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Malachi
Malachi
12:00 PM
JNat's profile has him in Europe
 
JNat
JNat
@Quill I'm from Portugal, not Brazil
 
Quill
Quill
My mistake, sorry
 
JNat
JNat
np ;)
 
Quill
Quill
They say the human mind can remember 125 people with accuracy. I can barely remember 20 ;-;
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
it's easy, 20 comes after 19
and before 21
there you go, that's how you remember 20
 
Quill
Quill
12:04 PM
@DanPantry Thanks for your resounding advice
how did you get so wise?
2 hours ago, by Dan Pantry
Water is wet
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
the sheep of knowledge
 
Quill
Quill
Yay! Language Learning only has 10~ more people before it goes into Private Beta stage :D
 
Captain Obvious
Captain Obvious
0
Q: Long running in-process Publish/Subscribe class

Jamie RI have a Pub/Sub class that will call Notify() when published and that Notify() could take around 10 seconds, so I need to make sure that this does not block the UI. public static class NotificationService { private static Dictionary<string, INotification> Observers { get; } static Noti...

c# design-patterns multithreading observer-pattern
 
Malachi
Malachi
@DanPantry @Quill Another AngularJS Zombie being attacked ►►► Ionic Rest Authentication
 
Quill
Quill
ooooh. Ionic Framework
 
Malachi
Malachi
12:09 PM
lol
I don't know much about the Ionic Framework, who am I kidding, I don't know anything about it. except for that it is an authentication framework?
 
Quill
Quill
I like Ionic. I follow the questions on SO and everything
Design Framework
 
JNat
JNat
noodles
 
Malachi
Malachi
they are all really design frameworks when it comes to JS frameworks though, right?
 
Quill
Quill
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@JNat the feed was faster than you...
 
Malachi
Malachi
12:11 PM
@JNat thought that these results were already realeased?
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
but I kinda miss the whole write-up thing
 
Quill
Quill
@Malachi that was the 2015 survey, IIRC
 
JNat
JNat
@Vogel612 I obviously missed that :P
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@JNat ramen
no wait... no WAGing in here ...
 
JNat
JNat
@Vogel612 katsudon
 
Malachi
Malachi
12:12 PM
cous cous?
 
Quill
Quill
oden masterrace
 
JNat
JNat
 
Quill
Quill
that anime was hilarious
 
JNat
JNat
right?
 
Quill
Quill
I have a poster of it on my wall even :D
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
12:18 PM
Who called my name?
@DanPantry
 
Quill
Quill
@Malachi It's a good framework, but it looks kinda weird on Desktop
it's designed for mobile environments, so it looks like an oversized iPad app on desktop
it's still really cool and comes with a bunch of pretty features
@BernardMeurer @Malachi had a brazilian referrer to his blog and was curious
DanPantry thought you might be the one
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
I might have clicked on his blog, don't recall tho. (But I also don't recall what I did yesterday)
 
Malachi
Malachi
oh, I haven't gotten into much mobile design yet. other than using mobile ready templates in Visual Studio that use the nice Razor Syntax, the templates resize nicely
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
I'm most likely the culprit when it comes to weird things from Brazil
 
Malachi
Malachi
in case anyone wants to read it again (or for the first time, again)
 
Quill
Quill
12:20 PM
@BernardMeurer sounds like a fun evening ;)
 
Malachi
Malachi
that was weird, I didn't have a star wall until I starred something
 
Quill
Quill
what's codestock?
 
Malachi
Malachi
there is a link. it's a Developr gathering where people talk about code
 
Quill
Quill
oh. ;-;
all the developer events and conventions are all overseas
 
Malachi
Malachi
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
12:22 PM
@Malachi ionic is angular for phones
 
Quill
Quill
and all the australian ones are so crap I could probably present a talk
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
my passport arrived, btw
 
Quill
Quill
@DanPantry it works with angular
@DanPantry nice
 
Malachi
Malachi
@DanPantry oh, well then I could probably get into that pretty easily then
 
Quill
Quill
it's pretty cool
It seems you forgot to actually ask for a review ;-) — janos ♦ 34 secs ago
meh, "I don't know what I can improve, what should I improve on?" just feels like noise to me
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
12:26 PM
i think it was a joke
 
Kaz
Kaz
Oh frack
What kind of respectable government agency allows "xyz corp Ltd" and "xyz corp Limited" to be 2, entirely different, companies.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
respectable government ltd
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@Kaz let me guess... you relied on that meaning the same and removed some companies that shouldn't have been?
@DanPantry the pains of manual data mining ....
couldn't you compare something like ... the "Handelsregisternummer"??
 
Quill
Quill
45
Q: How can I discourage camping while still supporting a "sniper" style of play?

FrontEndI am trying to add features into a third person shooter that suit a sniper style of play, in addition to the current rush/deathmatch style it was designed for. The current gameplay is similar in style to Gears of War and Battlefield, perhaps similar to Call of Duty in terms of combat ranges but a...

game-design game-mechanics shooter
 
Mast
Mast
12:41 PM
@Vogel612 Sounds Dutch.
@DanPantry Moderators make jokes?
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@Mast yea I don't know the english word
 
Mast
Mast
But yea, usually companies have a number. Numbers are unique.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
i think you mean the company registration number.
like their tax code
 
Mast
Mast
Commercial registry number?
Something like that.
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@DanPantry yea exactly
 
Quill
Quill
12:44 PM
they're literally called business numbers here
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
my god, flights from cardiff are stupidly expensive
flight to dublin from cardiff? £73... same flight from birmingham? £18
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
why are you flying
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
because i would like to visit dublin?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
But you can connect with everyone online from home
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
T_T
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
12:49 PM
@Pimgd you can't get good Guiness from the barrel though
 
Kaz
Kaz
@Vogel612 Not removed, but it calls into question the ~20% or so that I've managed to match up so far.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
I don't drink alcohol anyway shrug
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
BeerOverIP
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@Pimgd the foam is the best part though
probably there's a better term than foam :/
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
@Vogel612 it arrives with SOAP, so there's your foam
 
Kaz
Kaz
12:50 PM
@Vogel612 That's what I am comparing it against.
~10% were exact matches.
another ~10% I got by comparing substitutions (&/and, ltd/limited, & co/& company etc.)
And now I'm left wondering if all of those are actualy matching up to the right company.
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
@Vogel612 The "foam" part of a beer is normally called the "head"
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
I found "froth" in an online dictionary, too..
TIL :)
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
froth is what happens when a dog has rabies. :D
not so fun fact
And yes I am really this good at killing conversations.
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
@DanPantry I thought Britain didn't have rabies?
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Vogel612 no, but the internet does
i mean, it has information about rabies
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
12:58 PM
Man tries to bend laws of universe with hydraulic press
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Pimgd and fails miserably
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Well, fails interestingly
as in "wow, did not expect that"
It's just "will it blend" style channel, but I like it
the dude has great commentary even although it sounds super-amateurish
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
one of my favourite "amateurish" science channels is that one of a middle asian guy who makes a home-made electric guitar
bah i linked a re-uploaded version.. oh well
 
Kaz
Kaz
@Pimgd Yeah, definitely not how I expected it to fail.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
I would have liked to see the hydraulic press break tbh
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
1:09 PM
that would be really WTF
 
Kaz
Kaz
I often forget that liquefaction is a thing that matter will do if you push it far enough.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Kaz we're still talking about paper here... right?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
haha yeah that clayman at the end
you can still see the hand
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
cus i just had a flicker of a really childish joke in my head about liquefaction and pushing.
 
Donald.McLean
Donald.McLean
@SimonForsberg Yes, it will be good to see what the writers have in store.
 
enderland
enderland
1:12 PM
@Pimgd no kidding!
 
Kaz
Kaz
@DanPantry I have no control over what your brain is going to do with the things I say.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Kaz <:
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
bring your concrete hats
 
Mast
Mast
No onebox, great...
 
Donald.McLean
Donald.McLean
Greetings, Programs.
 
Mast
Mast
1:19 PM
Greetings, Donald.
 
Quill
Quill
hey there
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
it's webm, isn't supported by onebox - also you gave a link to the gallery
 
Quill
Quill
s/by onebox//
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
it's supported by me :(
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Dan Pantry - Official Supporter of webm
 
Mast
Mast
1:21 PM
I officially don't give a carp as long as chat doesn't support it.
Sorry Dan.
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
lol
 
Quill
Quill
It's not supported natively on mobile yet besides VLC app
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Mast don't be koi
 
Mast
Mast
Imgur isn't blocked at your work @DanP?
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
@Mast Nope. nor is reddit.
 
Mast
Mast
1:22 PM
@Quill Mobile should try to keep up...
 
Quill
Quill
but Twitter is?
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
Twatter is, yes
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
shame on you, onebox
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
computer says no
 
Mast
Mast
:28314550 Nice try, didn't work.
 
Vogel612
Vogel612
1:23 PM
even onebox-force fails :/
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Pimgd Sorry for last night. There were some demonstrations when I left work and by the time I got home it was a full coup d'etat attempt
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
crush the rebellion
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
I'm team coup d'etat :p
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
{{$(document).height()}}
debugging css
I hate frontend days
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
> I hate debugging CSS
> javascript
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
1:33 PM
Any Python ninjas?
How can I make a list containing all the normal chars (0-9; a-z;A-Z)?
 
Captain Obvious
Captain Obvious
0
Q: custom login method using JavaScript and Protractor

Archis DavdaI have written login method in JavaScript using protractor. When Login method is called, this methods waits for element (txtLogin) to be present in DOM. Once it finds the element, credentials are entered and login button is clicked. And waits for page to be routed to landing page. If element is p...

javascript selenium
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Don't want to use ASCII stuffs
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
8)
(I'm not sure anyone here does python.. where is @SuperBiasedMan..?)
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Google told me to use an import, I wanted something beautiful :p
 
enderland
enderland
>
l = range(0, 10)
print l
gets you the numbers
 
Mast
Mast
1:38 PM
@BernardMeurer Not a ninja, but I manage.
 
skiwi
skiwi
Maybe range('a', 'z') or something works? It's Python after all
 
Mast
Mast
@BernardMeurer Do you prefer importing or creating?
@skiwi Range only takes integers, but you could force them to unicode characters.
 
enderland
enderland
ascii = [i for j in (range(64, 91), range(97, 123)) for i in j]
that gives you a list of all the ascii
 
Mast
Mast
import string
string.lowercase[:26]
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Mast Yeah that's the solution I ended up going with :)
 
enderland
enderland
1:44 PM
aww but you didn't want imports! :P
 
Mast
Mast
It's Pythonic, so it's beautiful.
3
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@enderland I'm doing this to answer a beginner's email, the dude asked me some questions about counting letters, I throw a list comp at him he'll run :p
 
enderland
enderland
@BernardMeurer oh, so... yeah
haha
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
the [x:y] syntax is so beautiful
 
enderland
enderland
yeah
 
Mast
Mast
1:46 PM
@BernardMeurer Keep in mind that's Python 2, Python 3 is different.
 
enderland
enderland
good practice for me to figure out with list stuff though
 
Mast
Mast
for i in range(ord('a'), ord('z')+1):
    print chr(i)
Would also work.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Damn, that one's pretty nice
 
enderland
enderland
that's a lot better than the mess I was trying... :o
 
Mast
Mast
use a , behind the chr(i) to get them all in one line, but you'll keep spaces.
You can fix that with a join, a splice, or any other crazy method, depending on what you want.
Python, trailing comma's matter,
The ugly fix ^^
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
1:55 PM
This ord based solution is pretty great
 
Mast
Mast
There's a reason I like Python. Once I learned it I knew for sure I'd keep using it.
Now if only I could make browsers run client-side Python from websites...
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
javasssssssssssssssssscript
4
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Mast One day everything will run Python
 
Mast
Mast
java_script
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
I have faith
 
Mast
Mast
2:00 PM
Even my MALP runs Pyton.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Lab probe?
 
Mast
Mast
(robot webserver)
Eventually it will look like the real deal.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Why on earth do you have that?
 
Mast
Mast
I don't have that one, but I'm building something based on that. It currently has wheels and lights, but I'm trying to prevent my code turning into one big mess in the process.
I want to turn it into an educational project eventually.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
> I'm trying to prevent my code turning into one big mess in the process.
Ha
ha ha
 
Mast
Mast
2:06 PM
Once I figured out how to successfully manage my time...
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Managing time is a bitch
time itself is a bitch in fact
 
Donald.McLean
Donald.McLean
Never been interested in Python.
 
Duga
Duga
possible answer invalidation by Danny Englander on question by Danny Englander: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/123051/revisions
 
Mast
Mast
@Donald.McLean No? Why not?
I've worked at an astronomical development centre where they used it in combination with VHDL. I thought Python was big in academia.
 
Malachi
Malachi
2:23 PM
@Mast is that for getting better wifi in space?
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Mast @enderland See what you think of my walkthrough here: gist.github.com/bemeurer/704a91b808757294413d
 
Mast
Mast
@Malachi If I can find a battery big enough, you'll receive it into space.
The WiFi could do it.
 
enderland
enderland
@BernardMeurer s/Dictionaty/dictionary
 
Duga
Duga
If you set breakpoints it would help to narrow down to where the problem exist. Can you tell us where the problem is? There are more than a few issue I can see, but this is not code review either... — Codexer 8 secs ago
 
enderland
enderland
s/It's/its
 
Mast
Mast
2:27 PM
However, it's intended to cross around the garden.
@BernardMeurer Too much comments, not enough docstring.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Mast Why would docstrings be better than comments for explaining code logic? I always though docstrings were just to state what a function/class/whatever did, what it took in and what it spat out
@Donald.McLean Scala?
 
Mast
Mast
@BernardMeurer Donald is Mr. Scala.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@enderland Corrected both
I wanted to learn Scala, couldn't find good reading material for it, ended up going to C++
 
Duga
Duga
Yeah, give it a try first, and if you have any specific questions, come back and ask them. If you just need general code review, use codereview.stackexchange.com. — Joseph Thomson 40 secs ago
 
Mast
Mast
@BernardMeurer docstrings can be as simple as """Strip punctuation and return list containing word and type"""
Use them.
Especially if it's code you intend to share a lot.
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
2:33 PM
^^
Writing docstrings for function-like code is such a simple matter everyone should do it
3
 
Mast
Mast
^^
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@Mast Updated with docstrings now gist.github.com/bemeurer/704a91b808757294413d
 
Mast
Mast
Docstrings also force you to think SRP.
The moment you can't figure out what the docstring should be, the function is too big.
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
BTW.XML //shootmeplz
 
Mast
Mast
/me shoots Pin Crash
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
2:40 PM
@Mast or the moment you start writing a novel
 
Mast
Mast
lol
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
@BernardMeurer clear code > documentation 
found = {}
"""
dictionaty to store our found letters. Its format looks like such:
{'A': 1, 'B':6, 'C':0} and so on
"""
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
> dictionaty
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
Just call the thing foundLetters instead (or found_letters whatevs)
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@DanPantry FIxed
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
2:41 PM
foundLettersDict
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@PinCrash Fixing
 
Mast
Mast
documentationReview
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Updated
 
Mast
Mast
 
Dan Pantry
Dan Pantry
2:43 PM
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
 
Mast
Mast
Hah, the ' broke it.
Don't use those in tags.
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
Doc review indeed
 
Mast
Mast
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
 
Mast
Mast
2:45 PM
 
Mat's Mug
Mat's Mug
in VBA Rubberducking, 2 mins ago, by Blogging Duck
Rubberduck News: v2.0: 75% there
posted on March 17, 2016 by rubberduckvba

At least according to our issues list. I’ve been working on quite a lot of things these past few weeks, things that open up new horizons and help stabilize the foundations – the identifier reference resolver. Precompiler Directives And we’ve had major contributions too, from @autoboosh: Rubberduck’s parser now literally interprets precompiler directives, which leaves onl…

monking!
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
def count_each_letter(source):
    """Counts how many instances of each ASCII (a-z A-Z) letter is found in source"""
    letters = list(ascii_letters)
    for line in source:
        found.update(Counter(line))

with open("words.txt", 'r') as text:  # Opening our text file as the var text
    count_each_letter(text)
I think this would look better^^ @BernardMeurer
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@PinCrash Totally agree. I'll send one with and one without the function, just in case he gets boggled by it. Nice idea :)
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
Functions <3
 
Duga
Duga
Maybe this question is a candidate for codereview.stackexchange.com? — Simze 44 secs ago
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
2:49 PM
woo, surpassed 14k rep
6
 
Mast
Mast
@Pimgd I demand cake.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
It's my birthday next week wednesday so there might be cake then
Sadly, CakeOverIP doesn't exist yet
(so no cake for you?)
 
Mast
Mast
@Duga Deleted, incoming?
@Pimgd Eindhoven is only 200km from here ^^
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
try somewhere Zuid-Holland
0
Q: Spring, Java : Method too complex, any suggestions for simplification strategies

We are BorgI am working on a Spring-MVC application in which there are around 2-3 methods which are quite big and complex, but only one of them worries me, especially for maintenance or changes. As changes in the method can immediately change some critical functionality in the project. The application is ba...

java performance
I think.
 
Mast
Mast
Seems like it.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
2:51 PM
Yeah, url matches
> I am pasting the method for reference sake, cannot go into details of what is actually happening.
hmmmmmmh okay
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
@BernardMeurer Nice :) - I'm assuming the big docstring paragraphs in the middle are for the sake of explaining to a beginner how it works?
 
Duga
Duga
If you are sure your code works as you expect, you could try asking for help in codereview.stackexchange.com (to make it cleaner), or programmers.stackexchange.com (to make sure you apply good practices and paradigms in your code). However, I have serious doubts that any of these sites would allow questions about pseudocode, since pseudocode is almost what you want it to be (provided you respect the algorithm's paradigm). — Luis Masuelli 51 secs ago
 
Bernard Meurer
Bernard Meurer
@PinCrash Yes, they'r e just very throughout explanations of simple stuff
 
Mast
Mast
> I need help as I am unfamiliar with using pseudo.
.....
 
Pin Crash
Pin Crash
2:59 PM
@Mast Um I'm going to respond to that and (kindly) rip that guy a new one
 
skiwi
skiwi
Psuedocode is a funny thing..
 
Kaz
Kaz
@Mat'sMug That all sounds frikkin' awesome!
 
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