The 2nd Monitor

Jeroen Vannevel

00:00

@SimonAndréForsberg: your sb concat is stinky

Hosch250

Boy, this was a surprising accept:

6

Q: Feed API to display RSS feeds Ted talk

I am trying to create a webpage that will read RSS feeds from the TED talk website and display it on a page. I am using Google's Feed API for this. Here is the link to view the code online. Could someone please tell me if there is a better way to display the data coming from the feed? HTML <...

No comment for a couple months. Thought the OP had backed out.

@Duga Uh-oh.

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel whoops. fixed. Still complaints?

Jeroen Vannevel

mmmm

chars should be length

You're hiding (well, not compiling) the method argument

and its chars name isn't a good fit since it's just about the length

Simon André Forsberg

damn, it's difficult to modify existing code without a compiler

or perhaps I am just tired

Jeroen Vannevel

I wouldn't call it token either since that has a different meaning in IT-related context

but that's minor

Simon André Forsberg

00:05

or wanting to get the answer done quickly

Jeroen Vannevel

oh wait

this is exactly that context

Neeeeeevermind

200_success

I suggest CHARS instead of chars.

nhgrif

I suggest chairs.

You know, I put importblogkit.com in chat several times, and I just noticed it never got a star.

Simon André Forsberg

~~I gotta remember to tell people where the edit button is located...~~ Fixed.

@nhgrif How is that even possible?

nhgrif

importblogkit.com

Hosch250

00:19

@nhgrif Quick question - when I was doing Visual C++, I did some projects with random numbers.

Legato

Greetings all.

nhgrif

That's a statement.

Hosch250

Before I realized that I shouldn't seed it each time, I would do something like srand(time(0)).

Simon André Forsberg

@nhgrif perhaps it would get some more stars if there were some more content on it

nhgrif

Why shouldn't you seed it each time?

@SimonAndréForsberg Perhaps it would have more content if it got more stars?

Hosch250

00:20

And, when I tried to generate, say 10 numbers in a row, it would return the same number until a new second came.

Duga

This post is better suited to the CodeReview Stack Exchange site. — Tenfour04 26 secs ago

Hosch250

It shouldn't be seeded each time because it re-seeds itself each time you call it.

nhgrif

lol... I literally just got this a few hours ago. @Phrancis has been helping me set up the stuff

It doesn't re-seed itself each time.

Hosch250

If you feed it the same value, the algorithm appears to return the same value.

So if you don't seed it, you get different results.

nhgrif

3 hours ago, by nhgrif

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING

Jeroen Vannevel

00:21

I don't know of any other use for a random seed than testing. Which is already a questionable approach

The entire purpose of a seed is so the random generator will return a pre-set sequence

nhgrif

@JeroenVannevel Random in C++ requires a seed.

Jeroen Vannevel

so if you seed it with the same seed, it will give you the same sequence

nhgrif

So best practice is typicially to seed it with whatever clock tick your computer is on.

Hosch250

Exactly.

nhgrif

You don't give it the same seed.

Jeroen Vannevel

00:22

See, this is why C# is superior to any and all languages now and in the future until death do us part.

Hosch250

Most random number algorithms use a seed at the beginning.

Jeroen Vannevel

No explicit random seeding.

nhgrif

No, @JeroenVannevel... C# is better because random seeds itself for you.

Hosch250

@JeroenVannevel You typically call srand(time(0)), IIRC.

Here, I'm creating a quick IdeOne example.

nhgrif

But don't be fooled. Any random function on any computer in any programming language requires a seed (almost always grabbed from the current time stamp). Some languages just don't allow you to give a specific seed.

Duga

00:24

Asking about why a player randomly gets stuck after a collision is off-topic for Code Review. The rest of the question sounds on-topic for Code Review. You have quite a lot of code here, it would be extra helpful if you could link to a github repository or similar (a way to grab all the code for local testing, if possible) in addition to having the code in the question. — Simon André Forsberg 26 secs ago

nhgrif

So honestly, C++ might be better in that regard. You can give it a specific seed OR you can seed it with the time stamp like C# does.

Jeroen Vannevel

I don't read non-C# code. It brings me down from my high horse and I quite like it up here

2

Hosch250

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1515288660
80712527
1097867881
1968774905
352723467
1514090804
563435304
2008408385
927324180
230675279
492618967
258863456
1644979735
421826871
1830464586
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1451715608

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Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel you just read my Java code.

Jeroen Vannevel

@nhgrif C# allows both: explicit and implicit seed. Although I believe the seed is more than just a timestamp

Hosch250

00:26

So, there it is being seeded each time and not being seeded each time.

C# is probably like Java, where it doesn't allow the same seed to happened twice.

Jeroen Vannevel

@SimonAndréForsberg No, my brain created an AST from the Java code and generated it into C# for me. No Java was read!

Hosch250

But, it is probably based on the time stamp.

nhgrif

@Hosch250 Can you just post the source code?

Jeroen Vannevel

Either Java or C# use the same seed when you create multiple Random() instances in a row. I'm thinking it's C# but I'm not entirely sure.

Hosch250

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int main() {
	// your code goes here

	srand(time(0));
	for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
	{
		cout << rand() << endl;
	}
	return 0;
}

Move the srand() call inside the loop for the second version.

nhgrif

00:27

That's the first example returning different number each time?

Hosch250

Yep.

Anyway, my question was if that was possibly why this code was returning patterns:

nhgrif

What does time(0) return? I'm not sure whether time(0) is right.

Phrancis

@JeroenVannevel I have evidence that you have read Java

Hosch250

5

Q: Random 5-character token generator

I have an Android app that uses randomly generated tokens to log in. They're 5 characters long, are sent to a user's email address, and have a short lifespan, so I don't think I need anything that's extremely secure. I'm getting odd result that suggest I'm not really generating random numbers. ...

java android random

Jeroen Vannevel

void Main()
{
	for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
	{
		new Random().Next().Dump();
	}
}

Hosch250

00:28

time(0) returns the current time, I believe.

Jeroen Vannevel

Same output 10 times (C#)

Java doesn't have this issue

Hosch250

Time in seconds from 1970, or something like that.

Jeroen Vannevel

@Hosch250 unix time / epoch time

Hosch250

I know, but he keeps reseeding it, and Java will prevent the seed from being the same.

nhgrif

It returns time in seconds?

Jeroen Vannevel

00:29

@Phrancis Euuuh my brother used my account?

Hosch250

Yes, seconds from 1970, I believe. @JeroenVannevel called it unix time.

nhgrif

You're going to burn through the loop of 20 in WAY less than one second.

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel I used to believe that Java did that, but at least in Java 6 and onwards, it doesn't.

Duga

@Hosch250 ***`using namespace std

Jeroen Vannevel

@SimonAndréForsberg Yeah, I recall it being either Java or C# and I just verified it's C#

Hosch250

00:30

@Duga That was put in there by Ideone.

nhgrif

struct timeval time;
gettimeofday(&time,NULL);

srand((time.tv_sec * 1000) + (time.tv_usec / 1000));

Hosch250

Bjarne Stroustrup just taught me srand(time(0)).

Duga

@Hosch250 using namespace std detected

nhgrif

Yes, srand(time(NULL)); is fine if you're only seeding once.

Hosch250

@Duga Don't blame me, blame Ideone.

That is what I did to solve the problem.

nhgrif

00:32

If you seed more than once per second, you should use the code snippet I just pasted.

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel yay! Java - C# 1 - 0

nhgrif

Because if you seed more than once per second, time(NULL) returns the same number for an entire second at a time.

Jeroen Vannevel

@SimonAndréForsberg Random() and enums, that's all you've got. ALL YOU'VE GOT!

Phrancis

@JeroenVannevel Don't feel bad about it, my brother used my account to post MySQL answers too... ;D

Duga

@Hosch250 Duga blames no one!

Hosch250

00:32

Yes.

nhgrif

And it takes way less than a second to get all the way through 20 iterations.

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel good enough for me ;)

Hosch250

Community rep?

nhgrif

Swift: Eleventy-Billion. All-Those-Poser-Languages: 0.

Corbin

Who's doing the rand() stuff, and do they have access to C++11?

Hosch250

00:33

@Corbin Just discussing it.

I am using Visual C++.

Corbin

Ah, alright. Has it been mentioned yet that rand() is crap?

Hosch250

Well, Knuth discussed that it is only pseudorandom.

It seems to work fine when you only seed it once.

Jeroen Vannevel

Every random algorithm is pseudorandom

Hosch250

Obviously.

Corbin

It really depends on what you're using it for

but if you actually need random numbers and it's not a class assignment or toy, rand is almost always the wrong solution

Hosch250

00:35

Even a human doesn't generate numbers randomly.

Corbin

it's range can be tiny, it's period can be tiny... it's just flawed

it's not guaranteed to be thread safe

Hosch250

Well, I use C# now, so it isn't such a problem.

Corbin

it's pretty much inferior to the facilities of C++11's new random header in every way :/

Jeroen Vannevel

The only random things are cosmic rays and a woman's sentiment towards you

2

Phrancis

"Random" seems to be a pretty abstract concept, really... Is true random even a testable concept?

Jeroen Vannevel

00:36

#oldmanwisdom #movietime

Hosch250

This question was discussing random and patterns appearing too often:

Simon André Forsberg

@Corbin that's true. I remember when a friend learned C++ that it only went from 0 to 32767 for him. Utterly c r a p.

Hosch250

5

Q: Random 5-character token generator

I have an Android app that uses randomly generated tokens to log in. They're 5 characters long, are sent to a user's email address, and have a short lifespan, so I don't think I need anything that's extremely secure. I'm getting odd result that suggest I'm not really generating random numbers. ...

java android random

Corbin

@SimonAndréForsberg rand() is from a different era when 32767 was considered big :(

Hosch250

So, I just was wondering if it was because he kept generating a new Random object with probably similar keys based on the time.

Simon André Forsberg

00:37

@Corbin those were days!

Jeroen Vannevel

@SimonAndréForsberg I would actually put that CHARS inside the method

Simon André Forsberg

(and this is one thing I don't like about C++, so many different standards and so many obsolete things within the core classes...)

Jeroen Vannevel

it has no business being outside

nhgrif

@JeroenVannevel I'm still voting for putting the chairs around the table.

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel it has no business being inside either IMO.

Corbin

00:39

Yeah, it's really unfortunate how much historical baggage C++ has. It feels like a major part of learning it is learning what parts are absolutely terrible and/or outdated :/

Jeroen Vannevel

@SimonAndréForsberg It's used inside of it and only inside of it. Why can't it be there?

nhgrif

Objective-C is just as old as C++. ;)

Simon André Forsberg

@JeroenVannevel sure it can. I just said that constants are more often declared as static final fields. I believe it makes easier modification possible. You can look at the top of your class (where constants are normally declared) instead of finding the right method and change it there.

Jeroen Vannevel

Mmmmhmmmmmhmhmhmhmhm depends on how you view it then I suppose

Hosch250

	Success	time: 0.07 memory: 380160 signal:0

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It doesn't appear to have patterns.

Jeroen Vannevel

00:41

I personally like to see things that belong together, in the same context

when I'm working on that method I want it right there to see, not having to scroll up

Corbin

ObjC did a better job of differentiating itself from C than C++ has done (pretty much because C++ never aimed to do so). Most of the outdated horrible crap in C++ is actually horrible outdated crap in C that leaks into C++ :/

Jeroen Vannevel

@Hosch250 That statement is as statistically valid as me saying that Belgium consists solely of hotties because I can only see myself in the mirror right now

5

Simon André Forsberg

@Corbin I'm surprised Java is as good as it is (or at least as how good I think it is) considering that it's always strives to be backwards compatible. Or perhaps it's just the fact that I know what classes to avoid.

@JeroenVannevel You ~~say~~ code potato I code potato.

Hosch250

@JeroenVannevel I never said it statistically didn't have patterns.

Simon André Forsberg

^^ that

Phrancis

00:43

It used to be so easy to copy music files from iTunes to an iPhone. Why, Apple, why??

nhgrif

Uh, it still is?

Jeroen Vannevel

I'm out, I've got movies to watch and classes to skip in the morning

'night

Corbin

@SimonAndréForsberg Java certainly has its missteps. They just don't crash your code or stab you in the throat :/.

Simon André Forsberg

that's true

Corbin

it also helps that java is a managed language

one of the major pitfalls of C++ is not realizing how to properly manage resources

and trying to do it like it's 1985

nhgrif

00:45

@Phrancis Get to this screen, checkmark what you want on your phone, click Sync.

Corbin

C++ is a bit like PHP in that it can be a beautiful, productive, safe language, but the path of least resistance is one full of shitty code, bugs, and sad, sad nights.

2

Phrancis

@nhgrif Well, drag & drop sure doesn't seem to work any more... Trying to take files from a playlist and move into Music on iPhone 4

I'll try that, but it says it will delete the files on my phone if I sync

nhgrif

Are you trying to get from iTunes to phone or phone to iTunes?

Do you have music on your phone that's not in your iTunes library?

Phrancis

Um... actually probably not

nhgrif

So, the music that's being "deleted" off your phone is stuff that's not checkmarked.

Phrancis

00:48

I have plenty in my iTunes library I don't want on my phone (uncompressed PCM audio, 10000 pictures from my wife's camera, etc.)

nhgrif

Because "sync" makes your phone match exactly what you have checkmarked on this screen.

Phrancis

Ah ok

nhgrif

In that screenshot, for example, I have 4 playlists checkmarked.

Anything not in those 4 playlists is deleted off my phone, and those 4 playlists are added.

So... it's actually much easier to manage. ;)

As soon as you plug your phone in, iTunes sees what's on there and puts a checkmark next to it. Uncheck to delete, or add a check to something to add.

And if you've made any changes, a "revert" button shows up next to "sync"

Also, the bars at the bottom will adjust to show you how much space you're using or have available.

Phrancis

OK that seems it should work good, thanks

nhgrif

AND... at the top there's a checkbox to "Automatically fill free space with songs" so you can have iTunes randomly fill up ALL of your free space with music after it's put what you've explicitly selected on there. (I never use this, but seems like a cool option if you've got an iPod)

Phrancis

00:51

Except it looks like it'll take an hour to sync initially lol :D

nhgrif

The problem comes when you're trying to use your phone with multiple computers and those computers don't all have the same music

Phrancis

More like 5 mins really, looked slower at first

nhgrif

None of my music is purchased through iTunes. It's only on my computer.

Phrancis

^Same

nhgrif

If I went to work and tried adding a song through iTunes at work, it'd remove all of my other music.

Because it can't sync that other music with my work computer.

Phrancis

00:52

Most of it are CDs I bought or music I'm working on

nhgrif

And I can't pull the music off of my phone onto a computer.

Phrancis

Ah yes I can see that

RubberDuck

Sounds a lot like VB6 @Corbin...

Hosch250

Why would they choose to delete something just because they can't sync it?

That sounds crazy, unless there is a good reason I'm missing.

Phrancis

Someone please do me a quick favor and take a screenshot of my site, to make sure I'm not insane: psychoproductions.net

mjolka

01:05

@Phrancis i.imgur.com/QE6tPu5.png

Phrancis

@mjolka Perfect, thanks!

mjolka

np :)

Hosch250

Looks good on IceDragon, which as you probably know by know uses FF's rendering engine.

nhgrif

Thanks for the blows.

Nick Griffith

@importBlogKit

0 tweets, 0 followers, following 0 users

Maybe I'm crazy, but I actually think "import BlogKit" is a quite good name, and I'm surprised it's available both as a .com and Twitter handle...

This'll one-box better now:

importBlogKit.com

@importBlogKit

0 tweets, 0 followers, following 0 users

Phrancis

01:29

@importBlogKit Congrats on your website! #newproduct #objective-c #swiftlang

Tweeted by Cardshifter on March 18, 2015 at 1:27 AM

Seems like the hyphen breaks the hashtag

Hosch250

@Phrancis Now, in my Twitter, would it be appropriate for me to tag @msonenote?

Or, should I just use the #OneNote hashtag?

Phrancis

@msonenote is likely a person. I think #msonenote would be better

Or that

Hosch250

@msonenote is the official OneNote twitter site.

Phrancis

No. It is the official OneNote twitter site person.

Hosch250

twitter.com/msonenote

Oh, OK.

Phrancis

01:33

@ tags are used for users, # tags for topics

Hosch250

OK. It isn't as successful as I thought it might be, but I'm going to put the link in my app.

nhgrif

Just like SE... Kinda.

Hosch250

OK.

nhgrif

@ is for user

Should I change my SE network name to importBlogKit too?

Hosch250

@TomekObirek Tomek, we wanted to check in. How are you getting along with OneNote? Have you learned any helpful tricks?

Tweeted by msonenote on March 17, 2015 at 8:51 PM in reply to TomekObirek

Phrancis

01:36

@Mat'sMug TODO: Upload an avatar image to your Twitter

Hosch250

I should respond to that, or would that be strange?

Phrancis

You should if you craft the wording nicely

nhgrif

@Phrancis #ios #osx #hashtag

Phrancis

#ihatetwitter

Hosch250

@TomekObirek Need help with #OneNote? #LearnOneNote to the rescue! #WindowsStore & @WindowsPhone OneNote tutorial, OneNote 2013 tutorials in the pipeline!

Too brash?

nhgrif

01:39

Be careful with the @ here...

Hosch250

Don't worry, no one came up.

It didn't ping anyone as I'm not a mod.

nhgrif

uh

Phrancis

@Hosch250 Maybe something shorter like: @helloUser this app may help you learn #OneNote: #LearnOneNote

Hosch250

OK.

nhgrif

Hosch250

01:42

@nhgrif If I have the power to ping someone, their name appears in the ping jumplist thing.

nhgrif

I got Twitter things on my blog now. Yay.

Phrancis

@nhgrif Looking good so far... Just for testing, maybe try putting a really big code block in and see how it looks?

Hosch250

Should I tag both MSOneNote and TomekObirek?

Or just one?

Phrancis

Just TomekObirek

Hosch250

OK.

Phrancis

01:44

(I think, I'm not a Twitter pro)

nhgrif

@Phrancis Do you have a plugin for automatically creating Twitter posts when you post a blog post?

Phrancis

I think @foo tags notify the user, while #foo appear in the #foo channel

nhgrif

Correct.

Phrancis

@nhgrif That, I don't ... Sorry

No doubt someone has made something along those lines, not sure what it would be called though

Hosch250

@nhgrif Sure there is.

nhgrif

01:46

It's called WP to Twitter.

Hosch250

Publicizer.

Directly part of WP.

I had it set up for a while, but removed it when I switched my twitter to LearnOneNote from Hosch250.

@Phrancis, I got this to work:

> Hi, @TomekObirek! #LearnOneNote may help you learn lots of tips/tricks! Features #OneNote for Windows Store/Phone, OneNote 2013 coming.

Lengthwise, I mean.

Phrancis

@Hosch250 That reads really good

Hosch250

OK.

I wanted them to know that it didn't have OneNote 2013 (or any other desktop version) yet.

Phrancis

Conveys the message quite well

Hosch250

Thanks for helping me.

Phrancis

01:49

NP

nhgrif

So...

I've had my phone number for a long time.

Phrancis

Ugh, I'm being "challenged" on Facebook. I should delete my account, practically never check it

Hosch250

"challenged" how?

nhgrif

At some point in time, I probably created a Twitter account and set it up with my phone number.

Which means now I can't add my phone number to my current Twitter account...

Because it's already in use...

Hosch250

Can you reset the old account?

nhgrif

01:52

I don't know anything about the old account other than the phone number.

Hosch250

Hmm, ouch.

Phrancis

@Hosch250 Something stupid, as is usual on Facebook

Hosch250

I'm not on FB.

Phrancis

Not missing much

Hosch250

My sisters are, and I think it is dumb.

Captain Obvious

01:54

0

Q: Brainfuck on-the-fly interpreter in C++

I was bored yesterday morning, so I wrote a brainfuck interpreter. I know there are a lot, but this one is different. Why? Because it evaluates brainfuck code on the fly, reading from the input file, and eliminates code once it's not reachable anymore, instead of reading the whole program, analy...

c++ brainfuck

Hosch250

Right now, one of them is in a bit of trouble for being extremely silly - stupid-silly - on the chat.

Phrancis

@nhgrif Does this help any?

Hosch250

> To remove your mobile number via SMS:

Using the phone you want to remove from your Twitter account, send a text message containing only the word STOP to your country's Twitter short code).
Your mobile number will be removed from your Twitter account immediately. To add a new mobile number via SMS, follow the instructions listed here.

That sounds like the best bet, if you have a mobile number.

nhgrif

Yep, thanks.

the shortcode for US is 40404

Phrancis

Good find @Hosch250

Hosch250

01:58

@Phrancis You're the one who found it.

Right at the bottom of that page.

Phrancis

Oh. Good find @Phrancis!

Legato

When will the site go back to normal?

Hosch250

About 1.5 full pages of unedited text, 1 page of unfleshed-out quotes, and .5 pages of outline in my paper.

More later, dishes time.

@Legato This is the new "normal."

Legato

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Lame. I liked the blue.

Phrancis

@Legato The blue is still there...?

(the Beta blue is, for sure)

Hosch250

02:01

@Phrancis There is a lot of orange now too.

I liked the old way better.

Legato

^

Like for highlighted tags.

Phrancis

Legato

Sadness overwhelming.

Hosch250

And, everything is squared up now, used to be more round.

Phrancis

Ah

Legato

02:02

Aye.

nhgrif

@Phrancis Do you not have two monitors, or what?

Phrancis

Oh, well. We'll get used to it. I already am.

Legato

I've already accepted it, though I'll never like it.

Phrancis

@nhgrif I'm on a MacBook (except at work, single-monitor W7 machine)

Hosch250

And the very day we say to ourselves "you know, I like it better this way after all", SE will change it back.

Legato

02:04

^ Of course.

nhgrif

I don't see how that's relevant.

What's the resolution of MacBook though?

Hosch250

What are all these post-its doing?

pbs.twimg.com/media/CAV1-20W8AEO8-_.jpg:large

Shouldn't they be using OneNote or Project or something?

Phrancis

Checking. Not sure why it matters though, someone else complained about the layout

Hosch250

See you, dishes time.

nhgrif

@Hosch250 The post-its are bugs or features or tasks that programmers need to work on.

Legato

02:06

They just grab one, work on it, rinse repeat

the-dream

nhgrif

You take a post-it off the "No Work Started" and stick it at your desk "Work In Progress" and then you move it from your desk to the "Ready for Test" area.

OR ... the software you develop is an ERP system, and you've got an entire project planning module that can totally perfectly manage this for you without post-it notes...

Legato

Post its are OP though.

Isn't it satisfying to have that covered wall systematically diminished until it is eliminated(if that ever really happens)?

nhgrif

We regularly use whiteboards at work though.

Phrancis

@nhgrif ^

nhgrif

Filled up one large one and on half-size one today doing tables.

Legato

02:09

I'd like whiteboards more if my hand writing wasn't atrocious.

Phrancis

So true

Looks like my MacBook is running on 1280*800 display

nhgrif

Oh wow.

It's pretty old then, eh?

Phrancis

6-7 years maybe? Not sure

Still works like a charm

nhgrif

So, now I've got a "Tweet" button at the bottom of every blog post, a "Follow" button in the sidebar, and my account should auto-tweet every time I make a new post.

Phrancis

Not bad at all for one evening's work :D

nhgrif

02:12

I bought the domain about 4-5 hours ago.

My first post will be an extension of the To comment or not to comment section of this answer:

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A: Returning an amount

I'm not a C# expert, but I can't imagine unnecessarily creating an array just to use .Contains is very efficient... nor can I imagining even using .Contains is particularly efficient. I can't imagine anyway in which bitwise operations would be useful here given the current values. To comment,...

Well, not an extension so much as a rewrite and some examples of self-documenting code.

Wait... how do I get @Duga to post a message in here everytime a new post is made to importblogkit.com ?

Phrancis

@nhgrif You talk to Simon

nhgrif

I also want to do some static pages at some point... but I want to get at least one legit blog entry in there first so I can feel all right putting a link to the website in my SE profile, etc. (hmm... this seems absolutely stellar to put on a resume actually...)

Anyway, going up stairs to bed.

Thanks for all the help @Phrancis.

Legato

Good night @nhgrif

You too @Phrancis I'm off.

Phrancis

Night @nhgrif

Night @Legato

Corbin

The upvote/downvote buttons changed style. Nifty. I like it!

I did get excited for a second though and think the site had become a non-beta site :(.

Phrancis

02:45

Oct 21 '14 at 14:45, by Malachi

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Q: Code Review SE is graduating!

Many of you have already seen announcements both on main and on meta announcing this site's graduation. At the request of a few of you who were skeptical (or perhaps merely in shocked disbelief), I'm here to confirm that yes, the Community Team has indeed decided that Code Review should graduate....

discussion featured beta-progress

mjolka

@Corbin 169 days since graduation was announced :(

Corbin

Yeah, I keep waiting for a real site :(

Phrancis

Only a matter of time... CR graduated will be glorious!

mjolka

@Phrance which do you think will come first: The Winds of Winter, Half-Life 3, or CR's Graduation?

Phrancis

@mjolka Reasonably... I think it's going to be CR's Graduation, though Winds of Winter may come first. HL3... no damn way.

JaDogg

03:21

did colors change ?

Hosch250

Yes.

Let's see, you are probably close to number 20 to ask that.

@Mat'sMug Still having a problem with Rubberduck?

I wonder if it could be that it isn't registering itself in the registry as a 64-bit application, but only as a 32-bit application?

And HELP, they are about to remove the tab that helps us kill zombies!

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Q: Let’s improve our site navigation

A.k.a. the 2015 Questions to Answer Refactoring Konversion (QuARK) A.k.a. the great cheese move of 2015. TL:DR; we are looking to change the navigation of the question lists on the site. We are not looking to remove any functionality or break any existing link. This is not final. We’re taking...

discussion featured design navigation homepage

They are trying to kill the Unanswered tab!

Oh, if you go to "needs answer", you can choose "no answer".

Duga

Isn't this what codereview.stackexchange is for? — AShelly 8 secs ago

This question appears to be off-topic because it is asking for a code review. See What topics can I ask about here in the Help Center. Perhaps Code Review Stack Exchange would be a better place to ask. — jww 51 secs ago

@jww Code Review would indeed be a better place to ask - but please note being on-topic elsewhere doesn't make a question off-topic here. — Mat's Mug 55 secs ago

Mat's Mug

03:52

Rubberduck Support

Help using Rubberduck open-source VBA add-in

Mat's Mug

04:13

→ 50 messages moved to Rubberduck Support

Hosch250

04:28

Just reading this:

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Q: When is it a good idea to force garbage collection?

So I was reading a question about forcing the C# garbage collector to run: http://stackoverflow.com/q/4257372/555690. Almost every single answer is the same: you can do it, but you shouldn't - except for some very rare cases. Sadly, nobody there elaborates on what are such cases. Can you tell m...

memory garbage-collection

Makes a question for me to research.

When you call GC.Dispose(), or whatever the call is, does it run across all levels, 0, 1, and 2?

Mat's Mug

> The only advice on collection I can give is: Never do it.

but it's a good question. I don't know.

Hosch250

I'm not planning on it, but it makes me curious.

I actually studied related material last fall, and it was intriguing.

It was OS Design Principles, or something, and we studied memory, threading, process blocks, and a few other things.

The teacher was most unorganized, so we didn't do nearly what was planned.

Also, the quizzes were terrible, so he had to keep re-administering them.

Like, we would study threading, and he would post a memory quiz, which we weren't going to study for another two weeks.

mjolka

@Hosch250 read the docs :P

Hosch250

@mjolka Later, almost bed time.

Mat's Mug

04:50

TTGTB here

'night CRitters!

Mehrad

05:30

@mjolka we could claim this on tax couldn't we?

@Hosch250 read it as a bedtime story buddy

mjolka

@Mehrad yep, i believe so :)

actually, that's a pretty good incentive to buy a license for linqpad

Duga

06:06

@agf would it be ok to put the code on codeReview, as those are dummy data i have put them on github too, should i remove them. would their be an issue! — Sandeep kumar H R 14 secs ago

Mehrad

@mjolka that too. Now you're talkin

Duga

07:08

This question may better fit in Code Review SE. — Wojciech Frącz 5 secs ago

Rubberduck Support

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