The 2nd Monitor

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18:04

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Q: Can XSS or anything else get through this?

I coded a php chat that stores the text in a txt file and retrieves it, and I want to know if XSS can get past it or if someone can replace xhr.open("POST","uhh.php"); with something that contains the same php code but without htmlspecialchars or something like that. What are the vulnerabilities...

skiwi

Jamalized within one minute!

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Q: Field class used by my trading card game

As many may know, I am developing a Trading Card Game for the Coding Challenge. I have just completed the Field class and have not used it in practice yet, so all theoretical and looking for a review. Using Java 8 and all custom classes will be included in this post as well, if you wish you can...

java clean-code game readability code-challenge

Jamal

Yeah, I guess I could've just told you to add the tag within your grace period. :-/

skiwi

@Jamal It's no problem, over-editing doesn't make it become a community wiki either way anymore, also I was searching on coding..., but no tags popped up, turns out it is code-challenge

Which leads me to wonder if the tag is correctly worded... Is our code at the challenge, or are our coding skills at the challenge?

Jamal

We are actually considering renaming it (technically, merging it with a new one):

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Q: Rename [code-challenge] to something more site-specific

It seems that users are still using the code-challenge tag for challenge-oriented questions that do not correspond to the site's occasional voted-upon challenges. We already have the programming-challenge tag for off-site challenge programs, but it's understandable that the two tags sound simila...

discussion feature-request tags retag-request

Mat's Mug

I think review-challenge would be best (hi!)

rolfl

18:10

hi ...

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug Hi!

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Q: Field class used by my trading card game

As many may know, I am developing a Trading Card Game for the Coding Challenge. I have just completed the Field class and have not used it in practice yet, so all theoretical and looking for a review. Using Java 8 and all custom classes will be included in this post as well, if you wish you can...

java clean-code game readability code-challenge

rolfl

I got a late accept, how nice was that.

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skiwi

community-challenge sounds cool

I'm having an upvote ratio of 80% upvotes/views already.

rolfl

better than challenging-community

Mat's Mug

18:11

I have a grand total of 0 lines of code written thus far

rolfl

^^^^ reminds me of someone

Jerry Coffin

@rolfl Oh, I dunno. The Lounge can be fun... :-)

rolfl

@JerryCoffin - I have been lurking in Game Dev for a few weeks....

(long story.... don't ask).

But, it makes me value CR Chat a whole bunch

Mat's Mug

@rolfl lol. expand?

skiwi

I also went there for a few days a bunch of weeks (or months?) ago, but it's just... different

Simon André Forsberg

18:15

@rolfl How was your Game Dev experience?

rolfl

Woeking on my tact here:

Hi, and welcome to Code Review. Code-only answers are not generally a good idea on Code Review, because, well, they do not review the code, they just say, 'hey, this is the way I would do it'. If you can add some description as to why your code is an improvement, and what problems your code solves that the original code does not, then this would be a much better answer. — rolfl ♦ 1 min ago

skiwi

It is, generally speaking impossible to add a method to a public interface without breaking all existing classes taht implement the interface. <- Lies! It's like Effective Java knows nothing about Java 8.

Mat's Mug

@rolfl good job; nice constructive comment :)

rolfl

@SimonAndréForsberg - one thing.... this

Mat's Mug

ouch!

skiwi

18:19

This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 415 days., huh

rolfl

He asked for it.

skiwi

That's some long time

Mat's Mug

gives "temporary solution" a funny meaning

rolfl

But, as it happens, I like it here....

and, I have learned some new skills, as a mod....

... including how to deal with more troubling situations.

Simon André Forsberg

Wow, he must have been acting horrible...

rolfl

18:21

It was a lot of things that added up.... and when I say he asked for it, I mean he literally asked for it.

He wanted it to be as long as I could make it....

all I could do was that.... 416 days,

Simon André Forsberg

So... if I would ask you to ban me, you would?

Mat's Mug

^^ note the conditional ;)

rolfl

I guess, yes.

Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl What's the shortest ban you can make?

rolfl

If you asked me to delete your account, I would probably do that too.... (but disassociate your questions/answers first)

Mat's Mug

18:22

@SimonAndréForsberg don't play with fire.. it burns ;)

Simon André Forsberg

416... quite a seemingly random number...

@rolfl ok, ok... let's not continue on this path!!

skiwi

@rolfl Can you actually get people banned from other chats then? :o

rolfl

Yeah, the mod tool allows only 4 digits in the input field.... I could not be bothered trying to find a way around the javascript validation, so I used 9999 hours.

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi All moderators on all SE sites are moderators for the entire chat system

rolfl

I have put in a request with the site devs to increase the limit.

Simon André Forsberg

18:24

9999 hours makes it less random.

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Ah, that explains

Hopefully there's also server side validation behind the javascript validation...

Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl Speaking of getting in trouble... Do you think I can get in trouble by making about 100 HTTP requests to the SE system in a very short time? (using some code I'm writing)

rolfl

All SE interfaces have rate-limiting systems...

Simon André Forsberg

And if you exceed that rate...?

rolfl

You won't get in trouble (likely), but you will get throttled, perhaps blocked.

(for a bit).

Simon André Forsberg

18:27

OK, thanks.

Just to be safe, I think I'll add some sleeping time

rolfl

The rate-limiting systems, as I have been reading things, are progressive, so, the rate gets less, and less, and less.... until you run out of things.

Mat's Mug

any news on what caused @StackExchange to temporarily turn into @CommandantFeederstein yesterday? Could the SE devs have been playing/messing with us?

rolfl

interesting question....

skiwi

@Mat'sMug :o So that's what was going on, I couldn't understand what the whole @CommandantFeederstein fuzz was about

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug As long as @CommandantFeederstein isn't an ex-famous dictator, I'm happy.

Mat's Mug

18:29

it had @StackExchange's user ID

rolfl

It was certainly a moderator/site-dev thing.

I'll investigate a bit.

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug 326 rep yesterday, impressive...

Mat's Mug

yeah, tell that to my boss - work done: next-to-none

(thanks!)

ugh. I keep getting back this +1, find a bad answer for OCD voting, go back to an even rep score (yay OCD happy!), and then the bad answer gets deleted and I have to start all over again...

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rolfl

The trick is to accept two answers on your own questions.

2

(why do you think I ask questions ... ?

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Mat's Mug

OCD asking? Why haven't I thought of that before!!

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18:37

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Q: Curious fractions in functional Ruby

Problem 33 in Project Euler asks: The fraction 49/98 is a curious fraction, as an inexperienced mathematician in attempting to simplify it may incorrectly believe that 49/98 = 4/8, which is correct, is obtained by canceling the 9s. We shall consider fractions like, 30/50 = 3/5, to be...

ruby functional-programming

Simon André Forsberg

Holy Mother of Stars!

rolfl

@Mat'sMug This is temporary: stackoverflow.com/users/2398036/user2398036

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Mat's Mug

The suspension period ends on Feb 1 '27 at 19:59.

wow.. the same kind of "temporary solution" we implement all day at work!

Malachi

18:58

@SimonAndréForsberg Wasn't me

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Jamal

I wonder if I'll reach 2K profile views before May 1st...

Malachi

-60

Q: Is it true that in Python you can import specific functions from a module unlike in PHP?

In PHP it is not possible to only get specific functions from an included file. I would usually create five different include files and each would have like 5-6 functions in it. This way, it would be faster. But I hear and see examples on Google where it seems like in Python you can do something...

python python-2.7 mod-wsgi wsgi mod-python

@skiwi what user are we talking about here?

Mat's Mug

damn

stackoverflow.com/revisions/16630713/8

Simon André Forsberg

@Malachi I know, you will see soon what I'm talking about :)

Malachi

@Mat'sMug that user is a dick

Mat's Mug

19:04

was

;)

gone now, 'till 2027!

Malachi

@Mat'sMug I like that

Jamal

Unless Osama bin Laden rises from the grave first.

Malachi

91

Q: Suspension till 2027

This account is temporarily suspended for rule violations. The suspension period ends on Feb 1 '27 at 19:59. Er... What?! Till 1 feb 2027?! This is user2398036. Depending on the severity of the problem behavior — and at the complete discretion of the moderator — your account will be ...

discussion support account-suspension

@rolfl ▲▲▲

sorry

I need 5 more rep on SuperUser to be able to nominate myself for moderator

Simon André Forsberg

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Q: We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep Dreaming about the things that we could be But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, Said, no more counting dollars We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars (One Republic - Counting Stars) The 2nd Monitor is known to be a quite star-happy...

python web-scraping beautiful-soup

^^ That is why I said "Holy Mother of Stars" before

Jamal

[tag:beautiful-soup]
That reminds me... I need to go eat breakfast (during lunchtime).

Mat's Mug

19:16

lol @ ('The Mug with many names', 2096) (Mat's Mug, retailcoder and lol.upvote is the same user)

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Simon André Forsberg

@Jamal That's the name of a Python library I used, has been used in some other questions before, not sure if it should have a tag or not, perhaps web-scraping should be used there...

Jamal

@SimonAndréForsberg I wonder if that list should be shortened since it's taking up a lot of space. Perhaps start it at 50 or 100.

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug You didn't beat the monkey though!

Mat's Mug

@SimonAndréForsberg I predict this will be a hot question in the near future. Nice title!

Simon André Forsberg

@Jamal Agreed. Jamalized myself.

@Mat'sMug Thanks, I'm hoping for it :) We'll see...

skiwi

19:19

nice one there @SimonAndréForsberg

Mat's Mug

thoughts? I'm skipping:

codereview.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/19677

skiwi

I'm quite high up on the list :o

rolfl

@Malachi - I'm curious, I have looked at your superuser profile, and the conversations you had on the election chat, etc. Do you really think you have a chance of getting elected (if you get nominated)?

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Q: We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep Dreaming about the things that we could be But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, Said, no more counting dollars We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars (One Republic - Counting Stars) The 2nd Monitor is known to be a quite star-happy...

python beginner stackexchange web-scraping beautiful-soup

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Q: How to sync jQuery functions in different website states? ( Desktop, Mobile Portrait and Mobile Landscape )

I have three main jQuery functions that each of them contains another two functions which are called upon user click on a specific div tag, each of the three main functions are for a different CSS media-query state, one for the Desktop state, one for the Mobile portrait state and the last one for...

jquery functions

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug Such things should be comments IMO. Rejected. I consider it an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post.

rolfl

19:21

@SimonAndréForsberg - can you filter out 'lol' chat messages?

Mat's Mug

that was my initial thought

@rolfl that unfairly filters out anything @lol.upvote said or was told ;)

rolfl

exacty ... ;-P

Mat's Mug

(does it?)

Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl Filter out or filter in? (Exclude them, or count them only?) Anyways, that is exactly one of the reasons I've stored the HTML data.

rolfl

Either ... the autostar meme is a strong bias ...

Simon André Forsberg

19:22

@Mat'sMug It'd be easy to filter on messages which are more or less only "lol"

rolfl

(and I think I have just one, maybe 2 chat messages like that... ...

Mat's Mug

mpffff... we'll see that!

Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl We'll have to see about that! Challenge accepted.

Just gotta learn to actually read a file in python... so far I've only saved them :)

Mat's Mug

hmm chat.stackexchange.com/…

rolfl

Regardless, that's a cool script .... but, you realize it should be normalized byt the number of actual chat messages for the person.

skiwi

19:27

Or by the amount of time the person has been participating in the chat (start date for ex)

Simon André Forsberg

@Jamal FYI, I removed the tag you added on my post. See my edit message here: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/48258/revisions

@Mat'sMug I count three messages

Mat's Mug

yeah... well that doesn't surprise me, @monkey started the lol-starring thing ;)

(regret it now?)

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Q: Calling a function from a dynamically loaded DLL (version 2)

Please, have a look at the previous (bad) implementation and the review here. After reading the suggested article at HowTo: Export C++ classes from a DLL, I have decided to use a plain C function approach. However, I want to use C++ code inside the DLL later. Anyway, the exported one will be a p...

c++ visual-studio

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Q: Caliburn Micro communication between list and edit viewmodels

I'm new at Caliburn Micro and MVVM pattern. I create 3 views (with its corresponding viewmodels) AppView ClientsView EditClientView AppView is my main page with a tabcontrol inside. Child views (WPF UserControls) are loaded in new tabs. So from ClientsView i have a grid with filt...

c# mvvm

Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl Well, yeah, I've been considering that. I'd like to make more features later (feature-requests are welcome!) I just realized now that I could actually see the number of chat messages someone has posted without actually reading through the entire chat history...

I have to say that Python wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, I'm quite sure I've only scratched the surface of it so far though.

The worst part about Python has been the lack of a decent IDE and JavaDoc for the classes :)

Edward

"My god, it's full of stars!" -- Commander Dave Bowman

Jamal

19:39

Do we need private? It was created with this question:

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Q: Should I return objects from private methods?

I have a private method that is called from the constructor to instantiate a bunch of objects. I can do it two ways. private Monster[,] createMonsters() { Monster[,] myMonsterArray = new Monster[8, 6]; for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) { myMonsterArray[0, ...

c# constructor private

Edward

@SimonAndréForsberg I now use Python for all the sort of one-off script tasks that I used to use Perl to solve.

skiwi

@Jamal I'd say only if a question consists solely of a private class, which would be... weird

Mat's Mug

when in doubt, burninate

rolfl

@SimonAndréForsberg ... for the record ... It appears you have too much time on your hands .... ;-)

Simon André Forsberg

@Edward From what I've heard about Perl, I can understand why.

Edward

19:40

@Jamal No, [private] is not likely to be a useful tag.

Jerry Coffin

@Edward A massive improvement, I'd say.

rolfl

kill private ....

Edward

@SimonAndréForsberg Yes. Perl has something of a reputation as a "read only" language.

Jerry Coffin

@rolfl Am I the only on in favor of Saving private Ryan? :-)

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Simon André Forsberg

@rolfl Learning something new is an indication to have too much time on my hands?

Jamal

19:42

Yeah, we can kill it. If we had that, we might as well have public. It would fall under encapsulation or oop.

rolfl

well, counting stars, and linking in lyrics, and, well, no, this is time well spent, I retract my earlier comment.

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skiwi

saving-private-ryan

Malachi

@rolfl I don't know. some of the people I talk to are kind of rude over there, I don't know that I would fit in

Edward

@Malachi If you need help being rude, perhaps I can help. :)

Malachi

@Edward lol. I just need to pretend they are people I don't like, right?

Edward

19:44

@Malachi Why pretend? :)

Mat's Mug

Aaah! My C# tag score is 666!

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Edward

You just need to develop a casual misanthropy.

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug santa-to-the-rescue

Edward

I always suspect that C# was a tool of Satan.

Simon André Forsberg

damn-cache

Jamal

19:46

@Mat'sMug My c++ score ends in 69. Yay?

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Simon André Forsberg

@Edward No, I believe that's PHP.

Edward

@SimonAndréForsberg I stand corrected.

rolfl

@Jamal ^^^^ don't think I can say what I want to.....

Malachi

@rolfl I think I would do a good job for the most part.

Jamal

@rolfl Yeah, there may be kids watching in here. :-P

Malachi

19:48

I am addicted to this whole stack exchange thing (actually programming and almost anything having to do with computers and trouble shoooting them)

Edward

@Jamal I guess we're just overly object oriented here. I should see a shrink.

rolfl

@Malachi - that may be true, but you need to have a 'presence' in the community ....

Jamal

@Edward We really do talk a lot about (p)oop in here.

Malachi

@rolfl I am trying to remedy that. but I don't think there is very much repeat traffic on that site

Edward

Pimping my answer: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/48212/…

I think it's rather nice.

Mat's Mug

19:53

napalm'd

Edward

Grazie.

Malachi

I earned yearling on Meta StackOverflow...lol

rolfl

meh, I wish you all the best, but I don't think you will make a good impression ramping up your activity on SU just to get nomination credentials.... they are looking for long-term commitment to continue, not for someone just starting up.

also, you'll be cgoing up against some serious contenders.... that have a huge presence already

Mat's Mug

thanks @Santa!

Malachi

@rolfl yeah I figured that much. I haven't been putting much into it other than finding the occasional question and seeing what I can come up with for an answer

Edward

19:58

thanks @Santa!

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Malachi

right now I want a motorcycle more than to be a moderator on Super User

Edward

@Malachi I was just driving around in a convertible a few minutes ago. Glorious weather for it here today.

You NEED a motorcycle. :)

rolfl

snowed this morning .... again.

not convertible weather .... yet

Malachi

@Edward where do you live?? wait let me look at your profile

North Carolina huh, I live in South Dakota, Nice here but really windy

Jerry Coffin

@Malachi ...and I don't want to die, I just want to ride on my motorcy........cle. [guaranteed worthless Internet kudos to the first person to properly ID.]

Edward

20:00

@JerryCoffin Arlo Guthrie

Jerry Coffin

@Edward Not sure why, but I somehow figured you might be the one to come up with an answer on that. Kudos! :-)

Edward

I can't wait cash in my guaranteed worthless internet kudos.

Malachi

@Edward it stacks onto your StackExchange Rep

Edward

OOOHhhh!

Malachi

I just got a second Yearling badge on Meta StackOverflow....

Jerry Coffin

20:03

@Malachi Now wait a minute. I certainly didn't promise I was going to do all the work of clicking on an up-arrow!

Malachi

okay...?

Jerry Coffin

@Malachi Pretty impressive to have been a member for two years of a site that's only existed for less than two weeks.

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Edward

@JerryCoffin Maybe I could cash 'em in for a .. pickle.

2

Malachi

@JerryCoffin IKR

Jerry Coffin

@Edward Or maybe for a cop who was about 5 feet tall, but used to be about six foot four before a crazy, motorcycle-riding hippie dude landed on him?

Malachi

20:05

I have only visited 1 day but I have the Yearling badge twice. they must be trying to sync all the badges and stuff

janos

howdy

Jerry Coffin

In case anybody cares about the nonsense Edward and I have been spouting:

►

Malachi

@janos hello

janos

hi @Malachi

Edward

@JerryCoffin Although to be clear, that only covers the last five minutes of nonsense. Before that, well, you're on your own.

Jerry Coffin

20:13

@Edward Well, yes. I doubt there's any longer even a record of all the nonsense we've spouted at each other over the years...

Edward

@JerryCoffin One can only hope.

Jerry Coffin

@Edward I believe there are still copies of the old 80xxx snippets to be found, for anybody who bothered to look a little. :-)

Edward

@JerryCoffin Just checked and .... OMG! Simtel's down!

Jamal

@Edward You could propose Kudos SE. :P

Edward

A colleague recently explained a "new" idea and I remarked, "Congratulations, you've re-invented gopher."

He had to look it up.

Dark Mirror

20:28

hey dere

can anyone help me with pointers?

They are killing me atm

Edward

@DarkMirror We can't have that! What's the problem?

Dark Mirror

ok so i have 2D arrays of pointers

and i am assigning the memory address to a variable

an di don't know how to

amon

what language? C? C++? Pascal?

Dark Mirror

C++

Edward

Hmm. A bit of code would help us understand. Can you show a few lines?

Dark Mirror

20:32

oh sure

void addOneRandom(Block ***block)
{
Block *zeroblocks[16];
int count = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < MAX_BLOCKS; ++i)
{
for (int x = 0; x<MAX_BLOCKS; ++x)
{
if (block[i][x]->getScore() == 0)
{
zeroblocks[i] = block[i][x];
count++;
}
}
}
int index = randomBetween(0, count);
zeroblocks[0]->setRandom();
}

it's supposed to be zeroblocks[index]

anyway, the debugger says that Unable to Access memory. something must be wrong

Edward

Block ***block is a lot of pointers. Can you show an example of how this is called?

Dark Mirror

Oh yea

Jerry Coffin

@DarkMirror Maybe it would be best to back up. Why do you have a 2D array of pointers? That sounds somewhat suspect all by itself.

Dark Mirror

i know i am a freshman at college and I don't even know what I am doing anymore

I am at halfway though

I don't want to restart everything

Block ***blocks;
blocks = new Block** [MAX_BLOCKS];

//Create the rows and draw the pieces
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_BLOCKS; ++i)
{
blocks[i] = new Block*[MAX_BLOCKS]; //Create the rows

for (int x = 0; x<MAX_BLOCKS; ++x)
{
blocks[i][x] = new Block(); //Create the cols
blocks[i][x]->setSize(WIDTH / 8);
blocks[i][x]->setRandom();
blocks[i][x]->setXY(BLOCK_WIDTH + x*(BLOCK_WIDTH * 2), BLOCK_WIDTH + i*(BLOCK_WIDTH * 2));
}
}

i am passing that blocks to the addOneRandom(Block ***blocks)

and setting a value to the block that has zero as score

Jamal

Is this for an assignment (requiring you to use raw pointers)?

Dark Mirror

20:37

No, this is my final project

Jamal

Ah

I've never even seen triple pointers before.

Dark Mirror

well, I was using 1D array of poiters

and I decided to use 2 D coz it would make my procedure a lot easiers

Jamal

Are you free to use anything in this project (standard library, for instance), or are you stuck with pointers?

Edward

@DarkMirror Looks to me like you have a need for some kind of collection of Block objects and that you want to address them as though they were a 2D matrix. Is that correct?

Dark Mirror

^kind of. But I want to store the memory address of those blocks with 0 score in a 1d array. So then, I can easily change the scores of those zero scored blocks to a random score.

Edward

20:42

@DarkMirror Are you familiar with std::vector and std::array?

Like this?

Dark Mirror

^I do, but I can't use them and it's too late

T.T

so here is what I am thinking

Jerry Coffin

@DarkMirror This starts to sound a bit like a sparse matrix, with the possibility of defining a value (or function) to fill in the otherwise-empty parts.

Jamal

Of course you can't (not blaming you at all)...

Dark Mirror

it's due in 2 days...

anyway,

here is what I am thinking

Block **zeroblocks[16];

zeroblocks[16] = blocks[x][y];

It's saying that A value of Block* can't be assigned to Block**

Edward

It seems to me that you may have one too many * in much of the code.

Dark Mirror

20:47

i know this is so sad

I don't know what to do anymore.. now what I have to do is randomize the address of the block[x][y]

i mean indices

Edward

For instance, if you have `blocks = new Block** [MAX_BLOCKS];` it seems very likely that what you really want is just `blocks = new Block* [MAX_BLOCKS];` In other words, you don't really need pointers to pointers to pointers.

`

Dark Mirror

x and y

Edward

Assuming you know the dimensions of this collection, you could use block[x*rows+y] and simplify your life and the code.

In other words, revert to a linear collection.

Dark Mirror

oh ok

I know the size

it's 16 max

for 1 D

Edward

Is your collection of Blocks in some kind of named object?

Dark Mirror

20:52

oh wait

Block **zeroblocks = new Block*[16];

that is making it work

nvm

it says Access violation writing location 0x00430045.

lol

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Edward

@DarkMirror OK, but do you realize that only gives you 16 new Block pointers, pointing to nothing?`

Jerry Coffin

@DarkMirror If you know the size ahead of time, I'd start with an array of the right size, and avoid (most use of) pointers altogether.

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A: dynamical two dimension array according to input

A vector<vector<int> > (note the space in the > >) can work well, but it's not necessarily the most efficient way to do things. Another that can work quite nicely is a wrapper around a single vector, that keeps track of the "shape" of the matrix being represented, and provides a function or overl...

Dark Mirror

awesome

so i have to keep track of both x an dy?

Jerry Coffin

Note that here I'm pointing mostly at the first matrix class. The matrix3 uses pretty tricky code just to maintain the normal matrix[x][y][z] indexing syntax.

Stack Exchange

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Q: Is my first MVC architecture set up to standards?

I just started learning about the MVC architecture. And I started to create my own MVC framework to how I like it the most. Here I've got the index.php, indexcontroller.php and view.php. I'm not too sure if what I am doing is right, or with best practices. So I would like to know if there is any...

php oop design-patterns mvc

Dark Mirror

20:59

hmm thanks for the help guys

I am soooooo noob at this

Jerry Coffin

Thanks for the SO vote Santa! :-)

Edward

@DarkMirror We're all noobs once!

Simon André Forsberg

No one has ever starred one of my "lol" messages!

The number of lol messages starred is as follows: (number of stars does not count, only number of messages where stars > 0)

('rolfl', 3)
('Vogel612', 3)
('BenVlodgi', 3)
('davidkennedy85', 3)
('retailcoder', 6)
('lol.upvote', 6)
('syb0rg', 6)
('Corbin', 7)
('nhgrif', 8)
('Malachi', 21)
("Mat's Mug", 30)
('Jamal', 50)

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Q: Sequential Animation function not working properly

This question is a complementary for this one After testing the solution by Joseph the Dreamer I found out that the function operates properly for this markup: <div class="AboutSectionWrapper"> <div class="Selector" id="AboutWrapper"></div> <div class="Selector" id="DesignerWrapper"></div>

javascript jquery performance functions

Simon André Forsberg

@StackExchange Please ban "not working" from titles

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Jamal

21:07

Apparently my lols are extra special.

@SimonAndréForsberg Or more like putting it in the close queue instantly.

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Pretty sure I also starred lol messages

and well, there's still not working properly... @Jamal

Edward

@skiwi the follow on question will be about still not working properly

Malachi

@SimonAndréForsberg LOL

@SimonAndréForsberg does this count if I lol a specific message as in a reply?

Simon André Forsberg

@Malachi I count messages with > 10 chars and containing "lol". From what I've seen so far, there's been no 'lol in reply' messages.

But then again, I just realized I am checking case sensetive...

Malachi

@SimonAndréForsberg isn't there a way that if that phrase shows up in the title it gives the user a message telling them that the phrase is not allowed and why?? @Jamal

skiwi

21:17

@Jamal Sorry I messed up there, I meant not working optimally

Jamal

@Malachi Yes, and the community team has already added some filters to out titles. This particular one wasn't done, but it may not be necessary. At least it makes it easier to cast close votes.

Mat's Mug

@SimonAndréForsberg I know! Use a regex!!

Simon André Forsberg

@Mat'sMug Now I have two problems.

A simple message.lower() to the rescue

Malachi

@Jamal I think that the goal is having less questions that need to be closed, rather than make it easier to close questions.

Jamal

And to do that, everyone would need to start reading the Help Center before joining this site, but that may never happen.

Malachi

21:22

@Jamal I am saying that if there is something that tells them when they try to input " something isn't working " or something to that effect, that it is not on topic for this site and points them at the help page it would bring the quality of content up on the site, by not having questions that need to be closed. it would stop arguments about people's questions where they are getting closed. etc

Stack Exchange

21:44

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Q: Breaking of a sentence

(Method signature is given with parameters) Try to visualize me writing this code at an interview, and please be brutal while judging it. Problem: Given a string s and a dictionary of words dict, add spaces in s to construct a sentence where each word is a valid dictionary word. Return...

java algorithm interview-questions

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Q: Optimizing simple xHTML parser

I'm writing a simple xHTML parser which parses a data without nested tags. Example input code will look like: <h2>Header</h2> <p> atsatat </p> <h2>asdsaad</2><p>s32532235</p> I've wrote the following code: #include <node.h> #include <vector> #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <io...

c++ optimization parsing node.js

Jamal

21:58

I've answered the second question here already.

Morwenn

@Edward You also answered to the last two questions I answered.

But since your answers are good, I'm forced to upvote them.

Edward

@Morwenn I usually upvote your answers for the same reason. I think we likely look at the same types of questions.

Morwenn

C/C++...

Edward

Yep. I try to avoid C# and PHP.

Morwenn

I don't try to avoid them, but I would be unable to review them.

Edward

22:01

I also comment on some Python, Perl and assembly language questions.

If there's ever a Forth question, I'm ready. :)

Morwenn

I sometimes answer/comment Python questions too.

Edward

And there seem to be enough Java folks around that I just let those go by.

Morwenn

I have some knowledge in Java, but as you say, there already enough "experts" here :p

Simon André Forsberg

Is this question on-topic?

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Q: How to sync jQuery functions in different website states? ( Desktop, Mobile Portrait and Mobile Landscape )

I have three main jQuery functions that each of them contains another two functions which are called upon user click on a specific div tag, each of the three main functions are for a different CSS media-query state, one for the Desktop state, one for the Mobile portrait state and the last one for...

jquery functions

Edward

@SimonAndréForsberg I think it's marginal. It's kind of long for SO, and it's working code that just happens to be missing a feature.

That said, I think I'd answer "no" and that it should be migrated to SO.

@Morwenn: I liked your parallel Sieve of Eratosthenes question. It was good fun to think about.

Morwenn

22:08

@Edward I thought of posting a 3rd version, but it's not ready :p

Edward

@Morwenn Did you find anything that you could use in the paper I mentioned?

Morwenn

@Edward To tell the truth, I did not read it completely. I was trying to program in C++ some functions from the functional module from the D programming language standard library.

Jamal

*(ptr+1) is the same thing as ptr[1], right?

Morwenn

There were some heavy & ugly templates there to make the functions work with lambda function.

@Jamal I think so.

Jamal

It's been a while since I've done pointer arithmetic.

Morwenn

22:12

Same here. I always manage to avoid pointers.

Edward

@Morwenn D is a language I keep thinking I should investigate but haven't gotten to it yet. I'd be afraid that I'd muddle the semantics between that and C++ and C.

@Jamal Yes, they're the same.

Morwenn

@Edward I think that D has some interesting ideas but that it somehow tried to put too many things in the language at once. I'm not sure of what I think of it.

Edward

Assuming we're talking about C or C++ in the pointer question.

Morwenn

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Jamal

@Edward In the xHTML parser question? The OP says he's new to C++, and he does (obviously) use some of its features. There's just a mix of C stuff, such as char*.

Edward

22:17

@Jamal Yes, I looked at it briefly and decided that I'd be better off attending to my gin and tonic instead.

It seemed like a rather artificial problem -- xHTML without nested tags? Where does one actually encounter such stuff in the real world?

Jamal

He does also want some suggestions on the algorithm.

Edward

@Jamal I might look at it again. At first glance it's not bad C++.

At least he didn't write using namespace std;

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Jamal

He did still use using, but not using one for std is a great start. Other than that, there were just a few kinks.

Edward

I don't know NodeJS, but I presume that's the source of <node.h> and namespace v8

Malachi

@Morwenn is that you?

Morwenn

22:26

@Malachi It is :)

Malachi

@Morwenn you don't look as creepy in that picture as you do in your ~~profile picture~~ avatar.

Morwenn

@Malachi I still don't see what's creepy about my avatar :(

Edward

@Morwenn You're going to take that from a green toothy monster?

Jamal

@Edward Is there even a node.h? Since it's .h, it's either from C or it's one of the OP's own headers.

Malachi

@Morwenn when it is itty bitty in chat it is hard to see, when you blow it up a little on the profile page it doesn't look so bad

Edward

22:28

@Jamal No, it could still be C++ but from some other library.

Morwenn

@Edward I never tried to understand what Malachi's avatar actually represented.

Jamal

@Edward I was hesitant about it, so I didn't say anything about it.

@Morwenn It's from a game called Plants Vs. Zombies.

Edward

@Morwenn I assumed his avatar was realistic self portrait. Just like mine.

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Morwenn

Is yours a transistor?

Edward

NPN

the best kind

Morwenn

22:30

@Jamal I couldn't recognize :/

Jamal

And Jerry should probably change his to a coffin. :P

Morwenn

xD

J'ai ri.

Jerry Coffin

@Jamal Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll pass. Seems like it would be pretty morbid.

Jamal

I guess that rules out a dead wasp in a coffin. lol

Morwenn

I realized that one of the only things I review is the "modern C++ style" of the questions. I seem to be hopeless when the question deals with an algorithm...

Jamal

22:41

^ this

Edward

@Morwenn I like both algorithm and style questions if the question is clear and the code correct.

Jamal

So is the false image of the tag system, seeing as I have the bronze algorithm tag badge...

Jerry Coffin

@Edward emacs is better! Oh wait, wrong meaningless comparison. MOSFETS are better! :-)

Morwenn

@JerryCoffin For the xHTML question, I was like "too many pointers, I don't want to review that".

Edward

@JerryCoffin That's the spirit! (but I'm still an unrepentant vi guy)

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Malachi

22:45

hey guys I made it to Nomination Rep

superuser.com/election/3#post-746503

Morwenn

Not bad.

Jerry Coffin

@Edward "Repent, for this is the editor The Lord hath made!" Unfortunately, the stone tablet was broken right below that, so I never did find the one true answer.

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Malachi

I probably won't get elected, but it will be fun to stir the pot

rolfl

@JerryCoffin I found this broken tablet once.... the top part was missing, but it said "Moolenaar FTW!!!" ... never understood why, till now.

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