The 2nd Monitor

rolfl

00:00

Hey Loki!

Vogel612

That said, one last: If offended people don't open their mouths nothing will get fixed... And I experienced that women who do care are good at telling you that

nhgrif

stackoverflow.com/questions/20449256/… This answer of my has had a constant slow trickle of upvotes.

rolfl

RELOAD!

Vogel612

TTGTB...

Jamal

@EngieOP :D

Vogel612

00:03

No work tomorrow, though :)

rolfl

@nhgrif That's one of the up-sides for StackOverflow... when there really is a question that asks something sensible, and there is an answer that makes a good answer.... then somehoe, Google ranks it well, and you get a steady stream of people hitting it.

2400 views for a simple question is a google-target.

@nhgrif - top-google-answer for 'clipsToBounds' search: google.ca/search?&q=clipsToBounds

Phrancis

Just found an awesome feature of the SE iOS app: if you double-tap a code block, it makes the block full screen!

mjolka

SE android app is buggy as hell. internet connection drops -> app crashes

hichris123

@Jamal around?

I have a C++ question.

Jamal

Yes

hichris123

00:10

wait, nevermind.

Stupid me.

3

Phrancis

Time to smoke ~~an underscore~~ a cigarette.

hichris123

My stupidity is pinned; I know that the people in here like me. xD

rolfl

It was me.... I confess!

hichris123

@rolfl Confess to what? Pinning? Or something more sinister?

THIS IS A CRIME SCENE NOW.

@rolfl might be a criminal!

Mat's Mug

He's a monkey with 3 nationalities, what'd you expect?

2

Monking!

rolfl

00:22

Monking!

Phrancis

Monking!

Mat's Mug

Just spent like 30 minutes catching up on transcript

@nhgrif my top scored answer is JAVA, and to date hasn't even got me a [badge:nice-answer]. I see you as a much better programmer - and reviewer - than I am, too. Sorry I have slowed down voting so much in the past.. 4 months or so.

rolfl

~~^^^~~ there's the problem, all the Quebec fault.

Mat's Mug

Yeah. When in doubt, blame the mug.

6

err.. [badge:good-answer]

Phrancis

I've started working on a new song called "Algorhythm" based on a variant of Euclid math

Mat's Mug

00:34

You sure there's not an h too many?

Phrancis

Where I select an uneven time signature, like 13/8ths, and divide the 13 in as close to equal as possible even numbers. Really interesting groove

@Mat'sMug yes, it's a play on words, mash algorithm and rhythm.

mjolka

@Phrancis "divide the 13 in as close to equal as possible even numbers"? can you explain more?

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Really slow for loop with vector comparison in R

The following code finds no-rain periods in a time series that were preceded by rain over a threshold (e.g. 10mm in 2 days [k=48]). significant_drydowns <- function(rain, threshold=10, k=48) { require(zoo) require(dplyr) # Find drydowns: sequences of 0 rain; give them a group st...

Phrancis

That wasn't worded very well. Should have been, divide 13/8 but rounding to even numbers. So that would be [3,2,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,2]

mjolka

gotcha

hey @rolfl do you have a copy of hacker's delight on-hand?

nm... found something online

Mat's Mug

00:45

^^ that's on my wishlist on Amazon

mjolka

yeah, i really want a copy. that, and programming pearls

Mat's Mug

Well my last purchase was Building a Data Warehouse, with examples on SQL Server

I don't code as much as I used to

EngieOP

01:03

Best reviews ever written for a book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336

> I live near a park and frequently walk around the local area. Given the amount of dog mess that is on the pavements I thought this book would be the ideal read to stop me having to scrape my shoes on the grass before going home. It was only after it arrived that I looked closely at the title and realised it said 'How to Avoid Huge SHIPS'. A simple error that means I am still treading on massive examples of canine excrement. Having said that, I read the book anyway, and I'm pleased to say I'm not even having near misses with huge ships anymore. No sir, they aint getting anywhere near me!

Mat's Mug

wtf-is-this-ship

EngieOP

Lol

I found out about the book after watching the video of two massive container ships colliding.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/watch-two-container-ships-collide-on-egypts-suez-canal-9768675.html

Mat's Mug

01:39

out-of-ammo. That feels good!

Phrancis

Damn, already?

Mat's Mug

yep.

Phrancis

Anyone interested in my musical Euclid "Algorhythm" here is a link to mp3 showcasing the concept

(also, you get to hear my voice cringe I hate hearing my own voice)

RubberDuck

I do not want a fizzbuzz badge...

Mat's Mug

is +200 enough of a bounty to draw attention to a vba question? I feel that unit testing code is somewhat language-independant... I'd expect VB.net coders to take a look. C# coders even.

@rubberduck no worries, we'd need another 50 or so fizzbuzz questions!

Phrancis

01:47

I'm sure we'll get there eventually ;-)

RubberDuck

Idk @Mat. Might be. I was considering placing 100 on that question myself.

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis downloading ...to phone.

Phrancis

Cool. Will sound a lot better with earbuds if you got 'em

Jamal

If this is your own, then why are you asking us these questions? We should be asking you questions like that. Nonetheless, asking how code works is off-topic here. — Jamal ♦ 29 secs ago

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis rather... exotic

RubberDuck

01:51

Groovy @Phrancis. Almost A-rhythmic

Phrancis

I used skin drums just because I thought it would sound neat. But yeah, it's pretty non-standard

rolfl

For those of you following my SO rant yesterday:

That looks good — Jim Garrison 30 secs ago

Phrancis

Probably going to go for electro drums in the end

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: Explain about parameter in exec command in Java

I have a small program to dump File information: import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class GetFileInfo { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir D:\\a...

java

mjolka

@Phrancis that's cool! i'm surprised it sounds so good, having heard some maths-based music before

Phrancis

01:52

I honestly was surprised too!

Mat's Mug

meh.. I thought I'd get a new ringtone :(

Phrancis

^^ huh?

rolfl

@Phrancis Does it say something about me that I prefer 10/8 vs 13 and 17 over 8?

Phrancis

Yes, it says you grew up with Led Zeppelin and not with Tool

2

Mat's Mug

^^TS

rolfl

01:58

Why TS?

You can't be out of that ammo....already??

Mat's Mug

Because PS / Phone Star is ambiguous ;)

rolfl

Gotcha.

Phrancis

Oooohhhhh. ~~I can star with the iOS app.~~

Mat's Mug

Anyone seen this?

2

A: What exactly does it mean for code to be "Working Code"?

One problem with a "working code" is that often we don't know that the code is broken unless the OP says so. As @Pimgd noted, Code doesn't not need to be executable for reviewers Compare Delimiter matching using stack vs Array list implementation. Both posts contain the broken code. Both po...

An interesting point of view, especially with graduation happening IMO

Phrancis

That is interesting... Seems there potentially is some sort of bias present, based on the English part of the question?

rolfl

02:04

No, there's no bias.

There's the difference between "fix my code", and "is my code good".

Mat's Mug

Sometimes the broken code rule feels like getting through the border: anything to declare? "no sir, all is in order"

rolfl

^^^ that.

good analogy.... "...but honestly, officer, I did not know I was carrying live endangered reptiles across the border"

Phrancis

So... If I posted a CR question, where I know the code is broken, but don't say so, nor ask for a fix... is it on-topic?

rolfl

only if the bug is subtle enough that it is not brutally obvious on quick inspection...

If the quesiotn is: Please improve this code" c:

Mat's Mug

In which case OP can probably quick-edit faster than close votes pile up?

rolfl

02:07

foreach(BigDecimal x : list of names) {
    System.printCOnsole("Hello Wor;d"):::
}]]

Mat's Mug

*self-jamalize

Phrancis

I'm starting to quesiotn @monkey's ability to type tonight ;-)

rolfl

@Phrancis The close reason is not working/not working code, remember....

the close reason is: The asker knows the code is not working

(or should know).

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis just tonight? Monkey's typis are notoeioys across SE...

rolfl

Do you know how hard it was to intentionally type that?

If you get a question with code like that (tagged c), it is off-topic regardless of how much the poster claims it works.

What I would like to see..... hmmm... can I word this right....

I would like to see people downvote more.... when there's bad questions.... but it only really matters when the asker has more positive rep....

2

someone asks a question when there's bad code, code that does not function well for even the plain-jane (or plain-bob) use case.

then hammer it with negative rep. and just to rub it in, post an answer that is upvoted.

that way the post is not deleted, and the rep sticks around.

Mat's Mug

02:14

Reversal FTW

rolfl

The problem is people who post questions like that are first-time posters, and they have 1 rep anyway.

We don't really want to punish those folk, we want to train them.

So, I am not sure how we can train all of the masses to get it right first time.

Mat's Mug

Yeah, we need more hi-rep users to post crap questions ...uh, wait....

Phrancis

Sounds like your name's all over that, @Mug ;-)

Jamal

Unless they're drive-bys, such as those coming here just to ask for code.

rolfl

So, since that does not work, the right answer must be to be supportive in the first-post review queue? But sometimes I feel that queue is too slow.... first posts take too long to enter the queue, and then get seen.

Mat's Mug

02:17

35 more questions and I get the site's 2nd Socratic badge. Likely 200 will post his 1000th answer before that though.

@rolfl that's true

Tell these queues to stop hanging with @CaptainObvious!

Or do we have enough hi-rep users reviewing the review queues?

Phrancis

~~^^^~~ that's going to go down substantially with Grad

Mat's Mug

There's one in the 1st Post queue right now!

Jamal

The system must know about my editing, because some edit-worthy questions end up in the queue within the first minute or two.

Mat's Mug

Haha you've trained the system!

Jamal

And it sometimes does the same with answers, which I hardly edit.

Phrancis

02:25

How can I improve my ~~title~~ code? @Jamal

Mat's Mug

Anyway TTGTB. Night @all!

Phrancis

Bonsoir!

Mat's Mug

Big day tomorrow. It's FRIDAY :)

Jamal

@Phrancis Since SO had Stack Overflow Academy on Area51 for a while, perhaps we need Code Review Title Academy.

Phrancis

No kidding

Jamal

02:29

Either that, or just have really really noticeable flashing lights next to the title hint.

Phrancis

Could be as simple as displaying "Please ~~describe~~ summarize what your code does, not what you want reviewed"

Jamal

Either way, some people just don't bother reading.

Mat's Mug

I'd go with tell us what your code does, we'll tell you what's wrong with it

3

But yeah, $10 we'd still get "is this code ok?" titles

Jamal

Excluding those coming from SO, I suppose. I don't think they care too much about titles.

Phrancis

There's little time to think about titles on SO when you got about 2 minutes before someone beats you to the accepted answer!

Mat's Mug

02:44

Some of my pre-September 2013 questions did have a SO-style dumbed-down feel

1

Q: WPF Localisation - using resx

I have a small WPF application which I'm not exactly localizing, but not hard-coding resources either. I know WPF doesn't use .resx files for that purpose, but I exposed the resource strings as public ViewModel properties which the view's controls bind to: using resx = MyApp.Properties.Resources...

c# wpf localization

Or worse:

found a way to get KeyCompare to work with LinqToSQL, would you mind taking a look at the reworked code (updated the question)? Thanks! — Mat's Mug Apr 20 '13 at 19:27

why, thanks @Santa....

TTGTBFRN

Phrancis

silently napalms

5

A: rompre, casser, briser, fracasser, et crever

Dépendant de la situation, la plupart de ces mots sont interchangeables, pas étonnant qu'on s'y perde! Cette réponse est rédigée au Québec et ne fait que donner un point de vue québécois sur la question - je suis francophone, pas linguiste! ;) Votre définition de rompre me semble adéquate, sinon...

Jamal

translates to English

Phrancis

I'm actually surprised the French.SE site is in English lol.

EngieOP

What does that mean? I've seen several tags here. o.o
It sounds like a bad thing.

Phrancis

Clarify @EngieOP? Not sure what you're talking about

EngieOP

02:56

> silently napalms

rolfl

It's a good thing, with a questionable name....

5

A: What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?

Meme: ho-ho-ho-napalm Originator: Janos Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor Background: Santa + Napalm Strike combo: you have upvoted (justifiably!) a question and all the answers on it. Declaring ho-ho-ho-napalm in chat indicates that you've just done this, on a question that's being discussed,...

> combo: you have upvoted (justifiably!) a question and all the answers on it

Phrancis

^^ that!

Captain Obvious

0

Q: How to write unit test cases for any real time Java app?

With lack of real time experience in developing a Java application, I would like to understand the testing strategy for any written module made of multiple classes. Below is the sample application that i learnt from a training, /* SList.java */ /** * The SList class is a singly-linked list im...

java unit-testing

EngieOP

@rolfl ahh, okay.
Thanks for the link. I feel like I'm in the loop now. :)

Phrancis

If you were to translate the question on French.SE, it would go something like: "Please explain the difference between break, break, break, break and break"

(5 different versions of it in French)

rolfl

03:00

@EngieOP If there's unfamiliar things happening in here, it's pretty much guaranteed to be documented somewhere in the meme question.

If it is not, then consider adding it.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Responsive.css not responding

Hello I hope you can answer my question, My problem is that my responsive.css didn't responding, I edited the media queries, I added new attributes for it but it didn't show when I inspect element using firebug, what's wrong with this ? thanks in advance !

css

Phrancis

@CaptainObvious Guess you need to change your file name to Nonresponsive.css

3

Mat's Mug

French.SE being in English is actually their biggest roadblock.

Phrancis

Doesn't surprise me... Guess nothing's going to change until graduation though... unfortunate

Answers seem to be of decent quality, but I could see the all-English interface being a hurdle for monolingual French people...

Someone give this out-of-network answer some CR love please :)

(it's a good one, trust me)

mjolka

03:27

codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/64611/… code is taken from cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/61bs02/lab/lab3/SList.java

Jamal

Great...

mjolka

well it's missing this:

 public void insertAt(Object obj, int position) {
    // Fill in your solution for Part II here.
  }

and the author is changed, but the rest is the same as far as i can see

Captain Obvious

1

Q: Project Euler #8 C++

This code works when compiled on gcc 4.8.2. I would appreciate any comments on my style and the readability of my code, and any improvements that I could make to make the code more readable and/or performant. Problem: Largest product in a series Solution: /* * file: pe_011.cc * title: ...

c++ c++11 programming-challenge

rolfl

I weighed in on the "working code" question: meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/2570/31503

DemCodeLines

Am I allowed to ask what a specific block of code does?

rolfl

03:42

On the main site? No, and there's a reason for that...

If you don't know what the code does, then you did not write the code, right?

Code reviews are for helping to improve not only the code, but the skills of the person who wrote it.

@DemCodeLines On the other hand, here in chat, we're often interested in interesting problems .... so, it 'depends'.

DemCodeLines

@rolfl I wrote 3/4 of it myself, just a little part I don't understand, which has brought development to complete halt.

function getMusic(IStorageFolder folder) {
    int cnt = 0;
    var folders = await folder.GetFoldersAsync();
    if (folders != null)
        foreach (var fol in folders)
            await getMusic(fol);

    var files = await folder.GetFilesAsync();
    foreach (var file in files)
    {
        MusicProperties musicProperties = await file.Properties.GetMusicPropertiesAsync();
        source.Add(new Music("artist", "title", "album");
        cnt++;
    }
}

what does await getMusic(fol) do?

rolfl

A recursive call?

DemCodeLines

Yes, I understand, but from my understanding of recursion, it would loop between the firsrt 5 lines until it finds all the folders. Right?

rolfl

Looks like the code descends a directory structure. In each directory, it looks for child directories, and then 'recurses' in to those child directories.

DemCodeLines

That's what the code is intended to do, except I am trying to creating pagination in my app, so instead of going after everything it can find, it would only show the first 10 results.

Except, I am stuck at the recursion part and have no clue how to integrate the two ideas together.

rolfl

03:49

Well, that's a different problem....

If you are doing pagination, you will need a static list of music.

DemCodeLines

yup, but trying to get a static list of music isn't practical.

rolfl

you probably need to change your whole code block... and remove all those 'awaits'...

Well, we went through a few leaps here.....

DemCodeLines

Someone could have over 1000 songs on their phone which would take forever to create a full list.

mjolka

@DemCodeLines what language is that?

rolfl

from.... explain some other code, to now it's explained, to how do I do something hard, that's completely different to what the code already does.

DemCodeLines

03:52

Right now it takes 20-30 seconds to get the entire list, that's why I am trying to shorten it.

@mjolka C# for WinPhone Development.

rolfl

Franlkly, your code is in part broken because of all the 'await' calls. you need to make it asynchronous.

DemCodeLines

not having awaits throws all sorts of warnings

rolfl

that way you can just be listeneing for changes on the topend of the process, and as files are found, you 'flesh' out the details in the background......

DemCodeLines

It doesn't let you take out the await from the second line or the GetFilesAsync() line. Same error with MusicProperties line too.

rolfl

Well, that's because you are not saving the task away, and awaiting it later.

You have created a completely synchronous mechanism, and there is no concurrency, you can expect it to be slower than an async alternative. You have to finish everything befire you can move on.

DemCodeLines

03:57

what do you mean by saving the task.

rolfl

Task<MusicProperties> mptask = file.Properties.GetMusicPropertiesAsync();

That saves the process as a task that is running in the background.

Add a bunch of those to a list.....

then, once you have added them all, you can then:

MusicProperties props = await mptask

that way you can be getting the properties of all the files at the same time, instead of 1 after the other.

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx

If you do that with the entire file system... you can come back and see what's happening at a later time...

DemCodeLines

@rolfl Throws an error:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'Windows.Foundation.IAsyncOperation<Windows.Storage.FileProperties.MusicProperties>' to 'System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Windows.Storage.FileProperties.MusicProperties>'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

rolfl

Well, you're going to have to get something like that working....

I can't help you with that level of detail. I don't know the API, or the classes you use.

mjolka

@DemCodeLines cast to Task<MusicProperties>

also a method beginning with function in c#? i am confuse

DemCodeLines

Apparently that can't be casted.

Throws invalid cast exception.

rolfl

04:05

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/…

Returns a different type.

For the record, this is just google stuff happening here. We can't work through the whole process with you.

The Async result has a GetResult method and a Complete property: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br206598

DemCodeLines

Still takes about 18 seconds.

I just don't like pre-loading the entire list.

I have probably 50 songs and it takes 20 seconds.

People have 200-300 songs. It would take like a day with the current format.

rolfl

Now you have to do that for the folders, and everything.... not just the music properties.

Add all the AsyncOps to a list, as they complete you merge the results in to it instead.

The important thing though, is that the front end should start updating before the async operations are complete.

That's what gives it the interactive "feel".

it is OK if the frontend updates visually as the data changes behind it, just so long as it's interactive.

Also, this code looks broken:

    MusicProperties musicProperties = await file.Properties.GetMusicPropertiesAsync();
    source.Add(new Music("artist", "title", "album");
    cnt++;

You get the properties, then ignore them.

I gotta run.

@mjolka (I am pleased you asked, I did not know ..... ;-)

mjolka

@rolfl before you go, got a puzzle you might like (i don't have the answer)

DemCodeLines

I replaced the parameters with just test value while posting the code here.

rolfl

@mjolka Brushing my teeth ... what is it?

mjolka

04:16

i've got an unsigned long 64, which i'm thinking of as an 8x8 bit matrix. is there a way to rotate the matrix (clockwise, let's say) using simple bit operations (besides the normal rotated[i,j] = matrix[7 - j, i])

DemCodeLines

I guess pagination or "scroll to end to load more" kinda behavior is just not possible here, huh?

mjolka

i'm thinking reverse the rows, then transpose but i'm suck on the transpose. anyway, it's a fun puzzle

Phrancis

Ugh I get tired of all the stink bugs around (Halyomorpha halys)...

200_success

@Phrancis Give English credit for being

rolfl

@DemCodeLines getting a count of the number of files should be a lot faster.... you will need to know the directores.

200_success

04:20

more nuanced than that.

I'd say break off, break, shatter, smash, burst.

rolfl

@DemCodeLines - if it were me, I would create a class to handle each file, and the class was able to run/track an asynchronous task, then I would have a List that contains instances of that class.

Phrancis

I didn't know you speak French @200_success. But that's fair enough I guess.

rolfl

I would have one operation that descended the folders, and created an instance of each class for each file. If the file was a directory, then it would asynchronously descend, and replace itself with a number of other classes that represent that directory.

200_success

Je vous ai acceuilli en français tout au début.

rolfl

That should be fast-ish. less than a second to just create a place holder for each file.

at that point, you can do pagination, etc... except there are no details on the file though.

Phrancis

04:24

@200_success on peut se tutoyer? ;p

rolfl

once the basic descent is done (in parallel, described above, with async tasks), you can then go through each placeholder, and trigger an asynchronous event to update the placeholder with the details of the file.

200_success

D'accord!

rolfl

As those events complete, the front-end can be updated with the images, names, tracks of the music.

But, if it was me, I would not trigger the events on any files that are not visible in the application anyway.

Phrancis

Je vais laisser le @singe continuer pour le moment, on en rediscute bientot @200_success

rolfl

Regardless, your problem @DemCodeLines - is that you want user interaction to happen in a second or so, and you are doing 20 seconds of work. Somehow you have to shift the work in to the background, and give the user the feel they want. You can't do that with the synchronous code you have (and, even though the code has Async and await, it is synchronous as it is.

@Phrancis - Ek kan jou nie verstaan nie.

translate: Ek kan jou nie verstaan nie.

Ek can mean you nie nie.

messed up....

Phrancis

04:29

babelfished

rolfl

translate.google.com/#auto/en/…

Phrancis

> Dit is ok ek was in gesprek met die vis

rolfl

Ek weet, maar as ons Afrikaans kan praat sal dit lekker wees.

Phrancis

Yeah no luck there @monkey

> Ja, ek weet, sou dit baie goed!

Is Afrikaans pronounced even close to German? It kind of looks a bit like it, but I figured there would be a more localized pronunciation...

rolfl

Pronounced close enough.

v is pronounced f, and the g is gutteral.

there is basically no 'c' in afrikaans.

Phrancis

04:39

Vowels pretty close to German? Specifically combined vowels

rolfl

Well, you keep referenceing it back to German, how close to German is Dutch?

Phrancis

I have no idea

rolfl

Afrikaans sounds like Dutch

Phrancis

My mistake

It looked German-ish, but I know nothing about Dutch

rolfl

►

Phrancis

04:41

I think I got languages mixed up :)

Ahhhh Ok I think I hear it

rolfl

Charlize theron, can't go wrong.

Phrancis

I think her ability to switch between languages is remarkable. I gather a big part of Europe is fluently multilingual, I wish it was like that here in 'Murica...

rolfl

@Phrancis - interesting Afrikaans comedian (with subtitles): youtube.com/watch?v=n4G1n-b0g4M

Phrancis

Are there cuss words? Just wondering; seems like when an American friend realizes I speak French, first thing they ask me for is bad words in my language lol.

( I normally dismiss them :) )

Mehrad

Good evening everbody

quick question

rolfl

04:54

Swearing in Afrikaans is an art form.... they have taken insulting people to remarkable degrees of subtlety and tact.

Phrancis

Hi there @Mehrad !

Mehrad

in my C# app.xaml.cs I have an if statment which suppose to stop the program to start if it didn't run as an admin. however when I put it before window.show() and return if it's not an admin this is what happens.

program doesn't show

but the foo.exe gets added to the list of processes in windows

and doesn't get removed like if we closed the program using the x button

any input

if you're curious this is how it looks like

it didn't worth to be updated as a question so I thought I'll ask my young fellow programs

BTW, @Phrancis your avatar is kinda scary :P

Phrancis

I was going for pale, but I guess scary is close enough :)

Mehrad

it's Palely scary :)

what's up @rolfl :)

no input on my amazing question? :)

I am crying here :)

Phrancis

rolfl

05:01

See my picture there?

Phrancis

These are the sharpest C# reviewers we have around

rolfl

@Mehrad - despite the recent discussions in here, I have actually only ever written two C# programs....

Mehrad

I just asked how are you these days (aka what's up) :P

Phrancis

Mat'sMug, Malachi are chat regulars. Heslacher drops in fairly often

rolfl

2 mins ago, by Mehrad

no input on my amazing question? :)

I misunderstood ...

mjolka

05:02

@Phrancis there's also Eric Lippert...

rolfl

I am half-asleep...

Mehrad

When Mug isn't around i'm broken

Phrancis

Mug only has 5 times as many CR answers as Lippert :)

Mehrad

Do you even need a second monitor if you don't do C#? I can write Pascal on my 3 inch android screen :P

Phrancis

I can write PHP on one monitor. Somewhat. (the writing PHP portion)

Mehrad

05:05

hahaha...

thanks anyways guys and gals

i'll post it as a question and will see

Phrancis

Be well

mjolka

oh and jon skeet

Mehrad

take care @rolfl

nice to know you @Phrancis

Phrancis

OOOOHHHHH - I have more CR rep than Jon Skeet!!!

Mehrad

janos

05:23

monking

mjolka

05:43

monking @janos :)

janos

hey mjolka

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Insert missing records in a list with LINQ

We have a table with periods, and another child tables with these periods and value for combination of product + location. Based on selected periods I would like to add any missing rows in the child tables. I have came out with following code which seems to just work fine. But would like to know...

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chillworld

monking @all

Phrancis

Monknight @chillworld !

chillworld

aah a night crawler here ;)

Phrancis

06:05

Always! Been looking at Jon Skeet's CR posts, and usually upvoting. He could use some rep here.

Poor feller has less than 1K rep here

mjolka

@Phrancis imagine if we converted him from SO to CR

Phrancis

I just got him over 500, and possibly a silver badge ;)

Jon Skeet, Reading, United Kingdom

501 2 4

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It's OK though, I guess this compensates for it...

Jon Skeet, Reading, United Kingdom

714k 297 4666 6028

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mjolka

you've seen the jon skeet facts, right?

Phrancis

... maybe, maybe not... there are lots of facts about ~~Chuck Norris~~ Jon Skeet...

mjolka

366

Q: Jon Skeet Facts

I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question. EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these facts. Now with official sanction from the powers that be!

discussion community fun

janos

06:13

yeah, he's a "poor feller"

Phrancis

> 291 Answers

ORLY

Phrancis

06:26

Well TTGTB

EngieOP

@Jamal
Just finished the issue. Sniper.... .-.

Captain Obvious

06:44

0

Q: Project Euler #48 in C++

This question is similar to Project Euler #48 but constraints are different i.e $$N < 2000000$$ Just in case the link is available here is the problem We've to print $$\left( \sum_{i=1}^N i^i \right) mod (10000000000) $$ I've tried following, but I need something faster than that, because ...

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Captain Obvious

07:05

0

Q: Primitive Python P2P Socket Chat

Here is my code for a python script for a peer to peer chat system on a network using sockets. I know there are some things that could be changed so there would be less repetition in the code and that some variables could be global, but what I am asking is if there are any issues with the code's...

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mjolka

night all, have a great weekend

vnp

good weekend to you too

chillworld

07:19

@mjolka good weekend and sweet dreams

Captain Obvious

07:34

0

Q: Is this way of creating dynamic Django Forms too cute?

In Django I sometimes have forms of which the number of fields can vary depending on circumstances. Maybe a field isn't shown sometimes in cases when it's not applicable. I usually create optional fields in the form class's constructor, passing in an extra argument. Say we have a form with fixed...

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Captain Obvious

07:51

0

Q: Clearing and Loading Data on HTML Form Fields

What I'm trying to do: I have a single bootstrap modal which contains a form that I'm using to ADD records and at the same time UPDATE. What I have: A two buttons to SHOW this modal that calls a particular method depending on what the action is. For adding, it clears the fields on the form. ...

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skiwi

Monking

About damn time the university internet started to kind of work again

Ooooh, I've got this on SO:

stackoverflow.com/help/badges/4129/socratic?userid=2057294

I like my shinyness a lot

Is this a fair comment?

How could this be solved with Jodatime? Have you tested if your alternative suggestions work? — skiwi 24 secs ago

Dan Pantry

08:22

   var combinedObservable = Observable.Defer(() =>
        {
            var allowPublications = false;
            var subscription = startObservable.Select(_ => true)
                    .Merge(endObservable.Select(_ => false))
                    .Throttle(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500))
                    .Subscribe(state => allowPublications = state);
            return Observable.Using(() => subscription, _ => deltaObservable.DoWhile(() => allowPublications));
        });

today on horribly hacky solutions at 9am in the morning

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Python: matplotlib-venn and keeping lists of the entries

So, having come upon the wonderful little module of matplotlib-venn (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib-venn) I've used it for a bit, but I'm wondering if there's a nicer way of doing things than what I have done so far. I know that you can use the following lines for a very simple venn diag...

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skiwi

@DanPantry It doesn't know what it does, it doesn't know how it does, but it will find you, and bug your application.

So why the need for hacks? :)

Wtf did I just read?

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A: How do I drug a population in the most efficient way?

Vaccination Just have regular vaccination programs against a range of different diseases. Include this drug in amongst the vaccinations and no-one will be any wiser. When people start dropping dead from drug withdrawal that will only reinforce the fact that these vaccinations are absolutely vita...