How about that snow

lots and lots of snow

Ok, let me create them accounts :D

So was milwaukee. Pileups all along the interstate

@GlenH7 Ok, great.

I need to be here, though - otherwise it gets buried :P

Is there a good way to do interfaces in Python or am I on to a code smell because I need interfaces?

Really I need a contract that says "Provide these methods and return this when I call them" for my framework

@MichaelT You should be set up :D

(check your email)

Now, Glen.

@MichaelT Eh? Oh, log in again. It's a weird bug.

Then select the Programmers tab.

@MichaelT You got in, I take it?

Yup:

@GlenH7 You should be set up too!

@Ampt I fixed your stinky implementation. You're welcome. Enjoy 3k sucker!

@MichaelT You mean "like" as in "like with the fire of a thousand sons" ?

@MichaelT That is absurdly large.

@MichaelT why am I considering that snow plow?

@JimmyHoffa did you like that comment on my own post? ;)

@MichaelT Meh, having seen more than enough of it entered and being on the other side of the table, I think the conspiracy theorists are little too far fetched in there beliefs of where the data goes. The real fear is mistakes lose the data but more often than not it's not even that complex: the real problem in all the healthcare software is the lack of integration so they just duplicate shit everywhere or people in one system are missing info entered by people in another.

Well we did just launch a new, low cost alternative to our flagship unit :) Basic functionality without all the bells and whistles, but enough to get the job done on an industrial scale

Oh, in related news, I discovered a little-bobby-tables class injection on my chemistry teacher's site.

That's one of the reasons I explicitly always stick with university related facilities. Research hospitals tend to have the best paperwork management systems because the research makes it necessary for them to be able to keep track of test results and things, further everywhere I've lived I've found they have branch locales everywhere so i can find nearby offices and when going to one of the main hospitals they have the info shared across from the closer branches and etc

It wasn't hard :P

@Ampt did you like that edit that made your answer not crappy? ;)

@MichaelT oh I see the related messages you put in about smaller towns having a harder time picking up

@JimmyHoffa Did you like that I suggested it first :P

...@Ampt did you like the other edit I made that's going to whore you some more rep

> Simpler. Now it can be upvoted. :P

thanks for the up-vote edit I guess :P

even though I don't want 3k

then I have that stupid R word

@JimmyHoffa Really? I seriously didn't even see your comment.

@Ampt I know, and that's not the edit I'm talking about. Look at the other edit I made for you :)

@Ampt hint: Look at the P.SE frontpage not the newest list

@JimmyHoffa Oooh yes, I saw that! Yay Rep!

Yeah, but once I get close votes I lose the ability to say "Wow, this place sucks. I can't do anything though, so I guess it's really not my problem"

@JimmyHoffa still sour that I got passed over for the ars technica feature on that question

haha

seriously ruined my sunday after I found out that everyone but the selected answer was mentioned :P

Something tells me this won't get me into ArsTechnica either:

yeah but I was doing that soft shit that everyone has an opinion on

its the bikeshed problem

Moral of the story: ArsTechnica should be ArsOpiniona

Still snowing here

and its gonna be dark. gonna be a fun drive home if they didn't get the interstate cleaned up during the day. Took me 1:45 to do my 30 minute commute this morning

:( I want snow... Been enjoying myself some black grouse the past few days as the weather's been decidedly cold and gray enough to warrant it.

cars turned around, in pileups etc

I like the snow, I don't like several hundred tons of steel doing 60 with no traction around me

especially because many of the people piloting the vehicles are idiots

@MichaelT that is most decidedly right where I have to drive

@Ampt Agreed, I totalled a car like 5 years ago on a slick of ice, going 10 miles below speed limit still dark in the morn out I found out a car was stalled with no lights on in my lane when he got close enough to show up in my headlights... ice wouldn't let me change lanes or slow down. Spun off him and ended up in the left lane to get hit by someone else about 15 seconds later. I've not found driving in snow to be pleasant anymore.

Lessons learned: Always have AWD and dynamic stability control (NHTSA studies have shown this combination would mitigate over 30% of all accidents that occur), and if everyone is passing you when you're in the snow as was the case that morning, you're probably still going too fast to stop or change lanes quickly enough, and proper application of a standard really works because it was my last ditch effort to change lanes, down shifting one gear after another got me halfway out of the lane

I dread to think what would have happened had I not thought to start downshifting and hit that truck head-on rather than half-way

engine braking is great

also, commute on a snowmobile

@Ampt fuck that, those things injure there riders without even having traffic!

well look at the people who ride them

theres your problem

the machine itself is awesome

last year in minnesota: 5% of all snowmobile accidents resulted in fatality.

@MichaelT Umbrella corp called, they want their serum back

files.dnr.state.mn.us/enforcement/incident_reports/…

1 - Hit a trailer.

2 - Fell through the ice

3 - lost control and hit some trees

@Ampt 76% of accidents occured while people were sober! ...only a quarter of them were absolutely dumber than hell...

LMAO

just saw that

24% were not sober

I also like this statistic: 100% of fatalities male

yeep saw that too

ok look at the last one

alcohol involved in fatal accidents

50% YES

13% UNK

morning

(I'm just kidding) Morning!

depends on which side of the world you're on

technically im in the future

@Ampt That's THUNK; 13% were fatal-non-fatal as the person was clearly immutable and the fatality was on the other side of a thunk inside a monad. They're really fine, but on the other side of that monad they're both drunk and ded

Is this like schroedingers monad?\

22% were cats, and their status is unknown until observation

Matt, are you in Australia?

yse

Ok. So heres the plan

I am also a Matt D

we can trade places.

you come work on snow plows, I come live in Australia and see mad amounts of aussie hip hop.

@MattD complete and utter stab in the dark: You don't work for a hotel booking site company do you?

(because all of australia has one software company, this is my time-tested theory. Yep.)

Honestly when I first saw his name I was like HOLY CRAP I USED MY REAL NAME

then I realized it wasn't me

no, i dont work for wotif

probably a solid 5-7 seconds

it was early. I hadn't had my coffee

that or it was late. And I hadn't had my coffee

@MattD dunno what wotif is but okey, just one of those "would have been a really cool guess if it was accurate..." :D

Aussie hip hop is terrible. they dont know how to chorus. it all sounds the same

Blasphemer!

its like there's two dudes who write all the backing track for every aussie hip hop band

Hilltop Hoods for life

every chorus has a female singer which is unrelated to the song

itd be ok. if EVERYONE didnt sound like that. seriously.

Dude. Stop. You are totally ruining my opinion of everyone in Australia because of your own, personal opinion

its one of those things where, the HH's were onto a good thing, but now everyone sounds like them and its all a bit meh

Well Illy is my most recent favorite

just stream JJJ from abc.net.au

@MichaelT I was there when I was 12

for 2 weeks

you'll get what i mean

@MattD It's because y'all are a bunch of blue arsed flies! Hooray for random usage of other people's slang!

:P

CRIKEY

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT ONE

IM GONNA STICK MY THUMB IN ITS BUT AND ITLL PISS IT RIGHT OFF

I knew I was in love with australia when I was in sydney

looking at the opera house

@Ampt Then you saw the price of a gallon of milk and you shit a kidney and died.

we were on the upper level. It was magnificent. In the background was the harbor, and square in the middle of the lower level were two hot chicks making out on a bench

the great barrier reef was amazing

the colors.....

un-fucking-believable

I want to go back so badly

@MichaelT Just make sure not to look at any price tags while you're there, because y'know, the kidney thing...

yeah but they get paid more as well

@MichaelT I meant while you're in Australia

does that say 3000 dollars

i typed 3000 and had to go back and look again because I thought "No way was it that high"

All of those places are more interesting than my desk, and id rather be at any of them

thats cool

he could do an app that describes where he took each photo from, and gamify the entire experience

@Ampt Aye, I'm half-kidding. I don't know how well it balances out though, according to my understanding it's not the same as what you have in much of america regarding the cost to wage comparison, but then it balances with other things like healthcare (I just got served a summons today from a medical debt collector woo!)

noosa's about 1.5hr drive from here

3hr round trip for dinner. I'd want some pretty amazing food

@MichaelT It's not an eclipse extension, that's a y...

has anyone used xamarin?

@MichaelT ...100 years is a long time...

compared to the history of england. its not actually that long.

i drove from brisbane to sydney and back in a weekend

@WorldEngineer as in, used it for a mobile app

heh

@WorldEngineer What the fuck do I look like, the europolice? I'll let them with their perfect governments worry about that.

just draw an arrow that says "elk here"

@WorldEngineer Technically Turkey isn't a country, animals don't have rights in the Euro zone, they're too delicious

@WorldEngineer WHERE [CantStandTheOfficeToday] = 1

that is a ridiculous amount of driving :P

I'd just fly

fuck that

Welp, time to try the roads for round 2

night all

also, non-answer "Play the politics, not the solution answer has over 2x as much as a solution" programmers.stackexchange.com/a/219488/93290

then he comments and says that I don't actually answer the question