The 2nd Monitor

joranvar

19:03

@Zak Would pdf2txt help? github.com/euske/pdfminer/blob/master/tools/pdf2txt.py

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Project Euler Problem 10. Sum of all primes < 2mil

I am a beginner in coding so i cant create complex code yet. I do as much as i can with fors and ifs (i know a bit of arrays and i am familiar with other topics but not enough to apply it on my own) . This code works (nopf is a function to check if its prime or not).But if i put up a value of 2mi...

0

Q: Scoped time sink implementation

I have written a little class that is intended to be used to spent unused time in a loop body sleeping. That is, I have a loop. I want that every iteration takes at least X seconds. If the operations were actually completed quicker, the excess time should be spent sleeping. My implementation is...

c++ c++11

StackExchange

0

Q: Got Hat Trick, but haven't hit the rep cap yet

I threw this up on the main meta but figure it's relevant here too. The description for Hat Trick is: hit the reputation cap on three different days I just earned this hat, but this is my reputation today so far. Note that I have two accepted answers, so I didn't actually hit the rep cap. I...

bug winterbash

Zak

@joranvar That's pretty cool. I'm going to run it through Adobe's converter first, see if that will produce something comprehensible.

joranvar

@Zak Maybe even better, since it's their format :P

Dan Pantry

oh god okay hold on

I got pinged twice and my phone is going nuts

@skiwi No

Some elements are self-closing, but the vast majority aren't.

The only self-closing elements are elements that accept void as input, i.e, they have nothing in them. Every other element which is allowed content may not be self-closing.

So, input is self-closing. div is not.

HATMAN

19:14

<img /> is proper, right?

Dan Pantry

You can check the specification to be sure (or MDN), but off the top of my head the only self closing elements I can think of are img, input, most tags found inside head

Yes, because img never contains any content

HATMAN

ok

Zak

@joranvar Maybe. I've found it varies a lot. Sometimes you'll get an almost-perfect copy in Word/Excel. Sometimes you'll get an unholy mess.

Dan Pantry

@HATMAN I have no idea what 9 patch PNG files are.

HATMAN

ok

It is for web development, you can define portions of a sprite to the sides and corners and center

Dan Pantry

19:15

You can already do that (sort of) using CSS sprite sheets

HATMAN

Ah those sound cool!

Dan Pantry

Here is a good article on them.

spoilers: it uses background-position and height

joranvar

@Zak Probably depends on the creator of the pdf.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Haskell CodeEval Beautiful Strings

Problem Definition : When John was a little kid he didn't have much to do. There was no internet, no Facebook, and no programs to hack on. So he did the only thing he could... he evaluated the beauty of strings in a quest to discover the most beautiful string in the world. Given a st...

beginner programming-challenge haskell

Hosch250

@Barry Answered.

Dan Pantry

19:18

I can't help but read @Pops comment without thinking it is starting with "No hats were harmed in the making of this comment"

3

Hosch250

Quick upvote me to +3 and accept so I get a hat. </not-serious>

TopinFrassi

@Hosch250 lol

Dan Pantry

Juxtaposition is a beautiful thing.

Hosch250

I'm working on rewriting my Whitespace program.

It sure is tricky debugging when all the error you get is "Runtime error time: 0 memory: 5208 signal:-1"

Dan Pantry

At least it doesn't say something like "expected whitespace at column 5208"

Zak

19:21

@DanPantry IKR?

TopinFrassi

Today I've been told to fix bugs clients found in the application. I can't find the said bugs, and there's no documentation. Seems like I won't be doing much work today

2

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi A Bugs Life

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry lol

Dan Pantry

I have no shame

TopinFrassi

I liked that movie

Dan Pantry

19:23

So, something interesting and off-topic I discovered today

Phrancis

With one short sentence, Lisp makes more sense now: "Any symbolic-expression is a valid program."

Dan Pantry

(removed)

Phrancis

(write (* (+ 3 2) 7))

TopinFrassi

Aw, I hate when I don't see removed messages. There are usualyl fun

Captain Obvious

0

Q: C# - GetValueOrDefault() vs "?? Guid.Empty"

I'm cleaning up some code made by other developers and I came upon instances where they're using Guid? someGuid; Guid exampleGuid = someGuid.GetValueOrDefault(); and other times Guid? someGuid; Guid exampleGuid = someGuid ?? Guid.Empty; Which is a better standard to follow?

c#

Dan Pantry

19:26

I just have one question. Why are you learning lisp? @Phrancis

skiwi

@DanPantry My refactoring: github.com/skiwi2/OLog-Userscript/commit/…

Phrancis

For ~~a bounty~~ fun

skiwi

Shouldn't be too hard to write it in template style if I ever decide I want to

Dan Pantry

looks better, ish, though the fact you wrote inline html makes me cry

TopinFrassi

@CaptainObvious Requires close votes

skiwi

19:27

github.com/skiwi2/OLog-Userscript/commit/… split view might work better

TopinFrassi

@Phrancis There's no fun in Lisp. :p

skiwi

@DanPantry Definitely more maintainable though :D

Hosch250

Missing a space.

skiwi

@TopinFrassi LMFTFY: There's no fun in Lisp. :p ))))))))))))

TopinFrassi

@skiwi The joke

--

My head

skiwi

19:29

Mad jokes

Jimmy Hoffa

it occurs to me; there is surely an inordinate amount of proprietary code posted on CR.SE that was posted by people who didn't own rights to license (posting to SE is providing SE a CC-by-SA license to the content you post) said code. If you think for even a few moments about the legality of CR.SE's content - it has to make your head spin. You guys must have some thoughts regarding all of it? Meta discussions? Just curious

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa The thing is, most of us are programmers, not lawyers. :p

Hosch250

We comment if it is clearly not their code.

TopinFrassi

But there's a meta post, I guess it could be used for discussion

Hosch250

As long as they don't say it is not their code, we assume it is.

Jimmy Hoffa

19:37

What is the quandry there anyway? Employee at Inittech posts the code for Foo.java here, but in his employment contract he gave up all rights to any code he writes, so he doesn't have the right to grant SE a CC-by-SA license to Foo.java... so he's technically handing out an illegitimate license? Is the idea then CR.SE cannot know it's hosting illegally procured content until a DMCA take-down is made?

Zak

@JimmyHoffa For how it works legally, no idea. But this is why we rigidly enforce "Code that you own or maintain"

Hosch250

@JimmyHoffa Something like that, unless they say it is from work.

If it isn't their code, we remove it, and if it is from work, we usually comment.

Jimmy Hoffa

@Hosch250 ah so if someone says outright it's "from work" you all attempt to get it deleted ASAP?

Hosch250

We ask them if they have rights to post it.

Jimmy Hoffa

Gotcha

Hosch250

19:39

If it isn't their code, we close the question.

TopinFrassi

I've never seen a question get deleted because it was from work

Morwenn

Another zombie down.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Hold a text input for 10s as readonly

Problem Statement Write a HTML page holding a form and a text field. Using JavaScript make the text field to accept numbers only. When a non-number character is entered through the keyboard (or by any other way), make the field red for a while and do not accept the change (preserve the pr...

javascript html css

0

Q: Calculate range of ArrayList

Write a method range that accepts an ArrayList of integers as a parameter and that returns the range of values contained in the list, which is defined as 1 more than the difference between the largest and smallest elements. I feel like I'm beginning to understand conditionals, but for some r...

java beginner

Hosch250

@TopinFrassi I've seen a couple taken down because they do not have the writes to post it.

Zak

Generally speaking, people who work with proprietary code know better than to post it in the public domain.

Jimmy Hoffa

19:40

It's just interesting; you must all know in your heart of hearts that a vast portion of the content on CR is not legitimately posted.

TopinFrassi

I mean, we don't know if they post code under a license or not. I believe that's not our problem. I'm no lawyer. But the post would be deleted if requested.

Zak

Not to say it doesn't happen, but it's not a huge issue.

TopinFrassi

@Hosch250 I didn't know that

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak HA HA HA :P Generally speaking, the many years I've spent in industry tells me a significant portion of coders don't think much about a great deal of relevant details in their day to day. (sturgeon's law n'atch)

skiwi

@JimmyHoffa But why would we care for that? Dealing with it in obvious cases sounds good, but why would we actively seek violators?

HATMAN

19:41

Any of you guys Blender.se users?

We have a guy that needs a silver badge

Zak

@JimmyHoffa IMO, most people who post on CR do it in good faith. I can't think of many examples of code on here that would constitute "Code that would actively harm a company's finances due to its presence in the public domain"

TopinFrassi

@HATMAN I sometimes use a blender.

Does it count?

Zak

Take my case. Almost all the code I post is code I've written for work (obfuscated/redacted where appropriate).

Jimmy Hoffa

@skiwi because it's kind of an honor system thing; if YouTube didn't actively seek copyright violators, they wouldn't be able to get RIAA off it's back. Similarly so, SE has never been buggered by any such situation (probably never will be), but if you stand back and look at it from a distance, CR could be an enormous pain in SE's neck, however it's kind of flying on a wing and a prayer that no Oracle or Google or anyone decides "Hey SE, you have made significant violations of our rights..."

Zak

None of it is anywhere near a level of quality that it has any intrinsic monetisable value.

HATMAN

19:44

This guy needs 1 uv to get a silver: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/20952/…

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa Well. So would Security.SE, wouldn't it?

Dan Pantry

Oh, new person. hello @JimmyHoffa

Zak

@JimmyHoffa Perhaps, but there's also the fact that the vast majority of code does not do anything special.

Dan Pantry

> if YouTube didn't actively seek copyright violators, they wouldn't be able to get RIAA off it's back

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi can't say as though I know? Does Security.SE have much proprietary stuff get posted?

Hosch250

19:45

Another try at the +3 and accept posted within 30 minutes of the question.

Zak

@JimmyHoffa How would anyone know?

Dan Pantry

I was going to make a lame joke about the C++ pattern before I realised it didn't fit the acronym...

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak the property owners who can match up the property on their drives with the publicized clones on a site?

Zak

@JimmyHoffa Basically, how likely is the situation where: Somebody has possession of code that is a) Not theirs. b) that they would want to post on a public forum. c) that would cause actual financial harm if it were to become public domain and d), (c) to the level where anybody would actually notice/care

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa I don't think it's related to proprietary stuff more than posting on a public website about security breaches. Joe Blow could post on Security about a breach he discovered at work. That would be bad

Jimmy Hoffa

19:47

@Zak I totally agree that c is very unlikely, I think a and b are not only likely, but making up a vast portion of CR.SE content (lots of juniors who don't realize the meanings and mechanisms surrounding code property rights post here looking to improve)

Dan Pantry

FWIW I regularly worry about posting code from work on CR/SO in case I get recognised. But that's mostly because my name is 1) fairly unique and 2) matches my real name.

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi oh yes, I absolutely agree

TopinFrassi

@HATMAN You can call me Santa

James Santa

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi double-oh-santa

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak Do remember, IP trolls bilk millions out of companies in aggregate by simply asserting IP rights with a settle-out-of-court-for-a-feee approach... It can be less about the financial damage than about the possible gains available by asserting your rights.

Zak

19:49

@JimmyHoffa There's also the fact that, for most non-very-professional code, anybody with enough skill to understand your code enough to repurpose it for their use, is skilled enough to just write their own.

Hosch250

Just referenced a CRitter to Programmers.

HATMAN

@TopinFrassi lol

Zak

Plus, like I said, most of the stuff that gets posted on CR doesn't do anything particularly special.

Jimmy Hoffa

SE has likely a decent enough revenue that if an IP troll wanted to hold their nose to the grind stone, they could give them the option of $50k settle-out-of-court, or spend more on a protracted legal battle over some snippet of code that is of nearly no value or relevance.

Zak

Or even that unique.

TopinFrassi

19:51

@Zak Well, there ain't much unique code.. :p

Zak

@JimmyHoffa I think that's a problem for SE's lawyers.

HATMAN

What are your thoughts on copyrighted code? How does that work?

Zak

I assume they get paid to think about / avoid such situations.

So I'll take their word that the current legal/licensing agreements for SE are adequate.

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak rights are the important part though. If I own a lake that has completely dried up and somebody puts a house on the land, it may be worthless garbage land but I can still sue the ever loving crap out of them for their non-permitted use of my property

TopinFrassi

^

Zak

19:52

@JimmyHoffa Sure, but how exactly are you going to prove it's your code?

And how is it SE's fault that somebody else posted it?

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak exactly! It is probably a problem for SE's lawyers. Which brings me to the curious case of CR.SE- just was thinking about it earlier... what a legal mess it could be

HATMAN

@Zak Exactly

TopinFrassi

@Zak That is also what I'm wondering

HATMAN

The original poster seems like should be the one getting sued

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa That would be an interesting discussion to me if I knew anything about licensing's laws :p

Zak

19:53

@JimmyHoffa Well, none of us are lawyers, so I assume they know what they're doing. If you're really curious, consider putting a Meta post about it, or ask on Law.se

TopinFrassi

Tonight is "Get wasted because the week is long" Wednesday. I love Wednesdays.

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi honestly I don't much either - but I know just enough about the concepts of IP rights to know that CR.SE is surely a bit of a strange situation...

Zak

@TopinFrassi Tomorrow is "Get wasted because the company's paying" :)

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi That's scotching right.

Dan Pantry

@Zak Same here. We have breakfast on the house. We have lunch on the house. And we have even more lunch (and beers) on the house on Friday.

Zak

19:55

Interesting. I can edit a post to respond to a post in the future.

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa But, as Zak said, most code here looks more like "Hey I tried this to learn on X/Y" or "Look at that pattern everyone wrote 300 times already, have I done it well?" So I'm not sure there's a problem..

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak whoa law.se got made? I had heard on numerous occasions they didn't want to wade into the mess that could cause

Dan Pantry

We basically have 2 half days in a row. I'm not sure how I feel about this because coding with no distractions is cathartic.

@JimmyHoffa Pretty sure there's a massive obligatory "IANAL" at the beginning of every single answer

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi you say most, I would say there is likely still a large amount that is juniors trying to get review of their work for improvements before they submit it and get potentially smacked or rewarded by their seniors

Dan Pantry

Interpret that as you will

TopinFrassi

19:56

Aw man, any events here cost at least 40$. We had a diner once, with salad and cheese. TWELVE bucks. I skipped that event.

Zak

@JimmyHoffa It's people writing stuff on the internet, who are you going to sue for what, exactly?

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa Maybe! But well, we can't know that! That's a card we could play I guess. "Oh, but we didn't know that was proprietary code"

@Zak The Internet. :p

Jimmy Hoffa

@Zak SE for hosting - and not me goodness no.

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi I believe a woman called Barbara Streisand tried that once..

TopinFrassi

@DanPantry rly? that's funny

Jimmy Hoffa

19:57

@TopinFrassi won't stop the legal fees from being in the many many thousands.. which is why IP trolls just settle out of court

Dan Pantry

@TopinFrassi The story goes that essentially someone put up a photo of her house and she tried to sue the person who put it up to take it down. Up until that point, only 3 people - including her - had seen the photo. After she took the site to court, millions had seen it. And that's why it is called the Streisand effect.

Jimmy Hoffa

Look into IP trolls some time; it's more disturbing than you might think. There's like 2 or 3 judges in the nation that have heard nearly all IP cases because IP trolls know those judges almost always side with them.

HATMAN

I am getting nothing done . . . I gotta go for a bit, might check in later

TopinFrassi

@JimmyHoffa But. Well, I bring a whole other argument to the table. Let's say I'm company X and I see my code on a Stack Exchange site. My whole programmers team rely on Stack Overflow on a daily basis to survive. If I sue SO to death, wouldn't that mean like... TONS of hours lost in debugging/searching etc. Wouldn't a brilliant company try not to make a mess about it and deal with this without courts

@DanPantry Ahahah. Well that's dumb

Zak

@JimmyHoffa I think now we're firmly in the realm of speculating on matters we have no expertise whatsoever in, and that SE (presumably) pay some very professional people to take care of. Not much I can add at this point.

Dan Pantry

19:59

With respect I'm not so sure the whole legal discussion really fits this chat room other than simply being tangential to the code licensing changes

I might be bias though because nearly all code I write is under ISC or MIT anyway

skiwi

Ugh, my room in the winter has two modes: Freeze dead or sufficate

Jimmy Hoffa

@TopinFrassi haha you think the company's doing stuff like that are thinking in any way about the productivity of their workers? IP trolls are legal companies that buy failed companies for the IP, fire everyone (if anybody is left employed) and goes around suing anyone and everyone they can claim are using the same techniques or code samples.

Zak

@JimmyHoffa I think we're definitely going off-topic here. Would you mind moving this conversation to the Nth Monitor if you want to continue it.

Jimmy Hoffa

@DanPantry sorry if I have taken the room off topic; was just a curiousity I've pondered in the past when thinking about CR.SE

Dan Pantry

@JimmyHoffa It's not a problem, I'm not a room moderator so no need to apologise to me. :-)

Zak

20:03

@JimmyHoffa I think it's also an interesting discussion. It's just gone beyond the scope of this chatroom. That's what the Nth's for :)

Mat's Mug

wow you guys are busy

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug I'm working on my Whitespace follow-up.

Dan Pantry

I've just had a massive epiphany that I am super excited about when it comes to CSS

This is CSS modules with ReactJS

HATMAN

lol

Dan Pantry

Top bits are what go in, bottom bits are things that come out

@HATMAN lol

Duga

20:17

SO isnt a code review site — redFIVE 53 secs ago

I recommend you to use this site. Just make sure that the code is working and testable. — Emz 23 secs ago

Phrancis

> (5) is not a number

2

Interesting error

TopinFrassi

lol

@skiwi Lol. Here our winter has two settings : Rain or Moar rain. At this time of the year temperatures should be around -10C, it's like... 5.

skiwi

20:32

Should be 0-5 here, it's 10-15 Celsius

TopinFrassi

I hate it

HATMAN

Should be 20-30F here, is 45-50

Hosch250

Snow is interesting, but I prefer summer. I hate being inactive in the winter because I can't walk or ride my bike.

They don't plow the sidewalks good, and the chemicals they spray on the roads eat rubber and cement.

enderland

@Hosch250 if I employer++ I'm going to bike most of the winter...

TopinFrassi

I love winter. Snow and all. But heck, temperatures should be around 12C on december 24th. I'll go play beach volleyball in shorts at that temperature

HATMAN

20:36

IKR?

Zak

@Phrancis All is not as it appears. This is not the number 5. This is an image of a 5. Who knows *what* the computer thinks it is :)

HATMAN

:)

Zak

Reminds me of my pet hate in Excel: Characters that *look* like spaces but aren't.

Duga

working code that needs to be optimized belongs on codereview.stackexchange.com — Blake Yarbrough 30 secs ago

Zak

Chr(12) (page break) and chr(13) (line break) are particularly tricky.

Captain Obvious

20:44

0

Q: Which OOP design pattern(s) could be used to refactor this method?

I am new to Java / OOP and I'm concerned that I have a method which is doing far too much "stuff" - but I don't easily see how it can be shortened in a way which is not contrived / arbitrary. This is a server-side API method built using Google App Engine. Currently, the method (which is really ...

java oop design-patterns

Mat's Mug

@Zak isn't it Chr(10) and Chr(13)?

Duga

Try here: codereview.stackexchange.com — roryap 19 secs ago

Mat's Mug

wait, page break is a character?

2

Zak

@Mat'sMug gtwiki.org/mwiki/?title=VB_Chr_Values

Mat's Mug

FML

Zak

20:49

@Mat'sMug You're absolutely right.

Hosch250

I'm due for a hat! codereview.stackexchange.com/a/114197/34073

Zak

@Mat'sMug Also, TS

Hosch250

Got Speedy Delivery!

Zak

And what on earth is column break?

Mat's Mug

~~out-of-ammo~~ DVLR

Hosch250

20:51

If I get just one more vote on that, I'll just need one more 5+ answer too.

TopinFrassi

@Mat'sMug woaaaa, shiny blue line on the tag.

Mat's Mug

---[tag:foobar]---

Zak

list of chr's that display as blank spaces: 8-15, 32(actual space), 127, 129, 141,143,144,157,160, 173

HATMAN

???

Why

Just why

Captain Obvious

1

Q: Repeating a std::string n times

I recently came across this question on SO. I didn't think any of the answers were satisfactory, so posted my own solution. I was surprised with how much faster my solution was than the other solutions posted (~50x), and another naive solution I suggested (~30x). I was wondering if anyone could s...

c++ performance

1

Q: How do I make my method Input_Validating() more efficient?

I have a small Person Domain Model. As follows: public class Person { public Person() { FirstName = "John"; LastName = "Doe"; BirthDate = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-18); } [Key] [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)] public Guid PersonI...

c# validation winforms

Zak

20:53

Oh yeah, and chr(0)

HATMAN

Tied for second on the network!

And I got some work done!

Zak

You know, this is giving me ideas for some great trolling.

HATMAN

lol

Zak

Reminds me of the custom number format "Joe";"Joe";"Joe";"Joe"

joranvar

Sounds like some steganography inside whitespace programs?

Zak

20:56

Which, regardless of the actual value of the cell, will display the value as "Joe"

59

Q: Excel - can I set a cell to equal a certain value, no matter what is typed in it?

This is to play a joke on someone...not sure if it's possible to do what I want. We are circulating an Excel file among friends to select players for a golf tournament. I would like to set a cell (call it A1) to to show a certain name (call it Joe) no matter what someone types into it. A1 sh...

microsoft-excel microsoft-excel-2010 worksheet-function microsoft-excel-2007

HATMAN

lol

Hosch250

Anyone willing to buy some stars, or maybe a title (seeing as my last two have gone HNQ)?

Zak

@Hosch250 Wait, stars are for sale now? Sign me up!

Hosch250

@Zak What are you willing to pay?

I usually only use 1-5 per day, so I'm selling the rest.

Votes don't count - that is cheating.

Zak

@Hosch250 How about 100 Satoshis per star?

enderland

21:00

@Hosch250 I'm hoping Zak's question does, but I don't think it will

Hosch250

What is a Satoshi?

Zak

1/100,000,000 of a bitcoin ^^

Hosch250

Oh. I thought it was a Japanese name.

Zak

It is.

Hosch250

Umm, I don't have any bitcoins, but that seems like a fair price.

Zak

21:01

74

Q: What is a 'Satoshi'?

I am aware that Satoshi Nakamoto is the author of the paper that originated Bitcoin and the creator of the original bitcoin client. However, I often hear the term Satoshi as if it was a monetary unit. What is a Satoshi?

terminology satoshi-nakamoto satoshi divisibility

Hosch250

I know, you can teach me VBA.

Whitespace gave me a headache, so I'm going to work on something else right now.

@enderland I can post an answer to help, maybe.

Zak

@Hosch250 I'm just going to point out that, at current exchange rates, 100 Satoshis is ~ $0.0001

Hosch250

@enderland This one?

5

Q: Get Workbook Method(s)

I'm re-writing my Module of standard methods. These 3 are used to retrieve Workbooks as Workbook Objects. The standard I'm aiming for here is "Third-party Library/Add-in". So: Do these functions adhere to the principle of least surprise? Have I missed any potential error cases? As always...

error-handling file-system vba excel

enderland

yeah

Hosch250

@Zak Stars aren't worth that much...

It has been hot for several hours.

I've been seeing it in the list.

enderland

21:03

though to be fair, that code technically isn't working code...

@Hosch250 oh really?

Zak

@Hosch250 10,000 stars for $1, you bet I'd pay that much :)

Hosch250

Yep.

enderland

Not there currently....

Hosch250

Not long ago it was on the first page of HNQ.

No, it isn't there now.

It was, though.

The one I got my hat on is now. I didn't cheat on that one either - I didn't link it here until after I got it.

Zak

HNQ never seems to have the same effect on CR questions as on some other sites.

Hosch250

21:05

I'm at 150 rep. I need to post another answer.

@Zak It did on my last one :)

asked today; viewed 1910 times; active today Man I can't even get over 100 views. — Ekult3k 9 hours ago

I got the silver view badge on both my latest ones.

Zak

@Hosch250 Sure, but for all that, only 15 upvotes.

Hosch250

@Zak It was only in there for about 24 hours.

This one was in there for about 3-4 days, and got 34: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/113556/…

Zak

@Hosch250 I don't think I've ever seen a CR question with that many upvotes :)

Quill - HAT MANIAC

@Legato in your case, yeah, but imagine you were 'Mr. House Designer' and you wanted an object to contain the height, width and thickness of the class windows around your house. Forget the var keyword, and window is overridden

Hosch250

I've seen them with more - on my own LOLCODE: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/79304/i-haz-a-fibo-rly

Duga

21:09

The ParameterMetaData is just for debugging. This originally presented itself when trying to 'set' the parameters. It complained that there were not enough. I threw that in there to see just how many there were. The rest of the story is told above. Again, I so appreciate you taking a look at this. A second pair of eyes and a code review is always a good thing. Thanks so much! — user3225536 6 secs ago

Hosch250

When you go to this tab, you get all the questions sorted by votes: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes

TopinFrassi

Damn, it's hard to get Speed Delivery. I take about 17 minutes to write an answer...

Hosch250

@TopinFrassi Pick an easy question.

TopinFrassi

@Hosch250 The question I had seemed easy! :p

HATMAN

Waiting for 007 to come in . . . hoping there were no removed comments

TopinFrassi

21:13

@HATMAN I got it by accident :p

Hosch250

Well, that one is a potential - it was only asked 22 minutes ago.

HATMAN

:)

Harder on our site

We get a lot of unclear questions that need to be clarified

Hosch250

I got it on my own question.

TopinFrassi

@Hosch250 Ooohhh, I thought it needed to be answered, +3 and accepted within 30 mins

Hosch250

Nope. I just got it on a question I answered an hour or two ago.

HATMAN

21:14

cool

Hosch250

45 rep til cap. What should I answer?

HATMAN

I assume secret hats take longer to come in

(so they are harder to guess)

Zak

@HATMAN I think it just depends on the nature of the hat. A lot of them seem to be tied to activity within a discrete UTC 24-hour period.

Hosch250

I've no idea.

HATMAN

007, is there a pause so comments have a greater chance of ruining it?

Hosch250

21:17

No.

HATMAN

ok

Hosch250

Now just 35 to go. Drive-by upvote on a question I answered about 2-3 hours ago.

I'm looking through the unaccepted rubberduck questions.

Pops

@DanPantry What did I say now?

Zak

yesterday, by Pops

@Zak No hats were designed with the intention of being gamed.

Duga

Here is something interesting: Froogaloopelise codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/105605/… — nu everest 24 secs ago

Zak

21:22

I also keep instinctively reading it as "No hats were harmed in the ..." before my brain corrects itself.

Captain Obvious

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Q: Composite Class Members: Initialization vs. Construction

The following is for a chapter exercise in C++ Primer Plus, 6/e by Stephen Prata, for the first part of Chapter 14 which deals with code reuse through composition. The problem is to implement a Wine class (for modelling a wine collection) which contains a std::string (the wine name), an int and a...

c++ beginner constructor

Hosch250

@Pops For a second I thought you were telling him to stop gaming the hats.

Pops

Ha. Extra-glad I used the reply-to, then.

Hosch250

I'm off to practice driving. See y'all later.

HATMAN

cya

Zak

21:27

@Mat'sMug Can you recommend any great reading material on variable naming? I could, but it's all in bookmarks on my work computer.

Thanks, very good info for variables, 2 questions: 1. Any good reads on naming variables? (articles, books, sites, etc.) 2. What does Option Explicit do? Why should it be at the top of every code? — PlainsWind 10 mins ago

200_success

I'm starting to think that the license change proposal is a hat-gaming exercise.

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Mat's Mug

@Zak how about common sense? I don't know what to say except "name things for what they are used for". like, a filename As String parameter is better than str As String, but workbookFileName As String is even better. I'm not sure I ever read anything specifically about naming, except perhaps Spolsky's "Make wrong code look wrong" blog post (about system hungarian ha!), and maybe perhaps Robert C. Martin's "Clean Code", but that book is much larger than just naming...

...or does it cover naming at all? can't remember

Zak

I think the systems hungarian article is a good place to start. I remember that one having an impression when I was learning all of this a *whole* 3 months ago (God, has it only been 3 months?)

Mast

I still haven't wrapped my head around the license change. Sounds like more paperwork.

I don't like paperwork.

Mat's Mug

where's the i-hate-licenses button?

Mast

21:39

i-hate-licenses

Zak

@Mast The tl;dr version I got was "Unless your job is working with licensing, keep on acting like you were before"

Mast

@Zak Yea, but that's not what the rest of the question looks like.

Captain Obvious

Recent Questions - Code Review Stack Exchange: Can a LRU stack have duplicate page number in the stack with page frame 4 while using OBL prefetc…

posted on December 16, 2015 by Devesh Amin

I'm trying to process the following virtual pages in the 4 page frames in order: 3,4,6,5,7,4,8 Now, I completely understand the LRU stack implementation. But, when I implement LRU using OBL (One-Block-Lookahead), I seem to have a duplicate page number in the frame. Is that possible? Implementation using LRU and OBL: 3,4,6,5,7,4,8 3: - 3, , ,4 4: hit 6: - 3,6,…

Mat's Mug

Okay, this is way too much to read. Where's the "I hate licenses" button so I can hide all that legal talk and pretend I never saw it? — Mat's Mug 33 secs ago

200_success

@Mat'sMug When there are 40 comments already, that's too chatty.

Mat's Mug

21:43

right

Zak

If 3 months is too long, "6-8 weeks" would be appreciated. — Adam Davis 2 hours ago

+1

200_success

If you want a TLDR, just upvote this post:

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A: The MIT License – Clarity on Using Stack Overflow Code

What?! Am I the only person that doesn't understand what this all means? This really needs a TL;DR. I was under the impression that any answers I provided on Stack Overflow that contained code are to be used freely, otherwise why would we post the code? What I want answering is What do I need ...

Mat's Mug

done already

Mast

@200_success It's relatively constructive though. It clearly states a definitive problem with the question (well, the information conveyed in the question).

200_success

The question needs to be precise. The TLDR can come when the new policy is announced.

Captain Obvious

21:50

-1

Q: "Time till" program using databases

I have created a program which works out days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds until a date which the user inputs. Is it possible to shorten/make the output a little clearer? from datetime import datetime while True: inp = input("Enter date in format yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss") try:...

python python-3.x database

0

Q: Module for implementation in multiple version-controlled spreadsheets

So I maintain a large number of spreadsheets which are stored on a version-controlled server. In each spreadsheet maintained on this server there is a module containing the following code, which is intended to verify that the spreadsheet is the latest revision, opened from the server, and is lock...

vba excel

Mat's Mug

is something up with vba? what's up with all these new questions lately? (not a bad thing, actually)

Zak

@CaptainObvious With all that run-up, I was expecting something, well, more.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Optimizing simulation of image transfer over noisy channel with a repetition code

Following this question, I've tried to rewrite some core methods to avoid using String for bit operations, and I ended up using BitStream. The cose is almost 8x faster than before but it still looks quite slow, because it processes 15 images per minute (0.25 fps). I think that there's still room...

java performance file-system bitwise

200_success

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A: The MIT License – Clarity on Using Stack Overflow Code

In essence, this proposal is to move from a copyleft license (CC-BY-SA 3.0) to a permissive license for code. (By default, it's basically the most permissive license possible, nearly equivalent to public domain with a liability disclaimer.) Having thought about it for a couple of hours, I've sh...

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