The 2nd Monitor

@JeroenVannevel Please type this by itself: "Yeah okay, I love NodeJS."

And make it easier to quote me later on when I swear at it?

2

So I can quote you next time you're fussing about JavaScript ;)

I'm not falling for that

12:14 AM

Aw

I'm on to you

YOU'RE AN OPEN BOOK TO ME

Not an open workbook, I hope; else you might need VBA to read me

Hey general question; is it possible to script with C#? Or make really small, single-purpose programs, alternatively?

Yes

Sort of

But no

No to the former but yes to the latter, perhaps?

There was a scripting engine in the Roslyn CTP but they removed it in the release version

however

They've put it back in in the nightly Roslyn builds

So the script engine should be available at the next Roslyn release

12:17 AM

The what builds? Who is Roslyn?

myget.org/gallery/roslyn-nightly

A nightly build is like.. a developer release that gets updated very frequently

Oh. Roslyn is the new C# compiler platform

That's a weird name for a compiler.

@Phrancis cough what is

I agree. Jacky would've been much better

I wonder if they'll implement F# for Roslyn

12:19 AM

Inserting data through a frequent cron

At least it's getting sexy already

@EthanBierlein I'm not aware of any plans in that direction

So in Java I have made really small programs (single file usually) you can do that with C# too right?

@JeroenVannevel bah

Yeah of course

@Phrancis Mhm

All you need is a class with a Main method

12:20 AM

does Visual Studio Code support C#?

OK good. My work machine doesn't allow (very easily) for non-MS tech, as I am not on the mobile team

"scripting" refers to just a single line of code, like an expression for example

@Quill vannevel.net/2015/05/01/hello-linux

I would have guessed scripting was where you can run code without compiling, like JS or Groovy

Or Python

(some Groovy)

Or Python yes

Or VBA :D

(I've written a few VBA scripts inside Excel that had nothing to do with Excel, but a convenience rather)

I guess "macros" is the right word, rather than "scripts"

Had to hack at this today:

in Cardshifter TCG, 3 hours ago, by Phrancis

Oh yeah, we also have many dates stored in this garbage format, no idea why... '20150911||||||||||||087-34'

I'm not sure who thought this was a good idea, but somehow SQL is able to store that as a datetime type...

Duga

12:30 AM

Since this is working code, I recommend you post it on Code Review instead of here. — briantist 9 secs ago

Owait no, this was setup as a varchar() column I think on this database only, whereas the field by the same name is a datetime is every other database

@Phrancis Are you going to get the DBA to change it?

I suppose that would break absolutely everything, though.

The data comes from devices in the field :(

(and not necessarily modern devices)

So yes, your assessment that it would break everything is likely correct

I think that^ is the kind of devices the data comes from

Actually, I'm quite certain that it is

Q: Speed up R code by rewriting embedded loop with apply

0

Yes I know about apply, but I'm not sure how to write it so that it works for embedded for-loops with if statements and so forth. It gets messy. I am a novice so if you can show me how to properly rewrite the following efficiently it should help a lot. # Subset between start and end with bin c...

r

0

Q: Make pixels unique

I'm writing a program that takes an input image, and generates a set of unique colors, and repaints the image using only those colors. It takes a long time, and I'm hoping to improve the running time. It's on github, if you want more context. This is an example of the output, running from left t...

java performance data-structures

It also gives out clunky name information...

NAMEFIRST | NAMELAST | MI
---------------------------
FRANCIS^A | VEILLEUX | NULL

(hint: middle initial is A)

Guessing the devices don't support a MI field, so they just put that caret then the MI in the NAMEFIRST field

Probably COBOL or some other evil thing

12:41 AM

black-cobol-magic

Anyone needing a first post?

yes

Q: Querying list of servers with PS to report on Scheduled Tasks

1

I work in a Windows environment where Scheduled Tasks have never been documented or kept up with, leaving us with about 150 servers that have a random smattering of tasks. I am attempting to construct something that will query specific information about these tasks and output them in a pretty for...

windows powershell scheduled-tasks

Yet another first post.

Is PS an extension of the shell, that makes it more... powerful?

12:51 AM

@Phrancis I believe PS is PowerShell.

That is like writing "FizzBuzz with Java to Fizzify Foos"

But shell is a thing, right?

@Phrancis Umm, isn't it an esoteric programming language?

Shell (computing)

In computing, a shell is a user interface for access to an operating system's services. In general, operating system shells use either a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI), depending on a computer's role and particular operation. The design of a shell is guided by cognitive ergonomics and the goal is to achieve the best workflow possible for the intended tasks; the design can be constricted by the available computing power (for example, of the GPU) or the available amount of graphics memory. The design of a shell is also dictated by the employed computer periphery, such...

OK, thinking of something else.

PowerShell is just Windows version of Shell, I believe.

The extension is .ps, I know.

Oh, looks like you're right

Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and CIM enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices. In PowerShell, administrative tasks are generally performed by cmdlets (pronounced command-lets), which are specialized .NET classes implementing a particular operation...

For some values of right, anyways

Looks like there's more to PS than just command line stuff

12:55 AM

@Phrancis The command line is something totally different.

The more you know, the more you ~~Kohl's~~ code.

Oh, did I tell you I followed you on LinkedIn?

Did you? I'll check it, I almost never do

I'll probably connect with you, if you don't mind, after I finish my database class.

ugh. IRC chat is so unstyled and hard to read compared to SE chat.

12:57 AM

@EthanBierlein IRC?

internet relay chat

webchat.freenode.net

Enter a channel name starting with #

@EthanBierlein cough you can userscript the browser renderings of it

or even write your own irc client

lol I know

@Hosch250 Yeah, I thought I read you sent an invite so I was confused when I didn't see it.

Don't used LinkedIn much

@EthanBierlein IRC is multiplayer notepad.

@Phrancis Or single-player FizzBuzz.

We should set up a room where we take turns entering fizzbuzz values.

1:03 AM

_*1

First person to make a mistake loses.

base64 it @Phrancis

~~much~~ better, maybe

Time to close some tabs

I see a few of you Python guys are on... do you know if there's a better way to search than this?

for user in collection.find({'roles': {'$regex': 'Game|game'}}):
    print user

(PyMongo, data is JSON)

I'm sure there is.

That looks most un-Pythonic.

Well, it's regex ;p

1:07 AM

@Hosch250 Really? Not really.

I'm pretty sure you don't need that loop.

Unless I'm thinking of list comprehensions or something.

Seen this in a tutorial, but might not work with mongo

m = re.search("(vi.*)", value)
if m:
    # This is reached.
    print("search:", m.group(1))

You can't print values with list comprehensions.

@EthanBierlein I know.

I'm more worried about the search than the print, really

1:09 AM

Yeah, that looks good.

I love familial fights.

I sense a backstory app-roaching

Q: C++ Linked Lists and Pointer to Pointers

0

First post but I have been a lurker for some time now :) First, I am attempting to execute this skeleton code in Visual Studio 2015 and it should work as is according to my teacher so I am not sure what else could be wrong client side that may be causing that. The specific error is actually in t...

c++ beginner linked-list pointers visual-studio

@EthanBierlein No, no other information forthcoming.

that's unfortunate @Hosch250

I can't really, it isn't my fight.

1:11 AM

are you planning to move out once you finish studying?

@Hosch250 Ah

sehe

@Vogel612 trwtf was why replace the word with "group1" instead of "gender"

@Quill I can't wait.

Just don't tell my family that.

Oh wow, there must be some fight going on in The Renderfarm

someone called someone a "[----]"

This flag handling thing is uncommon, but sometimes interesting.

@EthanBierlein If it isn't appropriate there, it isn't appropriate here.

1:13 AM

there

I've seen worse 4-letter words, but in the end they're usually not appropriate

Except for brainfuck and wtf-is-this-shit

@Phrancis It was spelled wrong.

It should have been 5 letters.

I noticed that :)

@Hosch250 No, that's the way the flagged message was spelled.

I know, I saw it.

The OP spelled it wrong.

There is usually an "e" at the end.

1:19 AM

Well, whatever.

I'm done with this.

Movin' on.

</pedant>

Okay... Wathever

The lack of a non-regex find() with PyMongo is unsettling

Can you do regex in Python that's not case-sensitive?

I don't think so

You could always just do [a-zA-Z]+

Owwwww. My arm is starting to register pain again.

1:26 AM

What happened?

SirPython

@Phrancis docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.IGNORECASE

Q: Fastest C++ code to get common prefix length

1

In a C++ program, I have the following function to find the length of the longest common prefix between to char arrays a and b. String b is guaranteed to be shorter than string a. Is there a faster char array comparison code than this one (for example with some library function)? I wish to optim...

c++

Ouch

This is slightly better...

for user in collection.find({'userName': re.compile('S', re.IGNORECASE)}):
    print user

Thanks @SirPython :)

@EthanBierlein You're lucky.

Q: Is it time for [static] to be moved?

1:34 AM

in other news, looks like SO is doing like us and using punny titles in burninate-request posts

14

I realized today that my next tag badge is [static]: I'll soon be an expert! Choice morsels from the tag excerpt: Static is a term used in some programming languages to define a function or data storage area (field) that is not bound to any specific object instance. Other usage of th...

discussion burninate-request

@Mat'sMug The more, the merrier!

@EthanBierlein Yup.

Could you guys create a room like "Battle wounds" or "Real Life Injuries"?

5

Or "Is it time for [static] to be discharged?" — Euro Micelli yesterday

@Phrancis Sorry :)

I need to go to bed anyway

I'll see you guys tomorrow

or Monday

1:36 AM

'night!

Horrific Injuries

Talk about your horrible injuries here. Once a week we will wi...

See you.

How about we don't.

oh

Let's see, was that my 16th birthday? I don't remember.

1:40 AM

→ 67 messages moved to Horrific Injuries

@Phrancis ah, I was almost done! thanks anyway :)

SirPython

@Phrancis Thank you.

NP

→ 7 messages moved to Horrific Injuries

You do that

for user in collection.find({'userName': re.compile('S', re.IGNORECASE)}):
    print user

for user in collection.find({'userName': re.compile('S', re.IGNORECASE)}):
    if not user.has_posted_gory_anecdote():
        print user.shame()

Anyways, I'm not yet decided which string finding syntax is least worst :\

1:44 AM

Right, 'nite people

@Zak Night

More first posts.

for user in collection.find({'roles': re.compile('game', re.IGNORECASE)}):
    print user

Maybe it's not so bad

I wonder how deep in JSON you can get before it starts fussing, like if instead of roles which is a node with an array of string, ...

@Phrancis I'd assign the result of collection.find to some local, and iterate that instead.

Anyone have a JSON multiple nodes deep I could try?

crickets

1:50 AM

Okay

Fine, I'll make one ;p

I've set a event for the 20th

For 20 minutes.

Every 7 days.

Until 2020

Just delete it dude

nah

(your message not the room)

1:53 AM

Thanks

no problem!

SirPython

Hi @Doorknob!

@EthanBierlein I'd suggest you leave it at that ;-)

@SirPython o/

UGH, broken

1:55 AM

hey @Doorknob, how did you dismiss the flag without getting Ethan banned? (I couldn't find the button!)

Hi @Doorknob!

@Mat'sMug It's kinda hidden—it's the little (x) in the bottom left corner.

dang

don't play with ~~fire~~ flags

@EthanBierlein Mod flags get broadcast to every single diamond on the entire chat.SE network; probably not a good idea ;)

nope

1:56 AM

@Phrancis hi!

I see you've figured it out @Mat'sMug. ;-)

What got flagged?

lol

Something about the other room?

I wasn't here for a bit.

just a[nother] link to the horrific injuries room.

2:00 AM

Why was that flagged?

It was noise.

So I flagged it.

Oh.

And @Phrancis recommended that I get rid of it.

You flagged your own message?

yeah

2:01 AM

@EthanBierlein wait, you flagged... oh gawd

Why not just delete?

it was too late

There's a 5-minute cap on that

next time, just ping me

@Doorknob 2-minute

2:01 AM

^^ yeah that's a better idea

(or any other mod)

@EthanBierlein Oh, really? Thought it was longer...

A: Find deep children in MongoDB

1

What you could use here is aggregation framework. You will find lots of nice examples on aggregation framework in MongoDB docs - Aggregation What you could be interested in in particular would be $unwind pipeline operator which peels off the elements of an array individually, and returns a stream...

OMG^

@Doorknob signs you've been a mod for too long! ;-)

Someone call the police

There's a guy looking for children here

2:02 AM

...

What definition of looking does that fit in? (also, why are you in a SE chatroom?)

Or did I miss an inside joke again?

Is there any easy way to find the first message I posted in here?

yes

show me master Jeroen

or not

2:11 AM

Anyone spot an error? PEP is not complaining, just getting null return

for node in collection.find({"one": {"two": {"three": {"four": {"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}}}}}):
    print node

@JeroenVannevel noo

manyNodesDeep = {
    "one": {
        "two": {
            "three": {
                "four": {
                    "five": "five"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
collection.insert(manyNodesDeep)

looks fine

I thought the same thing

are you sure it isn't inserted?

collection.find()

2:14 AM

I think I found it

May 1 at 2:53, by Ethan Bierlein

@sᴉɔuɐɹɥԀ Well hello there! :)

    collection.insert(phrancis)
    collection.insert(zomis)
    collection.insert(manyNodesDeep)

    collection.find()

    # returns null
    # for node in collection.find({"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}):
    #     print node
    #
    # for node in collection.find({"one": {"two": {"three": {"four": {"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}}}}}):
    #     print node

    for user in collection.find({"userName": "Zomis"}):
        print "userName \"Zomis\": {}".format(user)

That^ works fine :\

Also, collection.find() is null

eh? It shouldn't afaik

@Phrancis cough None

Network question for anyone who can answer...is there a way to distinguish if a user's public IP is IPv4 or IPv6?

Are these all synchronous calls? No callback shizzle or anything?

2:16 AM

null, None, who's counting :)

I am

@Legato parse it as one and see if it fails?

What context are we talking about?

So far I've seen nil, Nil, NULL, null, None, and Null

You can just look at the packet headers if you have those

@JeroenVannevel Maybe I did it horribly, but the whole thing is under a try fail already.

I realized that ipv4 only works if their public ip is ipv4, and same thing for ipv6. My idea was to try ipv4 and if that fails try ipv6, perhaps I just formatted it wrong, but it still only works for whichever I try first in that case.

Context is creating a socket.

2:19 AM

TryParse/Error/Catch/TryParse the other/ seems like a solid option then, yes

if it doesn't work, it's an implementation detail

the idea should be fine

language?

Java.

I'll try some more.

INetAddress.getHostByIp() or something like that

# returns the expected object as part of the set with all objects
for node in collection.find():
    print node
# returns null
for node in collection.find({"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}):
    print node
# returns null
for node in collection.find({"one": {"two": {"three": {"four": {"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}}}}}):
    print node
# returns the expected object
for node in collection.find({"one": {"two": {"three": {"four": {"five": "five"}}}}}):
    print node

Anyone got a clue^?

docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/…

-1

Q: Optimizing my python code?

I picked up python again, and I am proud with what I have without using if/elif statements throughout the whole thing. I have modified this couple of times, since I kept asking how could I make it better or more organized. My biggest complaint is using the if/elif at the bottom, for some reason w...

python

2:22 AM

Afterwards, use if(address instanceOf INet4Address) , do a cast, or cast it to INet6Address

docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/Inet6Address.html / docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/Inet4Address.html

I thought of something like that but I thought host would only return the computer it's on rather than the router gateway?

Perhaps I'm mistaken! I'll try it.
Thank you.

Q: Getting the 'external' IP address in Java

Oh, I don't think you can view it from that direction

your local computer has no idea of the IP address known from the router

There's this though:

46

I'm not too sure how to go about getting the external IP address of the machine as a computer outside of a network would see it. My following IPAddress class only gets the local IP address of the machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. public class IPAddress { private InetAddress th...

java networking network-programming ip-address external

Excellent!

Q: trying to understand this function encryption(message)

2:39 AM

0

This is a function that will encrypt a given sentence into International Morse Code, both the input and out puts will be strings. Characters are separated by a single space. Words are separated by a triple space. For example, "HELLO WORLD" should return -> ".... . .-.. .-.. --- .-- --- .-. .-.. -...

javascript

OK, this is really weird

for node in collection.find({"one": {"two": {"three": {"four": {"five": re.compile("five", re.IGNORECASE)}}}}}):
    if node:
        print "regex: {}".format(node)
    else:
        print "no luck"

Nothing... not a peep

@CaptainObvious CR Trivia: what's the correct close reason to use in this case?

This is so odd.

@Mat'sMug Not OP's code?

WhichSite.SE seems like it really should be a thing.

2:43 AM

@EthanBierlein yup. hi @Jamal!

Yay!

Do I get free CRandies!

I want to ask "why" something, is it fitting for SO?

@EthanBierlein CRispy CRescents and CRanberry CRumble

mmm

@Legato Maybe

If it can be reproduced, probably

I'm about to post this nonsense to SO and see what I might be missing

I just need to explain it to a rubber duck first.

3

Duga

2:58 AM

This is better suited to the code review section. — Rasclatt 34 secs ago

The rubber duck agrees this makes no sense.

Q: Browser shows IPv6, but query returns IPv4 why?

0

A bit of context: For study/practice, I'm working on a network application and I noticed that the socket only correctly opens if I provide an IPv4 address to people whose public IP is IPv4 and IPv6 for those whose public IP is IPv6. I thought to select filter the right one by using something ki...

java sockets networking ipv6 ipv4

Hopefully, I get some insight.

Q: Sanitising contact form input for PHPMailer

3:13 AM

0

I would like some opinions on this this function for sanitising user submitted data into a contact form. No HTML content or anything, just plain text. Are there any vulnerabilities here that I'm missing? Am I ok to use the flag: FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES on the subject line? Not sure if quote...

php email

@CaptainObvious HAI!

s/opinions/insight

Q: PyMongo query with regex returns nothing despite if: elif: else

0

For some odd reason, I have a Mongo query that returns literally nothing (blank line with no data) despite using what seems like a condition that could not possibly be escaped. To reproduce (assuming you have PyMongo installed): import pymongo import re manyNodesDeep = { "one": { "t...

regex python-2.7 pymongo

Welcome to Code Review! Feel free to edit and add the not-so-basic PHP, too ;-) — Mat's Mug ♦ 20 secs ago

3:33 AM

// Omitted for clarity. - Unlike Stack Overflow, there's no need to omit anything on this site. In fact, the more code, the better the context; it's common to paste the code straight from the IDE. How messy/distracting is the // send email... part? Perhaps that part belongs in its own function? Or does it? Who knows! -- By skipping code, you skip review opportunities ;-) — Mat's Mug ♦ 3 mins ago

3:56 AM

@Jamal I didn't get your email til just now. My email client has been acting up some. I did add you and endorsed some of your skills.

"W.T.F." stackoverflow.com/questions/32534816/…

wat

ikr...

It works, that's the crazy thing

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