The 2nd Monitor

Ismael Miguel

3:00 PM

So, Simon wants someone to kill the user? o.O

Quill

@IsmaelMiguel it also means the truth, though: urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=see+the+light

strangely enough

Phrancis

> see the light
Fig. to understand something clearly at last. After a lot of studying and asking many questions, I finally saw the light. I know that geometry is difficult. Keep working at it. You'll see the light pretty soon.

@IsmaelMiguel ^^

Mat's Mug

thanks @Phrancis

Simon Forsberg

@rolfl ha - ha

@IsmaelMiguel the light of profilers.

Ismael Miguel

@SimonForsberg That's better. I don't know such light either.

Captain Obvious

3:03 PM

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Q: Splitting large text file and sorting by content

I have a large text file (~2GB) full of data. The data (sample below) gives an x, y, z coordinate, and a corresponding result on each line (there is other stuff but I don't care about it). The single large text file is too large to be useful, so I want to split it into several smaller files. Ho...

Quill

perhaps I was mistaken

'Go into the light' is the appropriate idiom

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoIntoTheLight

Phrancis

I just realized that WHERE condition I posted a few minutes ago actually creates a FULL OUTER JOIN on a partial string match. No wonder it's slow.

Mat's Mug

@Quill not to be pedantic, but that's totally different ;-)

Phrancis

(and not very useful data)

Quill

@Mat'sMug perhaps perhaps wasn't a strong enough word

Mat's Mug

3:10 PM

lol

Phrancis

Out of 3778 "partial matches" I only have 6 distinct "likely matches". I think I'm just going to get rid of this check altogether, 6 records is not worth 2 hours of someone's time sifting through all this garbage

Ismael Miguel

You could throw that and let it run

Depending on your PC, you can limit it's execution to 1 core

Phrancis

@IsmaelMiguel Who are you talking to?

Quill

lol

@IsmaelMiguel, that's not the problem

the problem is that it returns crap

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis To you

@Quill From what I understood, it takes too long for too little benefict.

Phrancis

3:16 PM

@IsmaelMiguel The query is not running on my PC, it's taxing a production server.

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis Oh...

Ignore what I said then

That's almost funny

I nearly laughed

Quill

it already got a lol from me, two lols is just overloling the situation

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Ismael Miguel

I wasn't going to "lol" that

I'm not in a mood to laugh

Mat's Mug

♪ if you're happy and you know, clap your hands ♪

EBrown

I hate ~~jQuery~~ Javascript with a passion.

Ismael Miguel

3:22 PM

@Mat'sMug I'm not happy. And I hate that song

@EBrown Try asmjs

And I mean it

EBrown

Goes against the business requirements.

Ismael Miguel

You're forced to use jQuery?

EBrown

Yep.

Mat's Mug

what does the business care about jQuery? not to be pedantic, but that should be a technical requirement, not a business one.

2

Ismael Miguel

I kinda like some stuffs in jQuery

The Ajax and even handling is pretty cool

EBrown

3:24 PM

@Mat'sMug Well, it might be a technical requirement instead, but our designer will only use Bootstrap with jQuery.

Ismael Miguel

But for DOM access, you're better off using pure Javascript

EBrown

So, I'd rather chalk it up to a business requirement, as it makes me feel much better. ;)

Quill

@IsmaelMiguel Yeah, the company I work for use jQuery, for basically only that. I considered writing a skin up of jQuery's ajax-stuff and dom selectors for my colleague, but meh

EBrown

Well I'm using a lot of jQuery for this XML and Ajax.

It's also an ASP.NET site, which is another restriction.

TopinFrassi

JQuery's not bad. Pretty decent when you want something done fast (In terms of code writing)

Quill

3:26 PM

TopinFrassi

ASP.Net forms or MVC?

Phrancis

@IsmaelMiguel Bingo that's exactly the issue!

EBrown

@TopinFrassi ASP.NET WebForms.

Ismael Miguel

@Quill I use jQuery at work. It's the fastest (in terms of development time) when comparing to plain Javascript.

Quill

@EBrown ouch

Ismael Miguel

3:28 PM

@Phrancis May I have a cookie?

EBrown

@Quill I like ASP.NET WebForms.

Quill

okay

Ismael Miguel

I know nothing about those

Quill

isn't it becoming or became obsolete

EBrown

@Quill Not at all.

Quill

3:29 PM

oh okay

@IsmaelMiguel I suppose, but when you're only using it for simplified dom selectors and ajax, I don't see a need for it.

Especially since the context of the website is geared toward delivering fast content

Ismael Miguel

Well, I don't have a choice

Basically, I have to do speed programming

If I can save 5 minutes by using jQuery, I have to

But sometimes I have enough time to clean up stuff

And on those times, I write some things in a better way

EBrown

Woah

Wtf

TopinFrassi

@EBrown It's god damn awful. But, that's my opinion and I won't debate it :p

Ismael Miguel

What?

EBrown

WHY ARE YOU BORKEN JAVASCRIPT?

2

This is messed up.

rolfl

3:33 PM

It's in its nature.

TopinFrassi

I'd poind out that 99.9% of time we think a language is broken, we are broken

Ismael Miguel

Use Chrome, inspect the line, add a breakpoint and you pretty much are set

Quill

bork bork: sounds like a farm animal with a few too many chromosomes extra

rolfl

I was wondering why the Design Independent post irritated me, then I discovered:

Hmm.... I just realized that this post is not really a site-specific announcement at all..... it's part of a "batch" operation of "identical" posts to multiple site metas, each with the same message. Really, this post is not "tailored" to Code Review in any significant way: CS, Anime, Blender, and 5 more - all the same posts, the same posts — rolfl 3 mins ago

Look at the other site stats, though..... all the posts were given at about the same time, look at their score, and their answers .......

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Q: Congratulations! Computer Science is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Computer Science has already met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites, and today joins in the new design-independent graduation process! Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you sho...

discussion featured graduation

4

Q: Congratulations, Anime & Manga is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Anime & Manga has already met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites, and today joins in the new design-independent graduation process! Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should...

discussion featured graduation

Ismael Miguel

Wait...

rolfl

3:34 PM

4

Q: Congratulations! Blender is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Blender has already met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites, and today joins in the new design-independent graduation process! Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should be ve...

discussion featured graduation

SuperBiasedMan

Yeah Grace mentioned that it was a template in a comment

Ismael Miguel

Didn't we decide not to graduate?

SuperBiasedMan

This is, in most parts, a template announcement - "several months" is mostly a safety term and it may be less time. 9 sites were in the bundle of our "launch party" for design independent graduation. I quite remember the decision to turn down joining in the test with Magento last month. In this case, it's becoming official process and not giving you guys these things won't make the work on the design, or decoupling from it, any faster. I'll look into the potential for a chat event and who can partake in it. — Grace Note ♦ 3 hours ago

@IsmaelMiguel They asked about graduating early in a kind of mini beta. That's what was decided on.

rolfl

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Q: Congratulations! Music: Practice & Theory is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Music met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go. Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should be very prou...

discussion featured graduation

5

Q: Congratulations! Software Recommendations is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Software Recommendations recently met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go. Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone,...

discussion featured graduation

Ismael Miguel

@SuperBiasedMan They now changed from "6-8 weeks" to "several months"

rolfl

3:36 PM

4

Q: Congratulations! Japanese Language is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Japanese Language met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go. Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should ...

discussion featured graduation

4

Q: Congratulations! Music: Practice & Theory is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Music met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go. Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should be very prou...

discussion featured graduation

EBrown

@rolfl Duplicate

rolfl

1

Q: Congratulations! Cryptography is graduating!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Cryptography has already met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites, and today joins in the new design-independent graduation process! Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should ...

discussion featured graduation

Ismael Miguel

@SuperBiasedMan Look at the title: Congratulations! Code Review is undergoing design-independent graduation!

DJanssens

Afternoon all :)

rolfl

And then, Code Review:

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Q: Congratulations! Code Review is undergoing design-independent graduation!

It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Code Review has already met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites, and today joins in the new design-independent graduation process! Reaching 'mature community' status is a big milestone, and you should b...

discussion featured beta-progress

We have 3X the votes on our announcement than any other site in the batch....

DJanssens

3:37 PM

:/

rolfl

(including downvotes .....)

SuperBiasedMan

@IsmaelMiguel Yes? I'm saying what they asked about and the community had said no to before was whether or not to have this happen a couple weeks earlier.

@DJanssens Afternoon!

Quill

@DJanssens afternoon

Ismael Miguel

The answer is formulated in a way to say: "Stick your half-assed graduation up your ...! We want it full on!"

Captain Obvious

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Q: Game Terrain Generation based on Images

Lately I've been working on adding Scenarios to my city building game. I wanted to create custom terrains for some of the different scenarios (such as a chain of islands, or a volcano). I decided that the simplest solution was to try to use topographic images to create an array of integers that...

java game libgdx

Mat's Mug

3:39 PM

@SuperBiasedMan that was to beta-test design-indepedent graduation.

SuperBiasedMan

@Mat'sMug That's what I'm trying to explain to @IsmaelMiguel

Ismael Miguel

I though it was about design-independent graduation in general

DJanssens

Did they mention when they planned to work on the design for CR?

Zak

@IsmaelMiguel Nope. DI-Graduation is now the official process

Ismael Miguel

Close to yes and no

Zak

3:41 PM

So we're getting it whether we want to or not

@DJanssens in 6-8 weeks. As always

Ismael Miguel

Basically: a sh*t sandwich that we're forced to eat

@Zak *several months

Mat's Mug

*sandwich

Ismael Miguel

Fixed

Zak

Actual words: "In the coming months"

rolfl

which translates as "sometime, somewhen".

Ismael Miguel

3:43 PM

@Zak "[...] you're looking at wait of several months, [...]"

Mat's Mug

@Zak same wording as last year

Phrancis

Hey has anyone thought of revisiting that one post about the site design?

Ismael Miguel

Yes

Which one of them?

Quill

@IsmaelMiguel, can you give a hand over in JS libraries

Phrancis

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Q: What should our logo and site design look like?

What should our logo and site design look like?

discussion beta-progress top-7 design

skiwi

3:45 PM

Monking

Ismael Miguel

Greetings

rolfl

that ^^

Zak

I vote for the duck

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A: What should our logo and site design look like?

First of all I really like kleinfreund's magnifying glass idea. However I think, that as programmers.SE has a logo that is not that serious, even a little funny, the coffee mug, the same could apply to codereview.SE. So what do you think about the famous code reviewing rubber duck? I am by no...

DJanssens

°/ @Phrancis

Phrancis

@DJanssens \o

Captain Obvious

3:48 PM

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Q: PHP + FFmpeg: Converting Uploaded Video and Saving Preview Images

My first post here. I'm coding a basic video upload system for a client. The uploaded videos will live on the page using the HTML5 video element. Essentially what I've done is call the following PHP script asynchronously from the upload page when the video is uploaded (the upload page, meanwhile...

php console mysqli

rolfl

@Vogel612 I saw your name here:

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A: Congratulations, Anime & Manga is graduating!

Graduation! Fantastic! It's not complete yet, but we've finally got the beta label removed, and that was my criteria for my celebration gif. So here it is: I'm sorry if I missed anyone's name off, I just got a selection of users that I've had some kind of interaction with, and I couldn't put ...

Here: i.imgur.com/e0JYtOq.gif

Vogel612

yea..

DJanssens

imo a minimalistic logo is always more 'professional' looking.

Quill

@rolfl people have other communities too, @rolfl, why so possessive? ;-P

rolfl

Not possessive at all, was making sure Vogel saw, that's all ;-)

DJanssens

3:51 PM

However I don't see how kleinfreund's logo references to CodeReview; I notice the C and with some imagination the R, but it misses a line. It looks more like a Q atm. Or am I missing something?

rolfl

The post only had 18 views in total when I first went there ..... was Vogel one of those? IDK.

Quill

@DJanssens joined, I suppose. it seems to be somewhat of a concept kinda thing, though, so I think feedback would've been taken onboard (at the time)

DJanssens

Didn't read the comments, stupid me. It's a magnifying glass, like looking into the code. Pretty neat.

Phrancis

I've always had a thing for that one^

(except maybe the teal color, that looks almost just like "beta-blue")

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis I don't like the shadow that much

It's too dark

Mat's Mug

3:54 PM

@Phrancis Visual Studio default colors for C# code.

Phrancis

It might look good on a dark background too with inverted/dark-scheme colors

DJanssens

+1 for the shadow

Ismael Miguel

-1 for the shadow being too dark

skiwi

+0 for nothing in particular

Simon Forsberg

@Mat'sMug We gotta change it to IntelliJ's colors for Java code.

Mat's Mug

3:57 PM

@SimonForsberg moar JetBrains. Agreed! :)

DJanssens

lol if you google image 'code review logo', the top hit is the one of kleinfreund

Phrancis

I do think that code.review(); as a proof-of-concept fits really well, and looks like an almost-universal programming syntax

EBrown

@Phrancis Should be code.Review();. ;)

But that would violate the casing standards on website names on SE.

skiwi

goto code_review;

runs

Mat's Mug

@EBrown the color for code is that of a type, so should be Code.Review(); ;-)

EBrown

4:00 PM

@Mat'sMug That works with me, but then we assume Review is static, which could imply that we review all things the exact same, regardless of what questions you pose.

(Which could be bad.)

Phrancis

@EBrown s/could/would/

Mat's Mug

@EBrown it also implies that there's a whole community that's going to say Y U MAEK IT STATIC CLASS U DUMMY

overexchange

Learners aspiring for front end web dev, here is the skill checklist.

Mat's Mug

huh

Phrancis

Quick, I need a regex to match "-- " (dash-dash-space)

Mat's Mug

4:02 PM

"\-\-\s"?

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis /\-\-\ /

Quill

Then write it: regex101.com

Ismael Miguel

Or /[-]{2} /

Depends on how much you hate escape sequences

Vogel612

@rolfl not until you notified me.

Phrancis

Agh, Notepad++ is not being my friend. Thanks anyways

Zak

4:04 PM

@overexchange wait, spam?

Ismael Miguel

Anyone here is a Debian/Ubuntu guru?

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Getting branches of a tree

Given a tree structure (in this example it a list of some nested group nodes), what is the best way to get all branches (branch = list of nodes from root to the leaf element)? My solution (here root element = element with parent link to itself): case class Group(id: Int, parent: Int) def getBr...

tree scala

Thomas W.

@IsmaelMiguel 'guru' needs defined :p

Quill

that was fast

Ismael Miguel

@ThomasW. Someone who knows his Debian stuff

Mat's Mug

4:06 PM

@ThomasW. +40 accepted answer AFAIK ;-)

Thomas W.

@Mat'sMug heh.

@Mat'sMug I think 'guru' is relative - i mean, I'm an Ubuntu Power User, and i do a lot of bug triage, and I maintain the nginx package in Ubuntu, but meh. (My only reason for hopping in was to get something related to a flag that crossed my chat notices window xD)

Ismael Miguel

That's gugu enough for me

Mat's Mug

totally gugu

Thomas W.

lol

Quill

@ThomasW. lol, it would've been cooler if you said something like 'somebody called'

Thomas W.

4:10 PM

@Quill after all I'm not diamondmod

just highrep person who can see some of the flags :)

Quill

maybe in the future?

Thomas W.

probably not but maybe one day when they need a dictator to torpedo spam :)

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Significant Figures Formatting.00

I wrote this for an SO question on formatting numbers to specific quantities of significant figures (after all, reinventing-the-wheel), anyway, all critiques welcome. It's pretty easy to use, FormatSignificantFigures(0.123, 2) should return 0.12; FormatSignificantFigures(0.123, 5) should return ...

c# reinventing-the-wheel formatting

Mat's Mug

@EBrown got the link to the SO post?

EBrown

@Mat'sMug Yeah, why? Is it relevant?

Mat's Mug

4:18 PM

@EBrown could be, for full context

EBrown

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A: C++ std::setprecision in C#

What you are referring to is significant figures. It's actually pretty easy to calculate: public static string FormatSignificantFigures(double number, int figures) { int e = 0; while (number >= 10.0) { e += 1; number /= 10; } ...

Zak

I just crashed excel twice because I forgot to add an increment in a do while loop ^^

Mat's Mug

sorry to interrupt, and not to be a jerk, but I think this discussion belongs elsewhere.

The Nth Monitor

Conversations that don't quite fit in The 2nd Monitor

Thomas W.

@Mat'sMug did they teach you as a diamondmod to migrate posts over to other channels yet :P

Mat's Mug

I could do that well before the diamond :)

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Zak

4:23 PM

@Mat'sMug Oh, that's not a mod privilege?

Mat's Mug

room owners can too

Zak

ah, klkl

Quill

Anybody with italics names in Chat

oh and mods, of course

Mat's Mug

@ThomasW. I just thought it'd be a bit rude to just move it

EBrown

@Mat'sMug chanting Move it! Move it!

Thomas W.

4:24 PM

:P

EBrown

Hopefully my use of reinventing-the-wheel on that question doesn't go unnoticed.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug do you know the RGB/hexa for that teal color in the logo you made?

Mat's Mug

→ 51 messages moved to The Nth Monitor

@Phrancis not off the top of my head

Quill

@Phrancis hex: #2B91AF

Phrancis

ok

Quill

4:28 PM

rgb: 43, 145, 175

Ismael Miguel

@Quill Paint?

Quill

red-green-blue: they're color values

Ismael Miguel

I know

But you used Paint to get the RGB?

Quill

no, I'm on a Mac

no Paint here

especially not Paint.NET

Ismael Miguel

Oh

Quill

4:29 PM

because well, you know

Ismael Miguel

It's a Mac

Phrancis

@Quill Merci :)

Quill

Pas de problème

thanks, google translate

maybe I'll learn french one day, or perhaps just play more Assassin's Creed 2

Phrancis

EBrown

Huzzah!

Victory over ASP.NET again!

Phrancis

4:32 PM

Going to play around with some colors and stuff, anyone want me to add theirs just ping me with what colors you want

Quill

what's this for

Phrancis

To find out what looks good :)

Quill

Thanks for the tick, @EthanBierlein

EBrown

@Phrancis #FFFFFF #202020 #202020

Always looks good.

Phrancis

@EBrown Need 3 colors (see cols D-E-F)

EBrown

4:33 PM

@Phrancis Then use #202020 for the third as well. :P

Phrancis

OIC

EBrown

It's almost the same as the first logo, except that it's just off-black instead of black.

Quill

@Phrancis the Xcode IDE colors: see importblogkit.com

EBrown

@Phrancis #1E1E1E #4EC9B0 #DCDCDC

Phrancis

@Quill Be my friend please and give me the actual colors ;p

Quill

4:37 PM

@Phrancis Here: #CD248A, #FFFFFF, #5FC63F

Zak

ooh, a new error message

2

Haven't had "overflow" before

Mat's Mug

@Zak congratulations, you busted VBA's stack!

3

Zak

Tbh, I'm amazed I haven't done that before now

Duga

When you ask how to do something more elegantly, your question should be on Code Review rather than Stack Overflow. — the Tin Man 58 secs ago

Mat's Mug

or is that a numeric overflow?

Zak

4:42 PM

not sure. It was in the middle of filtering 500,000 rows * 40 columns.

Mat's Mug

yeah, could be a numeric overflow

Zak

So could really be either

Mat's Mug

Debug.Print CInt(32768)

"Overflow"

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because asking how to do something that works more elegantly is a code-review and belongs on Code Review rather than Stack Overflow which is for code problems. — the Tin Man 20 secs ago

Phrancis

@Quill ^^ !?!?

Quill

4:43 PM

okay, they're in the wrong order

swap white with pink

EBrown

@Quill Very much so.

Quill

swap pink with black

Phrancis

OK

Much better ;)

Mat's Mug

@Zak probably one of the values you're reading into an Integer that's greater than 32767?

EBrown

@Mat'sMug Excel Integer only goes up to 32768?

Mat's Mug

4:46 PM

VBA Integer is 16-bit signed

EBrown

Wut

Zak

@Mat'sMug Possibly. Whatever it is, I just ripped the offending method out and re-wrote it

It really wasn't well put-together in the first place

Quill

@Phrancis sorry, can you try swapping green with white there for a second

that's what @nhgrif's blog seems to do

EBrown

.Replace("IND", "") this seems like a bad idea.

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis jsfiddle.net/dftzqnup/1

Mat's Mug

4:49 PM

@EBrown back then, a hard drive was 40MB, and Windows installs came on 3.5" floppy disks

Phrancis

Ismael Miguel

@Mat'sMug 40MB? That big?

Zak

@Mat'sMug I'm guessing the only reason we still have integer is for backwards compatibility?

Phrancis

@Quill ^

Quill

hmm

that looks better

I think

Zak

4:50 PM

I think the pink's a bit too dark

Mat's Mug

what font is that?

Phrancis

With a tool better than Excel I could also do better, but I don't have Adobe suite @ work

@Mat'sMug Consolas (Bold)

To be faithful, XCode's should probably be Monaco :)

^^

There

consolas-ftw

4:54 PM

the pink is for the var and let style keywords, white for the name of the variable, and green once it's been define, with white as a property

Zak

I like green code

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug I installed Monaco on my work PC just so I could use in SSMS ;)

Zak

Especially since it's supposed to be working once it gets here

ooh, I've just figured out how to stop my mega-filter from slowing down while running.

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis needs a more zombish font

Phrancis

zombish?

Mat's Mug

4:56 PM

zombie

ish

clears throat

CONCAT('Zombie', 'ish')

Quill

'zombie'.replace('e', 'ish')

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis Try this: jsfiddle.net/dftzqnup/2

(Check the last lines on the CSS)

Phrancis

Cool

Ismael Miguel

If you want, try inverting the background and the text color

Mat's Mug

Make "code" green with warts and some hair, too

Phrancis

5:02 PM

LOL

Zak

ooh, warts sound cool

Phrancis

@IsmaelMiguel got it, thanks

Ismael Miguel

@Phrancis Something to hurt you in the eye: jsfiddle.net/enaw3f9t

Hosch250

Ismael Miguel

@Hosch250 Nice

Hosch250

5:07 PM

@IsmaelMiguel Remove the background, and it won't be bad.

@Phrancis That is my vote ^^

Ismael Miguel

@Hosch250 jsfiddle.net/chLq74do

Like this?

Hosch250

Yeah.

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Ismael Miguel

If you want, fork that one and play with your colors

Phrancis

Well, I'm not taking votes or anything, but I might post something on Meta in a while

Hosch250

5:09 PM

Well, put it in the table, anyway.

Ismael Miguel

I'm waiting for it!

Hosch250

The green is RGB 56, 87, 36

bazola

this one finally has an answer:

0

A: Board-tile game click event OOP pattern

Separation of Logic and Rendering The Square object is essentially a button that also contains some information for display, such as the number of surrounding bombs. The problem you are having is that this GUI element is communicating directly with the game board of your minesweeper game model....

Hosch250

The blue is RGB 31, 78, 121

Phrancis

@Hosch250 I'm pretty sure those are not right

Zak

5:17 PM

It's too late for me, save yourselves!

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Mat's Mug

lol

Quill

 TASKKILL /IM EXCEL.EXE

Mat's Mug

do you have VBA code calling into some DLL?

Zak

nope. Just memory overload

Mat's Mug

eh, kill it

Zak

5:18 PM

Evidently, I should just accept I need to filter these workbooks one by one

Also, had a talk with one of the directors today about my lack of experience. He's got a friend who owns a software development company so they're going to organise some mentoring and training for me :)

yay

Phrancis

Good for you!

<lunch>

Quill

How old are you @Zak?

TopinFrassi

Guys I've got a question

Quill

sure

Captain Obvious

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Q: Simple and reusable system for user registration and tracking and auto-updates (generic class library + rest web api + azure database)

Sorry for the long post, but I suppose code reviews can get lenghty.. Please let me know what should I change (the code works, but I want it to be as good as it can be - within my capabilities) Background: I create a bunch of small and mostly internal WPF applications for my company - usually fo...

c# api rest azure

TopinFrassi

5:26 PM

I got 2 interfaces, with the same properties. One has the job to provide the property content to the other. Though, as I said, they have the same properties, getter and setter etc. Should I keep one interface only?

ex :

Zak

@Quill 22 in a month

Quill

ah okay

TopinFrassi

I got FooPropertyForm.Bar {get;set;} and FooDomainObject.Bar {get;set;}

Though, I feel like they should be separated because they are not for the same thing, I'm unable to give good reasons to prove my point, and I need those

Quill

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Mat's Mug

@TopinFrassi what are the interfaces named, and what do they expose?

TopinFrassi

5:28 PM

I have an interface called IAxis {string X{get;set;} and string Y{get;set;}}, which is used to set axis's names

The form which has the responsability to get user input has those two properties, and the domain object also has those properties. But, I feel that the form is more of a provider and the domain object the consumer

But both have the same interface code

(That's an example amongst other, I got 4 interfaces like this)

Zak

alright. I'm off for the night. have fun#

Mat's Mug

'night @Zak

@TopinFrassi not sure about the specifics of your project, but it seems to me that if two objects have identically named members, with different implementations, ...fits the bill for having the same interface

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug Yeah I guess that's right, now I just need to find a name that fits both cases

Mat's Mug

..or any other case

naming-is-hard

TopinFrassi

Yeah it is

In... Cegep (which are between high school and university, only exists in Quebec, CA), I used to name everything with pointless names. I "miss" easy slack-ish school projects sometimes. :p

Mat's Mug

5:40 PM

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rolfl

56 mins ago, by Mat's Mug

@EBrown back then, a hard drive was 40MB, and Windows installs came on 3.5" floppy disks

Back then, i was in South Africa, and 3.5 inch disks were "new", and "old" was 5 1/4 floppies.

Being South Africa, and being that Hard disks were hard, and floppy disks were not, the 3.5 inch disks were called "stiffies".

It was only when I got to england and asked for a box of stiffies that I realized the problem......

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en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stiffy_disk&redirect=no

Dan Lyons

I remember 5.25" disks from my old Commodore 64 and later IBM PC AT :)

I'm not quite old enough to have ever used 8" disks, though

rolfl

I used them on a CTOS machine......

Convergent Technologies Operating System

The Convergent Technologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, was a modular, message-passing, multiprocess-based operating system. == Overview == CTOS had many innovative features for its time. System access was controlled with a user password and Volume or disk passwords. If one knew the password, for example, for a volume, one could access any file or directory on that volume (hard disk). Each volume and directory were referenced with delimiters to identify them, and could be followed with a file name, depending on the operation, i.e. {Network Node}[VolumeName...

Mat's Mug

5:59 PM

@EBrown that's C# 6 string interpolation, isn't it? number.ToString($"f{figures}")

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