@StackExchange What is this teh whiteboardz thing, and how does the Stack Exchange feed know about it?

I asked half-jokingly. MichaelT used to be a regular here before he got fed up with SE's antics.

This is the kind of question I'd like to see asked more often here (the title, not the body).

one more vote reopen please: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/325804/… (pretty solid edit made to the question by the asker)

hi

sup

nutin

This is what The Whiteboard has become. All of the interesting people have left, and the only ones that remain are those of us with our tongue hanging out of our mouth.

I hope those interesting people come back some day. Maybe they will.

Otherwise, I'll have to step up efforts to seek out new interesting people

@ThomasOwens Can you edit my comment at programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/325806/… and put a space between "Stack" and "Exchange"? I'm losing sleep over it for personal reasons.

@JasonC Done.

Thanks. I can live with myself again, lol.

Gives @RobertHarvey a double whisky, neat.

@Duga CS maybe. The way he has it phrased it's kinda theoretical.

I dunno, I don't understand SO any more. I sort of uncontrollably lost interest after the zillionth time I closed a duplicate "What is a NullPointerException?". It makes me happy to see non-debugging questions there. But nobody understands me, lol.

Perhaps we could become interesting people if we make a determined effort to do so.

It all depends on how far off topic you want to go, and what interests everyone. For example, I'm trying to figure out if a trampoline would be any use to getting up high enough in my apple tree to get the apples

@AaronHall [hic]

@Tom Just make sure you have good medical insurance.

@Tom -1 Please add YouTube video showing research effort.

As my body released the salts into my bloodstream to waken my brain, I opened my eyes. I slipped my leg out from under my wife's ankle, and seamlessly rolled into a standing position. Grabbing my eye-glasses, I walked out the bedroom door, gently closing it - and sitting on the couch, I flipped open my laptop to check out my stackoverflow rep...

interesting monologue went wrong somewhere...

Somewhere between "as" and "my".

@JasonC Not sure how much research you would need. Just look up "Stupid things people do" or go watch old America's Funniest Home Videos reruns

Anyone know any books or any other kind of info on smali

@RobertHarvey Don't need medical insurance, just need good football helmets

@Tom I just want to see @AaronHall trying to pick apples from a trampoline, lol.

That would be interesting. I think I'll give Fooker the chance first. After all, he came up with bungee computing

puts on his trampoline outfit

Lol

Nothing on smali ok thanks

Never heard of that, and I don't think I want to.

It's Android's Java VM implementation. I need it to create custom rom's and other android projects

but I can't find anything on especially books

I didn't get to see it, but someone gave a talk on using Python to develop for Android and iOS at PyGotham. I hope they get the videos up soon.

@EcstaticSnow Well CyanogenMod's source is online, you can try to discover how it's handled there. github.com/CyanogenMod

@EcstaticSnow have you seen stackoverflow.com/questions/5656804/…?

github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_smali

Thank you everyone (:

Ah, it's so much fun switching development languages. So many new keywords and syntax changes to remember. Wish I had the memory for it all.

The name of this chat room is almost The Whitebeard.

Freakin' wizzards.

They get in your head.

Someone needs to place this review on the correct Amazon entry (& of course provide attribution): tolkien.cro.net/tolkien/cclark.html

casts Make Magic Fire - it backfires and blasts him singeing his beautiful hair and bespoke wizard's robe.

The objective political scientist would argue that successfully running a campaign for president is qualification enough for the job.

@AaronHall Yes, because lying to people to get them to elect you is a totally useful skill in the international leadership arena.

The political science orthodoxy maintains that politicians do what they promise to do.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/…

I'm not sure I should ask a question on programmers about this

I'm looking for proportional fonts specifically designed for programming, and I would just like to ask if there is a name for that category of fonts (NOT ask for suggestions i.e. which fonts apply for that category)

I've been using a proportional font for programming for two years and I'd like to explore other styles, but searching only yields a few results on Google, and I thought maybe I'm just searching it wrong

@Hay Are you looking for fonts for using when writing code, or fonts for displaying a program's information to the user?

@Tom writing code

Most developers I know (myself included) just use a regular mono-spaced font like Courier or Lucida Console. I prefer Lucida Console myself, but it's mostly up to preference. The mono-spaced fonts are good for keeping code lined up and being easy to read for quick mental parsing

Currently I'm using Georgia as my programming font, but I had to tweak it with a font editor to iron out the issues I found on the first month

take a look at mono-spaced (also called fixed width) fonts. I don't think Georgia is one, but you might find one of the ones I mentioned easier to use

I was using Lucide Console and Consolas for 5 years before switching to Georgia 2 years ago

ok, unfortunately, I can't help you with the proportional fonts, as I don't like them for development myself. sorry to waste your time

But about your point, yes mono spaced fonts are good for mental parsing, and they are out of the bow better for programming. especially since symbols such as the period have the same width as whitespaces, they essentially act as whitespaces, and whitespaces in proportional fonts are just too narrow to mentally separate the various tokens so I completely understand what you're referring to.

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