke-answer

meta is different. It's okay if some questions remain unanswered.

rolfl

2:17 PM

I'm not against the joke answer.

meta is for community building as well.

the question is tagged discussion.

for a reason

but, I can't bring myself to upvoted it when I know that someone has somewhere got a brilliant piece of feedback.

3

(and I featured the post, everyone who looks at the community bulletin will see it)

Malachi

if I get onto Code Review tonight I will have to write something a little more....meaningful and thought out. I am just trying to get into gear after a good weekend of riding! I almost hit 600 miles this weekend on my bike

skiwi

Huh, my indention is both incorrect and correct, and it confuses me.

Malachi

@Mat'sMug speaking of mugs, where is mine?!?!?!

I am beginning to wonder if they shipped it yet or not

rolfl

Right, I am officially changing my mental-classification of @Malachi's icon, from 'ogre' to 'hog'.

3

Vogel612

actually it's azombie.

not that it makes much of a difference...

aside: someone know how this questionmark in a diamond is called

the thing that shows up when you borked on encoding?

too-many-low-quality-so-questions

weak-search-fu

Malachi

2:25 PM

@rolfl Refresh

rolfl

I did, and nothing changed .....

Malachi

it must not copy over to everything right away

Malachi, South Dakota

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rolfl

I cna do that for you ... hang on...

Done

Hmmm.

There. Now it is done.

Malachi

�

Vogel612

exactly that one..

Malachi

2:30 PM

I had to copy past from

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rolfl

Good find

skiwi

Lolol

Malachi

???

people are going to wonder who the new person in chat is now. I haven't changed my avatar in a long time....LOL

skiwi

Just on the radio, instead of normally: "There are some issues on the railroads, <insert Dutch company here> deploys extra buses!"

It now sais

"There are some issues on the railroads, <insert Dutch company here> deploys extra boats!"

(And yes, the first attempt for this went horribly wrong)

rolfl

Hmmm... just realized that my oh-so-smart 100 gunmen answer, is actually included in a Wikipedia link from another answer.... but, I worked out the math myself, so I don't feel bad.

5

Vogel612

2:44 PM

also it's a nice answer either way...

wait, what answer?

Hey there

Hey there

Hey there

Hey there

2:51 PM

Hey there

Mat's Mug

@Malachi so there's only 1 thing that needs to happen then? All Java reviewers should review other languages and we're good to go?

2

;)

Malachi

@Mat'sMug there are so many of them, if they each answered a couple more other language questions I think it would help.

rolfl

Well, since Java programs are normally so good, it make sense to apply our good practices to other languages too.

6

Malachi

I am thinking of learning some Python as well

@rolfl I think you forgot your sarcastic tags around that comment

Mat's Mug

@rolfl I think it's the Java reviewers more than Java programs ;)

4

Malachi

2:54 PM

BTW.normal my old avatar was made on a plants vs. zombies game, so it wasn't really an ogre

Vogel612

told you 't is is a zombie.

reminds me of the song by the cranberries..

cranberries are sweet and tasty

i somehow have the feeling that tasty does not mean what I think it means...

and I also somehow have the feeling that the "architechture" for the logging in our application is broken..

and following that train of thought: what the heck?

public static void doLogDebug(@Observes @LogDebug final String message) {
		FileHandler logWriter;
		try {
			logWriter = new FileHandler("CRMDebugLog.txt", true);
			logWriter.setFormatter(new SimpleFormatter());
			LOG.addHandler(logWriter);
			LOG.log(Level.FINE, message);
			logWriter.close();
		} catch (SecurityException e) {
			System.out.println("SecurityException: " + e.getMessage());
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.out.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());

Phrancis

rolfl

@Vogel612 Oh, my goodness.

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis ...hey there ;)

Vogel612

@rolfl don't worry it's just duplicated for levels "LogError" "LogWarning" and "LogInfo" again

facepalm-allcaps

rolfl

3:01 PM

Well, be a hero and improve log performance!

Vogel612

we got an additional log-level "LogConsole" which is nothing but a disguised "sysout"

In fact I think we should just put it all in the same log, and add a small formatter, including a timestamp and a loglevel...

rolfl

you are really opening, writing, and closing the file for each message?

Vogel612

not me...

but.... yea.

rolfl

^^^ fix it ....

Vogel612

hehe...

hrmph...

I was actually just writing documentation for the whole project...

and in fact, should be doing something completely different yet again..

but hey, can't leave this mess to less experienced trainees, right?

rolfl

3:04 PM

@Vogel612 - I recommend benchmarking before and after performance.

Vogel612

@rolfl well the good thing is... our whole project has about 3 log-calls..

rolfl

When you can say to people: I did this fix, and, it saves 1 minute from a 30 minute process.... then it makes sense.

Vogel612

all introduced in my refactoring...

rolfl

Ahhh....

Vogel612

the bad news is. well the same.

rolfl

3:06 PM

So, you can say to them, I saved 1 millisecond from a 30 minute process .... ;-)

Phrancis

Alright, 125 rep to 2K, gotta find something to review or to ask... maybe I'll finish revising my schema in pg and post tonight...

Malachi

@Mat'sMug I am deleting my stupid comments on some of my answers, would you like to remove your comments correcting me???? codereview.stackexchange.com/a/45328/18427

rolfl

Anyone want to change this title (and 'nut')?

3

Q: How to optimize this Linq query?

I am rewriting a VB.NET application in C#. I will nut subject you to the original code because its pretty messy. Below is the converted C# code: public IEnumerable<WebQuery> GetQueries(Request request) { var queries = new List<WebQuery>(); foreach (var report in request.Re...

c# linq

Malachi

trying to clean up some of my answers

rolfl

Ahhh, hog-bump time.

I see some 'obsolete' flags about to happen

Malachi

3:11 PM

@rolfl done

@rolfl what?

Phrancis

@rolfl ~~jamalized~~ phrancisized

rolfl

hmmm... phrancis needs a refresher on what good titles are ... ;-)

Titles should reflect what the code does, not what the user wants to happen to the code ;-)

Phrancis

Ah

rolfl

It is almost never good for a title to have a question mark in Code Review.

Otherwise everyone's questions will have the title: "How do I improve this code?"

2

This is worthy of a meta question.

14

Q: "Please review / critique" in question's title

Would it be wise to consider such posts as a subject for "auto" edit or add to the faq? It seems redundant to ask for review explicitly on the site which purpose is to review the code by community. It's like starting "Please answer" in title on another StackExchange site. It's annoying because ...

discussion title

Malachi

what was wrong with my title?

rolfl

3:17 PM

Nothing, but, you both happened to click save at about the same time....

I think Phrancis missed the notification bar, and because his changes were larger, they got applied anyway.

Stack Exchange does that.

Your revision is in the history too.

@Malachi - feel free to re-apply your title, I prefer it (sorry Phrancis).

2

Malachi

@rolfl I saw that, and he had some good ones.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Can this method be changed to remove all objects in one call?

I am converting a VB.NET app over to C#. I won't subject you to the old code but the following is done in a little over 100 lines using nested loops. I am using Entity Framework 6 as my ORM. I have cleaned that up some to this: public void Remove(int key) { var myObject = _context.MyObjects....

c# entity-framework

Jamal

Thanks, Santa!

Phrancis

@rolfl no offense taken

Vogel612

@rolfl it's actually 4 log-calls..

after I took the whole class, made it ApplicationScoped and removed the static modifier, it's 4 Errors...

that's making me sad.

Jamal

3:32 PM

Two answers now one-away

rolfl

Morning, Monking

Jamal

Morning!

skiwi

@Vogel612 @Observes @LogDebug???

rolfl

Sorry, @Jamal, I can't bring myself to vote on any of those answers ..... again.

skiwi

You might want to fix your logging

rolfl

3:37 PM

bazola, answering swift....ly

Jamal

@rolfl lol

bazola

hehe how's it going

Vogel612

@skiwi not my idea... the plan was to allow decoupling it and logging via events..

skiwi

@Vogel612 So there's two broken ideas floating around which somehow together magically "work"?

Vogel612

the dirty way:

@ApplicationScoped
@Singleton
public class Log {

	private static final String LOG_FILE = "CRMLog.txt";

	private enum LogType {
		INFO, WARNING, ERROR, DEBUG
	}

	private final Logger LOG;
	private final FileHandler logFileHandler;

	public Log() throws IOException {
		LOG = Logger.getLogger(novatec.crm.framework.Resources.class.getName());
		try {
			logFileHandler = new FileHandler(LOG_FILE, true);
		} catch (SecurityException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			System.err.println("[FATAL]: Could not initialize logger");

@skiwi @Nobody used it...

skiwi

3:39 PM

Just use log4j2...

if-it-only-were-so-easy

Vogel612

it probably is....

and that's the saddest part about it.

rolfl

@bazola - in case you did not put 2 and 2 together, that most recent answer of yours, was for a question posed by one of the mods on SO....

Uhm, not SO, SR.

bazola

i did not notice that actually

Vogel612

superping op.

rolfl

I expect more questions to come in from him.

bazola

3:44 PM

i know that I am a beginner but I definitely want to pay back to the site for all of the awesome feedback I've gotten on my code. This place rocks

8

Captain Obvious

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I have created a QuadTree in Java and would like to know how I should unit test it, in addition to any other general code review suggestions. import java.util.ArrayList; public class QuadTree { private QuadTree root, parent, northEast, southWest, northWest, southEast; Point center; ...

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Q: Inserting 1 line into a my sql database

This code is how to add code into my table really easily, however it will be called 2000+ times a second so i need to know if this is most efficient code to add it quickly to the database. <?php $site = $_GET['url']; $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","","","rocket_newsites"); // Check connection i...

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rolfl

Also, partly because of the brilliant title, and partly because of the asker, that question hit the Hot Questions list.

skiwi

hmm, is it a bad idea to have multiple applications log to the same file via RollingRandomAccessFileAppender?

rolfl

In general, yes.

bazola

well anything that draws more traffic to the site is a good thing :)

skiwi

3:48 PM

I see my error log has missed an exception somehow, and trying to figure out why

Phrancis

This business application is so stupidly designed... to create a new invoicing batch you can't enter a dealer's ID into a field, you have to scan through the tinyest little drop-down menu through tens of thousands of account IDs. Ugh.

rolfl

@skiwi That could explain it.

'could' being the operative word

Vogel612

@Phrancis so you don't even select a Dealer, but a DealerId???

skiwi

Yeah, I'll need to investigate tomorrow

Vogel612

how is your company still in business?

Mat's Mug

3:50 PM

lol

skiwi

Does anyone know if it is possible to send a list of data to a WSDL service accepting any number of input fields for that element?

rolfl

Successful concurrent access to a single file, with a single insert-point ('the end') requires file locking, and other constructs. Very few log api's implement that by default because it is overhead that is not necessary when you have a single-access mechanism

Vogel612

@skiwi um. wat?

Mat's Mug

@bazola great! Welcome aboard!

bazola

honestly I think @nhgrif saved me months of banging my head against the wall, so I feel obligated :)

skiwi

3:54 PM

@rolfl I might just log to separate files, to be sure

It's just an error log which shouldn't be filled either way

Vogel612

@skiwi you could also reinvent-the-wheel...

Another dutch overengineering post?

Phrancis

@Vogel612 right. You get this tiny drop-down menu that displays like 8 entries, and you have to scan through ID numbers in alphabetical order (because they are varchar)

Mat's Mug

@bazola it's always nice to see a reviewee become a reviewer.. we need a higher "conversion rate" :)

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Vogel612

@Phrancis stop, you're making my eyes bleed

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis why

skiwi

3:57 PM

Sorry, for the Dutch, but @rolfl should be able to read it at least!

fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/…

Ugh, it doesn't end on any image format

Phrancis

Captain Obvious

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Q: Increase the performance of a random weighted 'tick' function

This is a very simple function, but it gets run on a roughly 10ms interval, so I'm looking for ways to improve it. The first obvious thing is that it has to run the comparisons nearly every time as it starts with the lowest probabilities first. Is there a way I can reverse that without breaking i...

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rolfl

Phrancis

@Vogel612 @Mat'sMug ^^ that

skiwi

@rolfl Thanks, just was about to upload it

You know what it says? ^^

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