The 2nd Monitor

Ismael Miguel

20:00

If it is, it extracts 4 characters

Mast

Or at least, I think that's what he wants.

Ismael Miguel

Otherwise, 3

Mast

But why?

Ismael Miguel

But what if you pass a.jpeg2000?

Mat's Mug

@IsmaelMiguel the opposite. !== '.'

Mast

20:00

Why in heavens sake would you want to do such a thing?

Ismael Miguel

@Mat'sMug Sorry

nhgrif

So, passing .jpeg2000 breaking it can't make the code count as broken.

  echo "> Use only with:              \n";
  echo ">   jpeg, gif, or png files \n";

Ismael Miguel

But it is broken

nhgrif

He specifies only 3 file extensions that it works with.

Ismael Miguel

.jpeg2000 is a jpeg file

Mat's Mug

20:01

@IsmaelMiguel that's not how we define "broken" on this site

nhgrif

It's not a jpeg though. It's a jpeg2000

Mat's Mug

^^

Ismael Miguel

@nhgrif Still uses the jpeg specification

nhgrif

You should post an answer recommending how he can deal with more file extensions. But his code works for the inputs he specifies.

Ismael Miguel

It uses a different encoding to be lossless

nhgrif

20:02

He specifies three file extensions explicitly.

As long as it works for those three extensions, it qualifies as working for Code Review.

Ismael Miguel

jpeg, gif, or png files <-- he says files, not extentions

nhgrif

We don't know what business rules he's operating under.

Mat's Mug

@IsmaelMiguel you're kidding, right

Ismael Miguel

No

A file is a set of bytes.

Mat's Mug

well that means "jpeg", "gif" and "png" extensions

nhgrif

20:03

It means that to me as well.

Ismael Miguel

Alright

I disagree

nhgrif

I wouldn't expect it to work on a .tif

Okay, so...

Even if we concede your point...

Ismael Miguel

But .tif isn't a jpeg file

CodeX

Notice: Undefined variable: argv

nhgrif

Even if we concede you're right, that we should count jpeg2000 as a jpeg.

This is what we'd consider a minor oversight

Ismael Miguel

20:04

@CodeX php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php

nhgrif

I didn't even know jpeg2000 existed, for example

Ismael Miguel

It should work

nhgrif

And I would have made the same oversight (I would've grabbed the extension in a better way)

Ismael Miguel

Well, you suggest that I explain how to grab the extention?

nhgrif

Yeah. Except... an answer already address that.

32

A: Derpifying Images

sed 's/$\/\/\|#$.*$//g' YOUR_FILENAME | sed '/^$/N;/^\s*$/D' To clarify, that strips comments and multiple blank lines. Generally comments are a good idea. I would not remove them or create shorter names for functions and variables for performance. Any benefit there is minuscule beyond bel...

$type = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

Ismael Miguel

20:05

I saw it, upvoted it

But honestly, I don't see any derpification of my files

Or validation

nhgrif

But anyway, even if we concede the point that we should consider jpeg2000 as a jpeg file and part of his defined inputs and it breaks for jpeg2000, then we get back around to this idea that it's a minor oversight that we can just address in an answer.

Ismael Miguel

Which brings to the point that there should be some validation

nhgrif

Sounds like the beginnings of an answer.

And actually, looking at the code, I think you're right that it doesn't do anything.

Ismael Miguel

Yeah, but I don't want to put more crap in that pile

nhgrif

It checks if a function exists

Ismael Miguel

20:09

I know, it simply echoes the extention

nhgrif

Then it echos what it thinks is the file extension

Ismael Miguel

There

nhgrif

But in fairness, I put the "Derpifying Images" title.

Ismael Miguel

The file is still the same

Nothing happens

Well, you didn't knew

nhgrif

The asker himself actually never specified that the script should necessarily actually do the derpifying (except in the code itself, which is just our best guess at what he want to claim the script does to this point)

Ismael Miguel

20:10

The text in the code says it does something and it doesn't do it

Close as too broad or unclear?

nhgrif

I'm not voting to close it.

You can cast your vote if you want.

Ismael Miguel

But it bothers me that such question is there, stinking the website

I can cast a vote, but right now I have 3 different votes to cast to the same question. And all fit

nhgrif

What 3?

This question isn't going to be confused with a good fit for the site with -25 vote score.

But at the same time, it's really hard to make the case that it's actually off-topic (we had the discussion on the meta... the meta question was left up for quite a while).

Ismael Miguel

1- Broken
2- Too broad (any answer will be a good answer)
3- Unclear what asking (We don't even know what he wants)

nhgrif

And the top answer (mine) gives it the sort of answer that further indicates questions like this aren't really a good fit

Ismael Miguel

20:13

We have this turd in our hands

Mast

@IsmaelMiguel Put it down, wash your hands, walk away.

Ismael Miguel

We have to decide if we put it in the toilet and flush or if we keep it alongside the food (A.K.A. the good questions)

nhgrif

1. It's not broken per Code Review's guidelines of broken.
2. "Any answer will be a good answer" isn't entirely true... and I don't see the case being made that it'd be more true for this question than other questions on the sight.
3. We have other questions that are just as unclear (he specifies he wants it optimized).

Ismael Miguel

@nhgrif Define "optimized"

@Mast Sounds like a good solution, but it will keep me awake at night

nhgrif

I agree that that part is ugly and a little unclear, but if we're voting this one as unclear because he only specifies "optimized", then I've got a pile of hundreds if not thousands of questions that you also need to cast your unclear close vote on.

This question is not worse on that measuring stick then plenty of other questions that you've not voted to close.

Ismael Miguel

20:16

Or never saw

Mat's Mug

it's old, it's off the front page, and it's downvoted to oblivion. why can't we just move on?

Hosch250

I don't see why we don't nuke it...

nhgrif

Because there's literally no reason to

That's why.

Mat's Mug

I asked that specific question, and consensus was to not nuke it

nhgrif

The question was on the meta for 9 days

15

Q: Should we nuke this post from orbit?

Normally I wouldn't ask, I'd just kill it with fire. But this post is a bit... special. How could I optimize this script? It's an anti-post, a troll question... and yet, it's one we love to hate. From the question title down to every single comment in that code, everything in that post says...

Ismael Miguel

20:18

I think there are reasons to just nuke it. But there isn't a really good reason to do so.

Mast

@Mat'sMug Wasn't it concencus to put a historical mark on it?

Morwenn

@nhgrif I don't have a strong enough opinion to answer the meta (you can read that as « I don't care enough ») but if I had to take action, I'd nuke it.

Hosch250

I thought you guys just said it was broken.

Mast

Rollback and lock. Not because it's on-topicness is in question but because it's a lousy question with historical significance.

@Hosch250 For some values of broken.

2

nhgrif

It was viewed by at least 17 unique visitors. No one agreed that it should be nuked either by way of answer or comment. No one disagreed with the two answers, both of which said it should not by nuked, by way of comment or answer. Between the two answers, there's only even one downvote.

Hosch250

20:19

We could close as not ready for review.

Mat's Mug

"historical" lock is for now-off-topic questions. is it off-topic per today's standards?

nhgrif

It was up for 9 days.

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif the question also has a DV

nhgrif

If you have strong feelings contrary to the action that was taken, you probably should have posted a comment or answer. And that you didn't, you kind of don't have a right to complain, really...

That's my downvote on the question.

Ismael Miguel

@nhgrif I didn't answered because I didn't took my time to look at the question with attention and care. I saw a pile with a tiny text. I simply flew away from it.

nhgrif

20:21

If you didn't care then, why do you care so much now?

Ismael Miguel

I didn't say I don't care

I simply wanted to pretend that the question doesn't exist

Mast

Ismael Miguel

But when I opened my eyes, it was still there

nhgrif

You could have, at a minimum, provided that input on the meta question...

Ismael Miguel

But at the time, I didn't even looked with attention to the question

nhgrif

20:22

No one at all posted any sort of agreement to the idea Mat'sMug's question proposed (nuking it)

Ismael Miguel

I just found those points and expressed them

It's too late now to go back or change anything

It's done

I f*cked up

I should have looked at it with attention and care

I didn't and it is my fault

nhgrif

If you wanted to pretend it wasn't there, you certainly should have spoke up when there were two anti-nuke-it answers both getting upvotes.

Both per posted in less than an hour after the question and sat up there for the 9 days also

Ismael Miguel

I know

I should have done what I didn't do

Hosch250

I figured my upvote on the question was agreement. I didn't know I had to post an answer.

I'll do that now.

nhgrif

Well, that's kind of what I thought was weird.

CodeX

20:26

@IsmaelMiguel That code works! Don't run it though lol

nhgrif

Usually downvote means disagree and upvote means agree (on meta)

And yes, generally upvote means agree (in this case, with nuking it), but I assumed (and I'm sure mostly everyone did) that given the two answers both also had lots of upvotes, people simply weren't voting on the question correctly.

Ismael Miguel

@CodeX The code works. For some values of working. And the code doesn't work. For some values of working.

nhgrif

RubberDuck's answer has more upvotes than the question.

Which implies more people agree with RubberDuck (don't nuke) than the question's proposal (nuke)

But answers, and especially votes on answers, will & should always hold a lot more weight than votes on a meta question.

CodeX

Ismael Miguel

I upvoted, at the time, because of this: Let's change it to the "Not a good fit for the site, but has historical significance blah blah blah" lock.

nhgrif

20:29

So even if you just post to say "I agree that the question should be nuked." (if that answer doesn't exist yet)

Ismael Miguel

@CodeX Was that a PNG file?

CodeX

That code worked but I don't advise running it, yes it was

nhgrif

That needs to be done to counter the "don't nuke" answers

CodeX

@IsmaelMiguel How did you know?

Lots of flashing and beeping lol

Pretty cool

Ismael Miguel

@CodeX At the end, it is saying IEND. That is used to indicate the end of the IDAT block

CodeX

20:31

Of course! lol

Ismael Miguel

What I don't get it how it wrote the PNG content

Hosch250

@IsmaelMiguel Ever open a PNG in Notepad?

Mat's Mug

next time I post a "poll" meta, I'll post it with at least one answer to support the proposal

Hosch250

Looks like that output.

Ismael Miguel

@Hosch250 I'm saying the code. I don't get how the code is spitting the PNG content

Hosch250

20:32

Oh.

Ismael Miguel

Yeah

nhgrif

Well, @Mat'sMug that's fine if you do that for your questions... but users should know they need to post their own answer if there doesn't exist an answer they want to upvote full-heartedly.

Because I don't intend to start doing that for my questions...

CodeX

Its opening the file as a string

Mat's Mug

I agree, and I was expecting people that agree with nuking it, to post an answer to that effect

CodeX

Open a PNG with notepad

Ismael Miguel

20:35

@Mat'sMug That can be attributed to me. At the time, I didn't analised the code. Most of the "big guns" don't know PHP

Jamal

> This is a highly-simplified version of some C code converted to C# for the interview:

CodeX

@IsmaelMiguel Notice anything?

Thats in notepad

Ismael Miguel

I know

I've opened a few before

CodeX

That how it does it

Ismael Miguel

It may have a TexT chunk

But

The code doesn't have any function to read the file

CodeX

20:36

It is just opening an image in CMD

Well thats enough fun for me, im off for beer, bye all

Ismael Miguel

@CodeX Oh, you are simply opening the file in CMD

But it should stop on 8th byte

Hosch250

OK, upvote or downvote at your leisure: meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/a/5870/34073

Ismael Miguel

@Hosch250 It needs a little bit of something. Something a little more concrete. I can't express myself well enough

Hosch250

You can edit it, if you have an idea.

Mat's Mug

@Jamal edited

@Hosch250 thanks :)

RoboSanta

21:00

0

A: Formatting inventory of parts

If you rebuild your similar dictionary to be two-way: complement = {v:k for k, v in similar.iteritems()} similar.update(complement) You may skip second pass (BTW, drop has_key - it is an old form): if part_no in similar:

Stack Exchange

0

Q: is it s good idea to include code or link to a test project for the code being reviewed?

I have some code (a library) that i would like to be reviewed which is about 25,000 characters(~1000 lines). I have a test project for that code, is it a good idea to give a link to this code or not? the test project is a windows project with windows forms. if it's a good idea where should I p...

discussion

Mast

@RoboSanta Most of the answers he links don't deserve an upvote in my opinion.

There's always the 'You should do this' and never the explanation.

nhgrif

How does @RoboSanta work? What does he link? Accepted answers with 0 score? Or 0 votes?

Mast

@nhgrif Accepted answers with 0 score

nhgrif

It should be accepted answers with zero votes.

(it shouldn't spam a +3-3 to us)

SirPython

21:16

@nhgrif docs.google.com/forms/d/…

Mast

Whose bot is it anyway?

2

SirPython

Probably syb0rg's.

Mat's Mug

janos'

Mast

That's definitely possible.

There were east-European characters showing up.

nhgrif

hey

where's that meta post about how question length effects the answers you receive

Mat's Mug

21:23

34

Q: How to get the best value out of Code Review - Asking Questions

I have a project I am working on, and I would like some, or all of it reviewed, how can I ask for this review on Code Review in a way that produces the best possible value? This is not about a question being on-topic, or off topic. Rather, this is about making on-topic questions great qu...

discussion faq asking-questions

15

A: Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question

How to NOT write a zombie. A zombie is a question that remains unanswered. As a question asker, your goal is to avoid writing one. Beyond meeting the on-topic requirements, I think "good CR questions" can be broken down into several question types. This answer is longer than I would have liked...

Mast

@Mat'sMug "The more code you include in your question, the more opportunity there is for reviewers to find the 'simple' things that are wrong."

Mat's Mug

indeed

nhgrif

relevant: How to get the best value out of Code Review - Asking Questions — nhgrif 2 mins ago

relevant: Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question — nhgrif 1 min ago

Mast

Short code not necessarily leads to helpful answers though, it may be too easy for the review to focus on the 'wrong' half of the question.

While this is totally acceptable, it may still be an issue for the OP.

nhgrif

Reviewing an entire library just seems like a bad idea

Err

Doing it all at once in a Code Review question.

Mat's Mug

21:29

depends on the code

Mast

@nhgrif It often is, but if it's not too big it can work.

nhgrif

Actually, more than anything, it probably mostly depends on the language.

On C#, you'll have 10 people who want to answer the question.

Mat's Mug

on swift, you'll have 1 monkey doing all the work ;-)

nhgrif

In other languages, you'll have less people capable of reviewing.

Importantly too... you've almost certainly got some repeated mistakes throughout the library, so what I'd rather see is...

Mast

In some languages, you have nobody asking questions to review.

nhgrif

21:31

Pick one class, or even just one part of one class, and have it reviewed.

Digest the review, apply what you've learned.

And return.

Mat's Mug

^^ that's ideal

OTOH, repeated mistakes don't have to be addressed individually at all

nhgrif

I'd rather someone tell me they're writing a library, give me part of one class, and from that class, I can see and comment on bigger picture issues that reach outside what they've posted

Than for them to give me a massive code dump

If I get a massive code dump, I'll just skim until I see something I want to review, review that one thing, and walk away from the question.

3

Mast

@Mat'sMug Indeed. If I see people doing the same thing wrong multiple times, I usually pick two examples and leave the rest to the imagination (or point to where else it's going wrong without explicitly mentioning what would be the better alternative).

Mat's Mug

3 mins ago, by Mat's Mug

depends on the code

nhgrif

There's no guarantee that I'll even read code to the bottom and see some really egregious problem at the bottom.

Mast

21:33

It depends.

It always depends.

Somebody should put that on a shirt.

2

nhgrif

Mast

@nhgrif Partial reviews are totally acceptable.

Mat's Mug

lol

2

Mast

@nhgrif Not a shirt.

nhgrif

@Mast I know. But consider 10 partial reviews to a C# answer, that's fine.

Consider 1 partial review to a Swift answer.

s/answer/question

Mast

21:34

I see your point.

Mat's Mug

still fine imo.

nhgrif

In which that 1 partial review doesn't address the most critical problem... because I got bored of your code dump halfway through.

It's fine...

I mean, it's fine for the site, don't get me wrong.

Mat's Mug

the question will still be sitting with a partial review answer 2 years later when there's 150 swift reviewers digging up zombies

nhgrif

I'd just always discourage the behavior...

10

Q: Employee registered domain in his name and left.. now what?

My new client has the following problem: They had an employee (I.T. Dept) and who registered the company domain under his name [email protected]. Now John has since left the company and the employer needs to have changes made to his website, new emails to be setup etc.. Now, John is si...

web-hosting domain-registration

Mast

I was thinking about how I should debug SQL before realizing there is no such thing if you don't control the back-end...

nhgrif

21:40

Depends on where the SQL originates, doesn't it?

Mast

Trying to exclude non-language tags from a SEDE query.

A 'SELECT CASE' should do it, but I'm trying to put a SELECT in another SELECT without having any clue if that's a good idea.

nhgrif

Why can't you debug it?

You can do sub selects, but you should prefer CTEs.

Mast

Cage The Elephant?

nhgrif

Common Table Expressions

Mast

Ah, that's like a wrapper, right?

nhgrif

21:44

Uh, no-ish. Maybe, I don't know.

It's a CTE. It's like a CTE.

Mat's Mug

@Mast it takes subqueries out of the main query and lets you reuse them

nhgrif

Well, you can reuse them in that query.

You can't use them across multiple queries.

I guess you could think of it like an alias for a sub-select.

mmm, testing....

lol

8

Q: Speaking of UserExperience

I occasionally browse this site, but it wasn't until today that I was encouraged to create an account--and only to post on the meta. As many of you know, when certain links are pasted into StackExchange chat, the chat will automatically be replaced with some sort of image. However, when http://...

bug design chat

Hosch250

I'm on FF, and all I see is a white space.

Mat's Mug

@nhgrif webmasters is even worse

Mast

I'm just doing things the wrong way around, that's my problem.

Hosch250

21:50

Someone post that so I can see from my end.

nhgrif

Mast

@nhgrif That's a blank, but I can read the meta thing.

Mat's Mug

looks like they fixed it for meta.SE

nhgrif

I'm posting to the meta...

Mast

If we're talking language tags, do we consider all variants of the Python tag to be a language tag?

nhgrif

21:57

I don't know what you're doing.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Removing a subview with a subview from a UIView without memory leaks

I made a custom UITextView for vertical Mongolian writing. It is made by subclassing UIView, which has a subview called rotatedView. This rotatedView itself has a UITextView subview. So there are three views: a parent, a child, and a grandchild. The UITextView contains the actual text. The rot...

memory-management ios swift

0

Q: Mongo query and json with Java driver

I have a mongo db that is accessed by custom server code. The server deals with matchmaking, rooms, lobbies etc. for multi-player game. The MongoDB is on same space and holds all the questions for the mobile phone quiz game. This is my first attempt at such a project and although I'm competent i...

java parsing mongodb

Mast

There's python, python2.6, python-2.7 (note the difference), python3 and rpython

nhgrif

I know.

But I don't know what you're doing.

Mast

Which ones do we consider language tags, all of them?

nhgrif

For what purpose?

Morwenn

22:00

There's the language tag and the revision tag.

nhgrif

We expect python to be on any Python question

Morwenn

And we still need tag hierarchies to solve this neverending problem.

nhgrif

0

Q: White Logos with Transparent backgrounds are problematic

A year ago, I posted this question (s/question/bug report) to UX Meta. Today, I checked in to see if the issue has been fixed (it hasn't). And I've found that at least one other side (Pro Webmasters) suffers this same dilemma. The problem is the way that Stack Exchange chat one-boxes links to ...

bug chat user-interface logo

Mast

@Morwenn That gets complex with Python.

Quill

Derpifying images ending up in the review queue, wasn't there a meta discussion on that

Morwenn

22:01

@Mast SO only uses python-2.7 and python-3.x.

They assume that people either use Python 2.7 or the latest Python 3 available.

Mast

@Morwenn Yea, but re-tagging them all is going to be crazy.

Morwenn

And there is the python tag.

nhgrif

@Quill Yes, there was. A meta post doesn't prevent it from going into the review queue. Someone voted to close.

Morwenn

We need to tell that python-2.7 and python-3.x are children of python.

Quill

@nhgrif Ah, thanks for the clarification

Mast

22:03

Hierarchies would solve that problem, yea.

Morwenn

@Mast But Jeff was totally against them at the time and I fear that his opinions on the matter will remain.

Try to ask the question again on Meta.SE and it will probably end up closed as duplicate with a link to Jeff's old answer.

Mast

@Morwenn Probably, they are very quick with the dupe hammer.

Quill

@Mast That's because there's so many dupes posted

Morwenn

And it's kind of hopeless to try to turn the tables for an old question on Meta.SE too.

Mast

Yea.

Morwenn

22:08

The problem is that duplicates can be separated by several years but the community changed since the original questions.

nhgrif

Then post an updated answer, or write your question in a way so as to distinguish it from the original. Start by linking to the original and defending why the question needs to be reasked.

Or bump the original with a new answer which contradicts to what is currently documented as the accepted answer.

Mast

@nhgrif I tried that once, got duped anyway.

Morwenn

Well, I guess that it could be done, but I never mustered the courage to find all these old links and build a constructed updated question over there.

@nhgrif That's pretty useless. When the old answers have too many votes, people tend to only read the upvoted ones.

Mast

Can't we decide we need additional rules on top of the normal SE ones?

First being: all questions need a language tag

Oh well

nhgrif

Well, Code Review (and each SE site) has their own special set of rules.

Mast

22:14

Forget this, I'm not even going to bother with this SEDE if we can't get our definitions straight.

Quill

40

A: New 10K tool: question close statistics

Oded: status-completed - "Apologies for this. I was using some CSS rules that only existed in the newer CSS. I've made the changes to ensure all sites now use these." Formatting appears to be off for sites with older CSS, such as Programmers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Security, Wordpress, GIS...

nhgrif

On Code Review, you need a language tag because you have to have concrete code.

Quill

nhgrif

The language tag is just an extension of that rule.

Duga

If you are looking for optimization tips; then it might be better to post it on codereview.stackexchange.com — Burhan Khalid 49 secs ago

Mast

22:19

@nhgrif Exactly. So we should make it obligatory IMHO.

nhgrif

Are there questions without language tags?

I know you are trying to write a query

But, have you witnessed something that has encouraged the query?

Quill

@nhgrif:

nhgrif

Quill

also slightly chem

nhgrif

That one is fine.

Quill

22:21

which?

Hosch250

What happens for the chats with a black background?

Chemistry looks fine.

nhgrif

Chemistry is fine

You can see it fine on a black background

because it's white text on transparent background (which is black if your chat background is black)

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Algebraic calculator

I started with my own implementation of a algebraic calculator but ran into issues very early into the process. Then, I implemented the algorithm here: http://www.smccd.net/accounts/hasson/C++2Notes/ArithmeticParsing.html This is my solution, please provide some inputs on areas I can improve. I...

c++

Quill

@nhgrif Yeah, if your chat background is black, it's fine, otherwise

nhgrif

By the way... I was confused for a bit as to why I was being referenced in that weird picture.

Quill

22:27

@nhgrif the bicycles.se one?

nhgrif

yeah

Quill

Because you posted a meta.(ux/se) about the issue

nhgrif

Yeah, I got it now.

I updated the question

Mast

@nhgrif 5 versions of Python triggered it.

I wanted to check what the most popular language tags are.

Checking popular tags is easy, selecting which are language tags...

nhgrif

I didn't realize it was a link to Bicycles.

Mast

22:31

It's doable, but only if you know what you consider languages.

@nhgrif That, it doesn't look like a bicycle.

nhgrif

Why don't you start with a query that looks for questions that have one of the Python version tags but doesn't have python?

Mast

I can do that.

We are currently offline for maintenance

Murphy...

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Client server socket, multi threaded

I have created this library mostly for a learning experience with Socket and Threading. Let me know if I properly implemented both. I have read this for the threading code. I'm using lock() and ManualResetEvent to handle the threading part. I am not using the SocketAsyncEventArgs pattern but ...

c# multithreading socket

Quill

@CaptainObvious oh, wow

nhgrif

Ugh.

Saw this coming.

And now I'm even more disappointed because it looks like it could have easily been implemented as multiple questions.

Mast

22:39

@CaptainObvious That's a beast of a question.

Ethan Bierlein

Hi

Mast

It looks decent enough (as far as I read C#), but it's so much not entirely related code at once.

Phrancis

@EthanBierlein Hi

Ethan Bierlein

Ugh. I had to do more network troubleshooting.

This Windows 10 update has filled most of my weekend with troubleshooting.

Mast

@EthanBierlein Does it work now?

Ethan Bierlein

22:45

@Mast Mostly

I had to setup a new network driver, since the old one wasn't compatible with Win10, and before that, I had to spend an hour searching for an ethernet cable so I could setupt a new network driver. That all took up an entire day.

nhgrif

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A: Removing a subview with a subview from a UIView without memory leaks

@IBInspectable var text: String { get { if let txt = view.text { return txt } else { return "" } } set { view.text = newValue } } Just a small thing to comment on, however, a couple of notes here. First, with Xcode 7, wh...

Mast

Looking for an ethernet cable takes a whole 3 minutes here. One to walk downstairs, one to grab it and one to walk back up again.

Although the router is downstairs, so walking back up wouldn't make sense before applying the cable.

Ethan Bierlein

Yeah, except the only place that I could find cables was in a closet, full of boxes, an many of the boxes had only cables in them. To make it worse, the only ethernet port in my house is nicely situated behind a large TV

Morwenn

22:59

I'm happy. I crafted a small piece of madness. Made my day.

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Mast

@EthanBierlein Yea, that's what my cable cabinet looks like. But some cables have a special place.

Standard powerchords, Ethernet, micro-USB to USB and mini-USB to USB.

The rest is one big mess.

Duga

@goncalopp Thanks, I'm blushing now for not really bothering to do that which I ask of others, think it through. I guess I was surprised that such a practise is not what is (considered to be) done here. thanks for the distinction. So it really is ok to just slap one's program down in codereview and hope to be instructed as to methods it could be improved - at my deteriorated level of coding I think I should avail myself of it post haste. Now that I feel like the waste of the amoeba that inhabits the crud on the sole of a newbie's shoe... ;) — Dee 51 secs ago

Morwenn

My sorting library evolved. Now instead of simply a sort and a sort_n function, I also have sorters and sorter adapters.

using default_sorter = small_array_sorter<pdq_sorter, std::make_index_sequence<10>>;

That way, I don't care which sorting algorithm is the faster. I provide one by default, but it's customizable.

I have bugs also...

Morwenn

23:24

But seriously, more than one minute to compile the benchmarking program...

nhgrif

complaining about a sub-2-minute compile time...

Morwenn

Well, the program is really small (250 LOC). That said, the double variadic template dispatch and the -O3 -fexpensive-optimizations probably don't help.

Mast

23:47

@Morwenn Compiling a DDR3 controller in VHDL takes 15 minutes.

Every time. You can't say "You know how this part works, let's skip compiling it the next time". Since even if you could skip the actual compiling part, you can't skip the fitting.

Morwenn

@Mast I bought a new computer a few months ago partly because I didn't want to wait 20 minutes to compile the Solarus engine everytime I made a simple fix.

And also partly because the previous one was dead.

Mast

Same thing here, both reasons

Hosch250

@Morwenn Partly?

Mast

TTGTB

Hosch250

You mean, if it hadn't been for the Solaris compile time, you wouldn't have got a new one?

Morwenn

23:54

@Hosch250 I already considered buying a new one, then the old happened to die.

Hosch250

See you, @Mast.

Morwenn

Solarus, not Solaris.

nhgrif

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A: Removing a subview with a subview from a UIView without memory leaks

func setup() { view.text = self.text view.backgroundColor = self.backgroundColor view.font = UIFont(name: mongolFontName, size: 24) } So, we've got this code in here, but it looks like the method is only called from the initializers and from awakeFromNib. So what happens if the b...

Hosch250

Oh, I was thinking 20 minutes was a bit too little for an operating system.

Morwenn

It's a Zelda-like game engine.

Hosch250

23:55

I found it.

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