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4:02 PM

What do programmers typically do about blogs these days? Do they mostly use Wordpress? Do they write their own blog software?

If you're a rockstar programmer you roll your own using Ruby on Rails. God knows you'll get 3, maybe 4 readers and that'll pretty much saturate your platforms ability to serve pages, further reinforcing that you're choosing the right product for the job.

Obvious hyperbole is obvious.

Every Rails programmer knows that you can get at least 10 users on that thing before it falls down.

The guy whose blog I was linking to yesterday has a 200 line Perl script that runs his blog. It's lightning fast, but I was probably the only one reading it at the time.

I'm assuming that 150 lines of that was nothing but regex

I'm just full of language hate today aren't I

Write-only code.

user55340

4:22 PM

> We do get spam and low quality answers from time to time but they are generally removed or heavily down-voted. There is also the fact that like other popular CW questions (it is our policy that big-list questions must be turned into CW) we protect popular big-list questions. This adds a barrier for adding new answers.

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In other words... a community that doesn't tolerate it. And not just the people with delete votes.

user55340

Until our community grows up a bit more (and SO a lot more), such would likely be problematic on either site.

In other words, "This is why we can't have nice things here."

Wait.. so they're moderating it too well? I'm not seeing the point here

The point is that you can't allow list questions on sites that think "best programmer cartoon" is a good question.

4:26 PM

ahhh, they want the big list questions

user55340

MO and TCS community has a higher standard of a post... and aren't up voting poor quality answers (or at least, what they consider poor quality posts).

Everyone wants the big list questions. But not everyone can handle the responsibility.

user55340

When they do get crap, they down vote and delete it rather quickly.

user55340

Upvoted crap is rather difficult to remove.

Honestly, after having some time to reflect on Math.SE, I'm inclined to agree with them here. IFF it works for them, why change it?

4:27 PM

Still don't like the idea of "hints" as answers. But yeah, it's too bad we don't have better support for list questions on SO and P.SE.

user55340

You can start minor revolutions on Math.SE by going through and posting answers in questions that only have hints.

user55340

MathOverflow and TCS are different places altogether.

user55340

Incidentally, its near them that we group near when you look at vote view ratios.

@MichaelT That only added more upvotes to the hint answers and got me a lot of downvotes. I will say though, I've gotten a few more (2-3) upvotes on that, while the hint only answers have largely stayed at the same spot.

That indicates to me that the users who are just searching the site find my answer to be more valuable than the hints

AKA the target audience

unfortunately the moderating community sees itself the other way.

user55340

A number of the moderating community of Math.SE are math educators who appear to be treating Math.SE as extended office hours.

4:31 PM

the problem is that they aren't necessarily wrong...

a lot of the users do the same

@Ampt Wait, what? People are downvoting complete answers because they are... complete?

@MichaelT Then the site should have been named Math Help, or something similar.

user55340

@RobertHarvey I can easily think of formats that deviate from the SE Q&A that would be a more useful layout for such.

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A: $ \tan 1^\circ \cdot \tan 2^\circ \cdot \tan 3^\circ \cdots \tan 89^\circ$

First, let's re-arrange these terms so that we can make use of the hints in other answers. $$\tan(1^\circ) \cdot \tan(89^\circ) \cdot \tan(2^\circ) \cdot \tan(88^\circ) \cdot\cdot\cdot \tan(44^\circ) \cdot \tan(46^\circ) \cdot \tan(45^\circ)$$ Here, we can see a clear pattern of $$\tan(x) \cdot...

The comments have been long since cleaned up, but yes

they felt that the complete answer didn't add anything beyond the hints.

not sure how to get to @MichaelT's fancy history view, but you can see the story there.

user55340

@Ampt timeline: math.stackexchange.com/posts/805704/timeline

That's it! Thanks!

user55340

4:39 PM

The way you get it is to to to the question itself, which has a url like: questions/805704/tan ... -- change 'questions' to 'posts', and the title bit to timeline. posts/805704/timeline

new AccountPasswordSetter(new AccountAccessor(username)).SetPassword(password);

Good Lord.

@RobertHarvey Needs more singletons.

@RobertHarvey That's why some people were so offended when you asked for a (gasp!) complete answer to your question.

user55340

The answer is clearly to get everyone to go back to programming in classic F77. Anything past column 72 was a comment (some used it for identifying the card number in case you dropped a deck and needed to sort it back into proper order...) and could indeed be safely truncated. — MichaelT 6 secs ago

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Context:

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4:49 PM

What do you want it to do instead of creating the horizontal scroll? — bluefeet ♦ 1 hour ago

@Ampt He's going to need all these dependencies anyway, but it just doesn't feel right to me.

user55340

@bluefeet - good question, well perhaps it can simply chop-off the text(from the view, not from the source HTML ) ? i.e it's viewable in the source, but not on the page. Which is putting the burden on the user to properly align everything? — Coffee 1 hour ago

@MichaelT You're being sarcastic, right?

user55340

@RobertHarvey ... yes.

Just checking.

user55340

4:51 PM

But it would solve the problem of how to deal with horizontal scroll.

@MichaelT "Quit and find a new job" is shorter.

5:11 PM

All I've learned from workplace is that I should quit my job.

user41796

@Ampt Workplace needs more cupcakes. Then again, so do we.

@GlenH7 Everyone needs more cupcakes.

haters gonna ~~quit~~ hate

user41796

It's probably a bad sign that I'm checking USPS for their flat rate shipping containers to see what it would cost to ship out cupcakes...

not if you are shipping them to me

5:14 PM

Yes... yess.... Let the postal service flow through you.

then it's most wonderful?

Erm.. that came out wrong.

This is probably a lost cause, but...

0

Q: Migration: Re-usability of BLL

Most of it was written 4-5 years ago.Our teams long term objectives are to use Entity Framework. Though we aren't gonna do it right away as our deadlines aren't allowing us to do so. Now we have our own framework. I want to be able to segregate the Business logic layer in such a way that it need ...

c# sql-server entity-framework bll

user41796

I think their smallest priority mail flat rate box is too thin though at 1 5/8"

Good fit for Programmers?

user41796

5:16 PM

@RobertHarvey I'm not sure it can be salvaged. Very poll-esque at the moment.

Cupcakes are a great fit for programmers, yes!

Not a poll, so much as a discussion.

user41796

Maybe "how to go about making BLL reusable?"

Re-titled, and migrated.

user55340

Was thinking about shipping cupcakes and the frosting integrity issue. I think that wood dowels that are firm in the cupcake and the approximate length of the container should minimize vertical movement and prevent cupcake frosting compaction from ceiling action.

user15026

5:26 PM

@MichaelT Yeah, that would work :)

user41796

@MichaelT That's basically what they're doing in the first link I had found

user55340

@GlenH7 spear? or cage?

user15026

@MichaelT Spearing them

user15026

Now I really want a cupcake

user41796

@MichaelT plastic cage like from a bakery with a dowel running from top to bottom to keep it in place

user55340

5:28 PM

There's also the possibility of a tight cage that they are placed in.

user41796

@AshleyNunn USPS says it will cost me ~$7.50 to ship to you.

user55340

Btw, did you see that pepperoni twist thing I found last night?

user41796

@MichaelT nope, missed that

The wife brought home carrot cupcakes yesterday. Yum.

user55340

15 hours ago, by MichaelT

Warning: might inspire late night sudden cooking urges: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/cast-iron-pull-apart-pepperoni-garlic-knots.h‌tml

user15026

5:29 PM

@GlenH7 That's only like twice the cost of a cupcake here

user15026

@MichaelT Oh, that would also be yum right now

user15026

@RobertHarvey oooh :)

user41796

@AshleyNunn yeah, I know... :-(

I think that's just the shipping charges.

user41796

But who sells beer, whiskey, and bailey's cupcakes?

user55340

5:29 PM

@RobertHarvey material costs for cupcakes are minimal.

user15026

@GlenH7 But it is cupcake that comes to me instead of cupcake i have to walk to a store for....

user55340

Thats why there are so many of those cupcake shops... what... $0.10 for materials and $3 for the final product?

user41796

@MichaelT okay, that's all the justification I needed for a camp stove like that...

user15026

@MichaelT at least $3

Well, there's labor...

user55340

5:32 PM

@GlenH7 I prefer cooking with cast iron when I do it. There's also the vegetarian source of iron (not an issue for me... but my brother is...)

And the cost of the building. Rent, utilities, etc.

user55340

And then the bit about cast iron was likely a key part of the survival of settlers in the 1800s ( shtfblog.com/cast-iron-is-the-ultimate-survival-cookware )

Wait, a vegetarian can get their daily nutritional iron requirements by cooking in a cast-iron skillet?

user55340

@RobertHarvey some of it. The iron gets into the food.

@MichaelT that looks reallllly good

user55340

5:35 PM

Cast-iron cookware

Cast iron cookware has excellent heat retention properties and can be produced and formed with a relatively low level of technology. Seasoning is used to protect bare cast iron from rust and to create a non-stick surface. Types of bare cast iron cookware include panini presses, waffle irons, crepe makers, dutch ovens, frying pans, deep fryers, tetsubin, woks, potjies, karahi, flattop grills and griddles. == History == Bare cast iron vessels have been used for cooking for hundreds of years. Cast iron pans were used as early as the Han Dynasty in China (206 BC – 220 AD) for salt evaporation. Cast...

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>
An American Dietetic Association study found that cast iron cookware can leach significant amounts of dietary iron into food. The amounts of iron absorbed varied greatly depending on the food, its acidity, its water content, how long it was cooked, and how old the cookware was. The iron in spaghetti sauce increased 2,109 percent (from 0.35 mg/100g to 7.38 mg/100g), while other foods increased less dramatically; for example, the iron in cornbread increased 28 percent, from 0.67 to 0.86 mg/100g.[4][5] Anemics, and those with iron deficiencies, may benefit from this effect,[6] which was the …

Noooooooo, I just got an email saying that one of the parts on my order was backordered so it shipped without that part

so now I wont' have the full thing until late next week

user15026

Oh no :(

It's one of the GPU water blocks too :(

user41796

We feel your pain

5:43 PM

I guess i'll just run with the stock coolers until the other one comes in. I can't use one unfortunately

user55340

5:55 PM

... anyone remember Battle Cat from He-Man? imgur.com/gallery/WgANS (sorry looking at imgur posts)

#firstworldproblems...

@enderland Pretty much yeah. But I was really excited to get my build done this weekend!

6:20 PM

Unless you're overclocking, the stock coolers should be fine. I've never had a problem with Intel's shitty stock fans. The CPU always runs at a reasonable temperature.

@RobertHarvey I am OCing the CPU, and the stock cooler is obnoxiously loud to keep the thing cool even without OC. The block that was back ordered is for the Video card though

I wanted those to be water cooled as well.

keep the overall noise in the system down

plus there's not much room between cards for the fans to get proper airflow.

I use the Swiftech Apogee II for my CPU waterblock/pump

Must be nice to have that kind of money.

Step 1. Be ~~single.~~ not married.

Step 2. Don't have kids

Step 3. Commute 3 hours a day to save on rent

On a bicycle? Gas is expensive.

Train

6:25 PM

In CA, it's almost cheaper to own and drive a car.

I do ~150 miles a day for ~250 a month

Are you on the train right now?

Nope!

at my desk at the moment

This is how schizophrenic SO is.

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Q: How do I disable a checkbox in a DataGridView?

I have a datagriview inside with only checkbox in 5 rows and 10 column. How do I disable the single checkbox, so that the user can not click on the checkbox, which must remain in the state in which it is located. Another thing, how do you widen the column header, as I have enumerated fields, but...

c# winforms datagridview

was closed as "Too Broad."

how many users capable of closing are there?

I'm guessing the first user improperly put a CV on there, and the rest are Close Queue zombies.

6:29 PM

Well, the first guy there just zapped the second part of the question so that it was a single question. I rolled back. Hilarity ensued.

hey man, you wanted to be a mod over there

I'm guessing that the number of users with close capabilities is somewhere in the low 10,000's.

imagine having 10k voices in your head, and only 5 of them had to agree to do something to make it happen. you'd do weird stuff too.

aaaand my co-workers here in Devops are comparing laptops on their ability to be weapons. I kinda like devops

Laptops are not light sabers.

user55340

@RobertHarvey macupdate.com/app/mac/21732/macsaber

user41796

6:45 PM

Curse you @JimmyHoffa and your dang proselytizing! I was just thinking to myself "gee, I wish I could guarantee that function ____ wouldn't touch anything inside the object it receives so I could safely reuse that object's information." Stupid principles of idempotentancy...

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When I saw this question's title, I thought at first that I was at gaming.stackexchange. — Kreiri 4 hours ago

@MichaelT You and your clickbait. what is this, buzzfeed?!

@GlenH7 No! Come towards the sound of my voice! Come back Glen!

When can you know there is only going to be a single implementation? Maybe there is only one right now, but I'm pretty stupid, and I always assume that someone will come later and think of a better version. — Dgrin91 33 mins ago

From the "Every class must have an interface" camp.

Every layer of abstraction increases your street cred on campus. duh.

7:01 PM

That explains a few things.

user41796

@RobertHarvey That brings back really bad memories of a project I was looking at for units of measure. Every class had an interface. Almost none of the interfaces were used more than once.

Must have never heard of YAGNI.

@GlenH7 "But what happens when we rewrite all these classes with new, better ones!"

10 years later, not a single class has been rewritten

Oh, the boilerplate!

user41796

Ima gonna go back to my corner and curl up and whimper.

user41796

7:04 PM

@Ampt more like the project was abandoned...

It's amazing how many questions arise from wrong or invalid assumptions.

user41796

It's just a phrase used to sound impressive. Or they're hand writing assembler and only assembler within their C code. That's pretty hardcore. And painful. — GlenH7 28 secs ago

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I thought my comment was perfectly appropriate in light of your comment

user55340

@Ampt would you rather the question post itself?

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Q: Whose underwear is this?

Okay, this is a bit different.... My son recently got underwear for his birthday. The underwear came in a set of 5, packaged as Justice League underwear. On the packaging, you can see The Flash, Superman, Green Lantern, and Batman. Each of those four have a clearly-recognizable pair of underw...

dc-comics super-hero justice-league

user55340

7:11 PM

There we go.

Still clickbait.

user55340

@RobertHarvey Well... to an extent... that is what Shog kind of said he wants the hot questions to be.

Hot questions are hot. So let's make them hotter.

user55340

> I actually have a slightly different opinion of what "hot" questions are good for: entertainment. When I'm bored, tired of doing actual work or waiting for something to finish running, they're almost always good for a quick - and ideally informative - diversion. This is what I've always used the homepage and per-site hot lists for, and now that network-wide hot questions are available on nearly every page it's what I use that for too.

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A: What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?

I actually have a slightly different opinion of what "hot" questions are good for: entertainment. When I'm bored, tired of doing actual work or waiting for something to finish running, they're almost always good for a quick - and ideally informative - diversion. This is what I've always used the ...

7:13 PM

Burn them suckers to the ground. Consume them in the fire of a thousand suns.

So did Shahar finally wear out his welcome?

user55340

@RobertHarvey appears so.

user41796

@RobertHarvey yes

user41796

He made a fairly offensive comment; quickly deleted it. I let him know that those types of comments weren't welcome and he chose to argue with me about what's appropriate.

user41796

Warning to Shahar regarding comments

4 hours ago, 9 minutes total – 19 messages, 4 users, 2 stars

Bookmarked 4 hours ago by GlenH7

Because cupcakes are far more interesting. :P

user55340

7:17 PM

The particular message (since you only get it in transcripts from scrolling, not historical ones... at least I haven't found any way otherisde of being a dev (and even they link to specific messages): chat.stackexchange.com/messages/17759388/history

user55340

His parthian shot was: chat.stackexchange.com/messages/17759851/history

user41796

@MichaelT - yep those are the ones.

@MichaelT Aw, c'mon. That's not offensive.

@MichaelT Well, that one sorta is. But meh, I've seen far worse in The Lounge.

We are serious cats here.

but the question is whether we want to be the lounge or not.

user41796

Not the Bridge; Not the Lounge.

user55340

7:19 PM

We're not the lounge... and I wouldn't consider the first one to be proper discourse in a professional environment... even one that is ok with jokes and water cooler.

To be fair, I never saw what was said, but I've also never seen Glen give anyone a warning to watch their tongue, so I'm willing to stand behind him on that one.

user55340

Its one thing to joke about beer, monads, and gonads... its another to make comments relating to stereotypes of ethnicities.

And, given the context, I can make some guesses.

Read it again; still don't see what the big deal is. Unless he was deliberately trying to incite.

Folks have become so PC nowadays.

user55340

He can't see it.

user41796

7:20 PM

Didn't one box as I had hoped, sorry

@RobertHarvey blame Apple

guffaw.

user41796

@RobertHarvey Not quite sure what he was attempting, but it wasn't funny

user55340

It wasn't funny... he knew it was inappropriate. And he took the admonishment of that to the extreme.

user41796

And I hesitated to say anything about it; but there's a past history of less than impressive comments

7:22 PM

Because he's not white. And I have no rhythm.

Cultures, man. Cultures.

user41796

Context is important to define culture

Indeed.

user55340

(and people are constantly pointing out the issues of insensitivity within the brogrammer crowd... we don't need to let that foster/fester here)

user41796

Context is the difference between one person saying something and (rightfully) being lynched while another person says it and everyone cheers them on.

user41796

@MichaelT That's probably the part that rankled me the most.

7:25 PM

@GlenH7 That's why I don't let anyone try and rope me into a discussion about what is appropriate and what is not on Stack Overflow, from a moral or cultural perspective. If it's become a distraction from the overall mission, it's inappropriate.

That's how I roll.

user41796

I think that's a pretty good line to follow - does it add to the overall mission or not.

user41796

And I felt that comment definitely didn't add to the mission

user55340

Each community defines their own... and when it steps over the norms accepted by SE, they step in. However, we're not the bridge, we're not the lounge and I was rather happy that I can (when I'm employed) have the window up without worrying about things that other people might have issue with on my monitor.

user55340

(I recall doing a wikipedia one boxing of a topic awhile back and having a renaissance picture being the image... and self modifying that so that it didn't bother other people)

user15026

As much as I love the Bridge, I do like that this room is not the same in terms of acceptable culture, it is a nice break (especially if I am working)

user41796

7:27 PM

That's one of the reasons why I won't pin or star anything with profanity in it. I don't personally mind it so much, but I can't vouch for others in that regards.

I generally don't like it, but I'm not too upset by it either

This is probably the most civil room on the network. I did a random sampling of several of the programming rooms recently... none of them had a fsck rating of zero.

Interestingly, we are also one of the few who don't have "Room Rules."

user55340

alrighty... I'm off to find rustic roads until the sun goes down... and then spend the rainy days coming up how to use ibooks to make an epub of them.

Must be nice to be unemployed.

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user41796

@MichaelT good luck with the photo op hunting

user55340

7:30 PM

@RobertHarvey for the most part, we don't need them. We're professionals. This monitor is an extension of our work environment and that keeps it in proper context and check.

user55340

dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/scenic/rusticroads.htm

user55340

@RobertHarvey I look at it as an unpaid sabbatical... and I'm enjoying it. Wouldn't mind getting back to work, but I'm not going to mope around.

@RobertHarvey You know, I think that having fewer rules often works better than explicit rules when it comes to small communities. It puts each user in charge of moderating themselves and eachother more than having a set of rules to compare against. it becomes less of a Rules vs the people and more of a people keeping eachother checked.

@GlenH7 it's kinda funny even without context

@Ampt I much prefer that environment. The only way to deal with Big List questions on Stack Overflow is to categorically exclude them, and that is really unfortunate.

7:33 PM

That MC server I helped to cofound ran for 4 years, and had well over 100 people come and go, and we only ever had to boot one. our rules were simple: Don't be a Dick. It worked fairly well. The one guy who couldn't meet those rules definitely had a very different cultural view than the rest of us, so it was a pretty quick showdown with him.

In an ideal sense your community self creates rules to self govern, rather than having them imposed

because itmeans people took ownership of things rtaher than trying to wait for someone else

Again though, all of the examples that I've seen of that working well are for small groups of people. once you start growing too large I think that starts to break down.

Each user has to feel comfortable calling out another user. if they stop doing that, the system breaks down a little bit.

And this room primarily consists of about a dozen key people.

yep.

and beer

7:35 PM

Lots and lots of it.

@MichaelT Have fun!

Well. Now that we're done patting each other on the back.

user55340

@Ampt got a new camera I need to try out.

@MichaelT oooh what did you get??

user41796

@RobertHarvey Oh! But wait! There's more!!!

user55340

@Ampt bhphotovideo.com/c/product/910126-REG/…

7:37 PM

Oooh one of those little guys. let me know how it works. I've heard a lot of those are getting really, really good.

user55340

(A $350 thats $150 off... it fits the role of 'quick memory capture' camera)

that's exactly it. simplicity is the goal.

I just have one question. When you press the shutter button, does it take a picture right now, or ten seconds from now?

user55340

My older camera was a Canon G5... which while quite good, is showing the age.

@RobertHarvey When is right now?

7:38 PM

Now.

user55340

@RobertHarvey Now. Its quite fast on the draw there... but it also has some other settings that can be of use.

@RobertHarvey So we're at right now, now?

No, now.

oh gosh is that ever annoying @RobertHarvey

cameras with that bug/feature are obnoxious

user55340

You could push the shutter now, hold it down, and about 10 seconds from now let it up, look at the photos captured as a movie and then chose one that you like.

7:39 PM

Oh, that's nice.

user55340

I don't think I'll use that feature much, but I know thats how my father takes pictures.

user41796

@MichaelT don't forget to pack extra memory cards

And batteries!

user55340

@GlenH7 16 gig in the camera, 2x 64 in the other one.

I'd keep my Canon PowerShot forever, if it would only take a picture NOW.

user55340

7:41 PM

Other neat bit with the S1 is its part of the 1 series system... its got interchangeable lenses.

user55340

There are 7 different bodies out for the system. Some have higher performance options: nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Nikon-1-Cameras/index.page

user20683

8:06 PM

you can use Blender to chop movies into individual frames

8:17 PM

@WorldEngineer I think the camera is doing that for him from my understanding

seems like a pretty neat feature

you know since you're here, I have a question about python comprehensions

So I have a ---dictionary--- mess 3 layers deep, that is I have
`data["children"][*]["uri"]` where I want to essentially make a list of all the URIs in all of the "children" of data

so that I can turn around and check if something is in that list of URIs

how would I go about that? any pointers?

actually, I think that this

if subdir not in (child["uri"] for child in data["children"]):

will do it.

Arg. Anyone here good at Algebra?

n/4 = 8log(2)n

whats the base of the log?

log2

I think.

log base 2 of 2 is 1

unless you're doing log base 2 of N

log base 2 of n

I think.

8:24 PM

What if I do this

That's better

n=256

if you don't want to read

Thanks.

That Wolfram thing is pretty cool.

yeah wolfram alpha is boss. saved me more than once

with the pro version it'll show you step by step solutions to just about everything you can throw at it

helpful for stuff like differential equations or linear algebra

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Q: When will algorithm B out perform A in n time?

So, I have this problem where it asks me to find when B outperforms A and I thought of graphing it, but that doesn't help at all for the work that must be shown. Here are the algorithms A B n/4 8log(2)n (n^3)/10 5n^2 n^2/2 20nlog(2)n n^4 16(n^2)n For the...

performance big-o

Wolfram answers it much better than I can.

user20683

x/4 = 8log2(2)n -> x = 8n*4 -> x = 32n

user20683

oh wait

user20683

8:32 PM

it's log base 2 (n)

user20683

x/4 = 8lg(n)

user20683

x = 32lg(n)

$5.49 per month for Wolfram Alpha Pro. I'd take that over Lumosity any day of the week.

user20683

there's also a moble app for like 50 bucks

user20683

given that mathematica is 400ish...

user20683

8:37 PM

solving for 0

The mobile app will do all that Alpha Pro magic, like the step-by-step solution?

user20683

@RobertHarvey I believe so

user20683

pardon it's a portal to wolfram alpha

user20683

2.99 + the monthly thing

Ah.

Heh. Rated 9+ for mild profanity and crude humor. :D

Not a bad trip meter. They must be making a fortune on that thing.

user20683

8:41 PM

I'm sure

user20683

I mean we have a whole site for Mathematica

user20683

and it's no ghost town

user20683

and you can plug mathematica expressions right into WA

Where does it talk about the subscription requirement? I don't see that on the store page.

user20683

@RobertHarvey because it's for all of wolfram alpha

user20683

8:42 PM

so there's no requirement for basic use

user20683

I'm sure you can upgrade to pro from the app though

Well, I guess I can plunk down three bucks to see how much it does.

user20683

it can generate passwords of arbitrary complexity

So can my cat. :)

user20683

@RobertHarvey it can tell you how many calories are in a cubic light year of chocolate

8:44 PM

That my cat can't do.

user20683

or that pinto beans are better for you than black

is there a way to see a list of questions I've posted a comment in

user20683

or the nutrition facts of hundreds of foods

user15026

@WorldEngineer .....I want to test that

user114359

Cubic light year of chocolate? I would rather have that much bacon

user20683

8:47 PM

@Snowman strip or back?

user114359

strip

user20683

I date a Canadian, she has set me straight on bacon

wolframalpha.com/input/…

Talk about a statistically improbable phrase.

user20683

it doesn't parse the one with bacon

user20683

odd

user114359

8:50 PM

I was trying to figure out the solar output in calories to compare, but it won't tell me

user15026

@WorldEngineer It's important!

user15026

I actually as of late think back bacon is tastier anyhow

user15026

(well, proper peameal.)

user114359

I figure chocolate is probably hydrocarbons like most organic matter, so at least the hydrogen should support fusion

user20683

@Snowman it'd collapse into some type of black hole

user15026

8:52 PM

@RobertHarvey It knows everything.

user20683

see Randall Munroe's What If re: Starlings

user114359

I was just thinking about "what if" like his one "a mole of moles" which was gruesome but funny

user20683

I have now emailed Mr. Munroe re: bacon light year

@WorldEngineer First time I've used algebra in ages. For actual computing work.

user114359

I am pretty sure this was the first time I have used the measurement "cubic light year"

10:40 PM

@RobertHarvey WolframAlpha is pretty clever, but it forgot to mention that a cubic light year of chocolate is only part of a nutritious breakfast.

user15026

11:18 PM

The only bad part about a successful LCBO trip is deciding what to drink first.

user55340

11:34 PM

For those wolfram lovers (@RobertHarvey @WorldEngineer and @Ampt ): blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program

user20683

@MichaelT I'm looking at doing this with J or APL

user15026

@MichaelT That is amazing.

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