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2:29 AM

today is a boring day on dba.se

I think under normal circumstances, questions get more votes as a site ages.

Here it seems to be the opposite.

Early questions are voted up more regularly than new questions despite being of shit quality and having fewer overall people on which to vote.

2:57 AM

22k people on gis.se view an answer that is wrong and doesn't even use GIS

awesome.

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A: Determining which US zipcodes map to more than one state or more than one city?

2016 TIGER Data with PostGIS As a special caveat, ZCTA data isn't USPS area codes. It's an approximation of it. USPS Zip Codes are really horrible and not useful except to approximate. Everyone, including every governmental entity other than USPS, and (the Census for making ZCTA) ignores them en...

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4:08 AM

@MaxVernon Thanks. It's the most excited I've been about a badge for a long while.

@PaulWhite yah, I figure that's the 2nd most difficult badge to get, after the gold one, obvs. You surely deserve both of them.

The low activity makes that a hard badge to get.

@EvanCarroll and like you were saying earlier, no one votes any more

It's true. Newest 20 questions on DBA.SE, have 3 cumulative votes TOTAL.

@EvanCarroll It's not actually tough to earn 200 rep in a day here, one just needs to write good answers. I need to do more of that. Free time limitations. Aaron B is almost there with Legendary.

4:15 AM

Nah, I don't buy that.

All of these answers are "good" dba.stackexchange.com/q/159679/2639

1 vote.

Fine I'm not selling anything.

42 views, and 1 person hit the upvote on one of the answers.

I'm watching cricket.

@EvanCarroll Amazing! Low activity on New Year's Day! Who'd have thought :-/

It's not new years day. It's Jan 5.

I think I must've almost used up my vote count today. Been trying to do my part.

4:18 AM

@EvanCarroll You're full of valuable insights today. Keep up the good work.

bwahhaha

@PaulWhite I'm watching the World Junior Championship hockey tournament. It went to overtime, now they are doing a shoot-out for gold. USA vs Canada. To say Canada is on-edge would be an understatement.

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USA won. dammit.

@PaulWhite ouch. One vote today.

@MaxVernon That's Evan's :)

4:22 AM

figured

He should vote more :)

Uh wait a second.

wtf.

That's not mine lol

dba.stackexchange.com/users/2639/evan-carroll?tab=topactivity

I voted 13 up yesterday...

Learn how to use DBA.SE

4:23 AM

so not quite as good as I thought

I've only just logged on.

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@EvanCarroll Yep says 180 votes cast right there.

Your little thingy says 180 votes cast with 1 vote today?

Mine says 185 votes casted with 9 upvotes today

@EvanCarroll It's cached obviously ;) Also, I showed only public information. The votes tab and detail is not visible for others (non-mods anyway).

4:27 AM

You should feel special then. I let you in on a top-secret secret.

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Hm I've been slack this year so far as well.

problem is, I mostly stick to postgresql

so I don't check out or upvote other toy dbs.

You may be able to upgrade with time.

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that reputation graph is hawt.

4:32 AM

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what's hot, is how much rep @PaulWhite gives away in bounty

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Yea, hats off to him for that (except this hat. I'm never taking off Maverick)

all those red days

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@MaxVernon Yeah but most of those are reversals when the system discovers all my sock puppet accounts :)

lol

you'd be at nearly 60,000 rep if you weren't so generous

I haven't tried awfully hard, but I think Maverick would be almost impossible in sql-server. Questions at -3 are pretty much uniformly awful. Sad because it's a very nice hat.

4:41 AM

you deserved to be Moderator - it was a good contest but the best person got it!

SQL Server comes with upvoting sockpuppet account pools in their new version of Azure Datawarehouse Pro.

And with every MSDN subscription.

Don't read the docs anyway, just ask a question and create an ELITE community of Microsoft users.

helps them out with db-engines.com rankings

I thought not reading the docs and asking daft questions was common to all database products.

especially the free ones.

4:43 AM

Free as in, more money for the pub and hookah bar is the mark of true professionalism.

We'd have to ask @billinkc for a true definition of professionalism. The rest of us would have no idea, I'd guess.

It probably requires a cork hat and a salt water croc.

I can see KFC suggesting a cork hat for next year's bash, for NZ residents only.

4:59 AM

I'm thinking of getting this laptop, but apparently it weighs 5.5kg / 12 lbs

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eurocom.com/ec/specs(385)ec

Seems like a bit of a monster in all respects!

@PaulWhite yah, I love the expandability. The price tag is a bit steep :-)

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6:30 AM

I like the idea of the docking station with external pcie gpu better, myself.

If I was going to be spending that kind of cash.

Razor Blade 19 QHD+ 1TB, razerzone.com/store/razer-blade, + CORE + 1ks graphics card.

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9:19 AM

morning

@MaxVernon Lisieux is a nice little town, bit of out of nowhere but if you want to spend quality time far from the maddening crowd, this is spot on

@AndyK even with all the pilgrims?

hi @dezso didn't know that ... actually I never went to that town actually, always came close but never in it. My assumption was as the Normandie region is often quiet, Lisieux would be the same... but maybe not...

a puzzle solved in SQL for Happy New Year

9:55 AM

@MaxVernon wunderground.com/gr/florina

-20 C tomorrow night

because important things are important: github.com/siscia/postgres-type/issues/7

And now posting typos in gis.se: gis.stackexchange.com/a/223526/2273

10:15 AM

whoever starred that thing above, could possibly also add a +1 on the issue itself ;)

10:38 AM

@dezso whoever starred that thing, needed 10 mins to find how to add that +1 ;)

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ That question doesn't seem to be about GIS at all. Should be either here or on SO.

@AndriyM yeah but not 100% sure.

Most of the questions there tagged with SQL, have answers that seem non-SQL

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ beautiful, thanks

10:56 AM

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ Similar to how this MySQL question is not really a MySQL problem:

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Q: I need to pass NULL values into mysql INSERT stored procedures for INT datatype

I have written this stored procedure for my database CREATE PROCEDURE `insert_user`(IN name VARCHAR(50), IN family VARCHAR(50), IN email VARCHAR(50), IN username BIGINT, IN personn...

mysql stored-procedures insert null

11:52 AM

@dezso the Basilica of Alençon for Thérèse of Lisieux is amazing. I'm not religious at all, but I was blown away by how much money has been spent on that thing. It was fairly busy when I was there.

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1:06 PM

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ yup, that's cold! Interesting region!

1:20 PM

Looks like interesting drive over the mountains to the lakes just east of Florina. Lots of nice switchbacks. For a 30 mile drive "as the crow flies", I bet it takes at least an hour!

@MaxVernon yes, the lakes are great to visit, both in summer and winter.

Habitat for lots of migrating birds

is it hot in summer? I see it's the same latitude as Naples in Italy - I've been there quite a few times when I was young.

google.co.uk/…

@MaxVernon it can be quite hot at noon hours but chilly in the night, in summertime.

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ looks like I'll have to add that to my list of places to visit!

there is a nice pedestrian bridge that was build a few years ago, to connect the island in the lake

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1:54 PM

wow, looks very cool. I love how it just goes off into the mist in that photo!

Here is a photo I took inside the Basilica at Lisieux in Basse Normandie, France:

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There a few other photos in my Flickr at flickr.com/photos/max_vernon/4709643956/in/datetaken

nice

its a truly amazing place.

like I said, I'm not religious, but nonetheless, it's still interesting.

don't know it personally, sadly

@AndyK you're right in that typically it's very quiet around there. Having said that Lisieux is a mad house.

2:54 PM

Quiet today. Epiphany.

@MaxVernon One in the red jacket your wife?

That or you're one heck of a stalker

neaflorina.gr/2017/01/theofania-sti-florina-vid-pics

@MaxVernon see the photos/video ^^^. From today's Epiphany celebration at -6 C

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ The text is all broken on that site

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ theophany, it says

@MaxVernon I'm only familiar with Lisieux as it has one good "undergrad" in stats there stid-lisieux.asso.fr

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

3:08 PM

@MaxVernon If it's a re-badged Clevo I'd recommend against it. Many no-name laptops are actually manufactured by Clevo or one or two other OEMs. Although it's a fairly small sample I've never seen a Clevo owner that didn't have trouble with it.

@billinkc lol, yes.

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells interesting. I'm going to keep that in mind. I'll try to find out who makes it.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

I think they have a tendency to cut corners so cooling or other components might be a bit cheap and nasty. Having said that, they used to be the OEM for Alienware until Dell bought them out.

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ wow those are some brave people. or crazy. not sure which.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

Unless you really want high-end video cards for gaming you might be better off with a W or P series Thinkpad or some other workstation grade machine.

At the expense of sounding like a broken record, ex-lease thinkpads are really good value for money if you don't feel like shelling out multiple thousands for a new one.

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells I do want a decent graphics card - I play Forza Horizon 3 on my wife's laptop (it has an NVidia GForce 960) but it only gets around 15 to 20 fps. Apparently, that laptop is built around the Clevo P870DM-G notebook chassis

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

3:18 PM

@MaxVernon Would you be better off getting a desktop for gaming?

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells yes, except I really want a machine I can take with me.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

@MaxVernon That machine's really stretching the notion of portable.

plus I want to be able to run multiple VMs for SQL Server on it. Where I'm currently working, the most recent SQL Server they use is 2012, which sucks.

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

Not quite in the league of an old kaypro but still ....

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells yah 6.6kg is heavy.

3:19 PM

Might take a look at Allan Hirt's approach of using something like sqlha.com/2016/09/06/new-lab-machineportable-vm-box-version-3

He basically has his uber laptop and then he carries that hellion of a tiny computer with him

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

@MaxVernon If you've got money to burn spec up a Thinkpad P50 or P70 as an option and see what that costs. It will be quite a lot more portable.

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells thanks - I'll look at that.

@billinkc interesting. Lots to look at!

As the owner of a NUC6i7KYK, two actually, I gotta say I love that little thing. I bought memory and storage and was up and running in a matter of minutes from opening all the boxes

ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells

I've been pretty happy with my Thinkpads - my old-ish W520 will happily run SSAS and ETL jobs.

I've also got a smaller T430s as a travel laptop. It will run Kerbal Space Program OK.

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That's the m.2 form factor. That's a 1 TB "hard drive" It blows my mind

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I showed the boys "here's a spinning rust drive that cost me 1k and holds .3GB. Here's the SSD that holds 750GB and cost me 1k. And here's a stick of chewing gum that cost me 700 and holds a TB"

3:24 PM

@billinkc yah, they're amazing, aren't they? And you can get 3GB/sec out of them if you get a good NVMe one!

@MaxVernon never mind, eh?

4:04 PM

@billinkc Crazy.

@JamesAnderson Thank you so much for spotting and fixing my typo. I asked it via the Android app and thought I had done rather well! Ah well, nothing's perfect eh.

@PaulWhite No probs.

@PaulWhite Good question

@JamesAnderson Cheers.

4:25 PM

@dezso we'll need @swasheck or @JackDouglas to explain why it's called Epiphany in English

Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany (ə-PIFF-ə-nee), also Theophany or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God in his Son as human in Jesus Christ. In Western Christianity, the feast commemorates principally (but not solely) the visit of the Magi to the Christ child, and thus Jesus' physical manifestation to the Gentiles. Moreover, the feast of the Epiphany, in some Western Christian denominations, also initiates the liturgical season of Epiphanytide. Eastern Christians, on the other hand, commemorate the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, seen as his manifestation to the world...

Because calling it Stephanie would have sounded silly.

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to connect it with yesterday's discussion:

> At Delphi the Theophania was an annual festival celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in Hyperborea.

4:56 PM

@PaulWhite haha

Hi guys

I am trying load data from the NorthWind Database tables into my dimensions

I a column in the table of full name but in my dimension table I made firstname and SecondName

How do I split the full name to fit the dimension table columns?

5:23 PM

@ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells - I was just looking at the P70. It looks like an ok choice except I'd have to commit seppuku if I was forced to use anything with a TrackPoint.

5:37 PM

@PaulWhite Or Tiffany.

HALLO KIDS

aww shit.

I got a bounty on a PostgreSQL question I gotta steal.

BRB.

@AndriyM Hi

Do you know how to insert an 'Unknown' value into a field that's not null!?

what database?

SQL server

Should be simple... INSERT INTO tbl (x) VALUES (unknown);

I think the spec permits mapping unknown to null, and I think a lot of dbs do it.

I know postgesql does.

Sounds like a great question though.

5:46 PM

The column has values and nulls in the original table but I am trying to insert into one of the dimension which has the same attribute but it is non nullable

Msg 515, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'PostCode', table 'NorthWindDW.dbo.DimCustomer'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.

So then from that message, which is quite probably obtuse and wrong, I would guess that SQL Server maps unknown to null.

which is actually a good thing.

buffering a truth table with 4**4 values is pretty crazy.

@AndriyM That would have been worse, I agree.

4**2

6:04 PM

Still trying to figure out the solution

cause I tried the SET IDENTITY_INSERT

but I mistakenly inserted all unknown to the column !!

@Dodi do you mean to replace the NULL values with the string 'Unknown'?

Yes, if the null is found

hahhahah

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ++ I was way off in the woods on that.

UPDATE foo SET val = 'Unknown' WHERE val IS NULL;

@Dodi Sorry, I don't get you. Does the table has rows that you want to update or you want to do Inserts?

INSERT into dbo.DimCustomer(CustomerId, CustFirstName, CustLastName,Country,City,PostCode,Telephone,
                            Occupation,Company)
SELECT

       CustomerID,
       ContactName =  SUBSTRING(ContactName,1,CHARINDEX(' ', ContactName)),
       ContactName =  SUBSTRING(ContactName, CHARINDEX(' ', ContactName) + 1, LEN(ContactName)),
       Country,
	   City,
	   PostalCode,
	   Phone,
	   ContactTitle,
	   CompanyName
FROM
       NorthWind.dbo.Customers

6:09 PM

unknown has a special meaning in the sql spec, if you want the literal unknown be sure you quote it.

Msg 515, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'PostCode', table 'NorthWindDW.dbo.DimCustomer'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.

Change the PostalCode, to:

COALESCE(PostalCode, 'Unknown'),

if there are nulls in Customers.PostalCode, the COALESCE() will change them into the string 'Unknown' (in the query, the table Customers will not change at all)

Ok Dokey

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ For context, see dba.stackexchange.com/users/83765/dodi?tab=questions and dba.stackexchange.com/users/81828/dodi82?tab=questions

@TypoCubeᵀᴹ Done the trick, Thanks

6:16 PM

@PaulWhite owe ..

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@PaulWhite NICE!

@MaxVernon Yeah except I will now encounter nothing except stuff I want to vote on ;)

@PaulWhite of course. Murphy.

6:36 PM

Give @PaulWhite a special hat.

"The Suffragette" hat

6:56 PM

@Dodi Sorry, was away from keyboard. Hope you've got your answer.

@MaxVernon Did you decide on a laptop? I'd love a Surface Book myself, but $$$

lol.... $$$ is making me insane. I want a Surface Book. I also want something bigger than 13.5". I want it to be expandable. I want, I want, I want. Dammit! One other thing scaring me is telling the wife about the $3500 purchase price!

@AndriyM No worries my friend. Yes I've got the answer thank you

I'd love to see some kind of future value of money equation for the $3500 vs being able to use the machine for the next few years.

I think I have to just spend the money, but I so don't want to.

by the way, am I full of it here?

Full of it everywhere

TBH

7:02 PM

no doubt!

Your answer seems plausible and I'd expect it to be much the same as "sort order" without an explicit SORT BY. Sure, it might have worked this time but without being explicit, you can't bank on the behaviour.

yah, agreed. I'm adding advice to my answer to actually sort if you care about.

I'll downvote appropriately for your answer being so mean

@billinkc lol. Its no wonder I didn't get the moderator vote, eh?

QUESTION SLAYED, I think...

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A: Strategy for concurrent group bookings?

Because you're not telling us much of what you need, I'll guess for everything, and we'll make it moderately complex to simplify some of the possible questions. First thing about MVCC is that in a highly concurrent system you want to avoid table locking. As a general rule, you can't tell what do...

7:12 PM

@MaxVernon I nearly reverted your last edit. Wanted to add a t in this fragment: "…indicating SQL Server did not sort during the insert".

@AndriyM I really should proof read, every time, prior to hitting submit on my edits.

either that or just write the damn answer once, then press submit.

FGITW FTW

@billinkc LOLZ

ROFLCOPTER!

@MaxVernon Hardly anyone can do that. Well, not when your answer has so many letters.

7:14 PM

@AndriyM its because I'm a Windows user; I keep thinking everything is going to crash prior to me hitting submit. AMIRIGHT, EVAN???

EARTH TO @EVANCARROLL - CAN I GET AN AMEN!

hail something somewhere with others in unity!

@PaulWhite I'm wondering if my wife will notice a 6.6KG laptop suddenly appearing. I'm thinking she might.

@MaxVernon If nothing else, missing 6.6K from the family budget might give her some hints.

@AndriyM ahhh... I can get my corp to pay for it, which really just means it comes out of my money prior to the family budget. I'd still catch a lot of flack I think. Thing is, is it easier to say sorry than to ask for permission?

Rule with an iron fist

always

7:23 PM

@billinkc and wear a kilt while doing it!

@MaxVernon I'm yet to conduct an experiment of that kind.

of course, the last time I went to PASS in 2015, it cost nearly that much, and all I physically got out of it was a friggin' mug, and I had to pay for that!

of course, meeting @billinkc made it all worthwhile, so there is that.

Starting off the new year right.. with me taking #1 in the rankings.

bwahhaha

Aww, deleted it. Probably has neck pain for all that looking from #9.

amongst other things.

my curiosity is on Bruno Guardia, shooting up from nowhere like that.

He's a SQL Server Master, should be interesting.

and he uses non-toys too

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A: Could someone explain bizarre behavior executing millions of UPDATES?

Short version Your algorithm looks O(n*m) on first glance, but effectively grows O(n * m^2), because all rows have the same ID. Instead of 5M rows, you are getting >1.25G rows Long version Your function is inside an implicit transaction. That's why you see no data after cancelling your query, ...

7:50 PM

@MaxVernon No. For your own entertainment try the insert values with OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 2332);

@PaulWhite super cool.

only 2 fragments like that.

I shall add details to my answer. Thanks again Paul!

dammit I understand the need for 4199, but still, it sucks.

this is so great: sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_white/archive/2013/01/26/…

@MaxVernon That's strictly just for education/entertainment value though as I'm pretty sure 2332 is still undocumented. Still, the important thing is the DMLRequestSort on the index determines if SQL Server requires sorted data (which is one of the requirements for minimally-logged inserts).

The delay in replying there was due to a Blue Screen Of Death. Something I haven't had for years, it seems. Serves me right for plugging an Arc Mouse in eh.

@PaulWhite wow. Mice should not do that. Especially not a Microsoft mouse!

@MaxVernon It only did it because I had a million tabs and query windows open, and hadn't saved stuff for a while :)

@PaulWhite clearly!

8:04 PM

It was the first time my laptop had seen that particular piece of hardware, but still.

I love my Arc mouse.

lol, I got the 925 hat. nice.

@MaxVernon Microsoft sent me one for free for being mean to Evan.

@PaulWhite lol

I'd send an arc reactor for that

@MaxVernon If it's all the same to you, would you mind linking to my article by the full title rather than just "here" please?

@billinkc Is that a good thing?

8:15 PM

@PaulWhite certainly!

@MaxVernon Thanks.

@PaulWhite is that better?

Perfect thanks.

I would upvote it but y'know.

2 hours ago, by Paul White

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@PaulWhite yup. Man, do I fork out the $3800 for that laptop or do I just wish I had.

it's $300 off today

There'll always be a deal on something

8:23 PM

but do you really need to spend the $$? that's always the question. thanks a lot, marketing

@PaulWhite so true. Thanks for talking me down, both you and @swasheck

My laptop screen got white line in the middle

and I can't afford to buy new one

@swasheck They make us want stuff. Bastards.

I bought a Chromecast the other day. Why? Marketing, I bet.

@PaulWhite FOMO

define: fomo

8:28 PM

fear of missing out

@PaulWhite the irony of marketing ... they make you feel like your life will be better when you get thing a ... and then tell you how terrible your life is that you only have thing a and that you need thing b ... rinse/repeat

Hm why didn't that bot work?

StackExchange chat hasn't got AI yet?

@MaxVernon there is no AI ... there is only @bluefeet

Well that worked.

8:30 PM

Noun: narcissist ‎(plural narcissists)

(Colloquial, loose use) Egoist, egocentric, person full of egoism and pride.
One who shows extreme affection, love and admiration for himself or herself.

holy crap. that's awesome

d'oh.

:34603552 I think that's better left undefined Mr Vernon. I did not miss the usage earlier ;)

@PaulWhite great

:)

@MaxVernon did you think i was calling you a narcissist?

8:31 PM

no no

I was just trying it out

ok. just didnt know if you were responding to me

Verb: define ‎(third-person singular simple present defines, present participle defining, simple past and past participle defined)

To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
Sir Isaac Newton
Rings […] very distinct and well defined.
the defining power of an optical instrument‎
(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.). [16th-17th c.]

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Noun: define ‎(plural defines)

(programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.

if anything, I may have been agreeing.

now i'm just going to spam the heap with the bot

lol

how do we learn about these bots? @PaulWhite is it like you decompiling the sql engine to find trace flags?

8:34 PM

@swasheck very carefully

@swasheck I think it's on meta.se somewhere

@PaulWhite that explains why i had no idea about it

meta ...

Noun: cesspool ‎(plural cesspools)

An underground pit where sewage is held.
(by extension) A filthy place.

define: mos eisley

i am so disappoint, chatbot

Noun: chatbot ‎(plural chatbots)

(computer science) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.
The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.

translate de: hello and welcome to this chat room

(from English) Hallo und herzlich willkommen zu diesem Chat-Raum

3. Even if it had no idea about StarWars

8:36 PM

translate kiwi: sheep

@PaulWhite oooh

@MaxVernon mod only that one I'm afraid

@swasheck ha ha ha ha

@swasheck lol - too many funny things could be done with that

@PaulWhite now you're just playing with our emotions

That's why it was changed.

8:38 PM

more of an internet torture device than a useful tool

Noun: tool ‎(plural tools)

A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
Hand me that tool, would you? I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.‎
Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
These are the tools of the trade.‎
Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

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Verb: tool ‎(third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)

(transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
(transitive) To equip with tools.
(transitive) To work very hard.
(transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

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I was hoping that definition would be more interesting.

oh well.

although, point 4 under "Verb" works.

@swasheck yes?

slow ai response time

hats are keeping me busy

hat's ok

(i just caught the joke)

8:41 PM

Less than 2 days of hat remain :(

HAT RAMEN!!!! YUM

(my brain read "remain" as "ramen", if you're wondering)

@PaulWhite +1

hey it's friday (except in Sheep-land, where it's already Saturday), and I'm NOT ON CALL!

@swasheck Better than Rat Ramen as I initially parsed

@billinkc our parsers are borked

8:47 PM

We clearly need a nice bowl of ramen to recalibrate

i am not recalcitrant

Adjective: recalcitrant ‎(comparative more recalcitrant, superlative most recalcitrant)

Marked by a stubborn unwillingness to obey authority.
1908, Edith Wharton, "In Trust" in The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories:
His nimble fancy was recalcitrant to mental discipline.
1914, P. G. Wodehouse, "Death at the Excelsior":
There was something in her manner so reminiscent of the school teacher reprimanding a recalcitrant pupil that Mr. Snyder's sense of humor came to his rescue.

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Noun: recalcitrant ‎(plural recalcitrants)

A person who is recalcitrant.

Verb: recalcitrant

third-person plural present active indicative of recalcitrō...

"GROUP BY gives wrong result with aggregate functions" -> the definition of MySQL

Noun: poop ‎(countable and uncountable, plural poops)

The stern of a ship.
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:poop.
poop ‎(countable and uncountable, plural poops)
(often childish) Fecal matter, feces. [from the 18th c.]
The dog took a poop on the grass.

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Verb: poop ‎(third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)

(transitive) To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
(transitive) To embark a ship over the stern.
poop ‎(third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn [from late 14th c.]

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free-association time!!!

ok folks. i'm leaving. because i am on-call this weekend. and it's going to be horrid. because ... sybase

@swasheck mmmmmm I love Sybase. Well, not really. But you get the idea. Be safe!

8:57 PM

sybase is great ... FOR ME TO POOP ON

!Triumph!

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