The 2nd Monitor

7:02 PM

7 data update Jira tickets later... still-bored

And that SOS logo... @Mat'sMug UGH.

Don't let programmer (those like me that are not good at design) do xsl style stuff.... I can guarantee you it's a mess!

Malachi

@Vogel612 I know that it is just an estimate

TopinFrassi

@Marc-Andre Don't let anyone do xsl stuff

Malachi

@Marc-Andre LOL I don't make that much of a mess....lol XSLT sucks though, it's a PITA

TopinFrassi

a pita?

Phrancis

7:07 PM

Pain In The Ass

janos

and @syb0rg's C++ saga continues :)

Marc-Andre

@TopinFrassi I would like to follow that advice but it's the tech I;m stuck with.

syb0rg

This project was almost simpler than the last one: codereview.stackexchange.com/q/63708/27623

IMO

Unfortunately, I can't come up with as cool of a name for the question title

If anyone has ideas for a catchier title, you are welcome to edit it

Mat's Mug

something about the ability to float perhaps?

syb0rg

@Mat'sMug Unfortunately it's only spheres... so maybe something with fat people?

Captain Obvious

7:11 PM

2

Q: Calculating the buoyancy of a sphere

Continuing my C++ saga, this is the third project for my CS1 class: Buoyancy is the ability of an object to float. Archimedes' principle states that the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the submerged object. The buoyant force can be computed by ...

Mat's Mug

If she floats then she is not...

Marc-Andre

@syb0rg Run the program again (y/N): Why is the N capitalized ?

Mat's Mug

♫ ...a witch like we thought ♪

syb0rg

@Marc-Andre It indicated that if the user just pressed enter, the N option is default and the program will exit

@Mat'sMug Set as title haha

Mat's Mug

nah.. nobody listens to Nirvana anymore ;)

syb0rg

7:16 PM

@Mat'sMug Meh, if anyone watches Monty Python they might think it is funny

Mat's Mug

it's ~~the opening line~~ from Serve the Servants

Marc-Andre

@syb0rg Great.

TopinFrassi

@Marc-Andre Yeah it's the harsh reality of programming, but apart from that it's pretty awesome

Marc-Andre

@TopinFrassi Indeed, but I'm starting to feel that we use a lot of WTH tech! Some day I'll work on something cool for a living!

Mat's Mug

(oops.. the opening line is Teenage hangst has paid off well; now I'm bored and old)

Donald.McLean

7:19 PM

@Mat'sMug Not true. I have some Nirvana on my iPod.

Mat's Mug

lol he edited it

syb0rg

Hi @ptwales

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Java best style for return statement - inside or outside if condition?

Is there a better way to write the code below? I'm checking if an object is null, returning false if it is, otherwise I check another variable and choose what to do based on that. private boolean myFunction(MyObjectType myObject) { if (myObject == null) { return false; } else if (myInsta...

java

Phrancis

I like some older Nirvana now and again, mostly from Bleach album.

syb0rg

@CaptainObvious Off-topic

Phrancis

7:32 PM

@CaptainObvious looks like example code

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis that's the best one!

Phrancis

Before they started sounding less like punk and more like pop-rock!

ptwales

@hi syb0rg

2

syb0rg

@ptwales Flip the @ sign to my name so I'm pinged next time ;)

Phrancis

while() and do-while() are out of the way. Now how about for()

ptwales

7:38 PM

...

derp

Mat's Mug

bbl

syb0rg

@ptwales Ehh, I threw a star at it. It made me lol

2

ptwales

@syb0rg I'm not used to that twitter ist

Marc-Andre

^^^ me too! What syborg said not ptwales.

syb0rg

@ptwales Yeah, it can be confusingish sometimes

rolfl

7:42 PM

No one is hurt unless their name is @hi ... ;)

2

syb0rg

Don't get any ideas @Mat'sMug...

;)

skiwi

Shameless pimping:

1

Q: Interprocess Communication in a Farmer-Worker setup

The following code is my first C program I have made for an university assignment about Interprocess Communication. This involved creating a parent process, the farmer, and then creating a certain number of forked processes, the workers, and we had to let the workers calculate something and use m...

c posix

syb0rg

Ohhhh.... c

(auto +1)

skiwi

Now tear it apart please ;)

200_success

I'm surprised that there's no ipc tag yet.

skiwi

7:56 PM

I just realized how much I have missed my code getting ripped apart nicely when posting CR questions :(

Captain Obvious

3

Q: Interprocess Communication in a Farmer-Worker setup

The following code is my first C program I have made for an university assignment about Interprocess Communication. This involved creating a parent process, the farmer, and then creating a certain number of forked processes, the workers, and we had to let the workers calculate something and use m...

c posix

RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug In SQL Server it does. Forget MySQL......

hahahahahahaha..... I was being bad on SO....

probably best to just leave a comment pointing to the (relatively) canonical: How to avoid using Select/Activate in Excel VBA macros — David Zemens 2 hours ago

Yeah @DavidZemens, maybe, but this way I know he actually saw how it's done. — ckuhn203 1 min ago

skiwi

@syb0rg Oh btw, about the error I was having

I was sending a pointer via the message queue to the other process, then tried to dereference it

syb0rg

@skiwi I have class soon, sadly :(

Phrancis

8:26 PM

skiwi

@Phrancis What the fug how on earth can you mess up a meme that badly?!

4

:)

Malachi

@Phrancis WTF @Phrancis

i just had to come back right at this moment....

IT'S NOT FRIDAY PEOPLE!!!!

Phrancis

LOL

Malachi

I am looking to keep a service from running if an instance is already running, what is this called?

rolfl

port squatting ;-)

skiwi

8:30 PM

@Malachi Running it only a single time?

rolfl

if you can't open the port, are you already running?

Malachi

preventing multiple instances of the service.

I turned on AutoReset....

Nevermind.

thanks for the @RubberDuck ing session, not for the @RebeccaBlack

RubberDuck

@Phrancis Why am I out of stars?? Y!

skiwi

@Phrancis Thanks for the upvote though

Malachi

can't believe I didn't get more votes on this before it went Wiki! programmers.stackexchange.com/a/166601/62519

Phrancis

8:38 PM

Just found a typo in our database schema... Column named Contract_Purcahse_Date

skiwi

@Phrancis Fixing it will break more things!

Morwenn

Monking everyone!

Phrancis

Yep, a little late to fix!

Morwenn

I just found an awesome game to ruin everybody's eyes.

It's called Colors, you have an array of tiles and you must click on the tile whose color is different.

game.ioxapp.com/color/?f=fb_app

Phrancis

Sounds painful...

Morwenn

8:44 PM

We're all masochist at heart.

skiwi

What the hell did I just read:

> QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.

Phrancis

That's pretty funny actually

OK so I promise I won't post this for review... but I'm getting syntax error...

<?php
$counter = 1;
$stopper = 100;
$fizzWord = 'Fizz';
$fizzNumber = 3;
$buzzWord = 'Buzz';
$buzzNumber = 5;
for ($counter = 1; $counter <= $stopper; $counter++) {
	if (($counter % $fizzNumber) = 0) {
		echo $fizzWord;
	}
	if (($counter % $buzzNumber) = 0) {
		echo $buzzWord;
	}
	else {
		echo $counter;
	}
echo '<br>';
}
?>

skiwi

6

Q: Interprocess Communication in a Farmer-Worker setup

The following code is my first C program I have made for an university assignment about Interprocess Communication. This involved creating a parent process, the farmer, and then creating a certain number of forked processes, the workers, and we had to let the workers calculate something and use m...

c child-process posix

I wish to keep the 1:2 vote-view ratio up!

Phrancis

Anyone see the problem? Been tinkering with it for a while and can't figure it out

skiwi

@Phrancis Compile time type checks...?

Oh wait, it is PHP

Just saved you from an evil bug!

($counter % $fizzNumber) = 0 should be ==

Captain Obvious

8:48 PM

0

Q: Caculate p-value using permutation in replication test

In need to calculate a statistical test and the p value is computed by using permutation. I wrote the code for this method and I do not have a strong background for calculate p-value using permutation. The link for the method and the code is given here. nj = c() mj = c() for(i in 1:ncol(SNP)){ ...

r

skiwi

Normally it works, but not with a compound statement

Else you will get this: np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2h5yde/…

Phrancis

That was it!

Although, the output is wrong

> 1
2
Fizz3
4
Buzz
Fizz6
7
8
Fizz9
Buzz
11
Fizz12
13
14
FizzBuzz

Sure I can fix that though, sounds like my conditions are not in order

skiwi

@Phrancis Hint: If-else statements ;)

And If-Elseif(1..*)-Else

Malachi

@Phrancis why are you posting so much crap today in chat?

Phrancis

LoL I'm bored I guess

Malachi

9:01 PM

I was just messing with you...lol

trying to figure out how to make this service work with the changes I made....ugh, nested SqlCommands and such...

messy

Phrancis

I thought FizzBuzz would be a good exercise to practice chaining conditions. Notice I did not do a FizzBuzz word modulus (too easy) because I wanted to keep it modular

Malachi

@Phrancis Post it on SO....

@Phrancis I just saw what was on the screen when I switched over.

Phrancis

Nah I can fix it I think

Malachi

what should I use when I am thinking Integer Array?

should I use an actual Array, I just need something that will hold ID's temporarily, so that I can un-nest the SQL Command from the other

Phrancis

SQL... I'm thinking... a table?

Malachi

9:04 PM

in C#

Phrancis

Oh. Duh.

Malachi

not my program but trying to make it pretty, smart and functional

Phrancis

I'm thinking... unless you have a massive amount of IDs to hold, an array should work OK...? Not really an authority on the topic :)

Malachi

was hoping the Duck or the Mug would be around. they must be actually working today, Like I am

Mat's Mug

9:20 PM

How about ...an int[]?

Malachi

that would make me define how big it is before I am ready to tell it how big I need it...if you get my drift....

I am reading rows and need to save their IDs to mark them sent using a different SPROC

I am going to try a List<int>

what do you think?

you kind of follow?

Mat's Mug

Nope, I'm working ;) but List should work

Malachi

lol

Phrancis

TS^ lol-autostar

Jamal

Microsoft wanted me to install some Russia time zone update for Windows 7? At least it didn't require a reboot.

Malachi

9:27 PM

@Jamal that sounds scary

do you live in Russia?

Jamal

I'm... not sure.

(no, I wasn't being sarcastic.)

Malachi

thanks Programmers Voters

> You've earned the "Necromancer" badge (Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more) for "My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?".

rolfl

Jamal

Oh well. The only "update" I've rejected was Bing Bar.

Malachi

@Jamal that thing is Clingy

Jamal

9:28 PM

@rolfl I think this update will come in handy in case Russia takes over the world. I'll be prepared.

Phrancis

Oh hey, Jamal... look what I made for you:

<?php
$counter = 1;
$stopper = 100;
$fizzWord = 'Fizz';
$fizzNumber = 3;
$buzzWord = 'Buzz';
$buzzNumber = 5;
for ($counter = 1; $counter <= $stopper; $counter++) {
	if (($counter % $fizzNumber) == 0) {
		echo $fizzWord;
	}
	if (($counter % $buzzNumber) == 0) {
		echo $buzzWord;
	}
	if ((($counter % $fizzNumber) != 0) && (($counter % $buzzNumber) != 0)) {
		echo $counter;
	}
echo '<br>';
}
?>

Jamal

support.microsoft.com/kb/2998527

@Phrancis Bad code?

Phrancis

Hey it works and is readable enough, no? ;)

Jamal

Oh, I thought it was bad because PHP. :-P

Phrancis

PHP is not that bad, so far. I think it's people that write it that are bad!

    // wish I knew a better way to do this
	if ((($counter % $fizzNumber) != 0) && (($counter % $buzzNumber) != 0)) {
		echo $counter;
	}

Jamal

9:31 PM

I'm sure I'm just on the bandwagon, because it's strangely fun to hate on a language. Maybe someday I'll have a reason to hate Java.

rolfl

@Phrancis Never heard of an else-if?

The whole thing should be if -> else if -> else

posted it for review yet?

@Phrancis This:

for ($counter = 1; $counter <= $stopper; $counter++) {
        if (($counter % $fizzNumber) == 0) {
                echo $fizzWord;
        } elseif (($counter % $buzzNumber) == 0) {
                echo $buzzWord;
        } else {
                echo $counter;
        }
echo "<br>\n";
}

Note the change to "<br>\n" as well.

when you Ctrl-U the source for the page, it is nice to be able to read that too.

Phrancis

What's \n for?

rolfl

Compare:

anabox:~/xxx% php fizzbuzz.php | head -10
1<br>
2<br>
Fizz<br>
4<br>
Buzz<br>
Fizz<br>
7<br>
8<br>
Fizz<br>
Buzz<br>

vs.

panabox:~/xxx% php fizzbuzz.php | head -10
1<br>2<br>Fizz<br>4<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<br>7<br>8<br>Fizz<br>Buzz<br>11<br>Fizz<br>13<br>14<br>Fizz<br>16<br>17<br>Fizz<br>19<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<br>22<br>23<br>Fizz<br>Buzz<br>26<br>Fizz<br>28<br>29<br>Fizz<br>31<br>32<br>Fizz<br>34<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<br>37<br>38<br>Fizz<br>Buzz<br>41<br>Fizz<br>43<br>44<br>Fizz<br>46<br>47<br>Fizz<br>49<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<br>52<br>53<br>Fizz<br>Buzz<br>56<br>Fizz<br>58<br>59<br>Fizz<br>61<br>62<br>Fizz<br>64<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<br>67<br>68<br>Fizz<br>Buzz<br>71<br>Fizz<br>73<br>74<br>Fizz<br>76<br>77<br>Fizz<br>79<br>Buzz<br>Fizz<…

Phrancis

Ah makes sense

Jamal

Please do not roll back an edit unless it has changed the meaning of the post in some way. These edits were done to remove noise so that only the important things stand out. — Jamal ♦ 11 secs ago

Phrancis

9:40 PM

Odd...

> 1
\n2
\nFizz
\n4
\nFizzBuzz
\nFizz
\n7
\n8
\nFizz
\nFizzBuzz

^^ output

Oh. Double quotes.

rolfl

@Jamal - about to add a comment there... OK with you?

Jamal

Okay

rolfl

Good, puts on hammer-hat ... ;) (it was collecting dust anyway).

Jamal

lol

rolfl

Code Review questions are all about making things nicer. As a result, it is heavily discouraged to have that in your title, it makes no sense and it does not differentiate your question from others. It's redundant. Similarly, your request for review is both unnecessary, and overdone. If you do not like Jamal's edits, then please make your own to bring your question up to the standards we expect. I'll swing around in an hour or so and do it myself unless you get there first. — rolfl ♦ 23 secs ago

Phrancis

9:47 PM

1 hour ago, by Phrancis

OK so I promise I won't post this for review... but I'm getting syntax error...

@monkey ^^ There's enough FizzBuzzing already I feel... 3 in PHP alone lol.

Jamal

@rolfl Great! I'll be going to class soon anyway.

Morwenn

Is @syb0rg doing C++ now?

rolfl

'doing' is a strong word.

Morwenn

Speak your mind.

rolfl

8

Q: If she floats then she is not a witch like we thought

Continuing my C++ saga, this is the third project for my CS1 class: Buoyancy is the ability of an object to float. Archimedes' principle states that the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the submerged object. The buoyant force can be computed by ...

c++ beginner c++11 homework

Tagged beginner ... ;-)

Oh, and homework...crap... hmmm

Morwenn

9:51 PM

@rolfl Oh, I didn't see that tag before answering.

rolfl

@Jamal - wasn't homework on the chopping block?

Jamal

For a brief moment, I believe. codesparkle was trying to get rid of it, and I think I recall 200 saying that it's okay to keep.

Morwenn

I thought that homework was a trending tag on the burnination market.

rolfl

still searching meta... got distracted by interesting posts.

Jamal is normally all over the burnination.... ;-)

Phrancis

Oh, screw it. I need to build up some PHP rep anyways ;-)

Captain Obvious

10:07 PM

0

Q: My first PHP script (FizzBuzz)

Yes, another FizzBuzz! I know you guys may be tired of these but I think it's a tradition stepping stone for beginners on this site. Here are some notes on my thinking: I tried to keep it as flexible as possible where the logic is deducted from the variables as much as possible. So one could po...

php beginner fizzbuzz

rolfl

@Phrancis Really, you chose that as a title?

Phrancis

It's bad isn't it. I didn't know what else

Jamalize if you think of something... better ;-)

There I changed it to something less... user645315-ish

rolfl

10:46 PM

Voting has been .... diminished, recently .... hmmm what to do..

Morwenn

That may be because holidays ended.

I am listening to a song that makes me want to sleep while floating in warm water in the dark.

rolfl

11:03 PM

For your entertainment.... follow it back:

@tmslft This one evidently: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14427034/rounded-corner-pure-css-technique/14427085#14427085

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on September 23, 2014 at 11:00 PM in reply to tmslft

Morwenn

►

Jamal

@rolfl: Ready to follow up on this?

rolfl

@Jamal He has not been seen since.... before the message, will give it a bit more.

Jamal

Okay

Morwenn

11:36 PM

TTGTB

Captain Obvious

11:51 PM

0

Q: Iteration of password hashing in PHP?

I'm trying to improve the security for my backend. /** * This is the script that is executed when I add a new user - after the input has passed the validation. */ $salt = base64_encode(mcrypt_create_iv(24,MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM)); // generate a random 32 character salt $hash = hash('s...

php security authentication

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