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Trylks

00:14

@Majiick that probably depends on the employer, and the kind of job that you would have to perform. In some cases it may be useful, I think there might be some reverse-engineering in some game ports. WRT being on-topic, I believe that per-definition the workplace would be more on-topic than programmers.

@Majiick Try to provide information about what kind of job/employer would you be sending your CV in the future.

BTW: @everybody, I am searching for a picture, it's a fairly old line drawing (probably more than 10 years old). Two guys are building the rails for a train, starting on both ends. When they get to the middle, one was building a monorail and the other has 2 rails as in regular trains (or something like that, can't remember correctly). This is illustrative for for static typing, team communication, etc. Do you know where to find it?

Duga

This question is probably more suited to programmers.stackexchange.com. I'd consider posting it there (but bear in mind cross-posting is discouraged so you might want to delete it here). — Tone 25 secs ago

daOnlyBG

00:30

hello

Quill

cv-pls: programmers.stackexchange.com/q/324193/169832

1 hour later…

Robert Harvey

01:31

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Q: Passing HTML form input value to PHP mail function not working

<form action="../index.php" method="post" name="cf"> <input type="text" name="email"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"> </form> <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { $formvalue = $_POST["email"]; } $message = "Line 1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine 3"; mail($_POST["email"], 'My Subject...

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Q: Cleaner way to lodash pick

Is there a cleaner way to put all of mockDirections.routes.legs.steps into an array with lodash? var list = _.chain(mockDirections).map(function(route){ return route.routes }).map(function(legs){ return legs.legs }).map(function(leg){ return _.map(leg, function(i...

javascript

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Q: Laravel or CMSLaravel

Soon I will start the realization of an application? and it is decide I will work with the Laravel framework. but I do not know that it's better to work with a CMSLaravel as Octobercms or work with Laravel without using a CMS. For the application it's a big frontend to managed by a big backend ...

php frameworks cms laravel

Several of these just need one more vote to close.

5 hours later…

gnat

06:53

Q: Call for volunteers: close voters

Programmers could benefit from a few more regular visitors who close questions on the front page and the Unanswered page that are clearly off-topic. "Clearly off-topic" means: We don't do code troubleshooting here, so if your question is about how to fix your broken code or how to use your p...

discussion featured closed-questions on-topic-definition moderation

Quill

That Curmudgeon Club sounds cool

gnat

07:22

> watch in amusement while new users can't figure out what the site is all about

Mast

08:19

I should've told him explicitly.

1 hour later…

Peter Rader

09:27

Hi there, any idea why i can not ask questions anymore?

Mast

Did you get a message when trying to post?

Peter Rader

Yes

Not accepting questions from this account anymore

:,(

Mast

You got question banned.

Peter Rader

Ok, why?

Mast

Did something happen with your last question you posted?

Peter Rader

09:28

Nope, 2 upvotes

Mast

I assume you're talking about your Programmers account, not that of another SE account

Peter Rader

sure

oh, not sure, i mean yes

Mast

Did you remove one of your own questions lately?

Peter Rader

"No deleted recent questions"

Mast

Odd.

Did you read the meta.stackexchange FAQ about question banned users?

Peter Rader

09:32

Yes. Still odd.

Mast

@ThomasOwens I hope you don't mind me pinging you, but I fail to see how this user got question banned. Would you mind taking a look?

@PeterRader Do you share your computer with others who have a Stack Exchange account?

Possibly that account got banned and you're collateral damage.

Peter Rader

@Mast No, its my private one who noone else has access to. But meta.stackexchange.com/q/86997/269301 already told me to not share computer because of ipbased userfilter. So your hint is a duplicate of the message i really really read carefully!

Mast

Just making sure :-)

Peter Rader

Mast

I pinged the last-seen moderator for you, hopefully he can shed more light on it for you. You can always take it to meta.programmers, but it would likely be closed as a duplicate of the already existing question about that.

Wait, let me try something.

@PeterRader Are you still question banned? If so, try again in 10 minutes.

Humour me.

Peter Rader

09:45

Hm, while opening a new question i got a message what i guess i did not get before: "Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.". Maybe your upvote did the trick.

Mast

I'm not admitting anything.

Make sure you put extra effort in your next question to prevent this from happening again. I guess the system is a bit picky sometimes.

Peter Rader

Picky hm? I had +15 by 3 times upvote.

Thank you

Thomas Owens

@PeterRader I just looked. It looks like borderline on an automatic block. 5 of your 11 questions are deleted. Including the deleted questions, your net score on questions is negative. Clearly it was really close to the threshold, since it looks like one vote removed the block. Unfortunately, the whole automatic blocking system is a black box, even to mods. As long as you don't post more questions that get downvoted and closed, you should be moving further and further away from the automatic block

Duga

@majestyc54 try programmers.se, but check their rules first. — Tim Castelijns 13 secs ago

Peter Rader

10:15

@ThomasOwens Thank you. AFAIK some think about rename programmers.stackexchange to swarchitects or something.

Thomas Owens

@PeterRader The leading proposal is Software Engineering. SE staff should be responding in the near future. That, along with updating the Help Center should help someone people who don't understand the site scope.

Mast

10:49

Thanks @Thomas

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enderland

13:32

@Quill completely with lots of haterrade. and the pay sucks!

goodguy5

13:49

Is this the right place to ask about A) Makefile
B) wording for a post.question about Makefile?

also "hi" -waves-

enderland

Probably not, it's most likely a question for Stack Overflow

goodguy5

damn it. ok. thanks

enderland

questions about how to use build tools are more SO questions

goodguy5

oh, yea. Makefile does count as a build tool. I was thinking of it more like a language. fair enough. Thanks again for the help.

enderland

questions like, "how to write/debug a makefile" are definitely SO. Questions along the lines of, "when using Makefiles, how should they be integrated into a build process" or more conceptual questions could fit here

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Duga

15:16

This may be more suited to programmers.stackexchange — Delioth 42 secs ago

deostroll

15:36

What is an Elliptic Curve based Diffie Hellman

Got that from here #TLS #SSL

Lightness Races in Orbit

15:54

@deostroll it's a special kind of mayonnaise

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Q: "Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange" in plain English

Can someone explain to me what Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is in plain English? I have read in a non-tech news page that Twitter has just implemented this technology which allows two persons to exchange encrypted messages on top of a non-secured channel. How is that (if this is true)?

cryptography key-exchange diffie-hellman asymmetric

> And while the discrete logarithm problem is traditionally used (the xy mod p business), the general process can be modified to use elliptic curve cryptography as well.

lots of links and explanations on that page

Robert Harvey

16:13

All that said, I'll bite. How about Curly's Law? — Robert Harvey 1 min ago

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gnat

18:31

please reopen this thread, i know i put the question wrong way but i am a first timer here looking for help, please help me or atleast tell me what should i do, — Mukul Chauhan 24 mins ago

^^^ typo there, should read: "I am help vampire, please feed me"

Robert Harvey

18:43

@DanielJour: In C#, a verbatim string literal is designated by an @ sign in front of it, as in @"This is a ""Literal String.""" Notice the repeating quotation marks? That's the only way you can escape a double-quote in a verbatim literal string and is also the only escape sequence available in such strings. String.Empty will distinguish an empty string in C# code from escaped double quotes in verbatim string literals. — Robert Harvey 9 mins ago

More grist for the mill.

enderland

@gnat pew pew

Robert Harvey

I already pewed that question.

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Golly-Bob howdy.

Robert Harvey

19:18

Q: When to Massage Data

I have an application which is used by other software engineers whose workflow is this: The user executes a query (not a SQL query, something more application-specific) via the command line interface A JDBC connection is made and the results are fetched The data is massaged into a JSON format w...