The 2nd Monitor

Duga

12:00 AM

There are 1243 unanswered questions

Legato

Hey @Hosch250

Mat's Mug

@Duga This isn't improving....

Legato

I think that could be better on CR too, what do you mean @Mat'sMug?

Also, omg-the-suit-is-gone

Mat's Mug

The unanswered count

The suit?

Legato

Ah, derp, thought something else.

Your mug is naked!

Cool that you have an SO mug though.

I don't know what it was about a mug in a suit that always made me think you were a mod.

Mat's Mug

12:11 AM

lol gonna flag mug porn?

Legato

If it happens, I won't be the cause. That mug is sexy. I don't mind.

Are there/will there be CR mugs?

Mat's Mug

better be!

and tees, too!

you'll want to be on page 1 when we get our colors :)

hmm

another 5-6K

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Can I condense these values with a loop?

I have a set of values that get modified like so: iskDropped = irrelevant1 iskDestroyed = irrelevant2 iskTotal = irrelevant3 iskDropped = condense_value(int(iskDropped[:-7].replace(',',''))) iskDestroyed = condense_value(int(iskDestroyed[:-7].replace(',',''))) iskTotal = condense_value(int(iskT...

Mat's Mug

@Legato the "suit" was just a WinterBash hat ;)

winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/…

Legato

I need 6k@!? Woah.

How come you kept it so long?

I see now, haha.

Mat's Mug

12:24 AM

...screenshot!

Legato

Thought as much. Which is my point! You ditched the suit!

Mat's Mug

lol I did!

Legato

I've only known you as corporate mug-san! I don't know what it is about it, but it's a strange new CR. moment-of-silence

First the site colors, now this.

Hey again @Hosch250

Mat's Mug

for a little while I had this one

Hosch250

Hey, @Legato

Didn't get your first ping, just got back from eating supper.

Legato

12:29 AM

No worries.

Hosch250

Whoa, I'd better get hopping.

Or can you get it any time once you reach the first page?

Mat's Mug

lol I don't know, I'm just assuming stuff based on what I've read on other freshly-graduated sites' meta

Legato

I want a mug now. :|

Though, I'm shocked/surprised/think it's awesome I even have as much rep as I do now. I don't even remember answering as many questions as I did. Woah.

So, where's this page?

Hosch250

codereview.stackexchange.com/…

Whoa, a bit over 4k to go.

Well, I'll be having a fair amount of free time in a couple weeks once I get some of these assignments in.

Well, just gave myself +2 ;P

Legato

So, only 36 people get mugs?

Mat's Mug

12:37 AM

maybe less, maybe more, I have no idea really

Hosch250

4

Q: Abstracted Interface for Settings

I just learned about the beauties and wonders of interfaces. And, I realized how I could fix some code that has been bothering me because of its duplication. This is my ISettingsProvider, SettingChangedEventArgs class, and ApplicationSettingProvider class, which are in the same file: public cl...

c# interface

rolfl

There is a Stack Exchange tradition that on site graduation there is swag...

Hosch250

I'm not sure whether that is worth a bounty.

rolfl

The details are seldom consistent though

Hosch250

@Legato What'd you do that for?!

Legato

12:39 AM

@Hosch250 There you go.

Hosch250

I wasn't asking you to do that!

I was considering it myself, not asking someone else.

Legato

Lol, you think I ask you for permission when I do things?

Hosch250

Yes.

(JK)

Mat's Mug

50

Q: UPDATED (January 9) Design for Movies SE

I'm Kurtis, a new product designer at Stack Exchange. First off, congratulations, your site is beginning the process of moving out of beta to a fully-graduated site! Graduation and Your Site Design Graduation comes with a few perks. We have already begun work on your site's design, which will g...

discussion design

Hosch250

Don't worry, I'll make it profitable for you.

Legato

12:40 AM

Well, it's done. I hope it gets you a good Review. :D

lol 'profitable' ? I just don't know C#, and you're closer than me to a mug anyway. :D

I think I'll just go for the Socratic badge down the line.

Mat's Mug

I think I'm about 11-12 questions short of that one

Legato

:o cool.

JaDogg

21

Q: Calculate amount of mugs StackExchange should give away so I'll receive one

Description Calculate how many mugs StackExchange should give away(for graduation) to top reputed users on codereview.stackexchange.com so I'll also receive one. (output is divisible by 50). Code DECLARE @mugs INT,@rounded_mugs INT,@inc INT,@remainder INT; SELECT @mugs = COUNT(1) FROM Users W...

beginner sql t-sql stackexchange

Hosch250

@Legato There, you are 5 higher than before now.

Legato

I've slowed down a lot on using the site since leg broke. I think I used to try to do + post a programming challenge at least each weekend-day

Hosch250

12:43 AM

Let me know if it gets overturned, I don't think it will.

nhgrif

@Phrancis Just remember--Java isn't SQL.

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Hosch250

Anyway, they were good Q/A's that deserved votes.

Legato

haha, who was complaining about not asking for something? Thanks nonetheless.

mjolka

@Mat'sMug could do with another pair of eyes on this one codereview.stackexchange.com/a/84938/44723

Mat's Mug

lol me and encryption... I'll try to take a look, in the mean time have an upvote!

mjolka

12:49 AM

@Mat'sMug cheers :)

Phrancis

@nhgrif Yeah, it's been challenging to transition from tables to all those other things

Makes me wish I had looked into OOP before I knew much about SQL

nhgrif

1

Q: Clear function for Stanford iOS 8 Calculator application

I am following the Stanford iOS 8 lectures and I believe I have successfully added the "Clear" functionality to the application, but I don't know if I am doing it properly. Controller import UIKit class ViewController: UIViewController { @IBOutlet weak var display: UILabel! var userI...

mvc ios swift

ready to reopen

@200_success ^

Mat's Mug

VTR'd

Captain Obvious

1:06 AM

0

Q: Unit test tests that method returns correct response, and populates a couple of variables

What's happening here is we are testing QueryRunner.RunQuery(ANBQuery q) The method calls methods of two other objects, IdChecker and QueryResultDAO. We've mocked both of the these objects. In the unit test we set up the mocking behaviour (success). QueryResultDAO.runPackage(ANBQuery q) return...

unit-testing mocks

0

Q: Markov chain-based random text generator in Perl

This is the first thing I've written in Perl besides one-liners. It just generates random text based on a text file. I was inspired by http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr05/cos126/assignments/markov.html Any tips on making this better are welcome. I'd especially like to know if there ...

beginner perl

Mat's Mug

@Hosch250 answered!

@Legato woah, I just noticed the bounty!

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug Yeah, I thought that interface/abstract class was a bit overkill.

Also, is there any reason I can't just do public int NewSetting { get; set; }?

Maybe a private set?

Mat's Mug

sure you can! hold on..

(I meant to mention it!)

Hosch250

Review on review (pats myself on the back) ((jk)).

Mat's Mug

#meta

Gemtastic

1:21 AM

Cinnamon buns are nice and all, but are they Meta?

Captain Obvious

1

Q: PalinDrome program

Given a beginning and ending point, check how many numbers are palindromic. My solution is a bit clunky. How could it be more elegant? import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Scanner; public class Palindrome { public static void main(String[] args) { ...

java palindrome

Mat's Mug

edited

@CaptainObvious lame, lame title

Duga

We're going to get moved to a chat room soon. @estudyante this code has so many problems you may want to move this the CodeReview.stackexchange.com — kdopen 58 secs ago

@kdopen Code Review is for code that works, not this code. — Retired Ninja 25 secs ago

Mat's Mug

when did palindrome become palin drome?

(rubberducking)

Legato

Yeah @Mat'sMug My first ever. :O

Mat's Mug

1:34 AM

nice! now you need to earn it back today!

Legato

I wasn't sure what else I should put besides "It needs attention" I thought about putting something along the lines of "This is the answer you've been looking for" or "Can you be my hero, baby!?" But...I tend to have too much fun with my names.

Mat's Mug

good call on a plain simple "needs attention" - these captions can't be edited ;)

Legato

Haha, really not even by the monkey?

Mat's Mug

not sure

Hosch250

@Legato You'll get a badge if you manually award that bounty to someone.

Legato

1:40 AM

I see.

Is there anyway I can give the question poster the power to award the bounty?

Hosch250

No.

Legato

I see, x2.

Hosch250

Just check in by Monday/Tuesday somewhere in there and award it.

Legato

Yeah, planning on it.

Hosch250

I've heard there is a grace period too.

Mat's Mug

1:42 AM

if you don't award it after the grace period, half of it gets auto-awarded to the highest-voted qualifying answer

Legato

I'm on here every day, lol. I won't miss it.

addicted-to-cr

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Mat's Mug

you'll get a notification when the bounty is about to expire, and then another when it's expired and entering grace period

and you'll get a notification for every posted answer, too

Legato

That's helpful, thank you both for the breakdown.

Mat's Mug

np

Hosch250

Nice debunking of a ridonculous claim.

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A: Is the curtain behind Obama in this picture a "muslim prayer curtain"?

The claim that Obama is standing in front of a muslim prayer curtain is false. This meme has gone really viral and has been debunked on over 10 websites online. The picture that you see is taken in the East Room. The East Room, designed for "public audience", is an events and reception room i...

Legato

2:00 AM

Thanks for the share, signed up for the site, already learned two things.

Hosch250

BTW, I got Ridonculous from Bolt too.

Mat's Mug

ooh I'm liking this...

2

Phrancis

2:25 AM

@Hosch250 So easy to get worked up into politics

Hosch250

I don't care.

My brother does...

Drives me nuts - first sports, and now politics.

Phrancis

@Hosch250 Been there, feel you. Used to get all worked up into politics, then I realized I wasn't that interested

Hosch250

No need to ping, I saw it.

rolfl

ping happens when you reply....

Also, you do know you can turn off the sound, just checking

Phrancis

@rolfl To be fair, I added the reply later in an edit

200_success

2:30 AM

@SimonAndréForsberg @SirPython @Hosch250 @nhgrif @Jamal If you downvoted this question, it might be time to retract the downvote.

-1

Q: Calculating 24 from 4 numbers (math Poker game)

This is a game of math in Poker. Two people each have a pile of cards. They then each place 2 cards on the table at the same time. Every card is treated as a number. The players need to find a way to calculate 24 from the numbers. For example, you are given 3 5 4 8, and you can get 24 by (3+8-5) ...

python algorithm game functional-programming combinatorics

Hosch250

I did not downvote, but I have now upvoted.

Mat's Mug

ditto

Phrancis

I fixed bad grammar in the answer

Hosch250

2:48 AM

Couple hundred votes, and I pass you, @Phrancis

See you later, dishes are calling.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Beginners C++ file stream homework

The assignment is to make a program that allows would prompt the user to locate a .txt file, convert it to an encrypted mess, create an output file of said mess named "encrypt.txt", then have the program read that created file and decrypt it, then creating an output file for that named "decrypt.t...

c++ beginner homework

Mat's Mug

3:23 AM

I think I'm tired. Am I the only one that starts writing stupid comments when I'm tired?

        public void RenameSelectedIdentifier(QualifiedSelection selection)
        {
            var target = AcquireTarget(selection);
            if (target == null)
            {
                return; // something's wrong. should we tell 'em?
            }

Gemtastic

Return null

mjolka

@Mat'sMug goto bed;

Mat's Mug

lol

the other one's worse I think

        private Declaration AcquireTarget(QualifiedSelection selection)
        {
            var target = _declarations.Items.SingleOrDefault(declaration =>
                declaration.QualifiedName.QualifiedModuleName == selection.QualifiedName
                && declaration.Selection.Contains(selection.Selection));

            if (target == null)
            {
                // no valid selection? no problem - let's rename the module:
                target = _declarations.Items.SingleOrDefault(declaration =>

hmm maybe not

yeah I should goto bed;

but I want to see this work so bad!!

mjolka

i know the feel. stayed up late last night working on a minesweeper clone.

Mat's Mug

did you finish it before calling it a day?

(and where's the CR post for it? ;)

mjolka

3:36 AM

@Mat'sMug yeah, got it working at 1am

Mat's Mug

ah, not so bad!

mjolka

CR post may be happening when i've got it cleaned up

it was my first time Eto.Forms and i'm still getting to grips with it -- especially the data binding

Mat's Mug

hmm interesting, a new UI framework?

mjolka

yup, i was writing it on my mac so wpf was out of the question :)

Mat's Mug

> Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

^^ in your face, Java!

mjolka

3:41 AM

it's an exciting time for .net

Mat's Mug

definitely

mjolka

oh wow, you can use eto.forms from linqpad :O

Mat's Mug

OMG

1st run!

mjolka

3:56 AM

@Mat'sMug woohoo!

Mat's Mug

well I'm not getting too excited. 2nd run didn't do anything

return; // something's wrong. should we tell 'em?

I shouldn't be only looking at declarations. any usage should be a valid target, too

and this is where the selection bug is biting me. shit.

(selection is sometimes off by a few characters)

oh crap

lol

every single declaration inside the FizzBuzz procedure isn't picked up...

because the FizzBuzz procedure encompasses every declaration inside it

dumb bug

Phrancis

4:15 AM

Dumb bugs don't invalidate lol-autostar

Captain Obvious

0

Q: "Invert" a JavaScript object hash whose values are arrays to produce a new object hash with keys as the elements of those original value vectors

Background lodash and underscore have an invert function that takes an object hash and converts it to a new one, which has keys as the input object's values and values as the input object's keys. As such, if the values in the input object aren't unique, this non-unique input value will, when it'...

javascript functional-programming hash-table underscore.js lodash.js

Mat's Mug

fixed!

Duga

By the way, this code would be simpler if you wrote a Coordinate class (but this isn't codereview and that's not what you asked). — immibis 1 min ago

Hosch250

Am I the only one who starts starring more when I'm tired and in need of amusement?

Mat's Mug

4:35 AM

calling it a day:

'night CR!

Hosch250

Night.

Captain Obvious

5:43 AM

0

Q: Getting a value from a query string

I have a URL in this format: http://localhost:57279/AssociateCaseDetails?UId=176948&caseID=1123 I need values UId and CaseID: var UId =window.location.href.split("?")[1].split("&")[0].split("=")[1]; It's working, but is there a better way to access the same, given the same URL?

javascript jquery html

Mehrad

7:09 AM

@Mat'sMug I have given a go. it's unfortunate that MSDN refers to using Xamarin straight away in its guides and it seems there isn't any 3rd party independent method atm.

I can be wrong though.

and on the other hand, Xamarin isn't free. and if you want to integrate it with VS it's a multi thousand dollar package :/

anyways. TTGH

overexchange

7:28 AM

Can somebody help me understand this point here?

This is really not a generative sequence; it's just a very inefficient linked list. A sequence wouldn't have insert/delete/length. On the other hand, an efficient linked list would maintain a length member so you didn't have to count.

How sequence is different from linked list?

skiwi

9:42 AM

Monking

Captain Obvious

10:17 AM

0

Q: Improving readability of lambdas with streams

I'm struggling to make my lambdas readable. I've seen various approaches. Below are three different examples that all do the same thing. Forgive the example: I suspect there are better actual solutions to this problem. I'm only concerned with readability (and ultimately supportability). /** O...

java functional-programming comparative-review lambda

Morwenn

Monking.

skiwi

You're around again @Morwenn! Been a while since you popped up a few days ago, wasn't it?

Morwenn

@skiwi Yesterday or the day before, I think.

skiwi

how are you?

Morwenn

Fine, what about you?

skiwi

10:26 AM

Also fine

nhgrif

@200_success Done.

Morwenn

I don't have much time to post answers though, so I'm just here so that you get the feeling that I actually do things while I don't :D

skiwi

lol

I think I'll play around with LibGDX graphics library most of today

(Instead of doing AI homework)

Yes, I should be doing AI homework

DJanssens

Morning all 0/

Morwenn

@skiwi If you want a funny graphic lib, try libcaca.

skiwi

10:36 AM

@Morwenn Does it work on Java? :D

nhgrif

@overexchange I wouldn't worry so much about what a sequence is versus a linked list. You're obviously trying to implement a linked list. The point the commenter is making is 1) your name for your class isn't that great and 2) you shouldn't have to count length every time it's called.

Morwenn

@skiwi I don't think so. There may be a port, but I wouldn't bet on it :/

skiwi

What I want to do is be able to draw a hand of cards (of a Trading Card Game) on a "circle", and have some animation when you hover over them

I wonder how much of it is possible with LibGDX

nhgrif

So... Java can't use C libraries? What's the point of Java then...?

skiwi

@nhgrif Not nicely

If you do your best, you can interact with them

There's a new native API in the works for Java 9 or Java 10, but I honestly have no clue how it would look like

Captain Obvious

10:40 AM

0

Q: Clojure best practices

Here is two really small project I did to illustrate my question: 1) https://bitbucket.org/elvis4526/e2 2) https://bitbucket.org/elvis4526/e1 What is the best practice concerning closing SEXPs ? Are you supposed to close a SEXP and all its parent on the same line or it is acceptable to close ea...

clojure

nhgrif

@CaptainObvious off-topic.

Simon André Forsberg

@200_success Thanks. Un-downvoted. (...How anonymous are those votes really?...)

@nhgrif Java can use C libraries. But if you want it to be compatible with Google Web Toolkit, you're screwed.

Although I have never ever needed to use a C library from Java.

skiwi

When you need to use a C library I'd really recommend to write a wrapper yourself, especially if it's a C library it's not OOP and ugly to use in Java

rolfl

Meh, @nhgrif is just a demi-troll when he says things like that ;-)

I have learned to ignore it...

Monking all ;-)

skiwi

Donking @rolfl

Captain Obvious

10:47 AM

0

Q: Parsing apache log files

I am quite new with Python. My goal is to extract all information from the apache log file. The file has the format like: 198.162.0.3 - - [25/Sep/2014:14:04:19 +0200] "GET /data/meassurements.log HTTP/1.1" 201 65432 "http://www.userweb.com/index.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:...

python beginner apache-spark

Morwenn

@rolfl Monking :)

rolfl

Morwenn... Hi. Long time no speak.

My wife is lovely, and has made me breakfast, and I have to run.... or it will be cold, my breakfast too.

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skiwi

@rolfl Your breakfast needs to run too?

Simon André Forsberg

@Hosch250 Is a curtain what is being discussed in the U.S.? Here in Sweden, there's some disagreement of the color of a house

@rolfl Snowíng here today... looks cold. I wonder what has happened... I thought spring was here!

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Your house doesn't look Swedish!

Simon André Forsberg

10:54 AM

@skiwi Not my house, thankfully. I like that house color. And what on earth is 'Swedish' anyway?

It's... absurd that there's a dispute about that house...

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg All I know about Sweden is that the girls are hot

2

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi That's all you need to know.

DJanssens

are they?

Simon André Forsberg

Sure they are. Most of them, anyway.

nhgrif

Does Demi-troll mean I'm God-like at trolling people about language choices?

nhgrif

11:12 AM

I don't know what demi-troll means.

Is this on-topic?

0

Q: Please give comments on this SQL Schema

I'm created a database - part of which is below. I'm not an Database or SQL guy so am looking for advice and potential to improve the schema. The function of the schema is to store Attributes against products. Each product has a ProductType, so Attributes are constrained via AttributeTypes to s...

sql

Captain Obvious

0

Q: DRY the Dictionary and KeyValuePair

I have this list, private static Dictionary<string, List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>> _myVar; and I am initializing it using, _myVar = new Dictionary<string, List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>> { { "product-index", new List<KeyValuePair<string, s...

c#

0

Q: Please give comments on this SQL Schema

I'm created a database - part of which is below. I'm not an Database or SQL guy so am looking for advice and potential to improve the schema. The function of the schema is to store Attributes against products. Each product has a ProductType, so Attributes are constrained via AttributeTypes to s...

sql

Duga

Maybe you can find more answers at: codereview.stackexchange.com — jean 1 min ago

Captain Obvious

11:35 AM

0

Q: Dynamic Programming with large arrays, performance needed

Last week we have finished our program which applies a local search. At this moment the program needs more than three hours for the largest instances. The three hours are too long and we try to optimize it, our profiling (which is not that professional) shows that a series of five functions tak...

performance c++11 array

Duga

As your code is working, albeit slowly, your question may get more answers on Code review — Mark Fitzgerald 22 secs ago

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Moving one object from one 2D point to another

How would someone implement moving an object from one point in 2D space to another using these formulae to update objects: m_position.setX/Y( m_position.X/Y() + m_velocity.X/Y() * dt + 0.5 * m_acc * pow(dt,2); m_velocity.setX/Y(m_velocity.X/Y() + m_acc * dt); I'm trying to make a pong clone an...

c++ physics sdl

0

Q: Check is_permutation on a pair of same sized arrays

After considering the suggestions of my previous question Check whether given a pair of arrays are permutation of each other changed the code. Resolved the bug reported earlier In place of std::set using std::unordered_map to attain O(n) complexity In place of indexing array used std::arra...

c++ algorithm c++11 data-structures c++14

Legato

11:52 AM

Good Morning @nhgrif

rolfl

@nhgrif Half-a-troll.

Legato

Morning to you too, rolfl.

DJanssens

°/

rolfl

THanks, and nice comments from first-post queue ;-)

Legato

Yeah, I took your linked meta post to heart. Thanks for pointing it out for me.

Hi @DJanssens

rolfl

12:03 PM

@Legato - I forget sometimes what people with different user-privileges can see... do you see the review history here: codereview.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history ?

Legato

Yes, but that's my first time seeing that this exists.

rolfl

It looks really, really good, and, as a moderator, I can see who skips reviews as well.

As you can see, it is working really well.

Compare that to Stack Overflow, where people seldom feel welcomed as users:

Half the new users there get feedback only. The other half never get anything

Legato

Yeah... that looks sad.

I was really misusing no-action needed. Could we add a warning about that on hover?

rolfl

We have asked, but, for what it's worth, the system is going away ;-)

And don't feel bad about the no-action-needed... it is not a crime, just not "optimal".

There are plans afoot to change the way people are introduced to a site.... StackOverflow already has the triage system.

Legato

Yeah, I get that, I just mean I had no idea I was hurting the system, in a sense, when the exact opposite is the goal. Good that it's going away.

rolfl

12:11 PM

Additionally, Code Review is about the only site that has a successful first-post review process going.

Legato

Made me wonder if that happens to others too.

That's awesome!

CR is awesome.

3

Morwenn

That's because there are dedicated people who want to see the community grow well in a nice direction :)

3

Legato

Aye, and morning Morwenn.

@rolfl Confirm something for me, there isn't a parallel stream here is there?

Morwenn

Hi :)

rolfl

@Legato "Here"?

In the lambda question?

Legato

12:18 PM

derp codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/84964/…

Duga

This belongs on codereview.stackexchange.com — Residuum 1 min ago

rolfl

I added the paralle in the last suggestion.

Legato

Ah, He deleted it right before I posted my comment.

nhgrif

Okay. I'll accept half-troll... Let's just not pretend that Apple/ObjC aren't the most ridiculed here.

Legato

Ridiculed...?

rolfl

12:25 PM

@nhgrif @nhgrif - PHP is the most ridiculed..... believe it or not, Obj-C is neither the best, nor worst language....

nhgrif

It can't be the best. Swift is the best.

rolfl

After PHP, the other upper-case languages come next.... JAVA, COBOL, etc... ;-)

SQL

Duga

Should this not be on the CodeReview SE site, maybe even the DBA SE site since that one is has 'Data Modelling and database-design, including referential-integrity' in it's "What to ask" section, since it is not a specific problem, more a design question? — Bernd Linde 1 min ago

skiwi

@rolfl So basically all uppercase languages suck?

nhgrif

Is there an actual difference between Java and JAVA? Or just trolly-polly?

Legato

12:41 PM

I've actually read a meta post on Java vs JAVA

Not sure if it was here or SO.

Gist is that JAVA questions are posted by 'clueless' people and folks use its inclusion as an indicator to avoid the question.

rolfl

^^^ That.

nhgrif

Man... This code is terrible.

Legato

Is it a SWIFT question?

5

nhgrif

300 lines of code in an event handler is objectively bad and I hope whoever originally did this is asking someone if they want fries with their order...

Legato

Damn.

nhgrif

12:55 PM

in an unrelated event handler, clicking a checkbox throws two exceptions.

skiwi

@nhgrif I hope that's not of the candidate you mentioned yesterday

Jeroen Vannevel

@skiwi I assume C# is excluded from that list

rolfl

# and other punctuation makes a language cool again, even if all the letters are uppercase.

E.g. C++ (but not C).

C is an interesting case..... it is worth ridiculing C simply because it is so bad that almost every other language was created in order to improve some deficiency in C.

Legato

I should google if anyone made anything named C♭

rolfl

That is why there are so many languages nowdays, because there are so many things fundamentally wrong with C.

Jeroen Vannevel

1:05 PM

They even started going forward in the alphabet

rolfl

unfortunately, the few things that C got right are... compelling.

Jeroen Vannevel

anything to get rid of C

Legato

I've seen F! haha

skiwi

@rolfl Time to start coding in COBOL#

rolfl

Yeah, COBOL escaped the ridiculing by becoming ObjectCOBOL... no longer all uppercase.

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skiwi

1:09 PM

You have been around for a long while already... so a question;

Was there no way to turn off the caps-lock key decades ago?

rolfl

Some computers had no caps-lock.... Z80-spectrum, PDP ... let me think....

RubberDuck

@rolfl I LIKE SCREAMING WHEN I CODE

rolfl

I was wrong with those computers... they are not the ones that are upper-case only.

I can't recall which ones are.... bugging me.

Jeroen Vannevel

Day #5: Still waiting for my laptop to boot Visual Studio

By the time it's up and the solution loaded, I'll have to get back to class

Donald.McLean

1:27 PM

Greetings, Programs.

Legato

Which one of you guys is a program and didn't tell me?

Donald.McLean

@nhgrif Only 300 lines? I've seen worse.

Simon André Forsberg

@Legato that note does not exist.

nhgrif

No, @skiwi, it's a former employee.

Simon André Forsberg

@Donald.McLean I was just watched, program.

Donald.McLean

1:28 PM

@SimonAndréForsberg Yes, you were. Righteous, dude!

nhgrif

@Donald.McLean I have to, trust me. But this one is today's problem.

skiwi

@nhgrif Emphasis on former :)

Legato

^ star-this-post

Simon André Forsberg

@Donald.McLean will be interesting to see how the rest of the season goes. Now there's only 4 episodes left.

Morwenn

REBOL became Rebol a few years ago. Time to start using it? :D

Legato

1:31 PM

I'll wait it out for Rebol²

Duga

This question is more appropriate on CR SE. — Zeta 1 min ago

Morwenn

^^^ import qualified Data.Text.Lazy.IO as I

Ballsy imports all the way.

nhgrif

@skiwi that he is former only means I can't make him fix it... never would preferred.

Jeroen Vannevel

Visual studio has finished loading!

Kill my laptop now

Captain Obvious

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