The 2nd Monitor

Mast

3:00 PM

I disagree. It should stay closed.

Mat's Mug

I just OCD-edited the tag in anyway

Zak

@Mat'sMug Also from experience: Sometimes you have to really hit us over the head with social rules. Especially at that age.

Mat's Mug

@Zak the kick-mute was just a message. a clear one. and the 1-minute ban has long elapsed now...

Dan Pantry

I agree the question should stay closed.

It's a discussion piece.

I think the kick-mute was justified. We've told the user many, many times and gone over it quite extensively in Nth monitor.

Mast

It should possibly be migrated.

But I'm not sure it's a good question on Programmers in it's current state.

Dan Pantry

3:03 PM

I appreciate your perspective, @Zak, but we'd already given him enough allowances. It's not a permanent thing. It's just a bit firmer than "Hey, stop doing this" - which we'd said several imes.

Mast

It's an answerable question, but it's not a good CR question.

Dan Pantry

I'm pretty sure I told that user 3-4 times in as many days that 2nd isn't a helpdesk.

Mast

@Zak A 1-minute ban is quite effective at hitting one over the head ^^

Mat's Mug

lol

Mast

@DanPantry Yup, and you weren't the only one.

Dan Pantry

3:04 PM

@Mast True (though i didn't want to speak for anyone else).

I didn't kick-mute him because it would've been my first kick-mute and I would rather have asked a mod in a priv chat ahead of time.

Unfortunately I do not have the powers to create a private chat :(

Phrancis

"Sent from my ~~smart~~ dumb phone"

what's the 2nd icon?

Permalink

copies to clipboard?

Hold on

3:06 PM

@DanPantry Listen Dan, with your new powers come new responsibility. We all respect that you're trying to be careful. But those powers have been given to you for a reason. We expect you to use them. We expect you to make mistakes. Go ahead.

Don't keep second guessing yourself.

Vogel612

@Phrancis unselecting is in the menu behind that address bar

Dan Pantry

@Mast Will do. Sorry, sometimes I need a kick up the butt too :)

Mast

@DanPantry /kicksbutt

Vogel612

you see the blue strip? there's an x in that strip a bit further up

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug No, it brings up the message in the chat search, highlighted in yellow (just like when you click permalink).

Mat's Mug

3:08 PM

aw

Phrancis

There may be a way to tap-hold and copy it, but I have not found it yet

Mat's Mug

so then you copy the url from the address bar and nav back

Phrancis

Yeah

Mat's Mug

fair enough

@Mast deciding when to kick is very hard when you've never done it before

Mast

@Mat'sMug I know, I do have some moderator experience on multiple platforms.

Phrancis

3:10 PM

OK... the chat prototype is very buggy

Mat's Mug

hence "prototype"

Phrancis

Anyways, good move Mug

Mat's Mug

for once

I've had my load of bad moves lately

Phrancis

We all have

Mast

It's called being human.

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Phrancis

3:12 PM

^^

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug isn't a human, he's a mug. And mugs are capable of making mistakes too ;-)

Mast

Mugs make mistakes?

Dan Pantry

I'm trying to be funny.

:(

It's not working.

Mat's Mug

@DanPantry it's okay, you're allowed mistakes too ;-)

Phrancis

Um. Does SSMS do caching or something? I updated a row using our client application, then selected the row in SSMS and the update is not showing, even though it is showing in the app

Mast

3:15 PM

Exactly.

Wasn't that the whole point?

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis SSMS is just another SQL client AFAIK

Phrancis

Nevermind. I was selecting from the wrong table (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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Dan Pantry

@Phrancis ┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

Captain Obvious

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Q: An efficient alternative to multiple if statements

I am calculating the number of people within a given age range. This is my current approach. Note: The persons is a List<Person> The getDiffYears() returns the number of years between now and DOB of the person. It includes the month and day as well. The method will be returning a HashMap<Strin...

Dan Pantry

@CaptainObvious ouch

Gustavo6046

3:17 PM

ok, I'll stop

Duga

This is a good point about QML integration, but unfortunately the model in that example doesn't really behave like a model, because Calendar already has its own model (for days in the month). Instead, it just gets a list of events (a QList<QObject*> model). It was recently changed to simply be a QObject because of this fact: codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/145253 — Mitch 56 secs ago

Gustavo6046

Stop asking questions.

Dan Pantry

You're okay to ask questions. As long as they're related to the 2nd monitor or code review.

If they aren't related to the site, they probably don't belong here.

If in doubt, consult Google first.

That, by the way, is also very helpful advice for when you get a job :-)

Gustavo6046

But... actually, why was I kicked?

Mat's Mug

38 mins ago, by Gustavo6046

Who would want to help me complete the documentation?

Dan Pantry

3:20 PM

You continued asking off topic questions, despite being asked several times. Also, you were behaving like a help vampire.

SuperBiasedMan

@DanPantry Yet again the only reason I want to answer a non Python question is because there are way too many if statements.

Dan Pantry

@SuperBiasedMan The command pattern is so fun!

Gustavo6046

I, erm.... uh, have to complete the documentation, know?

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is a code review question — Jan Dvorak 35 secs ago

Gustavo6046

Nevermind

I just gtg now.

Zak

3:21 PM

@Gustavo6046 Sure, but asking us to do your work with/for you is not an appropriate topic for this room.

Gustavo6046

I will return once documentation is complere.

Dan Pantry

You're welcome to stay, @Gustavo6046, as long as you stay on topic.

We want you here. :) we just want to keep on topic as well.

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SuperBiasedMan

@DanPantry Forget command pattern (which I'm not very familiar with) they just need an array and some maths.

Dan Pantry

nice-people-room

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Phrancis

@DanPantry +1^

Dan Pantry

3:24 PM

I need a bigger screen. I can't see the star wall because of how many rooms I'm in.

Mast

@DanPantry So get one.

Dan Pantry

@Mast Unfortunately, it's my work laptop that's the problem :(

Mast

Or tilt your screen. Makes it longer.

Dan Pantry

I have 2x 1080p at home, but my work laptop is 720p and has like 1330 or something pixels in height

Phrancis

You could also leave a few rooms. Or, join those you don't care as much about in a different browser

3:28 PM

@Mast LOL

LOL

I might be looked at a bit strangely if I did that

Mast

It works.

SuperBiasedMan

Someone has a monitor like that permanently downstairs so they can easily consult a production schedule. It looks weird.

Especially cause it's a super wide screen (not sure of the actual resultion, but it's wide).

Vogel612

3:29 PM

@SuperBiasedMan I tried that for writing code once...

Phrancis

There are a few people at my work who have a monitor that way too

Vogel612

it was an interesting idea, but IDEs don't really support it well in java

Dan Pantry

I remember when I was 16, I accidentally set a monitor of a computer that I wasn't meant to be on to portrait resolution using the windows keys

I freaked out because I didn't know what key combo I pressed and couldn't switch it back

My uncle was very confused when he got back to his desk and saw his monitor was in the wrong orientation lol

To this day I still don't know what key combination I pressed

Captain Obvious

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Q: Counting number of unique elements in a sorted container

Similar to this question, but in C++. Although my priority is performance (and correctness!) rather than readability. #include <algorithm> #include <iterator> #include <cstddef> template <typename Container> size_t count_unique(const Container& elements) { size_t result {}; for (auto i...

c++ algorithm c++11

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Q: Is Javascript causing my lag?

Currently designing a homepage and from some initial tests users are experiencing lag: http://www.heyjoecoffee.com/home-v2 I'm using some Javascript to create a parallel effect aswell as an animated "click to explore" loop. Not sure if this is the cause of the problem or if there are any altern...

javascript html css

Vogel612

best work pranks: invert monitor orientation, screenshot, change the background, move all desktop icons and done

@DanPantry windows + arrow-key should do it

Dan Pantry

3:32 PM

@Vogel612 Yeah.. I just found that out the hard way

Gustavo6046

Oops, accidentally deleted my documentation, I won't start all again, and I won't document this time! (don't star this :P)

Mast

@CaptainObvious Yes, definitely.

@Gustavo6046 Never write documentation if you can write code instead.

Dan Pantry

@Mast I want to disagree with you. But holy crap what he has done is bad.

Mat's Mug

@Vogel612 uh, I use Windows+ArrowKey all the time to dock windows left & right, maximize and minimize

Gustavo6046

I was manually documentating because Doxys generate a bunch of files and to upload it to Github it takes enough time and CPU for my PC to overheat.

Mast

3:34 PM

@Gustavo6046 You're fixing the wrong problem.

Dan Pantry

I would be surprised if your PC overheated from generating documentation or uploading stuff to Github.

Vogel612

@Mat'sMug hmm.. AltGr + Arrow then?

Dan Pantry

@Vogel612 windows + alt + arrow.

Vogel612

@DanPantry I totally knew that!!! :)

Mast

An aluminium plate beneath a laptop works.

Gustavo6046

3:35 PM

just tried that windows + arrow technique and now I'm feeling as if I was drunk :P

Dan Pantry

windows + arrow is going to move windows across your screen

Is this person asking for a code review or asking for a solution to a performance problem?

Because to me it seems like the latter.

Gustavo6046

windows + G in Windows 10 opens Game menu

Dan Pantry

(And is there a difference?)

Gustavo6046

you can record videos FOR FREE with it.

Mast

So?

Gustavo6046

3:37 PM

videos = perfect way of crashing hard disk with Gigabytes

Dan Pantry

Well, one of the close reasons is "Not asking for a code review", so I'm just touching base as to whether this is a good topic or not

Mat's Mug

Note that reviewers are free to address any & all aspects of the code on this site. Also, feel free to edit your post and embed a stack snippet (Ctrl+M), that will make the code executable on-site ;-) — Mat's Mug ♦ 5 secs ago

Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug ty :)

Mat's Mug

we'll find out

Gustavo6046

At least my 297GB HD...

Dan Pantry

3:38 PM

@Gustavo6046 when site stuff is being discussed could you keep the idle chatter to a minimum? At least until it's resolved. Site business always comes first :)

Gustavo6046

Ok.

What are you guys discussing about the site?

Dan Pantry

@Gustavo6046 we were discussing the topicality of a question

Gustavo6046

Some reviews of code contain improvements that may or may not improve the code's performance.

So it is unignorable that the topic isn't THIS bad, but I wouldn't feel bad if it were put on hold until the author decided to do something in respect to it.

Dan Pantry

That's true, but the OP was specifically asking for a performance review. If he is okay with receiving stuff that's not just on performance, then that's another question entirely. :)

Mat's Mug

looks like he's ignoring my comment though

Gustavo6046

3:41 PM

@Mat'sMug, who would ignore an comment that appeared highlighted in someone's inbox?

Zak

Just my $0.02: As long as the OP isn't specifically saying "I only want reviews about [thing]" then I wouldn't close the question.

Dan Pantry

Holy crap. His site is laggy as all hell.

I must have gone to the wrong place.

Gustavo6046

One not-so-mean solution would be ignoring what he said and reviewing his entire code, while still focusing a bit in performance issues.

Mat's Mug

we've done that before

Dan Pantry

@Gustavo6046 I agree. I don't think the lag of his website is specifically caused by anything he has written there.

And I don't think addressing the lag of his website in a review is really within scope of the question

Mast

3:44 PM

@DanPantry He just build a heavy site and is surprised it takes time to load.

Loading times mean nothing anymore to people.

Gustavo6046

Or migrate it to Stack Overflow; it's really laggy and it isn't acceptably laggy the way it is. IF it is a code problem, then it shouldn't be closed, but migrated to SO where they can resolve and discuss. I will not answer, however, because relatively to SO think of me as a dead man.

Dan Pantry

@Mast uBlock + my corporate proxy is blocking 33 things on that site..

@Gustavo6046 I don't think this is really on-topic for SO.

If OP has issues with performance in his code, then we'll spot them here

Mast

@Gustavo6046 No.

Dan Pantry

But if OP's question is "Why are there performance problems with my website", it's off-topic pretty much everywhere.

Gustavo6046

Even though, it is possible that the problem is that the webpage contain hazardous content, because even AVG Internet Security blocked me! :/

Mat's Mug

3:45 PM

I just declined a flag saying that's a SO question - for the record it's way too broad for SO, migration would no doubt be rejected

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+1 @Mat'sMug

Star that! ^

meh

what Mat said

should be starred a million times

Mat's Mug

12 secs ago, by Mat's Mug

meh

200_success

3:46 PM

That was a referral from SO.

Gustavo6046

Anyway. If it is a virus, then the user should be kicked for trying to redirect users to hazardous content -- maybe even banned.

Dan Pantry

It's not a virus, @Gustavo6046.

Mast

@Gustavo6046 It's not a virus.

Dan Pantry

Your AVG has just detected that it has links to google analytics and squarespace.

Viruses don't work like that.

If OP was intentionally trying to spread hazardous content they would very likely be banned network wide, but I very much doubt that is what is going on here.

Gustavo6046

I said "IF (and really IF) it is a virus", not stating positively and factually about it.

Mat's Mug

3:47 PM

AVG is the virus haha

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Dan Pantry

@Mat'sMug lol

Mast

All AV is a virus.

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Zak