The Whiteboard

12:00 AM

This is still open somehow

user114359

I was sitting around at work today when I thought up a question. Stack Exchange, specifically @GlenH7 answered my question before I asked it!

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Q: How fast does solid waste fall in vertical drain pipes?

Some building are really tall, if you flush the toilet and the contents go into a pipe and straight down, there could be a lot of energy, potentially enough to cause harm to the sewer pipe at the end of the fall. I know that in my home, the pipe goes straight down and then there is just a 90 deg...

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Stack Exchange... answering the really important questions for humanity!

gnat

comic strip question is eligible for deletion. Just sayin'

user114359

I actually like that graphic, but it is far too broad and discuss this ${blog} for here.

user114359

12:12 AM

Hah, +5/-5 too. Don't see that too often.

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland What did you change? Make it bigger or smaller?

@durron597 I presume it references the book by the same name (not my favorite book, but a very good entrant and one I've referenced on numerous occassions when trying to deal with real implementation stuff)

user55340

12:31 AM

@gnat It has a pretty pink background now.

Ampt

Anyone here played thief?

any good?

user41796

@Ampt Which version?

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(two more down votes on programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/106792/… and it goes away - one on an answer, one on a question)

user41796

I played the recent xbox one a bit, but not a lot. It seemed decent enough.

user41796

@MichaelT I killed it with one vote instead.

user55340

12:41 AM

That works too.

Ampt

PC Version

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@enderland reaching out to other groups and people you don't know. Granted, this was a purely social-esque thing rather than work...

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One of the guys I played sheepshead with at lunch was moving to Montana. I got an oversized deck of cards (need big cards for a big sky state). Each card was ~10"x~12" - huge.

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not a code question. It's probably more suited to programmers or perhaps cstheory. — Simon MᶜKenzie 34 secs ago

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One of the other guys had the idea to get people to sign them. Not that little hallmark card... but an actual card. Signing the 7 of diamonds type thing.

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12:44 AM

So, we got it signed and then it was suggested to go to the other people who knew him. He had been around for 10+ years and the other old-timers were asked to sign the cards.

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So I went around and got people to sign them. Other teams. Went up to helpdesk and got an introduction to everyone on the team (I was a new guy at 5 months or so at that point)... and some other old timers in other teams.

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It was very much a "I have no idea who you are, but Richard over there told me to ask you if you wanted to sign a card for Ben... what card would you like to sign? (pull out the deck... watch them go "ahh!")

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Incidentally it got me to know quite a few people in other teams. Useful for the "who should I ask this question of" and I get nods from some of the other old timers in the hallway.

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I firmly believe that reaching out to other teams and getting to know them is a key and necessary part of networking within an organization.

user55340

If nothing else, it keeps the meetings from getting heated when you know the other person there really is a good guy.

user41796

12:50 AM

@Ampt From what I read from the fanatics, they complain that the franchise has lost its way and isn't true to the original games anymore. Take that for what it's worth. I enjoyed playing the bit that I did, but remember futzing with the controls a bit more than I like. The main challenge being that I'd have to remember odd combinations of buttons / whatnot. That's an issue for me since I'm an infrequent player due to that real world thing getting in the way.

user41796

@MichaelT there's a lot of truth to that one

user55340

The sheepshead group is amusingly representative of the entire department. We've got three programmers - who report to three different managers. Two guys from desktop (making the desktops work right - installs of software, and such), one from the server team, one from the helpdesk/security team... and I forget what team another guy is on.

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The Cat Machine - Greenlight Trailer

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user41796

Effing annoying when you have to hold a contractor in breach of contract. <sigh>

user41796

Getting my house painted has been more stress than it would have been for me to just do it myself.

user15026

1:19 AM

@GlenH7 That's shitty :(

user41796

It really is. I sent them a letter last week saying they had till today to complete or they were in breach of the contract. So they finish up the hardest part of what was remaining and completely slough off the easy part.

user41796

That really left me at "huh?"

user15026

Yeah, that's odd.

user41796

So I've sent the the "you're in breach of contract" notification and asked them to contact me immediately.

user41796

I'd rather they just finish up the project and I'll pay them what we had previously agreed upon. But I can finish the painting if I have to. I just hadn't planned on doing so.

user55340

1:38 AM

(sum of diameter of all the planets)/(earth moon distance) = 0.9799 (wolfram alpha)

user114359

@MichaelT That can't be right, Jupiter alone is around a gazillion millions across.

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user41796

@Snowman So that would mean it's about a gazillion miles between the earth and the moon then?

user114359

Pictures on the internet don't lie

user55340

2:01 AM

Jupiter has a diameter of 88,846 miles. Earth's diameter is just just under 8k miles. The Earth moon distance is 238,900 miles.

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JVMLS 2015 - The Secret History and Tragic Fate of sun.misc.Unsafe

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(its not about the Stack Overflow question)

user55340

It does mention stack overflow though (6:36 min in)

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The search was done on August 10th, so that question isn't in the list.

user55340

2:09 AM

"scrolling through this is fairly entertaining"

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This got laughs:

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Q: How to free memory using Java Unsafe, using a Java reference?

Java Unsafe class allows you to allocate memory for an object as follows, but using this method how would you free up the memory allocated when finished, as it does not provide the memory address... Field f = Unsafe.class.getDeclaredField("theUnsafe"); //Internal reference f.setAccessibl...

java memory-management jvm directmemory

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(8:32: "You use Maven, you download half the internet from maven central")

user114359

I don't understand why anyone would want to use Unsafe to begin with, unless they want pain.

user114359

2:13 AM

@MichaelT that's my experience with Maven, too.

user114359

It is like DLL Hell, but on the internet, not windows\system32

user55340

@Snowman 5:45 has a list of packages they know to use unsafe.

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Akka, Cassandra, Ehcache, Grails, HBase, Hadoop, Hibernate, Jruby, Kafka, Kryo, LMAX, Mockito, Neo4j, Netty, Objenesis Scala, Soar, Spark, Spring (big surprise there), XStream, Zookeeper

Robbie

anyone here understand command blocks in relation to game development?

user15026

@MichaelT When I read this in my head it sounds like a really weird rap

user114359

2:15 AM

I'm doing other stuff, can't watch now. But it doesn't surprise me

user55340

@Snowman It does a reasonable job of resolving version conflicts and alerting you to them.

user41796

@AshleyNunn It is really weird rap

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@GlenH7 Wrappers? Like Integer.class? That doesn't use any unsafe things in it.

user114359

@MichaelT can you hear me shaking me head at you through the internet?

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@Snowman yep. And the thing is... I know how to do unsafe things with it.

Robbie

2:18 AM

i mean command objects

user55340

(11:30 "We will deprecate that unsafe method in that release, and we might even deprecate it with a new even stronger deprecation tag that is even more annoying")

user41796

@Robbie Just ask your question. If anyone can help, they will. Asking if anyone knows something about whatever generally doesn't get any sort of a response.

user41796

@MichaelT "oooooh! annoying messages!"

user55340

@GlenH7 there was laughter after that statement.

user114359

It is after 10:00 PM here this is up on the second monitor. I'm glancing over in between killing pixels on the big monitor. If I see something I can contribute, I will: so like Glen said, just ask.

user55340

2:21 AM

For those Linq lovers...

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JVMLS 2015 - Jinq: LINQ-style Queries in Java

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And compiler fans...

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JVMLS 2015 - Java Goes AOT

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user41796

@Snowman I'm jealous. I'm catching up on emails I should have sent out for scouts instead of blasting pixels

user114359

@GlenH7 Normally I have to be halfway responsible. But my wife is out of town so I can pretend to be a bachelor for the week. Pizza and video games!

user55340

2:25 AM

Fun things with the generics, type erasure and the type system:

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JVMLS 2015 - Adventures on the Road to Valhalla

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user41796

@Snowman Props and enjoy!

user15026

@Snowman Sounds like a most excellent plan :)

Robert Harvey

3:04 AM

Just checking something...

Is this thing on?

user114359

3:21 AM

Yes, the real question is: is anyone listening?

Duga

9:14 AM

Maybe try Programmers instead. — Filburt 48 secs ago

Thomas Owens

11:51 AM

You know how we were talking about Uber the other day? Uber just killed it again with a new feature: UberPool. You enter your start location and end location and it will try to ride match you with someone going in the same direction. It also gives you a fixed price ride up-front. And if you're going with someone else, that's OK! Every request can be for up to 2 riders. So if you have 2 people going from point A to point C and someone is going from B to C, you can all rideshare to save $$$.

ratchet freak

@ThomasOwens careful or people will start thinking you are paid to promote it everywhere

Thomas Owens

@ratchetfreak Maybe I should be. It's fairly easy to do, so I could make a quick few bucks.

user114359

12:19 PM

@ThomasOwens Careful, Uber is going to die a regulatory death eventually. When it was obscure it was fine, but now it is popular. How can dirty taxis compete with Uber when they require medallions costing between $100k and $500k depending on the city, and Uber does not?

Thomas Owens

@Snowman Well, I'm really hoping the No Boston 2024 people take on transportation. They want to use their supporters and transportation is a pretty big deal here. Gonna go stick it to the man.

user114359

@ThomasOwens Never underestimate the influence of money on voting and the power of stupid people (voters) in large numbers.

user114359

Yes, I am cynical about this topic. But who knows, it might work.

Jimmy Hoffa

Happy Coffee Day

Thomas Owens

12:58 PM

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A: In the IEEE/EIA 12207.1-1997 Standard, what does "notation for description" refer to?

The short answer to your question is, yes, this "notation for description" is stating your your description documents include a design language and sufficient information for a reader to understand that design language. A complete analysis, based on IEEE Std 1016-2009 IEEE Standard for Informatio...

Boom.

Jimmy Hoffa

@ThomasOwens because real engineers write questions with a dewey decimal system reference in their title

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