The 2nd Monitor

rolfl

7:00 PM

@rolfl Not a bad prediction. I carried out some testing and I got 3X slower for List. — toto2 Jun 27 at 20:22

;-)

@Mat'sMug I do too, but don't know how to express it.

Mat's Mug

I skipped both that one and the c FP reviews... so much for my [badge:reviewer]...

Captain Obvious

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Q: Dropdown Form to Link to Another Page

I'm trying to create a dropdown form that will allow me to link to another page after the user clicks on one of the dropdown items. Here's the code so far: <script> $('document').read(function(){ $('#mapform').change(function(){ var selectedContinent = $('#mapform option:selected')....

Alex L

5 more rep today and I get my first mortarboard!

Jamal

@AlexL Ho ho ho

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Malachi

@AlexL looks like you already got it

Captain Obvious

7:08 PM

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Q: How to unify XML formatting with inheritable parsing?

Inspired by the XML format for game data question, I was interested to see how my system works for storing game data. My system works a lot like Halo, where there are a variety of gametypes and configurations vary between them, but some basic items are always configurable. For example, every game...

java sql xml

Alex L

@Malachi Not the badge, nope

Malachi

you will get it when everyone reloads

@AlexL and now you are maxxed for rep unless you get some more accepts or bounties

Alex L

> You've earned the "Mortarboard" badge (Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day).

@Malachi Now I have! haha

rolfl

And, I just got: You've earned the "Excavator" badge (Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months) for "*Obsolete Iterative code reviews: how can they happen successfully?".* huh

The thing is, mortarboards, and excavators are often found together ;-)

Hmmmm wikipedia is not helping me here:

Hawk (plasterer's tool)

A hawk or hod is a tool used to temporarily hold a viscous material so that the user can apply that material to a surface using a different tool. It consists of a board about 25 cm (9 inches) square with a perpendicular handle fixed centrally on the reverse. The user holds the hawk horizontally with his or her non-dominant hand and applies the material on the hawk with a tool held in the other hand. Hawks are most often used by plasterers along with a finishing trowel to apply a smooth finish of plaster to a wall. Brick pointers use a hawk to hold mortar while they work. Hawks are also used to...

^^^^ that is a mortarboard.

Jamal

Wow, I'm actually still quite far from earning Archaeologist and Copy Editor on Meta.

Captain Obvious

7:15 PM

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Q: Returns values for a specific array and key

This code is intended to take an array and a key as inputs, and return an array of the values paired with that key. function valuelist($array, $array_column) { $return = array(); foreach($array AS $row){ $return[]=$row[$array_column]; }; return $return; }; Can this be i...

php optimization array

Alex L

@CaptainObvious Hmmm, I think I'll grab this one...

Mat's Mug

...but that would be overkill IMO. Unless you say "we've come this far, might as well go all the way down the rabbit hole"... — Mat's Mug 28 secs ago

rolfl

> I just can't find anything to pick apart. Well done. Thank you for helping me make the case that VBA is a legitimate programming language in the right hands.

^^^ only in the hands of the museum curator

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Mat's Mug

honestly, it is abusing the language. vba isn't meant for that.

but it looks awesome, I find.

ckuhn203

7:37 PM

It's only abusive to the poor vba "dev" that ends up maintaining it later on.

There's nothing wrong with building a toolbox.

Malachi

I want to see some Linq in VBA!

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ckuhn203

^TS

Mat's Mug

^^TS

skiwi

@Mat'sMug vba is abuse itself.

@ckuhn203 RSA

ckuhn203

@skiwi It can be done well. I stand by my opinion on that.

It's just kind of like php, there's a lot of beginners writing terrible code.

skiwi

7:43 PM

hehe ok, I haven't taken a look at it to b ehonst

And will never plan to do so.

rolfl

@ckuhn203 That sounds like JAVA too

ckuhn203

Exactly

Vogel612

@Jamal meta has overall 600 questions.. copy editor is unattainable..

rolfl

answer edits count too

Vogel612

well then... ahem... electorate is unattainable?

(goes to meta and runs through questions by age for votes, to be the first to get it)

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Mat's Mug

7:51 PM

@Malachi the closest I can do is call a method by its name, with its parameter values, and capture its return value. Wait, I think...

@Mat'sMug ^^^TS

@Malachi SRSA

^^ this made me lol

wow skiwi just held back his stars, and now it's his great moment ;)

skiwi

@Vogel612 I tend to be careful with my stars these days

Oh! Right now I'm out of stars... for real

Mat's Mug

7:54 PM

ha-ha

Jamal

Another upvote for this new user, plz?

skiwi

@Jamal RVA

Mat's Mug

napalmd

Captain Obvious

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Q: Optimization of Recursive JQuery Images swap function

Good day everyone! There's this website I'm working on that needs to swap images every few seconds, like a slideshow or image fade swap in a way, except that you need to target 5 IMG tag elements. I was able to make a weak version of that function. But i'm sure this could be done even better, c...

optimization jquery recursion

Jamal

one-vote-left

Phrancis

7:59 PM

napalmed-x2

skiwi

This made me lol

+1 for referencing the Future — bpgergo Nov 11 '11 at 15:45

Simon André Forsberg

@Pimgd JavaFX FTW!

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg TS!

Mat's Mug

new user, off-by-one:

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Q: XML format for game data

I want to create an XML format in which I will define data objects for a game I am currently working on. The base idea is that I will have Elements which can be combined in other Elements, Items or Spells. A primal element is an element which is directly available. If an element is not primal...

game xml

Jamal

8:16 PM

And there goes my last vote...

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ckuhn203

So, I just stumbled across an old blog I wrote. (Before I started spending way too much time in the 2nd monitor.) I thought you blokes might appreciate it.

christopherjmcclellan.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/…

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg I got a new version including the Future done

pastebin.com/X4kPGHBs

try {
    future.get();
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
} catch (ExecutionException ex) {
    throw (RuntimeException)ex.getCause();
}

Yep, I really wrote that.

Captain Obvious

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Q: Simple Object known state System

I'm currently re-studying C# and I wanted to make a basic system where objects always know where each other are. But I also wanted to make it so that objects that don't need to know about other objects (Like a Wall) don't necessarily need to keep that data. What it currently does The Shape ...

c#

Phrancis

@all for Java to be able to talk to PostgreSQL, I would use JDBC right?

skiwi

@Phrancis I think so yep

Simon André Forsberg

8:25 PM

@skiwi I don't see why you typecast ex.getCause to RuntimeException, I would just wrap it in a runtime exception. throw new RuntimeException(ex);

It does look a lot better though @skiwi

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg You'd prefer throw new RuntimeException(ex.getCause().getCause()) then?

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi No, just throw new RuntimeException(ex);. I don't see the need for getCause.

skiwi

You don't want it to be wrapped up even more

Simon André Forsberg

I believe you can just rethrow ex in your service.submit code.

skiwi

Then you'd get the original exception, wrapped in a RuntimeException, wrapped in an ExecutionException, wrapped in a RuntimeException

Simon André Forsberg

8:28 PM

Callable is declared to be able to throw Exception

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Correct there

Now it got even better

} catch (ExecutionException ex) {
    throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}

Simon André Forsberg

    Future<?> future = service.submit(() -> {
        try {
            baseAccept(path);
        } catch (AutomaticExecutionFailedException ex) {
            //do not rethrow, failure was expected, cleanup has been done
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ManualUtils.moveToManual(Config.REJECTED_DIRECTORY, path);
            throw ex;
        }
    });
    try {
        future.get();
    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
    } catch (ExecutionException ex) {

skiwi

Just by adding an return null, i-love-lambdas.

@SimonAndréForsberg Close

You need the return null; at the end of the runnable/callable

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi Don't blame me, I just make minor modifications in your code.

skiwi

It works though now, I also know what I'm doing

Jamal

8:32 PM

As soon as the Meta tag post receives status-completed, I'll finally earn the tag badge. :-)

skiwi

Time to test and see if it crashes the JVM again.

I may have disabled my pagefile on Windows, hence it cannot get more memory once it's out.

I can't afford to lose 24GB on my SSD

Phrancis

Who here has any experience with Java, JDBC and any version of SQL used together? I'd like to have a private chat for a few minutes... please

skiwi

@Phrancis I have some remote experience

ckuhn203

Very nice answer.

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A: Creating ShortCut (RightClick) Menus in Access

As you already noticed, all the CreateSomething methods have the same repeating pattern. We can extract this pattern and encapsulate it in a method for reuse : Private Sub CreateCommandBar(name As String, ParamArray buttonIDs() As Variant) Dim menu As Office.CommandBar Set menu = Command...

skiwi

Invite me for room if you want

Jeroen Vannevel

8:49 PM

reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/2bmbxu/…

Another book added to the shelf

rolfl

9:03 PM

Phrancis, i have, but i am on my phone, and can't chat well

skiwi

Ugh, I still need to redesign as it's still not logging the document id on exceptions :(

Captain Obvious

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Q: How easy is it to crack this encryption algorithm?

When I was about 13 or 14 years old, I was a little interested in cryptography (which is, after all, an interesting field). I learnt quite a lot since that time (it has been about 8 years since then), but I'm still very far away from concidering myself an expert in cryptography. Whatever, when I...

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