The Awkward Silence

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A J

07:24

Afternoon!

CaldeiraG

07:54

Morning! Afternoon for AJ :)

1 hour later…

Ælis

08:58

Hello people! :)

Extroverted Main Man

09:10

Q: Should i stop talking with my ex-girlfriend who is dating with someone else?

We broke up 3 years ago because I had mixed emotions. We were happy and fun, and I like her, but I was not in love completely, and I was not thinking of marrying. After we broke up I never forgot her, but I didn't call her or text her because I wanted her to continue her life. I didn't want to m...

relationships

Ælis

09:55

I finally solved my Appium issue! \o/ (stupid version thing, you made me lost a full week!)

Also, it's not the first time I have issues with incompatible version of things. I guess I should be more careful with that

CaldeiraG

10:23

@Ælis \o/

Ælis

11:02

At my workplace, 1/4 of the people have the same firstname x) If you are a man, your name probably start with a J and if you are a woman, it's a C

A J

@Ælis Jello!

CaldeiraG

I know a girl who their nickname is Jelloessence or Jello for short :p

A J

I got a Thank You card for completing 3 years at the current company. I now wonder if it's really been 3 years. I guess an appraisal would be more joyful.

Journeyman Geek

11:19

@CaldeiraG 0_0

CaldeiraG

11:36

Don't ask me why :p

1 hour later…

A J

12:56

> Friend 1: Buddy, this coffee shop is closed. what do we do?
Friend 2: Don't worry, we'll try the nescafe!

@Ælis A Friday joke for you. ;P

Ælis

Belle

13:47

Hello :)

I'm working from home today, cuddling cats while working

CaldeiraG

@AJ Lol :p

@Belle Hello, nice!

Rainbacon

@Belle I'm jealous. I'm at the office watching my computer install updates

CaldeiraG

@Rainbacon Last year my work computer was prompting me to upgrade to 1809, when I was about to leave I left it upgrade

Belle

@Rainbacon I'm not sure if you should be. I'm currently trying to make sense of a 600-line function

CaldeiraG

Fortunately it didn't break when i arrived the next morning :)

Belle

13:52

It's full of array iterations as well. I rewrote most of it to Linq, much easier to read.

@CaldeiraG What's 1809?

CaldeiraG

@Belle Windows version :)

Belle

@CaldeiraG Ohh. All I'm aware of is that I'm using Windows 10 xD

JAD

@Rainbacon hmm, I'm generally fine with that kind of thing. Not my problem. Gives me time to goof off :)

Belle

It's kind of funny. When I tell them I'm a programmer, people often go "oh that's so impressive, I'm not good with computers at all!". And I'm like "I'm not good with computers either.........."

CaldeiraG

@Belle xD, you can do Win + R, type winver and check it out

Belle

13:55

I'm on 1803

CaldeiraG

@Belle There is a common misconception that people who work with computers, especially programming, can fix problems about the OS

Rainbacon

@Belle You should hit the function with a hammer until it breaks into more reasonably sized pieces

Belle

Extract method ftw. Except that sometimes makes more variables than you need. I've got 12 errors due to scope issues left and most of my functions are now 10 lines or so. I have 2 or 3 100-line beasts left, but I consider that a lot better than 600 lines.

I encountered it when trying to fix an order-of-execution bug. Couldn't just flip the statements around because the variables are all over the place.

JAD

@CaldeiraG or even worse, networking

CaldeiraG

@JAD yep x)

Belle

14:01

I'm good at following YouTube tutorials x)

CaldeiraG

@Belle 009 Sound System - Dreamscape with someone typing in the notepad were the legend of tutorials :p

Until the song was removed from the Youtube Music Catalog and it's now copywrited

Belle

I'm wondering why you'd use var result = someEnumerable.ToArray() and then do if result.Count > 0 rather than if someEnumerable.Any()

JAD

proper past tense would be copywritten

@Belle is result used afterwards?

if so, it might save on enumerating it twice

although any is generally pretty cheap

Belle

@JAD yes, in a string.Join

Although string.Join is just as happy with an IEnumerable as with an array afaik

JAD

it is

and it's fine with an empty enumerable as well

so the check is rather unnecessary

you could also test for an empty string afterwards

Belle

14:08

Oh, the check makes sense, the whole result needs to be different depending on if there's any items in the enumerable or not

Like "your shopping list contains x, y and z" or "there are no items on your shopping list"

I could string.Join and then check if that result is empty too, but I don't think that will make much of a difference performance-wise and it might readability-wise

JAD

I'd say it depends on the IEnumerable source in that case. If enumerating twice is expensive (even if it's just for the first object), due to a DB connection or some other expensive method, it makes sense to just store the results once.

Belle

That's not the case here, the original source is a small List

JAD

Then refactor ahead :)

Rainbacon

14:28

I'm blocked from doing anything at work because I need some questions answered and some access granted, and all of the people I depend on are 3 time zones behind me

Extroverted Main Man

Q: How can I warn my friend about getting into a relationship with someone I deeply distrust?

This time last year, my best friend of around 10 years (B) started dating a new coworker (C) at the place we work. From an outside perspective, the relationship seemed somewhat broken --- my friend B was really into him, and even though C seemed to be really into her, he never seemed like he want...

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Rainbacon

I hate working with people so far away

Belle

15:09

I'm glad we're all in the same timezone and even relatively close to each other. I'm one of the furthest away at an hour from the office.

Belle

15:55

Woop, finished my day-long ticket 5 minutes before my day is over.

2 hours later…

ankii

18:00

I think pups are like cats, they jump while walking, come close to your leg, sniff it, and bend in weird ways when you pet them, and surprisingly have that bend in their spine too.

Rainbacon

@ankii But are they jerks? My cat is a jerk

ankii

nah

they are best of both worlds

@Rainbacon that reminds me that you haven't posted any photo ?

Rainbacon

18:16

All my pictures are on my phone and the mobile version of chat won't let me upload pictures

Rory Alsop

@Rainbacon your mobile browser should have an option to use desktop mode

that's what I switch to when I need to upload pics

Rainbacon

@ankii There's some photos

BaiduryaMathaddict

Aw, lovely 🐈!

ankii

omg!!

@RoryAlsop you're a mod on parenting right?

Rory Alsop

@ankii yep

ankii

18:27

and you migrated a Q about youtube kids to Apple.SE

Rory Alsop

@ankii ... that's possible. Rings a bell - I think we had discussed it between the mods and thought that would be best destination

ankii

apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3693/… It triggered some discussion. I was a part of that in comments under main post, but deleted after it was resolved

Rory Alsop

@ankii just read the discussion there

ankii

we(not me though ) removed all the fluff, references to iOS, and web apps.SE too.

Ah darn: references to android*

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