The 2nd Monitor

Duga

00:00

There are 1341 unanswered questions

Hosch250

00:15

@nhgrif Yes.

@nhgrif I'm WiFi.

nhgrif

@Hosch250 Hey

@Hosch250 It's important to ding me on every line

Hosch250

@nhgrif Hi.

nhgrif

@Hosch250 amirite?

@Hosch250 Yea, I think I'm right.

Hosch250

Something like that.

nhgrif

@Hosch250 All right, good talk.

Hosch250

00:16

I just meant to ping the right message.

Simon André Forsberg

Did I miss the ping-fest?

nhgrif

@SimonAndréForsberg NOPE

Hosch250

@SimonAndréForsberg I'm afraid you did. ping!

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: Ambigous call to overloaded function

#include<iostream> using namespace std; struct node { int number; node *next; }; bool isEmpty(node *head); char menu(); void insertAsFirstElement(node *head, node *&last, int number); void insert(node *&head, node *&last, int number); void remove(node *&head, node *&last); void show...

c++

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's asking for a code review. If it's working and you want guidance on your structure, then it belongs on codereview. If it's not working, then you need to include details of what's not working. If you just want someone to check your code, that's too much to ask. — Simon MᶜKenzie just now

Hosch250

00:29

@CaptainObvious using namespace std; What do you expect?

Duga

@SimonMᶜKenzie thanks and sorry for posting it in a wrong site. I didn't knew about codereview. — RoastedCode 34 secs ago

nhgrif

wait...whoops...

Simon André Forsberg

@nhgrif flagging @Duga now, are we?

nhgrif

Sorry

The "just now" was under the flag.

And just like all the users I complain about non-stop, I didn't read the pop up.

2

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Sorting algorithms - Relocation Counter

I want to count the total relocations for each of these sorting algorithms. From the results it seems my code is correct, but I need someone to confirm it. Is the counter variable placed in the right position? int bubblesort(int *p) { int i,j,temp,relocations=0; for(i=1;i<N;i++) ...

algorithm c sorting

Duga

01:03

This probably belongs on code review, but might even be off topic there. Also, getting around the rules of the site by spamming the same word over and over will not win any friends or help. — JoelC 1 min ago

Phrancis

@nhgrif @Mat'sMug ^^ What do you think of that? ;)

(parsing JSON with SQL)

nhgrif

You can parse XML with SQL also.

I do all sorts of XML stuff with SQL.

Phrancis

No doubt!

Postgres has a native JSON data type, so you just store a whole JSON object in a single field, pretty potent. Does MS SQL have that?

Mat's Mug

XQuery is native to SQL Server

Mehrad

How are all the legends doing today :D

Mat's Mug

01:10

been worse ;)

nhgrif

@Mat'sMug He asked about the legends.

;)

Mat's Mug

in VBA, 30 secs ago, by Mat's Mug

as long as you don't let your head inflate too much ;)

Mehrad

That's a min requirement to be a legend. Continuously struggling :D

I need another set of pair of eyes to tell me what am I doing WRONG

		While(txCounter_ < txCount_Local_)
		{

compiler tells me I need a semicolon in the second line of this code :D

Mat's Mug

too many underscores.. but go on ;)

Jeroen Vannevel

while

not While

Mat's Mug

01:13

oh wow

yeah that

Mehrad

@Mat'sMug It's C and it's a microchip code...

Jeroen Vannevel

whyyyyleeeee

nhgrif

coyooooteeeeeee

Mehrad

@JeroenVannevel I would kiss your set of eyes if I was there. THANK YOU

Jeroen Vannevel

I.. I'd rather if you didn't

Mehrad

01:14

Hypothetically :D

Jeroen Vannevel

Let's be civilized and stay with a tugjob

oh yeah. totally. hypothetically.

Mehrad

totally

But thanks really... I am tired and I can't see straight

Jeroen Vannevel

You shouldn't code when you can't see straight

That's how bad code happens

Mehrad

@JeroenVannevel Ideally

Jeroen Vannevel

Many a men were in your shoes before and now they're stuck with technical debt

You gotta pull out before it's too late

Mat's Mug

01:16

cough

nhgrif

So... what IDE are you using that it wasn't complaining about While more explicitly?

Mat's Mug

I cough have no idea cough what you're talking about cough cough

Mehrad

Come on man... Just accept my sincere thank you :P

@nhgrif IAR Embedded Workbench

Jeroen Vannevel

I accept praise in the form of donations

But I'll make an exception

Mat's Mug

@Mehrad just compliment him on his new haircut, he'll make a happy dance

nhgrif

01:18

Star wall has no context.

Mehrad

@JeroenVannevel Very picky today :/

nhgrif

1

A: Should I make a new question or keep the update?

Do neither. Do a bit of research. It's extraordinarily unfair to anyone who has invested any amount of effort in your current question for you to pull the old "your princess is in another castle" trick on them, so dont' edit your question. But should you ask a new question? Not yet. That que...

Jeroen Vannevel

Yes, my hair could use a boost

So far I'm at a 25% success rate

Mehrad

@Mat'sMug Oh... I should've coughed too :P

Jeroen Vannevel

my mom and brother bursted out laughing, one girl said ":(" and another girl was very positive

Mehrad

01:18

@JeroenVannevel what a nice haircut btw

Jeroen Vannevel

@Mehrad Aw thanks! 40% bitches.

nhgrif

@JeroenVannevel Someone actually said to you "colon open parenthesis"?

Strange.

Jeroen Vannevel

Luckily, I am not yet at the age where people tell me to open my colon

Mehrad

We all get there one day

Mat's Mug

what the ... opens up Visual Studio

Phrancis

01:21

@JeroenVannevel Um. a tugjob? What in the world is that? Or perhaps the better question is, Do I want to know?

nhgrif

You don't.

@Mat'sMug Hmm?

Jeroen Vannevel

You see, when a man likes another person..

Mehrad

@Phrancis Not all the job postfixes carry a harsh meaning :P

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif as in "what the heck am I doing here, I should be coding"

nhgrif

tug is to hands as blow is to mouth.

Mat's Mug

01:23

see?

Jeroen Vannevel

@Mat'sMug That's what I thought too. Then I opened Visual Studio and immediately saw 2 windows with code jumping out and I had to minimize it again.

Phrancis

nhgrif

The problem is, no one is asking any interesting ios/swift/objective-c questions right now.

Mehrad

@nhgrif what about jojob?

nhgrif

I don't know.

Captain Obvious

01:25

0

Q: draw line that expands over time

Simple practice app that draws a line, and the line 'balloons' up for a second. This code shows some issues I tend to have a little too often, where I end up defining functions inside of functions, and it feels like there's got to be a better way. I'm also unsure of the way I updated the 'size'...

python kivy

Mehrad

@Phrancis deserve so many starts in this context :D

I think I am ready to get back... Prefer not to feel tired anymore :D

Phrancis

This ^ is kinda cool :D

nhgrif

Are you guys planning on actually storing the data in SQL?

Like, once a week dump all the JSON files into SQL server (like SEDE gets updated weekly).

Phrancis

Haven't completely decided yet.

nhgrif

Because you shouldn't store them in SQL as JSON probably.

Or maybe do... but provide views for actually accessing them like a sane person would use SQL.

Phrancis

01:30

My thinking was that at the end of each game, the Java server could just open a connection to Postgres DB, push the JSON file, and maybe add some SQL triggers to actually parse out the data into sets

@nhgrif Obviously :p

nhgrif

I wouldn't do SQL triggers.

Phrancis

I just started tinkering with JSON->SQL tonight, so, lots to learn

nhgrif

Actually... here's what I'd do...

Client uploads JSON file to server. Does no SQL stuff.

SQL Server is set up to run a job. Weekly, daily, hourly, whatever.

It grabs all the files uploaded (since last time job ran) and parses them out into a normal looking SQL table (and deletes the file, or moves it to an archive)

Either the SQL server can do this, or something else running on the server could, whatever is most efficient.

But the point is, minimize the amount of time and data transfer the client has to do.

All the client has to do is upload JSON and get no response and issue no SQL commands, and don't wait around for triggers.

Phrancis

Something like that could be an option as well. We're just kind of poking in the dark right now.

nhgrif

The rest can be handled entirely server side without worrying about a network connection.

Phrancis

01:34

Good point there

nhgrif

When the JSON file is upload, server replies to client with success or failure.

On success, client deletes the JSON file.

Phrancis

Open connection, push the data, close connection, done. Let the DB do the rest on its own

nhgrif

On failure, it keeps it and tries again later.

And when you guys do get the SQL server going, please let me know. I'd definitely be willing to help with management of that part of it... plus it'd be a good way for me to learn MySQL perhaps.

Phrancis

We're not even sure we'll bother normalizing the data, and might even just keep JSON replay in its own field, and parse it using functions/views as needed

@nhgrif This is PostgreSQL, not MySQL ;p

nhgrif

I would normalize it.

Phrancis

01:36

(a far superior DBMS than MySQL)

nhgrif

Also... you should probably download Xcode.

I'm pretty sure this works for Postgres

rolfl

Two embarassing moments averted in the 2nd:

24 mins ago, by Mehrad

@JeroenVannevel I would kiss your set of eyes if I was there. THANK YOU

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis stop calling MySQL a RDBMS. The correct acronym is JOKE ;)

2

rolfl

And, well, the other one.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug Well, you can put data in tables in MySQL, so technically it is a DBMS. But, just being technical :)

nhgrif

01:38

But I haven't actually had a PostgresSQL server to test against.

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis any idiot can put data in Excel worksheets, too

Phrancis

LOL

nhgrif

Not any idiot.

Hosch250

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/293689/…

Phrancis

Most of them, I reckon

Hosch250

01:39

Any of you seen that?

Mat's Mug

oh wow

Hosch250

Classic example of what we don't want to be like.

nhgrif

@Phrancis Anyway, I mean I guess even if you didn't normalize it from the start, it'd be relatively painless to normalize it at any point in the future for this specific example. I'd just normalize it from the start though.

RubberDuck

Wow. Someone needs to go outside.

Hosch250

Shall we flag his comments?

nhgrif

01:45

I'd like to review your code, however clicking "MainActivity.java" doesn't seem to do anything. I can't get to the code! — nhgrif 7 secs ago

Hosch250

They are awful volatile, and he is just saying that "that is how he is, deal with it."

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: Android program Number to words

My prof ask us to create an android program that will input a number and output its word equivalent the value input is from 1 to 1000 only (e.g) input:777 output: seven hundred seventy seven

java android

nhgrif

@CaptainObvious kill-it-with-fire

Phrancis

@nhgrif Sure, fair point. I'll let you know if/when we implement something useful.

nhgrif

Please be sure to downvote that one so we can delete it too.

Comments indicate that the user doesn't get it at all.

RubberDuck

01:50

One more.

Hosch250

sir this is my codes. — Vincent Garcia 27 secs ago

nhgrif

I'm a code knight, by the way. That's why he addresses me as sir.

Hosch250

One more.

h.j.k.

@nhgrif "I'd like to review your code, however clicking "MainActivity.java" doesn't seem to do anything." trolling? :p

yeah today's a good day for me too

got knighted

Mat's Mug

and gone

Hosch250

01:53

I'm just the Squire.

Or would I be the Page?

Mat's Mug

I'm just the mug

Hosch250

Well, I've heard knights are heavy drinkers...

Mat's Mug

and I cringe whenever I read "the codes". people can't write. it's "teh codez"

Jeroen Vannevel

NullableToShorthandAnalyzer_WithNullableTypeAsTypeParameterForNestedDictionaries_InvokesWarning()

Rigorous testing in progress

Hosch250

@JeroenVannevel That is ONE BIG NAME.

Hi, @EricPb!

Mat's Mug

01:55

@JeroenVannevel holy mother of test method names!

Hosch250

@JeroenVannevel Apparently Unity does not work on WP.

They have Unity 4.0 in beta, should I get that?

Jeroen Vannevel

public void GetUser_WithValidCredentials_AsAdministrator_WithEmailSearch_AndUserAndPersonWithEmailExists_ReturnsFoundUsers()

Hosch250

That does support WP.

Jeroen Vannevel

I like descriptive test names

nhgrif

If you could ban all questions of a specific tag from Stack Overflow, what would that tag be?

Phrancis

01:56

@JeroenVannevel YIKES! That seems a little... excessive?

Jeroen Vannevel

@Phrancis It's a test method so it's okay

nobody will ever call that, its only purpose is being displayed in my test results

I want to know the exact scenario without having to look at the code

aint nobody got time for that

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif macro, when used with vba

nhgrif

macro-polo?

I would ban all parse.com questions.

Hosch250

Lol, I doubt that is a tag.

nhgrif

First of all, half of the time, the user uses the tag parsing because they're an idiot.

Hosch250

01:58

I don't have an enemy tag.

Mat's Mug

@Hosch250 click it

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug Is it a virus?

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif gee thanks

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug That isn't parse.com

nhgrif

But between every question tagged parsing (which should be tagged parse.com) and all of the questions appropriately tagged parse.com, I've yet to see a single asker asking a question under this tag and thought, "This person seems intelligent. This person seems like someone whose code I'd want to be fixing."

Phrancis

02:00

@Mat'sMug I'm pretty sure he meant parsing along with parse.com

Mat's Mug

ah

nhgrif

No. I meant parse.com

Phrancis

o.

nhgrif

But the idiots that use parse.com mistag as parsing at about a 30% rate.

Because people who use parse.com can't even be bothered to read the tag they're actually using nevermind any amount of documentation anywhere.

stackoverflow.com/posts/30114389/revisions

RubberDuck

Oh. So like macro?

nhgrif

02:02

stackoverflow.com/posts/29909682/revisions

stackoverflow.com/posts/29793267/revisions

RubberDuck

I gave up. I'm not gonna try to clean up SO. it's a losing battle.

nhgrif

Almost everything in these results are tagged wrong.

Mat's Mug

59 results? lol try that

nhgrif

Is "macros" with "vba" always wrong?

Mat's Mug

look at the macros tag's wiki except

> Not for MS-OFFICE / VBA / macro languages. Use the respective tags instead. A macro is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure.

nhgrif

02:08

Oh, I see.

Mat's Mug

1,282 results

nhgrif

But, here's the question... are all of those questions bad?

Mat's Mug

none of those questions are about macros

nhgrif

But are the questions good (regardless of whether or not they're tagged right)

That's the thing about parse.com

Mat's Mug

IDK. Anyone tagging vba with "macros" can't possibly have the slightest clue what he's doing IMO.

nhgrif

02:10

People who ask parse.com questions are idiots. One side-effect of this is that they can't even tell the difference between parsing and parse.com. Another side effect of this is that there isn't a single good question tagged parse.com.

Mat's Mug

top-voted has 9 votes

nhgrif

For a while, I posted "Asynchronous code doesn't run synchronously" on almost every new parse.com question asked.

Hosch250

Possibly because it is so easy to use that you can't go wrong?

RubberDuck

@nhgrif very few of those questions are worthwhile. Very few.

Mat's Mug

the good news is that parse.com makes a good tag to ignore.

nhgrif

02:11

That's true.

RubberDuck

lol. I was just about to say that I'm ignoring macro these days.

nhgrif

Anyway, I'm going to bed.

Mat's Mug

'night!

Hosch250

Night.

Duga

Please try adding comments first, then posting perhaps to Code Review. — Ken Y-N 12 secs ago

Duga

02:44

Alright thank you I didn't know about Code Review I appreciate it — Eric Irwin 43 secs ago

Phrancis

02:57

WOW.

Declaring local variables in Postgres is very clunky, although probably right.

Mat's Mug

declare @myVariable int; set @myVariable = 42; -> doesn't get any clearer than that IMO

Hosch250

Maybe not clearer, but it can be just as clear and more concise:

declare @myVariable int = 42;

Or, if they really want to set it:

declareset @myVariable int = 42;

Mat's Mug

is that valid T-SQL?

Hosch250

Huh? Mine? Probably not.

If I had my say, the top one would be ;)

Or something similar.

Anyway, I cleaned my app up a ton today, and I'm trying to figure out how to load my git repository to github.

Found it.

@Mat'sMug Do you have the webpage of different license comparisons around?

Mat's Mug

you mean choosealicense.com?

Hosch250

03:11

Yeah, thanks.

I was scanning the chat transcript.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug Right. Except, Postgres doesn't work like that.

Actually, Postgres has this in common with MySQL (and with most programming languages AFAIK) that you can't just declare anonymous variables out of the blue. I think MS SQL is closer to the exception than to the rule, even though it's awful convenient.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Recursively evaluate neighbors in a two dimensional grid

I'm creating a puzzle mini game where there is a board of gems, varying in color, and chosen at random. This is what my code generates: When you click on a gem the game should traverse the board and find all connecting gems of the same color. When you click the orange square all orange square ...

java algorithm array recursion libgdx

Hosch250

Learn OneNote gets the GNU GPL 3.0 license.

1305 files...

github.com/Hosch250/LearnOneNote

Uploading now. Feel free to tell me the 1001 changes I should make.

Dishes time, will add known issues later.

OK, my code went here: github.com/Hosch250/LearnOneNote/tree/RunningBranch

Phrancis

03:34

OMG, I thought MySQL was a PITA about that. To return/select anything in Postgres, it has to be in a table or function. Wow.

Mat's Mug

HA! THERE!

        private void _parser_ParseCompleted(object sender, ParseCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            Control.Invoke((MethodInvoker) delegate
            {
                Control.SolutionTree.Nodes.Clear();
                foreach (var result in e.ParseResults)
                {
                    var node = new TreeNode(result.Project.Name);
                    node.ImageKey = "Hourglass";
                    node.SelectedImageKey = node.ImageKey;

                    AddProjectNodes(result, node);

and that's all there is to it!

well along with this:

        private void RefreshExplorerTreeView(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Task.Run(() => RefreshExplorerTreeView());
        }

        private async void RefreshExplorerTreeView()
        {
            Control.Invoke((MethodInvoker) delegate
            {
                Control.SolutionTree.Nodes.Clear();
                Control.ShowDesignerButton.Enabled = false;
            });

            _parser.Parse(VBE);
        }

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: write a Python function using a for loop to find sum of squares

Write a python function that accepts a parameter n and, using a for loop, computes the sum of the squares of the numbers between 1 and n, inclusive. Write code that prompts user for a number, calls the function using that number as an argument, and displays the result.

python loop functional-programming functions

Phrancis

FRACKING FINALLY

DO $$
DECLARE
  _hello VARCHAR := 'hello';
BEGIN
  RAISE NOTICE '%', _hello;
END$$;
> NOTICE:  hello
> Query returned successfully with no result in 25 ms.

Good grief that was difficult for such a simple thing.

Duga

04:00

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder created tag v1.3.0.1

Not exactly a code review system, but something that just helps me get a clean output (I can copy from clipboard and paste in email client) with color highlighting. At work, we have started using perforce however for peer review we do screen sharing which is kind of an overkill. Thanks for your reply, I will try to research more on the code review tools for perforce. — noobcode 1 min ago

Mat's Mug

huh?

oh

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Trouble with proper comments

I always get marked down for my comments and I just wanted to see if these comments are acceptable or what I should include/where I should include them. import java.util.*; //so I can use scanner public class GuessingGame { public static void main(String[] args) { Random rand = new Random...

java

Mat's Mug

@Duga shouldn't that have been posted in the VBA room?

Duga

04:15

I wasn't aware about "code review". My intention is to provide a solution to a problem that has been asked about in other SO posts and have received answers that I felt were not as good as mine, and those questions were for other reasons closed unabling me to provide my solution there. To this end, I formulated a question that I think is clear and well defined even without code, and provided my solution in an answer, allowing others to give other possibly even better solutions. I thought that was the purpose of the "answer your own question" paradigm. With this in mind, what code should I add? — Kjell Rilbe 11 secs ago

Mat's Mug

04:29

@rolfl lol you beat me to it

rolfl

Only just

Also, your answer has a niggle you can grace-fix.

Mat's Mug

which

rolfl

String answer = input.nextLine();
char firstLetter = answer.charAt(0);
if (firstLetter == 'y' || firstLetter == 'Y') {
    play = true;
} else {
    play = false;
}

Should be:

Mat's Mug

play = ...

rolfl

String answer = input.nextLine();
char firstLetter = answer.charAt(0);
play = firstLetter == 'y' || firstLetter == 'Y';

Mat's Mug

04:32

thanks, edited. I was just focusing on the broken indentation there.

> I have found that the academic application of marks for comments is often contrary to the need for comments... particularly when the code is good code.

so sadly true

I remember being forced to comment everything everywhere

#BecauseComments

Captain Obvious

0

Q: A1Notation conversion to row & column index

This set of Google Apps Script helper functions are published in this gist, along with a bunch of other utilities. Background info is in this SO question. Since no Google services are used, this is pure JavaScript. What I hope to get from a code review: General feedback on clarity & maintainab...

javascript performance regex google-apps-script

Mat's Mug

> You have no JavaDoc, and you likelye should.

s/likelye/likely

Heslacher

04:46

Monking @all

rolfl

hey, and thanks ;-)

Hosch250

Hi.

I just put my app on GitHub, and I have two branches.

Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere how to merge them :(

Any ideas, any GitHub users?

rolfl

@Hosch250 you shoudl merge them in your workspace, then push the merges back to github

Heslacher

@rolfl It is just the truth. It is a good read with all the explainations why and how code should be commented.

Hosch250

@rolfl They are merged there.

I'll try that again.

rolfl

04:48

Why is "ping" re-enabled ....

Ding woke my wife ;-)

Hosch250

Sorry.

rolfl

Not your fault.... something changed somewhere.

Try it again ... please?

Heslacher

what @rolfl ;-)

rolfl

Yeah, silent now, though it was, in theory, silent before too

So, those folks remembering the MetaSO quesiton from yesterday about the not-migrated questions?

@Mogsdad - have a minute to chat in the 2nd monitor - Code Review chat room? — rolfl 14 hours ago

Well, Mog is obviosuly fast asleep, because Mogsdad is posting here: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/90112/…

chillworld

monking @all

Phrancis

04:59

@rolfl Did you clear your cache?

@chillworld Monking!

chillworld

hey @Phrancis

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