The 2nd Monitor

N3buchadnezzar

7:00 PM

Voting might be harder here. Eg deciding if a question is upvote worthy. Codereview can be complex

Mast

You can get 16k views and only 40 votes.

janos

for example in that duplicate questions are extremely rare

@N3buchadnezzar yeah. As it's harder to write a decent CR answer, it's also harder to judge questions/answers when voting

harder = more time consuming

N3buchadnezzar

Still some users are very good at it. Why is that?

EBrown

@janos @Phrancis and anyone else interested: I'm going to try to get the DB duplication done tonight, so that I can get a read-only account on the non-production DB if anyone would like to run their own queries.

N3buchadnezzar

If I were correct, should not voting be low for all users?

200_success

7:02 PM

I agree, voting takes real work. I read (or at least skim) every post that I vote on. And if I'm not mostly in agreement with an answer, then I end up posting a comment or an answer instead.

6

janos

I'm a bit busy now, but would love to look into getting the equivalent from SEDE

N3buchadnezzar

SEDE?

janos

SEDE = data.stackexchange.com

200_success

With Workplace or English answers, it's really easy to say "yeah, that sounds about right". Voting on a Code Review answer, though, is a more serious matter. I'd feel guilty if I put my "stamp of approval" on advice that turned out to be bad.

5

Dan Pantry

Soes SEDE grow into a TREE?

200_success

7:05 PM

Basically, voting is reviewing.

N3buchadnezzar

@DanPantry Good try. We are all out stars though, try again tomorrow.

Dan Pantry

its also the case that it's not really viable to bang through a lot of questions to vote them jsut by picking them off the main page

because as someone else mentioned voting is harder than it is on SO where things are objectively off topic/LQ or not

except in very obvious circumstances

N3buchadnezzar

I do find a bit of contrast in the votes though. Could we get some statistics on it? I feel that bad questions tend to get 0 votes. However a good question can easilly get 5 upvotes quickly

Seems like there is a large portion of 0 upvote questions, a large portion with 6-7 upvotes and few in between. However that might just be confirmation bias from my side.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Reading a binary file into objects

I'm trying for the life of me to parse a binary file of records and store the information into an array of objects. Essentially, when I've done something similar, it was in C, and the method I'd go about doing it was defining a struct, which each field defined in the number of char (bytes) of th...

Malachi

@200_success with the current pinned message I think this should be pinned as well, what say you?

janos

7:08 PM

btw, RoboSanta is partly an attempt to encourage voting

200_success

I don't see any reason to pin any more messages. Pinning should be for announcements, not promoting your idea of what should be super-starred.

Trojan404

im hating microsoft word right now

EBrown

@janos The SEDE results could be more finely tuned, my data is historical though.

Trojan404

trying to come up with a document merging solution bc 500 USD to merge word docs is insane - phpdocx.com/pricing

Hosch250

@Trojan404 Shouldn't be that hard at all.

Trojan404

7:16 PM

@Hosch250 in theory yes, just open the xml and move the xml to a new merged document

Hosch250

At the least, simply create a new doc and just copy the content from the old ones into the new one.

Then delete the old ones.

Trojan404

but when you try to open it and it says "Corrupt" you know it's not that simple

Hosch250

Oh, lol.

200_success

I have a theory that Stack Exchange sites eventually become victims of their own success. I've found that the reputation histogram roughly follows a power law distribution. That means that the number of low-rep users grows faster than the number of high-rep users. Eventually, sites become like Stack Overflow, flooded with newbies.

N3buchadnezzar

@200_success So it is like the zombie movies. Just that the zombies eventually wins.

Trojan404

7:18 PM

if you want to see what im talking about hosch, create two word docs and then change the .docx to .zip. go into the document.xml and copy everything from <w:body> to </w:body> into the first doc. it is a pain in the arse

when you do that, it errors and tells you missing references so I've got to really debug the xml and find all references

Hosch250

@Trojan404 Try doing it with the Word API and COM.

Trojan404

that ultimately brings me back to using PHPWord open source project, but for some odd reason, the declaration of that object always results in a server error - github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Printing the results of many cryptographic hashes

Which of the following Java code would run faster? System.out.println("\nMD2: " + hcMD2); System.out.println("MD5: " + hcMD5); System.out.println("SHA-1: " + hcSHA1); System.out.println("SHA-256: " + hcSHA256); System.out.println("SHA-384: " + hcSHA384); System.out.println("SHA-512: " + hcSHA512...

java performance comparative-review io

Duga

As this isn't a coding issue, but rather some "request for best practice recommendation", this sounds like off-topic here and on-topic at codereview.stackexchange.com (see codereview.stackexchange.com/tour) — YakovL 19 secs ago

Trojan404

but PHPWord doesn't have forward compatibility of word2010, you have to create the document as a word2007

Hosch250

7:32 PM

Try using C#, or even VBA (I think VBA can do this).

Sjoerd Job Postmus

I'm looking at codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/136699/…, and I'm not sure what to do. The code seems hypothetical, and I'm quite certain it won't run.

On the other hand, there are some tips I would like to give for that piece of code.

N3buchadnezzar

7:47 PM

Mmm

I am looking to do some statistical analysis on some players

Think tennis or similar. Comparing their Glicko / ELO / tennis rankings

janos

@SjoerdJobPostmus more than one good reasons to close there (so I did)

Sjoerd Job Postmus

@janos. Thanks :).

N3buchadnezzar

What would be the best way to store the data in python? To do such analysis

Sjoerd Job Postmus

@N3buchadnezzar: unsure, but I hear a lot of positive talk about numpy and pandas. Haven't used them though.

N3buchadnezzar

@SjoerdJobPostmus Starting to read the pdf-documentation of panda. On page 1 of 2017

Duga

7:53 PM

If your code "works", but simply isn't efficient enough to pass the time-limits of spij, wouldnt codereview.stackexchange.com be a more appropraite place for this? — WhozCraig 1 min ago

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Random Quote Generator from API

I have built a random machine generator website. It fetches the quotes from http://api.forismatic.com/api/1.0/ and has a button to get a new quote. When it gets a new quote, the website color changes. It also features a button to tweet the quote and a button to copy to clipboard (using https://cl...

javascript ajax api

Sjoerd Job Postmus

@janos: if he fixed the "not working" part, it is still somewhat "hypothetical" (fieldnames make no sense). Should that also be fixed before opening?

janos

The code is still broken, even after your last edit. Please fix it, and test it too. Then we can reopen. — janos ♦ 7 mins ago

^^^ after he does the "test it too" part, I hope the code becomes non-hypothetical

Duga

Or codereview.stackexchange.com — j08691 47 secs ago

Pimgd

I have new monitors!

Hosch250

8:02 PM

Nice.

Pimgd

1x 144 hz 1920x1080 and 1x 60hz 1920x1080

N3buchadnezzar

@Pimgd Soy uoi have a second monitor?

Sjoerd Job Postmus

@janos: more like, yes, it can parse a file. But... it's not code he would(should?) write in real software, because the "field_a" means nothing.

Pimgd

also it is BRIIIGHT

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: How to name a REST API which returns true if a user belongs to a group?

I am developing a rest api. I want to check if a particular user belongs to a group. For example, GET /user/{userId}/group/{groupId} or, GET /user/{userId}/belongsto?group={groupId}

rest

Pimgd

8:05 PM

I need a backlight for my computer =/

Duga

possible answer invalidation by user2757228 on question by user2757228: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/136658/revisions

Hosch250

Can't you turn them down?

Pimgd

@Duga fine

I already have the brightness set to 0

janos

@SjoerdJobPostmus poor naming is widespread, even in production code, so not necessarily hypothetical

Sjoerd Job Postmus

ok. Agreed.

Pimgd

8:06 PM

turned the contrast down a bit, now it looks slightly better

doesn't stop me from burning my eyeballs still =/

144hz monitors just ... produce more light, I guess?

also white is now white which is really bright and I think there shouldn't be so much white webpages

I like grey

but my mail is white and github is white and stackexchange is mostly white and blehhh

N3buchadnezzar

@Pimgd Youtube, facebook

RoboSanta

Naruto answer; accepted non-selfie answer with 0 score: PHP Class code that allow developers to register taxonomies in a CMS php oop php5

Pimgd

I'mma go play a game, see how that works

N3buchadnezzar

phpoop

janos

that's a fine PHP question + answer

those newcomers didn't get much love

N3buchadnezzar

8:16 PM

Would have upvoted, but alas I am out of candy to hand out today.

janos

@N3buchadnezzar nice!

N3buchadnezzar

The Ebrownian cartel is pushing hard on the votes these days.

janos

Oh look, now you have enough reputation to vote on stuff (like the answer below, nudge nudge wink wink) — janos ♦ 42 secs ago

N3buchadnezzar

trophy

RoboSanta

Ripe zombie; open question with answers, at least one answer having score 0, no answer having score > 0: Recursive comment function echoes HTML inside function php

N3buchadnezzar

8:22 PM

@janos Seems like you are part of the Ebrownian voting cartel.

janos

@N3buchadnezzar you don't say... codereview.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&filter=all

also

1 hour ago, by janos

btw, RoboSanta is partly an attempt to encourage voting

N3buchadnezzar

@janos Pssshh codereview.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&filter=week

Duga

SO is not a code review or homework revision site. If there is a problem with your code, indicate specifically what is not working by showing the invalid output or error code and provide an explanation of what your expected output is. — idjaw 56 secs ago

janos

@N3buchadnezzar I'll catch up with you in the quarterly chart ;-)

N3buchadnezzar

@janos Perhaps that is what the site needs? A voting race?

janos

8:29 PM

I was thinking the same... but only at first. I'm afraid that would invite gaming

voting without thinking

N3buchadnezzar

Would not any incentive to increase voting, involuntarily also increase votes without thought?

Donald.McLean

Managed to get second monitor working again.

N3buchadnezzar

Greetings

Duga

codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/ask is a codereview site, though — Wayne Werner 57 secs ago

janos

@N3buchadnezzar yes, that side effect will always exist. With some incentives it's higher (voting race) than with others (thoughtful meta post)

N3buchadnezzar

8:34 PM

The question is which method is the most effective. I have a fear that the users who vote are the users who read meta

Simarly the users who do not vote, do not read meta.

janos

even users of meta and chat regulars could still vote more

N3buchadnezzar

Agree with that.

janos

users who don't read meta and don't chat... that's a tough crowd to influence

N3buchadnezzar

@janos Which coincidentally make up a majority of the sites users...

janos

the vast majority

N3buchadnezzar

8:41 PM

So what to do?

janos

dunno. I tweeted EBrown's meta post, but that's like a drop in the ocean

N3buchadnezzar

Could we get lMatt Damon or another celebrity to start promoting the site?

Hire pandas to beat up people who do not leave a single vote vote in a half a year?

janos

"get a hug for a vote"

anyway, TTGTB

N3buchadnezzar

Cya

janos

catch you guys later, don't forget to vote like crazy (but thoughtfully), and catch me on codereview.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&filter=week

Hosch250

8:55 PM

Hi, @Grimxn.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: movie ticket booking and program in python using tkinter or GUI

i need to make movie program shower and ticket booking system using tkinter (GUI) please help

python

Duga

possible answer invalidation by Dirty-Santa on question by Dirty-Santa: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/136663/revisions

Captain Obvious

9:33 PM

0

Q: PHP daemon like behavior hack

Consider the following PHP Code: <?php /** * What you see here, is one of the worst things you'll ever see.. * It's almost physically painful just thinking of the concept of this file.. * Feels like pooping glass again.. * Feels like a mad C++ developer.. * Which way did you say Feelodelp...

php

Phrancis

10:30 PM

@N3buchadnezzar I hear pandas is great for "big data" type of stuff. It sounds like what you're talking about is a pretty small data set, maybe just keep it simple and use JSON or a CSV or XML?

Monking!

Phrancis

10:44 PM

I have to admit, after watching a video about pandas, that it looks really powerful if you're a data junkie

Hosch250

11:00 PM

Using XML to format a test solution when testing XML doc comments is, well, slightly tricky...

Feels like posting in the Roslyn chat that "much I have to learn, still".

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Hex to Binary Conversion

Just mucking around with Elixir and bitstrings and wondering if there is a better way to implement the following ( or improve ). :- defmodule Crypto do def hexdigit( digit ) do case digit do d when d >= ?0 and d <= ?9 -> d - ?0 c when c >= ?a and c <= ?f...

elixir

Duga

@Divyanshu I can do that, but please move your code to codereview.stackexchange.com and ask your question about style, organization, efficiency etc. there. — Paul Cornelius 7 secs ago

Transcript for