The 2nd Monitor

rolfl

6:00 PM

If someone suggests an edit to your post you get a notification on your status bar (the red box).

Mast

@QPaysTaxes Too late.

@rolfl It's a good tactic, with one minor flaw. Not everyone follows it.

So there will still be people handling them.

rolfl

@Mast People with review privileges are supposed to be sensitive to these things.... if you are unsure of something, skip it, don't guess.

Captain Obvious

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Q: Fastest and minimal random access data structure in Java

I have written up a data structure in Java that supports the following features: get(i) set(i, e) add(e) remove(e) contains(e) size Elements must remain in order and iteration needs to be as fast as possible. The code does not require thread safety. This is my current solution which seems to...

Lyle's Mug

@Mast keep doing both, the community will let you know if they are bad answers

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CommitStrip

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Jamal

6:05 PM

Another kill. This one wasn't actually a zombie, and I'm not 100% about the answer itself.

Mast

@Lyle'sMug Thank you.

@Jamal So you shot something, but you aren't sure what your target is?

I hope you're not military.

Jamal

@Mast lol

Mast

@Jamal Reminds me of those 'shoot yourself in the foot' jokes.

After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.

@Jamal For what it's worth, I think it's valuable advice.

You're explaining the risks which he probably hasn't seen.

Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar-- SEGMENTATION FAULT.

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@QPaysTaxes Learn C and we'll talk.

C++ even.

You'll know when you get there.

rolfl

> “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Dan Lyons

Beware the null pointer, for only madness and chaos lie within.

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Mast

6:19 PM

@rolfl The dark side has cookies though.

rolfl

So does HTTP .... oh, that is the dark side.

Mast

s/tho/do

@rolfl JS, HTTP, etc.

Crowded the dark side is.

Jamal

0

A: STL implementation of quicksort

For generic template types, it's more common to use T. This would help take out the guesswork if one isn't already aware of the template statement. Your typedef is superfluous since it's only used once in main(), so just remove it. The new name itself doesn't add anything to the context anyway...

rolfl

“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”

Jamal

I think I shot an actual target this time. :P

I suppose once the nomination phase opens, there will be a new Meta question about collecting candidate questions.

rolfl

6:24 PM

yup.

Jamal

35 minutes left, Pops!

skiwi

Isn't it 1 hour more?

Hosch250

35 min.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Programmatic text substitution across rows and columns in R

I'm replaced character strings with numeric codes in R. I find myself doing a lot of copying and pasting, so there's probably a better solution with apply, sapply, or ddply that I'm missing. Here's an example: example <- data.frame(matrix(nrow = 20, ncol = 20)) example[,1] <- 30:49 example[,10]

r

Hosch250

Got to go on a walk now so I'm back when it starts.

Ethan Bierlein

6:26 PM

Monk*

Mast

@EthanBierlein Monk yourself.

Duga

If you have code that is working but you would like to be more efficient or clean, try posting over on Code Review. (although they may want you to provide sample text files first so they can easily test their changes) — Kevin 44 secs ago

Ethan Bierlein

@Mast It's pronounced "Monk all"

* is just a synonym for ing, evening, ernoon, etc.

Mast

@QPaysTaxes It means whatever you want it to mean.

Ethan Bierlein

Think generics

Mast

6:28 PM

@EthanBierlein huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/…

@EthanBierlein No, that would be a programmer-specific joke.

This title is way more generic.

Ethan Bierlein

Hmm, that gives me an idea.

We should have a chat party when the site gets it's new design, and we can call it Party<T>, or something like that.

@QPaysTaxes TS

Yup. I like to voraciously consume stars. Hydrogen and helium just taste so good.

Mast

@EthanBierlein Helium is dead star.

You don't want those parts

Ethan Bierlein

@Mast No, helium is a dying star. It also depends on the size of the star as well.

For example, some stars get all the way to iron.

Before dying.

Mast

@EthanBierlein Helium is to a star as CO2 is to a car.

Ethan Bierlein

In their own ways.

Mast

6:34 PM

Exhaust gas.

And now for something completely different:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

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Ethan Bierlein

TS ^^

Captain Obvious

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Q: Efficiency/design of Python program merging multiple dictionaries

I've recently started teaching myself Python but have no prior programming experience or formal training. I've successfully created a program that outputs what I wanted it to output, but I'm looking for guidance on design/efficiency. Is there an overall design that would have been more efficient?...

python beginner python3

Mast

@QPaysTaxes Perfectly suitable for folding starships.

RubberDuck

Monking @QPaysTaxes

I don't like this whole vacation thing. I've nothing to do but work (on Rubberduck)

Mast

@RubberDuck I don't see the problem yet.

RubberDuck

6:41 PM

Go outside Q! You're worse than my kid.

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@Mast I'm supposed to be taking time away from the laptop... That's the problem.

Lol

Mast

@RubberDuck You forgot to mention that.

RubberDuck

Ohhh. That sounds nice.

Jamal

goto outside, you mean?

Mast

Take a hike.

SirPython

Hey, @QPaysTaxes

Ethan Bierlein

6:43 PM

I go outside ~~all the time~~ ~~occasionally~~ ~~very rarely~~ never.

RubberDuck

@Jamal yes. =;)-

SirPython

Where is this "outside" you are speaking of?

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Lyle's Mug

@rolfl are they going to make you give back your Diamond Hat?

Ethan Bierlein

What about create ENVIRONMENT?

And then walk ENVIRONMENT -topdown.

Lyle's Mug

it's probably already installed on your windows machine, just open the CMD prompt and type outside.exe and hit enter

Hard, with a hammer

Ethan Bierlein

6:46 PM

'outside.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

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Mast

@Lyle'sMug %0|%0

Lyle's Mug

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Q: What does %0|%0 do?

If you run a .bat file with %0|%0 inside, your computer starts to use a lot of memory and after several minutes, is restarted. Why does this code block your Windows? And what does this code programmatically do? Could it be considered a "bug"?

windows command-line

SirPython

Hmm... I can't find outside.com's download page.

Mast

@Lyle'sMug It does force you to take some time away from the laptop, so it's still a solution.

When in doubt, forkbomb.

Quill

Wbat's the countdown at, @all?

Ethan Bierlein

6:48 PM

@Mast I still don't forgive you for telling me that.

12 minutes @Quill

Mast

@EthanBierlein To be fair, I did warn you on that occassion.

Ethan Bierlein

@Mast You never said I'd have to do a hard restart of my laptop though.

Mast

@EthanBierlein I said it wouldn't do permanent damage. 100% true.

Lyle's Mug

:s
 start "" %0
 goto s

Ethan Bierlein

@Mast Actually, it did. The GUI on this laptop is slightly wonky, and I get bluescreens about 4 times more often.

All after running %0|%0

Lyle's Mug

6:50 PM

what did I do it won't strike it

Quill

@EthanBierlein It's 3am, but I'm not gonna miss it

Mast

@Lyle'sMug multiline breaks markdown

Lyle's Mug

don't try ~~try~~ this one @EthanBierlein

Ethan Bierlein

@Quill You can do it. *hands @Quill 2 liter coffee mug*

Lyle's Mug

well how about that

I need more coffee, and to finish reading Emails

Ethan Bierlein

6:51 PM

Sorry, we interrupted you @Lyle'sMug

Duga

@steve, from what you say I would guess that intermediate assignment(s) are reasonable in your case. If you want a more considered opinion, you could always post in Code Review. — Roamer-1888 58 secs ago

Mast

if (computer.fail == true) {
    background.setColor(blue);
    user.frown();
    sys.shutdown();
    user.scream("OH, F**K YOU");
}

Lyle's Mug

@EthanBierlein it's all good I messed it up anyway

Mast

I hate markdown.

Just removed the link, he'll get it.

Quill

@Mast Me too

Mast

6:54 PM

@Quill We hate markdown.

Ethan Bierlein

@QPaysTaxes Oh yah

Hosch250

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Q: Extreme Gerrymandering

It is election season in Puzzlevania. There are two candidates: the incumbent and a challenger. Of the $20$ million citizens, only $1$ percent support the current president; the other $99\%$ favoring the challenger. Here's how the election system in Puzzlevania works: There is a list of numbers,...

strategy

Quill

@QPaysTaxes You're ahead, goddamn

upvote, upvote, upvote

Ethan Bierlein

@QPaysTaxes You're probably gonna stay ahead of me for a while. I'm all caught up with these elections.

Ooh! Thanks santa!

Quill

So, who's running?

(I am)

Ethan Bierlein

6:56 PM

ME

Mast

Nerdcore

Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot has the earliest known recorded use of the term (to describe this genre) in the 2000 song "Nerdcore Hiphop". Frontalot, like most nerdcore artists, self-publishes his work and has released much of it for free online. As a niche genre, nerdcore generally holds to the DIY ethic, and has a history of self-publishing and self-production. Though nerdcore rappers rhyme about anything from politics to science fiction, there are some...

Ethan Bierlein

@QPaysTaxes You don't have gold shinys. (my precious)

not if me and the preciouses can't help

Ooh! Two more votes and I'm at 3.7K!