The Whiteboard

BarryTheHatchet

00:04

@RobertHarvey Sounds dellicious

durron597

@BarryTheHatchet the cookies?

BarryTheHatchet

nom nom

Shockingly, I'm not currently hungry.

I am tired, though. tata!

enderland

00:20

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Q: Is workplace.stackexchange.com actually constructive?

So thus far I have not seen one worthwhile question on workplace.stackexchange.com. Furthermore, I've noticed way too many employees spending time on workplace when they should be doing literally anything more productive. No one actually takes a stance on the answers, they just state any option...

discussion

awww yeah, got a callout rant

gnat

06:13

BarryTheHatchet

08:57

woah

went to ask a question on Physics, but got a warning banner about impending question ban

apparently at some point all of my prior questions have been quietly deleted? wtf?!

complete surprise to me

ratchet freak

09:13

take it up on their meta?

BarryTheHatchet

considering it

ultimately probably not worthwhile

likely to just get flamed

ratchet freak

or pop in their chat and ask a mod there why those questions got deleted

BarryTheHatchet

09:28

same

Guys, I have an announcement to make. I'm leaving Stack Exchange.

Johan Larsson

09:49

I may have a question for main but it would probably just be closed

var diff = DiffBy.PropertyValues(x, y);

I'm debating whether returning null or Diff.Empty is better when x and y are equal.

Diff is a tree containing all diffs in the graph

BarryTheHatchet

come on star it

Johan Larsson

that you are leaving?

BarryTheHatchet

yeah

Johan Larsson

:)

Johan Larsson

10:10

@BarryTheHatchet so will the question just be closed if I ask on main?

I'm also not sure about how to handle nulls for x and y

BarryTheHatchet

@JohanLarsson P.SE? yes

because it's P.SE

Johan Larsson

They are trivial to diff but I'm leaning towards throwing cos I think it will be a bug in the calling code more often than not

Would be nice with a Lippert hotline :)

BarryTheHatchet

I think it's a good question but it'd be closed as opinion-based here I guess

Johan Larsson

I never really got opinion based given the voting system

I have asked and they have explained, guess I just don't agree.

Would be nice with a poll before publishing the package :)

BarryTheHatchet

10:49

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Q: What is CTAN.org now?

Today I clicked in this link in TeX StackExchange http://ctan.org/pkg/svg and I got this message (screenshot below). In particular, what does it mean that "Latex Productions International has acquired the world wide exclusive rights from D.F.Knuth" !? Obviously ctan.org changed hands or somet...

packages fun ctan

Diptanshu Kakwani

Hi, I have been trying to understand link cut trees. I have seen one of the implementation here http://www.codeforces.com/contest/117/submission/860934
I couldn't understand the usage of flip bit, update and normalize. Can someone give right pointers to understand the link-cut tree implementation?

BarryTheHatchet

11:17

Unikong is amazing

BarryTheHatchet

11:49

bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35938704

can't tell whether real

enderland

12:32

@JohanLarsson I think that'd be an interesting question for main, though somewhat basic it's a good conceptual question in a general sense

BarryTheHatchet

Managed to get just one pic of this morning's rare Jupiter Transit. Even caught cloud bands. V chuffed! https://t.co/PXXXZknLN3

Tweeted by mars_stu on April 1, 2016 at 9:20 AM

Johan Larsson

@enderland basic / simple is a good thing no?

Maybe I'll ask it

Asking can be painful for many reasons.

1) Some closer who does not understand the question can drive by and making it his business to ??
2) Someone may show up with a bag of wtf for an answer

1 should not be a problem for this one though

And 2 is probably more common on SO

enderland

12:50

@JohanLarsson I think it's an ok question. maybe try to avoid an XY problem, what if the answer is not null or Diff.Empty :)

BarryTheHatchet

-comma splice

*neither

*nor

hth

Johan Larsson

13:38

@enderland I feel tired before even starting to write it, I'll fax it over to Barry for review.

maple_shaft

The Joel Spolsky game is actually rather fun

they did a good job with it

oh wait that is Jon Skeet lol

gnat

13:51

@Ixrec if you weren't joking about career-development cleanup, I pushed a bunch of these to 10K page. Also it looks like Yannis have heard your prayers because he deleted about 30 questions in this tag yesterday

Kit Z. Fox

14:01

I made a joke.

For programmers.

maple_shaft

14:17

@KitZ.Fox Bravissimi... stupendo!

Kit Z. Fox

I'm so glad @Oded got the password part of the joke.

maple_shaft

@KitZ.Fox I hope that wasn't a personal password! :(

Kit Z. Fox

It was a joke.

I put it there on purpose.

maple_shaft

@KitZ.Fox Oh... I was going to drop this link to you

keepass.info

More efficient and kills 75% less trees than post its

Ampt

only 75% less?

that's... really bad actually

maple_shaft

14:25

NOTE: the 25% of trees that are killed by KeePass are brutally massacred in ways that violate the UN treaty on tree rights

3

gnat

14:41

@maple_shaft could you please remove non-programmers tag from this h/locked question? it's the last one that still has it

maple_shaft

@gnat for you? sure :)

Done.

BarryTheHatchet

16:19

what is wrong with those people that jump onto the comments under a 1st April post to go "HA HA THIS IS AN APRIL FOOLS POST GUYS!!!" like... just shut up.

ratchet freak

16:30

@BarryTheHatchet to inform the more gullible readers

I don't really like april fools jokes

BarryTheHatchet

it's just being a spoilsport

deliberately ruining the joke as soon as it's made

who does that

ratchet freak

trolls

user41796

Duh. People who hate fun.

BarryTheHatchet

you said it brother

Ixrec

I kinda like the one-day-only flood of april fool's jokes. I don't like the fact that there's always at least one if not five people complaining about april fool's jokes somewhere. It's like pointing out our site name sucks; we've all heard that one before...

BarryTheHatchet

16:37

huh who says the site name sucks

never heard that before

Ixrec

MOD ABUSE - SOMEONE'S CENSORING CRITICISM OF THE SITE NAME

^ probably the closest thing to an April Fool's joke you'll get out of me

BarryTheHatchet

;p

there, did my part

Ixrec

but you're not a mod

ratchet freak

you can self-delete chat messages within 2 minutes

Ampt

@GlenH7 PING

Ixrec

16:39

@ratchetfreak the joke was that Barry's deletion fails to contribute to "mod abuse" because Barry is not a mod

I've been in this chatroom long enough to know that users can delete their own messages =P

user41796

> time<1ms TTL=128

Ampt

more like time>7 days

yes, yes, you can tell me all about it once you respond to your emails :)

user41796

I'm pretty oblivious anymore these days...

psr

@JohanLarsson Diff.empty Otherwise it's like using ints and have null represent 0. People will have to put in null checks for all sorts of things that otherwise wouldn't have corner cases.

Ampt

(That was a hint to check your email, which you should do)

Johan Larsson

16:49

@psr thanks, I'm leaning towards it being nicer also

user41796

Here's a hint - if you feel like you need to lead your question with meta garbage like "0 down vote favorite" and then launch into an off-topic implementation question, then you should probably save yourself the time and not bother with asking the question. This community won't fix your problems for you. And for that matter, don't cross-post your question — GlenH7 10 secs ago

user41796

@Ampt I have, I know. In the queue

user41796

In fact, it's all the way up to #4 in the queue

Johan Larsson

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 hours ago, by Veronika Prüssels

C++ IS A VAST APRIL JOKE WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Ixrec

Just like PHP.

BarryTheHatchet

17:01

heh

who the heck is Veronika Prussels

oh I bet it's that troll who keeps changing his name every few months

(Cicada)

@Ixrec even better is that I deleted it after that message!

@Ixrec and that mods can delete others' messages

user114359

@GlenH7 you really need to listen to @Ampt. For once he actually has something worthwhile to say :-D

BarryTheHatchet

did Ampt send Glen a nice email

user114359

Not sure, but if he did it probably contained socksy jpegs.

user41796

17:26

@BarryTheHatchet Well, it wasn't a rude email. How's that?

BarryTheHatchet

Bah, I've got nothing. Need to do some stocking up on my puns.

user41796

What is the difference between stockings and socks?

BarryTheHatchet

Stockings are like longer

Johan Larsson

-2

Q: can i database threading handler processing compiler stack runtiem?

i would like to now if it is possible to have my "posgre" databased parse the regex from table in server system utilzzing thread wit compiletime progress bar, all langagues can read. please let me know can be done? thanks.

java c# c++ ruby postgresql

Ampt

my messages are always nice, just not always to the recipient.

Ampt

18:22

furreal

user41796

18:37

@durron597 - blah, blah, blah...

durron597

Ampt

@GlenH7 just read my email and do what it says, it'll take like 2 minutes

user20683

looks around for shenanigans

user20683

I am pleased to see good or at least normal behavior in this room

user41796

@WorldEngineer We know well enough to properly dispose of the evidence...

BarryTheHatchet

18:42

3

A: Can an optimizing compiler add std::move?

The compiler is required to behave as-if the copy occurred from the vector to the call of Foo. If the compiler can prove that there are is a valid abstract machine behavior with no observable side effects (within the abstract machine behavior, not in a real computer!) that involves moving the st...

great answer

user20683

@GlenH7 as said, "normal"

user41796

@WorldEngineer Gotta feel bad for mods whose site chat rooms aren't inhabited by as sophisticated of users....

user41796

> Ugh, I have to clean up what again?!

user41796

I definitely prefer to avoid those

enderland

19:00

avoid all the things

gnat

19:21

@WorldEngineer look for folks who put an extra space character between a word and a question mark ?

BarryTheHatchet

19:34

@gnat heh

BarryTheHatchet

20:37

-4

Q: this is my code and i am really annoyed by jquery it dosent work ever

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Grabel</title> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/grabel-home.css" /> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(function(){ //$(".te...

javascript jquery

DeliriousSyntax

21:28

Can someone post the programming with butterflies picture please :)

whatsisname

google xkcd butterflies

sheesh

DeliriousSyntax

thanks'

whatsisname

22:14

14

Q: Is it possible to simplify (x == 0 || x == 1) into a single operation?

So I was trying to write the nth number in the Fibonanci Sequence in as compact a function as possible public uint fibn ( uint N ) { return (N == 0 || N == 1) ? 1 : N * fibn(N-1); } but I'm wondering if I can make this even more compact and efficient by changing (N == 0 || N == 1) into...

c# .net algorithm optimization

lol worrying about micro-optimizations when doing the recursive fibonacci function LOLZ

durron597

22:32

@whatsisname well, doing the not-tail-recursive one

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