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12:26 AM
@Duga Interrupt?
 
I saw it 26 minutes ago
 
lol..
 
@JeroenVannevel Yeah, you've usually got to display: inline on li elements
 
Zak
Monking @all
 
monkin
 
12:35 AM
Greetings
 
1:03 AM
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Q: Should we undelete this answer?

RubberDuckSo, backstory first... Once upon a time there was a new CR user. This user posted a number of spammy answers in a short period of time. All of them linked back to his company's website. Most of them were really nothing more, but then there was this answer. This answer actually has a good bit of...

 
1:26 AM
@BigBrother is watching?
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@Mat'sMug, always
I just set him up on an external workstation
in Ministry of Truth, 14 secs ago, by BigBrother
11:27:53 BB> Mat's Mug starred this message in The 2nd Monitor
 
It's feels somewhat ironic that @BigBrother works for the "Ministry of Truth".
 
in Ministry of Truth, 8 hours ago, by Quill
@EthanBierlein Have you read 1984 by George Orwell?
 
Right. no.
 
I read the Wiki.
I remember about the people who wanted to go to the front lines couldn't because they were insane, and the people who didn't want to go had to because they weren't insane.
Resulting in the "catch-22".
 
1:34 AM
> “The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.”
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I read about catch-22
And now, my brain is all tangled
 
I think you're thinking of a different novel, if that's the subject of your messages
 
Doesn't tangle my brain.
 
It does on me
 
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot. The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-2...
 
1:35 AM
Like an infinite loop
 
@Quill Right.
It is an infinite loop.
 
I know
 
That is why it doesn't confuse me.
 
That's why it tangles my brain
 
> “Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
that's the idea
 
1:38 AM
I can't stand sports, and if I could, my family getting so worked up about it turns me completely off.
They sit there and cheer something on they have absolutely no control over.
 
Honestly
 
I don't pay attention to things if I can't affect them one way or another.
 
The only thing I care a little is about Football
 
European Football?
 
(To the habitant on the U.S.A., I'm talking about "soccer", not handegg)
@Hosch250 World Wide
Only U.S.A. calls it Soccer
 
1:39 AM
I meant European-style, meaning Soccer.
 
What about Africa?
They have good teams too
 
Yeah.
 
What about Brazil?
 
I don't know which the South Americans call it.
 
Football
(Futebol on Brazil)
 
1:41 AM
OK.
 
But yeah, I only somewhat care a tiny bit about Football
Let's just say that, for almost 14 years, I was forced to like it
 
I mostly hear about the NFL using the Surface tablet.
 
The what?
 
@IsmaelMiguel I'd be obstinate and deliberately not like it after that.
National Football League (US football).
 
1:44 AM
@IsmaelMiguel Canada calls it soccer as well
 
But I don't get why football, when it is played by grabbing a ball
 
Zak
The americans caused so much confusion by calling their own not-football thing football anyway
 
@Mat'sMug That is new info. I didn't know
 
Zak
it's like the whole imperial system thing
 
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Q: Financial Data From Webqueries in Excel

BlackHatGuyI'm new (to CR and to programming in general). I wrote my first VBA on Monday. This is my first working project. It Takes a bunch of financial data from a company called Financial Analytics and a bunch more from a number of webqueries, and puts it all in a nicely formatted table for external cons...

 
Zak
1:45 AM
Entire rest of the world: Metric. America: nah, screw that
 
Well
I had a lengthy explanation why they still use Imperial systems in aviation
 
Zak
@CaptainObvious no code in question
but new guy, so be nice people
 
@Zak That makes it sound like we aren't nice
 
Zak
> It's a kludgy mess of stuff I've managed to make work
That's encouraging
 
Nice!
It works...
But does what?
 
1:47 AM
Imperial has its uses, not as many as Metric, but still
 
> It Takes a bunch of financial data from a company called Financial Analytics and a bunch more from a number of webqueries, and puts it all in a nicely formatted table for external consumption.
 
Zak
Also, yet another monkey :)
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I should become a Harpy Eagle.
 
@Quill Yup. But what bothers me the most is the temperature scale used in U.S.A.
 
1:48 AM
They rule the monkeys.
 
For example, IIRC the distance to the moon is measured Imperially with no decimal places
 
@CaptainObvious I think this is good now.
 
or something similar
 
1:49 AM
Apr 25 '14 at 18:59, by Mat's Mug
1 mile == 1.6km. Farenheit is just plain awkward.
 
Shouldn't we wait, like, 10 minutes before smashing-close a question?
 
@Mat'sMug Hey, at least F and C both meet at -40.
 
Zak
@CaptainObvious well, this is going to take a while
 
@Mat'sMug That. I know that the water freezes at 0ºC/32ºF
 
Zak
he wasn't kidding about "kludgy mess"
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1:51 AM
@Zak It could be a lot worst, trust me. Thank him for warning you up-front. Some users with over 1.7k post worst questions.
If B <= 0 _
    Then
Why not just If B <= 0 Then?
 
because, underscores
 
But it doesn't look cool, sexy, exciting, fun, clean or decent
 
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Q: Converting Pandoc Markdown images from captioned to inline

ElogentAfter writing a rather long document in Markdown and using pandoc to convert it to a PDF, I found, to my dismay, that many of the images were out of place, and that they all had their alternate text proudly displayed underneath them as captions. My document is rather instructional, so this rearra...

 
Hey, Fahrenheit is actually pretty cool.
It is built off base-2, apparently.
Just 35 more first post reviews.
 
It was made by a guy who wanted to save work and money on making thermometers
 
Zak
1:54 AM
a man after my own heart :)
 
love Physics.SE's hot network questions
user image
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Zak
I also do my if thens that way
I like how it allows me to line up the "then" and "else" statements at the same indentation
 
@Zak if the condition expression is lengthy (multiline already) and I'm too lazy to extract locals (or sometimes even functions), I could see myself do that
 
Zak
I give you, wall of text...
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on the plus side, he is actually trying to do error checking
 
You are using Google Chrome, right?
 
2:01 AM
Debugging bicycle leaks?
> Once again, I spent some quality time debugging a slow leak and found out it was a loose valve core.
 
Zak
yes
 
@Zak It looks quite unfocused on Chrome, when compared to IE or Firefox
 
How did I manage 13 up and no (you did this wrong) comments on the Jacks or Better question
 
Zak
unfocused?
 
Yup
Kinda like a blurry photo
 
Zak
2:03 AM
it looks absolutely fine on my monitor. could be the resolution?
 
I don't see it blurry either
 
It happens at work too
Maybe it's the user's fault
 
Zak
2:14 AM
now I think I understand how Rubberduck felt reviewing my first project :)
First few lines:
> Dim StrTitle As String
> Dim StrDateString As String
> Dim StrDay As String
 
Hungarian notation
 
Zak
Not 10 lines later:
> Dim B As Long
> Dim C As Long
> Dim D As String
> Dim E As String
 
W.E.I.R.D.!
 
@Zak Hint: You style code in chat by pasting your code and clicking fixed font.
 
or by just indenting 4 spaces
 
2:16 AM
That too ^^
 
Zak
duly noted
 
> not in a blockquote apparently
 
 //in a code quote
 
@Zak that's scary
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How goes it everyone.
 
2:18 AM
hi!
 
@Legato Good!
 
Greetings
 
Hey @Legato!
 
Zak
we have a new monkey :)
@Mat'sMug On the plus side, we have a new source of VBA questions now
 
lol yeah
I'd be curious to see what RD inspections find
 
Zak
2:23 AM
Writing this review is going to take a LONG while
 
@Zak ^ nice work
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uh, that's a smell right there:
Then Else
 
@Zak You can write a shorter review and later on you can add whatever is missing.
 
in Ministry of Truth, 52 secs ago, by Quill
12:23:59 BB> Ismael Miguel starred this message in The 2nd Monitor
 
Zak
that may smell, but this is a big stinking pile of ****
24 mins ago, by Zak
user image
 
2:25 AM
Who woulda figured
 
Zak
@IsmaelMiguel 'tis what I'm doing
 
feel free to leave some to other reviewers ;-)
 
Zak
just adding stuff to it as I wade through the macro
 
@Zak I've noticed why it looks different... Chrome renders it with a darker color
 
2:32 AM
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Q: Optimize CSS Rule Dumper

Mr. PolywhirlI have written the following Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey script. I am trying to obtain a list of all CSS rules for a page; across all stylesheets. As of now, I am just iterating over everything. Is there a faster way to obtain the rules? Also, I feel that there is a more efficient way of converting...

 
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Q: About PokerHand Rule

user1234567I never played PokerHand before and I do not understand the given test. Can anyone tell me why it shows two result(assertTrue(a.compareTo(b) < 0); AND assertTrue(b.compareTo(a) > 0);)? @Test public void testTwoPairWhenOnePairIsEqual() { PokerHand a = new PokerHand(C4, HK, D4, H...

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Q: Fastest possible text template?

200_successWhile reviewing Sending templatized e-mail to a million contacts, I wrote this implementation to illustrate an alternate approach. It is designed to be the fastest possible way to generate templated text repeatedly. Is it? I used the in-memory Java compiler featured in this Stack Overflow answ...

 
ugh, variadic templates are just killing me right now
 
Zak
2:47 AM
There's so much wrong with it, I'm not really sure where to start now :)
 
Greetings
 
@Zak Just put down the first things you notice.
 
I'm guessing that's about me? ^^
 
You can always come back to it.
 
2:49 AM
so many monkeys
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Zak
@BlackHatGuy Yes, but don't worry, you'll get better. That's what we're here for
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@BlackHatGuy Welcome to Code Review / The 2nd Monitor!
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ooh, stars :)
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you'll fit right in ;-)
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The Ministry of Truth must be enjoying the starwall
 
Zak
2:51 AM
Plus, always glad to have another VBA guy.
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Glorious VBA Master Race!
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@IsmaelMiguel Your name is all over it, currently
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what's with the hollow stars?
 
Sorry. I may have some fault on that gorgeous starwall
 
Hmm. Now I know how to spam the Ministry of Truth without even sending a chat message.
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@BlackHatGuy Those are pins.
They last at most 14 days and are generally for important messages.
 
Zak
@IsmaelMiguel I think it's very much a community effort :)
 
2:53 AM
@BlackHatGuy "pinned" messages that you haven't starred [yet]
 
all of the 409 responses
 
Did we break @BigBrother?
 
I told you to use SirPython's bot code
 
No, I'll make my own message pool
 
Alright
 
Zak
2:54 AM
anyway, back to reviewing the "Kludgy Mess"
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btw, I love that description
 
Hmm, let me do some counting of monkeys.
 
Zak
Perfectly encapsulates my reaction to it
 
1. rolfl
2. nhgrif
 
Legato
 
legato
lol
 
2:55 AM
4. BlackHatGuy
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Mind-reader
 
The 2nd Monitor is quite the zoo.
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Yes.
We have a Python too
 
and a mug. oh, wait.
 
A fish.
 
2:56 AM
Oh, yeah
 
a bunch of dirty humans
 
A statue.
 
Zak
Legionnaire :)
 
facepalming statue
 
A bunch of weird shapes
 
2:57 AM
@Mat'sMug What would you have called it?
 
Thanks, @everyone
Chrome console hates me
 
You're welcome
 
Are you out of stars yet @IsmaelMiguel?
 
Nope
I'm on star-saving mode
 
Star-saving mode? You just created a starwall
 
2:59 AM
I'm running out of stars
 
When the Google login got converted from OpenID to OAuth it introduced the big issue of tying the user authentication to the unreliable User.Email value, resulting in instances where the user changes their email and loses access to their account. Similarly, if the user was preexisting but had changed their email, their old OpenID auth claim wasn't recognized, and they too ended up with a...
new, incorrect account. I moved Google OAuth auth claims to the now-generic UserAuthClaim table to associate the login to the user independent of the User.Email value. I also requested the additional upgrade information in the Google auth flow to tie the new claim to an existing OpenID claim for the same account, if one exists. This is just an extension of the token request, so it comes back as information we were already requesting if we ask for it. To top things off, I refactored the...
login to also just allow for multiple login methods, since there wasn't really a good reason we weren't doing this before. This required some extra UI to display the multiple methods, so there's now a "My Logins" page in the user profile: !my logins page preview Related items on the todo list: - Add ability to remove login methods - Merge accounts that diverged because of above issue as...
necessary (manual work) - Fix return URL not working with Google login - Additional cleanup of the profile HTML and query management, since it's user-hostile right now As a side note, the AD logins could have been worked in with this model as well, but I saw no point since it presumably works fine as-is and doesn't have the same problems referencing User.Email does.
 
@IsmaelMiguel I count 13 of yours since midnight UTC in minitruth
 
there's probably more that 409d
 
"god help them if you leave your company and they actually have to maintain it"
Is it really that bad?
 
@Mat'sMug That means I have 7?
 
3:01 AM
yeah, it is.
 
Zak
Yes, yes it is
 
single-letter variables are nicht gut
 
@IsmaelMiguel probably closer to 4 or 5
 
That's bad!
 
46 mins ago, by Zak
> Dim B As Long
> Dim C As Long
> Dim D As String
> Dim E As String
or do they map to Worksheet columns?
(I only glanced at the code)
 
3:02 AM
what's wrong with that? I just needed some placeholders for ,like, 20 lines or so.
 
Zak
Oh dear...
 
@BlackHatGuy literally everything
 
Zak
Don't worry, by the time we're through with you, you'll understand
If you managed to learn all this in a week, you should pick up the explanations pretty quickly
 
naming is hard. renaming is easy. I suggest you get the latest to help refactor.
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@BlackHatGuy Why not an array?
 
3:04 AM
What's an array?
 
a data structure
 
Hey look! A wild shitpost!
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Q: I hope these questions are OK for this format

Mary I have a new Android tablet, my second since I had to send first one back. The manufacturer, Prestige, told me that Chrome browser and other things Google were conflicting and to change to the stock browser and SwiftKey keyboard, which I did. Now a lot of times I can't get the keyboard to...

 
perhaps you ought to read a programming book
 
Dim foo(3) As Integer could look like this: [1][2][3]
and that ^^^
 
@BlackHatGuy A collection of values with the same data type, like [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Or ["Hello", "Goodbye"]
 
3:06 AM
@EthanBierlein that's a neater representation ;-)
 
@Quill This should be arriving in the post someday soon. amazon.co.uk/Excel-Programming-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/…
So, how does this whole voting thing work?
 
what voting thing?
 
questions and answers and things
I'm not really used to a forum with voting
 
You can upvote and downvote questions/answers.
 
ah, new to Stack Exchange. you'll love it.
 
3:10 AM
Stack Exchange?
Is that like Stack Overflow?
 
first things first: we're not a forum ;-)
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I've heard of that one
somewhere
 
An upvote signifies that the post is useful, and of good quality.
A downvote signifies that the post is not useful and/or not of good quality.
You can only downvote once you've reached 125 reputation points though.
An upvote on a question gives the asker of that question +5 reputation.
 
@EthanBierlein One cannot break Big Brother!
 
An upvote on an answer gives the answerer +10 reputation.
 
3:12 AM
Stack Exchange is a network of Q&A sites on various subjects from programming to parenting, cooking, gardening, biking, physics, math, religion, history, coffee ..whatever rocks your boat, there's a SE site for it. And if there isn't, you can start one.
 
An accept on an answer gives the answerer +15 reputation.
A downvote anywhere will give the asker/answerer -2 reputation.
 
each site has their rules for what kind of questions are in-scope and which kind are off-topic.
 
A user who has one of their posts flagged as spam and deleted because of that will lose 100 reputation.
You cannot have negative reputation though. It will always stay at at or above 1.
Does that help?
 
your rep score is an indicator of your usage of the site - the higher your score, the more privileges you "unlock" - codereview.stackexchange.com/help/privileges
 
Be warned, those numbers may change in 6-8 weeks years decades centuries millenniums as Code Review is graduating. (at some point)
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3:15 AM
you earn +5 for each upvote on a question, +10 on each upvote on an answer, and +15 when your answer is marked as accepted (OP earns +2 for accepting an answer)
and "6-8 weeks" on Stack Exchange means "at one point in time, no frakkin' clue about when, leave me alone, I didn't ask to come to life"
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lol
 
@Mat'sMug TS
 
I assume daily defeat. I'm !
 
I don't know any timescales above a millennium
 
Eon?
 
3:18 AM
@IsmaelMiguel Big Brother has beaten you! Surrender to the Party!
 
That would be 4.6 billion years.
 
@BigBrother Don't forget the 409
 
But it's too late to edit the message, so lol.
huh
 
SE sites are moderated by their communities. This chatroom (The 2nd Monitor) is where the Code Review regulars hang out and discuss ...things. The higher rep thresholds unlock privileges that let you actively moderate the site, by closing off-topic questions and voting to delete the things that should not be. At any point you can flag inappropriate content for moderator intervention.
 
I just got the "convention" badge
 
3:20 AM
Moderators are elected by the community. <------ and their names show up in blue in chat
 
ooh, apperently there's a SuperEon
 
We actually just recently had an election.
 
our first election :)
 
@Mat'sMug and @SimonAndréForsberg are the two new-ish moderators.
And @Jamal and @200_success were re-elected.
 
(they were appointed by Stack Exchange before that)
 
3:22 AM
Okay. Are there any restrictions on voting?
Apart from the privileges thing
 
I think you have 40 votes a day
 
you get 40 votes per day
 
Zak
that ^^
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that ^^^
2
 
Zak
and 20 stars / day
 
3:23 AM
lol
 
@Zak Per room
 
@Zak Which is too little for The 2nd Monitor.
 
@EthanBierlein Goddamn! Stop saying star-worthy stuff! (Just kidding, keep saying them!)
 
Zak
@EthanBierlein Far too little :)
 
and if you walk a user's profile and mass-upvote them, the votes will end up reversed by the system. "serial up/downvoting" is one of the "restrictions".
 
3:24 AM
@IsmaelMiguel star this
 
Zak
nowhere is as starstruck as the 2nd Monitor
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@Mat'sMug oh right, yeah, that makes sense
 
notice "serial up/downvoting"
 
oh right lol
 
@EthanBierlein IE is so broken that sometimes, when I hover my own message, it shows the star to star my own message
 
3:25 AM
but what if I just really like their questions/answers?
 
@BlackHatGuy Then you can upvote their new content, as they generate it. (if it's quality stuff)
 
Zak
I like how the star wall is currently lining up :)
 
Damn. Now I've run out of stars!
Anyways, you guys are all keeping me up too late. ;-)
I have to get up at 7:30AM and it's already 10:30 here.
 
Not me
 
Night'
 
3:28 AM
I'm going now
Have a good one
 
@BlackHatGuy if you take the time to actually read an answer, the serial voting detection script shouldn't pick it up. the reversal thing would trigger if you just go from one post to the next like a machine, without really reading anything.
oh and sock-puppet voting can get you suspended
 
Ooh, you should explain "zombies" as well.
Anyways, bye
 
@Mat'sMug what's that?
 
oh right
 
Zak
@BlackHatGuy I, also, have not heard this term :)
 
3:30 AM
@BlackHatGuy some people try to game the system by creating sock puppets - other accounts, to boost their rep score. we can easily identify those.
as for zombies...
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A: What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?

Simon André ForsbergMeme: Zombies Originator: retailcoder (lol.upvote or Mat'sMug) Cultural Height: During The Mission Background: In a (successful) attempt to motivate the community in reducing the number of unanswered questions, a Call of Duty was made in which every unanswered question (no upvoted answers) is ...

 
@Zak and @BlackHatGuy, try installing the following userscript, which will turn the jargon and memes used on chat.se sites into hoverable text to tell you what they mean
 
Zak
@Mat'sMug Is it really that easy? I mean beyond (potentially) same IP, how else do you tell accounts are connected?
I imagine SE has quite a high representation of internet-savvy users
 
seekrit. that's classified. ;-)
 
Zak
aw, out of stars :(
and I only got a refill 3 1/2 hours ago
 
during The Mission, more than once I spent my actual 40 daily votes in under an hour
 
Zak
3:40 AM
"The Mission" Is synonymous with "The Great Revival" and the whole "Zombie" thing, right?
 
yep
 
related, yes
 
That userscript really will help you though
 
Zak
how do I install it?
 
does it translate OLA's?
 
3:42 AM
Install this in Google Chrome
and then click here
 
Zak
I already have that :)
 
both are helpful in their own ways
I basically wrote all the listings so it doesn't help me though
Hello @Hosch250
 
Hi.
 
@zak this is what you meant by refactoring? codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/102269/…
 
I have a question, but I don't know where to ask it -- there should be like a place devoted to just this, haha.
 
3:52 AM
@BlackHatGuy rubberduck-vba.com <-- "refactorings" in the Features page ;-)
 
Yup, I did two of them.
A couple of them have bugs, most of which are fixed in Next.
 
@Legato topic?
 
One bug has a test, but I don't think it was ever addressed.
 
In general I think it'd be a good site, but Networking @Quill
Probably another side effect of learning things with no guidance, but I just have an issue that I can't seem to solve and I have simply no idea what else I can do.
 
what's an IDE?
 
3:56 AM
Integrated Development Environment.
 
Integrated Development Enviro.. that ^^
 
It means Visual Studio.
Or the VBE, but that doesn't really count.
 
or Xcode, eclipse, the list goes on
 
Also, out of votes ^^ got a lot of starred questions to go read through later. looks like lots of great examples.
 
@Quill Those don't count either :P
 
3:57 AM
Essentially, they are editors that come with parsers for the language and they have a bunch of tools to help you write the code for said language.
 
an IDE integrates code editing, compiling, debugging, and ideally static code analysis, too.
 
anyway, I have to go for a while now. Thank you all for the great welcome, it was fun :)
 
@Mat'sMug The most commonly used features are the copy and paste buttons.
 
come back anytime!
@Hosch250 .. not in my IDE ;-)
 
Zak
TS ^^
 
3:59 AM
(It sounds like I'm writing an Urban Dictionary definition.)
 

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