The Nineteenth Byte

12:16 AM

They really don't like game identification at gaming: gaming.stackexchange.com/q/261156/143733

(Unless those downvotes were actually just retracted)

Downgoat

@HelkaHomba I think that's because it's borderline use of the [game-identification] tag

+8 -4, wow

but even that good answer has downvotes I think

1:03 AM

in Discussion between DigitalTrauma and Alex A., Mar 17 '15 at 19:02, by Alex A.

This is nifty, I've never used chat before!

I found one of @AlexA.'s first chat messages

Wow, just over a year ago

That's back when I was a goose

Btw, how and why did you find that? o_O

@AlexA. How: chat.stackexchange.com/users/141888/…. Why: curiosity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haha the first thing I said in TNB was about StackEgg

My first chat message was in... RPG chat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, actually, it was on SO chat, but first message on the SE chat network.

What was your first TNB message?

1:08 AM

Also, I've been on chat since Dec 2012 and you still have about 16k more chat messages than me. O_O

@AlexA. uhhhh... I don't know, how do I find that

@Doorknob WHAT

@Doorknob I don't know

How did you find it for yourself?

Apr 2 '15 at 21:16, by Alex A.

We've made so many strides since then. Viva la urine.

I just tried to shrink a HDD partition in windows. It told me I could free up to 75GB. I only wanted 40GB (which is afaik less than 75). After confirming my action, the disk manager crashed with "not enough free disk space to complete this operation". ಠ_ಠ

@AlexA. What the actual fuck

1:09 AM

@AlexA. O_O

Some SO users make me facepalm so hard

@Doorknob I used the URL you put in there and changed the page in the URL because I couldn't find a page button anywhere

Jun 18 '13 at 1:12, by Doorknob

hi

Think this was my first

hahaha

sheesh, that was back when the chatroom was freezing over and over

1:11 AM

@Doorknob find my first

Sep 19 '11 at 3:11, by Chris Jester-Young

"The last message was posted 79 days ago." OMG. :-(

Apr 2 '15 at 21:14, by Alex A.

Yes, 2007 was a different time in the acceptance of urine.

Why was I even allowed in here

in The DMZ, Oct 18 '13 at 20:34, by nightcracker

@e-sushi yo

This is your first chat message ever

Jan 29 '11 at 18:51, by Chris Jester-Young

Hehehehehe. :-)

Same

The subsequent messages were

> damn
> nearly fell of my chair
> the ping sound in DMZ is absolutely booming my speakers

And here's your first message in 19th byte

1:14 AM

pretty funny

how my 2nd message

is already complaining about the ping sound

Haha

My first TNB message, I never made the challenge:

Sep 27 '14 at 4:48, by Calvin's Hobbies

What does anyone think of a challenge asking people to show off a programming situation where the specialized version of something works slower or worse than the generalized version. The best example I know is how C#'s multidim arrays are slower than jagged arrays: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/468832/why-are-multi-dimensional-arrays-in-ne‌t-slower-than-normal-arrays.

@AlexA. haha

How are you finding these first messages?

@AlexA. hahaha

@AlexA. hahahaha

@AlexA. hahahahaha

1:15 AM

(haha){5}

@ZachGates https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/USERIDNUM/?tab=recent&page=NUMBER

Do a binary search for page :P

^

Speaking of chat pings, I have music on through my speakers and for whatever reason, the ping sound is about 10x louder than my music.

@AlexA. .

muhahaha

1:16 AM

doot doot doot BONK doot

I don't think I have any messages with seven "ha"s or greater

@Doorknob now's your chance!

@AlexA. I like your taste in music

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha‌hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah‌ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

copy("ha"*100)

ez

'ha'x100 in Perl

1:17 AM

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha‌hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah‌ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

<C-i>100iha<esc>ZZ

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha‌‌hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah‌ah‌ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

@Doorknob Less golfy than Perl, sorry.

Cmd+C Cmd+V

Do I win?

hahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohehahihohe‌hahihohehahihohehahi

@ChrisJester-Young That's the key sequence to insert that sequence into the chat textbox from within the browser

Betcha can't do that in Perl :P

1:18 AM

I hear that's a feature in Perl 7

@Doorknob Do you have vi integration in your browser?

since that's what your entry does

@ChrisJester-Young of course

which uncultured swine doesn't?

He has a thing for it on teh GitHubz

:-O

@orlp o/

1:19 AM

@ChrisJester-Young cVim

@Doorknob Wow, how about that.

<C-i> is the keybinding to pop out the currently focused textbox into a gvim instance

This is a regular sentence.

okay

Good job, buddy

1:20 AM

hsi eua etne

translate: hsi eua etne

(from English) hsi eua etne

it's not rot13...

Ti sarglrsnec.

(I wasn't done yet)

they go together

If this were Calvin I'd assume it's some obscure LotR language

Sep 19 '15 at 19:22, by Zach Gates

http://i.imgur.com/qGWqk0k.jpg @AlexA.

I think this was my first message

@AlexA. Hinidan dor lemo?

1:25 AM

^ case in point

.i ro do tavla fo lo toldra bangu .i la jbobau .ui cu traji lo ka xamgu ku fo lo'i bangu .i .ei ru'e dai tugni

Calvin is the only one who knows LotR language and Doorknob is the only one who knows Lojban and IPA.

I don't know, you just think I do

@AlexA. .i na'e jetnu .i la .fainotpai. cu kakne tu'a la jbobau

(not true! PhiNotPi can speak Lojban a little)

oicok

1:35 AM

Someone "corrected" my essay by replacing all occurrences of "Magna Carta" with "the Magna Carta." It's a proper noun. It's "Magna Carta," no "the." ಠ_ಠ

hahaha

Isn't that like a dance or a Spanish ship or something

uhh no >_>

Magna Carta

Magna Carta (Latin for "the Great Charter"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum (Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood behind their commitments...

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me fighting the bytes while golfing a challenge:

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I never thought reading could make one so angry: thedailywtf.com/articles/overpowered

@mınxomaτ .......I empathize with you.

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1:49 AM

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surprising mix of electro, swing and dubstep

Free poll: What's a programming language you like a lot but has one or more infuriating features? (and what are the features?)

Quill

PHP; everything

Easterly Irk

^

Python, indentation.

@AlexA. Python; syntactical differences between v2 and v3

@AlexA. Bash; hacky for anything that's more than a few lines (it wasn't designed to be used for full programs)

1:55 AM

@Quill You like PHP?!

Ruby; 2-space indentation convention

Sp3000

@AlexA. Python, er... shoot. Nevermind. Can't think of any problems right now.

AutoIt: No objects.

Perl; side effects include insanity

Quill

@AlexA. sure, it was an easy to learn programming language that supported Web and CLI scripting and ran on *nix. I did it for a while before ditching it for a complete JS stack

1:58 AM

@AlexA. Python: pattern matching on function arguments got removed in v3.

@Zgarb What's that?

Sp3000

Oh, PCRE's a good one to ding from Python

I'll go with that :)

@AlexA. C++, C compatibility

C++, toolchain

Python, speed

Python, self. self. self. self. self. self.

C++, lack of type inference < - > Python, lack of static typing

@AlexA. In v2, you could define a function by f(n, (a, b)) and it would open the second argument automatically. In v3, that's a syntax error.

2:06 AM

@Zgarb IMO that's how it should be (v3)

doesn't mean I advocate breaking changes like that

@orlp I may be spoiled by Haskell.

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

wikipedia PCRE

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) is a regular expression C library inspired by the regular expression capabilities in the Perl programming language, written by Philip Hazel, starting in summer 1997. PCRE's syntax is much more powerful and flexible than either of the POSIX regular expression flavors and many other regular expression libraries. While PCRE originally aimed at feature-equivalence with Perl, the two implementations are not fully equivalent. During the PCRE 7.x and Perl 5.9.x phase, the two projects have coordinated development, with features being ported between them in both...

@Zgarb So (a, b) is splatted into f(n, a, b)?

@orlp Doesn't C++ have auto now though?

Q: Write an interpreter for my new esoteric language StreamFlow

@AlexA. Yes, but it's just something tacked on

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I don't even know why I called it that... So, I thought up of an idea for an esoteric language, and today, it's your task to write an interpreter! This is code-golf. The language specification is rather complex. I'll try to make it concise. Language Specifications A program will be a 2-dimens...

code-golf

2:13 AM

Here's one for me: R, its painful facilities for string processing. (Though the stringr package helps with that)

Sp3000

Ditto for Mathematica

@orlp It's part of the standard though, isn't it?

@AlexA. I'm talking from a programming language design perspective

Oh, okay

Yeah, it does seem a little out of place IMO

The only time I've found it useful in my very limited use of C++ is for lambdas.

in 15 years we'll have Rust++ and it'll be amazing

2:16 AM

Currently Rust is really neat

I haven't really learned enough of it to be effective though

it has powerful new features

but it needs to ascend to higher level programming

to displace C++

I'd love to be good at C++

or anything, really ._.

@AlexA. No. If I define f(n, (a, b)) to return a*n + b, and x == (2, 3), then f(5, x) will give 13.

Huh

Okay

In Python 3, I'll have to define f(n, x) and manually index into x to extract its components.

I'd give better examples if I wasn't on mobile.

2:33 AM

I think I see what you mean

2:55 AM

def f(n, t):
    a, b = t
    return a*n + b

@AlexA. I'll be happy to tutor you in C++. ;-)

:D

Such tutoring would probably also be helpful for me... :P

Easterly Irk

@AlexA. Good at memeing?

@El'endiaStarman I'm not cheap to hire, but I have a 100% money back guarantee: if you're not happy with my tutoring, I won't charge you. :-)

2:58 AM

hahaha :)