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6:01 PM
@Vogel612 Good point.
 
I only have 4 pages worth of stuff starred? I need to get to work.
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Only 4?
 
@rolfl I know right?
 
<-- feels depressed, 'cause he hasn't even got one page
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Ha, monkey, my monkey... I'm disappointed...
 
6:04 PM
sorry that is 4 pages of stuff that I have said that other people starred
 
O.o
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Mine looks like yours now
 
I have but a measly two pages :(
 
@Vogel612 Time to get to work heaven then! (i.e. where the stars are)
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6:05 PM
Huh....
 
reposting ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼
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user image
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user image
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I got 10 pages of stars posted by me
 
Corbin ... watch this ... this is how you get your star-stats up:
lol
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6:07 PM
<-- time to get going home... it's already past 7 PM, and I'm sitting at work all alone, doing (almost) nothing
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and that was some reading up
So... I just read back a message where someone highlighted me, I type something... And then chat SE thinks: "Let's send a notifcation that you have an unread highlight!"
 
Yeah.... SE does strange stuff with chat highlights all the time. Every now and then I get a notification of a highlight that's a few months old.
 
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Q: Avoiding redundant code in mvc view page (html content is repeated)

SivaRajiniPlease refer below code @{ bool savingHtml = (Request.QueryString["savehtml"] == "1"); string activeTab = Request.QueryString["from"]; } @if (savingHtml) { if (activeTab.ToLower() == "index") { <div class="summaryTab"> <ul class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs">

 
wow ok
 
@SimonAndréForsberg right, it's probably fine on a tablet. My biggest gripe with Win 8 is they tried to make the PC "experience" just like the tablet "experience", but unless all you are interested in doing with your PC is surfing the net, you probably don't use a PC the same way you use a tablet. So it doesn't make any sense to target tablet users with the OS and then force it on PC users.
 
6:15 PM
Win8 + custom start menu = absolutely fine
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@jamal
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Wow :P
 
Hah. I can super-ping myself! :-)
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@Jamal rubber ducking there?
You should spell your name with a J not a j though.
 
That was automatic, apparently. It doesn't seem I can ping myself regularly.
 
6:16 PM
let's see
 
@skiwi I dunno about that, but it sure helps
 
@skiwi Are you even going to bother to react?
Can't get the notification, because I've already read the message :(
 
@Mat'sMug - in your question, what about concurrency?
 
@rolfl concurrency in VB6?
 
Is there none?
 
6:24 PM
none, whatsoever
 
m_GlobalCode = "ABC2013"
result = GetEquivalentCode
Debug.Assert result = "ABC2013"
OK, then.
Moving on.
 
I know, this m_GlobalShit is driving me nuts
 
@Mat'sMug Same thing the pirate said about the steering wheel sticking out of his pants ("It's driving me nuts.")
 
lol
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Oops--I'm acting like I'm in the Lounge again--juvenile humor and all.
 
6:27 PM
@Mat'sMug .. apparently Debug.Assert is Hot...
 
damn.. that validates the short question theory then
although my question could have been shorter
 
Oops, you slipped to page 2: stackexchange.com/questions?page=2
 
:) 100% of my tests pass
 
All 1 of them?
 
Nope, all 0 tests passed
 
6:31 PM
@Mat'sMug Woah you were quick to accept! I was surprised!
 
I got the StackApp on my phone :)
 
nah in reality I'm trying to figure out how on earth glVertexAttribPointer works
 
6:43 PM
@Mat'sMug How is it? Is it meaningfully better than the websites?
 
I like it very much, especially for the notifications
 
but chat sucks (is non-existant)
 
Ah. It has push notifications?
 
@Mat'sMug This is one of the drawbacks of doing test after the code is done :S Less testable or not at all
 
Like it will notify you outside of the app? That would be useful...
 
6:45 PM
Well I just have it running constantly, and then I'm ordering a Big Mac and phone vibrates and I see that @Marc-Andre has posted an answer to my question
 
Ah
 
@Mat'sMug isn't that supposed to be la-Big-Mac as in Pulp Fiction?
 
I'm glad to hear that it at least has some useful functionality in the form of notifications. Would have been rather awkward if it were just a website port considering Jeff Atwood's recent blog post (very correctly) bashing phone apps.
 
It's nowhere near perfect, I use it in conjunction with the full-site (on mobile - the "mobile" version is useless). Like now I have the 2nd monitor opened, I don't see the notification bar in my browser - but the app will tell me if I do get one.
 
@Mat'sMug got some work for you: codereview.stackexchange.com/…
Please check the tags ;-)
Bring closer to 200
 
6:51 PM
Ah. will have to try it out.
 
And, has a lot of candidates to improve score to 200 (from 149): codereview.stackexchange.com/…
 
@rolfl - done
 
Every bit helps :)
@JerryCoffin Loki just answered codereview.stackexchange.com/a/43539/31503
(who needs an app for notifications .... )
 
Welcome to 4K, @JerryCoffin! :-)
 
@Jamal Thanks.
@rolfl ...and an answer well worth an up-vote too, I have to say. Thanks for pointing it out.
@Jamal I have to admit, this idea of gaining new privileges is something I'd mostly forgotten about.
 
7:03 PM
It's because of all that SO rep, huh? I feel the same way, since mods unlock all privileges.
 
@JerryCoffin your local competition
Man, your chart is going to spike with the next data load.
 
@Donald.McLean I gotta say it, I LOOOOOOOOOVED the latest POI episode!
 
@Jamal Yeah--and a lot of the rep gained early enough that I gained most privileges when they came into existence.
 
Damnit ... I'm not at the top of this week's rep chart.....
 
linq closer to 200? Hmm... perhaps I also should do some more LINQ stuff?
 
Why do you need them to reach 200 btw, @rolfl?
 
@rolfl One accept away from tied for first though...
 
@SimonAndréForsberg [badge:generalist]
 
If the top 40 tags have 200 questins it enables generalist badge.... and, it's good housekeeping
 
finally:
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7:07 PM
Well, you're useless then ;-)
 
@Jamal should I merge my two aquarium answers?
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A: Simulation of an ocean containing sharks and fish

Mat's MugAs I mentioned in this answer, your Ocean class is breaking SRP, which makes your code harder to maintain than it needs to be. Memory Usage Let's pretend the ocean is an array of X-Y coordinates with 3 possible values at each intersection: EMPTY, FISH or SHARK (what your code does). If the ocea...

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A: Simulation of an ocean containing sharks and fish

Mat's MugJust a quick comment: Your Ocean class knows/does too many things. I'd be expecting a Fish class and a Shark class. Creating an ocean requires a starveTime constructor parameter? That's a sign you've broken the single responsibility principle (SRP). Methods like void addFish(int x, int y) would...

 
I still have space for 60 rep plus mre today, so I should be 'ok' ;-)
 
OK, now I understand what the monkey did. Retagging questions time!
 
@SimonAndréForsberg - don't flood the active page, but, it makes sense to add tags to badly tagged questions.
 
I'll take the upvotes as a "no"?
 
7:09 PM
Also, if you staqrt with old stuff, you may line up all of [badge:archeologist], [badge:Strunk&White], and [Badge:Copy Editor].
 
@rolfl If the questions are untagged a while longer, I can go through some of them and add a tag and possibly improve the question in other areas, to come closer to Copy Editor :)
 
I have been using it as an opportunity to find decent questions as well, perhaps upvote things, generally 'revive' some good-old stuff
 
(FYI - )
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Congrats... ;-)
 
@Mat'sMug sorry I will take back a vote or two
 
7:15 PM
:)
 
@Mat'sMug I only voted twice, I took one back. do you want to stay Rep Capped???
 
@Malachi I wouldn't mind ;)
 
@Mat'sMug: I think it's okay that way. The second answer is quite long anwway.
 
I should just start an E-mail to my personal Email and have the Q&A posts that I need to upvote listed there then when I get home it is a new day and I can vote on them
 
@Malachi - i have a much simpler solution....
 
7:18 PM
@rolfl what is that?
 
Just work your way down this list: codereview.stackexchange.com/users/31503/…
 
LOL ROFL
 
@Mat'sMug Leave them both, in the hopes of something I've never seen before: an accept and a populist badge on the same question!
 
Also, we can all downvote the question and score you a reversal too ... ;-)
 
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Q: Java MVC pattern

uros calakovicI recently posted a question about modeling a system that contains elements that can perform actions (here). The model runs in cycles and parts perform their action every cycle. The model should have some kind of visual representation displaying changes in model state. In my test code the model u...

 
7:21 PM
@rolfl Nah--that would be mean.
 
a reversal takes 20 upvotes
 
@SimonAndréForsberg It's getting hard to keep track of all of the plot threads and conspiracy groups.
 
still waiting on this one...▼▼▼
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A: Stored Procedure logically or coding

Malachiyou have a lot of if statements in your SQL, this screams at me that you are doing something in your SQL that should be done in the application, and that this SQL should be separated into two distinct stored procedures. the benefits faster stored procedures use an actual coding language to d...

 
@JerryCoffin Yeah, but in a twist, we could edit the question then upvote it all again....
 
@rolfl TS
@Donald.McLean TS
 
7:24 PM
Huh?
 
TS -> threoretical Star .... @Malachi is out of real ones.
 
yep out of Stars
Hello @user2745681
 
@rolfl 'twould still be mean, even if only temporarily.
 
would be funny though
we might get slapped on the wrist by mods or admins though
 
@JerryCoffin of course... you are right... and I fear you take me too seriously ;-)
 
7:26 PM
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Q: autocomplete using data fetched from database using asp

palIm trying in to implement autocomplete feature. So far this is the code I have. Autosuggest.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1 -transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <...

 
@rolfl Oh, I don't take much of anything too seriously...
 
@Marc-Andre check this out:
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A: Testing code with Debug.Assert

Mat's MugOk so this is what I ended up doing. I created an interface, called it ITestClass.cls: Option Explicit Public Sub RunAllTests() End Sub Then I created a new module, called Tests.bas: Private AllTests As Collection Option Explicit Private Sub SetupTestClasses() Set AllTests = New Colle...

@Malachi too ^^
 
@Mat'sMug Nice one! I'll wait before voting :P
 
7:46 PM
:)
 
darn, it feels so counterintuitive if the light is coming out of the back of the lights, can almost get sick of it
 
@Mat'sMug your rep graph is regularly maxed now... huh? Going to make it a habit?
 
@rolfl yeah, I... I don't even mean to rep-max... you're right: 4-5 answers in a day === rep-max.
 
About that .... but they have to be decent.
But, essentially 4 upvotes + accept and you're sorted.
 
@Mat'sMug That way lies madness Legendary badges.
 
7:49 PM
Hey @user2745681
Did you ever get that program fixed?
 
I am starting to see some 'interest' coming in from older answers too
 
Already over 1K views:
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Q: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe in C

syb0rgHere is my attempt at the UTTT code-challenge (in response to the the Weekend-Challenge Reboot). Here is what I would like critiqued: I tested the code a few times for bugs, but I may have missed some. I feel like I have duplicated code in some places (with only minor changes being the differe...

 
most of my answers are "on-the-side" answers that don't even address what the OP is primarily concerned about - naming conventions, readability, testability, ... I tend to leave the crux of the OP's problem to other answerers (i.e. encourage multiple answers)
 
@Mat'sMug that definitely looks a lot more professional....lol
 
I'm sitting here at 180 for the day and, if I cross 200, it will be day 12 @ max.
There have been very few decent Java questions today.... and I don't do MVC ;-)
 
7:52 PM
@rolfl where's your rep-max-counter query?
I thought I had it favorited..
 
@syb
 
No instead I create a new one..
 
@rolfl first one - favorited now :)
thanks!
(actually fav'd both!)
 
7:56 PM
@user2745681 Really? And you are compiling the C code as C code this time?
 
I am looking forward to checking out this next week's data... as far as I know, @JerryCoffin will be the first person on CR to have repmax and a bounty on the same day
It will validate/invalidate the code a bit.
 
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Q: Finite Automaton for a Typing Game

user 2745681I'm creating a game that implements a finite automaton and I don't know if I'm doing it right. Any advice?? Game class import java.awt.Canvas; import java.awt.event.KeyListener; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import java.awt.image.BufferStra...

 
Yes!
 
@rolfl If only there were a place you could submit that query code to get it reviewed...
 
@rolfl I looked at a couple of answers
 
7:59 PM
Thanks @Santa
 
11 new users since I said "35,000 users"
 
@JerryCoffin what ... like this ... ;-) codereview.stackexchange.com/q/40595/31503
(take a peek at the code... it's a challenge... ;[
 
I like this comment on my question
"This answer seems impossible to answer, since anyone who would claim "no you can't" can't really prove it."
 
a TS here, a TS there, here a TS, there a TS, everywhere a TS
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I am only up to 67 Rep Today....I don't think I have maxed out once on CR
and no one has ever earned a Reversal Badge yet.
 
No, but there was a second populist recently, IIRC.
 
8:06 PM
2nd? look again!
 
what does IIRC stand for?
 
@rolfl Ah, indeed (especially for somebody like me whose use of SQL tends toward the...simplistic side).
 
if I recall correctly (, IIRC)
 
oh I always remebered it as "ay, r see", which my mind translated to "as I see"
 
@JerryCoffin it is pretty standard 'now days' to pull the data in to a client-side application and crunch it there.... but, SEDE is like the good old days, where getting the data off the server (out of the database) is a slow (and in this case, impossible) process.... and CURSORS come to the rescue.
 
8:08 PM
IRC is Internet Relay Chat
 
I see there are actually 4 reversals ... I thought @SimonAndréForsberg was the first, but he was not.
 
@Malachi ...or Intensely Realistic Cowbells!
 
@JerryCoffin TS TS
 
@Mat'sMug TS
 
8:09 PM
Not me .... RSA
 
I should un Star something so I can star new comments
 
the right stuff?
 
@Donald.McLean I've seen almost all episodes twice (most of them thrice actually), so for me it's not a big problem. I think POI is a series where, once it is finished, you can watch all of it again with a whole different perspective and understand things on another level. I think it's brilliant.
 
Hehehe .... what's hot in 'the workplace':
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Q: My coworkers don't clean the toilet after themselves

Nate KerkhofsWe have 1 men's toilet + 1 urinal at work for about 15-20 people and 1 women's toilet for 3-4 females. The problem we have is that some of the employees don't check if everything has been flushed properly and that the bowl is clean. According to the employees working here for a few years, this ...

 
8:14 PM
@Mat'sMug It's a word, but somewhat archaic.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Not a bad idea, as long as the producers don't get stupid somewhere.
 
I trust the producers :)
@Mat'sMug yup, I had to google it a while ago, I think I found a question on english.SE about it :)
Wow, there's been TWO populist badges in just February!
 
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Q: Populate Drop Down List from SQL Database

Allan HorwitzI am populating a drop down list from my SQL database. List should be able to be displayed with active only, inactive only or both at the same time. OfficeRepository.cs: public static List<OfficeRollups> ListOfficeRollups(bool active, bool inactive) { List<DataRow> listDataRow =...

 
@SimonAndréForsberg You still had some questions about 3D you said earlier today?
 
@SimonAndréForsberg yeah, ...one was at my expense :)
 
8:17 PM
@rolfl In one of the "old" buildings at Google, they have toilets that (unlike the rest of the campus) don't flush automatically. Had to put up signs reminding people to flush the toilets--below which some clown added something about "how can you expect us to live in such primitive conditions?"
 
In my university there are tons of toilet rooms where the lightswitch is outside of the toilet room... silent rage
 
@skiwi I sure did! With emphasizing on did. You think I remember them?
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Well it had to do something with 3D and with engine
 
@skiwi Pretty typical in some parts of the world.
 
My in-laws have a cottage, with an out-house. I find it 'challenging', but they do have playboy's from the 40's/50's from when 'grandpa' was alive
 
8:19 PM
@skiwi Yeah, well... I would like to know what exactly your 3D engine is? What does it to that the 3D library you're using doesn't? And also, is it open source? :)
 
@JerryCoffin they obviously haven't seen this one:
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Q: OK we're all adults here, so really, how on earth should I use a squat toilet?

hippietrailOK so for anyone that's travelled beyond North America and Western Europe you know what I'm talking about. Left: Romania, last year. Right: Turkey, last night. They start popping up in the Balkans and of course they're everywhere by the time you get to Turkey and become totally unavoidable no ...

 
@SimonAndréForsberg For now it's no-source... in reality I'm working on it, I would think of making it open source perhaps, and it encapsulates OpenGL in OOP pretty much
 
@rolfl '50s, not '40s--first published in 1953 (and of course, I only ever read it for the articles, really).
 
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Q: Session state wrapper, extending an existing application

user38158I'm adding additional functionality to an existing MVC .net application, and to help prevent or at least reduce repeated reads to the dB I'm dumping a few custom entities in session. I'm limiting what can be stored in session to say a max of 5 objects for now. Given below is the code and it seems...

 
@Mat'sMug Why did you make me read that?!
 
8:24 PM
@JerryCoffin yeah, the problem is I am there in the summer, and, well, the mosquitos get in, so I never 'hang around' long enough to finish the articles.... and they are pretty much falling apart... and I don't want to be the last one to read it before the binding breaks... 'up at the cottage' there is this 'vegas' like attitude of 'what happens there....', but the teasing can be relentless.
 
@skiwi I downloaded JMonkeyEngine (yes, it's actually called that @rolfl) a year or so ago and played around a bit.
I just wanted to see if I could get something going. I did manage to understand the basics of it quickly I think, but I didn't do much with it (I have enough 2D game ideas already, who knows how many 3D ones I will have?)
 
@skiwi dunno ;p
 
Day 12@max... ;-)
 
@user2745681 Good!
 
The problem with me is that I love creating the model and logic parts of a game, and the AI stuff and things like that. I find the whole UI thing very difficult. Never seen myself as a designer really.
@Mat'sMug I love contrasts like this quote in the answer: I grew up using that thing. When I went studying abroad, I had problems with the toilet you guys called as the normal one (the sitting one). I literally wet my pants several times. Probably I should start a post about "How to sit on the normal toilet".
 
8:27 PM
@syb0rg can you help me again with my homework??
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Sorry can't talk much atm. But I would not go for jMonkeyEngine, or any engine unless you can actually develop games... It is really worth to develop an engine yourself and see it working
The problem I had with jMonkeyEngine is that I did not understand the 3D concepts properly, and you only really will if you either spend 1000 hours trying, or 500 hours making an engine, (random numbers)
 
(sorry guys I didn't mean to start a discussion about squat vs sitting toilets)
 
@skiwi I think it will take quite a while before I go 3D again. I need to finish some 2D projects first.
 
I just was imagining my worst nightmare - someone putting out the light on a sitting toilet - and then that happening on a squatting one! That would really be a hell /Fixed it
 
So, I thought I would look at the top user stats for the eek on SO... and, OMG, While I have maxed each day this month, and have 1130 rep (that's 5 days), in the same time on SO the top rep earner has 1940... (far outpacing Skeet who is 4th, and 'only' has 1295). These users are getting 21 accepts a day.
 
8:34 PM
now that's a busy eek
 
@skiwi 2D and 3D toilets?? Now I'm confused...
 
@user2745681 Sure, for a little bit.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg 1D toilets don't work out very well.
 
@JerryCoffin TS on that one. I've pulled a @Malachi and am out of stars.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg TS
 
8:37 PM
@Malachi TS
 
@SimonAndréForsberg TS
 
lol
 
But, Doing #1D vs. #2D ... hate to know what a #3D toilet trip would mean
 
@rolfl Pretty crazy. Undoubtedly helps when there are lots more questions, and a lot the answers are short and simple (especially for the Java and C# tags, quite a few answers consist of little more than telling somebody the right part of the library to look at).
 
8:39 PM
@JerryCoffin And don't forget the most important ingredient for SO: The fastest gun in the west.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg There are certainly a lot of people who make most of their rep that way, but it's rarely the route to getting lots of accepts.
 
Lot of 0-score, 0-accept answers given.
 
hmpf I need to think before starting to program something
 
Then a lot of 0-score 1-accept as well.
 
I think what helps in getting lots of accepts is: Editing answer to make it better than all the others, being observant on the OP's specific problem, commenting on the question, understanding the problem, having good knowledge, and also: Having pure luck.
 
8:43 PM
Meh, I am not intersted in the fray that is SO
 
Quite impressive how many linked list questions this site has...
 
Mostly, pure luck
We should link all those linked list questions together
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doubly
 
Put the ? on the outside!
 
8:45 PM
TS?
 
You need to study the CR memes!
 
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A: What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?

Mat's MugMeme: TS | RSA Originator: rolfl Cultural Height: star-power Background: The 2nd Monitor is quite a star-happy chatroom. How many of you know that there's only a number of times you can "star" a chat post - a star cap (like the rep cap and the vote cap, a star cap). And just when you run out o...

 
@skiwi Not so much luck as simple numbers. You simply have to post massive numbers of answers.
 
Tropical Skiwi?
ah now I see what TS is
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RSA^^^
@skiwi - you outspoken yet?
 
8:47 PM
I guess?
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Got to the point I once (in slightly more polite language) asked Does anybody actually used these stupid things?
 
@JerryCoffin none of those answers are the one I would give ... ;-)
Linked lists are the first step in learning more advanced concepts like recursion, trees, graphs, and other structures. As a result, it is the first thing to teach, and learn, and thus is the concept most asked by novices, because now suddenly things 'get hard'. Their use in real-world situations is limited, but the more advanced structures are common
 
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Q: Fixed size matrix implementation

Blaz BratanicI implemented a fixed-size matrix class which supports basic matrix operations (cannot use c++11). What do you think, and how could it be improved? #ifndef FIXED_SIZE_MATRIX_H__ #define FIXED_SIZE_MATRIX_H__ #include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> template <typename Ty, int N, int M = N> struct...

 
@rolfl That's probably fairly accurate. Problem with it is that (IMO) about the only thing that really translates well to other structures is the really basic concept of manipulating links. Beyond that, most linked list tricks are nearly unique to linked lists.
 
9:00 PM
bunny is still quietly killing zombies, and more.
Manipulating links is not a small thing though ... it leads to pointers, references, efficient sorts, all sorts of things
And you can think of linkedlists as being a 1-direction graph, and the rest goes from there.
 
@rolfl You can, but in the process you lose most of the interesting things you can do with graphs. It's degenerate to the point that there's no longer even a meaningful difference between DFS and BFS.
 
That is true, but, my point is you have to start somewhere, and Linked List is the first place you get to where it gets hard.
I imagine that learning the context for a BST without having gone through a LinkedList concept first, would be harder.
Throw in a DAG and you're losing folks really fast.
 
@rolfl hmm.. and if I knew about recursion and trees before I saw my first linked list, does that make me weird?
 
No, it's the mug that makes you weird, and that you are from QC
 
oh
well that explains a lot
</nothing-to-add>
dag?
 
9:08 PM
Directed Acyclic Graph.
In mathematics and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG ), is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it is formed by a collection of vertices and directed edges, each edge connecting one vertex to another, such that there is no way to start at some vertex v and follow a sequence of edges that eventually loops back to v again. DAGs may be used to model many different kinds of information. A collection of tasks that must be ordered into a sequence, subject to constraints that certain tasks must be performed earlier than others, may be represented as a DAG with a verte...
 
I shouldn't have dropped out of CS.. damn.
 
I studied accountancy
 
Do they have Dagwoods restaurants in Ontario?
 
Oh, DAG. I'm loving it. I gotta ask my friend to finish his graph-program. I could have used it a while ago...
Incoming meta answer:
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A: Question Titles in the Long Run

Simon André ForsbergI like amon's answer a lot here, but I wanted to contribute with some extra suggestions What actions [are we taking|can be taken] to avoid, in the long run, titles like "Simple Calculator Implementation #429"? If it is a common implementation (Linked List Implementation, Fizz-Buss, some kin...

 
@SimonAndréForsberg meta-answers aren't bot-posted...
 
9:12 PM
Took me to my final year to decide the 'Business information Systems' course was really what I wanted to with my life, but more serious than BIS.
 
mainsite-answers neither, for that matter...
 
unless @syb0rg posts it.
 
WTF? How did my answer already get 2 up-votes? Are people actually paying attention to the meta?
 
Late Nice Question there.
I did ;-)
 
@SimonAndréForsberg StackApps got me notified of your answer!
 
9:13 PM
I happened to be on the 'active' page, and the tab-title changed.
Enlightened!
 
@rolfl Posts what?
Oh.
;)
 
Another answer to a meta question (I should really have posted this a long time ago, I've actually had this opinion for a long time)
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A: Is the tag [reinventing-the-wheel] really helpful?

Simon André ForsbergI have to bring up this question again, because I really don't think it is that helpful. Why is it not helpful? Because it isn't being used that much! A search for questions with the words "linked list" and without this tag gave a whooping 356 results. Compared to only 3 results that are actua...

Sorry @rolfl but I really disagree with you on that tag ^^
 
Which implies that beginners should add 'I am a beginner ...' and we should kill too ... right?
And.... I am gone/
 
@SimonAndréForsberg I think the management would tend to agree with you. It's a meta-tag, which are officially frowned upon on SO, and (once it's large enough to draw attention) the same arguments probably apply here.
 
later!
 
9:26 PM
@rolfl Yes, probably.
@rolfl Later.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg you're aware that this is already ?
 
:)
 
Oddly, I +1'd...
is there a vote-cap on meta too?
 
9:28 PM
@Mat'sMug Why don't you go ahead and try it? :)
 
gotta leave in 2 minutes, ...I might try later.
 
@rolfl Honestly, perhaps we should yes. I think that there are plenty of cases where the OP is a beginner but doesn't add that tag. And I recall a discussion from somewhere that others should not add that tag to the question unless it's clear that the OP sees him/herself as a beginner, as it could be seen as there is an insult to add that tag to someone else's question. (This topic could possibly use a new meta question though)
 
is this mean?
There's a typo in your Hungarian notation for strQry... — Mat's Mug 8 secs ago
 
Considering my tiredness, I really gotta sleep in -10 minutes, it's bedtime!
@Mat'sMug Considering I just +1'd, no it's not :)
 
@Mat'sMug Add a winky face or something, showing you mean well by your comment.
 
9:30 PM
@syb0rg good call - done :)
 
Night folks!
 
good night!
 
Bye @SimonAndréForsberg
 
wow I gotta get back to that question, it's tagged , has some LINQ in it, and yet uses ADO.NET to get the data from the database...
 
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9:34 PM
^^ TS / WTF? / Ah, ok!
 
That will cause some problems when developing my bot...
 
your bot isn't JS-enabled?
 
* Adding handle: conn: 0x100804400
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x100804400) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to chat.stackexchange.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 198.252.206.29...
* Connected to chat.stackexchange.com (198.252.206.29) port 80 (#0)
> POST /rooms/8595/the-2nd-monitor HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.5
Host: chat.stackexchange.com
That is the full output of my bot right now.
 
interesting
oh well, gotta go now!
later!
 
Bye @Mat'sMug
 
9:38 PM
@Mat'sMug G'night.
 
Welcome back @rolfl
 
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Q: Better way to write this coding (Experimenting)

user3385538I am very curious to see what different kinds of effective codes there are... Show another effective way to write this coding below... Just experimenting and learning the different ways of how python runs. list=[] original=mkPoint3D(x,y) z1=mkPoint3D(x-d,y) z2=mkPoint3D(x+d,y) z3=mkPoint3D(x,y-d...

 
Feel free to change the title if it's not quite right:
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Q: Determine local minimum from given points

user3385538How could I make this code more effective? I'm just experimenting and learning the different ways of how Python runs. list=[] original=mkPoint3D(x,y) z1=mkPoint3D(x-d,y) z2=mkPoint3D(x+d,y) z3=mkPoint3D(x,y-d) z4=mkPoint3D(x,y+d) list.append(original) list.append(z1) list.append(z2) list.append...

 
9:53 PM
No on-topic questions as of late, besides my own of course.
 
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Q: VBA Find Condense

RL76The code below searches worksheet A column F for a defined string or the string "All" and returns the corresponding column entry. The entry that is returned is in column F. What I need help with is the following: 1. How can i simplify this code 2. From my "FoundCell" variable return the value i...

 
10:04 PM
@syb0rg C doesn't fit this season's fashion! :-)
 
@JerryCoffin I know, I'm trying to learn some Objective-C so I can start answering those questions.
Take for example this question:
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Q: Console monster battle game

ScüterThis code currently works, but I'm new to Objective-C from a Python/PHP background. How can I improve it/make it more Objective-Cesque? Header File/Interface #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface Monster : NSObject @property NSString* name; @property NSNumber* health; @property NSNumb...

I can review a few things in there, but it would be mostly minor stuff.
 
@syb0rg I'm afraid I'd only have one comment for all Objective C questions, and nobody really wants to hear it (especially since targeting anything recent from Apple requires them to use at least a little Objective C).
 
@syb0rg: I want to try to get back to answering after midterms are over. Since I won't have anything else to do over spring break, I might as well write another program.
 
@Jamal I'm probably going to read a few programming books over my spring break. Improve my knowledge base.
 
I still haven't finished reading Effective C++.
 
10:13 PM
Nor have I finished C++ Primer 5th Edition :P
Sooo much stuff to read.
 
I just have two hardcover books with me: one for basic C++ games and another for data structures.
 
Hmm, now that I think of all these books I can read, I think I'm going to go actually read them, since there isn't too much activity going on here.
@Gaʀʀʏ Hello!
 
@syb0rg Hi :)
has anyone read The Art of Computer Programming ?
 
10:31 PM
@Garry I checkout out a few of his books, but I haven't read the whole series. It's very deep stuff.
 
@syb0rg do you have some lighter material you would recommend? I have not ready many programming books
 
@Garry For C programming?
 
General programming but C is okay too
 
@Garry For C (absolute beginners):
I actually have the third edition. I may need to replace it with the 4th edition... newer standards.
If you are a tad more experienced with C:
 

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