The 2nd Monitor

I have this working code. I was wondering how I can optimize it. Really, I think I need to. bmScreenBuffer is a global Bitmap Is there anything I can declare globally so it does not need to be be created over and over, this function is called around 30 times a second. Contents of drawScreen()...

c++

Ismael Miguel

That sounds a more efficient way of working

Hosch250

You need different cards to pick up the book from a different library, but you can get interlibrary loan and pick up from a single library.

Mast

@IsmaelMiguel You'd be surprised.

Hosch250

@Mast I've heard people beat up their enemies for free.

Mast

6:17 PM

I'm currently following a free HTML/CSS/Bootstrap/jQuery course to get rid of my lack of web knowledge.

@Hosch250 Wow. That's powerful.

TopinFrassi

@IsmaelMiguel LOL

Mat's Mug

"Does it make sense?" "Brainfuck" pick one — Dan Pantry Nov 29 at 0:18

haha

Hosch250

> Does it make sense? (Considering it's Brainfuck, it shouldn't make sense...)

Dan Pantry

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug BTW, comments are extremely difficult in Whitespace because any whitespace character is counted as source code.

So, spaces or linebreaks in the comments break the code.

skiwi

6:19 PM

@DanPantry Australian dev confirmed

Mat's Mug

This_is_why_snake_case_was_created_for_then!

skiwi

You've got to be kidding me... ... .... ......... ...........

mapPropertySource.source does not give the right value, but mapPropertySource.getSource() does

Dan Pantry

@skiwi I'm not Australian, but this is definitely how I program. Thank god Javascript mangles names and removes comments so I can get away with it :D

skiwi

Remember that in Groovy if there's a getSource() method, you can always use source directory as get-operation

Well, appereantly not

@DanPantry Well, there's a "Cunt" in there

Dan Pantry

@skiwi What's your point. We welsh share a sacred bond with the aussies

skiwi

6:21 PM

How can this bug even happen... ... = source is a synthetic accessor for getSource()

@DanPantry Oh wait, it's not Australia only right

Hosch250

Groan Paranormal site coming up.

@DanPantry In that the Welsh are descended from a bunch of criminals?

Phrancis

Paranormal.SE?

Hosch250

Yeah. One creepy place. It'll be worse than the Holocaust deniers on Skeptics.

Dan Pantry

@Hosch250 Well, I would argue a good portion of aussies can trace their lineage to welsh people. That's probably how they learnt how to swear. :D

Phrancis

BLECH

EBrown

6:23 PM

@Phrancis WeirdS***ThatHappensInMyHouse.SE

Hosch250

Example questions are whether ghosts have genders, how to perform exorcisms, &c.

skiwi

Truth to be told, I sometimes found an answer via google if I started adding swear words in

Mast

@Phrancis What, that site is actually going through?

Dan Pantry

> ghosts have genders

Phrancis

I have a friend who's into "ghost hunting".

Dan Pantry

6:24 PM

did you mean paranormal.tumblr.com

Hosch250

@Mast It is getting closer.

Mast

I never thought they'd get enough followers.

Dan Pantry

(not a real site, I don't think, but that sounds like something that would come from tumblr..)

Hosch250

> 0 more followers
36 more questions with a score of 10 or more

Dan Pantry

oh god, I only have 10mb of disc space left on my boot partition lol

Mat's Mug

6:25 PM

@DanPantry that used to be a lot

Mast

@DanPantry Reddit has 3: /r/Paranormal, /r/paranormal_equipment and /r/theparanormalroom

Don't ask me what's in them.

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug Yeah, but elementary os wants 80mb for new upgrades.

Mat's Mug

Reddit is paranormal

Mast

@Mat'sMug Yea, that's more than a floppy disk.

Dan Pantry

I think I'm going to switch over to ubuntu 15 (if there's a LTS version), elementaryos' terminal is super weird and does not work very well

skiwi

6:26 PM

OMG IT WORKS

2

Dan Lyons

gotta love users:

Steps taken towards the solution:
Tried a bunch

4

Dan Pantry

busy Friday night here :-)

@DanLyons did they try turning it off and back on again?

That's the important step, you can't skip that one

christ, I cut my finger on my computer fan gaain

again

holroy

@DanPantry Sound advice: Stop putting fingers into computer fan!!!

3

Dan Pantry

@StackExchange is being v slow at the moment, so: commitstrip.com/en/2015/12/04/the-perfect-domain

Hosch250

Put a switch on the fan with a case.

Dan Pantry

6:30 PM

switch(fan) {
  case ???:

}

instructions unclear

skiwi

@DanPantry Sounds familiar, I'm trying to find a domain name for OLog, but the most interesting one is already taken by some random church, and some other one is on sale for $2000 :|

Hosch250

The switch turns the fan on and off. The case keeps your fingers out of the fan's way.

Dan Pantry

@skiwi http://olog.cat is avaliable ;-)

skiwi

@DanPantry Is that a new tld?

Dan Pantry

@skiwi yes

unfortunately olo.gg isn't

skiwi

6:33 PM

yolo.gg

2

Dan Lyons

perfect tld for cat DNS

Hosch250

@holroy My music is hurting my ears. Sound advice: turn the volume down.

Dan Pantry

yolo.gg is actually available lol (for 50 euro/pa)

TopinFrassi

@skiwi Damn that's epic

CommitStrip

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/12/04/the-perfect-domain/
CommitStrip
The perfect domain
CommitStrip
1449253601

5

TopinFrassi

6:34 PM

Well, that's a funny coincidence.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi no it's not, I linked it earlier (which put us on this subject)

Mast

@CommitStrip @skiwi talk about timing

Dan Pantry

do I not exist or something :(

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry I didn't see that :p

skiwi

I can see in the future!

Dan Pantry

6:35 PM

5 mins ago, by Dan Pantry

@StackExchange is being v slow at the moment, so: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/12/04/the-perfect-domain/

TopinFrassi

I was at lunch ahah

skiwi

in Cardshifter TCG, 6 mins ago, by StackExchange

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/12/04/the-perfect-domain/
CommitStrip
The perfect domain
CommitStrip
1449253601

Mast

@DanPantry That's in case shit hits the fan.

4

skiwi

@Mast I'm literally thinking about that right now

Dan Pantry

@skiwi sounds like a crap thing to think about

*finger guns*

EBrown

6:36 PM

Man, I think yolo.gg is a good buy.

Dan Pantry

ayyyyyyy

@EBrown Go for it, if you want to pay 50 euro a year

It's a bit rich for my blood

EBrown

Ah, didn't look up prices.

Dan Pantry

lol, I was just about to start installing ubuntu before remembering that if I do that I will be unable to access any of my passwords on dropbox

Why? Because the password for my dropbox is in the encrypted archive on my dropbox.

I am not a smart man.

3

EBrown

Poor @DanPantry.

At least you haven't (yet) deleted your entire projects directory.

Dan Pantry

Its like locking my keys inside of my car

Mast

6:38 PM

@DanPantry Smash the window.

Dan Pantry

@Mast I think keepass2 might find that vaguely disagreeable.

Mast

Which is another reason I don't use password keepers. Paperwork in a vault FTW.

skiwi

I'm so excited that I got this stuff to work, that I forgot to commit it

I'm not a smart man, but at least smarter than @DanPantry

2

EBrown

@Mast Until you forget the vault combo.

Dan Pantry

@skiwi don't act proud. that's not a high barrier to cross

Mast

6:41 PM

@EBrown It has a key.

Dan Pantry

Mast

The whole idea is that I don't keep my digital passwords on digital storage. That's about as safe as it gets.

EBrown

@Mast Until you ~~forget the vault combo.~~ lose the key.

TopinFrassi

There you go, no more stars

Mast

@EBrown Which is why my wife has one too.

Dan Pantry

6:42 PM

@Mast your wife is like backup storage?

EBrown

@Mast Until you ~~forget the vault combo. lose the key.~~ both lose your keys.

Dan Pantry

@EBrown this kills the marriage

Mast

@DanPantry Back-up two-factor authorisation.

Mat's Mug

I just shot 2 vba zombies, but they're still crawling

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug shoot the legs

TopinFrassi

6:48 PM

@Mat'sMug Pimp 'em zombies

Mat's Mug

meh

EBrown

@Mat'sMug That one has a lot of code.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: V Snare T Snare Model

Written this code and now its correctly working would like to get feedback on how to improve it. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define M 10 #define MAX 1023 #define N 10 #define snareLength 10 _Bool nondet_bool(); unsigned int nondet_uint(); typedef unsign...

c

TopinFrassi

@EBrown ikr

EBrown

You have to go 5/6 down the page just to get to your answer.

Mat's Mug

6:50 PM

@EBrown yeah. I merely scratched the surface, lunch is almost over :/

EBrown

Time to finish reading C# In Depth.

Mat's Mug

9

Q: Creating a pseudo Pivot Table / Database using a 4-D array

Why am I not just using a Pivot Table / Database? a) I've never ever used either before. And I don't have time to learn how before this project needs to actually be finished. b) The final output is going to be a report for the Company Directors. As such, the flexibility of choosing which bit...

array data-structures vba error-handling excel

^^ one vote short

skiwi

I'm still too excited to actually continue working now that my code is working

Mat's Mug

</lunch>

Morwenn

Mugs don't eat.

skiwi

6:52 PM

Mugs drink.

syb0rg

:25916427 Same

I call it "hibernation mode"

Morwenn

I didn't notice the new here-be-pedants tag :D

Mat's Mug

I'm kinda proud of my whitespace-language answer too, if someone feels like making me cap today

can't wait for @Hosch250's follow-up

Hosch250

Me either.

Mat's Mug

thanks @Santa!

Hosch250

7:03 PM

Hope it doesn't get reversed. It is just 3 though, and I upvoted everybody else too, except one.

skiwi

I think it's time to reformat my PC, there's MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Redis on it

Hosch250

LOL.

syb0rg

@skiwi Oh my

Dan Lyons

@skiwi but you can still put Access, DB2, Oracle, and MariaDB on it

skiwi

@DanLyons I've got MariaDB too!

Dan Lyons

7:09 PM

but if you somehow get MUMPS put on it, then it's time to kill it with fire

Hosch250

I've got Access and SQL Server.

TopinFrassi

@syb0rg It's hard on friday's afternoon!

skiwi

Hmm, I don't remember hwo PostgreSQL worked, but I see a duga account on it ^^

Hosch250

I don't know how to use Access, though.

TopinFrassi

@skiwi I had that problem too. Now I got nothing to do with SQL on my computer. Makes me happy.. :p

Duga

7:11 PM

for someone wants to follow the question: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/112636/si-unit-converter — Joon Hong just now

Heslacher

7:21 PM

@DanLyons It isn't MUMPS nowadays its called cachè

Hosch250

Makes bad pun about mumps being nasty

Phrancis

@skiwi Duga logs data to Postgres AFAIK

syb0rg

@TopinFrassi Yeah! And I won't be getting much sleep tonight

Duga

possible answer invalidation by Nishant on question by Nishant: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/112868/revisions

syb0rg

First I'm going to Bentleyville, then I'm hanging out with a bunch of my friends and who knows what time I'll get home

holroy

7:25 PM

Am I incorrect in stating that this code is broken?

1

Q: Retrying a web request in Python

Is it fine to retry a web service call like this in Python? Would there be any scenarios the exception might not work the way we expect it? I expect it to continue only if it's fine, otherwise just retry, and if that doesn't work, just throw the error out. def getblob(html): num_of_retries =...

python error-handling http

That is, that it never could have gotten anything from server.com?requestId=xlkjsdfs, since it asks for urlopen on server.comrequestId=xlkjsdfs...

Captain Obvious

1

Q: Determine the winner of a coin flip game

While I was writing this I had some thoughts and questions going through my head about if I was doing this in a good manner. For instance, is it good to use a StringTokenizer to loop through the words in the line I copied from the Scanner's input? Thank you for the feedback! Write a method named...

java beginner strings

holroy

Now he has changed the code again... Added a missing '?'

Mat's Mug

Yay, [badge:revival] :)

holroy

@Mat'sMug, Could you review the comments and editind done on the "Retryting a web request in Python" question above here?

There has been two minor, but crucial edits on it. 1) Changed a req to request in urlopen(req), and now 2) OP has added ? to end of service.com. The code doesn't seem to be what he originally has used. Am I just to picky, and should we let it slip, or how should we handle it.

Both responses given are still using service.com(as in original post), but then again the req has been changed to request by 200_success.

Mat's Mug

I don't mind the url edit, it's just literal data likely to be redacted anyway

but it looks very much like he's asking for help fixing his HTTP 200+incomplete-blob and HTTP 500 errors

holroy

7:38 PM

So I suspect none of the answers has tried running the code, and the original code hasn't runned with successful response as it stood.

Those HTTP200/HTTP500 has been added in latest revision

Mat's Mug

meh, not a great post, bordering broken code, but too much gray for a hammer.

downvoted

Duga

possible answer invalidation by janos on question by capser: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/112540/revisions

Mat's Mug

@Duga yeah yeah

holroy

What do you suggest as a proper action? Should I retract my close votes, and remove my comments? It is kind of out of the gray now, but it has been edited a lot...

Mat's Mug

I wiped the comments

feel free to leave it in the close queue

EBrown

7:42 PM

Oh man, I'm in the closures section of C# In Depth.

Mat's Mug

@EBrown you had your coffee right?

EBrown

I'm about to.

Dan Pantry

Monking

Mat's Mug

it's a section I've bookmarked for re-reading later :)

@DanPantry monking!

TopinFrassi

@syb0rg Yeah same here. I'm on a tight schedule on weekends :p On christmas break I'll sleep ahah

holroy

7:43 PM

@Mat'sMug As it is out of the gray, now, so to speak. I think I'll retract my close vote, and downvote it instead. Thanks for the assistance

Mat's Mug

no problem :)

TopinFrassi

@EBrown That's a book I really should get. The thing is, I'm poor and I don't like that much reading eBooks. I prefer real paper, it's easier for the eyes

EBrown

@TopinFrassi There is a real paper version.

Mat's Mug

I got the real paper version

my mug is on it

EBrown

Mine is sitting on my desk.

Mat's Mug

7:45 PM

in my avatar I meant ;-)

TopinFrassi

@EBrown I know, but the point one is : I'm poor :p

Electronic versions are way less expensive

janos

heya fellas

skiwi

hey @janos

Never have I been happier to see Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver

janos

oh joy...?

skiwi

I've been trying to get an externalized YAML config file to work in Grails 3.0

Finally had a working application, turns out it merges after the application has been loaded, which in turn meant that the datasource could not be reloaded anymore

So now I finally got a way working ot merge the config files before the application boots

TopinFrassi

7:51 PM

The more I drink Tim Horton's coffee, the more disappointed I am. #canadianproblems

200_success

@Duga @janos The question specifically stated that the input file was not newline-terminated. Edit rolled back.

Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi I converted to McCafé a while ago

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug Yeah I heard their "new" coffee was pretty good. The thing is, I drink half-cofee half french vanilla, 'cause I'm not used to coffee yet :p That's not an option at Mc Donalds :(

janos

@200_success aw, I totally didn't get what he was talking about... I see now

skiwi

@janos /s/walking/talking/

janos

7:56 PM

@skiwi hm, maybe I should leave the computer alone for the day...

skiwi

You can always help with OLog ^^

janos

are you sure you want me on that in my current condition?

Mat's Mug