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12:43 AM

@SimonAndréForsberg I thought the "don't trigger on questions or answers" would have caught that?

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A: New SE Chat Bot feature for identifying when Programmers is mentioned on StackOverflow

A filter that might remove some additional false positives is to remove things where the comment contains a link to a question or an answer (or help page?). For example this one. Such links are not likely to be someone saying "go post there" but rather the cross site dup style "this has been ...

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If the link is of the format: programmers.stackexchange.com/[aq]/\d+ its a link to a direct question or answer and unlikely to be a "try asking there" comment.

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I want to say that this is the first time I've seen a relatively new user on P.SE come back to a question that they asked and do a good self answered question.

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A: Enforcing manual inclusion of a specific header file (banned.h)

After much debate, we found a method that we like, but it involved other substantial changes to the project. We turned on pre-compiled headers. Within the pre-compiled header, we first include any and all system headers (and other third-party library headers) that are not compliant with banned.h,...

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2:02 AM

@JörgWMittag Perl6 promises the possibility of auto threading in its junctions: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Autothreading

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> Junctions are unordered; `1|2|3` and `3|2|1` represent the same value. This lack of ordering means that the Perl 6 compiler can choose to evaluate junctive expressions in parallel. For instance, the code:

if $string ~~ all(@list_of_regexes) {
. . .
}

would indicate to the compiler that all matches of a string against a list of regexes can be executed in parallel, possibly in separate threads. This feature is dubbed "autothreading". The parallelization of autothreading is not yet implemented in any Perl 6 compiler.

Jörg W Mittag

2:47 AM

@MichaelT That would be another example of an explicitly parallel data structure. Something similar in Scala would probably be listOfRegexes.par.forall(…)

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@JörgWMittag Yep. Just another for your set of examples and that even with things that are that 'easy' - it is still hard to do (as evidenced by it not being part of any Perl6 compiler yet).

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Q: Update "Introducing Programmers" blog to reflect site scope change

In the Introducing programmers.stackexchange.com blog post, Jeff announces our site with great fanfare. And while I'm all for promoting our site, there are a few problems with that post that I think are creating recurring issues for us. First off, there's a link to the FAQ which now redirects t...

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Stupid one-boxing...

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@GlenH7 Just saw that show up on Meta.

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Not sure it'll go anywhere, but I figured I had to at least try

user55340

2:54 AM

in Game Development, 2 mins ago, by MichaelT

Just a heads up that a question showed up on meta.Programmers.SE that I'm suggesting to send over your way (as in "ask in chat") - any regulars here may wish to comment on it and correct me (please do) about the scope of chat here and GameDev itself.

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@JörgWMittag - great comment, btw, on the tail call optimization vs. TRE question. It's been re-opened after I flagged it.

user41796

@MichaelT I was tempted to suggest world building to that meta question, but I don't think they were wanting to go that route

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The "ask in chat" is probably best... though I also wanted to have their chat regulars comment on it if I was off base.

user41796

wise approach

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At worst, he'll get told in chat that I was wrong and it wasn't the place. Rooms are even more different than sites, though often can handle the off topic more eaislly than sites can.

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