The 2nd Monitor

Duga

12:00 AM

RELOAD! There are 1651 unanswered questions (94.3880% answered)

Mast

@JeroenVannevel My disk speed tends to do that.

Quill

love that feeling <3

Duga

This might fare better on code review - it is too broken for SO. Consider: if(userInput >= 0 || userInput <= 50) User input of 123456 will pass this, and it will also pass if (userInput < 0 || userInput > 50) — John3136 23 secs ago

@John3136 -> Broken Code is off-topic for Code Review. — Quill 1 min ago

Phrancis

12:17 AM

Remonking

Quill

@Quill, then I contend that it is off topic everywhere and have voted accordingly. — John3136 1 min ago

he's 15k rep and voting broken code off-topic on SO...

@Phrancis hi

Yo @Phrancis, what do you think of the other answer to my FizzBuzz question: codereview.stackexchange.com/a/113195

Captain Obvious

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Q: Best way to represent multiple JSON response in a REST service?

I am working on a REST service in which I am trying to come up with a JSON response that I am supposed to return back. Below is the design I am able to come up with in which each line is a response for each request so we have total three response for three request wrapped around an array. In thi...

Phrancis

@Quill Pretty good, I had forgotten that recursive CTE trick, I need to relearn to use that regularly

So, this is not very good. Working from home today because I got sick from what appears to be food poisoning. I queued up the BizTalk job from earlier today, then I had to remote into a Windows server so I could queue up the job... then it froze / (Not Responding)

So I have no freaking clue if it worked or not. #Fun

Quill

ouch, well you can at least enjoy the 9k milestone :P

Phrancis, Indiana

9k 1 24 99

sql sql-server mysql java php beginner performance

rolfl

Someone trying to diss me: ;-) ?

I'm inclined to let it go through as 1 question. The code volume is small, and the only person who really suffers is you (with reduced votes in total). — rolfl Dec 15 '14 at 0:18

Quill

12:32 AM

Hmmm 4 questions in 1. Is it still Black Friday somewhere? Or is there a hat-for-that? ;-) — rolfl Dec 15 '14 at 0:13

Did someone say HATS??!??!?

Mast

Rolfl is aiming for eternal glory with the next hat-hunt.

rolfl

Well, the question that comment is on, is in the close-review queue, and given that just now I said:

2 hours ago, by rolfl

Now, we have this "murky" situation.... it's a mess.... but, you all lose.

I guess the inconsistencies and forgetfulness of monkeyness is OK.

Mast

What the heck happened in chat a couple of hours ago anyway? There was a mod fest without flags but still something was going wrong?

Quill

@Mast EBBrown's Euler1-5 question got flagged as too broad

and a discussion erupted about questions with multiple solutions to euler problems

Mast

Is that all?

Quill

12:38 AM

a little name calling (nothing to flag about)

meta'd it, and it was fine

Mast

So we just had an ordinary scope conflict. Nothing new there.

Quill

pretty much

it just went a little overboard

Mast

Thanks for the heads up :-)

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is asking for review and opinion, and could be handled better on codereview.stackexchange.com — Stephen P 15 secs ago

Quill

everyone who was discussing it was in chat, so it went a little casual, instead of immediately taking it to meta

but yeah...

Mast

12:41 AM

Found it

Quill

also here, if you want to read more: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/32624/…

mjolka

@TopinFrassi you still around?

Mast

So basically there were a lot of people being less constructive than they could've been.

It can't be paradise all days of the year.

Jeroen Vannevel

What @Mast is saying is that we're all very dissapointed in you guys

shame

Quill

I love how the mods kept posting external content to try and diffuse

Captain Obvious

12:54 AM

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Q: A closable footer bar with a floating info box

I wrote this page with the goal in mind of having a closable footer that runs along the bottom of the page that can be closed, and has a floating info box that appears when the footer is hovered over. I'm just learning JS, HTML and CSS now, so I'd appreciate any critiques on style. Am I doing an...

javascript css html5

RubberDuck

A whole week!? I'm not that patient.

Hmm... It seems I missed some sort of drama.

Phrancis

@RubberDuck Yeah. I missed most of it while it was going on

Was too busy being sick and breaking things :)

TopinFrassi

@mjolka Kinda, yeah :p

SirPython

I don't know what to make of this

Jeroen Vannevel

obviously new to CR

mjolka

1:07 AM

@TopinFrassi bit of a problem with InterceptorMessage in your question

Jeroen Vannevel

tell him why it's not appreciated

mjolka

this is how i got it to compile

Jeroen Vannevel

don't just downvote

mjolka

public class InterceptorMessage
{
    public InterceptorMessage(object target, IMethodMessage message)
    {
        Target = target;
        Message = message;
    }

    public object Target { get; }
    public IMethodMessage Message { get; }
}

SirPython

I didn't touch the post at all.

It came up as a LQ in the review queue.

TopinFrassi

1:08 AM

@mjolka Oops. I'm sorry. See that's code I have at work, and I didn't have it home when you made me realize I didn't post it on review..

nhgrif

@JeroenVannevel What? Why not?

Phrancis

@SirPython I made a comment and flagged, I think it should be a comment

TopinFrassi

@mjolka I'll edit my question to make that fine!

Phrancis

Hey @nhgrif how are you?

mjolka

@TopinFrassi also i tried to add a class, SomeClass3 and mirror that as well as SomeClass2 but it broke things. not sure if that use case is meant to be supported

TopinFrassi

1:10 AM

@mjolka What was the use case? :p Maybe I should delete the question until I'm at work so I can get the whole code. That would make it less awkward ahah

Jeroen Vannevel

@nhgrif Obviously he's adding that answer in good faith as a new user and he seems to have the knowledge to back up a more substantial one. You could either downvote and result in a potentially good contributor to walk away or spend a few more moment to tell him CR appreciates more fleshed-out answers

Duga

If you're looking for other options then this is the place :) — GregoryHouseMD 11 secs ago

RubberDuck

Hmm... Now that I'm catching up on the drama, I'm second guessing my feeling that Zak's question was too broad.

That question had an over-arching theme...

mjolka

@TopinFrassi i'm putting together an example, easier to explain that way

TopinFrassi

@mjolka Cool!

nhgrif

1:11 AM

@JeroenVannevel I don't mind your recommendation to leave a comment (I did, even if it wasn't the best). But we shouldn't apply such subjective logic to up & down voting.

Up & down voting stands to signify one thing and one thing only. Is this post (question or answer) a good post?

RubberDuck

What else is voting but subjective?

nhgrif

We shouldn't add the unnecessary complication of "Is this user new?"

What happens a year from now when that post is still there, he never improved it, but now he has 10k rep?

And we left that post at 0 score because it was made when he was new.

Phrancis

I think there's a way to apply a certain degree of objectivity with voting, if one is careful about it. But we all have our biases, of course.

Jeroen Vannevel

I'm not saying it should be a definite rule but the people in this room are the ones that care about CR's image and the community's contribution to it. IMO, these are the ones that should (or want to) apply some extra considerations

nhgrif

It's a bad post and it should be downvoted. We should take the time to offer helpful tips in the comment because he is new (and if he weren't new, he should know why he's getting downvoted).

mjolka

1:13 AM

@TopinFrassi share.linqpad.net/srajml.linq

nhgrif

The extra consideration is whether or not to leave a helpful, constructive comment to explain the downvotes.

RubberDuck

Eh... Idk. I've gotten some down votes that mystified me.

nhgrif

The downvotes teach the lesson that answers like this are not appropriate here.

@RubberDuck I have too.

RubberDuck

I always wish for comments, because sometimes I just don't understand why.

nhgrif

Honestly, it'd be nice if all downvotes were explained, but it's especially nice for new users.

Mast

1:14 AM

@nhgrif Thanks for catching that blatant mistake on my meta answer. It's been a long day.

Jeroen Vannevel

Personally I don't really care since I'm not involved with any of that. But I do get annoyed when I see people downvote new potentially good contributors and then complain that CR doesn't get enough traction with mainstream contributors (not singling anyone out here, just a general observation)

RubberDuck

I'd like to know why because that's how I learn.

TopinFrassi

@mjolka I don't have Linqpad :/

Jeroen Vannevel

I don't mind the downvotes. Just the lack of an accompanying comment in this particular kind of scenario

RubberDuck

@TopinFrassi you should!

TopinFrassi

1:16 AM

@RubberDuck I've heard a lot about that. I'll go check the documentation!

Phrancis

@mjolka That looks complicated

TopinFrassi

Can't install Linqpad on my mac D:

Phrancis

I opened it with Sublime Text, I think maybe even TextEdit should be able to open it

Although, I'm not sure it's a great practice to link files with executable code in them in chat

Jeroen Vannevel

I've paid 80€ for a yearly linqpad license

that's how good it is

Phrancis

What is linqpad for?

TopinFrassi

1:20 AM

@Phrancis Yup, opened it with a normal text editor! :)

Jeroen Vannevel

linqpad.net

> LINQPad is not just for LINQ queries, but any C#/F#/VB expression, statement block or program. Put an end to those hundreds of Visual Studio Console projects cluttering your source folder and join the revolution of LINQPad scripters and incremental developers.

Reference your own assemblies and NuGet packages. Prototype your ideas in LINQPad and then paste working code into Visual Studio. Or call your scripts directly from the command-line.

Experience LINQPad’s rich output formatting, optional debugger and autocompletion, and the magic of dynamic development and instant feedback!

80% of the C# I write is in LINQPad

TopinFrassi

@mjolka Did this scenario work? If your assertions passed, yeah that's the expected behavior!

mjolka

@TopinFrassi the first assert failed

TopinFrassi

Weird.. Ok, I'll delete the question temporarily, to test it a little more before I put it on review

Thanks though! (Unless you want to post an answer anyway I won't delete the answer, but for now that would make sense!)

mjolka

@TopinFrassi i won't post an answer, but thanks anyway

RubberDuck

1:29 AM

I'm a fan too @JeroenVannevel and that's basically how I use it. Mocking up quick prototypes.

Captain Obvious

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Q: Rails conditional sorting based on params

The following code sorts the current users bid model items based on a param condition :bid_status. It starts to get messy when checking if the project space (:real_property_sale_project) :failed_date is .present? or .nil? to exclude certain items from the returned results. How can I improve this?...

sorting ruby-on-rails

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Q: Non-curses pager in C

I have written a pager in C that is supposed to be used in systems where curses is not installed (or broken). It can also be used as a system-wide pager, it works with man pages. I want to spot any portability or output problems, as there may be some due to the dependence on buffered input: #inc...

c file

SirPython

1:52 AM

Is it considered a review if you are only pointing a bug/problem in the OP's code?

Quill

yes

mjolka

@SirPython meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/2113/… meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/5854/…

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