The 2nd Monitor

TopinFrassi

3:00 PM

@DanPantry Well as long as I don't have 3 minotors I can use this excuse. :p

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi minotaurs you say?

TopinFrassi

Monitors* Though Minotaurs is much funnier.

@DanPantry "Those minotaurs would really help me reduce my work load boss"

2

Mast

@TopinFrassi You really don't want 3 Minotaurs near your workplace.

Mat's Mug

@DanPantry art? artful programming right.. geez, I wouldn't have the slightest beginning of a clue of how to go about animating individual stick characters into a countdown.

2

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug What unit(s) of measurement is that?

Mat's Mug

3:01 PM

minutes

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug The code is actually quite simple. What's super interesting is that they actually animated each limb of the skeleton in turn.

I don't like how they use requestAnimationFrame without counting the time since the last render.

Mast

Make it a community-challenge.

Dan Pantry

That means the clock only works if you're tabbed in to see it.

Phrancis

16K minutes... how long is that

Quill

1 day is 1440 minutes

Around 11 days until Winterbash 2015 starts!

Phrancis

3:02 PM

Looks like about 11 days

Dan Pantry

@Quill so you're saying it's more than one day :D

Call me @CaptainObvious, I'm here to save the day..

Mast

@Phrancis Twice half.

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug It's awesome but damn long before you get a result :p

Mast

@TopinFrassi Imagine doing this every second while the movement speed stays the same.

Dan Pantry

oh god, this is so bad for my productivity.. I've had an error log up on my left screen for half an hour now

but I havent' looked into it because of 2nd

Mast

3:03 PM

They'd never stand still. Try reading the clock then ^^

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry Same here. I got the exception stack trace on my first monitor. At least it looks like I'm debugging

Mast

@DanPantry I've been looking into an error message the past 30 minutes and still don't understand what's wrong, so far our speed is the same.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi I need a "Manager is coming, look busy" mug

Quill

I had 1000 sql rows on my monitor earlier :P

Mast

@DanPantry s/mug/button

Dan Pantry

3:04 PM

@Quill Did you see what happened in my corp earlier?

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I'd need a mug. :p

Dan Pantry

DBA dropped a table in prod...

Quill

@DanPantry no?

Ethan Bierlein

@DanPantry Again?

Dan Pantry

You have 1000 sql rows... he dropped millions :^)

Quill

3:05 PM

oh really, ouch

Mast

@EthanBierlein Same guy ^^

Dan Pantry

@Mast My grandfather when he owned his own insurance company had a red "Panic button" that would open up an excel doc when he pressed it

Phrancis

Millions of rows... that's just pocket change ;p

2

Quill

You'd think after a failure like that, you'd take the time to read up on DELETE and the *

Dan Pantry

@Phrancis Millions is probably an understatement, it was about 34GB of data.

@Quill Second time he has done it. :S

Phrancis

3:06 PM

@DanPantry Oh. Now that's a lot of rows

Mast

@DanPantry I've seen a couple of people making their own. One of them used a big red emergency stop. Freaking big.

Dan Pantry

@Mast Yeah, I think argos used to do them, or Iwantoneofthose

Mast

It kind of turned into a competition who had the biggest button.

Dan Pantry

(btw, iwantoneofthose.com is an amazing site for nerd-ish gifts this christmas /plug)

Quill

where's the referral code? :P

Dan Pantry

3:07 PM

@Mast competitions between men usually come down to who has the biggest tool tbh

@Quill Don't have one. :( I just like the site.

Mast

@DanPantry Do they deliver to the mainland as well?

Dan Pantry

@Mast You mean to not-America?

I'm pretty sure they at least deliver to the UK, not sure about the rest of Europe (If I remember correctly you're European)

Quill

Motherboard chopping board: Now that's cool!

Dan Pantry

@Quill could make a more expensive one of those with several raspberry pis

Quill

I should totally email and ask for the specs on it as a joke

Dan Pantry

3:11 PM

@Quill do it

TopinFrassi

LOL

iwantoneofthose.com/gift-home-office/pussy-magnet/10767954.html

3

EBrown

@TopinFrassi LOL

TopinFrassi

That one's epic

iwantoneofthose.com/gift-home-office/cloud-storage/…

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi LOL

TopinFrassi

That's what I should give to my boss. "Here you go, the cloud storage"

Dan Pantry

3:14 PM

Do it... I think I'm going to get the metal star wars / star trek models for 2 of my colleagues

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry If they deliver to America, I'd buy some stuff out of that site

But not too much because euro$ >>> CAN$

iwantoneofthose.com/gift-novelty/emergency-moustaches/…

For real life situations

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi It looks like they do, the currency bar supports USD

and canadian dollars

TopinFrassi

Thanks for this discovery ahah

@DanPantry Nice!

Dan Pantry

we should do a 2nd monitor secret santa

3

TopinFrassi

That's... actually a good idea. If shipping prices aren't too high

Ethan Bierlein

3:17 PM

ChatJax screwed something up really badly

TopinFrassi

@EthanBierlein Looolllllll

Mast

@DanPantry EU.

Dan Pantry

@EthanBierlein all hail the canadian masterrace

@EthanBierlein @Phrancis this is what can happen if you don't escape HTML correctly :-)

Mast

I'm at the other side of that creek they call a canal.

Phrancis

@DanPantry lol

TopinFrassi

3:20 PM

@DanPantry We'd need to list who's interested!

Mast

Apparently they ship pretty much anywhere.

@DanPantry A what?

Dan Pantry

@Mast Secret santa.

It's when you are assigned a random person in the chat room

And you have to buy them a gift

no one knows who has anyone else

Phrancis

while (!workToBeDone.isEmpty()) {
    if (the2ndMonitor.isOpen()) {
        return;
    } else {
        for (E workItem : workToBeDone) {
            workItem.workOn();
        }
    }
}

Mast

Oh, like drawing names from a hat and getting a gift for the guy you draw.

We do something like that here with Sinterklaas.

Dan Pantry

while (!workToBeDone.isEmpty()) {
  the2ndMonitor.open()
  me.ignoreResponsibilities()
}

TopinFrassi

3:22 PM

@Mast Exact! But we'd need a website to deal with that instead. :p I'm wondering who here could create a small web app.. hmmm

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi There are plenty of places online that will do secret santa, I'm sure.

Mast

@TopinFrassi Well, as said, the Dutch have experience with that. We got sites for that already online.

EBrown

@Mast We do "Secret Manta" at my work, which is similar, except instead of buying a gift you just bring whatever broken crap you have in.

Dan Pantry

Unless you want to do it as a community challenge, but I don't think we have time for that.

Mast

Just not sure whether they support English.

TopinFrassi

3:22 PM

@DanPantry If not, that'd be a good service. :p

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: Dijsktra Algorithm: Shortest path between two vertices, How to retrace the path?

I was working on the code of Dijkstra algorithm and I am having trouble in obtaining the array that traces the shortest path from the source vertex to the destination vertex, Written below is the function that returns the shortest path-- public int[] short_path(int source,int destina...

0

Q: How Can I Output a a Remark Column Without Duplicating with Coldfusion cfoutput

I want to Show a Remark Column showing the total quantity of the for a particular product type.. If there are 10 rows and 5 rows is for honey with 30 quantity, it should show in the remark column as Total Quantity for honey is 30. without repeating it for each rows.. See image for more explanatio...

coldfusion

Dan Pantry

@EBrown Has anyone brought in a manta ray pillow yet?

EBrown

@DanPantry No, but someone got a sword last year.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown Close enough

TopinFrassi

@Mast Could you check it out?

Dan Pantry

3:23 PM

Wait, who just has a sword lying around wtf?

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I do. :p

Mast

@TopinFrassi Sure.

Ethan Bierlein

Holy crap, I'm 52 rep from capping on Gamedev.SE today.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi You're American, it doesn't count. You get to have guns just lying around

EBrown

@DanPantry This guy bought it on eBay when he was drunk one night.

3

Mast

3:23 PM

@EthanBierlein I repcapped hours ago ^^

Ethan Bierlein

Wow

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I'm Canadian* :p There's no guns lying around here!

We have hockey sticks lying around. Much more dangerous in the hand of a real Canadian

4

Dan Pantry

drawnames.com/online-secret-santa

EBrown

I almost saved some of the parts from my car accident to give to someone this year.

Malachi

@Mat'sMug I can't tell what it says? 6355?

Dan Pantry

3:25 PM

@EBrown "Here you go, a broken gasket cap" "Oh, just what I always wanted!"

EBrown

"Oh, yay. A broken spoiler for a Fusion."

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry We'd also need something to share our addresses

Mast

@DanPantry Yup, that's the one I meant. The Dutch version is called "lootjestrekken.nl"

EBrown

"You're welcome."

Phrancis

Got this from one of our service reps, "After speaking with customer on the phone she has no idea where we got these emails from and why these are the ones setup to get email notifications." -- Oh, right; those emails are set up via the customer application

Dan Pantry

3:25 PM

@TopinFrassi Hm.. yeah

Mast

@TopinFrassi You can exchange messages within the platform.

Dan Pantry

@Mast Yeah but if someone asks you for yoru address it gives it away doesn't it

Mast

@DanPantry No, it's anonymized.

You know it's from the one drawing your name. Not who that person is.

Unless he gives it away in the message of-course, but by default nothing is shown.

TopinFrassi

drawnames.com/how-to-draw-names

Mast

I'd prove it with a screenshot, but it would be in Dutch anyway...

TopinFrassi

3:27 PM

It's all explained here! :)

Dan Pantry

Excellent. Someone want to make a meta post?: P

TopinFrassi

Do we want all of CR to participate or chat users?

Mast

@TopinFrassi I'd say only regulars, so we may want to keep it away from meta.

Otherwise you won't know what scum will enter as well.

Dan Pantry

Someone will have to pin the secret santa draw, then

TopinFrassi

@Mast That's also what I thought. I think it's pretty safe to go with the chat users, but whole CR might be problematic

Mast

3:28 PM

We could do it in the Nth. Does one of us have RO powers there to remove the e-mail addresses afterwards?

TopinFrassi

We should create another room specially for the occasion!

Dan Pantry

^

Just need to make sure all regulars get an invite to the room

TopinFrassi

Yeah

That'd give it visibility

Mast

We'll think of something for that. Who's going to be the master looter?

TopinFrassi

What does it imply? :p

Mast

3:31 PM

Someone to start the event, collect the e-mail addresses, sending everyone a reminder if they aren't responding, stuff like that.

Not much work.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: CakePHP "action" with various purposes

I have some questions on how I can improve this "add action" (method) in "controller": Some describes: In system the user can upload in a single form a product to be displayed in site, in system a Product is composed by Product, ProductFeatures and ProductMedias entities (and 3 different tables ...

cakephp

skiwi

Hmm... is there a script available that lets me one-click burn questions? It should ideally add a close vote, and comment on it

TopinFrassi

@Mast Let's start by creating the room and getting a mod to help us promoting the event! :p

Mat's Mug

wait, wo, what, was away, what event?

TopinFrassi

Hi! :p

We'd wanna do a 2nd monitor secret santa

Mat's Mug

3:37 PM

make a secret invite-only chatroom if you're going to share emails - chat transcripts are indexed and searchable

TopinFrassi

Alright! We'd need a way to contact regular users to ask if they want to participate but without posting on meta.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi ping them when they are in chat

TopinFrassi

Would you have any idea? (Aanndd, do you want to participate/help us a little to build that up)

@DanPantry Don't count on me to ping every regular users, I'll forget everyone ahah.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi I didn't mean you specifically. I'm sure everyone can help out :P

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry Ahah alright then!

Captain Obvious

3:40 PM

0

Q: Accessing one more element in array error

I wrote a piece of code which should make me able to create subset of integer numbers. Here is code: public class FixedRangeIntegerSet implements Iterable<Integer> { private boolean[] elementFlags; private int size; private int lowerBound; private int upperBound; public F...

java iterator

TopinFrassi

To prevent everyone posting their email address on chat, I'll create an email address for the event and everyone will send their email to this address

Mat's Mug

smart

just what's the gist of it?

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug secret santa

everyone signs up for a gift exchange

users are assigned other users anonymously

then you send that person a gift

TopinFrassi

What should be our limit for enrolling? Does December 11th sounds good?

Dan Pantry

(with a maximum value obviously)

EBrown

3:43 PM

@DanPantry Define "gift."

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi sounds good to me... when should the deadline be for sending gifts

@EBrown uh. that's a hard one

Mat's Mug

"gift" as in FedEx, or "gift" as in on-site voting ring?

Dan Pantry

gift as in fedex

Mat's Mug

oh

EBrown

I can't participate in that. (Tax things.)

Zak

3:44 PM

@Mat'sMug I think tangible gifts are a safer bet :)

Dan Pantry

well, I mean, it could be an ebook or something..

Zak

For some values of "tangible"

Dan Pantry

but no kind of secret mafia site upvote ring

EBrown

Especially when the likeliness of getting someone who is outside the U.S. is pretty high.

Dan Pantry

"eyyy, jimmy, give this guy an upvote, he dances funny"

@EBrown you don't have to participate :) no one will think bad of you

EBrown

3:45 PM

I can't. Lol

Dan Pantry

brings a whole new meaning to thanks-santa

3

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry @EBrown I will. (Just kidding :p)

Zak

@EBrown Sure, but in most cases, you could just order a gift to your secret santa, and let the retailer handle the shipping

EBrown

If you guys want an unbiased moderator, I can do that bit.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown out of curiosity, what tax reasons? its okay if thats too personal to ask

I'm not familiar with the freedom-land tax system

EBrown

3:46 PM

@DanPantry Well I have a personal account merged with a business account.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown ahhh

Mat's Mug

@EBrown who said moderators were biased?

2

EBrown

And buying gifts from them gets...hinky.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown or kinky

Jeroen Vannevel

@DanPantry is there a scenario in which a call to .substring() would not return a string?

SuperBiasedMan

3:47 PM

If you need unbiased moderators I'm clearly the best candidate.

EBrown

It's actually really difficult to do gift shopping for normal family members, simply because of the merged accounts. (Which was a bad idea, but I can't really change it easily now.)

Ethan Bierlein

Are we still talking about this secret santa idea?

Dan Pantry

@JeroenVannevel mdn is a thing

Jeroen Vannevel

yeah I know, I didn't see anything that contradicted it

Mat's Mug

@JeroenVannevel the one where the thing before . is a null reference?

Dan Pantry

3:48 PM

well, just from a quick test, range of 0 - 0 will return an empty string

@Mat'sMug that will throw an error

Mat's Mug

@DanPantry exactly. i.e. will not return a string

Jeroen Vannevel

I was just wondering if there is anything preventing VSCode from not knowing the myVar in the following example is a string:

'use strict';

function myFunc(myString) {
	let myVar = Infinity;
	myVar = myString.substring(1);
	if(myVar == 'ello') {

	}
}

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug that's cheating because technically it doesn't return :P

Jeroen Vannevel

Because now it shows you a warning that you can't compare a number with a string

Dan Pantry

@JeroenVannevel Maybe the myVar = Infinity assignment.. :p

Jeroen Vannevel

3:49 PM

it's reassigned to a string

which is guaranteed a string

Dan Pantry

Because Infinity is a number

Jeroen Vannevel

the warning is at the if

What's the logic in allowing me to assign a string but showing a warning when I want to compare it with a string?

Phrancis

That would probably work if it were JavaScript

2

Dan Pantry

hm, maybe its vscode beign dumb. you shouldn't be able to do that anyway (not would I advise it)

Jeroen Vannevel

@Phrancis well.. it works.. because it is

Mat's Mug

3:50 PM

@Phrancis one could make it work in VB

Dan Pantry

it does work in node

I mean, I wouldn't do it.. but it works

Phrancis

So, you're writing JavaScript in VSCode...

Dan Pantry

VScode is probably just being silly

Jeroen Vannevel

The real myVar possibly represents an expression in the form of 15 + 2 - log(10) so string representation is fine

Phrancis

Maybe get a proper JavaScript IDE?

Dan Pantry

3:51 PM

VSCode might have a bug, because it expects most things to be TypeScript.

Jeroen Vannevel

VSCode is a really good Javascript editor

Dan Pantry

In TypeScript, that the reassignment would fail

unless you set it to be a union type let foo: number|string = Infinity

Jeroen Vannevel

I'll create an issue on their github and see what they say

Dan Pantry

Here's the better answer: don't do that, it is silly to change the type of a variable after it is declared

It's an illegal operation in C# for example

Jeroen Vannevel

I'm just using the language features baby

Dan Pantry

3:52 PM

It is hard to reason about, for one..

with is a feature in both javascript and vb, doesn't mean you would want to use them

and as much as I love javascript it has == which you also don't want to use most of the time

Jeroen Vannevel

It's only temporary anyway: it can be 5 or it can have value 5 + 2. After that I will evaluate it and I want expression to have that value

but I can also receive a date as an input or a string

Dan Pantry

if you're looking for a language that makes sense, javascript isn't it

4

Jeroen Vannevel

I can't create multiple different variables, that would be nasty

Dan Pantry

@JeroenVannevel You can create multiple different methods? :b seeing as you are doing different things

and I suspect @Mast will star the everloving crap out of what I just said

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Weighted Probability Problem in Swift

I was asked a weighted probability question in a technical interview a few months ago that went something like this: Given an input of colors and an integer "weight" value, randomly return a color based on its weight. The sample input would be something like this: [("Red", 20), ("Blue", 50...

interview-questions swift mapreduce

0

Q: An Operating System in C++

So I recently started following the James M Kernel Dev and was able to create an Operating System in C++ . Here is the Source on Github : Just Another OS I have a couple of questions 1. Is my coding style ok ? 2. It it wrong to have same name for standard Library Functions since I am making ...

c++ oop

Phrancis

3:54 PM

WTF @ TRIM()

Jeroen Vannevel

I will probably put it on CR for review once it's done, you can tell me then if you till think so

Dan Pantry

To change topic: wtf is the holo lens?

Jeroen Vannevel

it's Microsoft's VR headset

and it's really impressive

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis how did you achieve that?!

Dan Pantry

@JeroenVannevel s/impressive/expensive. $3k for developer demo

Phrancis

3:56 PM

@Mat'sMug Achieve what? Make Excel not work correctly? It does that quite well without my help :)

Jeroen Vannevel

LTRIM(RTRIM(A2))

Phrancis

^^ I'm pretty sure that's VB not Excel formula

Dan Pantry

Excel formula is Very Basic, not Visual Basic - wrong VB.

Phrancis

Yeah sure enough, doesn't work

Jeroen Vannevel

You sure?

I had this same issue 2 years ago when I accessed SQL Server from COBOL

I just found the code again and sure enough:

WHERE A.Leertraject = LTRIM(RTRIM(:LEERTRAJECT-CODE))

Zak

3:59 PM

@Phrancis Try doing it in stages, and see if any of them fail

Phrancis

I'll just do it in SQL I guess

EBrown

@Phrancis More BL in the SQL server! :D

TopinFrassi

Heelllooo folks. We're trying to make a Secret Santa with regular users of the 2nd monitor. Please join this room if you're interested. If you don't have write acces, ping me, @Mast or @DanPantry.

Dan Pantry

Don't ping me I don't know what I am doing

7

TopinFrassi

(@Mast and @DanPantry, you're room owners now. :p)

I don't know what I'm doing either.

4

Phrancis

4:02 PM

@EBrown Nah this is ad-hoc :)

SuperBiasedMan

@TopinFrassi I don't think I'll be able to take part, but enjoy!

Phrancis

User sent me a spreadsheet of emails padded with spaces and trying to put them in a temp table so I can join it into another query

Captain Obvious

0

Q: The Watch Project, a C++ project that simulates a wrist watch

The Watch Project I am a High School-er and just started learning C++ a few months ago so there are bound to be many things that can be improved in my code. The project is very simple, it's a console based watch that shows the time, has a StopWatch and a CountDown mode, and has different files ...

c++

Jeroen Vannevel

Works just fine for me

nvm, works

Dan Pantry

Can you tell we're 2nd Monitor yet?

4

Mast

4:06 PM

@DanPantry You know me too well.

Phrancis

@JeroenVannevel I think it may be X/Y problem. The SQL ones fail (to remove spaces) too. Maybe they are not regular space characters in my input.

EBrown

@Phrancis Definitely not normal spaces. :P

Phrancis

160 is a NBSP... char 32... no clue

Heslacher

32 is the space

EBrown

@Phrancis Char 32 is a normal space.

asciitable.com

Mat's Mug

4:14 PM

@Phrancis man your data is worse than mine!!

Mast

TTGBIAH

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug This is customer's data lol.

I ended up just doing a silly find & replace for that 160-32-160-32 string in Excel looks like that fixed it

EBrown

So my Database Administrators question from yesterday is up to +16, two answers at +13, and two at +14.

I blame The 2nd Monitor.

Duga

It seems that your code currently works, and you are looking to improve it. Generally these questions are too opinionated for this site, but you might find better luck at CodeReview.SE. Remember to read their requirements as they are a bit more strict than this site. — Mr. Llama 47 secs ago

Dan Pantry

lol i accidentally deleted all of my email instead of marking it all as read

3

skiwi

4:28 PM

@DanPantry Sounds like you need to talk to your DBA guy

Dan Pantry

@skiwi I should start calling him bobby

skiwi

I think he also wanted to mark his whole database as read :D

EBrown

@DanPantry Little Bobby Tables?

Dan Pantry

yep

TopinFrassi

0

Q: Code Review's Secret Santa 2015

To celebrate our first graduated Christmas (and because we feel like it), some members of the 2nd monitor thought it would be a good idea to make a Secret Santa between members of Code Review! The rules are quite simple : You will send an email to secret-santa@lambdaexpression.io to register....

discussion fun

Could I ask for a mod to pin this message? If that's okay of course, it'd help to keep it in mind

Duga

4:37 PM

Code Review? — vaultah 34 secs ago

EBrown

@TopinFrassi Can't play, but I'll +1 that.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Web Scraping with VBA

I wrote this to scrape album review data from AOTY into a spreadsheet. Check it out and let me know what I could've done better. Option Explicit Const classAlbum As String = "listLargeTitle" Const classScore As String = "listScoreContainer" Const classRating As String = "listScoreValueContainer...

vba web-scraping

Mat's Mug

@CaptainObvious shoveling snow with a spoon

4

EBrown

@Mat'sMug /s/spoon/fork/

holroy

@Mat'sMug Well, it's better with a spoon, rather than chopping sticks...

EBrown

4:39 PM

(S)He's lucky there's no robots.txt on that website.

(I mean, there is, but it doesn't have anything that is relevant.)

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug aaaand there is coffee all over my keyboard now

Mat's Mug

lol

EBrown

@DanPantry That's a weird place to put it.

2

holroy

Hi guys, on this question: codereview.stackexchange.com/q/112554/78136, Jamal just changed the formatting to indicate html and css. The question also has a link to a code pen. However this can also be done within a SE snippet. Is it bad to change it into a SE snippet, and remove the codepen link? (Or possibly in addition to the code pen link?)

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it it probably belongs on codereview.stackexchange.com — Andy 32 secs ago

EBrown

4:42 PM

@holroy It can't hurt to change it to a snippet, but I would leave the other link there.

Dan Pantry

@holroy The OP already had a codepen. I don't think we want to remove stuff from a question unless it is actively harmful

skiwi

lol reddit: reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3v189r/…

> Yes. Programmers when faced with a repetitive task, even a reasonably small one, tend to balance in their head which way would be quicker - just bang it out manually now or script it?

Dan Pantry

Where is the lie? Its so true

skiwi

I think we also tend to automate things even if it's not faster than doing it manually...

Dan Pantry

2

TopinFrassi

4:46 PM

I don't have stars anymore D:

2

EBrown

@skiwi Automate everything.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Backbone learning piece, Movie Application using Views, Collection, Models, Routes and Localstorage

I have created a Backbone Movie app as part of a learning exercise, the app is hosted on codepen although I actually have it built on my local but thought this approach would be handier for code review. I have some dummy JSON containing some movies that are stored in a Movie Collection and then a...

javascript jquery backbone.js underscore.js

0

Q: Memory Safe file reading in C

I am trying to write a single function that will read a C file for a certain number of bytes or the entire file based on arguments. I want it to be memory safe of course and deal with NULL terminators and the like. Not only that but it should be efficient. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> ...

c strings file

StackExchange

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Q: Code Review's Secret Santa 2015

To celebrate our first graduated Christmas (and because we feel like it), some members of the 2nd monitor thought it would be a good idea to make a Secret Santa between members of Code Review! The rules are quite simple : You will send an email to secret-santa@lambdaexpression.io to register....

discussion fun

skiwi

Some plugins... plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.dvaske.gradle.git-build-info

> Adds git information to the gradle project when building

EBrown

@TopinFrassi Ever since I stopped putting The 2nd Monitor literally on my second monitor, I no longer run out of stars.

skiwi

4:47 PM

Like... what information?

Dan Pantry

@EBrown I don't put 2nd monitor on my 2nd monitor. I put it on my primary monitor :-) And I have only ever run out of stars twice.

Compared to @Zak, who I am fairly sure is in star-debt at the moment

Johan Larsson

What is a good naming convention when doing testclass per method?

Dan Pantry

Uses so many stars he has to loan them from otherp eople

@JohanLarsson what language?

Johan Larsson

C#

Dan Pantry

in js we name test files the same as the original file, but with .spec.js instead of .js.

Johan Larsson

4:49 PM

One alternative i making it partial and do TestedTest.method.cs

Dan Pantry

I believe in C# you do something along the lines of MyClassTest.cs

And then you have given/when/then in the method name

Johan Larsson

but I think I prefer to not have them partial

Dan Pantry

At least, that's Roy Osherooover (I can't spell his name)'s method.

TopinFrassi

@EBrown I should stop doing that too. :p

Johan Larsson

@DanPantry yeah I usually do testclass per class

Dan Pantry

4:50 PM

@JohanLarsson osherove.com/blog/2005/4/3/naming-standards-for-unit-tests.html

EBrown

@skiwi There's almost no information on that page at all.

TopinFrassi

@JohanLarsson I use partial classes in different files!

Zak

@DanPantry Guess again :)

Dan Pantry

@EBrown gradle docs are awful

skiwi

@EBrown And on the linked repository there is even less!

Dan Pantry

4:50 PM

@TopinFrassi Could you put an example of how that works on gist.github.com?

holroy

I'm predicting @Duga, will tell a tale of me soon...

Dan Pantry

I need to give a seminar on TDD in my work (because no one else does it). JS I am good at but we are a primarily C# team.

EBrown

@skiwi My Readme.md is pretty lacking, but to not have one at all!?!?!?!

Johan Larsson

@DanPantry thanks

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I can do that!

If the page ever loads. :p

Johan Larsson

4:52 PM

maybe partial classes with nested classes, if the runner can pick them up

EBrown

@JohanLarsson How many test methods do you have?

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry @JohanLarsson There you go : gist.github.com/topinfrassi01/de0cd35035170477c560

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi That is actually pretty awesome.

Hosch250

This guy has interesting programming practices:

Thank you for those thoughts. I keep a testing sub there to easily test snippets i'm working on. The ObfuscateString stuff I never actually use, a friend sent me that as an example alternative to encryption and I just didn't want to lose the code. And the dead code at the bottom, yes I can kill that. And yes i'm using TFS for source control. — Gary Ritter 2 hours ago

Duga

possible answer invalidation by holroy on question by michael.zech: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/112554/revisions

TopinFrassi

4:55 PM

@DanPantry Yeah it's neat! Pretty useful when you have big methods to test and it does make a lot of sense :p

Dan Pantry

@Hosch250 He is two letters away from a very unfortunate surname.

skiwi

Sometimes I forget how easy Gradle is

war.doLast {
    println "Commit hash: " + "git rev-parse HEAD".execute().text
}

Captain Obvious

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Q: How to get rid of goto in the code

I have a code (developed by someone else) that basically has four nested loops and based on a parameter can start from the second iteration of the innermost loop. I want to get rid of the goto in the code. Can you please offer an advice for how to do that without introducing much of duplication ...

c++

Dan Pantry

@Hosch250 Worries me how he (or his friend) considers encoding to base 64 an alternative to AES encryption.

EBrown

@CaptainObvious Almost reads like a "look at this crap" question, which we all know is not welcome here.

Hosch250

4:57 PM

I'm one vote away from a silver badge on SO: stackoverflow.com/questions/20449427/…

Dan Pantry

@Hosch250 updoot

Hosch250

Thank you. I got it, with one to spare.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown Also he claims it is open source. I don't know of any OSS that has o(n^4) loops passing code reviews!

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